#it's perfectly valid to just do regular stuff

[lolobizarreadventuresshatpost]

Shout-out to the daily life of girls!

[pearlofthewoods]

So I’m seeing so often particularly on Marauders Reddit, people complaining about the more ‘feminine’ depiction of Sirius in fandom at the moment… and citing jewellery, nail varnish and eyeliner as evidence of this?

Now, let’s make this clear. I have nothing against fem Sirius. This is fandom. People can do what they like. Don’t like, don’t read.

So what is particularly baffling to me is this insistence that jewellery and nail polish always constitutes ‘feminine’.

Because to me? That doesn’t have to be true at all.

I also come from the Buffy fandom. Bear with me here. (Any BTVS fans will know where I’m going with this).

One of my favourite characters in the show is Spike. He’s strong, powerful, confident, dangerous, (a vampire) and to me, pretty masculine indeed.

He also…wears a fuck tonne of jewellery, eyeliner AND nail polish on a regular basis.

Now there are some people who like to headcanon gender-fluid Spike, and fair play to them. But to me, Spike is the epitome of someone who’s secure in their masculinity.

He wouldn’t even stop to consider whether wearing any of this stuff would ‘feminise’ him at all. In fact he’d probably scoff at the idea, (or punch you in the face for suggesting it, come to think of it).

I also think it’s not a coincidence that Spike’s look is grounded in the 70s punk scene, (therefore from around the same time as Sirius I might add), and it is in the flashbacks to 70s Spike that we see the most examples of his eyeliner and accessories, and of course the original punk accessory, the leather jacket, (something we also knew Sirius possessed).

Now to reiterate, NONE of this is to say we shouldn’t headcanon either Sirius or Spike as gender fluid, trans or feminine. Feel absolutely free to do so.

It is the critics of this Sirius portrayal that I’m speaking to, the ones who blanket criticise any and all versions of Sirius with jewellery, nail polish or eyeliner as ‘feminine’ and then widely call them ‘fanon’ or ‘ooc’.

If you personally prefer your Sirius more ‘masculine’, ‘headstrong’, ‘impatient’, brash’ * etc, then that’s fine. But Sirius can be all of those things and ALSO wear jewellery, makeup and nail polish. None of these are mutually exclusive.

Particularly if you’re one of the people who enjoys punk!Sirius.

My brother in Christ, 70s punks were covered in jewellery and makeup, including the men. And it didn’t make them any less masculine. Don’t you think Sirius would’ve been too?

To be absolutely clear. Fem!Sirius is also a perfectly valid interpretation, and I’m very glad trans/gender-fluid people are getting the opportunity to see themselves reflected in him (or her, as is sometimes the case).

People should just let others enjoy what they enjoy. The block button is there for a reason. But for the love of God I also NEED the fem!Sirius haters to STOP using jewellery and makeup as the examples upon which they base their criticism.

I thought we all knew that neither jewellery nor makeup represent someone’s gender. Especially not in a fandom basing itself in the 70s, where these things were even more common for men in certain scenes than they are today.

So please, let’s not return to strict gender stereotypes around clothing in an attempt to criticise a version of Sirius that you don’t like. Just because someone’s wearing makeup and jewellery does not make them feminine.

And even if it did, that wouldn’t be a problem either.

So in conclusion, Fem!Sirius can wear jewellery and makeup, and Masc!Sirius can too. These things are not necessarily representative of gender.

Thank you

[paperglader]

about francesca's look after kissing john (and their relationship)

first, about john:

in the book: i really liked the brief little bits with john at the beginning. i think fran, john and michael's dynamic was super interesting and fun, i even wished that it would've lingered in it longer. i liked that their relationship had layers to it and yet still remained loving overall. i really liked the way that he haunts the characters and the narrative after his death. i think that the way that francesca spoke continuously about him and about their bond was super sweet.

in the series: i love him. i love him with francesca. i died of sweetness each time they were on screen. i love that their love is different, and i love how pefect they are for each other. i love how he makes francesca smile and look so at ease. in my opinion they nailed it with them, and ended up being my favorite part of the season (to say that pen and colin very much grew on me would be an understatement- i think they're the cutest- but franchaela and john are my personal favorites). they're soulmates and they are best friends. love them.

the few things that they've already changed from the books: first the fact that we get to see more from john at all and his love with francesca. secondly, though, their bond IS different. in the book i did get the feeling that there was physical attraction and, truly that their love was a regular bridgerton love, if that makes sense? like, francesca did say that it was less passional than with michael but it's not quite the same as what we're getting from the show, is it? the physical stuff could perfectly develop over time, but it does seem to be absent from where we left it off. i do believe that francesca loves him. truly. it's just not necessarily super physical. Which doesn’t make it any less valid or any less of a true love! personally, i find any love stories that don’t really “stick to the norm” to be super interesting, which is one of the reasons why they were my favourite couple.

Now, about the kiss: i don’t think that the look necessarily means that she’s a lesbian. i truly think that it was mostly disappointment of not immediately feeling those fireworks that everyone raves about, or even just discomfort with having to display her affection for the very first time in front of a crowd.

she could be a lesbian, or she could be an eighteen-year-old woman who’s still figuring out who she is, still figuring out how love looks like to her, and that more than anything wants to find a companion in someone that uplifts her as a person rather than drown her voice in their own sound. and she did! for some people love just doesn’t play out as easily as it may for everyone else, and that’s fine.

what she has with michaela is different, but she loved john first and she chose him, and they will be happy together. her and Michaela will have a long way to go before they can even begin to explore their relationship anyways. it is simply not their time yet.

