#reblog from source please

[sergle]

You!! Hey you!! Are you looking for a pair of kittens? Do you live In Or Near Oklahoma? Do you wish you could listen to purring all the time? Do you want a cat that looks like an aye-aye?

long story short, we found these two kittens at the bottom of a garbage can!! I don't like to think about how they ended up in there- but we heard them crying while on a walk, and it's very lucky they were so loud! They were scared at first, but now they NEED to be snuggled at all times. Crazy how adaptable kittens are. I'd prefer to rehome them as a pair, but I'd consider adopting them out individually if that's my only option! Please IM me if you're interested in both/either of these babies, or if you have any questions at all!!

[yumedoca]

As a little farewell gift to the remake, here's a small analysis on Ataru and Lum's final exchange in the series.

Personally, I find this exchange very interesting and that it has two very important meanings to it, especially considering how it is phrased:

Ataru saying that he'll eventually say 'I love you', just not now. He basically admits that he loves her here, but indirectly ;) Like, he's not even trying to be tsundere!! There's no 'I don't like you, idiot!!', no 'Yeah, whatever, I guess...' and no ignoring or going 'hmph!'!! He openly states how he feels here and I find this incredible character development considering he could've said any of the previous mentioned but didn't. Early, middle and even the first half of later UY era Ataru would never say such words and would've easily jumped at the options I mentioned but here he basically says 'I love you but I'm not going to say the words until my deathbed'!! It really shows how far Ataru's come especially regarding his relationship with Lum. His major character arc in the series is about growing more comfortable with showing his true self and accepting his emotions and you can really see that he has mostly achieved that by the end. It's beautiful to see how much he's changed and even though this is already so great, what really gets me going feral 100% is the second meaning to their exchange..

The subtle promise in this exchange. Lum tells Ataru the she'll make him say 'I love you' even if it takes her entire life, which suggests that she won't leave him alone till he says the words. Her adding 'even if it takes my entire life' to it, more or less would have what she says mean 'Hopefully, I'll be with you, for life'. Ataru's response is that he'll say it on his deathbed which means that Ataru would only say the magic words right before he dies, which would mean that he wants Lum to be with him till then or to say it in simpler terms, his response would more or less mean 'I want to be with you for life, too'. And since he's supposed to be saying 'I love you' on his deathbed, his words here could also mean 'I'll love you till the end'. This acts as a sort of promise between them, a promise that they'll keep loving and being with each other till the end of time.

To others, it seems like all they're going to do is fight for life, but Ataru and Lum know what they truly mean because no one understands them more than each other.

[louthestarspeaker]

it's almost 1am here's my essay about Dal and captainhood <333

I hath promised a Dal essay and I hath delivered… 

I've had this in the drafts for so long, but I just rewatched season two and it really allowed me to solidify a lot of my thoughts.

One of things that really strikes me about Dal's character and his relationship to command is that being in charge is a place of safety for him. He's had to be self-reliant and self-sufficient pretty much his whole life until the Protostar. It's something that was engraved into him since he was small, that the only person Dal could really depend on was himself.

And because he was never around anyone who actually cared about him until the Protostar, that was the right thing to do. This need to be in charge, to be in control really, is a learned survival skill. "I can tell you from experience, people in authority lie."

But in season two, his circumstances have changed (for the better!), and that's not the right thing to do anymore. Ultimately, to me, Dal's season two character arc is about vulnerability and trust. He's been in survival mode for so, so long, and now we watch him learn to heal.

You start with this boy who's spent the grand majority of his life alone or with people who are exploiting him, and the story takes him by the hand and tells him "now that you're safe, now that you have people who care about you, you can't live like that anymore."

All throughout season one he learns trust. Trust in his crew, in Hologram Janeway, in the Federation and in Starfleet as institutions that can and will help him and his newfound family. But as a captain,when he was guiding his crew through active crisis after crisis, trust looked like open doors. It looked like laying out all the variables and problems on a table so they could figure a way out together. 

Trust looks very different on the Voyager-A. It asks him to have faith in what he's not seeing, what he's not being told. He has to believe that they have his best interests at heart, that he's not trusting his family to something that will try to hurt them. 

