#im so so so glad i got out of the really toxic communities and mindsets that i was in like. 3 years ago

[barrenclan]

WOOO NEW ISSUE!! i began reading this earlier, but couldn’t finish due to me rereading what i had just read and focusing on the pictures!!! so yeah, finally finished it, and GRRR GOOD ISSUE

first off, throws thrasher in the cootstorm pit too, they can share. no transphobic kitties allowed (obviously not literally, but i love how like.. natural it is? it’s just cormorantpaw’s life and what he’s been raised to think). egrettail should deck him

also egrettail!!!!!! favorite kitty therapist!!!! i assume maybe asphodelpaw asked about her being aroace, maybe brought on after daffodil was like “oh!! ur just like me and asphodelpw!!!” to pinepaw, and that made her think “wait am i into men even?” but. yeah. she just wants to help and she’s such a sweetie

SEVEN. SILVERS. SHE’S MADE IT!!! SHE’S IN AN ISSUE FR!! ULTIMATE ALLY INVENTED HRT TO SUPPORT EGRETTAIL. THE MOST BASED CAT EVER. I LOVE HER SHE’S JUST A LITTLE KITTY. I HOPE SHE’S OKAY. IM GONNA SAY IT METHINKS EGRET, HUSH PUPPY, AND SEVEN SILVERS R FOUND FAMILY JUST A COUPLE OF CHOSEN SIBS. UNLESS THIS IS A NO. SORRY IM EXCITED ABOUT SEVEN SILVERS

shoutout to cormorantpaw for getting his 2nd issue. kinda a crime that i only bring him up now but its ok. i love the goofy early cartoons titlecard image with the literal lovebug and him just thinking it over before going “oh fk im bi” and i love how egrettail was like “it seems like it to me, but it’s up to u” bc she can’t really like. force him to think he has a crush, something about that was really gentle- back to cormorantpaw!!! now he’s a blushy mess and i love him for it. also WHAT DO U HAVE TO DO BOY. WHAT IS YOUR ANGST

yes i know daffodilpaw was hardly here but she still gets her own section bc that’s my favorite community hc collection. cormorantpaw doesn’t seem to want to be involved romantically with her, saying how she’s nice but also noting how she doesn’t tend to listen to him (which doesn’t make daffy a bad person!! just something they gotta communicate as buddies) but also mentioning how she puts her paw on his, and also in the sleeping shot cormorantpaw is staring past daffodilpaw, who sleeps next to him, and at pinepaw. i’m just. babey noooo. break out of ur toxic mindset its okkk. unless u actually do like cormorantpaw then i’m. sorry. how did i make the daffodilpaw section the longest oops

rate this issue 5 mysterious end birds out of 5!!! thank u for another great issue :3

So sorry not answering this ask for awhile! All that trouble with my account hit at a bad time. I'm glad you liked the issue, though. :)

Egrettail had the patience of a saint for not beating the absolute shit out of Thrasher when they were in Defiance, and I'm certain she gave him what for on more than one occasion after Hush Puppy died.

Yes, she and Asphodelpaw may have had a conversation about similar realizations she was going through just like Cormorantpaw, heheh. We'll get there someday.

I was so excited to finally include Seven Silvers in an issue!! When I first created her character I wasn't planning on it, but she's just too fun not to use. Hell, I'm allowed to invent magic cat hormone therapy if I want to, who's gonna stop me. Seven, Hush Puppy, and Egret are any manner of close friends you like, and found family/siblings are as good a way as any.

The POVs from other characters are not going to be very common, since Pinepaw is the protagonist in the end, but it's always nice to dip back into Cormorantpaw's thick little skull. I was pretty pleased with myself for thinking of the rubberhose style joke with "lovebug", honestly. Don't worry about his angst, I'm sure it's nothing.

Good catch on everything with Daffodilpaw in this issue! It's something I did intentionally include, and did want to draw a comparison between Corm describing her as not really listening to him with Pinepaw always listening to what he says (which as you said, doesn't mean Daff is a bad person, just that she's got her own things to work out).

