#personal // kind of

[smoshpostiing]

i havent slept at all since the announcement because ive been holding down the smoshblr fort and lets just say emotions are running very high

[nenerobopistol]

i miss my gi—

* gets ran over *

[broomsick]

Had a fun time drawing parallels between the Víga glúms saga and the Ibn Fadlan records and their respective descriptions of prayer among the germanic tribes. I felt compelled to clear up the misinformation spread by hyper-masculine pagan sources according to which heathens do not/should not prostrate themselves or kneel during prayer. Or at the very least, that the norse pagan doesn’t ask their deities for help, yada yada you’ve seen the quote that goes “we are norse pagan rawr we do not bend our knees to our Gods blah blah”, as posted by some oftentimes far-right oriented heathen sources with images of burly men wielding axes (ah yes, the typical norse pagan). The idea of prostration didn’t appear in the Víga glúms saga, but in both cases, a request is made and in humble fashion. Needless to say the idea that the germanic peoples, or at the very least, the Rus tribes and the Icelanders who practiced pre-christian religion would in fact request blessings of their deities. In any case, the idea that prostration/humility was absent in pre-christian religions is nonsense. One of the perks of being neo-pagan is that we get to choose the way we work with deities, whether that be by praying in a kneeling position, by praying in any other position, or by not praying at all. One shouldn’t feel guilt over the way they choose to pray, and if they even choose to do so. I’ll say once more that your path is yours to pick, and there are no rules to norse paganism. Just because this or that source states this or that is the right way to do things, doesn’t mean they are right. Even just by observing these two texts, it's clear that practice varied massively with time and within different nordic cults, which gives us great leeway when it comes to choosing how it is we want to pray, or if we even want to pray at all.

[graphicabyss]

Idk if I sounded a little creepy looking back and whether he caught my last message but it is what it is. VIVA does make me feel a little more hopeful, especially about men, since most men I met were pathetic dicks. I don't think I'll ever meet men like that but at least I know they exist. Also, not helping with that reply, Ben. That's just whataboutism. Just because there are people doing more important things, doesn't mean I can't appreciate you.

PS: Posting these things for myself mostly, coz posts are the best way to keep videos and text in one place.

[thegreyj]

I feel like painting something for the first time in months. But I also want to write something. I'm just in this happy, creative bubble despite my bronchitis because I'm just so happy with all the magnificent fics I've gotten to read lately 🥺🥺 and you have no idea how absolutely excited and happy I am that everyone took to the prompt blog so well 🥺❤

I love you all, keep being incredible and keep sharing your talent with us ❤

I love this Rowaelin fandom family, I finally feel like I belong.

[albiorixsims]

The time has come. I've enrolled to a Blender course.

[crystallizedtwilight]

People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.

[copepods]

twitter is great for finding a person whos username is like ZL287635630JHSB67 and who doesn’t speak english and is drawing fictional characters with more raw skill than leonardo da vinci

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[dougielombax]

I wonder what the largest shellfish is?

Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?

Edit: Fucking hell.

This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!

What have I DONE????!!!!!

I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!

I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.

Probably….

Idk.

Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.

Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.

Anyway.

AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)

Edit: 8,000 notes! Holy shit!

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WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!

Okay never mind it’s back. For now at least.

Anyway.

[smoshpostiing]

guys. guys😭😭😭😭😭‼️😭😭😭😭im not okay rn

i know its silly but ive been a smosh fan since 2015 and loved courtney from the very very start and i havent been posting edits/making fanworks for long but oh my god

😭😭😭 this means so much to me

[nenerobopistol]

google search how to tell someone you’ve been worrying that they didn’t love you or wasn’t good enough for you GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE!!!!!!!!!!

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[thegreyj]

I don't know about everyone else, but I tend to write notes for planned plot points to keep myself on track (i stray a lot despite my best attempts to write according to plan) and the best part is the fact that my notes aren't very elaborate usually. They're written more like this "dun dun duuun it's rowan lmaooo"

Literally just read that on my notes.

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about