#i want to tag this for internal purposes but i don't really want a lot of attention so i guess i won't

[wizardysseus]

i'm so new to murderbot fandom that i feel like i don't get an opinion on the show casting, but i do think a lot about that post that points out that "the two construct genders are, effectively, 'cop' and 'prostitute'"... and there is a part of me that thinks that, in a visual medium, it would be harder to get the idea of what it means to Be Assigned SecUnit across if murderbot didn't present masc and white.

i wouldn't call mbd copaganda and i wouldn't say that casting a nonbinary actor of color is the same as going "look at how diverse our fictional cops are," but at the same time, i feel that these are coded aspects of being a secunit, which may be invisible on the page, but would matter more in a tv adaptation. does that make sense?

[sugawarassoulmate]

bad boy! akiteru fucking reader on top of the hood of keis car

ooooh i am Unwell about this sksksk

words: 631

cw: fem!reader, unprotected sex, public sex, dubious consent, coercion (kinda?), secret relationship, minors dni

if the two of you don't make it home soon, kei is going to wonder where you are.

"aki, aki someone's gonna see," there were so many emotions swirling your brain. the fear of being caught, the guilt from doing this on kei's car, and the pleasure from akiteru taking you in public.

akiteru had only intended on taking his little brother's car to be serviced thinking it would only take a few hours.

but when you decided to tag along, akiteru didn't know how long he could keep his hands off you.

"nobody comes here, baby, it's okay," he purposely drove to a secluded area a few miles off the main road. you had worn a cute outfit today and were yapping your head off about something during the drive—akiteru had to get his cock in you.

as soon as the coast was clear, he pinned you to the hood of the car and flipped your skirt up before pushing your panties to the side. akiteru would love nothing more to shove his tongue inside your cunt but you were already uneasy on the idea of fucking out in the open.

but once his cock was inside you, most of those fears seemed to subside.

you gasped from the painful stretch of akiteru's cock sinking into your warmth. to distract you, he latched onto your breast, wrapping his tongue around your pert nipple.

he can feel you tighten around him, a smug grin growing on his face when he realizes you're about to cum already. "you're so sensitive today, baby. you wanted me to fuck you, huh?" he says in between suckles, making a mess of your chest.

akiteru feels a surge of pride when you nod. "bet you only joined me on this errand hoping you'd get dick. that's all you really care about. go ahead and cum for me, baby, i'll just make you do it again."

any reservations you had about doing this on kei's car, let alone out in public were gone when you had your release, fingers curling into the fabric of akiteru's shirt and wailing into his chest.

he only gives you a few moments to gather your bearings before fucking you again, causing your legs to tremble. "aki—fuck—gimme a sec," you cry, not sure if your cunt could take more.

"no, baby, i need you to cum again and then i'm gonna dump you full of my cum 'til it's spilling out of you, okay?"

you tried to argue, complaining that it was already too much but akiteru shut you up with a hard thrust. "mmm, we don't want to keep kei waiting anymore? he'll get suspicious," akiteru coos, leaning in for a deep kiss. "lemme have my way with you, honey, it'll feel so good."

it's hard to deny akiteru anything when he looks at you with those warm, brown eyes.

"what took so long?" kei groaned as soon and you and his brother walked through the front door, taking the keys from akiteru's grasp.

he doesn't notice you practically leaning on akiteru for support, focusing his attention on his new car. "the mechanic wanted to be thorough," akiteru explains, sneaking a glance at you.

"well thanks for taking it, i guess. i had a lot of studying," kei said with an eyeroll. "why did it take so long to get back?"

he stares at you, eyebrows quirking at your cross legged stance—completely unaware that you were internally begging that akiteru's cum wouldn't run down your leg.

"traffic," you answer too quickly but kei seems to accept it.

as kei leaves to inspect his car, akiteru takes the opportunity to sneak you to his room under the guise of you looking like you "really need to lay down."

©sugawarassoulmate 2024 all rights reserved - please do not repost/translate my work on other platforms!

[mixelation]

Do you have any advice about writing humor? It might be the case that it's just instinctual, but if you have any tips, I'd love to hear!

interesting question! unfortunately for advice giving, i do think writing humor IS pretty instinctual for me. like most skills, it's something that's improved with practice, and i've spent a lot of time practicing, but i don't have much in terms of techniques or resources i can point at. what's funny is often also pretty subjective so what i do might not work forever! but here's some random thoughts for writing humor in the context of fic

"rule of three" is actually a pretty good rule. if you don't know it, it's common advice for writing (and presenting) that people's brains find a concept/idea/list of examples/whatever to be most satisfying when grouped in three. for humor writing purposes, what this usually means is that a recurring joke will have the most impact if it's brought up three times, and your third use should be the biggest punchline. any more, and the joke has probably overstayed its welcome, but only twice will feel like "weird that happened twice." like any writing rule, there's ways to break it effectively, but it's a good rule of thumb

writing humor in fiction is often an exercise in timing and pacing, and how your word choices and what parts of your setting you choose to linger on affect that. you know how the timing/delivery of a joke makes a huge difference IRL? it makes a difference in fiction too! you don't want something to drag on too long, but also a good joke (imho) needs adequate build-up. writing a funny conversation? you can artificially add beats by padding it with actions or dialogue tags. circumstances really funny? you might need to set up a setting really well, or establish someone's characterization really well BEFORE making something weird and zany happen.

i love writing jokes that play with the reader's foreknowledge or expectations. this is especially easy in fanfiction, where you don't have to explain some aspect of worldbuilding, plot, etc necessary to understand why something is so funny.

personally, i don't like when fiction sacrifices established characterization or internal logic of a story to emphasize a joke. especially in fanfiction, many fics are already working with worlds that have something bizarre or stupid about them to play with, and have room to add details (potentially for humorous reasons) that fit with the logic of the world.

i would recommend against over reliance on references and memes for jokes. these are fun in realtime conversation, but for writing, often will simply stop being funny within months of being written because of how quickly pop culture changes, or else will severely date whatever you're writing. i do love a well-placed reference or in-joke, and for fic, I think they can be especially effective if they're in-jokes about the canon in you're writing for (see: all of my yugioh fics). however just SAYING a reference often isn't like.... an actual joke? and i see a lot of writers (and some readers/fans) acting like it is.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

Hi! It's been a long time! The real life it's exhausting, I missed tumblr and your thoughts and theories. Thank goodness I'm already on vacation, hahaha.

By the way, I wanted to ask what are your thoughts about the wands. The magic, how they change the loyalty, how they seems to be "almost" a living being.

Two scenarios I'm really interested are: the one when Harry steals Draco's wand and why Harry has a good compatibility with it but not with Hermione's; and the fact that the Elder Wand doesn't respond well to Voldemort bc is actually Draco's wand and then Harry's. (I think it was like that). I hope it's not too much to analyze.

I'm looking forward to your thoughts! Take care and Happy Holidays! 😊🎉💕

Hi, and thank you so much! 💕 I hope life would get better for you this year!

