#excuse the quality i posted this on mobile

[kensatou]

he's like if a baby cow wandered into a zoom interview

[fontiercomics]

Boy am I glad MOST platforms let you post more than 10 pics at a time because GOOD LIRD.

Uhmm, so please excuse all of this, what started out as a quick exercise quickly devolved into uhhh — this!

Idk where they are, let’s call it the Void. And in the Void you cannot run from your demons, they always find a way to come out.

PLEASE let me know which page of your fav, I think mine is #5, Leo’s paws are to die for 💙

Also hello Leo’s momma! Her name is Amperia 💙

And welcome back Leo’s daddy, I decided his name is Rigel ^^

EDIT:

EWW THE QUALITY IS SO BAD IM SO SORRY

I had to send them over to my PC because mobile can't upload more than 10 images at a time 💀💀

I decided to keep the first page that I published up because someone left a lovely reblog message and I didn't want it to be lost 💙🙏🏻

[nyarumie]

Brains to Brawn. (Chapter 2)

narumi gen x f!reader — 2.9k words, co-workers to lovers, narumi loves kisses, multiple parts, semi canon compliant, in denial reader.

STATUS: Ongoing. Chapter links: 1, 2, 3

Author's Note at the end! Likes, Reblogs, and Comments are also appreciated; Happy reading ♡

Cross-posted on ao3.

Requests, prompts, or any messages are appreciated! Just open my ask box.

"Y'know, I'd almost like to take you in as my officer right now. But numbers are just numbers. Get what I mean?" 

"...What?" you felt like your head was going to crack into pieces any time soon, and the Captain isn't even here yet! What was he even doing here? How can he say that without even sparing a glance at you? He's talking as if you're a new breed of officer! Even more, how does he not recognize your voice?!

Finally gaining some composure to speak, you sat up and started, "With all due respect, I'm an operations manager. I have no interest in becoming an officer, and I value my job beyond my own life. Besides, I doubt the Captain would approve such a shift in the workforce—" 

"That's not for you to decide. Kurusu, pull up the numbers again." you froze in place, eyes wide again. You felt your mouth go dry as the current First Division Captain himself, Isao Shinomiya, arrived swiftly.

A snort came from the doorway, taking your attention. Platoon Leader Narumi lazily made his way over one of the stools, crossing his legs, still engrossed in his mobile game.

It's not like you can do anything else in this situation, and you can't even hear Kurusu and the Captain's conversation. Ultimately deciding to just observe the Platoon Leader, thoughts started flooding your brain. 

'That bastard! He didn't even bother hiding his snort! Does he even have the authority to be here? Was he just loitering around? I'm sure this is just plain entertainment to him, but he's not even paying attention to anything except for his boring ass game! I wouldn't be in this situation if it weren't for him… and my co-workers!'

A voice shook you out of your thoughts. "With how hard you're gripping that gun and glaring daggers at me, I would've thought you wanted to kill me." Narumi said, surprisingly sounding nonchalant.

Oh, the menace. Is he now bored with his game, deciding to pick on me instead?

"I don't even know how to use these. And again, I'm an operations manager! Yours, specifically!" you insisted, now pissed at how he's decided to finally give attention to anything other than his game. You held your tongue back from arguing further, not wanting to ruin your image in front of the Captain. Oh, you sure would love to get a long, quality sleep once this is over. 

Narumi finally turned to look at you from where he's lounging, quirking an eyebrow. "So you're the voice that keeps nagging at me during our neutralization operations?"

"Why, excuse me! I saved your impulsive ass several times with my 'nagging'! Shouldn't I get a thank you instead? You should be grateful for finally meeting the angel whispering in your damn ears!" you feel yourself getting even more impatient and uneasy, snapping at him unintentionally. The stress must be getting into you.

You almost forgot about Kurusu and the Captain in the midst of your small rage, hearing footsteps approaching the protective glass. "Captain Shinomiya would like to make a deal with you." It was Kurusu who spoke this time.

A deal…? 

Isao Shinomiya focused on you with a steady, serious gaze. "Join the Defense Force Neutralization Unit. A proposal will be sent to you later within the day, taking into consideration your position in the Operations Unit. I am expecting an answer in 3 days' time." 

He made a motion to leave the room, "Our nation needs both your intelligence and strength. Show us results, and the deal will go through." he departed shortly after.

Unbelievable. He left before you can even comprehend what he said! But he's a busy man, alright… 

You stood up and detached the sensors attached to your body, making your way back to Kurusu. Damn, your legs feel like jelly. With slow, weak strides, you finally reached Kurusu in the monitoring area. 

"Oi." 

You jumped, forgetting about the presence of another person. Still feeling a bit overwhelmed, you raise your eyebrow at him, silently asking what it is that he wants now. Not that he can see you, though; he's still into his game.

"Show great results and I'll have you transferred to my Platoon."

"... Don't be stupid. I already said I'm not an Officer." Besides, you know very well how he does things in battle. Each Platoon Leader gets assigned their very own Operations Manager, and you just so happened to be assigned to him. He prefers going solo all the way, as if he's a Kaiju killing machine (he, in fact, is one). You'll just end up being one of the rookie officers standing around awkwardly while he gets things done.

"What's stupid," He stood up, stretching while still holding his phone in one hand. "Is doing nothing with those numbers. And refusing to be a part of my elite platoon. And I'm not stupid! I was an academic achiever, just so you know!" pointing an offended finger at you.

…And he just walked off. At least he acknowledged your potential power, and that's extremely rare. But only because of your potential aptitude for Kaiju no. 3. Which you don't have any plans of doing something about it. Yet.

"If it were any other superior, you would've been really fired on the spot. Didn't know you have quite the guts to call a Platoon Leader stupid." said Kurusu.

You mumbled a half-hearted apology to Kurusu, "Not like it matters to him anyway…" you said. You've argued with Narumi over comms during battle despite not knowing you. Surely, something as small as calling him stupid is nothing.

