#cherishing what i have

[orange-ghost]

Something something election thoughts. Feels like the world is closing in on me. I keep having to steady my breathing & remind myself that, as of right now, I live on mostly safe & secure ground. I'm not enrolled in any sort of education, I'll be okay if the DOE falls apart. I live amongst a bunch of other racial minorities. I'll probably still be able to transition if I stay where I am & just... don't do anything risky or stupid.

It's his last term. If 4 years passed quick the first time, they'll pass again. Shitty elections & presidents just a part of growing up and adulting in the U.S. I can't get everything I want, after all. Come on, Jonah. You're 21. Be a man.

Feels kinda selfish to push all the Southerners and other countries and the younger people in my family out of my mind for a minute, but for the sake of not becoming a statistic & hopefully seeing a better world later, I think I gotta focus on what's still safe.

Most of the country is falling apart, but... right now, I still have myself. So I'm hanging on to that. I can still keep trying to access an education. I can still keep drawing and working hard. And as long as this roof stays over my head... it'll be okay.

Practicing some gratitude for the following:

A clump of cells & some literal dick's audacity won't get me killed on these grounds. Not yet. Hopefully not ever.

I still have access to all the music I'd like to hear. Haven't heard Cavetown's voice in a long time. That cover of "I Know A Place" has been comforting.

I'm not bound to book bans. I can keep reading about disability rights, queer people, herpetology, and any other animal science/sociology topic I want. Plenty of books in my inventory that I haven't got through yet.

I'm a skilled guy. Maybe it's time to lock in and take art more seriously. PB merch might sell? I could use half the money on me and the other half on the Recess Project or something. Update my comms prices a bit.

There's a gaming channel uploading Let's Play videos of one of my favorite Mario RPGs. They've been posting every day. So I always have something to look forward to :,)

I got a neat new outfit yesterday. I think I'll wear it. Boost my ego a bit.

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce Wayne is canonically a very handsome man (he is called a "pretty boy" and he is in his 40s, for fuck's sake), and he is pretty famous as a rich philanthropist who doesn't want to leave his awful cursed crime infested city. So, there must be a ton of people thirsting over him on the internet. Fancams, edits, fanfics and imagines ("kidnapped with Bruce Wayne 😍 by a Gotham rogue"), the whole charade!

And anytime one of the batkids stumbles on a thirst post, they have the most dramatic disgusted reaction, loudly gagging, before sending the link to the batkids chat, because if they must suffer, then they should all suffer. Clicking on a link in this groupchat is like playing russian roulette, and getting rickrolled is a good ending.

[yourfatherjustinmcelroy]

"People keep dogs just because they're dogs, they don't have to do anything, they're wanted just because they're dogs" I have some huge news for you about people

[jkvjimin]

"my happiness started when I met rapmon hyung" for @jung-koook ♡

[cosmicdreamgrl]

jungkook x purple for @jkvjimin 💜 [ cr: 0613data, namuspromised, @jung-koook ]

[trauma-bot]

sin eater

[gloriousmonsters]

love when you can ask the Narrator why the Princess is a Princess and he's like 'well i uhhhh YOU did that. maybe it's because uh... something something about her being above you... but still approachable... look i don't want to analyze or anthropomorphize your--' my guy. i am a primal being of Order and Eternity and Shaping. You're the one who convinced me I was some dude and were quite willing to take credit for shaping my view on the world through narration five seconds ago. Are you gonna look me in the eye and tell me the desire to interpret something worthy of adoration and more powerful than me as a dommy princess is written in the very nature of the universe or are you going to show me your browser history like a man

[ichthyorelationships]

frankly them & honestly they

[marypsue]

Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

[nartothelar]

suspiciously big joltik

[bacchuschucklefuck]

gukgak specifically from my typing (man w/ three jobs & a creeping sense of dread)

[wis-art]

Not a big fan of capitalism

[klanced]

when adam met 11yo keith he immediately knew that keith was gay and was like i have GOT to support this kid!! (runs into traffic) meanwhile shiro spent years operating under the assumption that keith had like a gender thing going on

[intimidating-fettuccine]

As a fanfiction blog, I’m putting the warning out there to anyone that hasn’t already heard that one of the main things they want to go after is anything violent, LGBT, or adult content. Well, that will include fanfiction. It’s likely they’ll try to take down sites like Wattpad and AO3, so if you have fics on either of those sites you are especially attached to, you will probably want to start downloading and saving them. It’s even highly possible that they’ll take down tumblr, and it’s possible it will become risky to even be running a blog like this, as they’re threatening to put anyone who writes such content in jail. I am not even kidding.

If there’s any fanfic material that you have personally written or that someone else has written that you particularly enjoy, now especially is the time to start storing it and saving it so you can make sure you can still enjoy it if it comes down to it. I have no idea if they absolutely will be banning such things, I know they’ll probably try to (many states have already banned adult websites or require proof of identification to access them), so I suggest doing what you can now. Maybe they won’t end up doing it and it will have been for nothing, but maybe they will and you’ll be thankful that you did.

In the same vein, buy physical copies of any movies or download them if you can, and that goes for shows as well, and any video games or books you’re particularly fond of. We’ve got about two months to prepare before they start launching into and doing things. In their intent to censor everything, make sure you’re doing the best that you can to protect your right to free speech. Apparently they’re gonna be banning an entire gigantic list of books, including Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight, The Hobbit, and Alice in Wonderland (to name a few big ones) and like hundreds more that we were raised on from schools and libraries, and I wouldn’t be surprised that if they succeed in doing that that they’ll go on to ban their sales.

Save and store anything that you can at this point. In order to prevent things like this we’ve got to help each other and stand up for ourselves and our rights. Do not get complacent. Do not let them walk all over you. If it ever comes down to my blog disappearing because of all of this please know I will still be standing beside all of you and supporting you still. We must continue standing up for ourselves and our rights.

[lets-try-some-writing]

A little reminder for writers:

You do not have to write 5k words every single day. So long as you do something, even a few words, congrats. You've done what you needed to.

Your writing is not nearly as boring as you think it is 95% of the time. You only think it's dull because A. You are writing it. And B. You've reviewed the scene a thousand times already.

The amount of dialogue to action to monologue ratio in your work does not define it's quality. Some of the best horror is only two to three lines. Emotion can be conveyed through sheer dialogue if it's written well. Descriptions can fill in enough blanks to make dialogue useless. And monologuing isn't bad when done well, as seen by the greatest world building ever done being a trilogy, a prequel, a long rambling origin story for the universe, and a series of short stories for said universe. Most of all of that is monologuing and rambles made pretty.

Don't stress your style of writing. It will grow as you do just like any other artform. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's yours. Find your niche and cherish those who enjoy what you do.

Take a moment to breathe mate. Sometimes life happens. Sometimes life happens a LOT. Occasionally, an idea will have to stew in the waiting room for a while. And you know what? That's fine. It won't go away forever, it just needs a nap while you handle important matters.

If you post your writing, do not feel beholden to the readers who engage with your work. It is your story, not theirs. Listen to their voices, enjoy their praise, acknowledge their thoughts, but do not let them control you. Thou art a person, not a writing machine.

And please, get some sleep. Drink some water. Go outside and talk to someone. Walk under the trees. Feel the sun on your face. Get away from your writing for a while and let your mind wander. Even the most creative minds need time to play.

[sneppu]

I really will just ship anything so long as Severus is part of it, won't I? I dont care who it is, as long as The Sneep is loved. Like please, won't someone just love this creature and mean it.