Now, wands are somewhat alive in the way a lot of magic seems to be. Brooms can sense a wizard's fear, the RoR changes according to one's will, and even the Ford Angelica and the Whomping Willow have a personality. Magical artifacts just have a certain level of sentience and I talked about this a bit already here & here.

Wands just tend to be more sentient than most magical artifacts. I talked about wands a lot before in my Wandlore tag if you're interested. And how each wand has its own personality and how it effects how it chooses its master.

As for Draco's and Hermione’s wands' compatibility with Harry — it's more or less the same. Draco's wand isn't more compatible with him than Hermione's. He remarks it works at least as well:

Harry looked down at the hawthorn wand that had once belonged to Draco Malfoy. He had been surprised, but pleased to discover that it worked for him at least as well as Hermione’s had done.

(DH, Ch26)

This means it might be a little better, but not noticeably so.

Now, Harry's wand is Holly and Phoenix Feather, 11 inches and Supple Flexibility.

Hermione’s is Vine and Dragon Heartstrings, 10 3/4 inches. My guess to the flexibility is "solid".

Draco's wand is Hawthorn and Unicorn hair, 10 inches. My guess for the flexibility is "reasonably supple".

Now, both Hermione’s and Draco's wands are bad picks for Harry. Vinewood is for wizards/witches with ambition, it's attracted to visionaries who see themselves as having a greater purpose. This fits Hermione (who's idealistic when it comes to the wizarding world and elf rights, for example), but not Harry. Dragon Heartstrings tend to be more flamboyant and very obedient, which is kinda the opposite of a Phoenix feather that has a certain detachment to it and is fiercely independent. (Not to mention all the symbolism with death and rebirth that is appropriate to Harry).

Draco's wand is an even worse match for Harry in terms of its stats. Hawthorn is meant for someone who's questioning themselves and their lives in a state of internal conflict. It's a wand of paradoxes and contradictions. It fits Draco of the last two books perfectly, but that's not Harry. Unicorn hair is known as an incredibly loyal wand core. Unicorn hair wands don't just switch hands willy-nilly. Unicorn wands tend to die with their owner, it would not work for another. They also tend to be more emotional but very consistent in their magic — very different than the more temperamental phoenix feather wand.

Actually, blackthorn, as a wand wood, would suit Harry better than either vine or hawthorn. It's a wand wood suited for a warrior, it's said to work best for an owner who it passes with through hardship. That, like the bush it comes from "that it produces its sweetest berries after the hardest frosts". All of which should've worked for Harry well enough — but it didn't.

The reason for that is that wands don't remain in their "factory settings" they adapt to the master's personality and style, as Ollivanders says:

 Moreover, each wand, from the moment it finds its ideal owner, will begin to learn from and teach its human partner. Therefore, the following must be seen as general notes on each of the wood types I like to work with best, and ought not to be taken to describe any individual wand.

(Pottermore)

And even gives some examples:

Hornbeam wands adapt more quickly than almost any other to their owner’s style of magic, and will become so personalised, so quickly, that other people will find them extremely difficult to use even for the most simple of spells.  [...] Pine wands enjoy being used creatively, and unlike some others, will adapt unprotestingly to new methods and spells.

(Pottermore)

They absorb some of their owners into them and vice versa. There's a reason wizards feel like their wands are an extension of themselves:

Without realizing it, he was digging his fingers into his arms as if he were trying to resist physical pain. He had spilled his own blood more times than he could count; he had lost all the bones in his right arm once; this journey had already given him scars to his chest and forearm to join those on his hand and forehead, but never, until this moment, had he felt himself to be fatally weakened, vulnerable, and naked, as though the best part of his magical power had been torn from him.

(DH, Ch18)

Becouse, in a way, they are. They are alive, and they adapt and learn and change to match their master. There is a relationship between the wizard and the wand. The wand adopts the wizard's personality, becoming an extension of them:

“I hate that thing,” she said in a low voice. “I really hate it. It feels all wrong, it doesn’t work properly for me . . . It’s like a bit of her.”

(DH, Ch26)

The blackthorn wand hates Harry and fights him because its master hated Harry, not because it wasn't won properly. My guess is Ron couldn't make it work any better. This is why family wands tend to work when passed down. Family members usually want you to succeed. And sure, sometimes it isn't a perfect fit, since the wand still has its own personality, but family wands would try to work with the owner to the best of their ability.

(Neville's situation is pretty unique, my guess is his father’s wand has a lot of personality and doesn't like to be handled timidly. And there are woods like that, like Spruce wands which are "ill-matched with cautious or nervous natures, and become positively dangerous in fumbling fingers". But I digress)

Hermione's wand works for Harry becouse they are good friends and her wand likes Harry the way she does. Now, why Draco's wand works for Harry so well is a little telling on Draco, I'd say. I'm not a Drarry shipper, it's not my cup of tea, but this is real Drarry fodder if you want to use it. Draco's wand working for Harry implies Draco wants it to. It works with Draco's conflicted nature in this book, that he does one thing, but his wand, which reveals the truth, tells another thing. And that is that regardless of what Draco says or does he wants Harry to succeed.

Now, the Elder Wand is a special case. It's more sentient than most, but I don't think it chooses masters the way we are told. I think it not working for Voldemort as well as it could had nothing to do with Draco being its master. I don't think Draco was its master nor do I think the Elder Wand treated Voldemort any different than it treated most of its other "masters".

Like Hermione says, a Wand usually doesn't matter as much as the wizard:

“Harry, you keep talking about what your wand did,” said Hermione, “but you made it happen! Why are you so determined not to take responsibility for your own power?”

(DH, Ch12)

Wands, generally, don't really cast magic on their own. It's always the wizard's own magic channeled through the wand. Every wand which is a good match to the wizard should perform about the same level of magic. And Voldemort says the magic he is capable of with the Elder Wand is the same extraordinary magic he is always capable of:

“My—my lord?” said Snape blankly. “I do not understand. You—you have performed extraordinary magic with that wand.” “No,” said Voldemort. “I have performed my usual magic. I am extraordinary, but this wand. . . no. It has not revealed the wonders it has promised. I feel no difference between this wand and the one I procured from Ollivander all those years ago.”

(DH, Ch32)

The wand isn't fighting him the way the blackthorn wand fought Harry. The Elder Wand doesn't really care and would perform for any wizard it considers capable enough, but it saves its own magic and aid only for its real master. Which wasn't Dumbledore or Voldemort or Draco, but Harry — I think it's been Harry since the wand sensed him in the same room because I think he was always the master of death.

This isn't the explanation the books outright give, but it's ambiguous enough that there is some space left to theorize. And that's how I see it.

[olderthannetfic]

Genuine question: what's the point of writing fanfic? As in, what's the purpose? No one in the fandom I'm in comments on fics and I even got told off by one person for doing so, as it "encourages bad writers and makes them think they're good". So it seems that it's a lot like book writing, where people work hard and are creative, but instead of getting paid and getting comments on the work, you just sit there silently hoping someone will press the kudos button and make a number go up. I feel like that time and work could be better spent on making something you might get some kind of profit off of. Don't get me wrong, I love doodling fanart, but I don't post it, as I'm aware that there's no point to doing so, and while it's a nice way to fill the time on a commute, it's not something that takes me as much time and effort as fanfic does. So... why do people bother? Sometimes I describe ideas I have and people I know in my fandom will tell me I should write it, but I don't see why. I get more interaction from just saying "imagine if [thing here]" than I would by sitting down, writing for hours, editing and posting [thing here], so what would the point be? I'm not punching down or going "haha women and their fanfic lol!", I genuinely do not get what the point is and this blog feels like it might have someone reading who knows the answer.