"You should go back to your station. Not a word of this to the other operators, the information should come from HQ themselves—unless you accept the to-be-finalized proposal." he said.

"So… my afternoon shift—" 

He instantly gave you a deadpanned look. Alright, no skipping work today. Which is quite fair enough, you unintentionally gave him another job to deal with, after all.

With a dampened mood and head occupied, you start walking back to your work station.

Your afternoon shift was surprisingly normal and peaceful. Concerned glances were thrown your way by your friends when you went back to work, the slightly uncharacteristic silence bothering them. Not that you were noisy per se, but you're working on one report to another rapidly. To them, you’re in distress; but to you, you couldn’t be more glad and at peace to just go back to your respectful, ordinary work, ready to reject the proposal from your Division Captain any time soon.

Unbeknownst to you, a certain Platoon Leader observed you in your ‘element’ through the horizontal glass pane from the door.

As Captain Shinomiya was drafting the proposal, an unannounced but familiar presence entered his office.

“Old man. Tell me, do you plan on assigning another yapper to me for our battles if she accepts the proposal? If so, I don’t need a voice screaming their ass off in my ears. I don’t want to babysit a rookie either.”

The Captain mentally noted how subtly grumpy Narumi is. "Each deployed officer is to be strictly monitored in battle. That's how we analyze your skills and determine if your results are worthy of representing the First Division." 

"You didn't answer my question."

"Narumi. Results are to be expected from you, regardless of who you're working with, or what you're doing on the battlefield. Do you understand?"

"...Whatever you say." he uncharacteristically departed back to his office without arguing back.

Of course. It never fully mattered to him who he worked with. He simply does what needs to be done and exceeds expectations "effortlessly". But that doesn't mean he never noticed.

All the previous operations managers assigned to him filed an official request to be transferred to another officer. He expected you to file a transfer request after the first few missions of being assigned to him, but you ultimately decided to stick with him to give his ears some beating through comms if you can't beat his ass in person. Sure, he found your nagging quite annoying, even telling you to shut up several times—in which you only screamed back at him, insisting you're just doing your job to keep him alive; but he'd be lying if he said he didn't find your reports beneficial.

Most post-battle reports written about him are more of a complaint than a feedback. The managers assigned to him would always give him a C to D grade for his performance, despite taking down the most destructive Kaiju on field. 'What's there to complain about when all Kaiju were neutralized?' he thinks. He stopped reading those, crumpling the papers and throwing them somewhere in his room. Besides, they didn't even bother giving any training routines on the suggestion box of the report, concluding that "he can deal with it by himself".

— A few months ago —

He thought his unleashed combat power would hit the wall at 71%. For a few months, no amount of training he came up with amplified his power. It was getting pretty frustrating, and even Hasegawa took note of how even more desperate and tired Narumi has been getting in the battlefield as Kaiju with higher fortitudes and unique traits keep emerging.

"You're not reading your reports." Hasegawa pointed out to him after an intense battle.

Narumi was sitting amidst the chaos, idly playing his portable console.

"So?" Yeah, it's not like he needed them anyway.

Hasegawa sighed. "The new operations manager assigned to you is as stubborn as you are. It's been 3 weeks, and she's pestering me to continue delivering reports to you. She knows you haven't been reading them. She refused to pester you herself, saying you might've had enough with her constant nagging during battles."

"Yeah, you're right. It's been too long, when is she filing a transfer request? My ears are about to blast with how much she's talking." Lie . He knows that he'll feel lonely if you file a request. He didn't even know you back then, but your presence in his earpiece is appreciated deep inside. He pretends to know everything about the battlefield thanks to Kaiju No. 1's retina, but it was because of your accurate and swift comms that he is able to plan steps ahead of the Kaiju.

"I take it you're not aware of your top performance rating in the entire Division for a whole month now?" Hasegawa guessed.

Huh?

Hold on. Not that it's supposed to surprise him—he knows he performs exceptionally well, despite what the old reports say about him. No matter how many Kaiju he kills, they all weren't reflected on his past ratings. He knows the results Captain Shinomiya wanted to see will never be reflected on any chart, so he didn't care that much. The ratings were just meant to motivate ordinary officers.

But the ratings were all subject to approval by the Analytics Department of each respective division. He doesn't know much, but each Operations Manager is to defend their reports about the officers they monitor. Which means… you defended him in front of all the scrutinizing gazes and judgmental minds of your peers. You fought for him, and only him. He's the only officer you handle due to his rank as Platoon Leader. He should be shrugging this off, but the thought of someone giving that much acknowledgement to him oddly feels comforting.

Narumi stands, dusting off his suit. "Will you be distributing them this week?" he hesitantly asked.

Hasegawa, sensing a change of mind in him, replied. "Of course. Let me know if you have any specific past reports you'd like to receive." Somehow, he always knows what's weighing in Narumi's head.

"All of them. The ones from her."

Maybe he was also just another ordinary officer, after all.

— Present day —

When he first started reading your reports, they were oddly short; but rather straight to the point. You analyzed his fighting style in accurate detail, as well as small habits he himself didn't realize during the heat of the battle. All the flaws and mishaps he made were not once accompanied by a complaint. No mentions of your arguments over comms were found either. Well, you did say communication and teamwork has a big room for improvement , followed by saying that it isn't a priority as he accomplished the mission in a heartbeat. You tried not to show it in your paper, but you're mostly concerned for his safety. 'So much for a person you haven't even met.' he thought. He wasn't a fan of reading these stuff, but yours is bearable.

What surprised him the most is the training routine you suggested. He can't believe you included his gaming sessions in the routine. They weren't required to follow the routine, they were only suggestions after all. But he can't help but follow them sometimes after seeing your little note at the end of the routine: "Goal: Assist Platoon Leader Narumi with his training to reach Captain rank."

