#if you dont like it then lump it

[barryhotter]

what are your thoughts on draco in your barrycanon? can we get some musings on harry's childhood too? love ur brain btw x

barrycanon... kiss me anon.

putting a cut because i have a LOT of thoughts

HMM... i'm more of a harry potter supremacist, but draco malfoy is mostly like himself in canon but without much of the assholery. heavy on MUCH, because he is an asshole at heart, and harry's a closeted asshole so honestly

extremely dramatic, loves bitching to harry about milk subsitutes in the super market ("Have these people ever heard of almond milk without an aftertaste?"), and i think he grew his hair out a teeeeensy bit. just about to his neck, keeping it that way so harry can play with it. adorable.

i know you didn't ask about this, but i can never shut up so here we go! draco's childhood wasn't necessarily abusive, but neglectfully enabling, if you understand me?

his parents cared about him, persay, but in the way that they would just throw whatever he wanted at him if he had a tantrum. Young Draco was very very used to getting his way, and Lucius was very prone to giving it to him just to be done with it, so he isn't used to hearing no.

Him and his pureblood friends had childhoods consisting of running about manor houses, kicking house elves around and tutoring sessions in a library or a drawing room. Children are sponges, so the derogatory language Draco heard at the dinner table from his father had sunk into his mind as the right thing to say, and he didn't realise the contrary until it was too late.

I feel like lucius didn't OUTRIGHT say "muggleborns suck" but draco could use context clues from the nauseated scrunch of his nose and the offhand racist comments made at Sunday lunch while he read the Daily Prophet, you get the idea.

That's why he tries to sugarcoat it when he first meets Harry in Madam Rosmertas - "I don't think they should let the other sort in, do you?" he's not OUTWARDLY racist but the idea's still there. But Harry obviously doesn't get wizard racism, and friends him anyway.

In his Hogwarts years (in my mind) he doesn't shout slurs out like he did in canon but he just can't treat Hermione the same. He compliments Hermione's obvious academic overcompensation and thirst to succeed with a "You're good for a muggleborn" and even harrys like dude what the hell man

i don't have much to comment on adult draco because even my fingers get tired of typing about imaginary gay wizards but i WILL get back to you!!!

Harry's childhood was clearly abusive, even in canon. Any attempts at being anything than a helping hand around the house was responded to by him being shut up in a cupboard for god knows how long. He spent a lot of his time making friends with spiders and any bugs that managed to wriggle into his cupboard.

He spent crucial development years in isolation or extreme abuse or bullying. He doesn't warm up to people very easily and isn't the best trained on how to interact with them. He often mimicks the speech patterns of people around him to fit in for subconscious fear of being casted out for any abnormalities in the way he behaves.

Obviously with his extreme isolation he doesn't understand that the way he grew up wasn't normal. He had the clear idea that this wasn't "love" in his head, but even as a teenager he can't grasp the concept of just... living. Chilling around your house and NOT having to be doing some menial hard labour for simply relaxing.

He doesn't get bought anything, so he has a lot of "overdue" library books sitting on his shelf which never have and never will be returned. Absolute criminal.

When he's given his first proper christmas present by ron, he doesn't understand that it's HIS. i think that the way he just absorbed it was kinda unrealistic but i will touch on that later!

Also! Not asked but, after all the shebang with voldemort happens, Harry is a professional quidditch player. I don't make the rules i fear....

Bye bye now hug hug kiss kiss

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine if you were a gay or bi man who tried a certain firefighter show because of all the attention it was getting for one of its mains having a later in life bi awakening.....and between seasons you ventured into its fandom in search of material to tide you over til the next one. And you're greeted by a deluge of posts and fics that are just cheerfully homophobic towards one half of the newly out bi character's canon relationship on the basis of 'well he's not the RIGHT gay guy' and pushing the idea that actually its fine to cheat on him because Reasons and he's sexually predacious based on......behind the scenes implications people have divined like they're reading fucking tea leaves.

But don't get it twisted....this fandom, like all fandoms, really cares about representation!

Sorry not sorry, but we really need to kill this idea that fandoms are welcoming and inviting and inherently progressive when they're frequently insular and reductive as fuck. Every single fandom I've been in has had major trends of people doubling down on their own headcanons and fanon interpretations of the characters and willfully enacting trends aimed at running off people who like the 'wrong' characters (usually characters marginalized along one or multiple axes), like the characters in the 'wrong ways' or other bullshit.