Francesca did feel immediate attraction for Michaela, but depending on how they choose to navigate the period typical prejudice and such, she might not even have the language to understand that sort of attraction for another woman, and it won’t be the time to figure any of that out until six years later because she does love John throughout their marriage and afterwards she will mourn him. It’s not until after all of it that Michaela will become available as an option.

ultimately: maybe she doesn’t feel attraction towards men (that’s great! welcome to the club!) or maybe she just finds the navigation of romantic relationships to be a little trickier than most, and maybe we get to explore that through her storyline.

[arc852]

I saw your tags on my last post, so here goes.

So, around this time in 2019, a G/t friend told me that there was a con for kaiju movies three hours' drive away from me, that - while it wasn't for G/t, had adopted the G/t community as sort of, valid alternative guests due to some drama relating to our own con. And how at this con, my friend told me that they'd even cracked a few G/t eggs among the regular guests.

Because of this, I formally told my parents about my interest in G/t and explained that I wanted to go to the con next year. Considering that I found out about this con in 2019, I think you can guess that this didn't end up happening, lol.

I had avoided telling my parents I liked G/t partially because my mother was very judgey, but also because my parents are the kind of people who, if you give them a gift idea with specific detail, might remember the general idea but not the specifics. Stuff like, telling them that you got yourself a Switch and getting you games would be a great gift, only to end up getting Xbox games in your stocking or something (my parents are actually good about consoles, this is just a general example). So I was worried that if they knew I liked G/t they'd remember I liked size difference but not the direction I leaned, and end up getting like, "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" posters that would make me feel size dysphoria.

But, surprisingly, my parents knowing I liked G/t basically lead to nothing. Like, actually nothing for three years, to the point that I wondered if they forgot.

That was until Thanksgiving 2022. I was visiting their house for a family hangout, but all my siblings had gone out of the house to do something I didn't care about. My parents were in the living room watching American Horror Story. And I needed a haircut sometime before Christmas.

So I went upstairs with intent to ask Dad about getting a haircut. But they were very invested in the show, so I didn't want to disturb them. I sat down on the couch and started watching with them just because otherwise the wait would be boring.

But every time a commercial started, Dad would immediately get up and go do something he had to do for preparing the house for Christmas decorations, so it ended up taking me an hour or two before I was able to ask him basically, "before I go home tomorrow, can I get a haircut?"

I get the answer to my question, thank them, and head back downstairs to go chat with some online friends. And as I'm heading downstairs, I overhear this exchange:

Mom: "Did something happen? He seemed kinda invested in the show, why'd he suddenly leave." Dad: "Well, considering his tastes, I imagine that last episode was quite traumatic." Mom: "O-oh."

The episode in question was one in which the shortest woman alive had been killed and taxidermized into being a museum exhibit. So hearing that coming from Dad, while it wasn't the reason I had left, still felt very validating because no, he's right. She wasn't actually tiny but she still was sort of G/t within the context of the show. Her death is traumatic, and thank you for remembering G/t but not making it weird.

That next morning I woke up to Dad going through my clothes and looking specifically at my favorite sweatshirt for the size - since I personally had owned it for a decade and it had belonged to my younger brother for a few years before that, it was definitely falling apart, so I think they were considering getting me a new sweatshirt - so I wondered if he'd maybe put two-and-two together to figure out why this was my favorite sweatshirt (the pockets are positioned perfectly for holding tinies comfortably), but when I relayed this information to my then-gf she was like "his brain isn't wired for G/t, he's not gonna realize it. Last night is the best you're probably going to get."

I think it's really cool that your parents didn't make you liking G/t anything weird and instead were looking out for you.

[whaliiwatching]

Caught up to the fic!! Absolutely fascinated by all the queer/punk/poc history here, since I don't know much myself. Very sweet chapter as well.

Unrelated question - mostly - but why is it common fanon to depict Noir as the more scarred up of various spiderpeople? Naturally everyone has their fair share of fights, though the only we see sustaining any marks is Peter B and his misaligned nose. Personally, I've taken it as Noir Peter not healing as cleanly due to it being Spider God stuff over Weird Radioactive Healing Factor stuff. Thoughts?

thank you so much!! i’m glad you liked it, & hope the ending was satisfying for ya <3

short answer: hot

long answer, plus a map of my idea of noir’s scars: under readmore :)

i’m not a devout spidey comic/movie fan or a doctor. this is based on conjecture and minimal research!

when i came up with my unmasked noir ideas, i wasn’t influenced by fanon—i hadn’t seen any other fan art, not even when itsv came out. but i can think of a good few reasons that scarred noir is a popular headcanon: evidence of what he’s been through makes him feel more tangible/relatable, the visual difference enhances his thematic individuality as distinct from other spider-people (especially other Peter Parkers), self-consciousness can explain why he doesn’t take off his mask in itsv even around other spiders.

all perfectly valid and interesting reasons! but the first two reasons are doylist and the last one is missing a crucial question: why does he have scars? unless a wound is severe, gets infected, or gets lucky, it won’t usually scar. facial injuries especially need to be really bad to leave a mark. and of course most if not all other spider-people have the healing factor. so what gives??

i like the spider god’s curse influences healing factor idea; it opens up some nice angsty possibilities regarding an inability to Be “Fixed;” no matter how much he tries, he can’t erase/forget what’s happened to him. but i also enjoy the bandaging someone up after a fight genre of fic, and am annoyingly pedantic, so my personal working theory is that the healing factor is not a doctor with ten plus years of experience and an accurate understanding of human anatomy. when a bone really badly breaks, it has to be reset or it’ll heal wrong. to me, the healing factor doesn’t know what ‘right’ is, only ‘fast’ and ‘effective.’ it’s an accelerant, not a substitute for medicine.

