#for whatever this may apply to

[snailsreblogmaybe]

i don't know who needs to hear this, but you have to allow yourself to start somewhere.

you will not understand that thing you are trying to learn or unlearn overnight, and that is to be expected.

you will keep working on it, and likely, it will take years at least, alright?

but you have to allow yourself to start, even if you slip up and forget and fall back on your old habits. even if it keeps happening - today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.

that isn't a sign that it isn't working and that it isn't worth it. the brain can be a stubborn stickler for the ideas it's been brought up with, but it learned those old habits somehow too. that began somewhere.

you will get through this. you will see the old habits everywhere around you everyday, but you will get better at noticing them, and understanding why they exist or existed. you will get better at not relying on them, and looking for options that do help you get to where you want to be.

it will be tough, but you will get through this.

you always have.

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[mothmvn]

more cisgender women should be looking at cisgender boys' puberty as a menopause preview, honestly. i find that cis men treat menopause with more pause, ironically, because they recognise the emotional/physical rollercoaster - gee, your body is suddenly sweating absolute buckets and smelling way outside of your control? you feel gross, you keep growing patchy hairs in new itchy places, and summers have suddenly become unbearable? woof, been there done that, let's get you an ice pack and some gatorade buddy, i mean mom

until menopause hits them, cis women (among others) can sometimes treat male puberty as a gross horror that they are forced to mitigate the consequences of - ugh, men with their hair and their smelliness that they can't keep sanitised, it's a concession to live with them, it's a chore to share space with them. you know it's not just a Boy Hormone, right? this exact same testosterone will jump you in a dark alley 30 years from now, you can accept it before then or keep treating it like an enemy latched onto those around you

[chronurgy]

Was playing da2 act 1 recently and there's ambient dialogue from a mage in the gallows along the lines of "you're from Ferelden. Do you know anything about the circle there? I've heard it's much better than here." And having heard some of the stuff from Anders, like the year in solitary, and having played awakening and seen the way the templates acted toward him, and having played the mage origin...... Imagine calling that better. Imagine that being better and more relaxed than what the mages in the gallows deal with. And this is act 1! Meredith isn't even off her shit on red lyrium yet! And it's still that fucking bad in the gallows

[ravinoforre]

Michael and Leaf Pokemon but they've suddenly been isekai'd to Sylvarant oops

The template @frayed-symphony, @ciryze and I collectively put together.

...also uh 👉👈

there's this

[invye]

Omg I just realised--

1) Kim has a French accent, but as he's said, he doesn't speak even a lick of the Seolite language. He's just your average Revachol guy.

2) Multiple of Harry's colleagues at 41 also have a French accent. We can safely assume they're also from Revachol or surrounding areas, else they would probably work in other places.

-> this suggests the French accent is a common thing in the Revachol area and might even simply be the main local accent.

3) Harry intrinsically knows quite a bit of French.

4) Even with his scattered memory he claims he's probably not living far away.

5) We never hear Harry talk.

Result: what if Harry ALSO has a French accent???

[incesthemes]

"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them

[allthoseotherworlds]

Genuinely really loving the tendency of official Doctor Who stuff to now refer to the Doctor in general with they/them pronouns

[daincrediblegg]

Trick or Treat!!!👻💀🎃

Send me an ask with the name of a character and “trick or treat” and I will either respond with a snippet of them from a WIP OR an associated headcanon from a fic I’m working on.

[itwoodbeprefect]

all gmmtv shows are actually set in a subtle alternate universe where everyone is continuously fascinated & delighted by their printers

[fjordfolk]

i sometimes wonder if the people who put sad face emojis on show groomed dogs are also critical of compulsion in hobbyist dog training or reliance on stress in sports

[a-gay-bloodmage]

One of my favorite hobbies to engage in is ignoring the canon course of video game romances

[wonder-worker]

"As regards women whose monuments depict a livery collar, the traditional supposition which saw ladies as appendages of their husbands should be revised. It may be true that some women did have livery collars depicted on their memorials in right of their husbands, but there are examples of those who were probably awarded a collar for their own royal service [...] Elizabeth Donne, wife of Sir John Donne, is depicted along with her husband wearing a collar of suns and roses with a white lion pendant in Hans Memling’s Donne Triptych. As she was one of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s gentlewomen, receiving a £10 annuity, it is likely that she received a collar in this capacity. The same can be said of Margaret, wife of Nicholas Gaynesford (d. 1498), whose brass at All Saints’, Carshalton (Surrey), survives. Although her husband has no collar, Margaret is depicted in a ‘choker’ collar of suns and roses. According to the tomb inscription, she served in the households of both Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York."

-Matthew Ward, "The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales: Politics, Identity and Affinity"

[gothsuguru]

[oftheriverseine]

As a lover of ambiguous relationships in media, Carmen Sandiego is literally my bread and butter. The creator basically went on record saying if you want to see [a certain dynamic] it’s there, and I love that so so much. So much room for (a)romantic interpretation of relationships, and idk. They’re just all written so well.

[givehimthemedicine]

hey what if Max has to have her head shaved for brain surgery or something and El buzzes her own head again in solidarity after her hair has yet again finally grown back to something she likes? what if El doesn't even announce she's gonna do it, Max just hears bzzz right after they've had a conversation about her hair, and puts 2 and 2 together?

"Don't. El? El. Don't you dare. I can't even see you, this doesn't help me. Seriously - it'll grow back -"

"So will mine. We will grow back together."

bzzzzz

"No! El, you don't have to do this!"

"I don't have to. I want to."