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Do you make art for profit? Genuine question.

There's nothing inherently wrong with being motivated primarily by external factors, but it's not actually why a lot of people create things, whether it's books or recipes or doodles in a notepad.

I enjoy the actual process of writing.

I think many people lose sight of that aspect in an era where tons of <500-word fics that are mostly outlines and "Imagine if..." posts get disproportionate attention for being easy to consume. But the satisfaction of doing a bigger art piece and doing it right is real and motivates a hell of a lot of creation.

I suppose you might be thinking "Okay, but why not just write it alone and never post?", but I like sharing. Showing off my finished creation is part of the joy, and sharing with other people like me is too. But those aren't quite the same thing as worrying about kudos. It's like dressing nicely when you leave the house because you feel great when you know you look good vs. needing another person to tell you you look good.

To be honest, though, this type of feeling has grown in me the better I've gotten at a craft. The closer my finished projects get to the vision in my head, the easier it is to find them fulfilling and to be excited to share them. When I fall short of my own ambitions, it's discouraging no matter how much attention I might get from others.

I feel like it's time for my regular reblog of Adam Westbrook's video essay series The Long Game.

The third and least known in the series is all about this idea of who you're making art for if you're not getting material rewards in the short term. It talks a lot about autotelicity—being internally driven instead of externally.

--

But if you really just want clicks, anon, start a blog that accepts anon asks and posts about wanky stuff. Actually tag things, unlike me, so people can find you.

No, writing for attention isn't worth it.

The time investment is too great and your brain will always fixate on the times people didn't respond instead of the times they did.

But that's not actually why most people write.

[widebrimmedhatsblog]

Onyx Storm Predictions!!

I wanted to do a full theory post but the clock is TICKING and I decided to get sick last week before I could write one up, so this will have to do!

Predictions below the cut! I'm going to re-blog and re-spoiler tag with extra info from the apple books preview, so no onyx storm spoilers on THIS post.

I'm going to start off with my most controversial prediction and say that I don't think Xaden is leaving! The bond is still in place (re: end of IF) and Sgaeyl evidently still gives a fuck about him (again, re: end of IF) and so I don't think she's going to break the bond! I DO think he might try and leave, but I think Violet will stop him.

This is probably the second most controversial (at least to me) but I do think Violet might be part/half venin. I think Lilith turned when she was pregnant with Violet. I don't fully know how being part venin would even work, but we know next to nothing about how being FULL venin would work, so I'm not gonna sweat it. There's a huge theme (motif?) of being two things at once in these books (violet's hair, her eyes, her two dragons, her two signets, scribe/rider, Xaden's two signets, etc.) Further, you have Lilith's cure-investigation, and also the matter of the extreme amount of parallels between Lilith and Xaden. I think they both turned to protect Violet.

The subsect of that prediction/theory/whatever is that I don't think Xaden can drain her! If you read the fight with JFB in FW wherein Vi is "shaken by an internal force (she doesn't) understand, as though he's forcing his own power into my body, shocking me with a thousand stings of vibrating energy" while he has his hands holding her face. A couple paragraphs later, it's confirmed his eyes are red-rimmed. (Fourth Wing pages 294-295). I think this is JFB draining her to a certain degree. It HURTS Violet, he gets power, but no hand prints! I actually really wanted Xaden to leave sexy handprints on her, but in the last like 4 days I've changed my mind. I foresee a sort of vampire-esque power drinking thing!

I keep calling myself controversial but I'm going to keep doing it. My NEXT controversial take is that I don't think they're going to the isles yet! I think Vi may WANT to go to the isles, but I think she'll have to go to Poromiel first, then head to the barrens!

I think Vi's second signet is one of two things: the type of mirroring signet I used in Teach Me, or a straight up inntinnsic. Both of these are used in the throne scene, as I spelled out in that fic! I don't mind Vi being an inntinnsic*, especially since all the men in her life have a direct line into her head. I really think it's only fair if she can get back at them, IDK.

I don't think we're meeting Xaden's mom this book! I think that's book 4. But while we're talking about her, I think she has a second kid Xaden doesn't know about, and I think they'll meet this secret sibling first and it will be a moment of tenuous trust between riorgail (in that Violet will have to grapple with the possibility of him keeping secrets from her AGAIN, only to find out her isn't)

I'm saving my thoughts on who dies for the spoilery part!

I don't think Xaden is getting "Cured". I'm not entirely sure there will be a cure on a person-to-person basis, because I frankly think that defeats the purpose of the metaphor.

This MAY be a book 4 thing, but I'm going to add it here anyway! My IRL bestie and I talk a lot about how the story of the 3 brothers here is the Deathly Hallows reborn, and we've been joking about how Violet must gather said hallows to defeat Voldemort etc. However, we joked about it a little too much, and now I'm convinced: at some point, Vi will be the dragon rider, the gryphon flier, and the venin

OR: Mira is the gryphon rider* and Brennan's the venin.

This is wishful thinking actually but the quest squad somehow ends up being just x, vi and the dragons!

This is more of a theme prediction, but every book thus far (all 2!) have been about unpacking a level of propaganda. FW is Navarre's propaganda about war, and IF is Navarre's propaganda about Poromiel. Therefore, we have at least 2 more forms of propaganda to unpack: whatever the fuck is going on with the dragons, and the idea that venin are inherently evil. I think we tackle one of these book 3 and one book 4! Or perhaps both together, because they are intertwined.

Crack Pot Theories

Papa Sorrengail's first name is Adam.

I don't think Halden is Violet's ex. I think it's literally two random ass infantry guys. Also Xaden gets to kill Halden :)

I think Brennan killed Naolin! I also think they were gay. I think it’s a mirror to a different way to handle someone turning venin for you than what Vi and X will do

I may edit this and add more. Why am I blanking on every thought I've ever had about onyx storm in my life.