Surprisingly enough, his unleashed combat power started rising in numbers again after occassionally following your suggested routine. As a Platoon Leader, he's now reached an 87%. No one's gonna give him these reports if you decide to be a Defense Force Officer. That's why he insisted on making you a member of his Platoon,  just in case.

Night time came and you retreated back to your room. The proposal never came whilst you were working, despite the Captain promising to deliver it within the day. 'Maybe he needed to revise it.' you thought.

You picked up a book as part of your nightly routine, reading different novels and papers to calm your mind to get some quality sleep. Just as you were about to get comfy in your bed, a soft knock was heard on your door.

You internally groaned as you opened the door, revealing Kurusu. It wasn't office hours, so you dropped your usual formality with him. "No. I don't want that. Good Night." you spoke before he can even wave the proposal right at your face, acting like you were gonna close the door on him.

"Wait! I promise you'll love this proposal." he said.

"And why do you say that?" 

He rubbed a hand on his nape, "... Salary adjustments?"

Now it was your turn to give him a deadpanned look.

Sighing, he said, "Look, just take the paper and give it a once-over, okay? Or maybe thrice. You were given three days to mull it over, anyway. It might not look like much, especially with the risk to your life on the battlefield, but, uhm… your interests are highly taken into consideration." He pushed the papers toward you, forcing you to hold it. "I'll be making my way now, then."

Motioning to close the door, you almost had a heart attack when you saw his arm suddenly slip right through the little space left between the door and frame.

His head poked inside your room again, "Ahem. I don't want to influence your decision or anything, but I'm speaking as both your boss and your friend. This very proposal changes everything you have right now, but it doesn't mean it's a bad thing. I think it will suit you just fine. You're above the average intelligent person, and you have a certain good kind of stubbornness in you that you have yet to realize." and with that, he waved you goodbye.

'What does stubbornness have to do with this? And I'm NOT stubborn at all!' you thought.

Instead of reading your beloved novel, you're sitting straight on your bed with the proposal right in your hands. 

As you read through it, you were able to gather these main points: 

It goes without saying, but apply as a Defense Force Officer and wield the Number 3 weapons.

Your rights and parts of your job as an Operations Manager will remain, such as writing reports and analysis of neutralization operations and Kaiju observations, regardless of whether you pass as an Officer or not.

"Great results" will give you three times the joint salary of an Operations Manager and an Officer, which may vary according to current position.

'Who the hell writes a proposal encompassing several pieces of paper, but has such a few main points?!' You were more pissed at how it was plainly written than the actual offer handed over to you. What's more is the fact that the section discussing financial terms was much longer than the risks involved! Did they really think you, a highly intelligent person, were that simple-minded? Money can't save your life in a battle!

"How much would the salary be if that was the case though…?" you mumbled to yourself. You pulled out your phone and did some calculations. If you were able to reach Platoon Leader in a short period, your salary would be…

"Half a billion?! That's impossible! Is the Defense Force even that rich to begin with?" You remember the mountains of packages delivered on a weekly basis, all addressed to Narumi. "Maybe it's possible after all…?"

After spending another hour thinking, you sighed, taking out your phone to draft your response.

To : First Division Captain Shinomiya Isao, First Division Operations Leader Kurusu Akira

Subject : Defense Force Application Proposal

As an honored member of the First Division and as a dedicated Operations Manager, I wholeheartedly accept the terms and conditions stated in the proposal.

Author's Note(s):

My head felt like I was floating and I barely had any sleep while writing this so I hope I didn't mess it up! I kinda got carried away and it became long.

i'm honestly just going with the flow and writing whatever feels right. I'm surprisingly having fun writing! But I wasn't sure of how I'd transition to Narumi's flashback, apologies for that part lol

Feedbacks are appreciated <3

[creations-by-chaosfay]

I found energy!

Here's the finished quilt. Excuse the quality of my voice. My inhaler makes a mess of it, and I have to use the inhaler daily.

I'm on mobile and haven't the knowledge to add text. If you're willing to transcribe this, please do so. I'll reblog the post from you.

[noblechaton]

gonna ramble a bit about the ml art style change bc ig I have more thoughts about it than I knew. tagging this as leaks but no like story stuff is gonna be mentioned bc I don't really know any lol

so going off what little we've seen of it (and in arguably the lowest possible quality at that) I think it's gonna make the show very visually pretty which isn't to say it couldn't be or wasn't in the older style(s) but that was def more inconsistent between studios and such so if this new style is the standard then like. yeah it's gonna look great

buuuuuuuut I also think it looks kinda. generic? like what's happened to a lotta brand logos that used to have personality but now all look super flat and simplified. like the Pepsi logo or whatever. it's a similar situation to the movie (I'll get into this in a bit) where like yes it looks pretty but it doesn't really look like Miraculous to me? like ik the style kinda varied somewhat between the studios but it was largely consistent enough and felt much more unique. like I could see a screencap from any timestamp of any episode and place it as Miraculous just bc of the visual style

now tho it looks less unique to me and more....like a mobile game ad? some kinda un-marketed direct to streaming movie? not trying to sound mean or anything but it just doesn't strike that same feeling the old style did for me as of yet. it feels more like an attempt to ape off a generic Pixar/Disney sorta style which the movie's style did too - and that ig is a good excuse for me to kinda dive into my thoughts there bc like. it looks way more like that movie now right? the y'know completely non-canon movie that to my knowledge wasn't received too terribly well lmao. I feel like this is on some level purposeful tho

I made a post the other day about how someone (especially the youngins) might go into season 6 thinking it's actually more of a season 1 only to presumably find that very much isn't the case pretty quick lmao - but that's still a new viewer, which makes number go up, which is a Good Thing. that s6 looks to be something of a fresh start given the whole Gabe in da Ground situation makes me believe this more since I'm pretty sure he got got in the movie too (<- does not remember the movie she saw twice) albeit in a different way. very real chance they view s6 as something of a soft launch pad with the hope of ppl who only saw the movie just jumping in without looking first. I also have an even more insane conspiracy theory that they're using movie assets at lower res for the sake of cost management but again. nutso hunch

regardless I'm kinda surprised they're changing it so drastically this deep into the series and I have no idea how the quality of animation is gonna hold up from episode to episode, season to season. presumably this is part'a why we haven't had s6 drop yet, that they've been working on it thoroughly, but it's been a good minute since s5 ended and I feel like the drought in content isn't really worth it?

