#is such a unique and human experience

[player016]

It’s weird and sad that I need to say this but whether you loved or hated s3 I have no beef and I still want to be your friend

[darum1]

Eito’s disorder is really interesting to talk about. A lot of it is dependent on what people personally get out of it, and that personal spin makes it honestly kinda hard to talk about without getting feelings involved.

Like, my own struggles with chronic pain lead me to a more “I’d eradicate it if I could” mentality that I see reflected in Eito that I vibe with. But I see others that find that kind of thinking bad because they view it more along the lines of something to accept and accommodate rather than seek to get rid of. Think of the broad ways we talk about mental illness vs neurodivergence. And because those avenues of thinking are based in lived experience usually, it’s hard to “argue” with an interpretation without it seeming personal.

In reality, there usually isn’t a straight up cure and so the accommodation route is more realistic in that sense. But idk, I don’t necessarily think it’s ableist or internalized ableism on Eito’s part that he wants his disorder gone either. It’s a very close to home feeling. It’s the age old “normalcy is a construct designed around productivity and the status quo but also id still have chronic pain in an ‘ideal utopia’ that I’d still probably want gone.” predicament. But that’s still a reading of his disorder very much influenced by my own life.

So I don’t begrudge or even disagree with other readings that are different. As I said, I just find it all very interesting.

[basiliant]

Had a breakdown over my career last week and my friend comforted me by saying "no ai will ever be as human as your attempts at making ocs in middle school". And that's actually helped a little? Anyways painting a sketchy baby dragon temporarily fixes my woes!

[kiyomitakada]

fun fact about me i think i realized i was not exactly cis back in like ninth grade and then i just kind of forgot about it until literally last month while thinking about light yagami

[shyshitter]

do you ever do or think something and then go christ. how fucking human of me

[sirlancenotalot]

the fact that people still use the "no one would talk to a friend that way" "no one would grieve for someone like that if it was just platonic" etc arguments to prove a ship is canon is so annoying to me. yes i get it, we got queerbaited hard but where does it say that romance has to be higher than a friendship or no one said friends couldn't also be lovers or vice versa....? i normally say "popular media tropes that usually are for romance" when i talk about fiction but pulling a blanket statement like "NO ONE talks to a friend that way" is so invalidating to so much of our queer experiences. the beauty of queer friendship literally lies in the emotional fulfilment we get from our friends in a way that i don't normally see in cishet friendships for whatever reasons. so idk it's just been bothering me to see these kinds of posts every now and then. "you wouldn't do [x] for your friends" i would actually. i would sell my soul for them. i would kill for them and kill myself for them. i would do anything for my friends that i would do for a partner. the "proof" for a ship doesn't have to be by invalidating their friendship. also like aren't most of the ships so powerful when they're also each other's closest friends? do y'all not think of your partners as your best friends?

[bybdolan]

some of my favorite replies in this reddit thread about crying at bruce springsteen concerts

[iam-the-wild]

Anytime I see discourse meant to divide the trans and queer community I look up trans art and queer art and I'm reminded of how many people create art to express themselves and create beautiful art and I'm reminded that the entire queer experience is vast and there's less people that want to divide and endlessly fight than there are people who are spreading art and joy and work to help make real changes.

A lot of times it feels like people think it's more important to endlessly debate terms and deciding who experiences what oppression or privileges instead of deciding to listen to each other and learn how to fight against these oppressive systems together and do the way more boring work of getting involved locally. You need to be able to listen to other people's experiences to be able to work together to defeat the system. Everyone who wants the queer community gone only benefits when we're divided.

Heres some resources to check out if you're in the US. A lot of organizations right now are dealing with way more people needing help with the upcoming Trump presidency.

Rainbow passage helps queer people move from environments that aren't safe

[it-was-dead-when-i-found-it]

"sex and romance are what make us human!"

Actually nO our evolution to be able to differentiate shades of green and pick out other colors in underbrush to forage is what makes us human.

