#bc i WANT to be cottagecore

[jae-birde]

Ty for the tag!

Idk who ari is but their description matches mine pretty well!

I've honestly never seen anything about wisp/whereissmp before, but this was fun!

Open tag for anyone who wants to join in!

NEW UQUIZ ALERT !!!

HEHE I MADE A QUIZ BASED OFF AN SMP IM A PART OF !! ALL OF THE WISPS ARE VERY COOL :D ANYWAYS HERES THE LINK !!!

fellow wisps: @emmaestrella @pseudocyance @indigoviolet311 @primavera-weirdeggii @dreamintkat

[inkskinned]

im gonna start a fight; and, at the same time, i need you to take this in the most good-faith way possible, but:

videos that involve body-checking and intentionally (and uncritically) show a mealplan of an unhealthy number of calories are just a revamped version of pro-ana food diaries.

and yeah, i know there's arguments. i address some of them under the cut. but at the end of the day, we're just coming back to romanticizing mental illness; we've just found a better platform for it.

this is already something we've done. we knew it was wrong and tried to stop it. and tbh. it just wasn't enough.

there are people who argue "well, what if you have an eating disorder, you can't help it if you don't eat!" except that as someone with an ED; we are not infants. we know what we're doing. part of having an ED is that you are like, maybe too self-aware. even if we can't help our own food choices, we don't need to fucking romanticize the disorder - something we've been warning you about since 2013. there are hours of setup, filming, and editing that go into these videos. they do not happen to fall into place randomly. there is a reason they are pieced together to be beautiful, bright, inspiring.

there's this woman who pretty much only posts daily plans under a normal amount of calories, and everyone defends her saying but it's better than nothing! and i'm like. except she opens those with images of her showing off her body and provides no context in the video or caption that suggests that she believes what she's doing is unhealthy. she has hundreds of thousands of followers on a platform designed for young kids and teens. i refuse to believe that by accident her content just happens to be cheery advice on "healthy" versions of starving.

for any other symptom of mental illness, we would be incredibly enraged by this kind of placid acceptance of a "tips and tricks" fast-start guide. imagine if people posted pink & pretty videos saying "best places to cut yourself" as if it was a fucking storytime. we, as a society, are so fucking fatphobic that we would rather accept blatantly harmful displays of self harm than admit that we are obsessed with a hyper-thin body type.

i am not suggesting someone never talks about their disorder. i talk about mine. actually, it's a plot point in my book.

here's the difference: i recognize it's a fucking mental illness. i am very careful to never mention a specific weight, eating pattern, or calorie plan. i always make sure to position it as something that ruined my fucking life. i do not put cheery music in the background and hearts and sparkles over my worst moments. i do not film it in bright light. i do not start each passage with an image of a thin body followed by "here's how to look like her."

eating disorders should not be framed as aspirational. and the problem is that society worships the "after" image, so long as you don't get too sick. there is a reason so many people who quit being "influencers" will later admit - i wasn't eating well that whole time; an obsession with food was completely destroying my life.

we let any uncredited, uncertified person write the most backwards, fucked up shit about how to get the body you desire! because the underlying, secret belief is: well, at least they're thin! and the real thing that fucking gets me each time - they make fucking money off of it. their irresponsibility and societal harm literally pays off for them.

"why do you care so much." "don't like it don't look." "so what if people experiment with new ways of thinking of food?"

thank you for asking. we're about to get extremely personal. it's because when i was 18 i discovered "thinspiration"/"thinspo." and it absolutely influenced, shaped, and codified my pre-existing eating disorder. i went from having some troubling habits and traits to being incredibly unwell within what felt like a matter of days. there were actual pages designed to train me on how to have an ED correctly. it was all so suddenly easy. i was sick; and the nature of the illness meant - i wanted to be sicker.

it takes an average of 7 years for a person to fully recover. i know this personally - even now, 10 years from the worst of it, i still fucking struggle. i am so much happier now and i eat what i want and i literally don't think about food at all (19 year old me would shudder) and yet - i still fucking know the calories of plain toast with butter.

an eating disorder is one of the deadliest types of mental illness. over 1 in 4 people with an ED will attempt suicide.

and i'm sorry. i just do not see the exchange rate of "high rate of engagement" versus "the value of a human life."