like it's been so long that to me sometimes it's felt like the show straight up ended and while I don't mind a wait like this, the show then coming back looking entirely different to how it used to is gonna be jarring. I'm giving it a chance bc we haven't really seen it yet and that footage is very likely a wip of some sort but all the same I'm not terribly impressed? the emotions seem more stilted and flat, there's a few sorta redesigns that look....off (namely Adrichat, imo), and it feels too much like an attempt at cashing in on whatever success the movie might have had by bringing the look of the show more in line with it

think what gets me the most is that the style and animation of the show was one of the biggest things that drew me in beyond the bugcat of it all. it was the first CG animated show I'd seen where I felt as if the animation really worked; the world felt alive and vibrant, the city lived in and populated, but it didn't feel uncanny or like realistic in any sense, and there were plenty of gaffs and flaws throughout but I feel that only endeared the look of the show to me more - it had its own style that stood out for better or worse and I think that played more a role in the show's success than most have given credit for, and now that it's being entirely dropped in favor of a style that feels much more like some generic CG animation style I can't help but feel a bit disheartened and even nervous about the future of the series tbh

want to say that I'm not looking to hate it - I'm gonna give it a chance, and again I think it does visually look pretty, but I feel like it loses a lot of what made the show stand out to me and changes things I don't think really needed changed. time will tell but as of now I'm really not sold on it

also think having a special (or two? maybe?) in the old style just to drop us into the newer one presumably shortly after is kinda weird. wonder what happened there. bad timing? tbh using a special to introduce it mighta helped a bit but idk for sure

[networksupported]

whatever snark of a reply he'd been planning to come out with tails off rapidly into a yelp before it can really begin-- as cas abruptly learns that sitting on someone's shoulder is so much harder than trying to remain suspended in the air a foot or so above the space they used to occupy.

he succeeds, more by luck than judgment, to land on his feet, but it's with a solid sort of 'thud' that he then proceeds to whine under his breath about for a good few seconds.

not that he really means it. honestly, he's more intrigued that happened at all. cas had always thought of his shape-shifting as more of a pretense-- like he could just what he looked like, not what he was (and to him, there was a lot of differentiation between the two). but the fact that apparently his dna was enough to have this impact boded very interestingly. not necessarily well, not necessarily badly, just interestingly.

cas pushes her hat askance a little and takes an inquisitive sniff of his newly cat-ified companion, and then pulls the face of a man not quite sure why he'd done that. that was the issue with turning into animals-- eventually, you started to think like them too.

> i don't know nearly enough about this whole setup to comment on that whole 'proper attire' idea. just imagine i'm being aptly sarcastic right about now.

> believe me, i really do 'preciate the forgiveness and everything, though.

he glances back (or rather, askance) at batt, quietly not voicing his response to the whole 'mindless destruction' portion of the offer. cas was aware still this had the potential to be rather rocky ground, and, though he had no idea how to muster a look of 'hey man if you're down for destruction so am i but if you wanna make a break for it im also on your side' with his normal number of eyes, let alone four less embedded on a cat's body, he damn well tries his best.

@sorceryparable (continued)

> not that i blame your guy. i would also hate to be in here if i didn't have to.

he manages a sort of reedy whine- and, in true cas fashion (or perhaps true cat fashion, it was hard to distinguish the two) looks incorrigibly proud of himself for it.

> then again, whoever 'she' is- uh- i don't wanna know her either. whoever gets that amount of stress put on their pronouns is not someone id wanna...you know, meet in a dark alley. not that there's any of those around. don't wanna run into her in the employee lounge, if you get my drift- no, that doesn't have nearly the same ring to it.

> whoever 'she' is sounds scary as fuck. there we go. that's what i'm tryna say.

the next three notes are almost a scale- and, failing that only slightly, are not...wholly horrible to hear.

> oh, god. well, telling you now, 'pleasant' and 'musical' are not words ever used to describe me. so. sorry. in advance. um.

more by luck then judgement, he almost manages to harmonise with batt for a whole four seconds. that, or he simply excels at also playing with no real key or signature to follow. probably a mixture of both.

[empty-cryptid]

Madrigal Motors

So I drove by this old green Honda CRV and thought “Bruno would drive that.” I never took a picture of it for various reasons that are silly excuses. Mostly I just drove by it every day and said to myself “Hey, the Bruno-mobile is here today, I should take a picture of it one day for a post on tumblr.” and then proceeded to make every day “one day”. 

Anyway, now I’m going to tell you what vehicles I think the Madrigals would drive.

I’m starting with Alma. She would have a bit of a showy vehicle, I think. Immaculate and well cared for, only she’s allowed to drive it. The more well-behaved grandkids have gotten a ride in it once they were past their messy stage.

Julieta would have something very practical and well cared for. It’s always clean despite the many children it usually taxies around everywhere. Nobody knows how she does it. I heard Volvos are very safe somewhere.

Pepa would have something fun, fast, and eye-catching. She loves to see the sky and feel the wind blowing through her hair. The kids really love getting rides from her.

Now, onto Bruno. His vehicle is a perpetual mess of toys, food wrappers and random objects. The kids often get picked up or dropped off by him because he has the most free time and because he would never say no to some quality time with any of the kids. He’s got some dents and some rust spots on the body of his vehicle that he ignores.

