#reblog with commentary

[zodiacrain]

Self-acceptance, the ethics of journalism, and nonsexual intimacy. The middle tag leaves me concerned, but I guess the other two would make this story ok in the end?

Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

[innieirving]

how to ask the demon you've been smitten over for 6000 years to dance: an angel's guide

bonus:

[alchemicalterror]

[bananamaxpng]

Mary of Tulpar

[stitchposts]

This is so obvious it's almost petty to talk about, but it keeps happening so I am increasingly faced with needing to decide to bring it up. Can everyone who advocates for not reposting art and for crediting artists start bringing that same energy to photographs of traditional art? Especially fiber arts and sewing related things, due to very prolific scraping accounts that repost things from elsewhere on the internet here to tumblr and a few years ago stopped crediting the artists at all. They never asked permission, but credit has just dried up entirely and it's galling to see.

I know non fiber artists don't really have the experience to see this, but just like visual arts, fiber artists develop pretty clear styles. So if a blog is posting elaborate pieces of infamously time consuming arts that cover a wide range of styles, once or twice a day, with no credits or discussion of themselves as an artist - that shit's stolen as fuck.

It feels like I'm going insane sometimes because thousands of people who otherwise yell all day about how artists need to be credited, just think that sewing related photographs pop into existence without needing to be linked to the person that made them.

[macbethz]

what i think REALLY works about dot and bubble is it plays with the genre conventions of doctor who itself. We've seen doctor lite episodes like this, we know how they work. There's person who needs to be saved who gets indirect help from the doctor, maybe they're flawed and learn a lesson at the end, maybe they're part of some flawed society that is just kind of set dressing or ends up being torn down at the end without examination. About halfway through the episode I was ready to brush this off as a fun but predictable classic rtd ep that wasn't really anything special. Then from the the betrayal of ricky September on its like watching a house of cards that has been built the entire episode without us noticing collapse into a perfect stack

“Oh well of course you could see them being racist the whole time” the thing is sometimes doctor who is just like that. RTD EPISODES have historically just been like that, either in that they are microagressions in themselves or have bigoted characters/worlds that go unexamined. And I think this episode performed an absolutely insane self aware slight of hand that relies on both you and the writers knowing that doctor who and sci fi in general has a racism problem. The ending recontextualizes things in the episode you may initially have brushed off as an unfortunate BBC or science fiction moment (all white cast, manifest destiny language) as symptomatic of larger societal issues, thus in turn recontextualizing missed moments of bigotry in the shows own history

[haruka89]

Actually, there are less fun things around that cater to adults. Unless you're a parent or 60+ years old. I'm literally looking around my neighborhood and what regularly scheduled activities there are, are usually for kids with or without their parents, for parents with or without their kids, or for older people.

My church? Stuff for kids, stuff for old people, church music or bible things.

The sports/fitness initiative? Things for kids, things for families (read: for kids and their parents), for old people.

The neighborhood initiative? Things for kids, things for parents, things for old people.

Maybe 10% of the offered activities are aimed at adults without kids.

So, only some of this can be put down to 'you have to schedule your own fun as an adult'.

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

[statementlou]

Kate Cassidy's video tribute to Liam

[braisedhoney]

between chapters of a book you love

[punk-raphaelite]

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

[doodlingwren]

I drew all the Gold Saints + Odysseus from Next Dimension for funzies :D

[torao-chan]

And you're never truly gone As long as a part of you in me lives on - 🎶 Immortal by Reinaeiry

[stark-lord]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024)

1.05 - The Case of the Two Dead Dragons

[anakindoodles]

Anakin vs. Obi-Wan and moments before sudden doom

Please click for better quality!!

[artisticdysfunction]

there's a lot of assumptions about larger systems. so i kinda feel the need to make a post about it! ^-^

when you learn how big someone's system is, saying "wow that's so many, that sounds so crowded, how do you all even function like that? it must be a mess in there lol"

that hurts! it's not nice to say that another system must be crowded and a mess because of their system size, even if their system size is in the thousands. and the genuine questioning of function is drowned out by the assumptions around it.

a large size does not inherently mean dysfunction. even when a large system is dysfunctional, it's not nice to point it out in comparison to your smaller system size. it can make large systems feel ashamed of themselves, regardless of intention.

it's okay to be a larger system, whoever you are! and also, you aren't bad for making a larger system feel weird about being large. but it would be nice to be mindful of your words in the future!

[thcbolter]

(No "see results" option because I find that more non-gifmakers than actual gifmakers will engage with the poll if there's an option like that. If you aren't a gifmaker, this poll is not for you.)