#feel likes I'm back at school

[when-life-gives-you-lemons-if]

What is up, you awesome author you! Hope everything is going great, or at least not shitty, in your day-to-day activities.

Anyway, I also got a Lemons related question if you're up to answering it:

Could you try to describe/summarise the red line/the truest essence/main theme of each of the RO's storyline in 12 words or fewer?

If it's truly not possible to stay within the given amount, then it's okay if you just go nuts with your answers. Reading stuff about what makes your characters tick is always fun, no matter how many words you end up using.

😮😮😫

I'm going to fail that test. I'm an old ass woman who left school a long time ago. Anon, that's a school quiz and Imma fail it big time. 🤣

Barlow: "Rekindling bonds, navigating shared history, and discovering love beyond past misunderstandings."

Green: "Balancing ambition, work, and romance in a dynamic, professional relationship."

Mattos: "Rediscovering love, a shared love for dogs, baking, jogging, in a familiar neighborhood."

Fiffer: "Single parents finding support, shared experiences, and a second chance at love."

Monroe: "Teacher with a touch of mystery, kinky, love for nature, and books."

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[gentlenotes-moved]

hey, you guys. life gets so much more fun when you let yourself enjoy the small pleasures of life, love your friends loudly and wholeheartedly, and let yourself be loved.

[anewp0tat0]

looks like I can draw again!!

Sebastian called him "orphan" for the rest of the week.

[trans-leek-cookie]

yknow what. I wanna say: CSA and COCSA survivors are all incredible, but I also wanna give a shout out to ppl who were exposed to sexual stuff or had any kind of sexual experience as a kid that they either aren't comfortable labelling as or don't consider abuse, but they know it still fucking sucked and shouldnt have happened. Even if that changes later in life and you identify as a victim/surivor, it can be messy to have to imagine those labels applying to the ppl in ur life and that can take time.

The most important thing is to prioritize your recovery + health, and to support other victims + survivors.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but James Vowles criticising how Red Bull has treated their drivers in the past, only to go and then treat Logan far worse while pulling the exact same shit Red Bull did, ie the exact behaviour he criticised and called them out for, is so freaking infuriating like the sheer hypocrisy -

[outer-stars]

"hey, it's that waybright kid"

[transyashiro]

not to bring up ""the discourse carousel"" again, but it is pretty funny how almost every time someone from the transandrophobia crowd gets mad at me, they talk about trans men as a group of people that i'm implied not to be a part of. and, okay, maybe it wasn't obvious or clear to some, but i am a trans man myself, yeah? it certainly doesn't make me an authority on anything, but it is as much my place to speak on this as any other trans dude. so stop being patronizing and trying to shut me up. and if you're excluding me from "the guys" just because i'm not joining in on villainizing trans women with you, then your idea of trans men that "count" hinges on transmisogyny, which is not surprising at all, but like. stop this shit

[quillium]

Two kinds of comments and replies on ao3:

1.

commentor: nice fic

author replying: Hello you have done me the greatest of services. The kindest of compassions hast been received from thine good hand. May you be blessed into the coming days, for you have blessed me and mine.

2.

commentor: This tore into my ribcage and you hold my still-beating heart in your hands. I loved the thematic strength of this story--the persistent symbolism within is everything, actually. Your characterization was so on point, I adored the specific choices you made to cement not only the dynamics and show the effect on others but also the further the plot in a logical manner--

author replying: lol thx <3

[themisterhip]

The sillys 🧛😝✨

[bogkeep]

since there's an impressionist royal portrait in the zeitgeist right now, do you wanna hear about one of my fav norwegian oil painters........ his name is håkon gullvåg and he's painted portraits of the norwegian king and queen and they look like this

which were pretty controversial at the time (the year 2000), but i was too baby to know anything about it!

(the headline says "UNDIGNIFIED!")

i first heard of him when he was on the news for a completely different controversy around the years 2008/2009 - his exhibition titled 'the holy land'/'terra sancta' which was a series of paintings he had painted in a wild unstoppable rage over the injustices he had seen palestinians suffer. at one of the exhibitions in syra, two of the paintings got removed by the french embassy, and i think never returned to him? i'm finding it surprisingly difficult to hunt down the story without knowing exactly what to look for, but i did dig up this article. i was still a young teen at the time so i didn't know much about the context, but in recent times i've been thinking about these paintings a lot. i'll add the Controversial Paintings under the cut:

[silverware-is-interesting]

i walked past this store in a mall today called fossil that had like. watches n jewlery n purses or something and i thought of. fossil objectified so i drew that.

idk how this kinda looks decent tbh this is only like my 3rd time drawing them. like, its not great, but you can tell it's her, so, i call that pretty good :P

[beebfreeb]

Ohhh, right. I see! People online will call you a freak for the bare minimum of gender nonconformity! I forgot about that, spent too long talking to my circle of weird trans people I suppose... but I remember now. Oh, I remember.

[lonelyslutavatar]

Can't stop thinking about dad!Peter adopting Martin so he could have a protege and him having to deal with the difficulties of caring for a child who came from an abusive home

[writterings]

me with my 18 year old students that i teach at a college

[noxious-fennec]

It's pomegranate season :)

A redraw of this piece from around a year ago