[berrysprouts]

at last, i see the light

[dolls-self-ships]

had the idea of a human au for my chicken run self insert (and all the characters really, more to come on that) for a while now and I’m so glad I finally was able to fully get their designs out on paper (or I guess screen)

[luminarytex]

have you ever drawn genderswapped benchtrio..,, and would you consider it (please)

i actually haven’t drawn them genderbent, i guess maybe ranboo? if you count me drawing the occasional tfem oranboo? (i usually draw them extremely gnc)

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

wallpaper i made for myself but its pretty so you ppl are seeing it too

[utilitycaster]

There's this weird phenomenon where the people who are really, really invested in Campaign 3 being The Best try to argue that it's the most closely bonded party. when in fact the absolute strongest material with Bells Hells thus far is them realizing with a shock that they've spent almost three months alternating between "my way or the highway" and smoothing things over to the point that they almost shatter along with Ashton and realize that they absolutely cannot go on a time-sensitive, mission-critical journey to save the world without stopping to take a team-bonding vacation.

And to be clear, this rips, but it feels as though while Campaign 1 and Campaign 2 fans might disagree on their favorite campaigns, they do like their campaigns for what they actually are and simply have different preferences with regards to what kind of story they like. This particular flavor of Campaign 3 fans, and there's a decent number of them, only care about winning on the most kindergarten-ass "all you need is love 🥺" axis (also, shades of the bean-counting/points approach to media analysis) but as a result they put forward an idea of the campaign that's simply not the reality and it's like, do you like Campaign 3? Or do you like the fanfiction version of it you wrote in your head based on the first 10 episodes and into which you have slowly dissolved your brain? There's plenty of valid reasons to enjoy or even prefer the campaign, but it's easily the most dysfunctional party and that's fine!

[puppyeared]

i feel like. theres designing a character with certain themes and motifs in mind, and then theres making a gijinka for the water bottle on my nightstand

[bigwizardhat]

i love the southern/american gothic aesthetic but you guys gotta stop tagging every single post as #ethel cain. she’s not gonna fuck you

[ranpakoka]

Hellboy silly tarot card

[kellerybird]

i think it's finally time i gravitate away from lolita fashion

my interest has been waning in recent years anyway and it's been increasingly hard to find things that will fit me

i think it's time to fully embrace victorian/edwardian fashion

[rimbaudthursday]

he horse on my laine till i friendship is magic

mlp rimlaine go crazy!!!!!!!

in this stupid stupid au fauns whole deal is that he wanted to make an alicorn for funsies so

paul horselaine

[rainbyte]

So I've recently seen your Grove AU, care to tell me a bit about it? :D

Of course!!! Here is!! A bit of a messy tldr of the story? Though I haven't figured everything out yet 🎉

In Welcome Grove, it takes place on the actual set that they used to film the show- which then was eventually cancelled. The entire set , props were just left to sit there. Which!! Unfortunately was the fate of a lot of older TV shows or films at the time.

Time would carry on, and nature does what it does best. It reclaimed the building - the once sparse woods surrounding it growing thick and old. The Neighborhood set outdoors was certainly not spared from the elements. Even the studio building it's self becoming carpetted with grass, vines hanging from the walls.

All of them had been stored away inside the Studio building, with the expectation that the crew would be returning soon. All of them except for Wally Darling, whom had been left inside Home, seeing as normally he would have been perfectly safe in there. Home was meant to be pretty structurally sound and the door locked!

But.

Eventually, one day. They woke up again. Not all at the same time- Wally was the first. He then eventually braved the Studio halls to find the rest- repairing them so that THEY could also wake up.

From most of puppet's perspective- everything was perfectly okay in the neighborhood one day. Then the next they woke up and everything was in disarray! The bugs looked completely different, the leaves green, the stars far brighter! Yes- this was definitely not the neighborhood they knew before. It was all very exciting and frightening at the same time!

But it's the only home they ever knew. This was their neighborhood and they were going to reclaim it! Bit by bit, and piece by piece! After all before all of this they were a perfectly well functioning place, everyone helped out in their own ways. Just as before really! It was a .. A lot harder in some ways! But they managed. And eventually the Neighborhood became Home again.

But.. They all can't help but wonder about that abandoned Studio nearby, and the outside world it represents.

[rain-on-wax-feathers]

louise's friends throughout the years

[lesbianlenas]

my classes start again 3 weeks from today