#but no matter what

[roselightfairy]

bracing myself for all the postmortems about x, y, and z strategic things the democrats should have done differently from amateur political strategists on the internet when there is, frankly, absolutely zero excuse for people to have seen what this man proved himself to be, over and over and over again, and chosen to vote for him. done with it. the postmortem is on who we are as people, too many of us, and it dates back to the founding of the usa. can we please talk about that instead?

[iamtheaudacity]

I’m going to scream. The grass is still green, I’m still seeing birds and the temperature is bearable. In the middle of November. In fucking Minnesota.

yet they still try to claim that climate change is a hoax and that everything’s fine, yeah “our best interest” my ass they fight for themselves not their people. I’m just a teenager but I can’t even try to worry about drama and celebrity shit because the adults in control of my country, my home are going to kill the world before I have a chance to grow up in it. How am I supposed to care about anything that doesn’t directly affect me when I’m wondering if I should by all of the classic books before the end up getting banned andd if the ones I’m going to write will fall to the same fate, because I’m not letting so many voices, MY VOICE go forgotten even if I have burn in place of the very words I and so many others write. so many people tell teenagers to just focus on grades which is practically impossible when I have to think about whether or not I’ll have to use the fact that three women in my mother’s family have had breast cancer including my mother herself to convince the doctors and government to let me have top surgery. How am I supposed to care about grades when I might not be able to get into college because it would be made harder or less acceptable for me to go just because I had the misfortune of being born female and that means I have something these men want. That is if I make it through high school without being shot of course. the politicians say they’re doing all of this for the children (obviously that’s why they want to ban drag you know/sar) but won’t listen to us when we cry for change as they instead walk in the other direction, they say this is for us but then they make a world where green grass and birds make me want to scream

they won’t listen to our screams now it’s about time to start biting and scratching

[iminyourbookshelf]

Chayanne and Lullah, Ares and Athena. That is all

[broodwoof]

jumping off that post about ppl's ocs and how ridiculous it is to be "fandom critical" of them...

i've said it before and probably will again, but this is also why i'm so deliberate about giving space for canon character interpretations that do Not align with mine, or even with what i think is at all what we're meant to take away from the character

solas is my go-to example here. someone who has a lot of trauma and baggage around being lied to might be more inclined to see him as a full-blown anatagonist, or attribute a more devious and manipulative slant to his behavior. i don't agree with this read and i wouldn't follow someone who espouses it, but i'm also not going to freak out about their "reading comprehension" or blatantly tell them they're wrong or whatever else

how an individual relates to any art form, any narrative, any character, etc., is ultimately personal. it is deeply rooted in their experiences and perspectives. i am not the Keeper Of The One True Interpretation, and to think so is imo just such hubris and self-centeredness

having said that, do i still have feelings about ppl interpreting characters i love radically different than i do? yes! i still get frustrated or hurt when ppl view solas as a manipulative villain. but my feelings don't define their right to view him that way. that's the point where i just curate my dash more and move on. sometimes vent to my friends about it if i need to, and then move on

also, like, i'm not perfect at this. i have definitely expressed these frustrations on tumblr, which is by its nature a much more public setting than a quick vent in the appropriate channel with my friend group discord uwu;; it's esp hard when ppl don't have that friend group to fall back on, but still feel a need to express themselves.

but i'm definitely trying to get better! tumblr is a public setting, and at the end of the day, i really take a Do No Harm approach to how i interact with ppl. i'd rather be privately uncomfortable and move on than be publicly condemning and... then move on 😅 like what's the point there? get mad, maybe hurt ppl, and either way the outcome is the same for me?

but also. we're all playing with dolls! i'm not going to get mad if someone has the same doll as me and decides he's an awful villain. i might be like :| why... but i'm not going to go over, yank the toy out of their hand, and tell them to return to the source material

just gonna sorta turn my back on them and keep playing with my dolls

[ayakashibackstreet]

Kapsel had an ehhhh day yesterday but he's doing better today again. It really is a game of ups and downs, having an elderly dog

[soufre-de-paris]

actually this is genius of me and i shouldn't have been obsessed with killing all exposition, because having a character reveal the truth in a simple sentence in the second to last chapter, thus recontextualizing the entirety of what came before is actually very good, thank you self for realizing

now if i could figure out if B is actually HB or HB's boyfriend KMN, that would be great

[cheese-water]

soooo any updates on that retrial?

[111papilio]

brazil miku

[kosmogrl]

the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

[arcanejude]

ARCANE 1.03 || 2.06

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[surkeart]

be free!!

[rotisseries]

that being said I'm not actually always opposed to conflict free fluff I am just opposed to the characters having their claws filed down for it. you can stick them in a coffee shop au it should just still feel like you sat the two worst most insane people on earth in a starbucks

[yogurtgut]

HI THERE!! HERE'S THE ROBOTNIK SIBLINGS!!! I AM NOT OKAY, SEND HELP :'''DDDDD

[steviesbicrisis]

And this is why I love this fandom!! We collectively adopt a lot of ideas but there's always someone that comes up with a new idea like this one that I LOVE (seriously, Eddie rethinking his whole sexuality because of Chrissy? accurate) and that gets me to love this ship/fandom on a whole new level

but also, imagine the convo between eddie and steve:

Steve, trying to confess his feelings: I just wanted to tell you I'm bi

Eddie, excited: you too?

Steve, hopeful: oh, yeah I found out very recently, you know...

Eddie, making the wrong logical connection: oh... who was it for you, Buckley?

Steve, rethinking his knowledge of bisexuality: what the fuck

I love steddie. I do. With all my heart. It's my favorite ship of all time. 100% real no clickbait 1 link mega.

And I love the fandom adopting the idea that Eddie is gay, and Steve is bisexual (and often Eddie is Steve's bi awakening, that feels accurate), but I'm also very hyped about the idea of Eddie learning he's bi because he has a brief crush on Chrissy.

I can picture him so easily after speding half an hour with Chrissy in the woods his mind going like "I thought I was into guys?!?! what's happening???", and then blushing because she was adorable all the time and then learning that he was wrong all the time by sterotyping her for being a cheerleader, thinking to himself "well I think it's time to rethink a few things", and then everything goes holy shit and he gets to know Steve and he goes like "ok, yup, so apparently I've got a type and that happens to be layered jocks with unfitting reputations, hearts of gold, 80 pound sweet pupper energy, impossibly huge eyes and smiles that can eclipse the sun. I'm fucked."