#but they were very very hard to find

[cruelsister-moved2]

for real! (from kadji amin)

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What I've realized is that I believe that the matter of gender is practical and relational. It's not about who you are inside, it's more about how you would feel most comfortable in the world. It's not 'Who are you?' but 'How do you want to live?'

Had that been the discourse when I was coming up, I would have breathed a sigh of relief. I don't have to figure out who I am on the inside, I just have to figure out how I want to live.

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[gayvampyr]

“queer spaces should be inclusive of people who don’t enjoy sex and who have “strange”, negative or repulsed relationships with sex” and “sex is an important aspect of lgbt community, history, and activism and queer people should be allowed and able to talk freely about sex without stigma or shame” are ideas that can and should coexist.

[teddyedwards]

Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag! / All rock and roll is homosexual

Manic Street Preachers and My Chemical Romance on defying gender and sexuality norms

nicky wire photographed by mick hudson / gerard way at Riotfest / mama by mcr / born a girl by msp / richey edwards / gerard way by kenneth capello / frank iero / james dean bradfield / a version of reason by rob jovanovic / interview with gerard way / frank iero's pansy guitar / richey edwards fairy t-shirt

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

I've received some criticism for accepting commissioned posts, so I want to clarify

this blog & the content I produce is currently my only means of income

I'm saving to escape a toxic household

tumblr is notoriously difficult for content-creators to monetize

I accept ko-fi / paypal / commissions instead of reblogging 'sponsored' content (ads from fashion retailers or Adam & Eve) the way most blogs my size do. I don't want this space to feel impersonal; reader support allows me to avoid commercial advertising.

I'm doing my best. I've spent years putting in full-time hours on a blog that has only just started paying part-time wages. eventually I would like to make a living writing traditionally published content, but that's a long ways off. for now I'm just trying to get by, and trying to write fun and weird and (hopefully) surprisingly helpful content on the platform I have. please bear with me. I'm simply trying to turn an obsessive passionate hobby into something I can live (frugally) on.

[undertalethingems]

Hiya! How are you doing today?

just fine! i've been trying to work on the next page but it involves....

[shudders]

interior shots

even if the blasters take a long time to draw, they're at least fun and interesting to look at--but interiors... they're among my least favorite things to draw, and that makes it a bit of a struggle. But, they're important for setting the, well, setting, so I keep at it even if it's not fun.

due to that, as well as other things keeping me busy, i may have to pull out a bonus comic i made a while ago for this week's update, if only so i can get to the moment I want to in the actual update :>

i hope you'll look forward to it either way ^^

[stomach-rental]

19!! Could you/would you be a prey? Why/why not?

"It would be a lot to adjust to. I think about how 'icky' and unsanitary this sort of thing is pretty often, and I'm honestly not always sure why Louis puts up with it. But I am always open to trying new experiences, and it might make us all a bit closer, so who knows!"

(You can find the ask meme here to ask Will, Louis or me more questions!

Both of them are owned by @peachnewt , but this is just my interpretation of their answers, not necessarily canon.)

[depresseddepot]

the way i try so SO hard to gain even a crumb of body neutrality only to then see some shit on twitter that remind me that oh yeah. a distinct portion of the population genuinely believes they are being discriminated against when they have to look at or be within 50 feet of a fat person

[skeletalheartattack]

you have any nostalgia for the humongous entertainment point n click games?

oh definitely!!!! i think ive talked about them in my tags before, but the two i had when i were younger were Pajama Sam 1 and Freddi Fish, though the former definitely had a larger impact for me, it's especially got one of my favourite styles out of all the games

[strawberri-draws]

... dumps pt1 of a drv3 au character sheets into the void

[askkaimei]

Hi, I want to ask what are your favourite things about kaimei? They are favorite too kaimei best ship :D

The kaimei i remembered starting to love had the moeness of angry meichan getting blushy over kaito who sincerely cares for her.

The gap how kaito is deemed to be silly but he could be there protecting you. He who would be dependable when u need him to.

They were cute and mature. Love that surrounded them still felt very new. They were discovering each other's secrets, side they wanted to hide, wants & weakness.

They had each others back in hard times while looking out for the youngins. They would get hugs from the small ones, but they always get the most the hug from each other.

They were soft to each other. He hits her tiny spot where she could actually be honest around him, sometimes she cried and he hid her under his jacket.

She hits his secret spot that would get kinda naughty but still in a cute way as he wants her just as much as he loves her.

They would want to spoil each other but still gets kinda shy. One of them would have to be more direct or trick the other to push them to do something & the other would get very flustered.

When it comes to each other, they always hoping for something more. Like, oh? everyone giving me presents for birthday, what are u gonna give me, a kiss? oh i hope it's a kiss. what noo why is it not a kiss. rly no kiss? sad

They would be the one to catch each other tired & the ones to cover each other with coat or blanket. They are the most to find each other off guard & they are okay with that.

Sometimes they push themselves to demand for some love but ended up in clumsy situation. Like her seeing him hugging everyone and she be like okay i will demand for a hug too and ended up tripping and bumping his back.

