#stars coining

[oceanic-stars-system]

Reality Checker

A Reality Checker is a headmate who fronts to give an unbiased viewpoint on internal and external situations, as to avoid the stress of beating around the bush. They are not afraid of confrontation or of hurting others' feelings and instead are focused on the reality of the situation.

[nomohmoss]

didn't expect kaeya to get an expy

[swedenis-h]

Aww… anyway! (X)

[ashleys-doodle-corner]

Achievement - Strike A Pose! See all of Loop's poses when conversing with them.

Something silly for you guys before I get into the nitty gritty stuff of the AU. I'd like to think that if Loop was a Siffrin from the start, they would get silly with it. After all, Siffrin knows that they're him, so might as well bother the alternate you as much as possible!

[puppyeared]

Um so. I remembered The Incident while I was hanging out with Odile

[ilovedthestars]

A thought I’ve been having: While it's important to recognize the long history of many current queer identities (and the even longer history of people who lived outside of the straight, cis, allo “norm”) I think it's also important to remember that a label or identity doesn't have to be old to be, for lack of a better word, real.

This post that i reblogged a little while ago about asexuality and its history in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and before is really good and really important. As i've thought about it more, though, it makes me wonder why we need to prove that our labels have "always existed." In the case of asexuality, that post is pushing back against exclusionists who say that asexuality was “made up on the internet” and is therefore invalid. The post proves that untrue, which is important, because it takes away a tool for exclusionists.

But aromanticism, a label & community with a lot of overlap & solidarity with asexuality, was not a label that existed during Stonewall and the subsequent movement. It was coined a couple decades ago, on internet forums. While the phrasing is dismissive, it would be technically accurate to say that it was “made up on the internet.” To be very clear, I’m not agreeing with the exclusionists here—I’m aromantic myself. What I’m asking is, why does being a relatively recently coined label make it any less real or valid for people to identify with?

I think this emphasis on historical precedent is what leads to some of the attempts to label historical figures with modern terminology. If we can say someone who lived 100 or 1000 years ago was gay, or nonbinary, or asexual, or whatever, then that grants the identity legitimacy. but that's not the terminology they would have used then, and we have no way of knowing how, or if, any historical person's experiences would fit into modern terminology.

There's an element of "the map is not the territory" here, you know? Like this really good post says, labels are social technologies. There's a tendency in the modern Western queer community to act like in the last few decades the "truth" about how genders and orientations work has become more widespread and accepted. But that leaves out all the cultures, both historical and modern, that use a model of gender and sexuality that doesn't map neatly to LGBTQ+ identities but is nonetheless far more nuanced than "there are two genders, man and woman, and everyone is allo and straight." Those systems aren’t any more or less “true” than the system of gay/bi/pan/etc and straight, cis and trans, aro/ace and allo.

I guess what I’m saying is, and please bear with me here, “gay” people have not always existed. “Nonbinary” people have not always existed. “Asexual” people have not always existed. But people who fell in love with and had sex with others of the same gender have always existed. People who would not have identified themselves as either men or women have always existed. People who didn’t prioritize sex (and/or romance) as important parts of their lives have always existed. In the grand scheme of human existence, all our labels are new, and that’s okay. In another hundred or thousand years we’ll have completely different ways of thinking about gender and sexuality, and that’ll be okay too. Our labels can still be meaningful to us and our experiences right now, and that makes them real and important no matter how new they are.

We have a history, and we should not let it be erased. But we don’t need a history for our experiences and ways of describing ourselves to be real, right now.

[stormboundstars]

Aventurine and his insane luck. The blessed one but his blessing is also a curse. He uses his good fortune like a weapon. It cuts him like a knife. It's meant to protect him, but he wanted to protect everyone else. He doesn't see the point of it. He resents his luck because it made him survive every tragedy, when his loved ones didn't. He loves it because he loves his mother, his sister, and his father, and it's one of the few fragments left of his first self, his truest self. Lucky boy, boy made of gold and honey. When he was born, rain fell. It was the god's blessings. Or was it the god's tears?