so let’s establish the baseline. modern spideys either receive modern medical attention or the injury is superficial enough that they don’t require it. even poverty-stricken peter parkers get rushed to the hospital, because fictional doctors Don’t Care About The Money and/or peter is dolled up in spider gear and who’s going to ignore a visibly beat-up celebrity hero?? plus i honestly believed peter b’s nose was just genetics or smthn. my nose is misaligned and it’s never been broken to my knowledge

to compare, noir lives in 1933 and, far as i can tell, doesn’t rlly garner the same fame and respect from the public as modern spideys do. in the 30s, medicine was meh (they had x-rays but didn’t rlly consider radiation much of a threat, penicillin was still in its infancy, polio was a huge threat, etc) but was also, more importantly, far too expensive for most people suffering during the Great Depression. whatever treatment noir receives after a fight, if any, would look way different from ours. that means his healing factor, which can’t differentiate scars from normal skin or a misaligned bone from a whole one, would be inefficiently assisted or left alone. it would leave its history behind.

on the infectious disease side of things, it’s probably much easier for even noir to recover from less physical ailments like the flu and pneumonia—spider healing factor likely remembers and codes for immunity better than regular immune systems—but without modern drug therapies he’d still be worse for wear, ie internal scarring. mans would have a shorter-than-average parker lifespan if not for the pseudo-immortality of the Spider God

anyway. all this to say, here’s my personal map of parker’s scars. crop tank and daisy dukes to keep tumblr off my ass <3

(tbh this is more for my reference than anyone else’s, i’m sick of looking through my art of Just His Forearms to keep my details consistent, but maybe someone will find it interesting lol)

[britney-tf]

Thinking About Moving On

I've done transformation art as a living for about 8 years. I have had multiple side hustles to help pay for things, but the reality is this is the main thing I do to pay the bills. It's... Not working out so well. Or at least, it hasn't been. I want to clarify that this is no one's fault but my own. I am not the most efficient at planning and getting work done when I should, and didn't take opportunities to work on longer term goals when I had the time to do so.

I am thinking about quitting, but I am not going anywhere this second.

I made an ultimatum to my personal transformation friends, that if I was not meaningfully working on a pay comic as my main priority by 2025, I need to quit and find a more traditional job, even if it is only a part time thing. I have a backlog that keeps me away from working on pay comics or more rewards for my patreon. I have been making progress on it this year but its been slow, due to a combination of things. Some out of my control, some my own fault. "I really don't want you to quit, how can I help?" A few things.

I am going to try to start streaming on weekdays. Just making sure I am working daily will hopefully help me clear my backlog. I stream here and just watching me stream is a perfectly valid way of supporting me.

I have a Patreon. I admit it's not a very exciting patreon in terms of rewards. Its mostly me posting WIPs or pieces a week early. I also offer a poll but I am a little behind on the poll sequences. Think of it more like a tip jar than anything. If I could get the patreon to like... $400 a month, doing this would be way more stable for me.

Buy commissions. This one is maybe a duh, but regular commissioners are the main way I support myself. I don't intend to open any for a bit so I can make progress on the backlog, but when they're open, if you get one, it helps a lot.

Idk, follow me on twitter and bluesky? Signal boost my stuff? That probably helps me

Completing my backlog, feeling like I have more regular commissions, a big boost in my patreon or a combination of multiple of those things would certainly prevent me from quitting. I am ultimately the one responsible for myself and my well being, so don't feel pressured if you cannot do anything in terms of what I listed above. If things don't work out, that's ok. Such is life, and I will find a way to carry on. Sorry if this seems dramatic. It's my reality, unfortunately.

If I owe you something obviously, even if I end up leaving transformation art, I will finish the work I owe you lol

Anyways, for now, I will go back to the grind!

[frogpotat]

New group of guys!

These Dichotomon are little welding demons, based off of like creativity and burnout and stuff. I'm really happy with all of these designs, I feel like a player would be happy evolving their little Weldimp into any of these guys.

More design info under the cut.

Weldimp is a little beginner artist, trying new things, getting messy, making mistakes, and having fun! :)

The name "Weldimp" comes from Welding Imp. I'll admit I'm not very clever when it comes to names.

It can remove its welding mask, and its face looks like Procrastimp, cheeky expression and all.

I start the design with a type combo I haven't done yet, so the creativity metaphor came in a little later, but I'm still really happy with the design.

Next is Procrastimp! The idea behind it is that if you get a bunch of external rewards unrelated to your art you might lose motivation.

Procrastinate + Imp = Procrastimp. I'm the cleverest.

I am so in love with this cheeky boy. The grin is a mask for its deep seeded insecurities but that doesn't make him any less cute!! I used a lot of circles and round shapes because he is a sweet young man.

Penultimately is Weldemon, based off the idea that if you rely on external rewards to motivate you, your hobby becomes a job and you could stop enjoying your work.

Weldemon comes from Weld and Demon. No shit.

I tried to make this guy taller and more angular than Procrasrimp. His face and mask are fused together so his bones probably look pretty messed up.

Finally is Sautitan, the "solution" to the problem posed by the two other evolutions. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with deciding you don't want to do art, likewise it's perfectly okay to make art for a living, I simply wanted to convey a story with these little guys.

That being said, Sautitan is based off the idea of internal validation, it is always happy with its art because it doesn't worry about what other people think.

This name is actually interesting. "Sautitan" comes from Solder and Titan, as well as Satan, playing into it being the king of the junkyard, ruling over the imps and demons.

I focused on boxes and sturdy looking shapes for this one. I even did some perspective work to make sure he looks nice and big.

Outside of the mech it looks just like a regular Weldimp, but capable of making that massive fireball.

