#having to walk on these eggshells

[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 🤦‍♀️

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[wombpala]

yeah to me it feels like the popular idea that John was homophobic/beat his kid(s)/taught them that having emotion makes you weak is just ppl choosing to interpret 'abusive father' in the shallowest most black-and-white movie villain way possible. when the ways he fucks them up in canon are so much more interesting and complicated.

[robinwithay]

i think a lot of people in the fandom have a bad habit of acting as if aziraphale should know everything we, the audience, know about crowley, and that he should therefore be more sympathetic to feelings that aziraphale literally doesn't even know crowley has, because crowley hasn't told him.

[lemotmo]

Okay people...

... let's talk.

I've been getting a lot of messages of people who fear the next two weeks in this fandom and how bad this break might get.

But here's two questions for you:

Why would we be afraid?

Should we even be afraid in the first place?

I have a sneaky suspicion that tonight's episode will end on reasonable good terms for BT. Mind you, we'll have seen hints throughout the episode that Tommy and Buck aren't a good match, but they haven't quite realised it yet. Let's not forget that Eddie is -once again- all over their narrative.😋 I suspect that episode 6 will bring out the uncomfortable truths and the inevitable breakup.

But of course some of the more... ardent BT stans won't be able to resist gloating all over the place, missing the big neon 'the BT end is near' signs plastered all over the BT narrative ever since season 7. And I'm sure most of our ask boxes might receive some hate messages and harassment.

I tend to think of these hate messages as an excellent opportunity to get rid of another fandom nuisance by deleting and blocking. Truly a win-win situation. Can't go wrong.

Remember: don't engage, don't encourage and don't provoke. The best thing we can do is IGNORE them all together. They'll hate it. 😏

Instead of seeing these two weeks as some kind of terrible fortnight of doom, why not look at the positive sides of this break? We'll have lots of time to theorise and analyse where the Eddie storyline is going and how Buck's storyline will eventually intertwine with his. We'll have time to create fanfic and fanart. Time to let it sink in that Buddie is on the horizon (because it really is). Isn't that great! 😄

Let these people talk, but let them be nothing but white noise you sometimes pick up in your periphery while we are all busy discussing 911 and Buddie to our heart's content.

They aren't worth the aggravation, the stress, the time or the energy. Instead, use that energy to focus on the positive. 🤗

Our ship is finally on the brink of happening. Why would we let these people trample all over our excitement and happiness? We deserve to freak out over this. It's a big deal after all those years.

Let's not give them the power to quell our excitement and enjoyment of this incredible storyline.

[teatitty]

I like to imagine AU's wherein Iruka is only a year younger than Kakashi solely because I think it's really funny to imagine what it woulda been like for them to be in school together. They exist in separate classes, obviously, but please imagine Child Genius Kakashi who is The Absolute Most Perfect Student having to deal with Local Menace Iruka who is The Exact Opposite Of A Perfect Student just down the hall and grinding his teeth about it. Iruka thinking Kakashi is the most stuck up person alive. Do you see my vision

[broken-clover]

Deeply deeply attached to the idea of Potemkin and Dizzy being friends and an unreasonably large portion of that is the thought that she's basically one of the few things he would be able to hug and not immediately reduce to paste

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

kinda a dumb prayer request, but you guys please pray that our old cat and our new cat stop trying to kill each other get comfortable with each other? and that the new cat gets more comfortable with our dog who just wants to her friend?

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

"infantilise adora" guys, is it infantilization to actually treat a person with respect and not turn them into their partner's punching bag?

also adora isn't terrified of catra? hold on..

ohhh right, my bad! that's not the expression of fear, adora is just so in love with catra, she forgot to smile or put on a pleasant expression. how stupid of me!

[marcobodtlives]

I like the idea that Reiner and Annie both knew if anyone in the cadets accidentally pissed Bertholdt off enough he could actually blow them sky high.

[dreamyintersexouppy]

“all these INSUFFERABLE TRANNIES words are so poorly defined, i, the clever nonbinary intersex person, know so much better and i say the words are defined like this and that definition is bad” hey i wanna bash my head against a wall, our language accounts for nonbinary people, you just ignored that fact. our language includes intersex people, you are ignorant to how it does. you are confused about wether or not you’re tma or tme? here’s two simple questions, did society assign you male, either at birth or later in life? and are you not in fact male and perhaps closer to being a woman or even nonbinary? if you answered no to either congratulations you’re fucking tme, it’s literally so fucking simple. and your “exempt” status only means “transmisogyny never hurts me ever” if you willfully ignore our words. the exempt is meaning you are exempt as a TARGET of transmisogyny, not it’s effects. as an intersection of systems of oppressions it will hurt people, fucking duh, but we know the target and it’s not ill defined, attempting to claim as such is attempting to redefine transfeminine people out of existence and i have to patience for you

[thepersonalwords]

I spread eggshells all over my room, so anyone who tries to get close when I sleep will know what they're walking on

Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

[danothan]

insane reaction. claiming someone else’s survivor’s guilt before you even accept yourself as the casualty. we’re just gonna breeze right past this huh

[tacosaysroar]

The shit is absolutely pummeling the fan today and splattering everywhere like an unholy corporate Jackson Pollock

[sweet-marigold]

It’s missing blitzfizz hours….. I miss them so much 😭😭

Warning for long tags

[cosmicarcanist]

insane to me that the trend on tumblr now is not only to not say anything in the tags on art but to genuinely not interact w it because some assholes ruined it for everyone and made ppl too scared

heres the thing: you cant possibly know if every single piece of art u come across that the op has dni and that u cross that. Frankly? i think dnis in general are terrible (not to mention completely ineffective) but dont be hard on YOURSELF because YOU didnt know and just wanted to share and gush over someones art

if someone genuinely has a problem with you sharing that art and interacting, thats on THEM. they can live their sad little life of always assuming the worst of people and never wanting to interact with anyone, but dont let the people that get offended you liked their art (or worse: screenshot your tags to be an asshole) make YOU stop interacting with people. Those people are miserable and want to make everyone miserable too

ive been on tumblr for ages. i miss when ppl talked and gushed in tags. Whenever i do get someone talking abt my art in the tags i love it! I screenshot my favourite ones and save it in a little folder for when im feeling really down about my art to remind myself someone out there loved it enough to type something out in the tags

dont let weirdos online that have their brains terminally rot by social media stop you from interacting and connecting with others and just getting to share a little kindness. The world needs more of that