[femmehaljordan]

hi! i stumbled across your blog when perusing the anti bruce wayne tag as one does and the anti tim drake stuff makes me giggle because so much of it is true. for me what makes tim annoying besides dc setting him up as the bestest ever via propping up, using him as a tool to erase jason, being just as manipulative and unhinged as bruce etc it's his fans. and not the ones who grew up with him as robin and actually want him to grow or regain the growth he had and just think he's neat. i mean the fans who think fanon tim (who's part of a larger problem of batfanon) is canon. the ones who call tim a comfort character but are really projecting themselves onto him and any slight real or imagined gets internalized as an insult against them. without dc's glazing, tim *is* boring but he has potential if dc just using him as a deus ex machina for bruce. that seems to be is only purpose now they deaged him and stuck him back in the tights because they don't know wth to do with him. i personally would have had him as an ex-robin and an ex-vigilante. he was a lonely kid who had a unhealthy parasocial relationship with batman and robin and got turned into a tooll by alfred to save bruce from killing himself via vigilantism. he took on bruce's worst traits and lessons and honestly should had permanently quit with the bs bruce and alfred pulled on his 16th birthday. it would had been interesting that there was a robin who wanted nothing to do with bruce and realized that he got dragged into a situation he was ill-equipped for and shouldn't had been in. that it's not the job of a child to save an adult from themselves, especially one as violent as bruce. also inb4 anyone accuses me of jumping onto the tim hate train lately. i've been a tim "hater" since the late 90s, going into the 00s. i read young justice when it was an ongoing and thought robin was a bit of an ass. then i read the back issues of robin and the other batbooks to get a better idea and it went from there. i put hater in quotes because i mainly find him annoying, his misogyny and chauvinistic behaviour wasn't cute (says a lot about his writers ) and steph should had bricked him twice.

STEPH SHOULD HAVE BRICKED HIM TWICE

But yeah I agree. Most of my actual hatred of him comes from the fandom and the fact DC will just not let him move on. That boy should be like…. 20. I shouldn’t older than him.

Like. If it weren’t for his fans I simply… wouldn’t care about him? Or at least I would care less about him. Bc I imagine DC would still be treating him the same way so I wouldn’t like him. But I would hate him a lot less.

[intramoon]

hi aj !! i have a question i dont want to sound rude please know im not trying to be rude. i came back to simblr after a long time and its been really hard not to get discouraged. :/ my account is really dead no one interacts with me anymore. stuff is so different. i remember you used to be kinda popular but how do you deal with people not interacting with you as much as they used to?? i dont mean that in a mean way!! i dont want to quit simblr but idk how to get back to how things were

Hi! Don't worry, I don't think you're being rude, I understand where you're coming from. ♡ My response will be long because I have a lot to say about the topic, hopefully, it will help you.

If you were mostly active when I was in my "prime" (assuming that's what you mean by "kinda popular"), like 2018-2021, things will never be how they were then. The community, trends, and how we interacted with each other was so much different, I don't think it will ever go back to how it was then. I am kind of happy about that. Although my relationship with that time on Simblr is nostalgic (despite being too young and miserable to enjoy it), I think the community is in a healthier place now (mostly). I have had to adjust to a couple of things since coming back. One is that the content looks different now.

In my "prime" people were just getting into editing (that was a time before ReShade). Heavy editing and experimental editing were really celebrated, partly because everyone was learning and learning from each other. We just wanted to see what was possible. Now, maybe partly in reaction to that trend and how demanding it was, people have found an appreciation for the base game, simple screenshots with really only ReShade/gshade, CAS screenshots, etc. Not to say the former doesn't exist anymore because it absolutely does and people have become truly incredible at it. In some regard, it is an acquired taste especially if that's all you do. I've thought to myself many times should I stop editing the way I do, does that impact the way people take in my content? Do I have editing blindness? lol I like how I edit, I enjoy the process and, even if I do have editing blindness, I like how it looks. Even being an alpha creator, they are fewer and fewer as people opt for MM and MMix. I've thought, do people really not like alpha content anymore? Even my story at times felt like it didn't fit into the current story ethos. I thought about stopping it. I bring that all up to say, when you're coming back to a very different Simblr it can feel like what you used to make doesn't "fit in". And it might not. I don't think that should be the goal. The community now is so much more diverse, content-wise, that anything you want to make is possible. If you sacrifice your artistic vision, you'll end up leaving again. You have to make what speaks to you, regardless of the other noise.

Two, you have to find your reason for making your art. For a moment, I really lost touch with what I was even doing here. I took some time to figure it out. I first started because I wanted to tell a story that talked about intimacy through the lens of a sex worker and someone who had no romantic or sexual experience. I wanted to do this without over-sexualizing my sex worker character and infantilizing my other character. I wanted to write some of the dialogue I was having internally. Way back when that was all I wanted to do, I didn't struggle with being seen as much because I was posting with a purpose. That purpose wasn't likes or reblogs, but to tell a story and have a conversation. Everything else came after. Anyone coming back (or looking for a reason to stay) has to find, within themselves, why they want to be here and what they want to get out of it. I promise you if you reconnect with that, posting will be easier regardless of the outcome.

I know I took a lot for granted way back when. Asks about me or my characters, comments, tags, and even people wanting to join me in a Discord server or stream. Sounds like we both, a one point, wish we could go back. That just means it's something to appreciate more now. You can be and make really whatever you want, which wasn't always possible. Maybe think of coming back as a small rebirth and trust that if you keep at it, you will find your people. I am still in the process of finding mine but I trust they are out there. If you're passionate people will feel it. Best of luck and I hope something in this novel helps you! ♡

[thehollowwriter]

I thought this would be smt fun to post the night before Silas' birthday XD. Blame @the-trinket-witch who was inspired by my Finn shitpost/j

Silas Clearcove x Reader HCs

•Firstly you're going to have to be at least 40 because Silas views young adults as kids, and the idea of dating them is out of the question

•You'll need to have tough skin because Silas is blunt and to the point. He's not purposefully cruel or mean, but he doesn't see the point in tip toeing around things and trying to soften the blow

•Don't be clingy. He's busy, so you won't see him as often as you may like, and he's not very talkative either. He won't ignore you, of course, but he's a man of few words, and if you're chatty, you'll have to carry most of the conversation.

•Don't think he's ignoring you, though. He listens carefully to every word you say and is genuinely interested in what you have to say, even if it's as mundane as accidentally dropping your toothbrush while brushing your teeth or something

•Finn has to like you. It's like a major requirement. Not only has he sat through enough drama in relation to stepparents with Morrigan's family to last a lifetime, but he's simply not going to make Finn go through that

•So yeah, he makes it quite clear that you're second to Finn priority wise and be does not sugar coat it

•Other than that, your gender, species, etc doesn't matter at all to him

•It's impossible to tell if he's interested in you romantically because he acts the exact same as he usually does unless you initiate some form of flirting first, and if he catches on his flirting is a bit weird

•He's pretty to the point, just like Finn, except all he does is give you a courting gift, and if you aren't merfolk, he probably forgets you don't know what that means lmao. But he will clarify after he realises you don't get it

•Silas isn't lovey dovey in the conventional sense, but he loves deeply and fiercely and holds you in high regard

•He's protective and will absolutely kill for you, no questions asked. As long as you're safe, he's happy.

