#i’m not gonna tag this

[greenbergsays]

I’ve been trying to keep this one to myself for like two weeks but it keeps cropping up and I gotta get it off my chest:

If your fandom has an official AO3 tag that is literally “[Female Character] Bashing” and that female character has done literally nothing within canon to earn that kind of hate

well then your fandom is extremely MIGHT be misogynistic, babes

[heckinrissa]

Making my narrator’s sweater so I may put a pause on drawing while I do this

[thelastattempt]

been thinking a lot about the healthiness of fandom these days and how it twists and churns and distorts until reality is relative, and how much of a mindfuck that must be for the people/person at the very centre of it, how hard it must be to have your story told (incorrectly) by other people and the pressure it puts on an individual to be or behave in a different way.

and i just have a question. cause i’ve never considered the song this way

in your opinion, which is the healthiest coping mechanism? is it ‘i don’t cater to vipers dressed in empaths clothing’ and the defiance and the pain that represents or is it ‘all of those voices, all of those choices, i don’t hear them anymore… it’s bigger than me’, cause sometimes in my head this feels like a surrender, like he’s allowing the stories to be written by another pen because it’s easier, because he doesn’t want to cause a schism in the mentality of a 14YO, he’ll accept what you throw on him because it’s bigger than him as an individual in the grand scheme of things.

always a matter of perspective but now i’ve thought about it this way, im stuck on the dual perspective of bigger than me as a song and why it was the lead single and the impact of the crowd chanting ‘liar’ in a complete mess of ‘missing the point’ and also its comparative songs in the industry exposing a list of idols at the mercy of the judgment of their own fanbases.

[tokidokifish]

“don’t project your desires onto a fictional character” as the author projects onto real-ass human beings that happen to ship something else

[moved-new-acc-in-pinned]

Grill more grills

I hate/love you for having my first ask on this account be this

[la-sopa]

Gang how do you use artbreeder?

Anyway. I used art breeder + Picsart draw.

Ferus Olin Roan Lands what?

[brawnie]

*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way

[supermanddntdieforthis]

Re: Ed’s beard

I recognize that this is very much a “me” thing but for a modern au, I find the short beard more believable and “acceptable” than the long beard. Like for canon era it does not bother me but for modern era I find it very difficult to separate the long beard concept from the “yeehaw mountain men” that watched Duck Dynasty and decided that was “the look” that I’ve spent way too much time around. It triggers an unpleasant association in me bc of that.

Again this is very much a me thing. But like I cannot see the long beard in modern era for that reason.

[tempestgnostic]

hot take but i don’t understand why some folks are so pressed about endogenic systems using stuff like pluralkit, pimplyplural, etc. or even just being in plural spaces. readmore because this may get long

i’ve never really been involved in ‘syscourse’ or whatever because i have better things to do and i recognize that watching teenagers fight on the internet is not the best thing for my own mental health. i feel my brain cells dying at an accelerating rate everytime i see the disk-horse going on around me. it’s like peeking into this strange world that i’m only tangentially related to.

for the record, i have no fucking clue why i’m plural, and i have no urge to find out. i’m not in a place where i can just root around in my trauma to try and find the source. does that mean i shouldn’t use these resources that’ve helped me and my headmates so much? or does that only apply to systems who call themselves endogenic? i’m genuinely asking here.

i mean, i get where y’all are coming from. when i was going through crippling gender dysphoria, before i was able to get on HRT or even cut my hair, i was so fucking angry at people who used neopronouns, or had xenogenders, or even just folks who said they didn’t have gender dysphoria. i felt like they were treating my very real, very distressing medical issue (which is how i saw it at the time—i no longer do) as a joke, as a fun playground to fuck around in. i don’t think we’re that different in that regard. i know how difficult it is to go through all these painful experiences, and then see others with vastly different lives calling themselves by the same labels as us, when we have almost nothing in common.

but that’s the thing: regardless of how you feel about them personally, a lot of these folks are having very real plural experiences, and they’re using the vocabulary they know to describe it. ‘system.’ ‘plural.’ ‘headmate.’ and yet they’re also using endogenic to distinguish between their experiences and yours. you seem to want them to coin their own words for all of the nuances of their plurality, but why? why not use the words we have, and recognize that ‘being plural’ is a simple shorthand that easily encompasses all of these different ways of, well, being plural?

there are many ways to be ‘trans.’ there are many ways to be ‘plural.’ that’s why we add modifiers, but the base is the same because there’s a broader, shared experience. asking endogenics to go off and just bootstrap their own resources, rather than using what’s already available, is nonsense. and demanding that they come up with their own words for every nuance of their identity is how we end up with shit like MOGAI. (oh, wait, plural MOGAI already exists. it’s called pluralpedia, and it’s a fucking mess.)

it’s fine to have spaces where you can talk about traumagenic system experiences without interference from folks whose plurality isn’t connected to trauma—though i’d argue there are quite a few ‘endos’ who haven’t yet made the connection between their own trauma and plurality. hell, i’d be pissed if i was part of a private group geared towards trans people who experience dysphoria, and somebody came in and started talking about how we should ‘love our bodies the way they are!’ or whatever. but that’s not something every non-dysphoric trans person would do. that’s something assholes do, and they come in every flavor of identity.

anyways, i should probably get to work instead of writing ridiculously long essays about this shit. peace

[starspilli]

batkids game night. they’re playing fortnite

(click for full quality <3 also available as a print!)

[personadaylight]

I’m gonna pretty I’m not thinking Miku oo ee oo, I’m thinking Miku oo ee oo. I’m not mikuuuuuhhuuuuhhajnsmmskdodkdjsnsnmaghh (intense denial and lies)

[bajaja-blast]

you dislike Luke Castellan because he disagreed with an oppressive government system and actually took action to change the abusive ways him and his peers have been forced to follow for millennia.

I dislike Luke Castellan because in the Titans Curse he manipulated Annabeth, who he raised as his little sister, into holding up the sky, the FUCKING sky, for over 20 hours and had the audacity to walk away as though he was completely apathetic towards it while she begged and pleaded with him to help her.

we are not the same.

[metaphoricallyrose]

Jr year baby!

[bishy437]

he won

bonus:

[ensrensage]

sure do wish people would stop putting their shitty takes in the main tag and fuck off actually

[anna-scribbles]

last one i promise(<—lie)