#okay real talk though

[thegildenheart]

“If I’m gonna help, petal, you’re gonna have t’stop doin’ this.”

[bxstiae]

i legit stepped away for one minute fjdjbxbx

[cwritesfiction]

the title of my WIP is Knight Errant, pls tell me as inaccurately as you please what you think it's about???

KNIGHT ERRANT

(I’m going to go waaaaaaay off the rails, since I’m already a little familiar, though I’ll keep a few elements ;) )

FIGHT FIGHT KNIGHTS! It’s what the crowd cheers as the football team plays, though unfortunately, they aren’t very good. At least Sara doesn’t have to look interested - she’s hidden inside the mascot costume, a foam suit of armor that completely disguises her form. Normally, her brother wears the suit, but he’s busy taking his new girlfriend on a date. Sara’s more than willing to do him the favor, and it has nothing to do with the fact that it gives her the chance to watch Anna, the captain of the cheerleading team. When Anna twists her ankle, Sara rushes to her rescue, and the two immediately hit it off. The only problem? Sara never removes her mask, and Anna assumes she’s her brother. Now Sara must decide what to do - reveal her identity and risk losing Anna forever, or continue the ruse and enjoy their time together. It a Shakespearen tale of mistaken identity in KNIGHT ERRANT.

(Send me your WIP title and I’ll write a description!) 

[asleepinawell]

he’s just a little guy!!!!

[share-the-damn-bed]

are we okay?

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is wishing desperately for physical and emotional connection but not pursuing it because it has romantic connotations and you dont want romance. Its knowing that your friends in relationships will never be the same with you again.

please don't cut yourself off from physical and emotional connections. i promise that things will be okay. yes, you will lose some friends - but you can always make new friends, even new friends already in relationships, and it will be okay.

[mister13eyond]

I deleted a reblog because I did it when over-exhausted and it felt mean, but I just wanted to say for posterity: I'm begging the Jojo fandom to reconsider making the "He's not even Italian!" joke about Giorno.

Look, I'm not one to say you have to bring real-world morality into a series about a vampire's son taking over the mafia with a magic ghost. I have "problematic" ships, I like writing and reading the crime thriller aspect of the series despite the real-world harm caused by the mafia and organized crime; I like the character with absolutely horrible representation of DID. I think some acceptance that things are okay in fiction that aren't in real life is healthy.

But joking that Giorno- a character who has lived in Italy for 11 years, since he was 4 years old, and who faced racist and xenophobic abuse by his peers precisely BECAUSE he was Japanese - isn't "really Italian" bleeds outside the boundaries of fiction and into real-world microaggressions that real API people face. We've all heard some racist white person ask an Asian peer "where you're REALLY from"; We've all heard the horrendous chant of "go back to your own country" in racist tirades. It's a joke that falls back on old, tired, shitty perspectives- that even though someone has lived in a country since they were a little child, they're never going to be REALLY Italian, because they'll always be Japanese first and foremost.

It's not that it's bad to joke about things we know are bad; it's that the joke seems to fail to acknowledge what's so bad about it in the first place. It's that it conflates ethnicity and country of origin with nationality, citizenship or even just a sense of home. It's that the core of the joke is "Giorno doesn't really belong here; he's Japanese, not Italian, and no matter how long he lives here, he'll never be Italian by blood." It's just... not funny anymore, frankly.

Leave it behind with "MILF hunter Kakyoin" and using the c-slur for Johnny Joestar; we as a fandom can make FAR funnier jokes.

[yourfavehasjoinedweezer]

Otis Driftwood has joined Weezer!

[powdermelonkeg]

Current mood

[sheerioswifties]

Good morning everyone!

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

Saw a Reddit thread on AskWomen about women who thought they were lesbians until they ended up with guys and if that’s not the most invalidating and paranoia-inducing shit I’ve ever seen—

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Stephen Gammell could do Junji Ito’s mangas, and Junji Ito could do Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

[rabbitindisguise]

I appreciate this post but for the opposite reason. I talk about being gay so much offline it's practically an extracurricular at this point. I've told folks I'm gay completely unprompted. There are people who only know me from one conversation where I've mentioned basically just that and nothing else.

If I posted about being gay as much as I really wanted to, I'd hit post limit nightly

Cringe culture jerks need to learn to fear me, specifically instead of making it All About Tumblr. I am the local tumblr weirdo cryptid you all fear. Stop harassing harmless kids enjoying their lives online. Your hateful anons are belong to Me

I feel like things would go a lot better if everyone would bear in mind that the way people act on Tumblr is not necessarily indicative of the way they act in real life.

[icewindandboringhorror]

one of the bad things about having such low social energy/social anhedonia/little interest in interacting with others in any capacity/ Hermit Disease™ is that like.. once every FIVE months here and there I’ll get fleeting bursts of social energy and will message one or two people to catch up with old friends or etc. and then it’s like... 

tfw you message someone and then wake up the next morning to see that they REPLIED to your message so now you’re actually supposed to message them back, which is an obligation you were somehow not expecting despite the fact that YOU sent them a message 

[welcometogrouchland]

Pacing around my room (metaphorically, I'm very much in bed) trying to sort out all my thanks to them thoughts. What is going ON in here (my brain)?????

[jzixuans]

okay i lied last thought

i think the main thing that's been bothering me about the school master plotline besides lady lesso's uh . thing. was that by having him engage with the students and the professors so openly it makes it so clear early on that he's using them as chess pieces and is targeting sophie.

which isn't necessarily a bad thing because god knows that studios these days keep trying to pull a fast one on the audience, and the movie seems to be gearing more to the thesis of "there is more nuance in this world than you know" (which i believe nicely ties into agatha telling sophie that she's human at the end because it brings into the discussion a nice look at what humanizing these stock alignment fairy tale characters means), BUT i still do sincerely wish that they hadn’t name teased rafal so much and that the school master was if not morally ambiguous by matter of sheer not showing his face to anyone in centuries, then at the very least outright GOOD because the movie makes a very explicit point to show us at the very beginning that rhian the good brother is the one to survive.

because like, the audience knows that there was something dubious about the opening's anticlimax, but the rest of the school does not. if they truly were committed to suggesting that the school master had sinister motives and they were adamant that he interacted with the rest of the school, then they should have given him a kindlier or more sage personality in his introduction at orientation that would later be dropped (or not!) when sophie and agatha confronted him in the tower. like a sentence about how Yes it seemed that good has been winning for the past century, but that he has faith in both sides that they will do their best to win and that the world is still in balance. i don't know. something. i believe rafal is a better actor than that. he knew his brother best. that would have made knowing that he was up to something the whole time a lot more fun than sitting with the discomfort of his persona being apathetic at best between the schools.