Captainhood isn't just bossing people around for Dal. It's the responsibility of holding the lives of the people he loves in his hands. He trusts his own hands. He has the best interest of his crew at heart. 

To ask Dal to relinquish control, is to ask him to place the lives of himself and his family into someone else's hands. Which, historically, has not gone great for them. It prods directly at his trauma, asks him to take undo and ignore the survival instincts that kept them alive for so long. Is it any wonder he has trouble with that?

Dal's not going around crawling through Jeffries Tubes because he's a brat or because he thinks he's entitled to know everything. He's a traumatized kid whose self-sufficiency, independence, and ability to make his own decisions were once, for a very long time, the literal line between life and death for him and his crew.

And even if he trusts Starfleet and Janeway in his head on a logical level (which I absolutely believe he does), there's still this instinct that's written into him. It's a process to learn how and when to turn that off, and that's what we see especially throughout the first half of season two. 

This really culminates in the cafeteria scene after they return with the Protostar and Chakotay, when Dal advocates for the Starfleet temporal management guys to figure out a way to get the Protostar back to Tars Lamora. Dal was able to see that his hands weren't the best ones for the job, and trust Gwyn's life to someone else. That's huge for him. He trusts not just a person, but a branch of an institution he's never interacted with before, with one of the people that mean the very most to him. And Dal's able to give up that control, to place himself and his crew in that position of potential vulnerability, because he's finally started to feel it in his bones that he's safe here.

[motherfuckingmaneater]

Rodolphus Lestrange: 10, 11

So little is known about rodolphus that I’ll answer this based off my own headcanons and thoughts / portrayal of him…

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

Absolutely. You kidding me? Hot jock pureblood. If I was a pureblood witch I’d LOVE to be his best friend. As a friend I can imagine him great to be around. I reckon he’s funny but cunning. I’d get up to the most ridiculous antics with him.

11. Would you date this character?

In a heart beat. Loyal, good looking, equally as obsessed with the dark Lord as I am? Hell yeah.

A tall, thickset man with dark hair. I love the big tall muscular strong brooding types. I imagine him to be fairly quiet too but not lacking in necessary charisma.

Bellatrix better watch out. I’m coming for one of her fellas.

Ask meme here.

[copia]

i'm going on exam season lockdown as of today, which means no more gifs/edits/anything else because i spend way too much time on them for an engineering student in the trenches lmao. posting this not because i think anybody will notice or care, but so i can hold myself accountable and get embarrassed if i break the pledge. see you on june 3rd for a ghovie creativity extravaganza

edit: besides the ghovie trailer 😭 i cant restrain myself from that one

[daedaluscried]

You've said before you like it when people reblog memes directly from you. Why? Isn't it annoying?

Hey! So great question!!

I am from the olden days of rping on tumblr, where the reblog from the source thing wasn't such a big deal. So, part of it is it's just more comfortable to me and makes it feel more like I'm used to. I do work on reblogging from the source for memes now, but it does feel weird to me.

Sometimes I really really really really want to do a meme. Even if people don't send it to me, I know then they are interested in that meme and if I'm feeling brave, I can send it to them. Sometimes I can't keep up with my dash or I have to reblog a meme and then walk away from my laptop for a few minutes so I don't always see if someone else just so happened to reblog the same meme from the same source I did. But if they reblog from me, I get a notification.

I don't really find it that annoying to get the notifications. I do get why it might be annoying to some, but to me, I actually enjoy it. Here's the thing, I'm an OC blog. It's not like my notifications are difficult to keep up with. I can go days without a notification.

I see a lot of people saying "it sucks to have people reblog the meme but then not send any" and you are so right. But, you're not getting the memes sent in anyways, so the "reblog from the source" isn't solving the actual problem which is people don't send in memes. It's just hiding it. In fact, I think reblogging from the source is causing less memes to be sent in. This is perhaps the secret evil side to my desire to be reblogged from but... I do think people are more apt to send in a meme if they feel slight guilt at reblogging it from you. Whereas, if they reblog from the source - they don't feel the guilt. It's a free pass to not send any memes.

