#it's inevitable now

[sillygoofyqueer]

Fellow non-heterosexuals, fellow they/thems, other people that haunt my blog like ghosts.... I really like Wei Qingwei. I can hear you screaming now: "But Four, we never even MEET him in canon!! What are you talking about???" I have engineered an entire personality and appearance from him that you all have to read through now - the main bulk will be taken directly from messages of me blabbing my heart out to @fairsweetlonging, who I LOVE, because I BLABBERED ON FOR SO LONG.

In my mind, he definitely has facial scars (a lot of scars in general) and he's just...obsessed with weapons - you can't so much as breathe before he's telling you what swords would work well to you, or if another weapon would suit you better, and how your spiritual sword could be changed to fit you better if it doesn't already!!! He's autistic to me, so very autistic. (it's called projecting, I do it far too often) God forbid you ask this man how things are made, he has presentations ready for it. He definitely has like...a dark brown hair, darker than others and quite scruffy - he doesn't purposefully do anything to it, but it has been singed more times than he can count in the forges. I like to think that he's never not seen with it down but with a bandana (or a xianxia equivalent) holding it away from his face, much to the despair of his martial siblings and his head disciple. He so definitely is sweet to children and adults alike, but he's still a forger so it's a matter of the peak lords saying DON'T BE SCARED when they're talking to disciples and then they see this terrifying man, with burn and battle scars on every bit of exposed flesh, and yet a wild/sweet grin on his face. THIS man is obsessed with swords, you can see it so clearly. I also truly truly believe that he has tattoos of sword designs - I know that cultivation would heal them, but he only needs them long enough to bring them to fruition, so he always has different designs n shit!!!! this man is about swords the way Shen Yuan is about monsters. Every time Shen Yuan so much as touches upon monsters, it becomes a "oh, did you know that this weakness can kill that monster?" "yeah well, did YOU know that even without knowing the weakness, you can still kill it with THIS weapon??" Also also, because he knows so much about weapons, I feel like he HAS to know a lot about fighting styles. I feel like he's the one who helps decide what fighting styles each peaks use and which weapons would be best suited for the vibe of the peak and the disciple in question. He is THE lion that everyone thinks is going to kill them but NO. He sits there and relaxes. And yes, he is so used to the hot forges (he spends all of his time in there, even falling asleep in there) that the moment there's any sort of cold weather cropping up he is BUNDLED up in the thickest cloaks and layers ever. It's all immediately abandoned when he steps into the forge, but the moment he steps into the Peak Lord meetings, he has cloaks of all the colours tossed onto him because they don't want him to be COLD. He's their LION. He's loveable, and who doesn't like their charismatic BEAST of a man. He is often found charming everyone and with swarms of children clambering over him to try and get his attention. Mu Qingfang sees him the most often, on account of the injuries from the forge and getting too overexcited and letting the disciples forge/wield weapons too early - he has almost lost many fingers and even half of his arm on a memorable occasion (that time, Mu Qingfang actively shrieked when he was called to the scene and found Wei Qingwei holding his forearm with such interest, fully detached from his body ((if I get my way, they're in love))) I HAVE MORE TO SAY BUT THIS POST WILL NOT SAVE, SO I'M TWO PARTING THIS SHIT.

[genderkoolaid]

part of the reason i love how bell hooks talks about masculinity is that she shows real compassion towards men suffering from the effects of toxic masculinity. she was conscious of how we need to unlearn the ways we talk about men + masculinity just as much as we need to unlearn the same for women + femininity. so many times ill see someone talking about toxic masculinity like (hyperbolizing here but only slightly) "these FUCKING STUPID BABY BITCHES won't MAN UP and go to a therapist!!!" and like. i get the anger. but you see feminists recreating patriarchal manhood by only promoting good behaviors through patriarchal frameworks. any use of the term "real men" is bad because it reifies the idea that manhood is a special title you must earn, and it is something possible to fail and fake. & as important as it is to promote sexual equality + the pleasure of non-cis-men, lots of people are essentially still working with the idea that men need sexual prowess to have worth but just shifting it slightly so there is more emphasis on women's pleasure. but I want cis men to think about their partners' pleasure because they care about their partners, not because they need to check a box in order to keep their man card. and don't get me started on small dick jokes– and the absolutely pitiful excuse people will use that "well, I don't believe it, but misogynistic men get upset when I say it, so it's okay!"

basically bell hooks is so fucking right. in order to create loving men we need to love men, simply for being alive, whether or not they are performing. as much as we need to actively unlearn misogyny (and we do), it's equally vital we unlearn patriarchal ways of seeing manhood. we can't just assume that taking a feminist perspective automatically means there is no work to be done there.

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[candycatstuffs]

Candace and doofenshmirtz would be tumblr mutuals i think

[vhiio0]

Are you ever just struck with sudden and terrible inspiration, and now you want to give your phone a windows XP cosplay complete with beige box and accompanying taupe box? And tiny keyboard and mouse to scale?

Ach! Why must I be burdened with such wonderful imagery that I have not the technical skill to realize.