Scott is a Bad Friend fics overtaking Teen Wolf fandom was not incidental, it was a FEATURE of the fandom, because the vast majority of that fandom did not want to share its space with anyone who had the nerve to like its main character. Survivors complaining about or criticizing the prevalance of rape fics in a certain fandom has in my experience always led to a reactionary UPTICK in those fics, with gems like 'this character can, will, must be raped' in the tags making it crystal clear that some of these fics exist because how fucking DARE anyone try and push forth a narrative not agreed upon by Fandom Main.

I could cite examples for so many other fandoms, with the commonalities always being that vast majorities in these fandoms are explicitly reacting defensively to being asked to be more mindful of fandom trends revolving around or exacerbating racism, homophobia, transphobia, rape or abuse apologia, ableism, etc....

With the most prolific fucking rallying cry across countless fandoms being "No the fuck we will NOT be doing that," because lolololol.....

Fandom is an inherently progressive space, didn't you hear?

[spookygibberish]

I've sort of developed a strange relationship with the concept of "realism" in the things I make.

Something I was very into as like, an eleven year old (im not implying this was immature to be into, just that it was formative for me), was speculative biology specifically for dragons, and now, specifically in the case of dragons I find a lot of attempts to make them biologically plausible fully missing the appeal of dragons at all.

Thinking specifically about the supernatural elements of JoM and where the line is drawn. The dagnyds are made from the remains of godlike entities, and are not entirely earthly animals. They have a supernatural origin. It would be fully justified in giving them magic abilities or making magic an aspect of the setting, but have absolutely zero interest in doing so. It doesn't interest me. I think about shit like healing powers or glowy energy attacks and my reaction is just "what does this even add? Why do I need this? Does this make things more interesting?" And it simply doesn't. Healing is more interesting as a prolonged process, combat is more interesting with teeth and claws and metal and blood. These are options which are more realistic, closer to real life, but the realism isn't what makes them interesting: it's physicality.

When I design a creature for this world, I am not thinking about making it biologically plausible, and yet, I try to design things which look like they could 'move under their own power'. There is a sense of heft and mechanical "soundness" which I value more than realism, but often also aligns with looking 'realistic'.

I would say that it's better to serve a narrative than strive for absolute realism, but I don't actually write stories, although I do have ideas for them occasionally. I guess a version of this which is more relevant and applicable is that i prefer to strive for a particular vibe.

[murderenjoyer]

I'm about to take a silly haha meme too god damn seriously

People who try to "fix" Shane, marry him, and then divorce him because his area is messy and he still likes alcohol and spends full days in bed are ableist. No hyperbole.

"What the fuck do you mean love didn't cure your mental illness? You're in therapy now why aren't you neurotypical yet? You decided to work on your alcoholism why do you not loathe beer completely? What a waste of my time. There's no way I'm sticking with a loser like you, fuck off, get out of my house."

LOVE DOES NOT CURE MENTAL ILLNESS. NO AMOUNT OF LOVE WILL REMOVE CLINICAL DEPRESSION. If it did, people in loving relationships wouldn't kill themselves. People with spouses and children wouldn't kill themselves. People with very close and supportive friends wouldn't kill themselves.

PEOPLE WHO LOVE AND ARE LOVED KILL THEMSELVES ALL THE TIME. LOVE DOES NOT REWIRE THE BRAIN. LOVE DOES NOT FIX CHEMICAL IMBALANCES. CLINICAL DEPRESSION IS A LIFE-LONG ILLNESS IT IS NOT CURED BY SEX OR KISSES OR CUDDLES OR A WEDDING OR BECOMING A PARENT.

You do not have the special magical pussy/cock that will totally rewrite the way a mentally ill person's mind works sorry to break the news to you.

Therapy is not a magical building you walk into crazy and walk out of sane. Therapy cannot totally remove mental illness. The purpose of therapy is not to shoot the patient with a Normalcy Beam and make them sane. That. Is. Not. How. Therapy. Works.

Addiction is a life-long affliction. Once an addict, always an addict. Shane will always be an alcoholic. Forever. For the rest of his life. Working toward sobriety is not the same for everyone. Some people quit cold turkey. Some people traper off. Some people never actually stop using alcohol completely, they just lower their usage to a healthier, manageable level. Just because Shane is working on his addiction, that does not mean the addiction has vanished. He will always have periods of cravings. He will always hold positive memories of his time using, but he chooses every day to not go back to that place because it was harmful to him and the people around him.