•He gives you things he's found or made that he thinks are interesting or useful, usually weapons

•You will be given lots of food and you will eat it. Nah, he'll just eat it if you don't want it

•This man does not believe in wasting anything, and if there's something you don't want to use anymore, he'll probably find some kind of use for it. There are very few things he can't reuse

•Doesn't mind getting into tussles with you at all and would be quite delighted if you are willing to

•He's paranoid, though he hides it well and frequently checks up on you to make sure you're aliv- *ahem* doing ok

•His toxic trait is that he will compare you to Morrigan internally. He doesn't do it on purpose, but it's a bad habit

•He doesn't take off Morrigan's courting gift either and that might cause some... issues if you have a problem with that

•You'll have to be chill with a lot of things because Silas is by no means morally ok and he does a lot of fucked up shit

•Silas is very loyal and supportive and if there's something you want to achieve he'll help to the best of his ability

•He takes immense interest in your culture and home and will pester you with questions about it

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This started as a joke what happened 😭

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[prydoniantrash]

hold on i haven't heard about simon (your OC) yet

(and i am planning on answering the asks you sent but i'm finding powerpoint to be a much more elegant medium than tumblr post for my response so it will take a minute)

oh boy mars did you just open a MASSIVE can of worms XDD buckle up because this is gonna be a long one.

first of all, it's funny you mention the whole powerpoint thing! I just made a powerpoint regarding my ocs to share with some friends, so I'll be reusing some of the slides here! so I don't have to say it three separate times, unless I say otherwise, all art is done by @alzheimersparrotroute who you all should totally go check out. they do comms and are very talented. ANYWAYS. I'm very much so looking forward to your powerpoint >:3 but for now! we get to see a handful of slides from mine!

second of all, I tagged simon in two posts recently! one was about how full of repression he is and the other is regarding his negative rizz. to understand why he's such a both of these hot wreck we need to understand my entire story and to do that. we need to talk more about sigma. because a lot has changed since I answered your ask regarding him back in february. but not the basics! so let's go over the basics again, just real quick.

do we remember the physics of my u? maybeeee? tldr; everything emits waves called animaic waves. everything emits one or multiple of these that sum together into a summation wave, but everything emits a prime number of waves. humans emit seven animaic waves, animaic waves are a second type of photon created by electrons ""rubbing"" against one another, etc etc.

I lied earlier. my boy sigma emits fourteen of these fuckers. this should be, for all purposes, physically impossible. but no matter! on august 18th, 202X, he wakes up in Burnsides National Laboratory, which is a national lab about an hour south of Chicago. It's the third national lab in IL! besides Argonne and Fermi ofc.

when sigma wakes up, he does not know WHO he is, but he knows WHERE he is, and he knows that he's working under one Dr. James Laplace and one Dr. Paul 'Alpha' Cain, who both study frequency physics (the physics of animaic waves-it's basically a branch of electrodynamics). Curious.

side note: I mentioned in that second post I reblogged that alpha also has negative rizz. he does. I don't have a fullbody of him but trust me he's VERY conventionally hot. looks about 30, white hair, anime man build, etc. he can be nicely summed up as an "extra, slightly insane asshole" but tbf you'd probably be slightly insane too if you were 3500 years old. which he happens to be.

alpha and james are studying wavelength decay, which is basically, well, if your wavelengths are decaying, your electrons are spiraling into each other/falling out of their orbitals mayhaps? I'm still working on the details of this one but the long and short of it is that it's very bad and very deadly. alpha's species, the ambrosites, are immortal to an extent- at some point they die due to what presents as total wavelength collapse. tldr, alpha and james are studying ways to prevent this collapse and what might cause it.

none of that is relevant to simon I just wanted to go off a little <3 thank you. what IS relevant to simon, however, are del (and not really wren but she's here too), who I've touched on briefly but now!!! now I have slides and pictures of them!!! thank you again @alzheimersparrotroute for the wonderful art <33

god tumblr makes them sooo crunchy. anyways yeah they work/intern for james and alpha. on august 18th, 202X, they get stuck in a structural collapse and die. or so we're told. just trust me on this would I ever lie to you.

the first portion of my story revolves around sigma coming to terms with the fact that he doesn't know who he is, there is no evidence of a past beyond what people around him (james, alpha) have told him, and that there is nobody looking for him. at its core, it's a journey of identity and self-acceptance. during this journey, he starts working at burnsides (because he has. physics knowledge. mysterious.) and meets simon, who also started working at the lab just a month or two after sigma woke up. I'll share sig's slide at the end! but for now....

simon time! :3!! shoutout to one of my irl friends for doing this art for me! they're a real one.

simon, like it says on the powerpoint, is del's brother. he's. well. a character, to say the least. here's some more stuff I said about him yesterday while thinking about how to put this whole thing together (text ID in alt)

okay but mochi, I hear you asking. what about the repressing emotions part. okay. well. I lied earlier. when I said del and wren died in a structural collapse. that was a lie. who could've seen this coming, right? in reality, they basically got broken down into their component animaic waves at the same time and got reformed into one guy. if you know what a fourier transform is, I basically just say they got fourier transformed. I've heard other people say that they got 'stephen universe gemsona'd' and 'fma chimera'd'. I think the later is more accurate, as this is irreversible. del and wren are dead and gone <33 we do have sigma, though! he's here!!

so! simon is mourning the loss of his brother. and by 'mourning the loss' I mean 'is in massive amounts of fucking denial and thinks it's possible to revive del'. would this kill sigma? yes. does simon care? no. it's not personal, simon thinks sig is a perfectly fine person (albiet one that reminds him a little too much of his brother), but if it's between this should-be-stranger and del, well, simon knows who he'd pick.

simon is also the type of person who thinks he's handling things in a very logical, reasonable manner. he's not letting his emotions get in the way of his decisions, this whole 'killing someone to get back a loved one' thing is simply the path forward that makes the most sense. there are no emotions involved here. he swears. trust him.

god what a wreck of a man

so yeah that's simon! do you want an added bonus oc. hell yeah you do. because oh boy do I have a second one. his name is canto and him and simon are my beautiful haunted by the narrative foils <33

canto is/was wren's best friend! they're childhood friends who ended up going to the same college. now, you may notice that I say he has synesthesia. this IS important- this is not regular synesthesia (but he does have that too actually)- canto can hear animaic waves!

the tldr of it is that whenever he's in the same room as sigma he hears the waveform of his dead best friend. this fucks with him severely.

anyways yeah he hates sigma's ass but isn't in denial- he recognizes wren is gone, but god dammit is he angry as shit about it. him and simon are really good foils for many a reason and I love them both dearly. my boys.....

thank you for getting this far!! that's the tldr of all the main ocs in this story but one, who maybe I'll get into another day (her name is seven, she's a 21 y/o immortal who loves sticking her nose in places it shouldn't be). as a treat, here's sig's slide!

those two asterisks from the 'has not read homestuck' lead to a note that says he does actually remember reading the start of homestuck- if both wren and del knew it, then sigma woke up knowing it as well!

no but yeah thank youuu for asking and thank youuu for reading! as stated, I'm really looking forward to your powerpoint- I expect to hear SO much about your little guys >:33

[nabi-unveiled]

Catching Up: Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo (Ep 1)

My time was very limited this past Oct/Nov so choices were made. I didn't watch nearly as many shows as typical during that period. However, I'm diving into my backlog.

Let Free the Curse is a show that I purposely filtered tags for during its run time. I know very little about it beyond the MDL description.

Since it's not currently airing, I'll probably just make one post for each watch session. I have no idea whether they'll be short or long. That depends on how into it I get. I had originally planned on watching 2-3 episodes a session, but I got distracted by a detail in a different show. I still need to work on my own video script tonight so only the first episode for now.

