#because you’re doing great

[thatmooncake]

Hope everybody has a fazerific new year!

[opticsel]

guys guess what!! i am having So Much Fun on this site!! it’s not that i didn’t expect to have fun but goddamn i have been here for all of 4 (3? 4? time is fake) days and the whole time it’s been just?? wonderful???

this is maybe influenced by the rose-tinted glasses that come from my only previous experience with social media (in any notable capacity at least) being twitter- which i finally left for good about 8 months ago- but i also think i didn’t fully understand what tumblr is about, culture-wise. like- we’re all just here! talking about plants and cats and fandom! and it’s so easy to get rid of stuff i don’t want to see, and people can just enjoy things without getting eighty gajillion hate comments and ‘erm aksjhwewalluy’s, and it’s so refreshing to learn that there are still parts of the internet where we as humans can bask in each other’s company, unapologetically.

i’m not afraid of being perceived here like i am on other social media- in fact, i’ve been actively encouraging interaction because i want to make friends, which is something that has never happened before! making original posts containing my original brain thoughts doesn’t fill me with anxiety because i’m not worried about waking up to an inbox full of death threats because my post ended up on the “wrong side” of tumblr! i really didn’t realize the bar was such a tripping hazard until i finally stepped over it but now i can see that’s probably why my ankles were always bruised

and wow that metaphor was terrible, wasn’t it, but fuck it! i’m leaving it in! that’s the point! the point is who even cares? the point is what does it matter? the point is there is a place here for you. settle down and get comfortable, because the point is here you can be. there are shitty metaphors in multitudes, and there is enjoyment in multitudes, and there are cats and plants and fandoms in multitudes. and the point is someone cares, but not in a hurtful way. someone cares, but in the way like it made their day a little bit better. and the point is- i can see you guys making a lot of my days a lot better, one shitty metaphor at a time.

so yeah! i like it here :) i think i’ll stick around a while.

thank you, tumblr users, for cultivating a comparatively mild social media climate so i can connect peacefully and happily with like-minded users around the world. you’re doing something so, so right over here. and whatever you’re doing, i’m excited to learn how to do it too, so that new users can continue to experience this same beautiful rediscovery of positive community far into the future <3

[avicecaro]

hate to say it, but part of ending the stigma around sexual assault means not assuming every woman blames herself. yes, female socialization encourages it, but that doesn’t make it a given, and the goal of all of these campaigns is to eventually diminish the proportion of women who do blame themselves. it is entirely possible, and increasingly common, for women to experience sexual assault and not feel shame or guilt, which we should be happy about. but instead, there are only so many times you can hear “you know it’s not your fault, right?” before it sounds like “it was your fault”. and there’s only so many times you can hear “don’t blame yourself” before it sounds like “you should blame yourself”. because it feels good to say, doesn’t it? sure, you don’t believe she’s guilty, but you do believe she should feel guilty, so that you can disabuse her of the notion. just something to consider.

[lady-ephemeral]

I desperately, DESPERATELY wanna know what Viago’s face looks like if Crow Rook even mentions the word “Elope”

[leverage-ot3]

I’ve talked about this before but imagine what it’s like for someone in a country/place where eliot is Top Most Wanted and then your tech guy finds a breakout star baseball player on their visual scanner that looks EXACTLY like spencer. but…there’s no way that’s him, right???

and then the next year it happens again but this time it’s some one hit wonder country singer kenneth crane that has like 78 tween-run fangirl blogs dedicated to him. you see a grainy video of him being chased by a horde of screaming teenage girls and ??? no way Eliot Last Thing You’ll Ever See Spencer is a country singer star just. signing pictures of his face right…?

a few months later your intern shows you footage of an eliot lookalike who is in san lorenzo talking about how there is dog fighting in the presidential palace and you just. sigh. because of course. a scant few days later the political geography of the country changes drastically and damien moreau is imprisoned. …interesting

and then a year of silence goes by. he still shows up as blips on the radar but he must have a good hacker working for him because his tracks on the internet are expertly erased.

every time you ask through interagency channels some random interpol guy talks in (condescending?) riddles at you and it also somehow feels like he’s threatening you

and then your friend who recently got into foreign hockey teams sends you a dropyourgloves video of someone called jacques the bear. you immediately get a headache (and watch some more videos because even you can admit this guy is a good hockey player)

and you know he’s a Bad Guy but it’s been admittedly a bit entertaining seeing what claim to fame he will come upon next. and his most recent actions over the few years make you wonder.

a few months later your phone pings because multiple heads of state evacuated from DC. the reason? eliot spencer was in town. you hear two days later a bioterrorist was taken down by… the report was redacted. your hacker tells you spencer and two teammates were behind the successful operation. which, huh.

not even a full year later it is released that spencer is dead and… you don’t know how to feel.