Agustin has a vehicle that often gets into small accidents and it shows. He’s a clumsy driver and often opens his door into something or drives over something he shouldn’t. A lot of dents and one odd tire because he had a flat that he replaced with a spare. He really should get that fixed before he gets another flat. (Someone needs a sensible van in this family and Gus just seems the type)

Felix has something a little eccentric. He needs something to move objects (maybe instruments or furniture, I figure he’s got a job like that) and kids alike, so he’s got a custom painted van. Of course, the custom artwork is a bunch of things representing his family. (Pepa told him that she hated his idea of putting her face on the side, so he didn’t. Imagine that horse as Pepa. Majestic.)

That ends the motorgals vehicle post and I’m not en-tire-ly out of ideas, so if you want the madrikids as wheel, s-car-eam it out your window as you drive down the highway, maybe I’ll hear you. (Don’t do that, people will look at you funny and the dog will be jealous so you’ll have to open the window for him as well and it’s a whole thing.)

Pun game was weak this time, apologies. 

[frodo-with-glasses]

Discord Highlights: Elevators in Minas Tirith

Writing Valkyrie (in response to the idea of Theodoc with wooden feet):

I've kinda been working on a (semi) SI fic about the wheelchair accessability of Middle Earth... ...I have the first chapter posted, but I need to plan it out more...

Me:

WHERE

Writing Valkyrie:

Me:

oh my word you got isekai’d into Middle Earth

InvisibleWashboard:

"Throw Me Into Middle Earth and Call me a Potato" 😂

Me:

Obviously Mordor is a no-go, but I think Rohan would be a pain too. Tall grass around your wheel axels. D-X

Writing Valkyrie:

Also, bumpy. I can feel every micro-bump under my behind. A little dip is a hill, and so on and so forth. If I have to go down a slope, I hate it.

Me:

Which would be worse: Hobbiton, with its dirt paths over hills, or Minas Tirith, paved but with multiple levels??

Writing Valkyrie:

Dirt roads are awful due to the bumpiness in general, I'd get a booty massage the whole trip. Minas Tirith roads, while paved, would most likely have steeper inclines, and so that would be an ordeal. Depending on how well the road is paved, it could still be quite bumpy.

Me:

Yeah I imagined both would have their pros and cons. I imagine the gaps between the flagstones would be a pain. 😬

meg is me:

Minas Tirith with elevators Get some

Writing Valkyrie:

Excuse me, I need to write a letter to the High King.

Me:

I mean by the end of the book the city has a gate made of mithril and steel so why the heck NOT elevators??

Windmill to the Stars:

Gimli and Legolas were totally planning to help Aragorn improve Minas Tirith!!

InvisibleWashboard:

Gimli could help make that happen, I think.

Kasey Gondor:

gimli invents elevators

meg is me:

One thing in rings of power khazad-dum that was neat was that they did have an elevator

Windmill to the Stars:

At least like pulley lifts

Me:

An elevator is one of the simplest machines there is!! A pulley with a large box on it! They could TOTALLY figure that out!

meg is me:

slams fist on table CANON

Windmill to the Stars:

I've done a lot of imagining Frodo wandering around Minas Tirith still getting his strength back after Mordor

Kasey Gondor:

this is only vaguely related to the subject at hand but did you know that the word "escalate" is a back-formation from "escalator"

Me:

I love that we mention elevators in Middle Earth and we get “several people are typing” 🤣🤣

meg is me:

Accommodation is NECESSARY

Writing Valkyrie:

I'd hope that they'd also have better regulations than the regulations we have here. Don't get me started on how they need improvement..

meg is me:

They do because we are making this up and we say so

Windmill to the Stars:

Aragorn will pay attention to his people's needs

Me:

Good King Elessar would have some proper legislation for mobility

InvisibleWashboard:

I mean, that for sure falls under "he ruled wisely and well," doesn't it?

meg is me:

lady glasses another headcanon compilation post might be in order 😂 We've had some QUALITY stuff tonight

Me:

I was already gonna post the “Gamgee homeschool van” stuff but now I’m gonna have to do “elevators in Middle Earth” too 🤣

Writing Valkyrie:

What about second post?

Writing Valkyrie is @writingvalkyrie, InvisibleWashboard is @invisiblewashboard, Kasey Gondor is @captaingondor, Windmill to the Stars is @windmilltothestars, and meg is me does not have tumblr :-3

[aceofwhump]

Question is the legacy editor any good? I've never used it because I'm paranoid about it messing my posts up lmao but I'm curious

The short answer is yes. Legacy editor, the older way tumblr did posting, is in my opinion, the superior editor. I love the legacy editor. A lot. It is definitely superior and I'm sad staff has decided to slowly get rid of it.

However! With that said I've been pretty much exclusively using the beta post editor for the last like year when staff announced that they'd be eliminating the legacy editor eventually so I thought it'd be a good idea to get used to the beta editor. Which I suppose I did. I've gotten used to it and don't use legacy much at all anymore. I also wanted to use it because I got really tired of not being able to edit in mobile the posts I made on web using the legacy editor. With the beta editor you can edit across platforms which is soooo nice. (although it appears that in one of the apps many updates I can now edit a gifset I made today via legacy editor but not the posts I've made in the past using the legacy editor so who knows what's going with that).

But there's a lot of annoying things about the new beta editor that make it inferior to the legacy editor and I'm praying that staff will improve it. For starters, and probably my biggest complaint, is how awful it is to upload and rearrange images. It's so much easier in legacy editor to move images around. In beta the page moves when you start to move the image and it drives me CRAZY!!! I always end up putting the image in the wrong place because the page won't stop moving! Legacy is wonderful to arrange images. I do think the upload is slightly better in beta purely because it uploads multiple images in the order I select them where the legacy just puts them in whatever order it wants to and I have to remember what order I wanted my gifs in.

Legacy is also better because it actually differentiates between an image post and a text post. With the beta editor everything is technically a test post. So my gifsets are not considered an "image post". Some people have noted that the beta, since it's not an image post, it resizes the images a little and sometimes decreases the quality of the gif by doing that. I haven't really noticed that myself with my own gifs but doesn't mean it isnt happening.

