#inbox: i will take this to heart

[goldoanheart]

a kiss on their palm, then holding their hand against their own face

(it happens after he fastens that little bracelet, a bead of cheap red quartz held in place with decorative in the leather cord— surely beneath a prince, but just right for his friend, an affectionate kiss planted right above his pulse.

"you like it?" he asks, radiant with excitement.)

Chaste Kisses | Accepting (2/?)

Kurthnaga giggles as Edward's lips brush against his wrist, tender and gentle as he fastened an adorable little bracelet around it. The young dragon resists the urge to pick up Edward and swing him around like he was an Edward hammer, but he still flings his arms around his friend, wrapping him into as tight of a hug as he can muster without hurting the beorc boy.

"Oh Edward!" If his voice sounds a little wavering from how close to crying tears of joy he is, then neither of them will bring it up, "Edward it's lovely! Of course I like it!"

[transmascissues]

I bet the transfem tag doesn’t have half as much transmasc porn deliberately tagged wrong as the transmasc tag has transfem porn

For every transmasc post I see there’s two porn accounts to block

Just pisses me off. I want to see posts about transmascs!!!

while i think you are probably right about the fact that there isn’t going to be as much transmasc porn in the transfem tag (though i can’t say i’m 100% certain, it’s not like i’ve ever scrolled through both tags and actually counted) and i do find the amount of porn in our tags frustrating, i want to talk a bit about the way this issue is being framed.

the thing you have to remember about porn bots is that you can’t think of them as real people. the whole point of them is to make money by pushing those links into popular tags so as many people see them as possible. they want people to click the link, so they show it to as many people as they can. so when you see these posts, you have to keep in mind that there’s not an individual person sitting behind a screen making specific decisions about whose tags to fuck over or what kind of porn to advertise, those decisions are most likely made based on some sort of algorithm designed to make as much money as possible.

so let’s think about it critically — why might we be seeing so much transfem porn in transmasc tags?

well, a lot of these bots are probably using our tag because tumblr has a lot of transmascs who use those tags. the trans communities on different sites are going to have different demographics, and if you’ve ever seen a poll going around with different choices for transmascs and transfems, you’ve seen just how dramatic the difference in numbers on here can be. these bots are targeting our tags because there are a lot of us here and we tend to be very active which means the bots have a better chance of getting clicks, not because an actual person decided they wanted to fuck over our tags specifically.

and why does the porn tend to be transfem porn? i can’t say for sure, but i’ll tell you my theories. first of all, i’m guessing these bots are using trans porn because tumblr has a lot of very active trans tags, and they probably take that into account — they assume that people in trans tags are more likely to want trans porn. the tag matches the link’s key words in that way, so that’s what their formula for getting clicks thinks we want to see. and i’m guessing it’s transfem porn specifically because there’s just more of that — transfem porn is much easier to find than transmasc porn, and it’s also probably seen as a better bet for these bots because being more popular means more people will want to click it. and that doesn’t stem from people preferring transfems over transmascs or anything like that, it stems from the rampant fetishization of transfems. these accounts aren’t actual transfem sex workers choosing to put their content in the transmasc tags, they’re bots doing what they think is going to make money. they don’t care how transfems feel about it being used and they don’t care how transmascs feel about seeing it instead of what we were actually looking for.

so while i absolutely share your frustration with our tags being overrun with porn, i don’t like how the issue has been framed by a lot of people as a transmasc vs transfem issue. i get how on the surface, it seems like our tags are having more of a problem with it and that must be for a reason, but the reason doesn’t actually have anything to do with our identities — it has everything to do with what bots think is the best way to get us to click their links.

this problem has nothing to do with transmasc vs transfem, and everything to do with the fact that tumblr won’t take care of its bot problem. if you want to get mad at someone for the fact that you can’t see the content you’re looking for without wading through countless porn bots, that’s where your anger should be going: toward the site that hasn’t done anything about it.

