#but I figured I should mention it in the tags

[ohgoditshu3]

OMG yaaaaaayyyy reblog train

Ok ok so first @frayedcircus thanks for tagging me in this. Right back at you BTW for the positivity

Also second don't have a lot of moots off the top of my head besides frayed but uhhh @kittykate-arts and @r3djy I'm passing this your way to let you all know you're coolio 😎👍

I’m not moots with any of the other people mentioned below buuuuttt here’s some others

@rogues-comic love the entire aesthetic of literally the entire comic, the color work there is fine dining. And anyone reading this should check it out especially if they're dc enjoyers (like me) or bat-jokes freaks (also me)

@onebadnoodle line art and figure forms/shaped so good I wanna binge eat them like chips

@graveyardzhift didn't realize I never followed their tumblr even tho I remember it having one but anyhwaayyss very coolio lineart too, and they enjoy crazy wicth ladies so I throw the brick of coolness at em.

@nephilimbrute fellow pearlina enjoyer 🥂

positivity train!

if you see this or are tagged in it, tag a couple of your favorite mutuals/blogs and let them know you appreciate seeing them on your dash!

@h0neysugarfree @blueberrylovv @bequiteanddriveeeeeee @cherri-bomb-bomb @eg0mechan1c @fatrexicisback

[louisferrignojr]

*deep breath*

the thing is. the fucking thing is.

it's not unrealistic for someone to not dig deeper into their queer identity beyond what they know to be true, which might be "yeah i might be attracted to people of the same gender but i dont have time to get into that right now 'cause life is complicated and i'm in a relationship/i'm not interested in dating right now anyway so what does it matter"

(same goes for figuring out your gender identity. exhibit A:

[image description: a tweet by shaka (@/ScaredAsian) that says, “im probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn”. In plain text, it says, “I’m probably nonbinary but I have a job so I don’t really care about that right now.” /end id])

but this doesn't work for evan buckley

who had his little freakout on his first date with tommy and went to talk to his sister who literally told him "now you're more than an ally" and that maybe he's not sure of his feelings but he'll figure them out. (sidenote: she should have said identity instead of feelings. but whatever.)

who has been in a relationship with his boyfriend for six months

who has been known to go on research binges because he has a curious mind and loves learning. tommy's sarcastic "oh good, you found a substack" tells us everything we need to know, y'all.

who has at least one very close queer friend and co-worker, hen fucking wilson; and one friend/acquaintance who is a queer man (we don't know how much he sees josh outside of visiting maddie at dispatch, and like, that one time he hang out with him and maddie and chimney, so it's a little bit up to fanon to decide if they're friend-friends but at the end of the day it is a trusted person and an openly gay man. i mean, we saw how josh stood up for tommy, and schooled the fuck out of buck. finally, a conversation about being queer between two canonically queer characters! only took 8 seasons, huh! i digress.)

and have i mentioned he's been dating his boyfriend for six months? like, if he was ever to have a conversation about being queer... tommy is right there. tommy opened up about his own experience figuring out his sexuality and coming out on their very first date and moreover reassured buck it's okay if he's feeling a little tense about them being out on a date in a public place.

point being: there are people in his life who would be more than happy to talk to him about his newfound identity outside of his relationship with tommy.

taking all of these things into consideration: it's not only inconsistent with the character they have established, but the timeline of it is also really fucking messed up.

and more than that: any faith i may have had in this show to handle a delicate matter like a character exploring their newfound sexuality has flown out the window. they broke the audience's trust with 8x06. i'm not interested in seeing how they're going to move this story forward, because 8x06 was such a particular fuck up, beginning to end, wrt the bucktommy storyline.

and honestly? knowing the format 911 follows, as a network procedural: this is not the right medium to tell this story, at this point in the timeline, because it has become way more complicated than it would have been in s7, immediately following buck's bisexual awakening.

tldr: the premise is sound but the execution is so bad it's practically unsalvageable within the scope of the show (but very manageable in fanfiction, where you can dwell in the character's headspace and dig into what goes on beyond the things they say and do. godspeed, everyone <3)

partly inspired by @firehose118's tags on their post and partly like, being queer. source: dude trust me

[x-press-it]

This is an appreciation post!

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has interacted with my stories since I opened this little corner of the internet.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’m still figuring out some parts of how Tumblr works, including the protocols and etiquette. It feels a bit odd to me to reblog my own posts when others reblog them just to say thank you. Maybe I should just comment under my original post and tag the person who reblogged it?

