#i choose love

[lightofraye]

I Choose Love

One of the few famous authors/creators/artists I follow is Wendy Pini. She is the originator of ElfQuest. Her story and the story of how she and her husband met, fell in love, is one of the best love stories I've ever heard. What I also love is how when Richard heard of her creation, her ideas, he actually pushed her to make it a reality. He had that much faith in her. 40 odd years later, ElfQuest is still one of the longest surviving independent publications ever.

But that's not what this post is about. (I may go into more detail in another post.)

I follow Wendy on Facebook. That's where she's the most active. While she may say things I disagree with, this one post is one I strongly agree with.

[iced-blood]

Hey. Guys? My brothers? Speaking as a man who was very lonely and very awkward for most of his life, and who never really thought romance would ever be in the cards for him ...

This, right here. This is what worked for me.

There is no shame in loving without abandon. ✌️❤️

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[soaptaculart]

Postcanon Farcille indulgence

[ideas-ideasideasideas]

Batman gives each of his Robins a different code to use when they’re in trouble and need immediate extraction. He promises that when they call, he’ll drop everything just to get to them, come hell or high water.

Jason, during his time with the League, shares his code with Damian, to be used “only in the direst of circumstances, when you have exhausted all other options.” He doesn’t know if Bruce will answer, given how fractured their relationship was before he died, but it is better than nothing. Every tool counts when they live such dangerous lives.

Damian uses it exactly once, and Bruce, who still feels the loss of his son like a yawning chasm in his chest, responds to it even though he knows it can’t be Jason because Jason’s dead. What he finds, instead of Jason, is a boy in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-small feet, with a face that Bruce sees himself and Talia in, requesting asylum from a grandfather who wishes to possess his body. Bruce doesn’t question how this boy who is so clearly his son knew the code. Talia al Ghul is resourceful and places family above all; the code is not beyond her abilities to discover, and she is not above using Bruce’s desperate love for his dead son to ensure that hers does not meet the same fate.

Bruce takes Damian in, because of course he does, and since Jason is dead he allows Damian to keep using the code. After all, it’s not like Jason is alive to use it, right? If someone uses the code, there’s no one it could be but Damian, right?

The next time the code is used, Bruce traces the location to Gotham even though Damian was supposed to be in Bludhaven visiting Dick. But whatever happened that resulted in Damian being in Gotham can wait, because he has already failed one son and he will not fail another, his son is in trouble and he needs to get to him, he needs to—

What he finds, instead of Damian, is a boy (just eighteen, too young, but also too old, but also he will always be a boy to him) in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-large feet (when had he gotten so big), wearing the face of his dead son.

(Who, maybe, just maybe, may no longer be so dead.)

[birdmenmanga]

they are putting yaoi in the city art museum and censoring nsfw content with heat-responsive material so you have to put your hands on it to see dick

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[vivdagoof]

Hey, I just wanted to address something. A post I made a couple years ago that was insensitive about the history and importance of Ally’s in queer history. I should’ve read into it better, and instead of actually educating myself, I chose to redirect my anger and make it into a meme I didn’t think was that bad. Now that I have been rightfully reminded and scolded by some older members of the community, I realize that the meme was in poor taste. I’ve chosen to take it down, and I know that screenshots, reposts, and memories are still very real and not something I can control, I chose to take it down because I’m sick of being the person that I was. I chose to disclude some very important people and figures in queer history because I was a kid who thought of the world in ‘us vs them’, when really, that’s not true. The point of being accepting is to accept everyone, not just people who agree or align with you. I acted like a piece of shit and even tried to defend myself. I know the apology is late, but I was scared of really opening up and coming to terms with the fact that I can’t control how people feel or the people before me. I’m apart of a moment centuries older than myself. I need to act like it. So I formally apologize for forgetting by the community was made. It’s not some special club you wear a flag pin to. It’s a home, a safe space, for those in the community, and the people who have and continue to fight for its rights, even if they aren’t obligated to. That’s choosing love. And I want to be a better person. I choose love.

Best,

V

[anna-scribbles]

adrien in my outfit from a few days ago✨ feat. my claws out converse

bonus:

[mebssann]

average yuri/ yaoi couple

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[thewardenshand]

best part of the locked tomb is if it was ANY other story naberius would be the number one guy. he’s a prince and somehow also a bodyguard and he’s a gifted fighter and devoted to the princesses and he has swoopy hair and dreamy eyes and no one gives a shit, because they’re all married/gay/focused on the actual plot. naberius is the lost love interest from a shitty ya fantasy novel that culminates in a love triangle between him, corona, and silas. this man is harry styles in a room full of lesbians

[thirdtimed]

beautiful grianful world.. links to all the artists' profiles under the cut :D

linktoo-doodles

jellitchi

avo0930

alienssstufff

cherrifire

grianhate

luniise

tibbycaps

skimmeh

pippeinnit

i linked everyones tumblrs if they had one, otherwise it leads to twitter!

[shirleyvinyard]

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[kedreeva]

as a reminder to literally anyone and everyone who even so much as considers this: AO3 has NO autosave ability when you're making drafts, so PLEASE do not use it instead of a writing program.

If their server goes down, if you hit a wrong button and refresh the page or go back to the previous page, if you accidentally close the browser, if your browser or device crashes, etc etc etc you are shit out of luck. Your work is gone forever, it didn't backup to anywhere and there is NO recovery option. Even TUMBLR's drafting ability is supposed to autosave and often does.

If you want to avoid gdocs that's fine- there's other text editors with simple autosave options, like Online Notepad or Digital Scholar's notepad, or there's still local-drive writing programs that are free and open source, like LibreOffice. PLEASE do not use AO3 to write your stories into directly. It has NOTHING.