TYSM for reading all that! I really appreciate it :)

[dabidagoose]

5, 29, 52 and 46 for the dnd character ask

Providing very little context for these answers cause I assume you already know stuff from Joe and it can be written in a more dramatic way without stopping for context but lmk if you need any context for any of these (or anyone else who's reading!).

5. Do they follow a higher power? What are their thoughts on divinity?

He wouldn't necessarily say he follows or worships a higher power, at least not in the way a cleric would. He didn't get to choose his higher powers, and if given the option he probably wouldn't have chosen to follow either of them. Wugglies thinks that if you're willing to worship someone they should be wholly good and admirable, and the powers in his head are certainly not that. But if their powers can help him do what he needs to do, he'll provide sacrifices, he'll provide worship or whatever need be to do what needs to be done.

29. Who would they save? Who would they be saved by?

Inside the party that's a tough question. In a regular battle he would of course save any one of them, he would probably even save eztli even though they're not in the party and constantly at odds. But when the stakes get high? If he's about to make it back home? It could honestly go up to a toss of a coin (except eztli sorry buddy you're not getting saved in this instance✌️).

Eclipse, ruki, kauko would all save him in regular circumstances. But at high stakes maybe it's the same answer as wugglies.

Now outside the party, that's a much easier answer (AND A SPOILER SO KIM DON'T LOOK AT THIS PARAGRAPH). He would of course save his children, his father, his wife, if all of them were here or alive (his wife is dead). And in Everlia, he would save geopold (another classic Dan character name) and they would save him. Probably even in a high stakes situation, though geopold would assume otherwise. But they haven't seen each other in quite a while, so as far as wugglies knows that's nothing to worry about and he's perfectly safe back in emberhold.

52. From whom do they seek validation?

Wugglies would truly accept validation from almost anyone, he just wants to know that he's not a terrible person, that he's not too far gone. In the party in order from most to least excited to receive validation from: eclipse, ruki, kauko (he would not trust validation from Clio, and if it was too enthusiastic might even question himself).

The first person he received real and clear validation from was eztli. That meant a lot to him. It really hurts that he can't support them in the same way. That they're at odds.

46. What do they deprive themself of?

Closeness.

[daintyduck99]

Because I love your Bobby, can I have 'adorable big eyes that widens a little when they listen to your rant keenly' for any Bobby pair

Julie doesn't mean to stomp into the apartment. Especially since it's not hers.

And the guys' poor "have no fear, we're all queer" doormat already has to deal with being stolen or kicked halfway down the hall on a pretty regular basis. It's just.

That one fucking guy.

She shoulders through the door and lets it slam shut, wincing as the cheerful orange flowers rattle in their glass on the kitchen table. She really ought to be more gentle. A quick glance tells her that Reggie isn't home yet, though, as his jacket and boots are still MIA, so she feels a little less bad for messing up his work.

She stops to fix it, resisting the urge to snatch her hands away and wheel around when she senses eyes on her. She keeps her head bent over the flowers even as bemusement radiates from her observer.

"You're a horribly inconsistent intruder."

"Not intruding," she fires back, giving the flowers one last prod before she twists to look properly at Bobby, crossing her arms.

He's leaning in the doorway, all lithe lines even in his black hoodie, which fits him perfectly. His hair is sleep tousled, but he's also wearing jeans, and she's not sure whether he sleeps in those or if he tugged them on hurriedly when she waltzed in like a hurricane. The former seems more likely, if only because it's hard to imagine him losing his cool unless Luke's riling him up.

His eyebrows have made the subtle switch from a bemused to a purely amused slant, and it shouldn't be such a good look on him. He waits, as if he can sense her inner turmoil, and she tries to bury it under a scowl, hugging herself tighter.

"You said I could come by anytime, and you left the door unlocked. If anything, you're a horribly inconsistent host."

"Ouch." It comes out deadpan, but she doesn't miss the way his lips twitch, and his eyes are warm as he studies her. "You wanna call a truce so you can tell me what you're really upset about? I won't tease."

She lets herself deflate, collapsing into a kitchen chair. "We might be here a while."

"That's fine." He shrugs, still wearing that hint of a smile. "I'll make some tea."

Julie spends a good portion of her rant with her hands curled around her mug, glaring into the depths, but as she pauses to take a sip and the taste hits her tongue, she realizes that he had been listening, several weeks ago, when she made that offhand comment about how she only really likes the citresy stuff. He usually only has chai on hand.

He's been listening to her intently this entire time, as well, apparently, leaning towards her with his head propped in his hand. His eyes are huge, like it'll help him hold more information, and she has no idea how she missed it, venting or not.

"And?" he prompts. "You stopped right in the middle. I can't validate you if you don't tell me everything, miss Molina."

She huffs a laugh as warmth spreads through her chest. It's only partially from the tea. A grin slips comfortably onto her lips even as she shakes her head.

"Apologies, Doctor Shaw."

He smiles a bit more openly. "Not yet."

"You'll make a great therapist," she insists, reaching across the table to touch his elbow. "I'm not even mad anymore!"

His eyebrows go all slanted again, and she flushes, doing her best to casually pull her hand back to her body as he hums.

"Yes, you are. We've deflected, but the smallest reminder will set you off again because you haven't gotten it all out of your system. All I have to do is say 'mansplain' and—"

"Oh my god he absolutely was!"

She kicks his ankle as he covers his mouth to hide a full-blown grin, eyes shining. She huffs another laugh.

"Shut up! You said you wouldn't tease. It was awful! I have to deal with this guy as my partner for the rest of the semester unless he drops out. Or I kill him first."

"I'll kick his ass for you," Bobby offers.

He's only partially joking, and it shouldn't set off butterflies in her stomach.

She takes a hasty gulp of tea in an effort to smother them as she gropes for a decent reply, but it doesn't really work.