The legacy editor also allows me to upload my gifs without stupid errors for no reason. Lately any time I upload more than 6 gifs at once I get an error message and have to upload them one by one. Its not because of size because they're always under 7mbs so I don't know why I can't upload them all at once. I hate it actually. And sometimes my gif will be under 10mbs (like 9.7mbs) and it'll tell me that the gif is too big. Excuse me tumblr but 9.7 is smaller than 10! I never had this problem in legacy.

The legacy editor is also better when it comes to using html, inserting links as text and not the stupid thing beta does where you paste the link and it becomes that stupid post preview thing that I hate, and oh my god is it awful for text blocks! When it first came out you couldnt select multiple texts blocks at all. You can now but it isn't the easiest. And it like expands when you do and makes it weird. Idk it's hard to describe. In legacy you can just...select all the text with no problems. Text blocks are treated like individual sections in the beta and make editing a major pain in the ass.

I also don't like thst apparently new xkit won't work in beta and you have to use xkit rewritten because fuck I don't want to learn how to use that one when I've been using new xkit for years but I guess I'm gonna have to now. I haven't been having any problems with xkit yet but who knows....

So yeah I think overall legacy is better. Beta Post Editor has some good things (I like the increased image upload limit, the editing tags is good) about it but there's so many problems. Unfortunately we're stuck with it so I've been sticking to using it exclusively to make the transition easier on myself. I do suggest becoming used to how it works and to just continue to provide feedback to staff about features we dislike or bugs we come across. Hopefully they'll listen and improve it.

[daezedglownut]

Vent post, fyi if you want to keep scrolling lol

Waiting for the diazepam to kick in and alleviate some of this chronic pain. Not just my dicky neck, but also my lower back too. God forbid I have a lie-in for once in my life. Apparently my body can only ever be in constant pain, or (in very rare instances) “too relaxed” - which leads to me rolling over in bed and inevitably slipping something and spending the next week in varying degrees of agony.

Last physio was useless. Was referred by the hospital on the understanding that the physio people would be able to refer me for scans and possible injections because of the nerve pains and weakness in my hands.

Only to be told by the physio “no, we don’t do that”, which suddenly changed to “well, we COULD technically, but if that car crash you were in years ago broke anything, that would’ve healed by now, so a scan is just a waste of time/money. Anyway, let’s give you all these exercises you’ve already done ad nauseam that haven’t improved your quality of life whatsoever :)”

Not to mention I have to ration pain pills and muscle relaxants because if I went to the doctor every time I had indescribably pain that almost makes me call in sick at work, I’m made to feel like a junkie chasing their next fix.

All I saw during this last group physio appointment was middle aged people considerably overweight, taking shit like tramadol and gabapentin or pregabalin, and jfc it was like I could see my inevitable future bc my only coping mechanism rn is comfort eating that’s evolved over the years into what I’m pretty sure is binge eating disorder, and I miss the days when I was almost thin, and could walk over 10,000 steps every day, and my lower back only felt a little tight sometimes - not this living hell I’m in right now. And if I see one more fuck say “well you can be obese and healthy actually uwu” I’m gonna McFucking Lose It because I’m one BMI point into obese territory rn and I have never felt so fucking bad in my life.

If I’m addicted to anything, it’s high sugar, refined carbs, and that shit is poison plain and simple. There was a time where I had the willpower to consume the tiniest amount of that shit, and felt infinitely better. I didn’t have brain fog. I wasn’t angry all the time. My general mood wasn’t as reactionary to stress. Even my autism wasn’t as easily triggered by sounds or stresses. I felt fucking fantastic.

And I can’t even begin to drag myself back into that way of living. I’ve been sad and fat and overeating and in pain for too long. It’s easier than ever to make excuses and not go for a long walk - because as amazing as I feel right after, the next day I’ll be paying for it as my entire body protests trying to get out of bed.

The last thing my hyper mobile joints need is for me to be sedentary. I literally need to build muscle around them for the pain to lessen or go away completely. But I’m at fucking rock bottom, and all the doctors seem to want to prescribe me like candy is fucking antidepressants - which I won’t fucking take ever again because every single one does not agree with my autism - and don’t start me on how the only ones left that I haven’t tried are all anti-cholineric. Like I need the fucking added worry that being on that shit long-term could amp up my risk of getting dementia later on in life. No fucking thank you.

The only good habit I’ve been able to maintain recently is taking my various multivitamins every day without fail. But I still feel drained and depleted and haven’t the energy to do anything - and so I’ve also become addicted to high caffeine energy drinks. The best thing I can say is that they’re sugar free, but that’s little comfort given that my cause of death will probably be my heart exploding someday 🙃

[luodinsan]

Noriega and the Admiral

Origin When I write, I have a habit of drafting a topic first, and then forgetting it with the excuse of being busy with other things, until one day a whim comes to my mind, or some sudden inspiration suddenly emerges in my mind, so I quickly return to the computer desk and rummage through all the old sesame seeds and rotten grains. In fact, this unorganized and unplanned tossing is really unavoidable. Generally speaking, the work I rely on for a living takes up 8 hours of my day, and the street parade to and from the unit takes up another 4 hours of my time. When I go home in the evening, I take another hour to walk and exercise, and browse the web to watch various foreign comprehensive programs. It takes another 2 hours. So I feel that time is like an untamed horse running, and I always feel out of breath and can't catch up. Therefore, the process of commuting to get off work is conscripted by me. Generally, I will download audio programs on the website to recharge in the four hours on the road. Don't waste a single minute of time. At present, I have used up no less than 20 sets of various headphones on my journey. Some of them died because of broken audio cables, broken sound column shells, and various ways of death. Merchants specializing in audio-visual products on Taobao shopping e-commerce platform regard me as a high-quality customer because I usually have a kind of compassion for the world and no guard against strangers (it is said that such people can be open-minded and stay young forever). Regardless of the sound quality, I will post a few five-star praises first, and at the same time, I will patiently give scientific explanations or usage experiences for other buyers' questions. Because of the long-term use of in-ear headphones (head-mounted headphones will produce sound level drowning in noisy background environments such as buses), my inner ear canal has thick calluses. It can be said that at least 80% of my knowledge is thanks to headphones, and the rest comes from various books. One day, when the bus arrived less than two stops away from my home, I suddenly heard the news that China's first aircraft carrier was launched from my headphones. With my superficial understanding of the military technology revolution over the years, I felt that this was an extraordinary event, so I wrote down the title of this article, "Noriega and the Admiral", on my mobile phone. In fact, I was writing another book about refuting the current populist trend in China at that time. I must admit that I don't have a very thorough understanding of the military. If history gives me a choice, I might try to realize one of my childhood dreams and become a professional soldier like Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.

