#so unsettling. so good

[binary-bird]

to no one's surprise i ended up liking the character struggling with her own fictionality

[kaogens]

static

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Finally got pushed into the Severance pit.

[carbonatedeverclear]

purity culture ruins people’s ability to engage with works that deal with serious issues and it’s disheartening to see people entirely miss the point of a work because they are guided by a knee jerk reaction towards disgust and I need to ramble

so, I’m reading a book called Jawbone by Monica Ojeda and it’s a very interesting horror novel that centers around puberty and teen girls and their relationships to their mothers. One of the bigger themes in the book is the idea of shame revolving around sexual development. One of the main characters is a young lesbian who is developing feelings for her best friend and has a mother who is incredibly homophobic and disapproving and in part of the book there’s a scene where this character talks about her mother catching her masturbating and the way that she is disgusted by her daughter and kind of this horror around being viewed as having lost your innocence from experiencing something that is common and should be mundane. sexual development is seen as a horrific and sinful action and that causes this character trauma through the rest of the book surrounding the way that her mother looks at her and how her mother is going to react when she finds out that she’s gay it’s a book that deals with a lot of topics around sexual shame. For example, another character is so terrified of the sin of masturbation that she keeps herself from masturbating by imagining being raped by men in her family who she cares about because it disgusts her and keeps her from achieving sexual arousal. the book itself shows that the action of the character masturbating when she’s six years old is an innocent action. It’s one that comes from curiousity and just what happens when you have a body. The book is very clear that the act is being sexualized by the adults around her and their reactions feel violating.

So it is infuriating to then go from reading this book to trying to read reviews of this book and finding that the first review on Goodreads is a one star review that just says “in this book a six-year-old masturbates 🤮” participating in the same disgust with the natural sexual development of young girls that the book itself tries to depict as a horrifying and violating way to view children and puberty 

[ashleyloob]

this can't just be me but do you ever hear a YouTubers voice and immediately click off because you just can't stand how they sound and don't know why. even if the content itself is fine

[obsob]

despite, despite, despite!!

[unluckedtj]

something bad’s about to happen to me

why i feel this way, i don’t know maybe

[millionsknives]

bait / hook / line / sinker

[losthavenmine]

Daniel Zovatto as Rodney Alcala || Woman of the Hour (2023)

[lucabyte]

oh god im gonna be so annoying when chapter 3 comes out . <- guy whos no-fanart era overlapped with chapters 1 & 2. kris sweetie im so sorry ive never drawn you. i need to make up for lost time

[serpentface]

are the talking crows still around? what are They doing while all this drama is going on around them in the world

Mostly doing their own crow things and not commonly having direct and mutual interactions with other sophonts. They're similar to yotici in the capacity that they have Very different modes of living than most other sophonts, and they generally are not recognized as 'People' in the same sense as humans, elowey, qilik, caelin, and delkhin. However, (given their strategic and intelligent capacity for word mimicry) talking crows tend to be comprehended as unique magical animals or spirits, or are not recognized as a distinct type of entity but rather feed into broader corvid folklore (as they are very difficult to visually distinguish from many common crows).

They make a few appearances in Whitecalf as small flocks of crows trailing the pilgrimage, picking at its food supplies and occasionally scavenging on its dead. This is a family unit of talking crows that has suffered heavily in the drought, with very few of their chicks surviving infancy and even some of the healthiest adults dying of thirst and starvation. They have recognized this mass movement of big two legged people as a source of potential sustenance, and are very persistent and skilled in keeping themselves fed.

In-text they may come off as an ambiguous, possibly magical element (or partially hallucinatory) from the character POVs, due to them going from a mundane presence indistinguishable from common crows to them uttering dire threats in clear and fluent Wardi. This is very unsettling and hard to reconcile for most who witness this, but is actually just a learned method of taking advantage of beliefs in corvids as ill omens to frighten off or distract targets while another crow snatches bits of food or a nice wineskin.

[crowlixcx]

i'm having some thoughts about Aziraphale telling Gabriel 'You came to me, I said I would protect you. And I will.' and Gabriel replying with 'You don't need to. I'm going out.' I'm thinking about how Gabriel can reduce any further suffering by giving himself up once he realises it's only him they want. How hiding away in the bookshop will only prolong the inevitable. I'm thinking about Crowley telling Aziraphale that they can be an us, that they can go off together. I'm thinking about Aziraphale going to Heaven anyway, because he thinks that he can make a difference. I'm thinking about Aziraphale saying 'I would love you to help me. But if you won't, you won't.' I wonder if Aziraphale needs a partner, not a protector, and how they can only really be an 'us' when they don't have to hide.

[jay-birbs-can-draw]

Totally silly not spooky at all (well I created it so I guess I wouldn’t think so) depiction of ‘Optimus’ in @lets-try-some-writing’s silly little Forbidden Sight fic

My promise has been fulfilled

Also I’m finally on summer break!!

[snailfen]

god 3GS's scenes in the finale are all really really good. especially the ones in the mecloud closet and with mephone4. the voiceacting in ii is generally peak but ben's voice acting for 3GS is so good I need to cry and sob and throw up. I will never recover from these line deliveries in particular

[goldensunset]

this normal young man shows up at the function and starts talking to your dog wyd?

^comment that won’t leave my brain

[chalkscrub]

always forget i can drop off my messy wips and behind the scenes prep work on this blog right here.....until now