#but bold isn't bad

[toastysol]

It's cruel that not all romance options in cyberpunk are bisexual!! I wanna romance everyone at once T^T

[paintpaintpaintman]

s(hr)impers stand up

unite for Narinder hips

I've never animated before and it is very hard but quite fun! I've been workin on it for a couple days, and I've learned a lot. It's far from perfect, but it definitely exists and it's a start. I'd like to start animating more because of it :)

Shout out to @aychama for inspiring this i lobe you and your work always ❤️‍🔥

[crookedfivefingers]

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link to the post I accidentally wound up prattling endlessly about in the tags 💀

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[fictionadventurer]

NaPoWriMo #12

I glanced at a few how-to-write-poetry books and got a bit frustrated by their assumptions that poetry needs to be this deep and laborious artistic endeavor.

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Song of an Amateur

I am a simple poetess I take my pen in hand While others long for lasting fame My dreams aren't near so grand

All I want's a little ink A peaceful touch of time To gather up my humble thoughts And scribble out a rhyme

While others labor to create Immortal artistry I play with words as children play With sand beside the sea

Delighting in their shapes and forms In meter’s playful joys I let the words fall to create New literary toys

Capturing a simple sight A pithy turn of phrase To give my friends a bit of joy To brighten up their days

It’s not for me to take a place ‘mong lit’rature’s elite I���d rather gaze up at their heights And play beside their feet

So tell me not to labor long O'er words meant to impress I’d rather live quite happy as A simple poetess

[theboarsbride]

me: *is overwhelmed by multiple WIPs, writing assignment, essays, and newspaper articles, and-*

my brain: time to plan a new WIP!

[faceofpoe]

I think... I might later today post the first chapter of the "what if s3 eps 2 and 3 happened concurrently?" AU in which Hunter & Wrecker don't get Omega's message until it's too late because they're busy playing with the tentacle monsters on Setron and adopting 3 new children.

[fluxrspar]

engagements.

Selena does not feel late, but in technicality: she is, isn’t she?

The festivities had already begun by the time she arrived, but that had been expected—after all, for an event so anticipated, why should one wait even a moment longer than necessary before indulging in the music of the night?

Selena feels what should be an uncharacteristic degree of nerves, but all the same: she meets the attendant at the door and receives her brooch.

And so, she feels, the night truly begins.

Tracker.

Selena’s Brooch: String of Pearls Collected Brooches:

Black Feather: F!Alear, Hugh White Feather: Forde String of Pearls: Minerva Small Bell: Katarina, Artur Teardrop Crystal: Andrei, Forsyth

(Outfit + description beneath the break.)

Two layers, though the verdant green obscures most of what is underneath. Heels are less sharp than what she normally wears—it is less likely to tear the hem of a dress or harm someone’s feet if she is not as aware as she should be.

Gloves as well, though they are simple, as is the aim of her outfit. Star-shaped earrings as opposed to her usual gemstones. Hair is tied into a bun, and there hang two braids she did herself. She hopes they look nice, though she doesn’t often braid her own hair.

[stellarcn]

[Text]: uwu // i'm sorery stelle

Text: OWO

[mrtheinsatiable]

Alright this time we're doing a no child soldier run

[asmodeusamaryllis]

G3nshin players never beating the not playing the game allegations

[moonlight-at-dawn]

a strange thing to say as a 90s kid, but I miss when we could have fun without being assholes

[seaweedstarshine]

To be fair they NEVER let franchises win anything I swear

They’re snobs !!!!!

Don't get me wrong, I think it deserved Best Picture!!! but I know that's unreasonable to expect of those snobs. </3 Like, sometimes they make exceptions for categories that are less about the main content of the films, most often Best Visual Effects.

I remember last year Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was nominated for Best Original Song (it deserved to WIN). A Best Original Score nomination for A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes shouldn't be too much to ask for 😭

(You're SO right anon and they need to take a real hard look.)

[nientedal]

Love these additions so I'm gonna add to this post from here. I do want to address @strigiiformes tags, because I think they bring up an important point (state provisions):

#reblogs #actually depending on the state #children in the entertainment industry are subject to #varying laws #last sentence in the 1st paragraph is objectively false #look up child entertainment laws #the coogan account rule is very useful #but they need to do a better job helping kids access them when they're adults #i still have no idea how to get to mine

First of all, it sounds like you were a child entertainer of some kind, so I kinda hesitate to open my mouth here (also, my sympathies if you'd like them), but just to clarify: the last sentence in the 1st paragraph is pulled word for word from the website for the US Department of Labor. My response up there was focused specifically on federal labor laws because I assumed the question I was answering was referring to the FLSA. I apologize for not making that clearer.

Secondly, you're right, there are some protections available to child entertainers...but these vary by state, as you noted. And I want to point out that many states still have no specific protections for child entertainers, who are thus only protected by general labor laws in those states. On top of this, here is a link to child entertainer provisions by state, as tracked by the US DoL; as you can see, many of the states that do protect child actors limit their provisions to theater performances and similar. Not all, of course, but a non-zero number. So like, you're definitely not wrong about this! Some states do protect child entertainers! But those protections also vary by state.

