#but more on the positive spectrum

[weather-phenomenon]

me when i wanna scream this song but im on the bus :/

[neuroticboyfriend]

Shoutout to people who speak "overly formally." You deserve to express yourself in whatever way feels most natural and fulfilling for you. The way you speak isn't pompous, annoying, or mockable; it's just how you communicate, and there's nothing wrong with that. Your voice adds creativity and diversity to this world, and I think that's amazing.

[batri-jopa]

I love my life highly satisfied just being myself

(Check the OTHER VERSION too✌️)

[lgbtqtext]

Requested by gonna-live-just-to-spite-you

[knifearo]

daily gentle reminder that the words we use to describe ourselves are labels. they're not immutable states of being, they're not all-encompassing, they're not permanent, they're not universal; labels are just words that we use to indicate something about our experience that we find important enough to communicate to others. if your experience with attraction is significantly different enough from a typical allo experience then aspec labels are there for you to use as long as you want them; and conversely, what aspec labels communicate is just that someone's experience is aligned enough with what we describe as aromanticism/asexuality to warrant telling people about it. you never need a label, you never need to keep a label, you never need to justify a label, and you never need to use a label for anything besides what you want it for. it's not a contract. it's an adjective that you can choose to use or not to use. all it needs to do is be useful for you. 💚🖤

[canisalbus]

It's quite funny having followed you for years and years and knowing Machete as his dark, bloodied, cunning (and always on the edge of getting horribly murdered for his hubris) incarnation, and coming into 2024 and just... yeah he's gay now. Maybe he's even happy. Redemption at last... perhaps he DID get assassinated indeed and all those AUs are just his personal afterlife (does he get to go to Heaven? Seems so!)

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[loserboyfriendrjl]

i think that we often do forget that the black brothers were not inherently good people; they were more or less morally grey, more or less leaning towards the good/bad side. it's hard to fully unlearn beliefs of your family (and i think that many people resonate with this statement, whether we are talking about fictional characters or real, fully-fledged people), and i think that morally grey characters are far more interesting than people who are inherently good or evil.

sirius black

many people (including myself) would say that sirius is leaning more towards the lighter end of the spectrum, given the fact that he actively tried to unlearn his family's beliefs, he ran away from home at the age of sixteen and decided to move in with people who were recognized in the wizarding society as good people, he joined the order as soon as he finished hogwarts, and, even after the unfortunate ending of the first war, he decided to join the order again and stay inside a house that was never a home for him, to ensure the safety of himself, the order, and harry, too. his last act was the attack at the ministry where he found himself, despite the fact that he was supposed to stay inside grimmauld place, and where he died.

however, we cannot deny that sirius, too, had slip-ups. one of them was the prank (to review what happened, essentially, he told snape how to get past the whomping willow, therefore revealing remus' secret to him). in this situation, sirius shows recklessness and a lack of thought towards the consequences that his actions could have towards not only himself, but severus snape and remus, too. his behavior showed a lack of altruism, and a lack of consideration for the people around him, being willing to put them in danger for whatever may have been the reason.

another one would be swm (snape's worst memory), where james is a part of the action too, but the tormenting of snape was unjustified (j&s started the fight, and snape responded) and ended badly. now, i am in no way a defender of severus snape's, but both j&s and him were acting based on either boredom (the aforementioned) and a need for revenge caused by the actions that had happened against him (the latter).

in canon, we are also shown that he does not exactly think the words he says, and the effect they have on people. (“You're less like your father than I thought.” — GoF). i think that sirius had no right to say this to harry, who was just trying to make sure that sirius would be safe. what we need to remember is that, by the time of the action of GoF took place, sirius was still on the run, and the ministry was still looking for him; it would have been dangerous for both him and harry (and whoever might have joined them) to go out of hiding and go meet up somewhere near hogwarts (hogsmeade). harry's response to sirius' request was logical, and sirius' response was reckless and not well-thought.

regulus black

we do not have enough information on regulus to fully state on which side of the spectrum he finds himself on. however, he was known to have held the same beliefs that his parents did and to be an open voldemort supporter (The Slytherin colours of emerald and silver were everywhere, draping the bed, the walls and the windows. The Black Family crest was painstakingly painted over the bed, along with its motto Toujours Pur. Beneath this was a collection of yellow newspaper cuttings (of voldemort), all stuck together to make a ragged collage.)

therefore, to some extent, we can safely assume that he held the same beliefs as him (and, implicitly, his parents). the voldemort collage might have been on the wall for either research purposes or an act of devotion (this interesting perspective has been added by @/werewolfenthusiast) we cannot be sure; however, i am inclined to think that it might have been a mixture of both.

furthermore, i think the fact that regulus only started actively betraying and going against voldemort only after voldemort's actions had direct consequences on him and the ones he loved — kreacher, and this is shown in two acts; (wording taken off the hp wiki)

After becoming a Death Eater, Regulus began to consider abandoning Lord Voldemort, partly because his master mistreated and intended to kill the Black family's loyal house-elf Kreacher whilst setting up the security measures for one of his Horcruxes.

