#diverse friendships

[pebblegalaxy]

Global Birthday Wishes: Embracing Love from Every Corner of the World #writeapageaday @Blogchatter

Global Birthday Wishes: Embracing Love from Every Corner of the World #birthdaywishes #globallove #internationalconnections #heartfeltmessages #diversefriendships

The Greatest Gift of All: Birthday Greetings from Around the World In the tapestry of life, there are moments that sparkle like precious gems, filling our hearts with warmth and joy. Among those moments, one shines brighter than the rest—the gift of birthday greetings from across the globe. As I reflect on the countless treasures life has bestowed upon me, none hold a candle to the overwhelming…

[starrysharks]

friendship is magic

closeups:

[artificial-angels]

wanted to draw the ponies in my style 💥

[stubbyartist]

izutade crumbs…. thank you ryoko kui

[goatunderthebridge]

The current dynamics of my fic writing 😔

What my kagehina fanfic writing is like:

Hinata: let's go play volleyball

Kageyama: you're such a dumbass

Hinata: no YOU'RE such a dumbass

.........

They make out aggressively. The end.

What my ushiten fanfic writing is like:

Tendou: Yeah, Wakatoshi is a really good friend of mine, my best friend actually, and we share a room, which is probably the only reason why he hangs out with me so much but we get on really well and-

Ushijima: I am in love with you.

Tendou: oh thank god

They make out aggressively. The end.

What my kuroken fanfic writing is like:

Kuroo: I love you. In a friend way :)

Kenma, not even looking up from his game: okay.

Kuroo: ...

Kuroo: haha, you got me. I'm in love with you.

Kenma: okay.. can you leave..? I'm about to get to the next level...

*is making him and kuroo kiss in the sims*

Kuroo watches distraught as their sims make out aggressively. The end.

What my tsukiyama fanfic writing is like:

Yamaguchi: *exists*

Tsukishima, internally: god I'm gay. He can never find out about this

On the flip side...

Tsukishima: *exists*

Yamaguchi, internally: gaygaygaygaygaygaygaygaygaygayga-

Oh you know they make out aggressively. The end.

[tubbytarchia]

me when a female character I like gets labelled a mom for the 17th time

[televised-uhhh-nerdistry]

Cartoon rec of the week:

Craig of the Creek

I haven't seen enough people talking about the show, so I'm mentioning it here. Absolute 10/10 cartoon. Just three kids, running 'round, making friends, running their own semi-sustainable community in the forest (there are some concerns about how much trash they leave there but ultimately they're better than most adults). Literally such a dream. they encourage each other to be emotionally healthy and they protect each other from "danger". Like they'll help each other achieve their dreams as they come (and new dreams show up pretty often because they're young kids).

And they're so funny! Like genuinely these kids are so earnest and intelligent and incredibly humorous and full of heart! They have full lives and they live them to the fullest out in nature after school, on the weekends, and in the summer. It's one of the best representations of found family I have ever seen in a cartoon, and I absolutely love it.

Also several of the writers behind the show are POC and queer (I think the head writers are all Black but I could be wrong), so you know that it was written well and the representation is awesome like I know that it should absolutely go without saying, but representation is much more than just showing BIPOC people on screen, and in terms of cartoons I haven't seen that many shows understanding that fact except maybe the Proud Family, Fat Albert, and a few others whose names will return to me once I've taken my ADHD meds. But the point is that Craig of the Creek gets it right. Most of the characters throughout the show (from what I've seen) are BIPOC, and you can tell that there are caring nods to BIPOC communities (primarily Black American communities), and more than that, that the writers know what they're talking about and are deeply familiar with and are a part of those communities. Craig, the titular character, is a young Black boy, and his family are middle class and ultimately very successful Black people. Kelsey (one of the main characters) is Jewish and Polish, and written with more complexity than having a one and done Hanukah celebration. The Creek's main business, a trading post, is run by Kit, a young Black girl with a love for economy and business. And many other characters are racial or ethnic minorities as well, and it warms my heart to see these characters done justice time and time again.

There's great subtle queer rep too, and you can tell it wasn't written just for the sake of representation, like it was thought out and intentional, and it worked beautifully. There are queer witches, and there are no labels applied to them, they're just allowed to exist with no explanations, happily in love with one another. There's a non-binary character later in the series (I'm only like 10 episodes in so I haven't met them yet but I've read amazing things about them). Kelsey also apparently identifies as a lesbian later in the series (I say "apparently" because I haven't done much reading so as to avoid spoilers, not because I am discounting her identity). On top of that, JP (one of the main characters) has a sister who is dating another girl.

