#reblogging bc mood

[gingerswagfreckles]

Challenging blatant misinformation on this website is such a headache lol. "Imagine blindly believing the US government/police/etc etc 🤪🤪" Babe I absolutely do not blindly believe the US gov/police on anything. You're just mad I'm not blindly believing YOU. 🙄

[killjoy-prince]

A comment on a MMD video inspired me to draw this

[vretch]

[the-real-couchrat]

I thought I had escaped the hyperfixation, but it caught up to me. Hyena!Dipper, Wolf!Mabel, and Coyote!Stan from @seiya234’s Shooting Stars chapter 294 (also a few Henrys)

I struggled with Mabel’s eyes for a while, because I wanted to make it clear where she was looking at by giving her pupils, but not break the effect of the “rainbow oil slick” eyes. I ended up removing the tears on a lot of doodles bc it wouldn’t turn out right with the fur.

I used to have a closeup of Henry and Dippers first meeting, but it kept marking the post as “mature” because of it.

[tonyglowheart]

"Does Shen Qiao even like Yan Wushi?"

I feel like it may be relatively easy for people to pick out "what does Yan Wushi like about Shen Qiao / what does YWS get out of yanshen." but I think a criticism/line of thought I see around is people struggling with "well what does Shen Qiao get out of all of this?" and like, "does SQ even like YWS, what with how YWS annoys him and gets him angry all the time."

But I think that actually is the crux of their relationship, lol. Because if you think about it, to everyone else, Shen Qiao is this lofty ideal, this untouchable immortal/仙, maybe even this obstacle or goal to conquer or shoot down.

Who else treats him casually and teases him and pokes at him to get emotional reactions out of him because they like that about him?

If he wants to seek people who treat him with respect and reverence, he just has to step out into the city square - hell, he just has to travel out and random people he meets are likely to treat him with that sort of dazzled awe or reverence too (we literally see this happen several times in the course of the novel).

So yeah, I think joking not joking, YWS makes him angry and feel Emotions and he likes that, YWS is enrichment for him, YWS pushes his buttons and his boundaries but reframing that it's pushing him out of his comfort zone and like hardening him off to the elements and realities of the world like a gardener with plants out of the greenhouse. But also, YWS treats him like a person, like a man, and not like Shen-daozun, Shen-daozhang, Shen-zhangjiao. To Yan Wushi, Shen Qiao is Shen Qiao. (and he loves to tease the shit out of him hehe (￣▽￣) )

CONVERSELY! This also gives Shen Qiao a space to *be* Shen Qiao. With Yan Wushi, he does not have to be Shen-daozun, Shen-daozhang, Shen-zhangjiao. He does not have to always be magnanimous and generous and a bastion of righteousness. These are in his nature, yet, but it's not ALL of his nature - he is, after all, still a man, a human, with human emotions -- including the full breadth of human emotions. Yes Yan Wushi annoys him and he shows it, but it's specifically BECAUSE of that that they are closer than him and anyone else in the world. He can "be himself" around Yan Wushi, he can get worked up and be petty and be snippy, and it's fine and won't cause catastrophes or undesired splashdown sociopolitical effects.

But also, he (lets himself?) get worked up by Yan Wushi - they HAVE that level of intimate understanding with each other where they can be like this and not have feelings hurt in any irreparable way. This isn't something that SQ does (lets himself do?) with just anyone, which we see throughout the novel reflected in his internal narration and comportment. So really, the fact that he DOES get annoyed with YWS shows that they are on a different, more "real" level with each other than SQ is with anyone else.

And like, they didn't get there in a day, sure, but imo we definitely see through the novel how they get there, so imo, the yanshen relationship is incredibly justified.

(I also say this bc I think literally every "I've connected the two dots" moments I've had in my reread, I would metaphorically flip the page only to be met with that connection I'd made spelled out on the page by MXS lmao. Like... yeah okay MXS *shakes your hand* you know your stuff. oh and also because I do think there may be some level of skepticism about yanshen esp from SQ's side floating around lol, but like... MXS did the legwork! yes chapter 45 happened, yes YWS never "apologizes" with words, but that doesn't mean that they don't share a deep mutual understanding of themselves and each other by the end, nor that they haven't moved past the events of literally 83 chapters ago, 96 if you count the extras -- a whole literal two-thirds of the novel ago. Like, I know we piss on the poor here and many educational systems around the world are in shambles these days, but work on developing reading comprehension skills, pls :') )

(lmao rip this post got long AGAIN. well, hopefully at least some people are reading all of this lol.)

[slitheringghost]

i do not have the mental capacity rn to deal with the discourse i started skfkskfk

[magefeathers]

Reblog for sample size + feel free to put your propaganda in the tags! Or suggestions of which songs I should start with!

[donutdrawsthings]

I haven't been enjoying going on Tumblr for a good while now when it comes to casually reblogging things... I just keep finding myself closing the app and feeling so Angry about what I read for various reasons! Outrage or just regular frustration. Because of that it's also become more and more appealing to hang out on bluesky instead, since I AM seeing what I want to see over there!

I'll be spending a long time unfollowing a lot of people here to kind of get a blank slate and get back to the stuff I want to see... but until then, You'll find me being more active on bluesky!

[is-teddy-vaughn-still-alive]

day 275: in my professional opinion yes

[eddiethehunted]

do ANY of you have steddie fic recs where eddie is a linecook and yes it does have to be nasty and nsfw idgaf about anything else . please

[avatar-aaang]

heehoo silly little guys kissing

[roguestorm]

Is it acceptable to call someone a fake fan if they pay money to brag about what a nerd they are? Like, is that a morally okay form of gatekeeping?

[gellavonhamster]

decided to try making my own too

[risingsunresistance]

twitter is entering their "rts > likes" phase now that likes are private after they spent years calling us ungrateful for being demotivated by ratios lmao

[skywarpie]

Bro misses Mary so much he bringing back the hair style 😒