You rove around in a field picking berries like the millions of years of humans who came before you, and tell me you *don't* feel human

(and obviously, this is the beauty of it, there will be people who DON'T relate to this post! Because the state of humanity cannot be identified by a single experience!! And that's fantastic!)

[allthepandasintheworld]

does anyone else ever just get like creative brainworms that are deeply distracting so it feels like your creations are trying to literally crawl out of your skin instead of like, appearing on your canvas

[verathena14]

i love you trans men i love you trans women i love you nonbinary people i love you genderfluid people i love you bigender people i love you agender people i love you genderqueer people i love you people whose gender can't be expressed in a simple label i love you trans people!!!

[kikizoshi]

Sun and Moon as Two Broken, Overcompensating Parts of a Whole

I think treating Sun and Moon as opposing coping methods in the same person/body could be an interesting slant to the Daycare Attendant. Where Moon is the part of the DCA that needs them to stop, to rest, they can't keep going on like this. And Sun is the part of the DCA that can't stop no matter what, that has to keep things together, that can't let them rest because the moment they relax everything will fall apart. The need for rest vs the need for progress, acted out in two personalities in one body. Neither are fully right, and neither are fully wrong. They can't give up and succumb to their circumstances (Moon), but they can't keep burning themselves out trying to shove broken pieces back together (Sun). And actually, both are making what the other needs a hostile option. Sun needs to rest, but he can't because the moment he does, Moon will shove him down forever. Moon needs the drive to keep going, but Sun is actively burning them out and making it so excruciating that Moon can't even consider trying. Since neither can reach true peace solely with their own methods, they overcompensate with their faulty coping mechanisms and spiral almost past the point of no return.

That's why merging into Eclipse finally gave them peace. Because together, they have the ability to rest, take things calmly and slowly, not succumb but allow space to breathe. Whereas apart, they literally split at the seams; Sun will forever keep trying to run and Moon will forever keep trying to stop. Crucially, because both are a part of a whole--they'll never be able to operate on their own entirely because they each need the other to be their whole self. Which is literally what Eclipse is. Yin and Yang slotted together.

(This post is a mix of speculation and ideas for how the DCA works in a narrative. It's not meant to be a lore analysis or 100% canon-accurate, just to work from a story perspective.)

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

Like 60% of ads I see on here are just the same one I literally report every time I see it. Great job tumblr. Maybe the 568th time you show it to me I'll actually change my mind and be convinced to click it instead.

[kebriones]

Throw back to that one night i was on the bus returning home from my art classes, and we passed by a street with a lot of strip clubs and such. There was this little convenience store, with the usual cold fluorescent convenience store lights, nestled in-between dark clubs with neon lights showing the outlines of women in bikinis. It had two rows of ice cream freezers, one on each side of the entrance, and there were two girls dressed in tiny shorts and colorful bras sitting on one freezer on the left row, eating ice cream, while a young priest was leaning on the freezer opposite them holding an ice cream of his own. And I know, rationally, that he was likely pestering them about the word of his god and sin and whatnot, but for the few moments I saw them, from the way they were sitting and with the familiar sight of a convenience store and ice cream freezers, they looked like 3 best friends gossiping on a friday evening, eating ice cream and laughing and actually, truly embodying whatever love humans are supposed to have for each other.

[cuntvonkrolock]

if you mock children's theatre i hate you 🫶

[uncanny-tranny]

When I find it hard to do certain things, I like to pretend I am a neanderthal living in a cave with my clan, and I must do The Thing in order to survive.

So, when I'm doing cardio at the gym, I'm actually chasing and tracking a mammoth, and when I need to cook, well, I'm not cooking on a stove top, I am hurdled over the first fire and watching the fat of our kill drip down onto the burning wood. And when I find it hard to crochet, I pretend that the first winter storm is coming and our clan needs me to make blankets to hurdle under and that I must contribute.

I hope whatever you do to do The Things will help. It is a uniquely personable trait to motivate yourself through pretend and stories. That's what makes this life interesting - that's what makes you feel larger than yourself 💛