i wanted to lay this all out because while you didn’t explicitly blame transfems for this issue in your ask (you more so just said they don’t have to deal with it to the degree we do), i’ve seen posts with a similar tone that do imply that transfems are somehow behind this issue, and that honestly frustrates me more than the issue itself. blaming transfems for this isn’t fair to them — this is a bot issue, not an issue with real people on the site — and it also doesn’t do us any favors because it makes people less likely to take us seriously when we talk about things that are actually specifically targeting our community spaces.

and even though you didn’t take that explicit blaming stance in your ask, i think this issue being brought up as a “transmasc issue” at all reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of exactly why it happens the way it does. so i want this to serve as a reminder that when we have a conversation about something in our community, we have to think critically about the way we’re framing that conversation and make sure we have a good understanding of the root of the problem at hand.

because this really isn’t an issue that should be framed as transmasc vs transfem. i’m sure it’s not any less frustrating for transfems to see porn that fetishizes their bodies plastered all over the site than it is for us to have to dig through that porn to find the content we’re looking for. and it’s not really an issue that has anything to do with the fact that the tags are for transmascs at all. you say someone is deliberately mistagging into our tags, but it’s deliberate on a level that has nothing to do with the individual tags being used.

if we want to have conversations about the ways transmascs are uniquely mistreated, that comes with a responsibility to make sure the things we talk about are actually examples of a unique form of mistreatment and not symptoms of a totally different issue. we have to be careful not to pick the wrong battles, especially if doing so could artificially pit us against transfems who haven’t actually done anything wrong.

i worry that the struggles we’ve had in making our voices heard within our community have made some of us start to see our transfem sisters and siblings as the enemy by default, so i want to strongly caution everyone contributing to these conversations to think deeply about how you’re framing what you’re saying and if it’s actually appropriate before suggesting that any particular issue is a matter of transmascs vs transfems. there are definitely situations where the root of the issue is lateral aggression or intracommunity conflict, but this isn’t one of them and the fact that so many people have interpreted it that way really doesn’t reflect well on us.

i’m just as annoyed by the porn bots in our tags as the next guy, but this isn’t the way to go about having that conversation.

[xoxoemynn]

Hello OFMD crew! I love you and I'm happy you're here. 💕

[whaliiwatching]

Hey hello. Consider. Hobie reading over and suggesting edits to drafts of Peter's writing and then going home visually with clippings and quotes from said writing as a part of him. Alternately, Peter takes inspiration from quotes visible on Hobie

heart on your sleeve…..

[sir-cookieton]

I can’t believe you threw them. Down a well. You know I’m starting to understand why Chirithy don’t want to take baths—

Local Chirithy unions rejoice as 'Local Maniac', known for 'dunking Chirithies down wells' was finally caught. Upon their capture, they could only be quoted saying 'I thought that was how you wash them!'

(featuring my rarely seen keykid aasdfghj + ephemer learnt a lot about their friend that day)

Poor sopping wet Chirithy... now all they need is a towel and a hot drink... after they've had their bath of course...

[johnslittlespoon]

askbox question because i've never thrown like, a 'request/idea' offering sorta post out there:

what do you want to see in tough and sweet? like, specific dates you'd like to see the boys go on, certain tropes covered, different kinks/nsfw scenes, scenarios and convos tackled, idk literally anything!

i'm curious because i used to brainrot about it lots here before i started actually writing it but then i stopped so i wouldn't spoil things, and while i'm ofc writing what i love and want to write, it's fun to know what readers wanna read, and to try to incorporate those things where i can. :-) but also my list of scenes to include is So Long i feel like so many ideas will already be in my drafting doc LOL <3

i have the whole fic plotted out, but lots of room for little things in between the bigger plot points, so! no promises obvi, but i'd love to hear your thoughts. the main one i get asked for in comments/asks is about writing a gale pov oneshot, which i'm most definitely doing– sooner than you think. >:) lmkkk, anon is fine!! if i don't reply, i promise i read it, i just have 100+ asks rn and too much to do irl but i appreciate each one soso much :'))

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

I saw Gianni retweet your art on Twitter and I was like "I wonder if he knows...?"

I don’t think so >:3

Trick people into reposting gabe ass with one simple trick! Click here to find out how.

