#so for now no reblogs lmfao.

[waterbearable]

GOD respectfully it's been an issue for a while now that folks are extremely parasocial w dr*pout and while i am not immune to that, i do remember when b*nappetit's magic kind of fell apart because it was still a business and not just a bunch of people who were buddies making cooking content, so i am trying to be...cautious with how i enjoy their content. but conversation abt it on this and other social media is really underpinned by this idea that these are all our sweet blorbos who are utterly immune from criticism and can do no wrong, this is such a good sweet progressive company that can do no wrong, and that you should shut up if you have any issue with representation/accessibility/etc because these are our dear beloved internet personalities that feel like friends. which is not productive, not healthy, and does not really encourage room for dr*pout to grow as the bastion of progressive comedy and creativity that we want it to be.

it is WILD that trans women and other TMA folks are being treated w such fucking vitriol for even mentioning the fact that there should be more trans women on dr*pout. it is a relatively gentle desire/critique, all things considered, esp because to my knowledge most of the trans women/TMA folks who have been on the platform either appeared in early um, actually or just. pre-2024 (i am aware that the exception to this is, to the best of my knowledge, sephie being a guest on an episode of game changer and monet hosting her show). they are not incapable of finding transfemmes/TMA folks.

but also what grinds my ass about this conversation is that ppl either do not know or do not want to acknowledge (and i say this as a lover of dr*pout and enjoyer of many CH skits) that they have been around for a WHILE before their own platform came into existence and they were still doing comedy that was fatphobic and transmisogynistic 6 years ago (aka, in 2018). comedy that was at best racially insensitive in 2015. probably more shit that i'm just not aware of, bc it happens.

i don't say that to cancel anyone on the platform, or the platform itself! I ENJOY IT. I THINK THAT THEIR COMEDY IS FUNNY AND THAT THEY HAVE A LOT OF INCREDIBLE TALENT AND THEY MAKE GOOD STORIES. I WANT THEM TO SUCCEED AND TO CONTINUE. but like. you do yourself a disservice to think that dr*pout has always been a progressive bastion and welcoming space for marginalized ppl, and that THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO MAKE THINGS BETTER. like. you want them to continue innovating, continue growing, etc, as an independent platform, then acknowledge that there is room for them to improve and innovate and cultivate a space that is (more) inclusive. why, as a fan, would i want it to stagnate?

overall i think that (not everyone, and i'm not vaguing anybody in particular) a lot of us (in the global north) could do with continued reflection that much of what we enjoy, consume, participate in is still touched by oppressive, capitalist, imperialist systems. we are most likely not going to be engaging in things that are completely morally and ideologically pure. that does not make you a bad person!!! but that also means it doesn't help any of us to completely ignore when something we enjoy is not perfect and has legitimate issues in regards to racism, transmisogyny, sexism, etc etc etc. part of oppression being structural/systemic means that there is the potential for harm (and actual harm) even when nobody is specifically pulling a lever with the desire to be oppressive/bigoted. this includes when marginalized folks are participants. this includes things that *I* create, because I am also not immune to fucking up and perpetuating systems of harm. our growth is continuous. it has to be.

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[gatoburr0]

I couldn’t stop thinking about this. Gueeltar by @certifiedl0sr

Didn’t know that stupid shit like this was so fun to draw

[wickjump]

im gonna start posting fanfic recs btw whenever i find good ones. both here and my (awfully barren) 18+ account. because there are so many good fics out there with so few hits and fewer kudos and sometimes no comments period and it SUCKS because i REALLY LIKE THEM A LOT.. and i hope that by linking them here and yelling at everyone to COMMENT DAMMIT they might actually do it

seriously though any comment means a lot. most people who read a fic don’t even give a kudos. even if the fic wasn’t top tier, if you didn’t dislike it, hand over some kudos!! and if you liked it, comment!!!! even if the comment is one singular heart emoji it will be appreciated. if the comment just says “great fic!” the author will be happy. your comment doesn’t have to be this long winded gushing or analysis.

so many authors quit writing or lose motivation because the comments are few and far in between or just sometimes nonexistent. trust me when i say authors don’t care about how long or cool or smart sounding your comment is i promise!!!

i hope that mmmaybe recommending fics and telling people to comment might help fics i really like get more support maybe. and i, points at you reading this, hope that you will listen!!!at least a little….at least sum kudos….