[hinamie]

every so often i have to relearn how to draw yuuji or he starts fighting me

[kittykalliarts]

For decades, the blank vision that Iudex Neuvillette wears near his heart has been subject to much discussion in Fontaine. Nobody remembers who it had once belonged to or why the ancient dragon protected it so jealously. It is said that if the Chief Justice would to stare at it for a long while, it would be sure to rain right after. Oh, how beloved that person must've been.

[beeseverywhen]

Mind blowing that this even needs to be said but

Neat run down of all the ways we're poorer now than in 2010. In case you come across anyone honestly asking 'are we more well off after 14 years of tory rule' no. You aren't. Even a little bit.

We analyse a key point of contention in the general election campaign: the government’s record on pay, housing, energy and food bills

It is a simple question – and it will be at the heart of the general election campaign. After 14 years of Conservative government, people are asking: am I any better off?

The answer for most people is – no, you are not better off.

[art-is-kayos]

Checking up on his commission

[inkskinned]

crows use tools and like to slide down snowy hills. today we saw a goose with a hurt foot who was kept safe by his flock - before taking off, they waited for him to catch up. there are colors only butterflies see. reindeer are matriarchical. cows have best friends and 4 stomachs and like jazz music. i watched a video recently of an octopus making himself a door out of a coconut shell.

i am a little soft, okay. but sometimes i can't talk either. the world is like fractal light to me, and passes through my skin in tendrils. i feel certain small things like a catapult; i skirt around the big things and somehow arrive in crisis without ever realizing i'm in pain.

in 5th grade we read The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, which is about a young autistic boy. it is how they introduced us to empathy about neurotypes, which was well-timed: around 10 years old was when i started having my life fully ruined by symptoms. people started noticing.

i wonder if birds can tell if another bird is odd. like the phrase odd duck. i have to believe that all odd ducks are still very much loved by the other normal ducks. i have to believe that, or i will cry.

i remember my 5th grade teacher holding the curious incident up, dazzled by the language written by someone who is neurotypical. my teacher said: "sometimes i want to cut open their mind to know exactly how autistics are thinking. it's just so different! they must see the world so strangely!" later, at 22, in my education classes, we were taught to say a person with autism or a person on the spectrum or neurodivergent. i actually personally kind of like person-first language - it implies the other person is trying to protect me from myself. i know they had to teach themselves that pattern of speech, is all, and it shows they're at least trying. and i was a person first, even if i wasn't good at it.

plants learn information. they must encode data somehow, but where would they store it? when you cut open a sapling, you cannot find the how they think - if they "think" at all. they learn, but do not think. i want to paint that process - i think it would be mostly purple and blue.

the book was not about me, it was about a young boy. his life was patterned into a different set of categories. he did not cry about the tag on his shirt. i remember reading it and saying to myself: i am wrong, and broken, but it isn't in this way. something else is wrong with me instead. later, in that same person-first education class, my teacher would bring up the curious incident and mention that it is now widely panned as being inaccurate and stereotypical. she frowned and said we might not know how a person with autism thinks, but it is unlikely to be expressed in that way. this book was written with the best intentions by a special-ed teacher, but there's some debate as to if somebody who was on the spectrum would be even able to write something like this.

we might not understand it, but crows and ravens have developed their own language. this is also true of whales, dolphins, and many other species. i do not know how a crow thinks, but we do know they can problem solve. (is "thinking" equal to "problem solving"? or is "thinking" data processing? data management?) i do not know how my dog thinks, either, but we "talk" all the same - i know what he is asking for, even if he only asks once.

i am not a dolphin or reindeer or a dog in the nighttime, but i am an odd duck. in the ugly duckling, she grows up and comes home and is beautiful and finds her soulmate. all that ugliness she experienced lives in downy feathers inside of her, staining everything a muted grey. she is beautiful eventually, though, so she is loved. they do not want to cut her open to see how she thinks.

a while ago i got into an argument with a classmate about that weird sia music video about autism. my classmate said she thought it was good to raise awareness. i told her they should have just hired someone else to do it. she said it's not fair to an autistic person to expect them to be able to handle that kind of a thing.

today i saw a goose, and he was limping. i want to be loved like a flock loves a wounded creature: the phrase taken under a wing. which is to say i have always known i am not normal. desperate, mewling - i want to be loved beyond words.

loved beyond thinking.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

this dang helmet gonna be the death of me

[paintedcrows-caws]

Front row seat to Alex Hirsch's InMotion London Talk!! Aaaa!! (The high quality close up photos were taken by the wonderful @stupidlittlespirit! Who was sitting with me and had a far better camera, haha)

You can watch the full thing here, recorded by the brilliant Topaz Animation!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_O7CMM67A&t=137s

[dyketennant]

as someone who has obviously done extensive research on the topic i would like to present to you all...dyketennant's "which david tennant character are you" uquiz

[ethosiab]

uh yeah shes real scary huh etho

[ameamedraws]

These were the first akeshus I drew when I was still halfway through the game and didn’t know what I was in for, oh the times

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

Newt | Peeta