I didn’t even notice that happened cause I turned off all my notifications everywhere a few days ago for peace and quiet

[soaps-mohawk]

My brain has been buzzing Thespian/choir Reader. Like Soap is bored and going down a weird rabbit hole of watching YouTube channels of plays or choir singing recorded by teachers. Find someone that looks a bit to much like their omega. And it’s just their omega when they were a kid singing, and dancing with a bunch of other kids. And now he just has to show everyone. Gaz and Soap just thinking it’s adorable but also impressed because their omega in the video is just belting their heart out as they perform a solo or something. Or Price and Simon both looking at other videos and trying to see if they can find them in the background like “Where is Waldo?”

Soap bugging Reader to see if they can still do it.

(My head screams theater.

Definitely dig up every old video they can find and play them on blast. Reader comes in wondering what's going on but then. She recognizes that voice. She knows that song.

Instant embarrassment. Such cringe. Wants to crawl under her covers and never come out. They love it though. They can't get enough of their little omega as a pup being all cute on stage and absolutely slaying it vocally.

It takes a while but Johnny finally convinces her to try singing it now. Turns out she's still got it. They definitely make her do performances every weekend when they're home.

Turns out the reader missed it too 🤭

[shiresome]

🌺 send this to ten blogs you think are wonderful 🌺

You think I'm wonderful? :( i love you. You are wonderful too!!

[cheerioskid]

Hi someone I follow got a hate anon and to be honest I don’t even think you run in the same circles at all but I am love anon to counteract their hate

I followed you originally for skyblings art but oh my god your art is so amazing it’s insane. I have a very specific purpose on tumblr you are one of few blogs that does not align with that because I had to make sure I saw all your posts. I don’t know how you do that with a pencil. I still regularly search your blog or twitter for the skyblings art and look at it again it’s so cute

I am someone who generally struggles understanding what’s going on with artworks but yours even without colour are so clear.

I’ve tried to break down a favourite artwork of mine from people but genuinely I can not pick for you. Please keep creating art the world is better when you create and inspire others to create (something I know for sure you are doing because your art is too phenomenal to not be an inspiration)

this is so so kind oh my god!!! i genuinely don't even know if anything i can say in response will match the time and energy you took to write this thank you so much !! i really appreciate the kind words and i'm not sure if im considered a part of any circles? (though i would hope no one i follow or anyone that follows me is sending hate messages to anyone)

i still am in disbelief that some people take the time to look at my artwork for more than 5 seconds like i do all the time for other artists that i look up to like it's still so crazy to me that i can be that person for someone else ??

also i'm glad you like the skyblings art!! they are so precious to me and i really want to draw more of them soon but am going thru a tiny drawing rut rn so here are some pony versions of the skyblings kiddos

[causenessus]

i was searching up ur account bc i wanted to reread the last try again chapter … is this a sign …

on another note i just wanted to check in !! i hope ur doing super super well and ur theater production (is that what its called ???) is going well !! my dms are always always open for u <3

RYE???????????? 😭😭 A SIGN FOR WHAT????????????? WHO IS CONSULTING TUMBLR.COM FOR CAUSES OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION 😭😭😭😭😭 DOES TUMBLR KNOW WHY I HAVE TEAR DUCTILE DYSFUNCTION??? (i made those words up btw) BUT OMG YOU'RE SO SWEET RYE I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH I'M GIVING YOU THE BIGGEST KISS ON THE LIPS RN RYE <3 OMG WHAT IF I COME VISIT U RIGHT NOW AND TAKE YOU TO A MAGICAL WORLD WHERE WE GO OUT FOR FREE MATCHAS EVERYDAY AND THE WORLD IS GOOD <3 i love you so so much rye <3 can you tell????????? I LOVE YOU RYE!!! HI RYE I LOVE YOU!!!! RYE I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH <3 i hope that you are doing well!!!!!!!!! <3 and please let ME know if you need anything at all!!!! i am always happy to listen and talk to you rye my love!! <3 I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM TO READ THE NIGHT SHIFT RYE!!! I'M SO SORRY I HAVEN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO READ IT YET I KEEP THINKING ABOUT IT </33 I THOUGHT ABOUT IT YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND LIKE EVERYDAY </333 OHH RYE YOU ARE SO SO TALENTED!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RYE <3 i will read it asap!!!! theatre is going okay it's just taking up all my time and leaving me brain dead rn i barely have the time or energy for anything else 😭 so please forgive me!!! omg i'm getting to it asap please please please!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RYE THANK YOU RYE <3 YOU ARE THE SWEETEST EVER AND MY DMS ARE ALWAYS OPEN TO YOU!!!!!