There's also a significant amount of body positivity in the show, at least far than I've seen elsewhere. Not only do they openly say "all bodies are beautiful" and follow up on that by defending one another, there's also very little need to defend one another, because there's a very unspoken and deep respect in the Creek for things like body type, skin colour, disabilities, and so on. The kids of the creek, and their grown ups, are all different body types, and given their penchant for community and uplifting one another, it's no wonder they all seem confident in their bodies.

Not to mention the disability representation. There is a character later on in the series who is Black and deaf, and he not only speaks in Sign Language, but in Black American Sign Language. In addition, though unconfirmed, many of the kids in the creek embody aspects of various neurotypes. For example, the three main characters, Craig, Kelsey, and JP all come across as neurodivergent, with special interests, neurodivergent ways of thinking, and so on. Some have speculated that JP has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which is a disability often comorbid with ADHD. Not to mention that all the kids in the creek embody different special interests, most of which would be considered weird or frowned upon in everyday society, but that are given the opportunity to shine and flourish in the Creek's accepting culture.

Take the Horse Girls for example, a small clique of girls who roleplay as horses in a pasture near the Creek, and of course many of their behaviours are played as jokes, but ultimately they are accepted and involved in many adventures because of their unique interests and abilities which are ultimately how they aid the rest of the Creek. Every kid is a useful and accepted part of the Creek, with the exception of the ranger scout kids, who are essentially the same as cops, who are often exploitative, rude, and disruptive to the community as a whole.

Ultimately, the show is one of love, friendship, community, and acknowledging differences as a natural and helpful part of life. On top of that, it's not copaganda! What more could you want?

[stasyalovem]

ok, we have grumpy (but more like a bitchy) x sunshine dynamic like Charles with both Crystal and Edwin (but with a 30 years married couple bickering vibe), and also between Edwin and Nico (yes, he's softie for her, but still grumpy). also we have two absolutely stubborn bitches Edwin and Crystal, their beef is so iconic. but we're obviously don't have enough sunshine x sunshine dynamics between Charles and Nico. they're very cute and funny, we need more of their interactions in season 2

[leafatlaw]

Diversity win! The glimmer of light is bisexual

[lycheeluv]

I'm sorry for disappearing. Youkai gakkou Sensei has be eating me alive.

[reel-fear]

Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.

For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.

I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.

When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!

And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.

"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.

"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.

"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.

Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?

At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.

I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?

I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.

I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.

Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Wholesome Women and Girlhood Friendships ❤️ “The Switch” by Beth O’Leary “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott “Anne of Green Gables” by L. M. Montgomery “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers” by Jesse Q. Sutanto “The Bandit Queens” Parini Shroff “Kaikeyi” by Vaishnavi Patel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen “Bookshops & Bonedust” by Travis Baldree “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking” by T. Kingfisher “Nettle & Bone” by T. Kingfisher

[baylardian-1]

