#parrot attack

[fumifooms]

What if we were both magic prodigies and it otherized us in different ways and we devoted ourselves to protecting a family member who has general other goals & priorities. What if we both did self-sacrifical devotion in opposite ways.

What if we were dark mirrors of each other and where I've grown overcontrolling you've grown complacent. What if, bought as a servant into a pretty loving home, ownership and control is what love looks like to me, and to you neglected and lonely growing up, love is gratefully taking any scraps of it you’re lent.

By belonging to someone, even if she comes back injured or fails at finding Delgal, she feels like she belongs and is cherished, by owning someone he feels safe in them not leaving him.

She’s what’s tethering him do you see… And he’s the only thing giving her direction and purpose in her state. She needs a compass and he needs a support.

They’re both so out of it 😭 It’s the weirdly intense and unearned mutual trust and reliance on each other?? They’re each other’s weird little comfort codependent teddy bear. Or at least they were headed towards that before SHE DIED THEN HE DIED THEN THEY BOTH FORGOT ABOUT EACH OTHER AND NEVER MET EVER AGAIN. Though she’s also the guard attack hound keeping him safe… And vice versa he heals her and can rewrite her very being with just one wave of his hand. They’re both so so mentally and physically vulnerable both but they cling onto each other. They can’t perceive things accurately but despite it all someway somehow they stumble into something closer to resembling companionship just before they both die. Falin is just that kind and Thistle is just that lonely. Overworked.

We both haven’t lived for ourselves in a very long time, haven’t we.

They both have a similar devotion to the people they love but again the difference is that Thistle starts overtsepping while Falin is self-effacing. The other difference between them is that people care about Falin <3 People have given up on Thistle long ago, and he has given people reasons to, while people refuse to give up on Falin. Yaad has a mini arc about it dw about it it’s ok he’s not all alone in the end 😭😭 He reached out for Marcille’s hand but they already all wanted to help him, they just had to be given the chance to, Yaad just had to be given the chance to, it’s okay I’m okay

Hey what if we learned to get in touch with our own identity and the world around us and living in the present again through being in the worst codependent situationship ever.

Falin and Thistle sitting in a tree, sucking on flowers together because they’re h-u-n-g-r-y 💕💕💕

I bet he’s only ever thought of flowers as useless ornaments. Weak weeds. But she shows him they’re tasty and useful and good and pretty in their own right too and deserve existing without proving their worth and waaa <33 Thistles…... Did you know thistles taste sweet if you remove the thorns and eat them?

"Even as a chimera, her kind nature remains" you can’t suppress her in the way that matters. You can’t soothe him in the way that matters. It’s doomed. You’re doomed. It’s all doomed. Save me.

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

Regarding radical feminists (specifically transphobic ones) becoming fascists: it's a thing. You let yourself fall into one form of bigoted thinking, it gets easier and easier to adopt others. And that's how we get JK Rowling denying Nazi crimes in the year 2024.

oh my fucking god. someone accused her of „upholding nazi ideology around gender“ which she called a fever dream because gender was not a thing in nazi germany since the distinction between sex and gender was made mid 20th century. all the claims about trans people being targeted by the nazis come from the fact they burned books by magnus hirschfeld and made him close his institut where he did research on transsexuals - his wikipedia states he was targeted for being JEWISH and GAY. not because of his research.

this article also makes clear that being trans only meant people crossdressing, which mostly - almost exclusively - affected gay men who were indeed targeted by the nazis as emphasised by homosexuals getting their own symbol in the concentration camps. crossdressers were indeed persecuted because they were regarded as homosexuals.

and just my personal opinion? doing experimental research on what we today understand as homosexuals with internalised homophobia and gender dysphoria is not trans friendly. they usually died soon after the surgeries. if hirschfeld had not been jewish and gay but a non-jewish heterosexual german in the nsdap selling it as the medicalisation and castration of homosexuals it was to the nazis, they certainly would have let him do it or even supported it as part of their eugenics politics. seeing as he was racist and sexist too. and one of his doctors went on to work for the nazis, for example (source: the scientist magazine below).

oh and by the way it is really difficult to find sources that are not tainted by modern gender ideology applied to what went down at that clinic.

this article for instance talks about „transgender“ people getting „gender affirming care“ when - again - gender was introduced as a concept after the fact.

i wish some more of you would realise this. trans, whether that be transvestite, transsexual or transgender, is not a universal concept like biological sex and homosexuality. it is entirely cultural.

oh and lastly, did you know that the nazis persecuted prostitutes but opened brothels in concentration camps and other places? and did you know that many of the women prostituted by german nazis were jewish, roma and eastern european? and did you know that pro trans groups and parties are supporting the liberal prostitution law in germany that enables and fosters the mass sexual exploitation of eastern european women at the hands of german men in german brothels TODAY? where is the uproar for that huh? you people are deeply unserious when it comes to social justice issues and prefer engaging in manufactured rage online over actually analysing and dismantling systems of oppression. fuck off now

[transmechanicus]

Tumblr users will see a post and be like "Is anyone going to replace every key word in that until it's communicating an entirely different concept more relatable to me?" and not wait for an answer

[tddott]

Some Gwuncan HCs I'm too lazy to write:

-Their favorite dates are urban exploration, especially abandoned malls.