[goldoanheart]

a kiss on the brow

Kissies | Accepting (1/?)

Kurthnaga glances up at Lady Igrene as she gently places her lips against his forehead, right over the brand that adorned it. He doesn't know if that location was intentional, but her affection is soft. Tender like a mother's would have been...

Kurthnaga had never known his mother, barely even knew anything about her. She had died not long after he was born, he had figured out that much when he was a child. Father never talked about her, and his siblings were not so much older than him that they remembered her well either.

A mother's affection huh... it felt foreign, like something that he wasn't supposed to have.

"Lady Igrene..." He's embarrassed that tears spring to his eyes, overwhelmed by the emotions stirring in his chest. He quickly wipes them away, a soft smile coming to his face, "Thank you, Lady Igrene."

[mikacanica]

Hello hello! Drawing Prompts and Spicy Sketch Suggestions are open on Patreon for the month of August!!!! Im taking suggestions for about a week and then slowly rolling them out throughout the month. Eventually Ill start sharing them in here but I gotta spoil my pledges first, yes yes yes 😌

[businesscasualart]

I’m curious if you have any thoughts or headcanons about Onslaught and alcohol. I imagine being a semi-functioning evil team is stressful and if Psimon is chucking everyone’s vapes then cigs and 420 isn’t an option, then alcohol is the second best thing right? Besides drinking together is team building and leads to this wonderful thing called “actually talking about your trauma instead of bottling it up for once”.

AAAA sorry about taking so long to get around to this.

I need to stop checking my inbox until I’m FULLY ready to yap and ramble. I need that lil blue dot reminding me I have asks so bad.

That IS a good question and I’m so flattered that y’all bother with my content. <3 I think they’d be at least somewhat different about alcohol.

(Sorry for any typos in advance, I wrote this mostly at various doctor’s appointments. ALSO. Last thing to apologize for. I’ve never vaped or smoked when I wrote the last part, but I also have never consumed alcohol and that fact may be more evident in this one)

Cw: Alcohol and some references to alcoholism, uh…references to angst but maybe more comfort than angst, kinda all over the place <\3

Okay so, in the beginning, Onslaught was Mostly teens. Psimon was BARELY even old enough to drink in America at the ripe young age of 21, flat. And I thinnkkkkkk Psimon is American? Even if he’s not, it seems the rest of Onslaught is, so I think  Psimon would probably step up and be all “No, no,” confiscate all the bottles and cans and it’d make the teens so mad and indignant. Literal felons are being BABYSAT. Even when they travel where the drinking age is lower. 

But when the teenagers turn old enough to drink, they have a whole little birthday celebration with what they can get, and of course, offer the first taste of alcohol. Their choice for what it is, as long as the team could afford it. Of course, they laugh and tease if they recoil from the taste. 

Most of the team is pretty fond of drinking, usually together. It’s nice bonding.

Devastation is the only exception to the “Psimon Says no alcohol until you’re 21” rule from the beginning. The team can argue “She is LITERALLY one (1) year old” all they want. She is LITERALLY built different, Psimon is fine with her drinking. 

Idk if she particularly has a preference for any kind. She’s probably one of those who subscribe to the belief of “It ain’t right if it doesn’t burn a bit going down”. Wine is probably somewhat…nostalgic. For some reason. Takes her back to someplace she can’t name, someplace she’s never been, but I think that’d be one of the only reasons she might prefer wine. Her taste may be all over. May be whatever’s strong and good. I’m no alcohol savant, what do I know? 

She likes to drink to celebrate and to bond, sometimes to ebb at stress. It takes a LOT to get her drunk, but that’s not gonna stop her from getting drunk when she has the time and money burn on it. She gets drunk and gets even more jovial and warm and open, though she’s usually relatively open. Also, haphazard. She becomes a big fan of violating people’s personal space. Hugs, patting backs, throwing her arm around them, leaning on people shorter than her, etc.