[syrospit]

Its my beautiful wife’s birthday today so thought I’d crank out something before his special day ends

[myokk]

(sebastian was interrupted in the middle of a good book)

[catastrxblues]

EVERMORE by taylor swift (feat. bon iver) — “and i was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. and i couldn’t be sure, i had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be forevermore.”

my #swiftiegiftexchange2024 for @lovesickallovermybed!!!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽

[invinciblevalentine]

atp i would snort reeve tuesti fic like cocaine.

if anyone knows any fics that put reeve through the blender like “Son” by She_sees_in_the_dark or “Through Another’s Eyes” by CorsairOriginal—

i need to see that man under enough pressure to make a diamond crack. For my health.

[0vergrowngraveyard]

am i insane or is starline’s plan actually coming together?

surge and kit are being propped up as heroes and praised, meanwhile this situation sonic and tails are in is going to get them in trouble with the restoration. even if they reveal clutch and mimic by the end of this arc, they still worked with eggman. sonic is using eggman’s tech. it’s not even that it’ll be viewed as a betrayal, that is a betrayal

if things keep going the way they’re going, sonic and tails are be seen as, at worst, traitors to the restoration while surge and kit are heroes, meaning that the latter are one step closer to replacing the brothers when it comes to public image

surge and kit didn’t even have to kill them, just leave them to their own devices and sonic and tails will fuck up their own reputations ahshdhdjdjs (they do have good intentions in this case, but still-)

am i looking way too much into this? yea probably lol but that’s what i do. idek if any of this makes sense

[the-bat-bros]

Anxious! Tim Drake

Have some angst head cannons

Anxious! Tim Drake who assumes that if anyone is upset near him, it’s his fault

Anxious! Tim Drake who hides in his room when his family is arguing, and stares at the wall, trying to make out what is being said a few doors down

Anxious! Tim Drake who dissociates whenever he is in trouble

Anxious! Tim Drake who gets aggravated the first time Dick tries to help him through a panic attack

“I said I’m fine”

“Tim I can see that you aren’t fine, and that’s okay. Please talk to me, tell me what’s going on. Let me help-”

“I said I’m fine!”

Anxious! Tim Drake who feels bad about shoving people away who are just trying to help him. But he doesn’t need help. They’re only pitying him anyway. They don’t actually care.

Anxious! Tim Drake who bounces his knee, taps his fingertips together, or twirls a pen to help get some of his anxieties out

Anxious! Tim Drake who absolutely breaks down on the floor in the bathroom when a mission went wrong. It was his fault. He didn’t do enough. He should have done more. He needs to prove himself. He needs to do better.

Anxious! Tim Drake who is up all night because his mind won’t shut up, going over every tiny little detail of the day and what he could have done differently. He’s such a failure. He doesn’t deserve to be part of this family. He needs to be better. They’re probably still upset about that thing from three years ago. Oh god why did he sound so silly talking to Bernard last week? Why didn’t he offer to help Damian with his homework is he a bad brother? Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god.

Anxious! Tim Drake who finally accepts help from Jason. Jay links Tim up with his therapist. Therapy sucks but Jason was right, it’s helping

Anxious! Tim Drake who learns to journal. Writing down what he think he did wrong and then writing why it was okay underneath that. He feels so silly when he does this, but it helps

Anxious! Tim Drake who gets a little better every day. It will take time. Healing isn’t linear. But he isn’t a failure. He is doing the best that he can. And that’s enough.

[nooodlesartstyle]

i’m not allat good at art and i haven’t built a following yet but i do it bc i enjoy it and i want to resonate with people.

this your reminder to keep doing what you’re passionate about; it doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do or how many people like your content. if you like it, keep going. you might even master it. ^-^

you might even find community in the process. if that isn’t an achievement! idk what is!

[itspileofgoodthings]

ALSO I am learning how to teach very introverted students, something my natural skillset as a teacher does not help me with.

[goosecastle41]

Hey so if I wrote a fic about Curly post Mouthwashing and how he suffers from the guilt of not protecting his crew while also suffering the pain as a disabled person who was once able bodied would y’all want that or should I just suffer the feelings I have about that in silence?

[twobrokenwyngs]

tfw each day is a terrifying nightmare and every time you so much as glance at the internet you see something that fills you with irreconcilable amounts of grief and fear and despair and you want to lean on relationships and community as a way to cope but they’re all too exhausted by all the same things to be present for you and frankly you’re too exhausted to reach out so you just kind of withdraw into various degrees of dissociation and solitude while beating yourself up for not being more politically and socially aware even though every attempt to stay informed feels like self-harm so you’re really in a no-win scenario no matter what you do and you wonder if you can really go on like this for four more years

y’all know the feeling. you’re alive on this earth right now so surely you get it

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Me: *googles “is it okay to take a mental health day from work” because I pretty much never call off work unless I’m actually sick but I had such a terrible day today that I just kinda want to take a breather but doing so makes me feel guilty*