[nova-eastleaf]

please excuse my low quality mobile app photos (had to log on from work cause I couldn’t wait!) but I LOVE the new character models and I’m straight up going to start posting here again purely bc of how fun they are to take pics of

[timesofspanishsworld]

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[easyvetanswers]

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[budder-tigress]

I'm kinda embarrassed to admit it, but I've pretty much given up on febuwhump this year

School has been hell this month, and I just can't focus on trying to get these prompts done.

I'm not abandoning my FFVII fic, I could never do that at this point, I'm still working on it. I'll post the prologue once it's ready and I'll start posting on A03 when chapter 1's done.

But as a consolation for this:

The drawing that was gonna be for Day 17: Silent Tears!

I have 2 versions, one with blood and one without, the one with blood'll be under the cut :3 (I honestly just wanted an excuse to spend 2 hours on coloring eyes lmao, also click for higher quality on mobile cause ffff)

Hope y'all aren't too disappointed, but I hope these made up for it a teensy little bit ;p

[sodomit]

I am not gonna do the quote by quote thing, because I'm on mobile and that's exhausting, but I'll still point out what you have wrong with your response (the numbers don't necessarily match the order in which you put your comments, although I try to, they're mostly for my convenience to mark the start of a new topic):

1. You don't understand trans men's position under patriarchy. We are not offered a "leg up" in a misogynist society, we are not invited to participate in normative men's social hierarchy.

2. Intersectionality is not oppression + oppression or oppression + privilege, intersectionality is about new positions that arise for people on the overlap of some identities, and that sometimes results in a typically privileged identity becoming an amplifier for someone's oppression. I will probably elaborate on that in a separate post.

3. I am explicitly calling for not treating terms like "misogyny", "transmisogyny", "transandrophobia" as not exclusive to a specific gender identity or gendered experience. Implying that I said trans women are "women and men" because of being victimized by misogyny and misandry is either inattentive on your part or bad faith.

4. No kind of a trans person has affiliation with the patriarchy or benefits from it. I am really not sure how you're getting "trans women are associated with the patriarchy" from "no trans person has gendered privilege".

5. Your comment about "reduce" and "discuss" is just unnecessary nitpicking and somewhat drags down the quality of your comment overall. I think it's pretty clear that I meant reducing the behaviors, not the amount of attention given to these behaviors.

6. The terms "powerjacketing" and "malgendering" were not defined by me, and I guess it's on me that I didn't find and link more detailed posts. I feel like there's a longer conversation to be had here, and I'll also make a separate post for this later.

7. Your comment about my usage of words "trans people who were assigned male" is again either bad faith reading or inattentive - I was giving an example of things people need to say less, not stating my own opinion. I included that part there, because I've seen such sentiments in discourse previously and wanted to denounce them before someone who believes in such a thing shows up on my blog.

You're also not correct on "transfeminine" being a more applicable term for this situation. Some people are transneutral or have a configuration of identities and transition paths that cannot be conveniently explained in this terminology.

8. I did not mean that "transmasculine" stands for "trans and masculine" and so forth. I believe a transmasculine person typically is a person who has an identity with man/boy adjacent components, that is transgressing the enforced gender position. The same principle works for transfeminine and transneutral. What does "transgressing the enforced gender position" mean? Many things, depending on the person. I am not a judge here, and I find nitpicking and calling identities "problematic" to be a very useless and destructive practice.

9. On the day that I made that post, I saw a screenshot that referred to nontransitioning nonbinary people as "she/they cissexuals". Which wouldn't be the first time I've seen it used like that.

10. The idea that a kink or a headcanon can be a form of appropriation is just fucking bizarre, excuse me. A specific way to engage with contemporary media or to sexually fantasize can't be appropriated because there's no cultural group that it belongs to.

11. I don't think using gender identities like externally assigned outgroup labels is a good idea. I think we need a different kind of language for these things, because like that we end up in a situation where we force gender labels on unwilling individuals just on the basis of the position they occupy in the society.

It's better to say that there's no exact equation between identity and experience with oppression, because identity is claimed internally and oppression is assigned externally (often, although not only, on the basis of expressions of the identity).

I'd say that a trans woman who is trying to enter the social category of manhood for whatever reason (e.g. exploring a nonbinary identity) may be affected by transandrophobia if her transition or self expression circumstances will cause people to see her as unfitting for this category. But also I won't say she must use this word for it, because arguing with people over how they label their own oppression is a waste of time, and if she has reasons to label it otherwise, these reasons are worth listening to.

12. "This oppression targets an externally defined group" and "this oppression doesn't target someone who looks like a member of a certain group" are contradicting statements unless you're implying that the entire category of trans womanhood is externally defined. In general, the normative society doesn't use the same categorization principes as we do, it groups people we'd perceive as pretty different (e.g. a cis woman who's a butch lesbian and a trans man) in the same group on the basis of external aspects they don't like. That doesn't mean butch lesbians are men or transmasculine inherently, and that doesn't mean trans men are inherently lesbians. It just means that oppression doesn't strictly follow identities.