"Thanks," she settles on, "but something tells me that would be bad for business. You might come across as a little too invested in your patients."

He lowers his hand. The smile has shrunk, but it's still there, and his eyes are wide with sincerity as he says, "Technically, you're not my patient. This is all off record. Just a friend helping a friend. Yeah?"

Heat laces through her, though she's sure she's imagining the suggestive undertone in that sentence. Her throat goes tight.

She's saved from responding when the door crashes open, rattling Reggie’s flowers again. Bobby's expression soothes out, and he lifts his mug to his lips as Luke and Reggie loudly give their hellos.

She can't help but wonder what Bobby heard in her little moment of silence.

[ablednt]

hey this is probably a v common ask but if i were a system, how would i know for sure? im already autistic, and i suspect i might be plural bc my parents tell me abt what my friends say is a "horrifying and traumatic" childhood that i dont remember experiencing, they tell me abt conversations i dont remember having with them, i end up on places i dont remember walking to and i am congratulated on achievements that i dont remember doing or punished for things i know i wouldnt have done. i sometimes feel like i am in a fishbowl being carried around by someone else, or like im between radio channels hearing both at once and tgey respond sometimes and i thought they were just thoughts, like that was a normal way people thought but people i ask say its not normal. im sorry for tge length of this message im just not sure qhats going on with me

Oh you're so valid

At this point I'm going to go ahead and say that if you do feel plural or more apt if you feel like interacting with the plural community and identifying as plural will help you then you should go ahead and do it. Personally the fact that you're responding to your thoughts like that seems pretty inherently on the plural spectrum to me.

With the memory loss and dissociation I'd suggest doing some research into DID. If you don't feel comfortable diagnosing yourself with it that's perfectly fine but you should be able to find resources that can help you.

Here are some activities that can help get you started in the questioning/syscovery process

Try and get in touch with anyone in your brain. Find a quiet spot you can just think without too many distractions (you can do it other times but it's going to be much harder) and ask "is anyone there?" or introduce yourself or something. Because it's very likely your system mates are just as confused about all of this as you are, you might ask and get back an answer like "No one's here" or "I'm not real" or "I don't know" and if you get that it means there is someone there but they are very confused themselves. If nothing happens that also doesn't mean you're definitely singlet it's also possible no one is up front when you're asking.

If you have places that you imagine clearly when you picture the inside of your mind it's possible that you have a headspace. Something the sometimes works is trying to go there. What I did was meditated one night and told "wait til a house shows up" which was oddly specific anyway it sort of worked but I found out that I'm not able to see or move anything when I'm fully "in" headspace so it was mostly just disorienting I found out that I can physically hear stuff from there if I'm disconnected from front enough (really I have to be on the verge of falling asleep) but it's just as valid if it's solely a place you're imagining rather than giving you any clear senses, you can kind of tell whether it's you completely making everything up or if others are there/it's a metaphorical space because the latter just kind of...flows naturally? When you're imagining stuff intentionally that takes effort and conscious thought, if it's all happening to you naturally, people respond without you thinking of their responses or they make their own choices separate from you, etc. then that's different than regular pretending. This is probably written confusingly sorry this stuff is hard to describe.

Journaling! You can do this on paper or do it in a discord server created just for yourself (if you want to you can add pluralkit and people can create their own profiles on it and have their own icons/names/etc that way but that's optional) or something else there's apps you can use as well Antar is a good one but really you could do it anywhere you can write or type. You can write messages for other parts of you who take over, ask them questions for later, or you can do that to pass on important notes of what's going on when and scheduling and stuff. Basically, the idea is that you're copiloting a body with a bunch of people who haven't been able to properly speak to each other so you need to find a way to keep important information the others might need accessible.

Hopefully this is helpful if you have any other questions feel free to ask you can also message us if you'd like but no pressure to! Good luck!

[ciaossu-imagines]

Good morning, my lovely readers! There's just a couple things I want to chatter and rant and rave about before I throw up an answer to the one ask in my box and probably some other posts!

First and foremost is just a friendly, loving reminder that, as I warned everyone for a couple days before the event, when an event happens, the ask box is closed for regular requests! I told ya'll that and asked everyone to throw any asks they had in my box before the event so that this wouldn't make things too hard on anyone while the event was ongoing! I try to make the events really interesting and varied but still generic enough in theming for you all to fit in most of those requests on certain event days!

And guys....please send in event asks. Like, pretty, pretty, pretty, PRETTY please. I don't mean to sound salty but I put a really solid amount of work into planning and making these events for the blog, at least several days of work and I hold them so that I get a full inbox, with a lot of different kinds of requests for different fandoms and different characters. And that leads to me being active on here, because with that variety, I can have a lot of asks to choose between and can always find something I want to write at the moment and can post regularly. Like, honestly, without asks and requests, this blog falls into being abandoned and inactive, so don't think you'll be bothering me or I'll think requests are dumb because they aren't and I love them! But please do follow the rules - if an event day is going on, send in requests for that event day and save the ones that aren't for that event day for either the end day of the event or for when the event is done!

Second and very important!

Just because I view a character one way or write a character one way, it doesn't mean everything I say is 100% the truest, rightest way.

I'm not the writer of the original canon work. I'm simply putting out my views of the characters and having fun writing them how I see them. My views are not canon, though I try to be as close in characterization to canon as I can be. But how I read or interpret a character IS NOT THE ONLY WAY. I noticed this especially with some of the non-event requests I was bombarded with last night on Gokudera...It's completely cool if you think the opposite of me in terms of how he would be with a partner. Both of us can be perfectly right and valid at the same time!! It's the magic of fiction and character interpretation!

