#don't mind me i'm just sensitive

[just-slightly-chayotic]

why is everything on the kim tag so damn sad?? i came here to have a good time and look at my favourite blorbo but instead i'm crying

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[triaelf9]

ugh I reallllyyyyy didn’t want to get in on this but like

The assumption that all atheists are people who’ve “never touched a religious text in their life” basically says to me you have a specific view of atheists and have probably not known many.

Most of them grew up IN the system and DO know the text and THAT’S why they walk away. 

If you’re gonna make a whole post on ppl not using nuance with CR stuff right now the least you can do is use nuance yourself and not paint an entire group of people with a brush that TV taught you, or a bunch of white men into power *cough* Dawkins *cough* coopted a movement in a society where to not believe in god is synonymous with being immoral.

So just keep in mind, the representation of people without faith that you see on TV or twitter isn’t the majority and 9 times out of 10 isn’t correct at all.

thanks ^_^

[stellaluna33]

That feeling when you find a fictional character that you really relate to, and then you come online and find everybody talking about how "annoying" or "boring" or "unrealistic" they are. 😕

Welp, I guess this is why I got bullied at school, huh.

[bonefall]

Briarlights death makes sense to me. As much as I love her character, the movement technology you’ve come up with wouldn’t be enough to keep her alive in a society where her nether regions are constantly exposed to the outdoors. She would get UTIs and kidney infections very quickly, which would be fatal when you can’t feel pain. My partner has to use catheters to avoid them (he is paralyzed in the same spot Briarlight would be.)

I think it’s disingenuous to have a character that’s paralyzed but have no other health problems or concerns regarding it, even if it’s uncomfortable to think about for some readers. It’s just as ableist to minimize the additional struggles she’d face as it is to kill her off unnecessarily.

Not accusing you of ableism, but expressing my concern. They’d need to find a way for her to poop and pee in a way that’s sanitary and a way to combat infections long term - even if the thought is “gross” to some people it’s the reality she’d have to live with. She should, at the very least, remain immunocompromised.

That is a valid concern. I will keep this in mind-- I'll make sure to note her immediately being cleared out of camp at the first sign of sniffles to avoid it. My cats can do some very minor building and there are now several cats on Jayfeather's Garden Patrol, it wouldn't be too much of a problem to make that area into a comfortable "satellite camp".

I do want to add though that my most important guiding principle is a stronger narrative which includes better portrayals of disabled characters, not perfect rugged woodsman realism. The medicine I add and the guides I write are in the hopes of better representing the lives of the real-life people who see themselves in the fantasy battle cats.

Realism does factor into that of course! But it goes out the door the minute it would smash up against a disabled character's inclusion. This is a series for human beings like your partner; as close to it as I can get by bending the setting when needed.

For example, Epilepsy

Epilepsy was deadly before modern medicine. Full stop. The herbs I created for that guide would not save someone like Shadowsight, whose convulsions are at extreme risk of turning into Status Epilepticus. It would help manage, but Shadowsight's life would have been very brief.

All the chamomile in the world wouldn't replace phenobarbital... or even the older medications, barbituates. Barbituates have been replaced and good riddance, but it's important to understand that even this drug known for causing EXTREME lethargy and horrible side effects was revolutionary. It saved countless lives.

But I'm not here to write a story for the real-life horror that is epilepsy in a pre-modern society. I'm here for the parent who personally thanked me for making their daughter feel less alone.

Evil spirits attacking the living! God knocking over trees! Attacking a bulldozer! That all happens; there's no reason they can't help Briarlight too!!

But I'll make sure to include her being immunocompromised. And I'll include ways they handle that. Just like I included a cat engineer who made a blanket sled.

So... suggestion accepted! I will keep this in mind.

Briarlight's Canon Death

...I will maintain though that the canonical death of Briarlight was one of the worst, most short-sighted, cruelest decisions that has ever been made in this series.

Because ultimately Briarlight is not a real person. She is a writing choice. She is a character based on Vicky's paralyzed cousin, "Dan," and Briarlight was directly modeled on Dan's personality and recovery.

