#i promise i mean it

[llannasvsp]

Saw the Greenflame post and wanted to put my two cents in.

I agree with you that they work better as siblings. That Kai is more of an older brother figure to Lloyd as he is to Nya. I do not personally ship them, and I never will.

However, I don't think bashing people who DO ship it is a good idea. The ship itself, in my eyes, isn't problematic. Yes, Kai knew Lloyd as a kid, but it was very brief, and Lloyd is now mentally of age, so he can make those kinds of decisions for himself.

Do I ship it? No.

Do I think it should be canon? Fuck no!

But do I think it's okay to ship and okay to like? Yeah, as long as Lloyd is of age, both mentally and physically.

I just feel like communities, not just Ninjago, need to stop biting each other's faces off just for liking ships that others do not. Unless it's like a proship, which in this case it's not.

Again, this is my opinion, my two cents. You are entitled to yours, and I just wanted to step into the ring.

Honestly, that's completely valid and I might be overreacting a little bit. I know that some greenflame anti's have sent like... death threats... to greenflame shippers and I would never go that far.

I just think that it's a weird situation. Like... imagine you are sixteen and you meet a nine year old and then like... you start dating. Granted, there's tea aging and stuff that wouldn't happen in real life but still. Knowing someone when they're that young and then like... being with them? It just seems so icky to me. ESPECIALLY when some people who ship greenflame use moments from when Lloyd was young to prove their points. (Not all greenflame shippers do this, but I have seen some who do).

Again, I know I'm probably being a little dramatic about this, but at the end of the day, I'm not going to threaten someone or tell them they're not a real fan if they ship it. I would just prefer that people who ship greenflame maybe not interact with me about that specific ship. It makes me suuuper uncomfortable. Especially since as a young kid I was exposed to some very uhm... adult?? artwork of them.

I guess I didn't mean to bash the people who ship the ship as much as I meant to bash the ship itself and I can see now why it seemed like I was bashing the people, so thank you for bringing that to my attention. I appreciate it and will do better from now on! /gen

Edited to add: I did go back and delete those posts because they were pretty aggressive. I'm horrible at regulating my emotions and I kinda just... typed and posted. My intent wasn't to hurt anyone and if I did I apologize.

[a-sweeter-solarsystem]

take my hand for a moment

your objective from this point on is to survive

the election results are going to take a few days. The world is going to be very tense. I want you to take all the things you like to do to distract yourself and splurge on them. I want you to go eat your favroite foods and spend time with friends. I want you to do what you gotta do to make sure you can make it through the week.

There are people out there who want you to survive. There are people out there who are just as scared as you are.

We'll get through this. We will find a way

[chloesimaginationthings]

Can’t spell “Five nights at Freddy’s” without GAY

(Based off @/flashcs5 post)

[supd00dle]

alright I finally drew him (ft @clownputo ‘s fankid doodle on the punching bag)

[golden-lovers]

[sqrkyclean]

The double standard imposed upon doms and sadists is insane btw. I’ll never shut up abt the way people frame masochists and subs as passive. It’s such a useless framing— a good submissive is reactive and intentional and communicative, and if you lay back and expect your dom to just know or guess what you want then you’re a shitty submissive, plain and simple.

[mimimar]

only you

(art prints)

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[dobythealpaca]

small collection of demo and solly gifs i made cuz i am abnormal about them,,

Credits: The first 4 gifs are from Kostamoinen's videos!

The 5th gif is from Inside Surgery!

And the last 3 gifs are from Emesis Blue!

[goose-in-ur-area]

[heavenbarnes]

your older bf!simon who is, potentially, a little too practical

“simon- honey, what the fuck are you doing?”

you hadn’t even shut the car door, half in and half out with a look of total bewilderment on your face

“y’said y’didn’t want dirt in the ‘ouse, so i’m takin’ my kit off outside”

and that he was

on the driveway only in his boxer-briefs with his work gear hanging out the back of his truck

pale skin blinding against the concrete, tattoos and scars for anyone to see

out the corner of your eye, you could see your neighbours curtains shift

“i appreciate that but i didn’t mean for you to get it out for the neighbours!”

now you’d done it

you could see the way his eyebrow quirked as he turned his head towards you, something in his look said you were in for it

“no need t’get jealous-”

didn’t even give you the chance to protest, already herding you inside with a sturdy pat on the ass

“i’ll do the rest jus’ f’you”

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

do you ever think that the ending of six hundred strike, actually added to the poseidon & athena beef? like i can just imagine them both in beds in apollo's olympus infirmary, just arguing with/at each other! meanwhile poor apollo is just tying to heal them both.

athena: *ranting* i've been odysseus' mentor/friend since he was a teenager! and he still didn't listen to me!

athena: i told him to put his emotions aside but noooooo, he had to let the cyclops live!

apollo: athen-

poseidon: are you forgetting he literally stabbed me? repeateDLY? WITH MY OWN TRIDENT?

apollo: poseid-

athena: *ignoring poseidon and continuing her rant* ruTHlesNEsS iS meRCy UpOn OUrseLVEs. isn't that what you said?!

poseidon: well yeah, BUT HOW WAS I TO EXPECT THAT SAD WET CAT OF A MAN WOULD BE FILLED WITH SOME FORM OF DIVINE RAGE?

apollo: please you two are gonna open your stitche-

athena: oh you deserved it. you literally showed the man his island before trapping him AND THEN you started THREATENING his wife and son? oh that was your final mistake.

poseidon: whatever! so much for you calling him a warrior of the mind. he's a monster!

athena: *wipes tear away* i know, im so proud.

apollo: *tired of their bickering & now glowing in anger* please for "dad's"sake will you two just shut up and let me heal you both?!

poseidon & athena: *shuts up immediately* o-ok

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au doodles

It's just a bunch of random moments with Zuko looking grumpy for most of them,,, he can be happy for at least one drawing tho

[chloesimaginationthings]

I can’t wait to see mangle in the FNAF 2 movie,,

[verflares]

i've been looking everywhere for you!

[nyancrimew]

would u guys kill me if i published a slightly audience-alienating but honest opinion piece about how some people understand my work vs what im trying to inspire w my work