Anyway, I can’t say this enough—thank you, thank you, thank you so much!

There are so many of you, and I can’t tag everyone, but I’m especially grateful to those who comment, reblog, and follow me.

So here’s a shoutout to:

@being-worthy, @bighonkers12, @brunoshornycorner, @devoetee

@drawingdroid, @gothgoblinbabe, @mahbu335, @marvelescvpe

@m1cky-y-y, @ifyouseethisnoyoudont22, @quillycrow, @sillylittlegoofy

@silversprings-mp3, @splashofbi-fic-reblogs, @valkblue

I hope you all have an amazing day filled with everything you wish for.

In the meantime, I’ll keep the stories coming.

See you around and love you all! ❤️

[wonder-worker]

"As regards women whose monuments depict a livery collar, the traditional supposition which saw ladies as appendages of their husbands should be revised. It may be true that some women did have livery collars depicted on their memorials in right of their husbands, but there are examples of those who were probably awarded a collar for their own royal service [...] Elizabeth Donne, wife of Sir John Donne, is depicted along with her husband wearing a collar of suns and roses with a white lion pendant in Hans Memling’s Donne Triptych. As she was one of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s gentlewomen, receiving a £10 annuity, it is likely that she received a collar in this capacity. The same can be said of Margaret, wife of Nicholas Gaynesford (d. 1498), whose brass at All Saints’, Carshalton (Surrey), survives. Although her husband has no collar, Margaret is depicted in a ‘choker’ collar of suns and roses. According to the tomb inscription, she served in the households of both Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York."

-Matthew Ward, "The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales: Politics, Identity and Affinity"

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[guessitrunsinthegenes]

this needs to be said here as well, it's ridiculous that this is happening yet again. they deserve their privacy and that fact does not change with the fact that they have jobs in social media!

[obeyme-lilium]

Visualizing Leviathan while he was in Celestial Realm's Navy vs. Years after he left.

Absolute Noodlefication of a Man.

[lunarharp]

more phoenix wright situations

[saline-coelacanth]

I will forever be so upset that the Ice Chapter didn't give us a Kai VS Ice Emperor fight like come OOOON!

And I'm not even coming at this from an oppo angle. Like yeah, I love oppo, everyone knows that, but it just feels like such a missed opportunity to have Kai have to fight Zane and have him be the one to get him to snap out of it. But no, it has to be Lloyd because he's Lloyd.

And another thing that makes me so upset regarding the missed potential here is the fact that in the Fire Chapter, the big bad villain is Aspheera. And at the end of the Fire Chapter, Zane is the one who defeats her, you know, the master of ice. So then in the Ice Chapter, it would make sense that the one to defeat the big bad would be Kai since he's the master of fire and it would make for good parallels or whatever. But no we don't get that.

At the very least we get that awesome, badass scene where Kai defeats Boreal and saves the others. That scene was amazing, I just with we got a little more from Kai, you know?

[allherfuckinglives]

we don't talk enough about the drugs taylor put in the very first night

[rat-rosemary]

Tommy looks at the forest, the others shuffling anxiously behind him

It has been expanding (well, it was expanding from the first day) but it finally got big enough for someone else to notice he guesses. It only took them three months

He's not quite sure how they made the connection with Dream tho. They're right, but he has no clue how someone who did see it would know that Dream is at the center of this

(They probably just assumed. It's almost tradition at this point to blame everything on Dream)

The group of manhunters, about 10-ish people with Sapnap and Quackity in the front, look as prepared for a fight as they could be, their netherite armor shining like beetle wings in the sun

(Except Wilbur, who has nothing but his clothes and his cigarettes)

...if Tommy decides to lead them into the forest he's leading them to their deaths.

The armor is heavy and noisy. It shines obnoxiously in a way that would make it easy to spot on the pale oak even if they did manage to climb into a branch without letting every single creaking in the forest know exactly where they are, and it's too heavy to climb the dark oak trees

No one seems to have any invisibility potions either. He spots healing and regeneration and weakness and instant damage but no invisibility or night vision

He can help them with their search for Dream and by doing so he'll seal their fates.

"Tommy? Ready to go?"

Quackity catches his attention and Tommy turns to him

...he remembers afternoon after afternoon spent trailing after Wilbur as he and Quackity did. Whatever the fuck they were doing. Their weird sex rituals or whatever.