[orpheusofthestars]

this is just something ive been thinking about for the past while but... something ive noticed is that, while ive been a lot less depressed and have been able to maintain interest in things again, a lot of my interests lately are the same things i liked in middle school (which was, basically, right before the depression got Bad)

i dont really have anything to elaborate about this but i feel like theres probably things to be said about it

[atlaese]

I loved having penpals, I had many when I was in elementary! I am screaming at this. 😯

I used to write from 19 to 23 in an anime fandom not around here with warm encouragement from a close friend but I’ve always been fascinated by it, as you can tell I loved drama, I never did romance. I stopped reading fanfiction a year later (some things happened in a later community that I was in and it really darkened my heart for it ) and now after twfats I came back, I secretly started reading back in april but only have been interacting and follow authors since mid july when I said fuckit I wanna talk to people.

Writing is all about communications and expressions, if you have buried feelings, scenarios and whatifs inside you they will come out tenderly! It’s lovely to express ourselves, sometimes we walk around all day forgetting to coexist with people and it makes it a dakr world :(

But back to Matt season one was more light in this because Matt had runaway from that mindset a bit, it’s only when he saw fisk that be became a bit more dark I guess and later on with his interactions with Frank who in his eyes is a bad person or Elektra who contradicts everything that he represents and him losing her at the end.

He has such nice devolpment throughout the series, like the mcu could never, he grows and grows and this whole process just adds more layers to him. His relationships with other people, his feelings how much he loves both the love and the daredevil stuff.

Oh god, I haven’t even rewatched it, like the last time I watched it was in 2019 and I remember it all, WTF BRAIN. Aaaah I don’t remember exactly what I wrote before but whatever haha, I was definetely waxing poetry about writing more and it will come back at some point I know!

(back with a bang!)as for the coffee and the lunch I agree, though I admit a cappuccino date with Matt is all I want?!

alright good morning to the morning crowd, we’re back with some more analysations of matt murdock ☺️

ooh i love to hear that you wrote in a whole other fandom! Also, yes, fandoms can be really toxic sometimes! That’s why i wasnt sure if i wanted to return to this world, but i had some stories i wanted to tell so 🤨 yeah here we are albdkzla. Yeah i totally get that about the interaction! My first 2 months or so here i kept to myself, but im so glad i opened up and started talking to people! I’ve met so many nice souls here already!!

yes! I agree! I feel with stories we can escape this world for a bit and step into a whole other universe that makes us feel better (for the most part at least. Im not opposed to some angst 😌).

Fisk really brings out the worst in people, huh? God. I hate him so much. I cant count the amount of times i was shocked watching what bullshit he pulled. I hope he rots somewhere in hell. He is a great villain though, especially with the low, gravely voice and the stoic expression 99% of the time. Also his vanessa. Man. I liked her but now in season 3 he can’t stop talking about her and it drives me a little insane.

Oooh yes! I love his arch. Ive been watching the spiderman movies for quite some time and it honestly doesnt have the same growth at all!! Maybe it is because they’re a movie series and daredevil is a show? I dont know. But matt has one of the best archs in the mcu (is this mcu actually?? Im bad at being a fan 😅). I feel him and all the other characters who got a tv show have great archs. They aren’t lost in the greater universal drama anymore and have time to grow and develop! Part of my reasoning why i’ve been loving phase four actually!

Ooh maybe time for a rewatch?? 😼 and i totally get that hahaha!! If something leaves a big impression on you, it will stay with you for the rest of your life! (Im still mad at dumblr for being an ass and deleting your ask!!!)

oh how i’d love to go on a date with him. he would be such a gentleman. Like. Its unfair but real men ✋🏻 no thank you give me matt murdock. Now i have a question for you. What kinda music do you think he listens too? Does he have headphones? Or does he have a radio or a record player? + would he be into podcasts? I was thinking about it bed before i went to sleep and i think he might enjoy a good podcast once in a blue moon. Not sure though.

anyway have a good day love!! 💗

[sweetveins]

so fellas, felladies and nonfellanaries of the tumblrverse i really got into it in the comments section of ContraPoint’s lovely video simply entitled “Transtrenders” if you don’t know about Natalie you may be alarmed but i highly recommend giving the video a watch because as a big black genderfuck it was a much appreciated measured response to the toxic bullshit we’ve all seen oozing out of the truscum community. i wanted to just post my response to a comment that really struck me as unsettling and really just rattle on about gender shit so suck my theydick General TW for transphobia and nbphobia for the following

to summarize the general thread leading up to me popping off, it began as someone saying that they were glad the portrayal of a nonbinary individual in the video wasn’t a portrayal that was “vapid” and “stupid” the thread strays however when the discussion begins about the nb people who are perceived as vapid and stupid have allegedly made themselves the stereotypical voice of nb community. responses expectedly were along the lines of the unfairness to generalize an entire community based off of some perhaps more unsavory nonbinary content and thus, the great adversary arrives Youtube User: Tom Sawyer’s Left Nut