Did the dad just dump a dirty dish while the boy is cleaning the dishes? If I hadn't already decided this dad was a POS from all of the beating warnings, then this scene right here ALONE would've been enough evidence for me to hate him. It's SO disrespectful.

New boy is a sunshine. That's both good and bad. Our boy Do-hoe is in obvious need of sunshine in his life. But sunshine hurts your eyes when you've been in the dark too long, and I can already tell that Do-hoe has been in the dark a very long time.

The math scene is cracking me up. It shouldn't probably, but we're weirdos at my house. We do bedtime math problems and math puzzles for fun. I have heard conversations like this between my sons more times than I can count. It's always fun when they're not sure what the answer is to the problem they created themselves. Lol.

Sunshine was seriously having to think, and then Dohoe had it wrong! He's kicking himself hard (internally). If there's one thing that top students take pride in, it's being correct in these types of things.

I'm a fairly adventurous eater, but....I don't know that I want garlic in my ice cream.

There's food symbolism. Be still my beating heart.

My only question is how did Do-hoe KNOW he wanted bread? 🤔 (Side note - that painting in the background is gorgeous. I wish I knew what the writing said.)

Nevermind. Do-hoe can hear EVERYTHING this man is saying. Either the walls are thin or sunshine is loud. My guess is both.

(Side note - the background sound in this scene is driving me nuts. I hope we don't have this type of percussion often. For now, I'll just turn down my headphones.)

I love that Sunshine is asking this question. It's a good sign.

Oof. That's not a good sign. It's resignation. I'm trying not to read too much into this situation, but alarm bells are going off.

Crap. The alarm bells were warranted. I mean, we already knew this man was going to be violent. But to do it directly IN FRONT of sunshine without any hesitation? That's not a good sign at all.

Ok. I'm loving sunshine trying to figure out how to make it better. Yes, I will be calling him that until evidence suggests I shouldn't. Sunshine characters make me happy. There are so precious few of them in real life, but they make the world a better place for us all.

And yay! The weird ice cream is back. (The percussion is still driving me nuts. Thanks to my hearing impairment certain sounds catch my attention A LOT. This is one of them.)

I knew there was a reason he was here. I hadn't expected expulsion. My brain is now whirling with possibilities. I've narrowed it to two.

Do-hoe is shut down, but poor puppy looks like he's been kicked. 😢

We have confirmation that the walls are thin, and daddy dearest is involved in shady dealings. No shock there.

Ice cream x 3. I LOVE when food becomes a parallel or symbol in shows. I really hope the ice cream keeps coming up.

😭This is going to hurt even worse than I thought. My first thought was being impressed that his MOM was the pastor. That's my upbringing and community trappings rearing its ugly head. Then I processed what he was saying. Obviously still no good. As someone who got told just today that I should return to the path of righteousness, these storylines will always hit close to home for me.

LMAO. Sunshine enjoyed that bit of praise didn't he.

So Do-hoe's dad is literally top dog in this community? Because....that's crazy talk. Except, it's not. There's always someone on top of the food chain in these small communities.

This is me trying not to get distracted by the (almost) Christian fish hanging directly beside our preacher kid. It obviously wasn't purposeful or meant to be a symbol.

I'm getting pacifist vibes here now. Not surprising given his background. My guess is that this will cause problems though. Because when it's trauma that causes this stance, then people tend to draw a VERY hard line around it. If I had to make a prediction, sunshine will use violence at some point (maybe even to defend Do-hoe). It will become a problem between the two of them. I could be wrong.

Ice cream x 4. My heart is very satisfied at this point.

I'm amused while simultaneously thinking that I would MURDER him.

Because seriously! That's the best freaking part of the cone! I take it back. You are no sunshine. You are no good boy. This is a crime.

Actually - this. This is me right now.

Because there are UMBRELLAS, and there is a sunshine character wearing RED. All three of which bring me immense joy.

Ok, sunshine. I forgive the ice cream cone. Begrudgingly.

I'm hooked. It's not even about the rain. This set-up is perfection. I'm now VERY excited to see where this goes. It's going to be a rough ride. I can already tell that. It reminds me of a passage I read once. It asked something along the lines of "don't you want your favorite characters to be happy?" The answer was something along the lines of "No. I don't. I want ME to be happy. If the character must go through pain for that to happen, so be it." This is GOING to be painful. I can already tell. But I'm not above letting characters go through agony so that I can be entertained.

[kiefbowl]

Hey sorry I don't know why I'm telling you but just wanted to share, sorry if it's too long

I started working as an intern in this tech company and I'm kinda the only woman in the rnd department. Two weeks passed and it was pretty good but today they sent me and another intern who is a male to the department where they fix broken cards and stuff. The men in there immediately started talking to the intern and asking him to come check out their work cause it would be a great opportunity for him. They showed him the machines and i just tagged along, both me and the guy tried to tell them that i am too an engineering intern but they just ignored. I tried to tell him that i was interested and had similar classes but he didn't even listened or looked at me. I felt kinda weird cause i never really experienced something like this just wanted to share cause I don't know what i was supposed to do.

Sorry you experienced that. That's some old school sexism for sure, and you're bound to run into it some more as you enter the work force. Fortunately, a lot of these old school guys are headed out (which doesn't mean misogyny in the work force is defeated...but you know...we take our wins where we can).

My advice to you: report it. Report it to your direct manager and/or HR. I'm not saying it's a magical fix all in all work places, but if you do nothing, nothing can be done about it. At the very least, it will probably motivate someone to speak to him, like "hey man, you can't obviously treat our female interns differently, and we don't want to hear about this again." Convos like that might make someone salty, but also not want to push their luck a second time. Or not, but again you can only guarantee nothing will happen only if you do nothing.

In the moment, your milage may very, but trying to just point blank in a friendly and professional way ask him to clarify why he won't show you something can really put the pressure on them to admit out loud their sexist beliefs, which they know they shouldn't do. Things like "Did you not hear my question? Are you ignoring me on purpose?" or "I just explained I'm an intern as well, is there a reason you won't demonstrate this to me as well?" or even "I feel like you're treating me differently than him, I hope it's not because I'm a woman" and just leave the unspoken part hang awkwardly in the air for him to puzzle out.

As always, this is easier to imagine and write about than to do in the moment. Don't beat yourself up if someone catches you off guard by being an asshole. Know that YOUR job as intern is to get experience and education, and you do not have to suffer fools that get in your way. If you need to get engineering knowledge out of this guy, be an annoying fly in his ear. Buzz buzz, I'm here for 8 more weeks and if you don't show me how to calibrate this thingy-ma-bob today, I'll just be knocking on your door tomorrow, buzz buzz. Who cares if he walks away thinking women are annoying or whatever, it's your future and you can't change his mind.

[little-vulpecula]

I just watched the 2004 Thunderbirds film, and I have so many thoughts...

Spoilers below the cut

Clearly, they felt like they had too many characters to work with, which makes sense, the cast is pretty large especially for a 90 minute film, but did they really need Jeff, Scott, John, Virgil, and Gordon to be stranded in space for the entire film???