What did the new writing team do, the minute they were writing a series without Vicky? Killed Briarlight to fucking greencough. For shock points. Narrative moves right on back to the MAIN conflict-- Alderheart having feelings for Velvet and Jayfeather enforcing the vow of chastity. ShadowClan officially falls apart in the background lol

It was never about realism, or realistic portrayal of disability.

This series doesn't care about realism when cats have bloody Freddy Kruger deaths in their sleep, or when shadow goo starts eating cat hell, or when lightning strikes Shadowsight. But they suddenly care about how realistic it is that the only paralyzed character survives greencough?? No! Of course not!

In the middle of the CONSTANT "Ohh she's finally in heaven where she can run and jump and not have a disabled life"? And the infamous Squirrelflight's Hope line, "You don't want to be alive again, Squirrelflight! You might become disabled like BRIARLIGHT"

(WHICH BTW THEY STILL HAVE NOT REMOVED DESPITE PROMISING IT YEARS AGO)

I absolutely do not believe for a second that they had a realistic portrayal of an immunocompromised cat in mind when they did it! Hell, screw it. I'll just say it outright;

I firmly believe that the new writing team killed Briarlight because they did not want to deal with her.

I flatly refuse to give them charity towards this choice. At NO POINT did they earn a speck of good faith. They continued every negative trend that was set up by the previous writers (including Vicky herself tbf), and went a step further by killing her to "we need to get rid of some randos" disease.

Not only that; but the Clan dynamics were NEVER the same after her death, because there was no character who could replace her personality. In this cast of cardboard cats, they plucked out one of the few optimists with a clear, unique perspective, not shared by ANYONE else.

My ire wouldn't JUST be because they happened to kill a disabled character in the way they did (though that is frustrating on its own imo). It's because it was Briarlight.

I hope every writer involved with the decision to kill Briarlight in the "Nothing is Happening! Quick! Kill Someone!" book of AVoS chokes on it. I will DIE on this hill and my blood will never wash out of the grass.

[greensagephase]

Hi! :D I hope you're having a good day. I just wanna start off by saying how ABSOLUTELY AMAZING PART 10 WAS. JUST- 🤌🤌✨✨ MWUA, CHEFS KISS. So my pen slipped and made these lil skechers of Miguel :)) because I'm lowkey obsessed with your fic. I hope you like them💕🫰🥹 Hope you have a great day/night!

(I wanted to tag you but Tumblr didn't let me comment on my own post, like what??😤)

Hiii!! I hope you're having a wonderful day!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! Like, I'm GIGGLING and BLUSHING - I'm so not normal about this and this man - the chokehold he has on me is unreal and scary at this point tbh 😭😭 so I'm just here freaking out about this and how freaking cute and adorable Miguel looks. I'm so happy your pen slipped, haha!! I hope it slips in the future again so I can see more of your art 😂 but no seriously, it's so amazing!! Thank you, thank you!! And I already said it but I hope you're resting and got to sleep some more since you were awake so early!! Maybe you need Miguel's sweatshirt to go to sleep!! Thank you so much for your support as always!!! I truly appreciate your support with each update. Ever since you came across the fic you've been there each time supporting it. It really means a lot to me and just know I always look forward to reading your reactions to the update!!! It means so so much to me!!! ❤️🥹

(Also, I don't know why tumblr does that! I remember you were unable to tag me last time, too so I just went ahead and followed you on your other blog!!)

I hope you have a wonderful start to your week and please take care of yourself!! Have a great day/night!!! ✨❤️🥹

-Alondra

[aprilblossomgirl]

On a more serious note (and I am dead serious about this), if you feel like you didn't vibe with a certain show from the Part 2 line-ups, it's okay, it's valid. But maybe please don't use that to bring down We Are, please.

[drugsforaddicts]

You know I had this crazy thought, while staring blankly at the wall, that what if I tried to translate A sem ti povedal into finnish but make it extra hard for myself by trying to match the rhythm so you could actually sing it.

So I did it. Idk if it's any good (probably not) but it was a fun challenge and apparently I love hurting challenging myself.

