#but we have each other

[wispforever]

halloween was scary this year

[toriforthepeople]

ever since they declared the election for Trump, this website has been on my mind.

8 years ago I was terrified. Lonely, queer, closeted, in a red state Catholic school. I thought Trump winning was the end of the world. I remember the visceral fear and sadness and isolation.

Tumblr was my online home and community when I was just a kid.

And yeah, it was rough. I was 15. But I’m 23 now. I survived and you will too.

My thoughts and prayers and love are going to all my red state gaybies 💙💙💙

[m00kieblaylock]

There’s just a lot going on; I am just a complete hot mess of a human, my body is being depleted by anxiety big time that I’m not feeling good at all 🫠 plus I am just self sabotage in the form of a person so

But! I must remind myself that I am continuing the fiendish tattoo run into 2023 & have collected a healthy amount of mesh shirts recently with is getting me closer to my hot bitch with undeniable 🔥✨bi vibes✨🔥

Also - I’m always going to be miss maternal. I truly believe that the love you put out into the world comes back to you when you need it the most. If anyone needs a pick me up/hype woman, a listener or anything at all I will be here. If you’re struggling, I know how hard you’re fighting and I’m so proud, especially if no one has told you lately. Care for yourself in the way you can today. A blank day is okay because tomorrow is new. There’s a lot of toxic positivity around this time of year - screw all that, just small reasonable achievements. I love you, keep kicking arse 💗💗💗💗

[melonsharks]

au where everything is the same except mabel and dipper have been going to gravity falls every year before the show takes place since like kindergarten.

its a pretty simple premise that derives mostly from my desire to explore interpersonal relationships and the ways a place and people can change from a young child’s point of view. it doesn’t change canon that much either, admittedly, i just wanted to draw childhood friends stuff LOL. ill call it uhhhhhhhh every summer au.

[maeamian]

Hey y'all, now is a particularly good time to show solidarity with the Haitian refugee community of Ohio by donating to groups working on their behalf like The Haitian Bridge Alliance or Advocates for Basic Legal Equity.

The Republican goons are trying to stir up a racist hate mob against them based on extremely sinister lies. To hell with the sorts of people who want racist violence and for those of us nowhere near Ohio, this sort of donation is a decent way of telling both the Haitian community and their tormentors that we have the backs of refugees.

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[reamed]

I want one strange mf to be obsessed with me and not think of anyone else

[wikipediadogdotnet]

wanted to share my favorite art pieces from the google drive collection of 300 free-to-use palestine-related posters by Artists Against Apartheid

poster numbers: 10, 102, 128 226, 20 34, 204, 127 158, 176, 26

[thestarfishface]

“There is no platonic explanation for thi-“ Sprays u with water. Sprays u

[stil-lindigo]

You are not childish for wishing the world was better than it is. We were owed that by the people who knew better before us, just like we too will owe the people who’ll come after us. But defeatism does nothing. It puts nothing on the plate you’ll hand to your child, your friend, your lover. You may never live to see the world become as good as it should, but that should never stop you from trying to improve it anyway.

[arealtrashact]

Just us two.

[lotus-pear]

intertwined fate

[bamsara]

I think it would be nice to have the option to hide numbers on ao3. Make it where the 'kudos' and 'hits' number is author-viewable only, have an alternate option for when a list is sorted by such so people can read things based off their tags and preferences rather than see big number go brrrr

I speak as someone with popular fics, it doesn't have to be a requirement but like, an option? This could go for other websites too, tumblr notes and the like