#please do it cause I don't think I can

[lightineventide]

Alert 🚨: New AVANTASIA album & 2025 tour announcement!

You'll never guess what it'll be about.

This was literally posted several minutes ago. But what dragons?! Why dragons?! Certainly not just to please me... Is this a return to the thematics of The Metal Opera?! Or maybe it was supposed to be an Edguy album, based on the title. We'll know soon.

Anyway, woohoo! New Avantasia!

I'm too lazy to link the Facebook page, so bear with this screenshot I initially made.

[knifearo]

being aromantic is like. hey btw you're going to live a life that is the culmination of most of society's worst nightmares. sorry lol ✌️ but then you turn around and take a really good hard look at it and it turns out that living in that nightmare is fucking awesome and you get to wake up every day and take that fear that other people have and laugh and hold it close until it's a great joy for you instead. and being happy is a radical act that you define instead of someone else. and you're sexy as fuck that's just a fact of life i don't make the rules on that one

[foundfamilywhump]

see like the thing with 'carewhumpers' as a concept to me is it just like... i know this is prrrrobably not really how it's meant but something skeeves me out about the idea that kindness or caretaking mixed in with hurting someone can somehow meaningfully complicate or dilute the harm done to the point of making that character no longer a 'whumper' whereas someone doing the same 'bad' things but not ever being gentle or caring for them would just be a straight-out whumper. when like... that's how 90% of irl abuse dynamics work? so i just... don't really get the point, i guess. like to me it implies something about the 'care' provided somehow mitigating or combating the harm done that. i just do not personally appreciate or enjoy.

[book-lover85]

Stay at home dad and artist on commission Keefe

[liones-s]

I've been trying to pay more attention to when things feel easy. I spent so many years forcing things - relationships, interests, routines - that it was difficult to imagine things could or should feel differently. now that I've starting experiencing things that feel natural, I'm learning that hard work and forcing things are not equivalent. Doing well in a class I enjoy takes a lot of work, but it's not miserable. Swimming makes me tired but it brings me joy. When I tell someone I like spending time with them, they suggest fun things to do and it just happens to be an activity I love. Relationships and hobbies and passions take work, but they can feel good. Noticing when it feels good can help us find the way towards what's meant for us.

[t-u-i-t-c]

"He's got his hands on our wheels, and we've got nowhere to go as a result."

[cure-stars]

the fox and tanuki's stand-up collar! 🍁

[aro-culture-is]

Alloaro culture is wanting a similar word to qpr for a committed partner you have sex with sometimes that is not romantic: qpr isn’t right because it has the word platonic in it.

hi! in a very gentle way, i am vibrating to let you know this is incorrect :)

from the POV of someone who's been around the aro community since ~2013-2014 on tumblr, the only time i've seen folks start to say that qprs couldn't include sexual components has been when

they've learned an incorrect definition of QPRs, or

in one particularly notable case, the individual proposing it turned out to be quite sex negative and upset at the mere thought that people could think that qprs could include sexual activity. this individual suggested an alternative term for individuals desiring sex in QPRs in a rather explicitly alloarophobic measure. when gently called out from what had seemed to be a genuine attempt at coining a new term, the above came to light. smaller cases of this pop up every once in a while, but this one got some notoriety.

queerplatonic was always meant to mean "queering the idea of a platonic relationship", "queering the idea of what a relationship means", and by explicit definition, has always been broadly and radically inclusive. any relationship, so long as the partners involved agree it is a queerplatonic one, is queerplatonic. no exceptions. this can mean it involves romance, sex, traditionally platonic elements, and anything and everything those involved desire out of it.

tldr; the word platonic is in queerplatonic to say it is counter to the idea of a restricted "platonic" relationship.

[deoidesign]

I’m a trans man that recently got diagnosed with hyper mobile eds, so now seeing Steve makes me extra happy, because cool disabled ftm rep. Thanks for making the radical dude bro, he’s funky.

same disability (waving hand emoji)

Always extremely fulfilling to know my work makes people happy in some small way, it means a lot. Thank you for sharing with me

[dermy-der-demp]

Saikik fanfic where yuuta has an abusive family (alcoholic absent mother,no father) but doesn't realize bc yk he's just a kid,After many fights,tricks and problems,Kusuo manages to have the abusers arrested but Yuuta is forced to end up in the system

Obviously kusuo would NEVER let that happend,He would talk (cough cough he would suggest cough) to his parents that they legally adopt Yuuta, but Kuniharu's bad work history and the fact that his mother is a housewife doesn't help,He wouldn't dare to use his mental control, something like "children can be adopted by a parent with medium/low-medium resources" wouldn't end well,so he takes control, gets a part time job for money (he refuses to use his powers to get easy money bc his mother etc), pays a lawyer and gets custody of yuuta as legal older brother,Now to get custody he had to emancipate himself (I don't know about the legal terms, if I find out more I will correct it, if anyone knows, can you tell me!) so the scenario is:

Kusuo is legally an adult, which means he can become independent since he has a stable income, Yuuta will no longer have to go to foster care and has a legal relative,now Yuuta went through a lot of stress in the process bc in the end he is still a child and Kusuo knows more than anyone that his parents, no matter how much love they may have, are not the right ones to take care of a child,so,They leave the house, get a decent apartment for both of them and that's basically the entire fanfic.

[sparky-is-spiders]

There's something trans about being eye-aligned I think. The desire to be perceived. The desire NOT to be perceived. The feeling of being an outside observer. The fear of being Seen. Of wanting to know and understand so desperately but maybe also fearing what you'll find. Knowledge that changes you.

[noa-ciharu]

Discourses over shipping are so funny to me. You can say you dgaf what others ship and get someone so mad they block you and make call out post about how dare you being a reasonable human being and mind your own business online

[dairine-bonnet]

Wild guess: When daemonettes attack the Rogue Trader in her quarters, Heinrix is one of the last who comes for help because before the Rogue Trader ordered Abelard to place him as far from her bedroom as possible...

[flyingbuddiies]

the day osc tumblr stops fighting over tacomic is the day we all heal [adding my personal opinion in the tags]

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[introspectivememories]

excerpts from my months old wip "think i'll miss you forever (like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky)"