I also don't think the idea that "not primarily targeted by this oppression" equals "exempt from this oppression" equals "benefitting from this oppression", and vice versa. First of all, we're not creating affected/exempt duality for everything, nobody's saying someone is "exorsexism exempt", why is this one different? Or do you think we should do this with every thing? And second, benefitting from a type of oppression is extremely conditional and may occur to people within this specific oppressed group too. The difference is that people who are commonly at risk of transmisogyny (which includes all gender categories of trans people, plus intersex people) are not benefitting from it systemically.

13. With relation to "sex based" language, I am again reacting to things I saw in discourse and denouncing things I found unfitting. I saw "sex based" conversation in the form "trans men and afab nonbinary people have sex based oppression", so that's what I'm criticizing. I'm not just saying things I came up with myself. I'm referencing things other people said and explaining why I don't like them.

14. And finally, with the nonbinary position, I believe that 1) there exist normative ideals for binary male and female, but they're not attainable for any kind of a trans person, because being trans is inherently a non normative experience, and trans people who are actively trying to integrate in the society are limited to fringe positions in manhood and womanhood, 2) there currently does not exist a normative ideal for being nonbinary, but there exists an inherently deviant role for someone who doesn't perform womanhood or manhood in a way that passes the bar the society set, and this is where most trans people, regardless of the gender identity, are placed socially.

Overall, I feel like you're heavily pushing for the equation between "is a trans person with a specific identity and transition path" and "is affected by this type of oppression", which implies more awareness and analysis on the side of the society than there is in practice and erases many people's experiences.

I also don't want to make a distinction between transandrophobia and anti-transmasculinity. I chose to use the word that's easiest to render in other languages (my first one not being English), but they essentially mean the same thing.

TRANSUNITY

Transunity is a political theory that was actively talked about on Tumblr a couple of years ago, but has since fallen out of the public spotlight. And this is unfortunate, because it could have really improved a lot of the discourse around gender.

There exists a blog under that name ( @transunity ), but it has been inactive for a year. I am not affiliated with that blog anyhow, I never had any personal contacts with its mods, but I want to get their general ideas to circulate again, so I'm trying to bring this back up in a semi organized fashion. My take on transunity is just my take, if you're one of the original coiners, and you disagree, I encourage you to talk about it, because we still have much more in common with each other than different.

GENERAL VIEWS

I believe that one of the fundamental ideas more trans people need to understand is that we're all more or less in the same place in the eyes of the society (when other factors, such as ethnicity or disability, are considered). To be trans is to fail the gender role system, from the point of view of cis people we can no longer be proper men or women. All kinds of trans people regardless of identity are affected by misogyny and misandry (not a type of marginalization by itself, but turns into a vector of oppression when overlapping with a different marginalization), which forms the foundation of transmisogyny, transandrophobia, and exorsexism*. These types of bigotry are not exclusive and unique to specific gender identities either and may be applied to any trans person for as long as it's convenient to the oppressor.

Trans people do not have gendered power over each other, and intra community bigotry is better conceptualized as a form of lateral aggression.

Gender assignment and sex are never strictly binary (especially with inclusion of intersex people, who belong in gender conversations even if they don't identify as trans) and need to be understood as much more fluid and not strictly correlating with one's actual position in life.

WHAT WE NEED TO REDUCE

The following things should be discussed more critically:

- "Powerjacketing" - implying someone has gendered privilege as a means of delegitimizing their words, while in reality they do not have this privilege;

- Malgendering - forcing trans people to choose between being gendered correctly and speaking up about their mistreatment (e.g. questioning trans women's womanhood on the basis of them aggressively defending themselves or trans men's manhood on the basis of them asking for help) or implying there's something wrong with them in a way that reinforces gender stereotypes;

- Assuming that some trans people are exempt from some forms of oppression on the basis of gender assignment/sex (e.g. by calling all trans people who were assigned female "tme"** or claiming trans people who were assigned male are inherently incapable of understanding fear of sexual assault);

- Assuming that oppression of trans people is rooted in gender assignment/sex (such as, calling reproductive oppression "sex based oppression"***);

- Gatekeeping certain identities, such as "transmasc", "transbian", "femboy" as exclusive to any gender assignment/sex;

- Creating a duality out of "transsexual" and "cissexual", where not medically transitioning trans people are assumed to have some kind of a gendered privilege, or to not be trans in any meaningful material way. Various transmed ideas about dysphoria and transition go there too;

- Accusing trans people who take inspiration from each other of appropriation (trans headcanons, kinks, drag culture, etc).

SYMBOL

The following image is the official transunity symbol developed by the original transunity bloggers. Sorry about the glitch effect, I wasn't able to find one without it.

* Transmisogyny, transandrophobia, and exorsexism are not exclusive to specific identities, although they do primarily target traits associated with these identities. They can be conceptualized as bigotry and oppression towards people who are recognized as incorrectly entering respectively womanhood, manhood, and a status beyond gender binary (for the latter no normative form exists****). However, it's not wrong to use them to mean "oppression of trans women" and so forth, for as long as you're not claiming it's exclusive.

** Labels like "tma" and "tme" still may be used, but solely in a self assigned manner. I believe that an individual trans person is capable of evaluating whether they're affected by transmisogyny and in what way, and they should be trusted on this. However, no gender assignment and no current gender identity makes anyone inherently tme.

*** "Sex based oppression" instead of "reproductive oppression" reinforces the idea that people who share a specific body part (e.g. an uterus in context of conversations about abortion) are inherently of the same sex. This type of essentialism is desperately needed by terfs in this discussion, as they're trying to sell the ideas of "sex based oppression" and "sex based privilege" to people they want to recruit in their ideology. Invoking the idea of "sex" as something trans men and some nonbinary people are oppressed through is not the correct way to respond to people who say we don't experience any gendered violence besides "just transphobia", it has shitty implications and helps shitty people.

**** Lack of existence of normative nonbinary gender does not mean that these genders are not recognized by the society as a deviant, marginalized identity, and that binary people cannot be pushed into this zone.