It can annoy a lot of people if she does it too much, Psimon strangely doesn’t seem to mind too much tho…aheem…

Besides that, Psimon’s generally against the team drinking to the point of drunkenness, but there’s little to actually do about it; he struggles to track all of their limits, and when he’s focusing on one, that leaves all the others alone. He tries to avoid getting drunk himself instead. Someone has to stay sober, and his psionic powers don’t mix well with too much alcohol. And he’s the leader. It makes the most sense that it’d be him to keep his wits about him.

The Terror Twins are hearty drinkers; they also can drink a lot and get very warm and jovial when drinking, like Devastation. Any outing to a bar feels celebratory with them. They decided they don’t like to get fully drunk though, not too regularly. First Tuppence decided this, then Tommy when she pointed it out to him. They don’t want to open up more quickly than they intend. Psimon can relate to that, so he defends them when they drop out. That doesn’t stop them from having fun with everyone else though, or helping when things get bad. They’re usually decent at opening up on their own time anyway. 

Shimmer and Mammoth like to follow Psimon’s lead and keep excess drinking to a minimum. A couple of shots, a glass or maybe two, it really depends on what it is, but that’s it. Mammoth can take more than his sister, just by merit of him being so much larger, but he doesn’t like the taste of alcohol at all while his sister does. However, the second either of them get any kind of buzz ebbing at their senses is the second they quit. 

If they’re found sitting down and downing drinks, something is wrong. They’d only let go so much if they’re trying to drown their problems. Then, they can use some company. Someone lending an ear to their sorrows doesn’t sound half bad. 

If another team member is in a similar situation and needs someone to simply sit next to them and just be, or listen, Baran and Selinda are quick to be there for them.

Junior drinks for fun, he’ll seize any opportunity to drink. That man is getting “Krunk” as the kids say. He doesn’t know his limits and if he did, there’s no telling if he’d actually adhere to them. He WILL blackout if no one keeps an eye on him. He will be puking in the trashcan. The rest of the team has to steer him away from opportunities to drink lest he develop alcoholism at the tender age of 5-minutes-into-being-able-to-legally-drink. 

His mood becomes turbulent and fragile. He’ll typically be happy, loud, reckless, aggressive; but at the mention of the wrong thing or at the sight of something that takes him way back, he can breakdown rather easily. It’s actually pretty common for his drunken stints, when they get out of hand, to end in tears. Junior has to be one of the least repressed members of Onslaught, due in no small part to moments like these; where he lets his emotions run rampant and they go down a bad path. 

He’d expect ridicule, but Onslaught is actually very sympathetic to his struggles and complaints, whatever they may be. He can air his dirty laundry as much as he wants with little to no judgement, something he’s not used to. Once he starts, it’s hard to stop, but the team will listen until the end and it’s something he’s really grateful for. Despite being a troublemaker and general criminal, he tries to pay the team’s kindness towards him forward as much as he can.

If Psimon does end up drinking to lose his troubles, he usually does it alone, when everyone else is asleep. Or at least when he thinks everyone else is asleep. Sometimes someone will wander about looking for a late night snack or a glass of water, or even search for him himself. He dislikes being caught like that, dislikes not being so impervious and put-together for the team. 

Without fail, they’ll sit with him awhile. They’ll ask, they’ll listen, they’ll joke or comfort or sit in silence. Psimon will wither in place or try to get them to leave him be, but they’re a stubborn lot. They’re far from the most “upstanding” of company, but they treat him with the same care, empathy, and concern he tries to treats them with; and Psimon finds afterwards that, despite not enjoying being caught in a state of weakness or forced to open up, he wouldn’t have rather it have gone any other way.

[miyamoratsumuu]

you guys I see everyone's asks and replies, and I can't wait to respond to them!!!! I'll do it later though, since your girl's getting ready for the full blown out war (school) rn ☝🏻

[bumblingest-bee]

t-minus two hours until sweeney todd and im absolutely inhumanly thrilled