And, like, I will try to do my best to answer all requests but if your ask basically boils down to 'I know you have already said exactly what you think would happen in this situation but I think the exact opposite and think he'd be really attention-seeking from a partner and want to spend all this time with them so like, can you write that instead?'

ALTERNATES TO DOING THAT SHIT THAT I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE

Message me! Seriously, send me a dm and be all 'hey, I've been reading your Gokudera stuff (or other character) and I like it but I really don't see Gokudera like that and I love him and really just want someone to talk to about my love for him and all my thoughts about him' because I will be so, so down and happy to do that with anyone! I have people I do that with for a couple fandoms and it saves me from just repeating the same thing on my dash a million times while still letting you get out those feelings!

Make your own post about it! Start your own writing blog! Get your views out there too! Reblog my post and get your opinion out there! Make your own post and tag me in it so that I can read it and talk to you, encourage you, be all 'COOL SHIT; I THINK THIS IS GREAT'. Honestly, almost every single one of my fandoms is super-small and need more people out here talking and gushing about their favourite characters and getting out all these various takes on characters so that all voices are heard!

[iwlnbgefawi-tismln-timvos]

Maaaaajor TW my guys (Mention of SH, Su*cid*l thoughts, abuse [????], transphobia, and possibly a few others)

There is something actually fucking wrong with me.

I found this TMNT AU, and I've been following it for a while, yadda yadda ya, but in this AU Splinter treats the turtles... horribly, and it's far worse than anything I've ever experienced, and the turtles all deal with their fair deal of shit on their own as well, and I, for some ungodly reason, find myself... wishing I had those things happen to me.

To have suffered the way they did so that I actually felt like my pain mattered, and was real, and that I'm not just blowing things way out of proportion. I know I say all the time that quantity of pain does not equate to validity of trauma, but there's a difference between saying it and believing it.

I never have nightmares of the shit I went through. My mental health wasn't so greatly impaired that I'm a completely different person, I didn't only have my dad growing up, so I had the warmth of my mother to get me through. I have loving siblings, and wonderful friends.

What the fuck gives me the right to be the way that I am. What gives me the right to self harm? To constantly think of ending it? In what fucked up world am I allowed to be thinking these things when all I went through was what...

My bio dad leaving before I could even remember him? A few friends ghosting me when I was 8? My parents yelling at each other and at me occasionally, with that getting less severe by the day? Locked in a room a couple times?

What actually gives me the right.

I was diagnosed with depression when I was 8, sure, but that's because every little thing feels like the end of the goddamn world when you're a child, those feelings just kinda carried over into present time ig.

I guess the one thing that really sticks out is my parents being rampantly transphobic. The constant threats of being taken out of school, of being sent away to an all girls boarding school, of being forced to throw away all my pants and only ever wear dresses and skirts, never talking to my friends again, never having any devices again, losing my freedom.

But that's kinda it. I should be perfectly happy! I should be fine! Other's have had it MUCH worse than I have! I still have loving parents who try to spend time with me, and who more or less apologize after yelling. Who take me out for ice cream, and remember my birthday, get me nice things for Christmas. Other than a rough time when I was really little, we're relatively well off.

I'm white. We live in a nice big house. There's never been anything physical aside from like.. idk, dragged by the arm? Hit on the back of the head? Idk if that even counts lmao.

Why am I like this.

I have a fine life! I have books, I have art, there's a lot of stuff I can do on the regular that others can't do in their entire lifetime.

So why.

Why do I fucking..

Why do I wish it was worse. I should be happy! Why am I not happy???

Why do I wish that something irreversibly traumatizing would happen to me.

Attention???? I wouldn't fucking put it below myself.

Fuck.

Whatever.

[cavegirlpoems]

Counterpoint: The reason leaping out at people and biting them is unethical is because the victim doesn't consent to what's happening. By feeding on them, you're violating their autonomy. If you feed on somebody who consents to it (maybe they have a kink, maybe you pay them lots of money) then that's not unethical. So, if you feed from a blood bank, those people have consented to having their blood removed in order to go to people with a medical need for it. I would argue that 'people who need blood' includes vampires. If they starve without it, then that's a perfectly valid need, and a vampire is no more or less deserving of that blood than somebody else who, for whatever reason, needs regular transfusions. Now, *robbing* a blood bank for your blood is a problem, because there are systems in place for what blood goes where, and people will get left in the lurch. But a vampire who just buys the stuff isn't doing anything wrong.

okay, i've seen this one post going around my dash a few times, and at this point i feel a need to say something about it:

vampires drinking from blood banks is NOT more ethical than drinking from live donors! in fact, it's worse!

most adult humans walking around on the street have a pint or so of blood they can spare with no real consequences for their health. (again, this is not true of everyone, so make sure you ask your donors about any health conditions before you get into it, but you were doing that already, right?)

but the blood in blood banks. the blood in blood banks is for people who need that blood in transfusion form to survive. blood shortages are real, and they kill. if you steal from a blood bank, someone could die for your theft.

the only reason that bagged blood is considered the "softer" option is because you don't have to look the people you're harming in the eyes to do it. coward.

[homura-simpson]

💜 P I N N E D 💜

Hello I'm pineapple this is a blog for making self indulgent bullshit :^)

She/her/they/them | 29 | ACAB/BLM 🍉

If this is a stim/edit blog why did you go with the url Homura-Simpson?

Beacuse it's funny and I really like Homura😎👍

Will you take requests?

Only for mutuals right now. I might do general requests in the future, but last time I did I got really overwhelmed 😭 sorry. For now this blog is just for self indulgent bullshit

Does this blog have a DNI?