And most importantly? From where I'm sitting and what I'm reading, the children of social media influencers are currently exempt even from the protections available to child entertainers. That is the problem discussed in the first article, and that's why I'm back again to clarify this point! The children of influencers ARE NOT child actors/entertainers in the eyes of the law (yet), and as such ARE NOT covered by any provisions that currently exist. Provisions & protections for child actors straight-up do not apply here because the children of influencers are not yet considered to BE child actors in any state of the USA of which I am aware.

The provisions and laws that exist right now do not apply to these children-- NONE OF THEM do-- because like @elfwreck pointed out, parents are allowed to film their kids doing family stuff. And they are allowed to post those videos online. And that second one fucking sucks, and we need to talk about it without getting sidetracked by which states do or do not have provisions that don't even apply here.

(Also please please please can someone tell me i am wrong about any or all of this. Tell me I'm missing something. Please. I am literally begging. I saw "objectively false" and got so excited 😭.)

Yeah, influencer parents are the worst.

[keets-writing-corner]

Thinking a LOT about Lucifer in the latest Hazbin episode. Idk what I was expecting but not this??

As I was watching my immediate thought was just "huh... Lucifer is kinda of weird..." but as the episode went on I realized the issue

the dude is off the chain depressed, like he says it as a joke but holy cow it is SO BAD

He's manically just creating rubber ducks cuz his daughter really like it that one time but it's empty, it's never good enough but he keeps doing it, maybe cuz he doesn't know how to pass the time otherwise.

like I get the feeling he HAS better things he SHOULD be doing than making rubber duck after rubber duck. At first I was like, "Bruh why isn't the king of hell doing anything?" aaaaand then it became clear...

The dude is disassociating so bad he can barely hold a conversation let alone remember information. He clearly WANTS to, he wants to be involved with his daughter so bad, he wants to care about the things she's doing so bad, but his depression keeps interfering. It's like he can only hear every other word and he grasps onto the ones he does hear semi-out of context. Like you can see every time he catches something that he hadn't before and he just "well shit I didn't catch that part"

and that's why he reacts so weird when people talk to him. He is struggling so bad to engage with the conversation he's only getting 50% of it

does that look like the face of a man who knows what the hell the conversation is even about??? he is STRUGGLING

like Charlie spent so long telling him about the hotel, and he STILL didn't understand what she wanted. Yeah it comes off as ditzy but literally I've been in that position where your brain just "nope, not doing this right now" and nerfs your conversation comprehension. So as someone who's BEEN in that position, to me it feels exactly like what he's dealing with. He's sorta engaged with the conversation, but only as much as his brain will allow

For example, when I'm dealing with this, this is what someone talking to me feels like this where the crossed out parts are what I missed and bold is what I catch, "Hey! You know I was thinking for dinner we could either make some chicken with rice? But if you don't feel like cooking, pasta is super easy and you love that right? What do you want to do?" you can kinda get that someone is trying to talk to you about dinner, and towards the end you get the impression that they asked something that needs your input so you can decently put 2 and 2 together and try and pass off, but crucial bits were left out, I would have no idea that either chicken or pasta is in the conversation only having heard "rice". When someone is just talking at me, I can decently pass off as being engaged but the second I'm required to participate in the conversation I'm screwed. Seem familiar? At which point I have 2 options, try to give a bullshit answer, or admit that I missed what they were saying and ask them to repeat

Lucifer, unfortunately, is trying so damn hard to hide that he's dealing with like 24/7 dissociation, so he can't admit that he's missing entire chunks of the conversation, hence his really weird replies. He does eventually get the full picture and then he and Charlie start having the real conversation

Also, the Alastor/Lucifer rivalry was hilarious but also really indicative of more of what Lucifer is dealing with

Alastor is, unfortunately, really good at picking up people's insecurities, and thanks to Charlie's description earlier and watching Lucifer clearly trying to overcompensate, he immediately picks up on the fact that Lucifer KNOWS he struggles to be a good dad (we know cuz it's cuz of the depression, hard to be engaged when your brain keeps turning off) and decides to rub salt in the wound by pretending he's been acting as a surrogate father to Charlie. Now why Alastor decided to pick a fight with the king of hell is beyond me, I do not understand Alastor (and I LIKE IT) (maybe it's cuz Alastor thinks he's hot shit and was expecting Lucifer to at least have heard of him but Lucifer just treats him like a nobody? who knows)(why would Lucifer listen to radio anyways when he can't even pay attention to a conversation it'd just be white noise)

But yeah I just was expecting someone who oozed either charisma or presence and instead I got a depressed dad who's dissociating so bad he can barely function and be present in his life. The only thing it seems he CAN do is make rubber ducks cuz his daughter really liked it that one time

Idk Lucifer is tragic to me. Whatever the full details of what heavan did to him absolutely broke him and he can't deal with it. He's aware of it, and he doesn't know how to fix it, so he tries to over compensate and sorta makes an ass out of himself but no one says or does anything cuz this guy is supposed to be THE king of hell

Suddenly it's making a lot more sense why he just rolls over and lets heaven do what it wants and even told Charlie to go in his place the start of the show. He's not in any headspace to hold a basic conversation let alone negotiate! He didn't even know who Alastor was, he's been so out of touch

idk I like him, he seems sweet, I hope Charlie brings some light back into his life. He really needs to get out of that rubber duck room

[aromanticannibal]

"kid friendly blog!!! sfw agere blog!! only nice things here :))"

*has a bright red in bold and big text dni post with text in capital letters, reblogs posts screaming that x and y people aren't welcome here*