(He remembers watching The One That Bleeds, his wounds never healing as he sobs, crawling out of the blood oak, red roses tangled into his white hair. The burned brand on his back always seems fresh and it makes Tommy want to gag. He hopes that one is Dream's ghost. It seems too cruel for it to be him)

Tommy nods, walking into the forest, the fog welcoming him as an old friend as lillies of the valley grow angrily in-between his curls

He'll warn Tubbo and Fundy about the monsters and the false trees with guts and the flowers and the things that scream. Maybe Sapnap even. The rest of them? It was time for them to get a scare.

[unsat-and-strange]

jonny d'villes heart ticks audibly. the crew can hear it during the few and far between quiet moments on board the aurora. it's so steady, tick tick tick, a reminder that he is there and they are all alive together, never speeding up or slowing down. sometimes they joke about using it as a metronome during practice.

jonnys heart ticks. he can hear it every waking moment. tick tick tick. it never slows down, even in the deepest sleep according to the rest of the crew. it never speeds up even when his blood is more adrenaline then actual blood, times when normal peoples hearts would be racing. whether he's laughing his ass off or terrified for his life (I guess old habits die hard?) it. never. speeds. up. sometimes it's fine, he can ignore it but there are days when the constant tick tick tick tick tick tick tick is too much. the days when he has to drown out the sound with gunfire and screams or music loud enough to make his ears bleed. some days even that barely cuts it and he debates putting a bullet in his head just to make it quiet for a few hours. the rest of the crew has gotten pretty good at recognizing those days, and they know how to help him get through them, just like he knows how to help his crew through their bad days. nastya will bring him into the near deafening engine room and theyll play with power tools until their hands are covered in grease and grit, or Tim will sit him down on a speaker and play the bass so loud the whole ship can feel it, or Marius and raphaella will tell him about unethical medical practices they've witnessed/performed or Brian will just hold him close until the rhythms of the metal man's body distract from the tick tick tick tick of his own heart. the constant tick of immortality is loud. jonny can't deny his luck in finding a crew that is almost always louder.

[carlottastudios]

Every day I get closer to making an unhinged behemoth of a post listing all of the things about Kaeya and his possible connections to mythology & stuff that I notice but NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO BRING UP IN THEIR THEORIES

(edit: OMG I reached the tag limit I'm so sorry)

[faux-mance]

I wanted to show this in my art before I talked about it, but since I’ve been feeling kind of unmotivated to make any art I feel comfortable with posting lately, so I might as well just talk about it

i heavily associate geno with white lilies. originally this was on a whim, just because i thought it fit. i drew white lilies in his sockets and growing around him and weaving through the gaps in his bones

this was a frankly amazing coincidence, though, because after looking into them more, they’re frequently considered symbols of death, grief and mourning. which ties into geno’s story and character surprisingly well.

however, they also represent rebirth and restorted innocence, which could relate to the new sans that was formed to replace geno in the timeline after he got trapped in the save screen. when that sans (who i call after) was created, he didn’t retain any of geno’s memories regarding the RESETs, which ties into white lilies really well. it might also refer to geno’s “rebirth” when he was able to leave the save screen and had his HP and (parts) of his body restored, also symbolizing the escape from the old cycles of resets. going even further with that, white lilies also are believed to be tied with the departure of the SOUL— which connects pretty well with chara finally accepting their death and leaving frisk’s body, letting them do one final pacifist route.

what i also find an amazing connection is the symbolism of white lilies in reapertale. it’s common knowledge that reaper’s touch kills everything living. this is a big factor in the white lily that life gives him in the comic. she tells him how mortals use it to symbolize death, and ironically, reaper kills it as soon as he touches it. but later, toriel makes him one made of glass using her powers, so that he could have a flower that would never wilt, never wither

and that connects back to geno, full circle. geno is reaper’s glass lily. he toes the line of death, but he’s something that reaper can touch without worry or fear of him dying.

i also just really like this idea because i hc geno to enjoy botany and plants, (also because i love when dust is characterized to ALSO be a botany nerd— i think they share an interest specifically in medical uses of plants, with geno also branching out into symbolism and dust experimenting with toxins. they should have an insane greenhouse together)

edit: you CAN tag this as afterdeath but that was not my intention.. i prefer to explore all these dynamics more thematically and platonically :-)

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

i wanted this comic digitalized so bad that i used max's birthday as an excuse. :)

this is the true ending. if im insane enough ill show you the alternate ending though

bonus because i just. it just kinda peters out. longggg post yayyye