Yeah! No terfs, swerfs, zionists, nazis, right wingers, zoos (the bad kind of zoos), racists, transphobes, homophobes, acephobes, trump supporters, JKR supporters, MAPS (the bad kind of maps obviously. Not multi editor projects), antisemitic, islamophobic, ect. As long as you don't fall under any of these categories you're fine to interact with my suff 👍 at the end of the day I just wanna make pretty stims of characters I like. Nothing less and nothing more.

Why don't you have a DNI banner?

I respect the people who make them, it's good to have boundaries, buuut personally I just think they make things look a little cluttered! I'd just rather have my DNI on my pinned. :^V

Are you a proship or anti?

I'm a Capricorn actually :^) But in all seriousness I really don't like either side of the fence for my own personal reasons. 😔 It's all one stupid pissing contest, where any sense of nuance and meida literacy goes to die on either end. The only way to win the game is not play at all and form your own opinions. Breaking this shit up into two terminally online sports teams constantly at each other's throats and the throats of anyone who dares to mildly critisizes them, does way more harm then good! Calling someone who doesn't like either side a "fence sitter" or "proship/anti neutral" is an absolutely garbage take! 😭 Not everyone shares your experiences with either side of the fence and fiction SUSAN!! YOUR EXPRINCENCES AREN'T UNIVERSAL!!

Is this a side blog?

Yes to my RP blog! However unless you do rp in the tumblr sphere I won't give it out. It's nothing personal, sometimes personal blogs reblog stuff that aren't meant to be reblogged. It makes me uncomfortable and it generally can clog up your feed. Also for personal reasons I don't wanna have minors following my rp blog 😔

Can we use your edits?

Sure thing! Just credit me 👍

Will you make stuff for ocs?

Yeah but only for my mutuals like the other requests 😔

Anything else?

Oh yeah Mr.Krabs!!!

Can I tag your edits/stims as me, f/o, or kin?

Sure thing bro! You do you 👍

How do you feel about age reg?

I don't do age reg myself but it is a perfectly valid form of coping and I respect that 👍

Do you use fanart?

All the art used here is 100% official! If I ever do use fan art I promise it was completely an accident and I will replace it! I only use fanart if the artist is okay with it and of course they'll get credit!

Will you do gif edits?

Unfortunately I can't 😔 I make these all on my phone and photoshop is scary beacuse I am a 29 year old fart and very autistic so it gets overwhelming 😵‍💫. However I do make video edits and will occasionally post them here!

Do you consider yourself part of the stimblr community?

I'm gonna be honest I've heard horror stories of the kind of drama that goes on there! 😭 I've already delt with my fair share of rpc drama, I do NOT wanna be dragged into that. This is mostly a blog for me to chill out and be self indulgent and it's gonna stay that way. I'm more then happy in my own little corner thank you very much! I don't mind if other stim blogs follow me ofc, buuuut I do not consider this blog part of the stim community. Sorry 😔

If I'm an rp moot can I request promos?

Sure thing! It doesn't have to be just promos, you can request any kind of edits in my ability to make 👍 stim boards, video edits, icons, moodboards, regular edits, ect.

Where's Margedoka, Mamihouse, and Kyubart!?

Maybe someday they'll come 😔

Do you have a promo?

Yes I diddly do :^) you don't have to reblog it, I'm not gonna tell you what to do. I ain't your mom! But it'd help me a lot if you did ( ; v ; )/

Who made your header? it's really neat!

That would be my friend @pastelprincessia please check them out! Also give them a commission if you can. 10/10 a cool cat and a good egg :^)

Do you have a user based DNI?

Yes but I'll only give that out in private. It's mostly just for rpc stuff but still 😔

Do you mind minors reblogging posts from here?

I don't mind. At the end of the day this is just a blog to do self indulgent bullshit. As long as they don't interact with things they're not supposed to and not try to interact with me, ( I am a grown ass 29 year old I don't feel comfortable talking with minors ) I'm fine with it.

Do you take requests for specific headcanons for characters?

As long as it's not sexist, racist, ect then yes I do 😎👍✨️

If I'm a non mutual but I really want a Stimboard, icons, or edits from you, what can I do?

Well you're in luck! On occasions I'll hide a little Easter egg in a stimboard, if you find it you win one free request of your choosing! (This applies to mutuals and non mutuals) though if we're moots you can get a request regardless! This is all just in good fun! :^) remember DON'T ABUSE THIS, DON'T PRESSURE ME INTO DOING THIS ALL THE TIME, AND DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE IF YOU DON'T WIN. THIS IS JUST FOR FUN! NOTHING LESS AND NOTHING MORE!!! >:^0

More rules to be added it the future 👍

[numbr2-pencil]

Juuuuuuust to expand on this a bit more (because I feel like I cut myself off) (or straight up forgot to finish the thought before I posted because it's January and my brain is rotting):

Kathy Zielinski really said "a regular ol' straight white guy is the most threatening villain of all" and she was fuckin' right.

More rambling below the cut, folks:

None of the above was meant to say that we can't have an interpretation of Frollo as a queer character in some way - it's a great take, it makes for a whole new way of reading the story. Nor is it to say that it's impossible for Disney's Judge Claude Frollo specifically to be queer in some capacity or another (Phoebus shippers, I am holding space for you ❤️). Those are perfectly valid interpretations/recreations/whatever in and of themselves.

And, hell, that's also not meant to say that a flamingly, unapologetically, fabulously queer person could not be a credible and interesting and memorable villain. Of course they could be!

But I think anyone who's watched the Disney Renaissance movies (frankly a LOT of animated movies from many sources and throughout the history of animation) knows the queer baiting/queer vilifying trope I'm talking about.

And this villain, this specific, final version of Judge Claude Frollo, is kind of just... A normal man.