Kerroinko sulle koskaan Kerroinko sulle koskaan Kerroinko sulle koskaan

Kerroinko sulle koskaan, kuin ihanalta tuoksut Kuinka hehkut, kun ennen yötä kerrot mulle et tekisit kaiken sen, etten sua unohtais ja huomenna taas viereltäsi heräisin

Kuiskaa, paljon mua tahdot Pure, ennen kuin sen päätät kunnes pakahtuu sydän kunnes yö ohi on

Kerroinko sulle koskaan, leikit kohtalolla hengität mut sisään ja rauhoitat mun sielun

Kun teet kaiken sen, etten sua unohtais tiedän, et huomen taas viereltäsi heräisin

Kuiskaa, paljon mua tahdot Pure, ennen kuin sen päätät Kunnes pakahtuu sydän

(Kuiskaa, paljon mua tahdot) Kuiskaa, paljon mua tahdot (Pure) Pure, ennen kuin sen päätät (Kunnes pakahtuu sydän) Kunnes pakahtuu sydän Kerroinko sulle koskaan (Kerroinko sulle koskaan) Kerroinko sulle koskaan (Kerroinko sulle koskaan)

[homeless202]

"i don't want to get involved with people like them" in EY's minds translated to "he doesn't want to get involved with people like me", which explains his reaction:

similar thing even happend beforehand:

"this stuff, (that you do,) is embarrassing now"

[lemonhemlock]

it's so frustrating dealing with a friend that seems set on finding imaginary slights against their person and seethes in silence waiting for you to figure out what you did 'wrong' this time 🤦‍♀️

[high-voltage-rat]

Vyvanse is such a silly little drug. I get up at 11, take it at noon, what's a normal sleep phase I don't know her.

The first hour passes and I'm like "dude nothings happening except me getting sweaty and my heart's going a bit faster" and then I blink and it's another 2 hours later and I've just blitzed doing every chore available to me, organized all my shit for the day, read through 500 tumblr posts, watched some random-ass YouTube clips, and made myself food I don't want to eat because my appetite is suppressed but I know food consumption is a task. It's like all of my ADHD bullshit for the entire day happens at light speed over a few hours.

Then I sit down and can do The Big Task of the day for 5 hours or more and, unlike with a hyperfocus, can remain focused on it even after taking breaks to go do other stuff.

Then the end of the day hits and I'm tired and need to go to sleep but I still feel the Productivity Need so for some reason I watch 50 more "Educational" YouTube videos until it subsides and then finally fall asleep at 2am.

Like. Does it cure my ADHD? Absolutely not. Does it make me less chaotic? No. But does it allow me to consistently channel my ADHD energy productively? Oh, yeah. I'm not 100% sure that's what my doctors were going for when they prescribed it, but I gotta be honest I kinda love it.

[aeide-thea]

(lol i'm like. lowkey devastated abt the prospect of tumblr rotting around us even as i've seen some good sensible don't-panic posts abt it so obviously the thing 2 do is 2 make a same old same old post abt gender shit)

thinking like. i'm not currently in a position either soc anx-wise or insurance-wise to access top surgery but like. all certainties abt my Essential Gender Nature aside, have i worn any outfits in the past, like, 5-8 years that wouldn't have been improved in my own eyes by titlessness… don't think so…

[smallhatlogan]

reading this thing this lesbian wrote back in 2003 when she was really mad about AFIN and it's so interesting to see someone pretty much accusing them of queerbaiting even back then (when the word in the same sentence as Xena makes people get really mad nowadays) and also it's pretty funny how little fandom has changed

Extremely funny that the "well I fucking despise the actual piece of media in question but at least we have fanfiction" mentality was around even in 2003

[akai-anna]

we read this chapter (159) with my friend today in our oofuri reading session and i'm. just.

why does this feel so gay? why does it look like tajima is Interested TM? (and no, not in a platonic sense) while hanai is looking all clueless?

also: tajima yuuichirou having the emotional intelligence and awareness? (NOT ASKING ABEMIHA LMAO, YOU ARE SO RIGHT TAJIMA) god. yes.

[prettyhighforawhiteguyblog]

I get it. I'm quite the catch. I'm flattered, but I'm hopelessly in love with my wife who can't get enough of me. I'm a lost cause. You're gonna have to find your own fucked up White boy and fix him for yourself.

[omarfor-orchestra]

Noticed another thing about classically trained domenicocuomo