[some-stars]

really confused about how nobody reblogs text posts anymore…like not mad or anything, just. i truly don’t understand what people want out of their fandom experience if it’s not conversation? do people think they’re not allowed? you are absolutely allowed! that’s the point of making fandom text posts! idk y’all it’s just really really quiet these days and it weirds me out.

[coldjustness]

Ya’ll I don’t mind you reblogging from me. I’m your meme and other thing resources. It makes me happy to see I shared something that makes you happy.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

that one screenshot of that fucking clickbait ass fandomwire article about lauren thinking henry was "over-enthusiastic" about playing geralt is still at the very goddamn top of the fucking witcher tag im going to bash my head into a wall

[ofemeraldstars]

/ sometimes i wonder if all of this is worth it. being an oc sucks most of the time.

[phoenixfiiire]

Okay, I cannot find a meme that matches the wavelength my brain is on. So instead, I'm making one up.

Send Joshua a question someone needs help with, either on anon or in character, and he will do his best to give what is likely going to give terrible advice on how to handle it.

Alternatively, like this and he'll ask your muse a question he needs help with that... is probably going to be just as stupid as he is.

[rielzero]

you oc meme templates made me draw my ocs for the first time in years so thank you 🙏

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I've been going through a lot of emotions the past few days because I never expected the template post to get reblogged so much and so rapidly out of nowhere. I have NEVER BEFORE gotten this much attention or follows at once.

I've been reading people's cute little comments in the tags and their excitement. I've seen the tags of some people who used some of the templates.

I don't remember when I made them, 2021 or 2022? Last year? I originally posted them on twitter before I left and was happy when a small amount of artists were excitedly posting the god meme specificly, the majority of my prompts were ignored beyond that one.

And then.. there's 1000s of people commenting stuff like this, saying they like all the prompts, telling me thank you. And they're drawing, and sharing, and tagging their friends who end up tagging their friends.

Meanwhile, I'm having a small mental breakdown because every minute, my inbox is full of 99+ notifications and unsure how to feel about the attention.. but that's never been the point of me sharing the templates..

People are using them!! 🥺 people are having fun with them.

Keep drawing. Please. Never stop having fun drawing your ocs. Do it for you. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I'm so fucking happy for you! This made me cry 😭 thank you for your message!!

I should use my own templates sometime, too. If I can find the time.

[smokbeast]

Dear digital circus fandom, i turned off reblogs because it was overwhelming me. Please stop asking me why they're off, and stop sending me random dms. I'm a very nervous person too much scares me. I will never draw for this fandom ever again

[cemeterysgirl]

𝖈𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖗𝖞𝖘𝖌𝖎𝖗𝖑 ... 𝘢 21+ 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨-𝘮𝘪. 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘹, 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴. 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘯.

𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘥. 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘹. 𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰. 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴.

[arcxnumvitae]

Every time I pop on here this past week it feels like there's some fresh new tomfoolery. Why doesn't it show who you reblogged the post from anymore?!

[sisididis]

I was going through my notes the other day and came across a phrase that I hadn’t paid much attention to at first, but now, after rereading it, I find it so representative of Toni and Port’s relationship, in particular of Port’s (conflicting) feelings for him. 

When you look at all the other personifications, Toni and Port’s romance isn’t extraordinary by any means. Their distance is an objective reality that is shared with everyone else. To love as a nation means to love from afar. 

And while I do believe that distance makes the heart grow fonder, there’s something to be said about loving someone who becomes almost synonymous with home while you’re on your self-imposed exile in the name of spice trade.

An “exile’s idealization of home” is exactly how I see Port think about Toni, especially during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. 

Everything that comes with that idealization - “the nostalgia for past pleasures, the sense of time passing to little purpose (because you’re anywhere but home), the longing” - is pure, undiluted SpaPort. 

As for the last part, I feel like comparing a nation loving another nation to having a death wish is already an established truth in the fandom. Port sees his fear of death in Toni, because loving him means putting his own survival on the line. There are many examples of personifications sacrificing themselves to “make way” for their loved ones. 

And yet, Port can’t help but love and long for Toni like an exiled person loves and longs for home.