[guided-by-stars]

This dialogue only appears if you gave back your dagger before asking Loop what the difference is between looping with tears or your dagger.

Loop of course, is against Siffrin hurting themselves. But this is more than that, clearly. They acknowledge that suicide is suicide, no matter if it's with tears and time or blood and stars.

But they're incredibly against the idea that Siffrin might see their body as unimportant and disposable. They say that Siffrin should keep their body intact, because they can't keep their possessions, they can't keep their history, they can't keep anything. The only thing that he owns is his own BODY. The only thing he hasn't lost.

(...)

Who saw their own body as unimportant? Who disposed of their own body? Who lost everything, lost their possessions, their memories, their timeline, their family... and also lost their body. Who did that?

[justanotheryellowsoul]

Change

Get it? Because it's pocket change? But it's also Loop staring at their reflection because that isn't who they are anym

[kazumist]

THE WAY YOU LOOK AT ME .ᐟ

✩ — includes: aventurine x gn!reader. fluff. no cws. wc: 359. idk aventurine is probably still in denial abt his feelings in this i think. you could interpret this in any way you like tbh LOL. i grew a soft spot for him after finishing the recent penacony quest and had a huge revelation in the car that this song (the title of this post) really suits a guy like him imo. or maybe im just delusional who knows?

Aventurine couldn’t seem to grasp why you tend to look at him with such a loving gaze.

There’s just something in the way you look at him—like he’s safe. Accepted. Loved, perhaps. It’s been so long since he felt loved—he practically only had himself, even when he had the IPC by his side. However, when you came crashing into his life, maybe that was when things started to change.

The fact that Aventurine liked to gamble with his very own life didn’t shock you. Nor scare you. And it certainly didn’t make you distance yourself from him. But he still doesn’t get it. Why? Why do you look at him like that? Why do you look at him like he’s the only thing your eyes would choose to focus on? Like he’s the only one you’d care to look at?

Calming, soft, and full of admiration. Those were always the things that Aventurine could notice whenever he looked you in the eye. It scared him at some point because he wasn’t used to this at all. But as time went on, he just grew to accept it. If he could freeze a moment in his mind, it would be the second your eyes met his. Because that’s when Aventurine feels like he could let his guard down, at least for a moment—when he’s with you. He would stop the clock if he could, for that’s all he wanted to feel.

(To be safe in your presence is the last thing he asked for, but he wouldn’t ask for anything more.)

Sometimes, he tends to wonder. How could a simple look in the eye have such an effect on him? Surely there wouldn’t be some scientific explanation behind it (and he doesn’t even bother trying to ask the doctor about it either). Well, he doubts he will get an answer right away. He doesn’t know how or why he feels different in your eyes. Nonetheless, all he knows is that it happens every time.

Aventurine never understood why you would choose to look at him with such emotions swirling in your gaze, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

[aeb-art]

another batch of @ghostlightfic loop sprites 🥰

[oceanic-stars-system]

Truecrimexenorole

Truecrimexenorole is a xenorole where a headmate's role is best described by or is somehow related to true crime.

[motherlove]

✚ Soarepace Agere｡ 

A flag for regressors who have a connection to stars, soft textures, space, & sleepiness.

Requested by : Anon．

[charalol]

Talking with a friend about Sif and Mira friendship. They need to go on silly adventures together!!

[ashleys-doodle-corner]

ACT 2 (... they're already making your head hurt.)

First Loop introductory conversation of the AU + a rough visual guide that I put together! Also, the AU is called Two Coins Same Side AU now, and if I regret it later, too bad. It's set in stone.

Under the cut is the visual guide without the text!

[kaszagryczana]

MY FIRST EVER CROCHET PATTERN!!

its really cute and i hope someone makes it!!

also my ribblr:

any tips are very very welcome i hope u enjoy it!!