I know lots of people don't like the whole teen Alan thing, which is fair enough. I don't mind it (probably because TAG was the 1st piece of Thunderbirds media I watched), but it's still not my fave, I just don't dislike it as much as I think other people do (I just feel like they could do more interesting things with that dynamic than they did in the film)

They refer to themselves as The Thunderbirds???? not as International Rescue??? like International Rescue is written on the side of Thunderbird 2, but I don't think they ever directly say that they are International Rescue. This makes the badges that Alan, Tintin, and Fermat are given at the end kinda weird if you don't have the context of watching the original series?

The random comedic sound effects they use caught me off guard lol

I don't like the costumes, they're just a bit boring in my eyes

The Hood is the Mandarin guy from Iron Man??? Tintin is the girl from high school musical??? I love that tbh

I love Lady Penelope, but why does she get a costume change before the final confrontation??? One moment, she's in Thunderbird 1 with her usual hair, and then she goes into the bank, and suddenly she's put her hair into this super fancy updo? why???

That being said, I do love all the pink that Lady Penelope uses! Absolute Queen!!

I like Tintin she's cool, I just wish she was less of a love interest (or if they wanted her to be a love interest they should've built up her and Alan's dynamic more). However, I do kinda like how she also has the Hood's powers, I think that's interesting

What was going on with Brains and The Hoods female sidekick???? like did we really need that subplot??? It didn't even serve any purpose???

Lady Penelope's mansion is Cliveden House!!! (I doubt anyone else knows what I'm talking about, but basically, it's a National Trust property just outside London. I used to go on visits there all the time when I was a kid, so when it showed up on screen I was like I know that place!!!)

All the fight/action scenes are all so bad in the best way possible

I feel like the whole secrecy thing isn't spoken about enough (if at all), and so when the Hood is like "so the leader of the Thunderbirds is astronaut, billionaire Jeff Tracy, I should've guessed" it is a bit weird because you assumed the Hood already knew that

I do like that the Hood was someone that Jeff had failed to save before, I thought that was interesting

Jeff was also cool, I liked his character

I feel like I don't have much to say about Alan or Fermat tbh they were fine

I loved Parker

I hate the design of FAB 1 ( I think they were trying to make it look more futuristic, but I don't think it worked)

I liked the title sequence. That was cool

All of that said, I absolutely loved this film!!! I knew that it was going to be bad before I watched it and I think that allowed me to enjoy it. It's so bad but in the best possible way, so I had a lot of fun watching it, regardless of the quality.

[mama-imperator]

This is something I don't really do on here, but I feel it's the right thing to do. I was hesitant to make this kind of post out of fear of being stalked and harassed by this individual (and other Zionists), however, I want to do something to ensure the safety and mental health of Vivziepop antis and critical fans.

There is an individual going around under the account name outandloud. They're a Vivziepop anti/critic, but they're also a Zionist. They also have various other accounts on here, and I've already blocked a couple of them so far.

They use their main blog and their other side blogs to harass and stalk anyone whose pro Palestine. I'm not sure if they made the side blogs for the purpose for block evading, but what I've seen they've been using those sides blogs for that reason. And it's not just Vivziepop antis and critics that they do this to. They also do this to anyone who agrees that the genocide happening to the Palestinians are bad. They would reblog anyone who makes posts supporting the people in Palestine, and Gaza just harass them. They've also made a post comparing Stolas fans to Palestine supporters and have been making transphobic reblogs, too.

I feel like that the way this person behaves makes me believe that they must be suffering from some sort of political psychosis when they use their main blog and side blogs to harass Palestine supporters. The sad part is that if you report their blogs, there is a possibility that Tumblr won't do anything about it. The same thing goes towards blogs that are created by TERFs, conservatives, Proshippers, and any blog run by someone who actively violates Tumblr's community guidelines.

If outandloud tries to interact with you by liking your posts, commenting on your posts, reblogging your posts, and sending you asks or DMs on their main or any of their side blogs, please block and report them. Tumblr needs to be more on top of user safety on this site. And is also why I've been avoiding talking about what's been going on in Palestine due to fear of being harassed by Zionists. I've had a few people from where the genocide is happening Send me asks, wanting me to share their pages to get people to donate to help them escape the genocide. But I'm afraid because I fear that Zionists will find those posts and harass me for it. I don't know how they're do this, but it's either Tumblr algorithm being completely fucked or Zionists are either cross tagging their posts with the pro Palestine anti Zionism tags or going into those same tags to harass anyone who supports Palestine.

I don't know what to do. All I can do and get people to report this person's blogs in hopes of Tumblr finally doing something about it. Because this person is still stalking and harassing others with their side blogs, and it's getting to the point that I believe this is some sort of unhealthy obsession they have. They've made a post about me on their main blog and tagged me in it, saying that I have a "hate boner" for Christians and Zionists. Surprisingly, none of their Zionist followers, mutuals, and friends (I would be surprised if people actually like this person) harassed me.

I'm going to end this post here. I hope that Tumblr finally does something about this. This person is not in the right state of mind to be interacting with others on this site and the internet in general. I hope they finally get banned from this site and take some time away from the internet. This person really needs to seek out a therapist to help them deconstruct their internalized antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia, and transphobia. Because what they've been doing will put a lot of people in danger.

[felicjana050896]

Is Hazbin Hotel really watched by so many children or what??

I go on Twitter to relax, after work (or sometimes during work, if I have a moment) to look at beautiful art that interests me, to read some interesting and sometimes new comments to the series because ,,someone noticed something new", and among all these beautiful things, there is this shit..., I love Twitter because it is largely a free place, but it is one thing to be free, to enjoy life and the topics that interest you, and it is another thing to pour out your inner failures, boredom in private life, lack of purpose, etc. in the form of hatred towards real people who are here to take a break from everyday life and its hardships, although I am writing this post mainly in relation to the HH fandom, I have also seen it in other fandoms, although not on such a scale (maybe somewhere it's even worse, I don't know), people writing under someone's art that this character or ship sucks, or writing under someone's comment where they only express their opinion on the subject, some character or ship he likes, that he is wrong (by the way, how can you be wrong in an opinion..., an opinion is not a fact, but our own internal view of certain things) and this character or ship sucks, sometimes there is also the writing of how hopeless the person who writes the comment or posts the art is (or much worse) because he or she likes something... sorry, but the fact is that most such bad comments are written by people who, as I wrote, at the top, are adults are unhappy with their lives, or (which unfortunately happens more and more often) children, immature people who have too much free time in their lives and have no idea what it means to feel tired after work, to be overwhelmed by responsibilities home and have too little time in life... because people who are normal (I won't call someone who pours out their life every day on the Internet in a negative way a normal person) either lead too happy a life to make others unhappy, or are too tired everyday life, to have the mental strength to write comments that do not contribute anything (of course, there are also people who have a happy life and at the same time are tired of life, after work and responsibilities ;) ), which is what I am aiming for in this post..., actually it is nothing, it's my internal monologue that I needed to pour out, because every time I check Twitter lately it's getting worse... and I just want to watch cool art and read interesting comments, after a tiring day at work, when after all, I'm lying in bed at 20:00 and I just want to calm down and mentally prepare for the next day, instead I see a lot of dirt here and there's more and more of it, I personally have a rule that when I see someone's unflattering comment, it's the person from I immediately block it because that's what it deserves (or report it if there's something more serious), but if I see a topic that doesn't interest me, I mute words and people like this: "publish something that I personally don't like", and the tag muteer doesn't work..., ok, so I'm muting your account and I'm happy and you're happy", I'm begging people who are normal, mute accounts that don't interest you and immediately block people who write unflattering comments, no matter if they are about something you like or dislike, such a person deserves a permanent ban from every side, from normal people who want to enjoy the series and what they like in it, do not respond to trolls, just block them.