[menlove]

some of the gayest things i did w my girl besties as a kid that haunt me daily even though i'm almost 25

laying on the hot cement of the playground watching the clouds, talking about which boys we'd date in class, and i look over at her and notice how the sun is turning her black hair slightly red in the sun and sigh and say "i wish i were a boy, 'cause then i'd date you"

made a new best friend a little after her who was a year younger than me and i wanted to live inside her skin, a little bit, and went over to her house constantly. i drew her silly art, those weird emo blobs from the mid aughts, and she hung it up on her door. we joked about being married a lot. when i had to move away across the country, one night i was staring up at the moon while listening to a love song and started sobbing wondering if she was also looking at the moon. i never texted her again.

when i was 12 i fell in love with a girl for the first time i knew about. i had just gotten over being weirded out by gay people & when the kids in class started whispering about us being dykes, my teacher called home about it. i cried my eyes out in a red pickup truck with my mom as i told her i was in love with her, but it was fine because she was straight. i was drinking a red slushie.

once with that same girl, we went on a field trip to a nearby science museum. it was within walking distance and she held my hand the whole way, even though we were too old for it. at some point i started swinging her hand and knocking into her and laughing and eventually she just picked me up, put me on her back, and carried me the rest of the way while we laughed. at the museum, she kept finding me and holding my hand again. i went home that night, so giddy, and just kept thinking about her hand in mine and didn't even care about what the rest of the kids were whispering

in february, before that, she'd asked me which girl i had a crush on in class because i'd posted about it on tumblr. it took me a half hour to finally tell her it was her, blushing to my ears as we walked around the perimeter of the playground (we were at a small private school with less than 100 students, so even the middle schoolers got to use the playground), refusing to look at her. she told me she didn't feel like that, but i was still her best friend and she wasn't mad at me or weirded out. if one of us were boys, she said, maybe it would've worked out. her mom moved her back to california at the end of the school year. i never saw her again and she wasn't allowed to talk to me. she messaged me once, years later on here, to tell me i was pretty in a prom dress i'd tried on. she blocked me later.

i wrote down a story about her, a year later, for 8th grade english class. in it, i imagined that she'd never left, and that she'd kissed me while we laid in the grass, mixing up my stories and my life. my teacher looked at me with such a soft sadness and told me it was very beautifully written. she wanted me to submit it to a contest. it won.

[the-way-astray]

and now the part all of you (none of you) have been waiting for! the part where i dump out all the art i've liked instead of reblogged over the years into my dumpster fire of a blog

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

why is the mrs stubel post going around again Who found it

[cyberdykes]

all in good time

buck x eddie | rating: so far it's pretty much T | wc: 4k

Maddie: so we all saw that today right? Chim: I wasn’t sure if the head injury was making me see things but I guess this is one step closer to him realizing Maddie: one step closer or one step in the wrong direction? lol Hen: I can’t believe it. I mean I can believe it because you know I guessed he was bi a long time ago (which I’m now really regretting not putting some money on.) But I feel like shaking him by the shoulders. He’s so close! Maddie: be nice! if he’s happy i’m happy. but you know. i could be happier. Hen: But Tommy? Of all people? or, Buck stumbles on a group chat that has some ideas about who he should and shouldn't be with.

read on ao3

[duckyfann9871]

Drunk me concurs: i am in fact in love with Ginoza and would move mountains for him

[painfully-unoriginal]

u kno what. tell me abt ur rarepairs i wanna hear it

[kyluxtrashpit]

And since today is my 7 year kylux-versary, I’m going to give the first tease of my upcoming (likely to be) final kylux fic

12 chapters, estimated final wordcount at over 50k, started in December 2019, and today I’m excited to show you a moodboard and reveal the title. Stay tuned for more teases as it gets closer to completion!

[torchickentacos]

Things my middle-aged mother has said that caught me off guard and made me have to pause whatever I was doing and laugh:

Huge if true

Canon

Shrimps is bugs (WHERE DID SHE LEARN THIS ONE????)

Will update as more come in

[rigginsstreet]

Um just realized tumblrs been unfollowing me from people so wtf is that about!

[uglyf4wn]

why even tag stuff nd save stuff when tumb1r will t3rm ur entire account for litrally nothing,,

[br1ghtestlight]

i feel like im blocked by at least half of ii tumblr which idc about really but i do think its funny that i know FOR A FACT the only reason people have me blocked is bcuz i dared to post positively about Inanimate insanity the show this community is literally dedicated to. and give the benefit of the doubt to the creators who btw i was proven right about. like they literally hate me for liking the show that all of our blogs are focused on they cannot fucking STAND me