#expressioning Pls

[bedforddanes75]

all i post about is him. hes everywhere. hes so julia. however. can you fucking blame me. WHO SAYS THIS please im .

[ronanxing]

harana

[ghostlyeris]

this episode's a BIG one for pilot program shippers folks

[ficklejarr]

// honkai star rail 1.2

"reunited" pt. 1

astral fam reunited with dan heng but make it a teensy bit dramatic 😋

(had fun doing this liddol comic i was so excited to post it here 🥹)

link for bonus part:

[hinamie]

august

[samstarium]

azirapalala. azirapapap. aziphapalarla :) all art is from hg-aneh (7/?)

transparents under the cut

[newttxt]

this is when i come clean and admit i sketched some stuff based on my own fic :///

(the full version is on my bsky, but its not actually explicit. tmblr just has Odd Rules)

[orviposition]

this official art has squeezed my brain like no other. that post canon domesticity that radiates from it >>>>>

[lunacias]

(Silence. CARPENTER tries to rally HAYWARD's spirits. She's afraid she's going to lose him.)

"All three of us - we can all go on living, Hayward. Just like you said."

[mossy-aro]

ultimately i think my insistence on aro positivity honestly is as much a political stance as a personal one.

when i say aro positivity is crucial and that i dislike doomer-ist posts that express sentiments like 'I hate being aro so much I wish I was dead instead’ it's not because I don’t think there can and should be a space for negativity and acknowledging self-hate, or the many ways being aromantic can really suck sometimes. i find that to be very important!

that being said. there is smth here about how self-hate posts are sometimes just arophobia that we inflict on ourselves. and when we put that out into the ether it (intentionally or not) can become arophobia that we inflict on other members of the community. i think there absolutely needs to be a place for negativity and the expression of anger and frustration and self loathing even - these are all good things to talk about because these are things that we experience. that being said, it can also be genuinely upsetting and triggering to people to have what is essentially arophobia shown to them and then have that be validated by other aspec people. your personal thoughts can affect your wider community on a level you may not anticipate. and i understand it i truly do! it took me so long to be able to recover from accepting being aroace - it threw my entire world off kilter and made me question everything about my place in the world.

but my insistence on aro joy and positivity is because ultimately i do believe that building is at the core essence of it all. that ultimately discussions and the purpose of community should be about construction, not destruction. and this is both a personal and a political stance. talking about how much you hate yourself and cultivating online discussions/spaces where negativity about aspec identity is the main and only theme is destructive - if that’s where we let the conversation end. these thoughts can and should be used as a vehicle to look for a path forward!

joy and positivity create a space where the focus can become on forging a path forward, on construction, on community building instead of tearing ourselves and others down with negative thoughts. it’s not productive or healthy when it stops at a place of negativity - it becomes actively destructive to the essence of community.

and i do think that this is especially poignant considering the fact that being any kind of queer, but especially aromantic (and/or asexual) means forging a path for yourself and making your own happiness where there is no obvious way forward. our communities exist mostly online (right now, anyway), there is little recognition of our existence in the real world, the effects of amatonormativity are both pervasive and actively dehumanising, and there are legal, economic and social structures in place actively making our lives more difficult. yes that all sucks! it’s good to acknowledge that. we need to in order to change it. but more importantly, that’s not the end. we are still here and our happiness, our future is for us to determine. even if we can’t change the laws or society, loving yourself and understanding aromanticism as a political identity (as well as personal), as a radical worldview, and as a protest against amatonormativity is essential for both community and personal well being. the personal is political.

tldr. i guess my point is that as a community, we should focus on building, improving, and nurturing ourselves and each other (construction) as opposed to destruction. we should recognise aromanticism and asexuality as political identities as well as personal ones and rely on community and self-love in the absence of anything else as a form of protest and political power. destruction (the recognition of everything that is wrong) is essential as a starting point - but where do we go from there? we rebuild.

[flowerakatsuka]

Osomatsu-san Tele♡Matsu Animega & Bunkyodo (2016)

[kokomini9]

can't trust the words behind the fangs 🐍🎭 a doodle with my take on his mask :3c

[space-bowl]

You’re all I got N…I’m not risking that for some s̶̞͈̣̤̠͈͍̭͌͝ṱ̵̛͓̣̙̹͓͉͔̹̦̪̤͍̼̳̈̐̉̉͝͝ų̸̞̙͕̟̳̞̪̳̳̩̻̥̈́̔̍p̶̪͚̭͕̲͈̬̩̀͆̿͌̍̈́͑̀̓̕̚i̵̗͍̻̻͚̥͆̋͜͠d̷̠̎̓̈́̽̔̾͗ worker…

I’m taking her out, whether you like it or not.

Murder Drones: Intermission scene redraw! Please go give the original project some love. Also og scenes under the cut:

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i think that in small tightknit communities, all residents should receive a coupon book on their bday that allows them to commit [x] number of nonviolent crimes per year

[foxylovey]

Various jrwi sketches in my fun alternative style to warm up

[hinamie]

truth is, I used to dream about boys like you

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums