#im fully rambling at this point

[fulloflovebees]

I know not every friendship needs to get that deep but ive known these people for awhile and sometimes i do yearn for something more

[thedolmainblog]

you know arts going well when you start drawing smth completely unrelated

[devotedlystrangewizard]

renheng is arguably too delicious for the average hoyoverse fan because when i found out one of the main characters is haunted by a spectre of his past who hates him so much entirely because he once loved and trusted him. and they watched the stars together. and they have matching bracers that they can sense each other through. and they were closer than any other two in their old friend group. and

[griancraft]

I'm struggling to word this but I'm finally ready to talk about it and I want people to listen.

I've noticed a type of racism in leftist communities I don't see talked about a lot. I am Quarter Japanese and I am visibly mixed, but a lot of leftists see "quarter" and assume that I don't have the right to an opinion on issues that effect me. The sentiment I've gotten from mostly white leftists is that I'm not "POC enough" for a lot of discussions.

There's this weird thing in a lot of leftist spaces where your appearance and percentage, not your experiences based on your race, are considered above all.

Meanwhile, in reality, all aspects of my identity are affected by my race and my family's experience with Japanese internment. An event which stripped them of any wealth they had acquired since moving to Canada over 50 years before the war.

An event that cause the intermarriage rate of Japanese-canadians and white Canadians to be over 90 percent post internment because we viewed proximity to whiteness as safety. An event which left them in severe poverty until my dad and aunt worked their asses off to get a degree. The generational trauma goes so deep my dad didn't want me transitioning because he was worried about what the government would do to me.

Because of my race I experienced negligence from authority figures related to pretty severe racially based bullying at 12. That negligence could have killed me. I've had to deal with microaggressions and straight up racism related to my last name on multiple occasions.

One time I was out with a friend and he grabbed my arm tight and dragged me to walk faster. A man wearing a white lives matter T-shirt was standing in the middle of the path looking directly at me when I turned around.

I'm pretty sure this wasn't based on me being feminine and goth that day, I live in a city with a decent amount of people in alt subculture and my friend was way more gothed up and queer than me. I was barely passing as a guy at that point so it wasn't because I was a man in a dress. I know this is a weaker point, but it made me realize just how unsafe I am in my own community even though I'm a mixed person in a heavily multicultural city.

Obviously, this isn't on the scale of someone who is less white passing than me and/or has more compounding marginalizations. However I've found that the fact I'm mixed race has been used against me to devalue my experience and knowledge regarding what it's like to be a POC in Canada.

I can assure you I am aware of how bad it is, and I am aware of how good I have it. I also want you to be aware that it's not all sunshine rainbows and bunny farts to be more white, it doesn't make the racism go away. It often just makes it more covert and easy to explain away because I'm "not really Japanese"

[mousemannation]

serious post time. concerning some thoughts ive had about zverev at LC. nothing too heavy but under the cut in case u just wanna scroll past.

i was talking to my mum about this and i think most of tennisblr share the same sentiment towards him so im not gonna be saying anything too radical. Its also not going to be super concise because im mostly spitballing here.

I was just thinking about how we talk about him and how we as a community navigate his presence on tour. I know that there's a vindictive joy that comes with seeing him lose that's especially potent since he basically got away with domestic violence scot free.

Seeing him lose is a good feeling because he clearly cares a lot and it feels like winning that he's upset, but it also doesn't actually mean anything in the scope of things. Obviously on some level if he lost enough he would no longer be relevant but it's inescapable that he is, unfortunately, very good at tennis. He's number 2 in the world. Call him a choker all you want, he's still vastly more successful that 99.9% of all tennis players.

But it's also just sport- a game. It's not the outcome of the match that amounts to anything outside of a very small community of people; its the celebrity, the money and clout and hero worship. The fact of the matter is it doesn't make a difference to the women he abused if he wins a match because he still abused them and he is still famous. He will always have been famous, even if he retires tomorrow. They will still interview him, laud him in press, put him in ads.

I just sometimes think- what right do I have to feel vindicated by his losses? To weigh his literal actual crimes against the outcome of some silly ball game? In a perfect world he would not be playing, he would be banned by the ITF and shunned publicly by his fellow players. He would not be invited to Laver Cup.

I won't say I don't look at tournament draws and hope for his early loss, but at least at tour events that means an early exit. I can't find it in myself to care if he wins or loses at Laver Cup, not really. Because he will still be there, he is still part of the team, he is still on the bench. It doesn't matter if he wins because he's still an abuser people paid thousands of dollars to watch play a game.