If his spouse comes home and hands him a beer, of course he's going to like it. The structure of his brain has been altered by his addiction to make him very much like alcohol. Of course if his spouse gives him a beer, suggesting they're okay with him drinking, suggesting they want him to enjoy something he is addicted to and as such obviously craves, OF COURSE HE IS GOING TO LOVE THE GIFT.

Getting into a relationship with a mentally ill person with the goal of "fixing" them is absolutely vile. You chose him as a project, not as a person. You chose him to stroke your own ego about how awesome and perfect dating you is, not because you cared about him. You chose him because you liked a fictional idealized fantasy of him, not because you saw him as he truly is. You chose him put of pity, not love. Trying to make yourself out to be the magical protagonist who is so special so perfect that you can fuck him sane is so fucking fetishizing and infantalizing.

And then, when you realize your hero complex didn't play out the way you wanted it to, when you realize that being with someone who is mentally sick takes actual work and patience, you abandon him like trash. You call him a disgusting slob who isn't worth your time.

After he trusted you. He opened up to you about feelings that are so personal, so painful, so vulnerable. He truly believes you love and accept him.

And you throw him out on his ass. You tell all your friends he's a slovenly loser. You treat him like trash. The symptoms of his illness become a running joke amongst your friends. You callously reject a person you never respected, never saw as a true and whole person, someone you considered a diy project that you could tackle at your leisure and toss aside when the end result wasn't exactly what you wanted.

I am tired of abandoning Shane for his illness, an illness he's working on but will always suffer, being thrown around as a meme.

It's funny that you took advantage of a mentally ill man? It's funny that he's still suffering? It's funny that the person he truly believed loved and accepted him despite his flaws sneered at him, called him a slob, called him a loser, called him too broken to love, and ejected them from their life without a care in the world?

Thats funny haha hilarious?

I am sick of the aggressive ableism in this fandom around Shane. I am so fucking tired of this fandom pointing and laughing at him as a worthless piece of shit whose very real attempts to improve being pathetic and never enough.

What message do you think you're giving to mentally ill people in the fandom? Telling them that no level of effort is enough to make them worthy of love unless they are immediately perfect and cured and sane in every single way. Telling addicts that if they don't rewire their brain to make themselves loathe their substance, if they have a relapse, they're lying about their journey to sobriety. Telling sick people that their only worth lies in how well they can feed into someone's white knight savior fantasy.

It isn't funny, it isn't cute. It's cruel. It's fetishizing. It's cut and dry ableism.

Stop doing this shit. Stop supporting shit like this. Stop commenting with 800 laughing emojis when someone calls Shane a lost cause.

[tsukasalover]

your final challenge. give your honest opinion about tsukasa’s colofes after reading the side stories

[marshroom580]

i keep seeing posts about poolverine that i swear i've seen about cablepool with like exact wording and shit and it's driving me crazy

[1spooky-dad]

Not to continually compare apples and oranges, but I so often think about how much bbh has flourished on qsmp compared to d/smp,,, a lot because his fellow creators no longer just use him as the butt of a joke that so blatantly crosses his boundaries. He's no longer "that guy I'm gonna curse around just cause I know he gets mad about it" once people find out he'd rather keep his streams PG, they actually respect that and do their best to respect that. Which, tbh, makes the couple of times where someone gets him to say a curse word in another language all the better. Hes no longer "that guy who screams LANGUAGE at people." Hes an incredibly developed character that everyone on the island adores, and only occasionally teases by tricking him into saying Culero. And guess what? It turns out him not cursing doesn't have any real effect on his character's story! It doesn't dumb it down, it's not less powerful than others on the server.

It's amazing how well someone can flourish when given the proper respect and decency they deserve. When you're not constantly on edge from everyone pushing your boundaries, you can finally do more for yourself and the people around you!!!!

[deoidesign]

HI I think I sent an ask a while back about having recently found TaTA and a) if it came off as trying to rush/guilt you. I am so sorry because that was NOT my intent, and b) I can hugely guarantee you have at least one person who will eat up any return, no matter when it happens, because I care about the guys so much 🥺 really looking forward to whatever comes next!!

