#i dunno what else to tag this!

[crazywolf828]

To all my writers who have a tough time with smut terms and not knowing which ones to use, I have found the holy grail for us.

This reddit user, who I've recently found out is @kjscottwrites here on tumblr, took a poll of 3,500 people and went really in depth with asking their favorite terminology, along with actual pie charts on what the readers preferred to see in their smut.

Check out their post with the link to the Google doc here!

[ask-the-pioneer]

Oh hey, there's a poppy corn plant over there!

[loverboyplural]

SYSKIN !! SYSTEMKIN

an otherkin term for systems who are collectively kin of [blank]. doesn't have to be fully collectively; can be however one chooses to identify with it. can apply to animalkin, fictionkin, conceptkin, etc ^_^

symbol in parts for easy recoloring

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Weird Businessman

[thevoid404]

Completely normal Jiaoqiu fanart (I really liked the event lolol)

[slowburncowboy]

[gauntletqueen]

I'm almost certain someone's voiced this one before but I wanted to try it anyway

(original comic by @frootrollup1 i'm pretty sure)

[royaldoge7370]

A Randy I drew at 1am just because.

[swingstab]

Von Lycaon 🐺

[cinnamity]

little bunny Shockwave I made in my ceramics class :) I gave him paw pads

[cutekittenlady]

The idea of Breakdown coming back to life after the war (somehow) combined with the idea of Wildbreak being the KOBD lovechild is a concept I shall always always love.

Whether its with Wildbreak as a cute little sparkling or as a teenager or an adult I dont care. Just Breakdown learning he apparently has a kid and how he reacts to knowing hes a dad no is something I absolutely adore.

[football-in-tuxedos]

On Wednesday, December 4th 2024, an as-yet unknown man shot and killed CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. Now, many people have been celebrating this, for reasons that don't really bear much parsing out. They're obvious; Even in the field of private healthcare, an arena filled with the kind of corporate ghouls who are comfortable withholding healthcare for profit, United Healthcare stand out as particularly vile. No one is mourning the wicked in this case.

But some among us are admonishing the others for their celebration. Sure they don't like United Healthcare, they say, unshed tears shining in their eyes, but they just can't condone this act of violence. Killing, they remind us sagely, is never justified.

Obviously our society doesn't actually think killing is never justified, 27 states still have capital punishment. What people actually mean when they say "Killing is never justified" in response to a murder people are celebrating is "I don't think it's justified in this case."

Context is, perhaps, everything.

Now, maybe you agree that this murder wasn't justified. Maybe you disagree. But let's not pretend retributive violence is beyond the pale in American society. It is, in fact, a huge part of the American social fabric. Well. Until the powerless enact it on the powerful.

Context, as we've established, is everything.

A little under three miles from where Brian Thompson was shot, Daniel Penny held his arm around Jordan Neely's throat until Neely perished, and many of the people admonishing those celebrating the former are the same people who claim the latter was justified.

Context, it seems, is everything.

The actions of Thompson's company, withholding medicine to those who need it, was violence, a point I'm completely unwilling to budge on. Thompson's company hoarded the resources necessary to provide medical care and did everything in their power to prevent vulnerable people, their customers, from accessing that medical help. That's violence. Constant, unceasing violence perpetuated against innocent people in the name of profit. But that sort of violence is normal. Legal.

Context, it seems, is still everything.

The premise that America is a peaceful nation, a nation where this sort of action is unthinkable, is an elaborate fiction. Even outside of the systemic violence Thompson's company was absolutely guilty of, we permit literal violence, action taken with the intent causing immediate bodily harm, to happen en masse every day. Think of the description of the event, if we do indeed discover the shooter acted out of anger at United Healthcare's actions; A man with a gun saw a threat and he shot him in the back. Would this even be news if the shooter was a cop and the victim not a CEO?

Context, it seems, will always be everything.

You'll perhaps note that I haven't endorsed or condemned the shooting of Brian Thompson, and I won't (although I don't imagine my opinion is hard to parse). I simply want to point out that if you condemn it, you aren't actually condemning violence. We, in this country, endure and participate in violence every day.

You just don't like the context.

[starflungwaddledee]

kirbytober 2023 11 + 13 + 17: another dimension + ancient + knight [ prev || next ]

wings.jpg the comic

scene from an AU where something happened and you hope it was a miracle, but probably not!

[ghost-y-toast-y]

“Meowdy folks! Jowo hills tuning in as I always do from Nyashville, Tennesee!”

Here’s the joe w out the cat ears for anyone who wants it. \/

[galactic-mermaid]

((Original here Link))

[fiizzieguy]

@themaster72 yay we got miss Δlice too now SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG LMAO I KEPT PROCRASINATING FINISHING THIS😭😭

Pretty obvious but i ended up making this one have a bit more darker colors compared to the others cuz i thought it would kinda fit her better n stuff