“yes. It does go for any group ever. That's the whole thing about stereotyping. If people see only the videos online of stupid transtrender nb people, they'll begin to think that most, if not all, act like that. It's all they know about them so why would they think any differently? "It's unfair" but happens to everyone ever. No one can stop people from holding opinions on others, even if those opinions are blatantly false or hurtful. What they base their opinions on is just what they can see, if they don't see any decent nb people then no one can really do anything about that.” thus begins, my response:

but i doubt that you'd stand for this kind of "thats just how it is" mindset with say a racial group or economic class would you Left Nut. the whole point of movements meant to uplift minority groups is to break these same stereotypes. back in the day when the dominant white media caricature of the black man or black woman was stupid ugly watermelon obsessed monkeys im sure there were plenty of people in the black community who recognized this was unfair but had the same response to shrug their shoulders and say "that's how it is." despite the fact that this should be *further* motivation to *change* such a narrative. now we have a future where conditions for black people are significantly improved (though could certainly be better) BECAUSE of those who were outspoken and challenged this unfairness and were brave enough to band together and say "this is an unfair representation of who i am and i wont stand for it" i understand what you're probably thinking "but comment bitch, black people didn't make that caricature of themselves, the white people did. the stupid nb gender fucks have made themselves the prominent voice." id argue that in a lot of ways they they haven't.

suppose that you're an nb youtuber who has already done the long period of self reflection and questioning to come to the conclusions you've reached about your gender at this moment and you want to provide other questioning and nb people with the support they may not have. like justine touched on you've accepted that gender identity isn't the most logical thing in the world. though it leaves you intellectually vulnerable you set up your lil webcam, play that royalty-free ukelele intro and don't go very far into the proving you're valid thing, because for you the logical gymnastics of validity have already proven futile. your message is going to appear vapid and stupid to someone whos is waiting for you to 'prove' that you're real and valid via logic and reason, especially when they wrongfully appoint you as the figurehead of the entire nb community because you're their first source. and the more you respond and the more upset you become that your message has been flipped on its head, the more hysterical and triggered of an sjw you appear to be. unless you are constantly equipped with facts like historical nonbinary identities and studies surrounding nb, you're going to come off as vapid and stupid. but the same could also be said about a black person confronted with a white nationalist convinced the u.s should be an ethnostate. would you require every black person to come equipped with studies regarding the myth of black on black crime, studies that prove black people are more commonly arrested for doing the same crime as white people? is that the only way a black person's response can avoid being vapid and stupid sounding when they just leave it at "no you're wrong" ? im not saying that nb people shouldnt be informed. what i am saying is that reacting to a few bad argument as a representation of a whole issue doesn't mean there isn't a good argument out there given proper research. research that cis people and binary trans people can do on their own time instead of harassing every nb for answers. especially when even the well equipped genderfuck with practiced talking points may note ever be enough for cis people going into a conversation with intent to simply harass and attack helicopter them

 nbphobia actually reminds a lot of biphobia when gays and lesbians were (some still are unfortunately) willing to harass bi people with "you're either one or the other" "just admit you're really just straight" sentiments bi people said "but actually im not. im bi and thats just how i am"  sexuality is as much of an abstract weird mess as gender but we've come to a point of acceptance that we don't scoff when someone says they're bi or call them gay traitors or that they speak over the "real gays" they're part of the community like any other non-heterosexual identity

i warned you, i really went off. but the length of my response ought to speak to the kind of long winded intellectual gymnastics expected of queer people to logically explain the often irrational, complex nature of things like attraction sexuality and identity. and it breaks my heart that in this community there are people willing to perpetuate that mindset with anything they don’t fully understand- looking at you if it wasn’t obvious TERFs and truscum and nbphobes. 

thank you for coming to my ted talk uwu