But like, you know the queer coded "the villain is bi/gay" trope that I mean? The thing that so often happens, when the villain is illustrated in a way that boils them down to a caricature; where their queerness (read: their femme-coded features or mannerisms, their failure to be a "real man") becomes what makes them both deplorable and also laughable. When the movie holds up the villain's failure to comply with heteronormative standards and says "this - this is why you should hate them!" And then we can all supposedly go "oh yeah I hate them" and have a good laugh and say "well thank goodness this is just a movie."

But we can't do that as easily with Judge Claude Frollo. The final character design is severe, rigid, grim. YES, still an old man with fun details and wrinkles and folds and a smug fucking face that make him a memorable animated character, BUT not a roly-poly mass of flailing body parts and cunty facial expressions verging on looking like drag makeup.

And I just think that was such an important, purposeful choice. They chose to make a villain who we have to judge according to his deeds and his words, not by little hints at something about him that makes him "other" than what is supposedly normal.

Because Frollo is normal.

He is a normal, pious, law-abiding man; an upstanding citizen; an esteemed and powerful figure in Parisian government. He is a man who (despite how hard he tries to remain chaste) is attracted to women. And he is also morally bankrupt: he wields his incredible power and privilege specifically with the will to harm others; he's a man who has ended lives, who participates in physical torture, and is unbothered by it; a man who abuses the child in his care for 20 years; a man who sexually harasses and assaults a woman he barely knows in broad daylight and says "it's not my fault."

In fact he's so normal that when we, as the audience, watch him throughout the movie, we realize he looks eerily, sickeningly familiar. We have literally seen this man out in the real fucking world.

The final character design for Disney's Judge Claude Frollo is so important because it gives us a villain who, when all is said and done, is just a (straight) (white) man. He's a credible animated villain because he's a mirror image of real evil. They didn't cheapen it, they didn't try to distract from the real danger of hegemonic/toxic masculinity by painting him as a queer-coded character. They just fucking went for it.

Aaaaaaaaand that's probably why he is so often/ALWAYS excluded from any Disney Villains merch/stuff. He's too real for the Disney Corporate Machine to acknowledge. He's too much like them. He's too much like the men who make up our governments. He's a little too real. Also when we talk about the history of Disney I think it's important to acknowledge the creative choices and talents of the artists that worked there and to see them as separate from the Disney Corporate Machine in and of itself but that's a story for another day sorry this is getting kind of off topic I'll shut up now

Show me the cuntiest Frollo you have.

... No that's too cunty.

Saying this as a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself – I'm so glad they didn't make Frollo into a queer-coded villain.

Don't get me wrong, villains like Scar, Jafar, even Ursula are so camp and entertaining and fun to watch. It's part of what makes them such memorable villains.

But when I see some of the early design concepts for Judge Claude Frollo, and I see the subtle hints of flamboyance, of mockery, I cannot express how much appreciation I have for the final character design.

Disney's/Kathy Zielinski's iteration of Frollo paints a truly terrifying picture of evil. Judge Claude Frollo is a villain we have all encountered in the real world. Yeah, he's an old man, and as a fandom we often joke about him.

But in the real world, a man like Judge Claude Frollo is no joke.

Aaaanyway ,

TL;DR I hope you got my Simpsons reference and also Kathy Zielinski works on The Simpsons now so look how clever I am

[wild-aloof-rebel]

What shows do you think David binges? (Besides Downton Abbey) Patrick? I know a lot of fics have Patrick watching sports all the time but surely he must watch other things.

it's a good question, but i don't know that i really have an answer for you. i imagine that, like for most of us, it's a mix of things—some of what's popular, some old favorites, some that's comforting, some that's good background noise, some that they get invested in and have to watch every week rather than waiting to binge later. what we know of david's tastes in tv/film clearly covers ground both conventionally popular and artsy: downton abbey, romantic comedies, french dramas, etc. personally i feel like he isn't a fan of celebrity/rich people reality shows, like real housewives, etc., because the reminders of his old life probably aren't things he finds particularly entertaining (nor do i think patrick would like thinking about david living that kind of life either). and i think they both would prefer to watch things that aren't about people stuck being miserable or being awful to one another or whatever. but that still leaves lots of tv that they could enjoy, together or separately. i'm not the ideal person to come up with an answer beyond that though because i tend to rewatch things a lot rather than watching new stuff, so i don't have a great "library" of potential answers to pick from here, and also because i spend half the year watching almost nothing but baseball. but that brings me to a second discussion point...

i do think patrick watches other things, but i think it also should not be underestimated just how much sports there is to watch. in particular, i think most people who aren't baseball fans don't realize just how many games there are because no other team sports play as much or as often. each major league team plays 162 games over the course of 187 days, with games averaging a length of 3 hrs and 3 mins last season. so even if patrick only watches baseball and only really one team, that's still basically 6 months straight of 3 hours a night that is available to watch, and that's just the regular season; if a team is in the postseason and makes it all the way to the world series, you can add about a month more to that.

now, DOES patrick actually watch every one of those games? probably not. for one thing, some are day games while he's at work. but also the way that he and david discuss both the game itself and david's participation in watching it during "moira rosé" seems to indicate that it is not a frequent occurrence for david to be present during a game. they aren't entirely living together by then, but clearly they still spend enough time at patrick's place that david has clothes in a large section of the shelves in patrick's bedroom, so i think it would be safe to assume that they frequently spend evenings together but not watching games. i suppose david could be doing something else instead of paying attention (which is probably true at least sometimes), but for two people who really seem like they can't get enough of one another, it feels unlikely to me that they're spending half the year ignoring each other for several hours each night lol. therefore, my guess would be that patrick mostly just watches games on the nights that david doesn't spend at his place. but i do think it's perfectly valid if people want to say patrick watches sports all the time (especially if we're only talking about what he watches when he's on his own) because, as i said, there is a lot of it to watch.