-Duncan has a graffiti tag he draws everywhere, he taught Gwen how to draw her own (she caught on rather quickly) and she often tags under his. It's become a little game between the two to find each other's tag to mark

-Duncan learned how to do stick n poke tattoos in jail. When he got out one of Gwen's first tattoos was one done by him (it's matching dots they have on their hands. It was done at one of Geoff's house parties)

-hear me out but I think if Duncan couldn't own insects (mostly his tarantulas) he would be a bird or reptile person. Both of them have a collection of unconventional pets, ranging from snakes to rats to even birds such as pigeons and maybe even a parrot.

(Gwen thinks dogs are lame and cats are "predictable" and Duncan never got over his dog)

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Mouse says she'd be a Ghost / Fairy trainer, Jaiden loves the "big strong monster" Pokemon (she knows a lot of people say "Flying" for her because she likes birds) but she likes Steel and Dragon!

(Jaiden just introduced Tinkaton to Ironmouse saying it's Mouse, and she agreed)

[queenlua]

interesting (though faintly dispiriting) article on The Folks Using AI To (Help?) Write Their Novels

also this was a wild way to learn Sudowrite is made by that amit gupta guy, whose post years ago on How To Publish A SFF Story managed to make my skin crawl even though i couldn't really point to anything specifically wrong with it & I respected the transparency at least. something something A Particular Kind Of Nails-On-Chalkboard Portland Tech-ish Person. anyway weird plot thread to see pop up again

[hexjulia]

man. my bird hit the window (thankfully it seems without injury) because i ran up to it to scare a cat away from the birds at the feeder and apparently when i 'attack' something she will join in. She charged at the window with this super aggressive yell. It's very sweet to know she has my back but she's about 60 grams, tiny and apparently unaware of it. Also she forgot about the glass.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

trying to figure out who the last member of the team is gonna be for the funy birdrun between altaria noctowl and chatot... shockingly agonizing . the highest attacking stat they have is Chatot. did you know that.

[the-vegan-muser]

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[arsonists-oatmeal]

I swear some of yall only say "ACAB" because you think its trendy to be anti authority. You need to understand that that acronym was born out of actual pain that people have experienced by the police. And im not just talking about getting speeding or parking tickets (though im not saying that tickets can not be a source of great pain for people), im talking about things that have brought about personal risk of life. Things like police brutality, being arrested, getting a "mental health check" via police. People say ACAB because they have been hurt by police, and see the problems with the police, and how they are all bastards via how they systematically protect the bad ones and encourage violence. They don't say it just to be rebellious or something. So like, if you say ACAB, you better believe it, because I see a lot of the (usually white) liberal crowd shout it at the top of their lungs, and then turn around and call the cops on their marginalized peers the moment they act weird

[zatsy]

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Steven Universe is good actually. We (myself included) were waaaaay too harsh on it when it was coming out. Audiences saw a show tackling topics with a progressive lens and became super critical of it in ways they never were with its contemporaries. Suddenly, this children's cartoon for 8-13 year olds was supposed to have intricate story arcs examining the aftermath of abusive relationships in graphic detail & show the main characters murdering the villains on screen because anything less would be "telling children that killing a Nazi makes you a Nazi". People were so caught up in what they wanted the show to be that they were totally unwilling to meet it where it was.

[qqchurch]

why the hell did I dream about being in a wacky wizard school besieged by an equally wacky evil wizard with shenanigans like being roped in by one of the teachers to cast Testicular Lube because some students had their balls bit off by Ball-Biting Fishes (don't worry they can put them back, death isn't a problem so something like this is cakewalk) and during the process one of the students hurled the already lubed up fish against the wall, leading it to bounce in a way that in landed between the wizard teacher's legs and... well... it went Ball-Biting

I woke up just as I panicked and ran to the teacher , casting the lubricant spell at them while everyone else was screaming

what the hell...

[sheila--e]

thers a big ass resurgence on transmedicalism in Transmasc circles but they treat it as hashtag progressive so most people ignore it lol.

[soldier--poet--queen]

sometimes i dramatically grab my chest and lean back as though i'll faint at any moment and tear up a little when i remember edgeworth's canonical ptsd in the games

[here-a-lee-there-a-lee]