Or when they saw the youngin's cutely caring for each other, they would be like, wouldn't u want to care me that way?

They are just very cute. Adults who depend on each other & share love, responsibility, sadness and joy with one another.

They just wish for the very best for each other and that is the one thing will never ever change.

[sekwar]

Last year, I had set out to create a full ENA fan animation called “Tomorrow Road” featuring my ENAsona, 154. I had a complete script ready, and had designed the various entities they would encounter. However, I never continued animating it past the intro scene, and eventually it became clear to me that I wouldn’t be able to finish it at all. So rather than saying Tomorrow Road is cancelled and regretting it, here are all the animations I had done up to that point to show what could have been.

After which 154 would’ve gotten on a bus and driven off and do the thing ENA did

[twosheds]

“We used to really laugh at the same things, and we had, in some ways, the same mind.” - John Cleese

“I don’t know how to describe John. I think he probably takes sex too seriously for instance.” - Graham Chapman 

[silverwhittlingknife]

Dick and Tim at the circus <3

I love Tim's origin story. Here are some of the highlights:

There's a Meaningful Photo that Dick and Tim both have copies of...

...and it commemorates their first meeting:

Here's Tim's memory:

(Look how cute they are! Who among us would not respond to a hug from Dick Grayson by gazing up at him in awestruck adoration and then obsessing about his superheroics for years? Tim Drake: truly the relatable Robin. =p)

Things that I love about this:

1. Tim gets attached to the Robin costume when it's still the Flying Graysons costume. Before it symbolizes crimefighting, he associates it with kindness and reassurance and happiness (and of course, with Dick):

Which is of course why Tim thinks of the costume as Dick's ("it belongs to you!").

2. Dick ruffled his hair and promised to do a somersault for him, which is the reason why Tim is watching so closely. So the reason why Tim figures out Dick's identity is because of an act of kindness, and this is just so quintessentially appropriate for Dick Grayson I can't even tell you.

3. Tim meets Dick's parents, and Dick meets Tim’s parents. And even though it's a really fleeting encounter, that means they know something about each other that no one else knows. (No one else in the Batfamily ever sees Dick with his parents or Tim with both of his.)

And all four parents in that photo later get horribly murdered, leaving the two kids as the sole survivors. So for Dick it becomes a kind of talisman of the Way Things Were before, well, all this:

4. Dick's kindness is what makes Tim pay attention to the somersault, but the reason why Tim obsesses about it afterwards is because he's horrified by what happened and worried about Dick. Which is quintessentially appropriate for Tim Drake.

I turned away...I couldn't watch...Then I heard you crying and I turned back and saw you holding onto them, and I began crying too. I'm sorry, Dick. I really am. I didn't want to hurt you by telling you all this.

This is such a charged moment and the complexity of it really speaks to me. Because on one level, this is a kind of classic origin story for a Tim as a crimefighter: witnessing a horrifying crime, forever haunted by it, wanting to help. And in this story, Dick's the tragic victim. But what comes next is the realization that Dick's become Robin, which transforms him from victim to hero. And Tim clearly sees Dick as that hero now - after all, he's come to Dick because he's sure that Dick can save Batman.

But Tim spends the years before he figures out the secret thinking only about Dick's tragedies, and I feel like that gives a really compelling twist to his admiration. Because what Tim admires about Dick is not that he thinks Dick's immune to grief or suffering - Tim knows he's not! - but that he's a hero despite it. The person that Tim recognizes fighting crime is the person that he dreams about crying. The kid kneeling beside his parents' bodies is the one that Tim sees saving the day. And there's something really cool about that story to me.

5. They meet before either of them meet Bruce. Before the masks and the secret identities.

To me, it's really important that their first connection is a personal one. Tim doesn't remember the somersault years later because he's got photographic memory; instead, he remembers because 1) Dick went out of his way to be kind to him, and 2) Tim worries about Dick when he witnesses the murder.

So their mutual concern for each other as people is the spark that ultimately leads Tim to figure out Dick and Bruce's secret identities and ultimately join the Batfamily. He remembers because Dick made him a promise and hugged him.

And Dick's the one who convinces Bruce to make Tim Robin. Dick's the first one to consider Tim part of the family. And Dick's at the funeral for Tim's mom and he's the one who calls after the death of Tim's dad, because all the compassion and love that's in Tim's heart is something that Dick feels just as strongly.

And that's why I think they're great.

[threadmonster]

“Bungo Stray Doges”

Thanks, I hate it.

[hyraeth]

So I've started reading some Kerry/Johnny (and K/V/J) fics and my first impression is that people are not making enough use of the hilarious possibilities of Johnny meeting Kerry's kids

[lesbiten]

i love tens corruption arc i love how everything that happened to him even starting back with nine was leading to “the laws of time are mine and they will obey me” “thats what i am, the time lord victorious” i love the waters of mars so much i think that tens arc ending in him having a complete mental breakdown is the only good way it could have ended actually