[valgeristik]

Here we are, back again 😊 Noel's got the head of her enemy as a trophy and shes thriving 😊

In a way, Howe did her a favor. Something about cutting the leash. She mauled him for it, but c'est la vie or however the saying goes. If he couldn't kill her before she got to him, that's his skill issue 🤷‍♂️ (some more talk abt the art and Noel + a close up +a song for flavor under the cut)

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this did not go the way i initially visualized it but i think its a banger regardless. Did not mean to add flower meanings to this one, failed step one, chose 4 flowers (yarrow for battle, palm leaf for victory, chestnut for restoration of justice, nettle for cruelty/mercilessness). the only ones that made it to the final cut are palm leaf and nettle, but i feel like this still works well thematically <3 I keep meaning to talk about Noel's sense of justice/morals. I say she's unhinged, and i suppose in some way she really is, but there's a strict method to the madness behind the scenes. She's not indiscriminate in her carnage. It has to have meaning, to have Challenge. She will not kill someone who begs for mercy. Not because she feels bad about it, but because it's not worth it. There is no honor in that, no point, no satisfaction. She will make them fight her if she absolutely wants the person dead (though, I don't think there's anyone like that besides Howe in her life), but killing someone who does not resist is something she feels is beneath her. Which is why she also hates people who take advantage of or kill those weaker than them. Like, have you no honor? Fight like a man or die like a coward. something like that. And she is here to ensure the dying part 😊 Though, maybe hate is a strong word. Disgust, maybe.

Which brings me to the point i mentioned earlier, the cutting of the leash. I think she would have felt obligated to follow the Societal Rules before her family was killed. She cared about them, their well-being, their reputation. Put herself in a box for their sake, to be someone they wanted her to be. And once that was all out of the window, and she had nothing more to lose.....Well, what does a rabid dog care about the laws of men? A girl's gotta bite once the muzzle is off, and by GOD she will. also if you're not familiar with what the fuck im talking about, heres a wiki description of the human noble origin story from DAO <3

BONUS song for flavor 😊 very "noel @ howe"-core to me. i love the idea of her calling him 'good friend' mockingly before killing him with violent intent

also honorary mentions of songs that ALSO fit very well (by the same band): 'you will never take my alive' (<-- general noel-core song to me) and 'a little place called trust' (<- another one that can be seen as noel @ howe <3)

OH AND as a deeper cut: 4 позиции бруно - сказка на ночь and an important addition:

[eldritchqueerture]

unmedicated adhd will have you scrolling through the same posts on your dash for the third time, asking yourself How Do I Leave the House, hoping the answer somehow appears in the posts

[vilelittlecritter]

Watched the fallout show...

it did not have the right to be that good.

[yardikins]

I present my ”Not canonically stated to be Force-sensitive but there are things in canon I think are hinting to it so i say they are” duo

[realjem-art]

Finally added a little hood to my cloak!

[neolxzr]

kuronazu is really funny if they started dating before nazuna and shu properly reconciled with each other or even like. had a normal conversation bc imagine kuro checking up with his childhood friend after hes recovered some and is like yeah btw im dating your ex doll unit mate soulmate whatever. sorry

[arolesbianism]

Finally fixating on some nugget relationships that aren't horrible for everyone I love friendship <3

[cherry-bomb-ships]

When the character who is known to be the Emotional Manipulator reveals they were emotionally manipulating someone the entire time and makes the other character as well as the audience (me) feel stupid for believing them

[quietwingsinthesky]

Your. Thoughts. On. Destiel. Are. Fire. 🔥 Cas is a giant being of light the size of a Chrysler Building!! He burned out Pamela's eyes when he first appeared!! He made Jimmy Novak boil his hand in water to prove his faith and devotion. And while Cas does grow into a sad little meow meow over time (thanks to his contact with humanity) he is initially a terrifying creature from another plane of existence, which Dean in his infinite horny wisdom, manages to look at and go "I wanna fuck that because it terrifies me and I wanna obey because I barely understand my own kinks, which happen to be are being used like a hot wet rag and being subservient to a warrior of God stronger than me."

(I like destiel too, I just want it to be kinky and weird and monsterfucking adjacent)

Yeah, I'm honestly not very into destiel for the most part because a lot of the stuff that gets popular is either very bland to me or straight up frustrating to see (<- perpetually annoyed that people attribute all of Castiel's rebellion to "loving Dean") which means if I want to get invested in this ship, it's gotta get real weird, real fast. Destiel at its best is kinky and weird and slightly dubcon either because Castiel is a being beyond human comprehension who wants Dean and doesn't know how to deal with this except to take what he wants, offered or not, or because it's late seasons destiel and Castiel is very in love with a man who, even at the best of times, has a running counter in his head of how far over the line of monstrousness/betrayal Castiel is allowed to stray before Dean puts a bullet in his head like a hunter should (picture Dean and Castiel domestic bunker life with cute morning kisses and such, but Dean is the one with custody of Castiel's angel blade, just in case, and Castiel lets him have it because he's so screwed up about all the harm he's caused that he's accepted that if Dean kills him, it's for the best.)

it's gotta get freaky.

[twistpixel]

Wait hold on: Bruce 🤝 Jason

Reckless self endangerment verging on suicidal behavior being retroactively portrayed as aggression and violence toward other people