And passing as well as the matter of opinions and facts, also distinguish them, an opinion is our internal liking or disliking something, our observations, and a fact is canon, something that is 100% confirmed and supported by evidence in the form of links, photos, etc., and not if someone writes "because it's canon!", the fact that you write that something is canon is not an argument, nor will it make your opinion (because yes, it's just an opinion until you provide evidence) become canon..., facts are facts and opinions are opinions, don't mix the two, facts are canon and opinions are just opinions, someone likes something and someone doesn't like something and that's ok, just like it's ok to write that in your opinion a certain a character is this or that because that's how you interpret him (the important thing is to check "IN YOUR OPINION" because it's still an opinion, not a fact), as long as it is not confirmed or denied by the creators 100%, it is still just an opinion, theories are also opinions, not facts, these are all opinions, facts are only the words of the creators or official photos or recordings, sooo..., that's it for my long post, I needed to get it out because I'm tired after work and frustrated and instead of enjoying the fandom, for once again I see the same crap, which I simply didn't have the strength for today and I had to say my piece, I'm sorry that this post was so long, thank you to everyone who persevered and read it to the end (and I realize that I wasted a precious half an hour of my life writing it), I wish you a nice day, evening, night or whenever you are reading this and remember: mute accounts that do not interest you and block accounts that write bad comments no matter where and on what topic, because either we ourselves will clean up this mess and make this fandom finally decent, or by not reacting we will make it fall apart in our hands, and then the joy of subsequent seasons of beloved series will no longer be the same, it is the fandom that always makes the series, without him they wouldn't be what they are and it's up to us whether this fandom will be worth our precious moments in life.

[transcephalopod]

((Warning for the q slur)). Hi, same anon as before. So I have a sibling who is aromantic asexual, and I myself am bisexual. I’m very, very new to exploring my identity and it’s been difficult to navigate.

Our family is conservative Christian, and my sibling discusses their identity quite openly and proudly, which, good for them. But when our family doesn’t really understand, they talk to me all the time about how difficult it is to be the only “q**er” person in a family of cisgender heterosexuals, and how no one else understands their experience. And…I’m right there. A bisexual girl who doesn’t have that ability to discuss my identity unless it’s to promise I’ll only date a man. They just act like their identity is truly LGBT, while mine is something I get to choose or “turn off” when I want to. Idk if they do it on purpose, I don’t think it’s malicious. Just a little tone deaf.

They were the first person I came out to. I thought I was asexual before realizing I was bi. They kept trying to convince me I really was asexual, and my attraction to men and women and other genders was purely aesthetic.

I don’t really know why I was drawn to the exclus tag, or why I was drawn to dumping all of this into your inbox. I’m just the only LGBT person in my circle who isn’t fully inclusive; I’ve always been a little confused as to why so many new identities were being added when some of them seemed very…normal? Not as in LGBT is weird or deviant, but as in “this is literally just how a lot of people function sexually/romantically and isn’t stigmatized.” So I don’t really have any other LGBT folks in my network that I can discuss this with.

Thank you for opening up an opportunity to discuss these things from anonymous. From my own experience, tumblr likes to get a bit violent when you have questions or misunderstandings. Not understanding something sometimes gets interpreted as willful bigotry, especially with a topic like inclusivity and exclusivity. So thank you, cause I’m terrified.

first off let me say I'm sorry about the situation with your family, having conservative christian relatives fucking sucks and I hope things get better for you soon. my answer to this got long so I'm putting it under a read more.

second off, your sibling is being incredibly disrespectful to you by disregarding your bisexuality and by trying to convince you that you're asexual. this kind of behavior is unfortunately common on the inclusionist side - I had grown adults online talking me into identifying as asexual when I was a young teen. you are definitely not alone in that experience. it's also pretty common for inclus to kind of invent their own oppression and act like they have it worse than LGBT people. that's where acting like your experiences don't matter and they're the only "queer" family member comes in. just a scroll through the asexual tag will net you a ton of posts about how aces have it worse than gay people because they're less visible (never mind that violent homophobia has a body count, and "violent aphobia" is tumblr users who make virgin jokes). I think your sibling has probably internalized that from how other ace people talk online, and you're very much right to be frustrated by it.

I agree with you that a lot of "aspec" identities are just a normal expression of sexuality. there's no way one can reasonably quantify what a standard amount of sexual attraction is, much less if someone markedly deviates from that. it's normal to only want to have sex with someone you know well in a committed relationship, and it's normal to be fine with casual hookups. it's normal to be attracted to people often and easily, and it's normal to rarely find people you feel attraction towards. there's zero need for microlabels dissecting the exact amount and kind of attraction you feel, splicing it into aesthetic, sensual, sexual, etc because the distinctions largely do not matter in actual practice.

it doesn't matter if a cisgender straight person feels sexual attraction only to their partner or only rarely, because that attraction is still heterosexual by its nature. there is no situation that person could conceivably be in where someone sees them hold hands with their partner and goes "I bet they only fuck on Tuesdays during a leap year" and shouts slurs at them. all their attraction is categorically the same as any other heterosexual attraction, the "amount" doesn't matter.

while a genuinely aroace (as in, actually doesn't want sexual/romantic relationships) person isn't straight, that still doesn't make them LGBT. the defining traits of LGBT people are same/similar gender attraction and/or being trans. it's an alliance specifically to combat homophobia and transphobia, not a fun club (and yet the aces only showed up trying to be part of the community when it could be regarded as a fun club in some countries, after LGBT people gained enough acceptance for being out as gay/trans to even be a somewhat safe option). asexuality and aromanticism are real, but do not need to be included in that. we simply don't have the same issues. I highly doubt asexual/aromantic people face issues that go beyond interpersonal conflicts, much less any kind of systemic oppression for being ace/aro.

this is a basic rundown of the exclusionist position, but it just boils down to not thinking asexuality and aromanticism are inherently LGBT. we also take issue with behavior like the kind your sibling is exhibiting, where they talk over LGBT struggles or try to talk vulnerable LGBT people/traumatized people/teenagers into thinking they're asexual.

I wish you luck in figuring out your identity. your struggles as a bi person deserve compassion and understanding, they do matter, and I'm sorry you haven't been given more space to discuss them. I hope this was what you were looking for in a response. if you ever need someone to talk to, my inbox/DMs are open.