#here he come

[doggocake]

Here Comes Bonzo :)

I fucking love this crazy lad ♥

[that--unusual-person]

pls some dbd ghostface. he has me simping </3

wuzzaaaap

[save-slot-a]

"Okay so my newfound life instructions said that I can't eat or drink... Which honestly? Not mad about at all considering it usually just gets in the way of my productivity! I will miss having meals with my loved ones for a little bit, but it's only temporary! For right now, all I can do is experiment with the limits of this form!"

Crowley seems to be taking to his new gargoyle form... Shockingly well. There's a manic gleam in his agate eyes as he grabs his documentation notebook and starts scribbling, "Dulled senses of touch due to stone form... Can't taste... Doesn't need to eat or drink... Tail is prehensile... Surprisingly light body form, capable of flight..." He pauses to tap his pen against the crack in his chin, "I could try to break off small pieces of my body and glue them back on to see if I'll regain control of them over time..."

He clicks his pen and chucks it behind him with a shrug and a fangy grin, "Welp! It'd be a waste of time and bastard energy if I didn't go around and scare my friends shitless like this. If anything goes wrong, I can't die for once so I'm fucking stoked to just let SUPER loose. Footloose even. Kicking off my Sunday shoes... If I was wearing them in the first place!"

He extends out his grippy talons with even more jubilee on his face before taking off into the sky. IT'S TIME TO BE A MENACE!

[neoninky]

I’ve been tryna max out and level up my cards in TWST, especially my SSRs, and for friggin ever, my SR Ceremonial Robes Jade (my starter Pokeboi) has been the leader of the pack, power wise…untouchable, reigning supreme at the top of the list…

BUT NOT ANYMORE (overdramatic dun dun DUNs)

He got dethroned today by none other……

….than SSR Dorm Uniform Leona Gigachad Naptime Kingscholar le GASP

Laaaawd the hierarchy is crumbling 😂 I’ve been seeing Leona all over my Tumblr and Instagram and now here he is, pushing my Octatrio bois aside drama

Meanwhile, Mal is vibin, biding his time at #6 lol

[starrytrees]

hi dungeon meshi fandom :]

[fiddlesqueak-fables]

HE’S HERE,

He’s probably queer,

AND HE IS OFFICIALLY OUT OF PRE-ORDER!

All Messmer Keychain orders will now be shipped immediately after purchase!

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[spidertroupeart]

the jokes write themselves

[wanologic]

reminder to take care of your loser human body

[pbnmj]

THE NOIR-HOBIE INTERACTIONS THAT I MADE UP IN MY MIND ARE VERY REAL TO ME. SONY PLEASE PICK UP WHAT I’M PUTTING DOWN!!!

[elder-sister]

Do you want a banana?

This banana for you

🍌🍌🍌

Banana!!!

Thank you! <3 /p

[vextech]

i love that i read SO many jayvik fics about the divorce beginning with jayce being horrified at what viktor had done with the hexcore, only for it to turn out that jayce actually did not give a SINGLE fuck, didn't even flinch at the sight of his hand and leg, and was ecstatic when it ended up saving his life. i am absolutely obsessed

[mellotronmkll]

This is so awesome

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[neoninky]

Happy Birthday to Leona Kingscholaaaaarrr

So I got his keys and I thought “why not? I don’t have any of the new new Flower Broom boys yet tho I have tried oof why not let Leona have his birthday proper? *throws keys at banner* ha ha ha this won’t work-“

This guy. This mothertrucker. THIS absolutely asshole cat man-

He just had to be the first 😂 He saw the opportunity and seized it. Not once. But twice. Yes I pulled again to get more tokens so I could get more lion candies and what not and boom here he comes again lol

I got Cloud Calling AND Flower Broom Bday Boy Leona in under 20 pulls…

It truly is Leona month. Happy Birthday, king 👑 🍻

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)