Capparity my beloved. <3

About the ship: -Capper would more and more often come to Equestria to visit Rarity, he'd insist on helping her around her shop to the dismay of Sassy Saddles who'd constantly carry around a lint roller whenever he'd visit -He'd never admit it to Rarity but he'd fallen for her quite early on and felt guilt for his feelings, assuming she would not only be disinterested in him, but not even consider being in a relationship with an Abyssinian and not a pony -Rarity, somewhat oblivious to his feelings, would be told through Applejack and Pinkie about Capper's true intentions in returning to Equestria every so often, she thinks he's cute for doing so after finding out -Rarity takes Capper out on a date as a reward for his efforts for all the times he aided her in her boutique, she also does it to tread out some waters she hadn't taken the time to consider before -The two become a couple a few dates after that, through which Pinkie constantly demands details out of Rarity, having most likely shipped them from very early on in their friendship -For a long time Capper still felt at fault for them even being together, constantly fretting over whether or not Rarity truly liked him or not and whether or not their relationship blossomed out of an obligation -One particular day he even thought he'd seen her sigh longingly at Applejack and Blueblood with their newborn son, as if wishing for normalcy -In his worry, Capper left Ponyville for a short period of time to see if he could do anything about his personal predicament, and assured Rarity it wasn't anything she should concern herself about -During his travels he would search for a solution to give Rarity a much more desirable and normal version of himself -When he does in fact find the means, of which was probably from a stranger living in the middle of nowhere in some bog he didn't bother to remember the name of, he returns home with much anticipation -Notably he didn't take much time to memorize the undoings of the spell he was intending to use, which would have something to do with a confession and a kiss in the form of a neat rhyme I'm too poor to write -Capper is warmly welcomed back home and him and Rarity resume their normal routines -It isn't until a few days later that he finally chooses to use the potion that he had searched for when he has a moment to himself -Disappointingly he notices no physical changes in himself, until a few moments later when he hears clutter coming from another room followed by one of Rarity's infamous screams -Capper runs in to find that it wasn't him who had changed in appearance, but her -Rarity spends a long while confused and barricaded in their household trying to make sense of the fact that she was now an Abyssinian, constantly crying about not having her magic to make dresses or even comb her hair -Rarity asks Capper desperately if he has any idea why this would have happened, to which he nervously replies that he doesn't have any clue -Capper takes care of her during this time, helping in whatever ways he can, practicing to walk on her hindlegs and even the ability to use her newfound paws for grabbing things; he even teaches her a few pointers on sewing that he had picked up on during the beginnings of their friendship -A few days of undisclosed cat-hood and not going outside had passed before Rarity's close friends had begun to ponder at the situation, Capper eventually has no choice but to bring them in on it -After a few positivity speeches from the girls, Rarity gains the confidence to go outside and attempt to continue on with life as if nothing had happened -Rarity takes on a whole new approach to her lifestyle and begins making dresses for creatures outside of just ponies, she even gets the hang of walking on two legs after a while -She even takes a few pointers and tips from Mistmane who had overgone a species change as well -Eventually Capper does admit to all the things he had hid from her for so long, including the self doubt he had about their relationship, even bringing up the fact that he had assumed she'd wanted a more normal family -Rarity with no bearing of anger over his feelings and actions tells him straight out that she had figured out her feelings long before and wasn't backing out on them now, she even infers of the moment of seeing Applejack with her family as wanting to start one of her own -The two kiss and the spell is unbound, something they realize afterwords was an act they hadn't yet attempted to try in Rarity's previous state of being -A certain amount of time later Rarity finds out she's expecting and not long after that they find out they're having triplets, to which ponies would occasionally tease about it implying they were having a litter -As an Abyssinian Rarity picked up the habit of licking herself to clean her fur and continued to do so as a pony for her foals -A while after their three foals are born Rarity takes up dressmaking again, but chooses to primarily intend for her dresses to be worn by all creatures and not just ponies -She dutifully spends as much time as she can making dress wear for her babies as they inspire her daily General facts: -Rarity and Capper were both surprised to find their children attempting to waddle on their hindlegs very early on in their development; all three of them are capable of both walking on 2 and 4 legs -It was a very momentous occasion for Rarity to watch each foal learn to walk on their hindlegs, remembering how difficult it was for herself to figure out -Capper has a soft spot for Clarity, being the shy and quiet one who has a hard time fitting in on occasion -Celestine has the tendency to get her attire dirty, she was constantly in the mud as a child, Rarity is constantly panicking over Celeste ruining her pretty dresses -I imagine Ramsey to be the one to like trying on clothes the most -Capper would comb Rarity's hair for her for a while when she was an Abyssinian as he knew that was something she constantly missed being able to do when she had her horn -The first time Rarity would have a hairball she would spend the whole day in her bedsheets out of sheer humiliation afterwords

[truthfultales]

Thought it worth reposting. Can´t reblog it anymore, because the person I responded to blocked me for - you guessed it - a witchhunt due to differing views.

[kidrat]

Being a transmasc who doesn’t know/ have community w transfemms is EXACTLY the same as being a gay man who’s weird to lesbians or a straight guy who is only ‘friends’ with women he thinks might sleep with him. Hanging out with and dating cis women doesn’t make it better either it makes it Worse. I hate all of u and I hate the ‘preferences’ you have ‘because of my trauma’ you know EXACTLY what I mean

[rotzaprachim]

my community has like one bar mitzvah a year and it’s happening right fucking now and I feel so so so sorry for that boychik who went out of his way to request a bar mitzvah and become part of the Jewish people going up to the bimah in the wake of mass death and most of the community refusing point blank to talk to each other in the wake of everyone now knowing how everyone else will actually respond to war crimes in our name/