One day, Voldemort asked Regulus for the use of his house-elf, Kreacher and Regulus eagerly accepted as he wanted to please his master. Voldemort used Kreacher to test the defences around his locket Horcrux, leaving him to die afterwards. Kreacher was able to escape using house-elf magic and told Regulus of what had happened. Regulus worked out that the locket was a Horcrux and was the reason behind Voldemort's immortality. This was the deciding factor in Regulus's defection.

therefore, regulus has been shown to feel remorse and to start to realize the lenghts lord voldemort would go through only when his family (implicitly, his house-elf) were targeted. however, by researching horcruxes and trying to destroy one of them, regulus (un)willingly helped the wizarding world towards voldemort's fall.

all in all, the black brothers are two complex characters who, to some extent, held their family's beliefs and values. whether they had actively tried to unlearn them (sirius) or their betrayal was slow and silent (regulus), and neither of them can be fit in the category of inherently good or bad people.

[sonadow4life]

I redesigned shock

Also he know has electricity powers. Nothing too special, basically he can manipulate electricity but he has to be near something that runs on it. So if he’s near a light he can use it but he can’t use it in the forest.

I didn’t change too much. Mainly just the shoes and quills. He still has Sonics speed although he’s a little slower due to his age. He’s also 10 now (violets 12) he’s still a brat but less so than when he was a younger. Everything else is the same. Just think of this as a grown up versions with powers lol.

I’ll make a violet redesign next :)

[estellaestella]

To Ringo, Mizu, Taigen being great means building a reputation through talent and work; to Akemi it means power and titles.

Bonus, the clip where Taigen and Akumi realise what they want:

[fizzamess]

Keep the aroace positivity flowing (day 6):

Im feeling whimsical today. What is your dream? 🧡💛🤍🩵💙

I don’t care if it’s a witty joke, a statement of self pity, an absurd idea, something imposible, anything. If you’re arospec, acespec or aroacespec, or none. I wanna know, what drives you? What motivates you? What makes you feel passionate?

I think it’s a good idea to spread positivity around the community.

My own dream is to create. To inspire. I’m passionate about learning new things, analyzing every thought, every idea that someone else has said and create something new about that. Currently I’m working on my thesis and I’ve been able to create and tell a “story” (I’m being dramatic, the topic is actually a very nerdy thing from international law), and it has given me something to look forward to every day: to write and create and letting my mind go to wherever it wants to go freely.

On the topic of feeling whimsical, have this pretty pic I took of a sunset a few weeks ago.

@fuckyeahasexual @aroacesafeplaceforall @gray-ace-space @aegosexual-moments @our-arospec-experience

[lonelyslutavatar]

Help! How do only you know how Ace works only the correct one who knows how Ace works very sexuality affirming to see Jon Ace. Subtype competitive subtype getting a good grade in sex. This is exactly the Ace reality

aceness is a spectrum and I'm only exploring a part of it. The part that I think is not well explored considering how ace characters are typically just relegated to the sex-aversed category (this is a problem because gatekeepers within and outside the spectrum exist and they *love* harassing people who depict ace characters with any variety, calling them acephobic or "erasing ace people" or some shit especially if said people just want to explore their own aceness through these characters)

[dreamlogic]

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[witikli]

“its autism acceptance month and im tired of x autistics doing x thing bcus..” look 90% of the time i agree with ppl when u say this stuff but ykw i’m tired of? the way infighting & discourse in the online autistic community is sounding more and more like queer community discourse and like. can we please not go there? can we just. 1, accept the fact that every person’s experience with autism & ableism is different and 2, start trying to use “i” statements instead of “should” or “we” statements and only speak about our personal experiences. no one here needs anyone to speak over them. for the longest time the autistic community has been my biggest safe place online specifically because of the lack of arguments and how it feels like we’re just a bunch of ppl hanging out who occasionally engage in respectful casual group therapy and i want that BACK. make it happen :)

[knifearo]

happy pride aces!!!! here's to an experience with sex that is outside of the norm 🥂 you are loved and valued and i hope you have a wonderful month <3

[batri-jopa]

Found on facebook today

I hate that it looks like some "list of shame"

[clown-around-and-find-out]

please please PLEASE stop treating autism like it's some "life enhancer" that only makes you take things literally and means you are "honest to a fault 🥺" like i get those can be symptoms. but im tired of seeing a disorder that has made my life and so many other's lives so much more difficult now being turned into "i like using the :3 emoticon a lot and i say silly all the time! omg autistics how do you feel about this spoon?"