Oh, I appreciate this a lot thank you!

Tbh it's a stress I would have regardless of anyone asking me about it, I'm probably the biggest one rushing and guilting myself on it. Which might contribute to some of the burnout I had...

My complaints are more about people who are demanding "more content daddy" or asking me if I'm dead or asking on every single post I make where it is... Wondering when it's coming back is completely reasonable, it's been a long time! but there's definitely a line haha

my editor also keeps randomly scheduling me and then saying "oh, btw you're scheduled to return in 3 weeks. Is that alright?" And I have to keep saying no, that's not alright??? And then dealing with that process...

I could write an essay about all the reasons it's not back yet, but that doesn't help me feel any less pressured, and it doesn't help you all get the rest of the comic any faster...

As of right now I'm scheduled to and trying to return october 21. No official announcement yet cause I have to do a lot of work in that time, but it's my official goal at least. When we get closer I'll be able to say for sure whether it's coming back on that date!

[suitsusboth]

Kathony fans are so whiny and disrespectful. Please understand that this season is about BENOPHIE, not about your stupid dusty ass couple who can't act. Stop whining about Simone not being in season 4 and stealing Yerin's limelight. We remember what yall did to India and will never forget!

ok?

[a-prosesoul]

I find it really interesting that I'm seeing comments about the right white kids being racist (not disagreeing) but not classist at the end? They dismissed Ruby in the same breath as they did the Doctor.

[broodygaming]

Hey, I love women, I'm a lesbian, Beau and Yasha are my fav couple to exist in fiction, I adore Laudna and Imogen.

I'm ALSO super stoked that Dorian is back and that Orym is getting a cool moment to have some comfort and care, the lad needs it.

We really need to lift each other up. One person getting spotlight is not taking away from anyone else. It'll be okay.

There's a LOT of sexism and violence and hate towards women in "nerd spaces". With this being true, it seems super super unhelpful and in fact, willfully hurtful, to try and twist scenarios into being "misogynistic" when they're not. Call it out when it's really happening and let go of the rest. Just because YOU don't like what character is getting attention it does not mean that that plot happening is a direct attack on YOU or your gender.

Enjoy fiction, stand up for those who can't advocate for themselves and support queer people. Cmon. Celebrate a story about love and friendship and connections. It's a long long ass story, there will be PLENTY of wlw content to come.

SUPPORT each other!! We're all we have.

[cowboy-robooty]

everyday im fighting for my life because i always hate the sex parts of my gay porn comics

[3moe5me]

being a poor figure collector is interesting because I always see middle class people (who definitely have enough money to buy a genuine figure) saying "well not everyone can spend £100 on an anime figure🙄" to justify buying bootlegs, and the "£100 figure" in question is a Hatsune Miku prize figure you can find for less than £10 on eBay or literally any figure retail website. if my broke ass can save what little money I get to indulge in my hobby then you can save your sizeable 'monthly allowance' to buy a genuine figure

[nyarlylicious]

It's best boy's birthday in a few days, so I thought I'd do something special following up to it; I have a lot of sketches, drawings, doodles, and unfinished works--entirely Ovan centered--that I have had sitting in my ipad that I just never posted. I don't usually like to upload unfinished works or sketches but I'd like to start getting into the habit of it. Otherwise, they sit on my tablets and rot, and some of them are neat to look back on. Creative processes are fun to see!

Some of them are months old, others just don't have a date to really say how recent they were. Anyway, enjoy the light blog spam in the next few days as I gather all of these up and just dump them here.

[iloveonionsverymuch]

Hey can we as a community stop combining ace and aro and aroace by default?

I love being ace. I love aro and aroace people (yall are cool). But i hate not having anything to relate to because im still romantic despite a lack of sexual attraction.

Idk just thinkin

[sybbi]

Jewish people in the diaspora: Hey I believe Palestinians should have self-determination and rights that have for too long been denied to them and I believe the architects of Israel's response have gone too far and slaughtered and displaced innocents and the human cost of this "self defense" is too great and something needs to be done to stop this before it's too late, Palestinians deserve their place in the Levant and the ability to self-govern, but hey it's also kind of concerning that some of you will ignore when actual dangerous antisemitism is being displayed and spread and I'd just really appreciate if you also would watch out for people like that in the pro-Palestine movement and call people like that out, thank you

You freaks: