#the outcome of that concern

[genderfluid-druid]

Worked on a figure study for practice today that for some reason was just so difficult I almost made myself cry with frustration. Remembered that 1) anything worth doing is worth doing badly, 2) thinking your art doesn't look right is often a sign you're about to improve a level, and 3) it's just practice anyway!!

And then this evening I sat down and banged out three fanart sketches and felt a lot better about life.

[guzhufuren]

i'm very pissed for chinese bl because they have incredibly limited options. you can either keep the making of your queer show relatively quiet so that you don't alert censors and give them additional time to find a way to kill you off even if you are technically a different country's drama, or risk it and try to promote during the making of it and post-production stage so that you have a chance of your show to find audience and not to flop. we saw in the last year that they rationally choose the first option and it's just not fair

[pinacoladamatata]

If Solas doesn't have a satisfying ending I'm not even going to post about it. Like ever. I will simply cease to post all dragon age content and we will pivot to like, elder scrolls or Enderal or smthn

(to be clear;this is my worst timeline option)

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

how are you alive

this isn't hate btw I'm just looking at the fact that you drank pure virus

I'm just cackling that my virus-drinking chaos has been noticed by people outside my immediate friend group. I reiterate that it was a bacteriophage - these viruses are specialized to infect bacteria, and animal cells - ie human - are simply so different that bacteriophages don't even recognize them as targets. In fact, it's a hot topic of study to weaponize bacteriophages for the sake of combatting bacterial infections. Already there have been numerous studies and trials regarding injecting a bunch of viruses into people who are sick to cure them - there was a huge case study in 2017, and interest has exploded since then especially.

What I'm saying is that my impulsive decision was actually a scientific breakthrough I promise. Please let me into your laboratory please please please

[thefloatingstone]

My apologies. I meant no bad faith. I was just surprised you hadn't come across that part yet.

Well I have only done one run and I have never been openly hostile and cruel to him. I know that if you turn him down, he accepts it and is fine with it. So I assume only if you are REALLY cruel to him and choose the dialogue options clearly expressing that you find him disgusting for being a mindflayer.

Because if you just turn him down normally he accepts, is disappointed, and moves on.

In which case, if you call him a disgusting monstrous mindflayer, is it REALLY so surprising for him to respond by showing you illusions of JUST how disgusting a mindflayer you think he is and lean into your belief that that is what he is? His entire THING is trying to placate you so you and him can have an alliance to kill the elder brain. If you lash out at him in anger and disgust, would it not make most sense to, instead of argue, agree with you and reinforce that image because it will at LEAST continue the alliance?

Not to mention The Emperor expresses very VERY obvious signs throughout the entire game that, for all his talk about being happy about being a mindlfayer and that he sees it as a positive, he is very affected by other people's judgement of him being a mindflayer. (Which is an interesting detail to think about how when that insecurity rooted itself in him because it is NOT from his own issues with being a mindflayer. Or at least he very earnestly expresses he views becoming a mindflayer as a positive which is why he encourages you to become at least part ilithid yourself)

But anyway

There are multiple situations, conversations and details where he shows he is overly self-aware on how being a mindflayer is judged by others. SPECIFICALLY in regards to him being viewed as a monstrosity. This is clearly a sore spot for him.

So if you call him disgusting? And if you hit exactly in the weak spot? Can you fucking BLAME him for lashing out and going "ok if that is what you think I am then fucking fine by me. Here I will even give you AMMO to think of me as a monster". resurrecting ironclad walls between himself and you on an emotional level so there can be NO mistake on where either of your feelings lie.

After all, lying to you about being an angelic dream guardian here to save you from your doomed fate didn't work. Why not then lean into the lie of being the ilithid abomination you think he is?

Also Anon you absolutely did mean it in bad faith because I kept answering you on why I liked the grey morality going on here and your response was to push more and more into "Ok but he did an evil thing" when you were not satisfied by my response. Do not insult my intelligence please.

[subsequentibis]

been thinking about drown the clown lately since out of a group of really strong contenders it's becoming one of my favorite songs off of BOOK, and specifically the closing lines because like, it's basically a song about getting distracted from real pressing issues by pointless online arguments and trolls, and the fact that the person trying to get the singer back on track is the weather woman, who gets they'd, it really puts me in mind of how trans people, trans women in particular, were kind of the weather gauge for the recent rise in fascism, and the tactic of people nominally against alt right shit who nonetheless hold transmisogynistic views whether knowingly or not to misgender or degender trans women by using they/them. not to mention shouting down and talking over someone who you're supposedly in agreement with/trying to help by fighting the clown in the first place

like do i think john linnell had that specific phenomenon in mind when writing this song. not necessarily. is it compelling as an interpretation though? well i like to think so

[awkwardnerdylesbian]

why is this giving i think i need to put you down vibes

[clownsuu]

Yooo, you got a design for Helob from clut of the lamb? Your designs are always bussin 🔥🔥

Spoodler fhchHFHFHF-

[vincentspork]

Btw, if you're hanging around and haven't figured It out yet: I am a big scary leftist and while I hate Trump more than you could ever know, I also saw firsthand how dems treated Palestinians (and Muslims in general!) and trans people and basically anyone who dared to ask what material changes were promised under a democratic presidency, so if you're taking out your anger regarding the results on any of those people - Palestinians, Muslims, trans people, or allies to any of those groups - instead of sitting down and talking to your grandma who fully backed Trump a second time, get outta here. Go volunteer at an abortion clic or meet up with your local homeless outreach groups instead of making self-righteous memes about how leftists doomed us all or whatever

[lesbianspicelatte]

gonna get a cavity filled in a couple days and im like so worried that when they give me the high juice ill start talking about the fnaf timeline

[ladyelainehilfur]

As far as Twitter, one of the most unforseen results of Horikoshi not explicitly showing Dekuchako dating as adults is this influx of people pairing up Ochako and Bakugou as petty revenge against Dekuchako shippers 💀

Like, it's not that serious, and it's just people being jerks and claiming Bakugou stole Deku's girlfriend in the end, but as a longtime Kacchako shipper, this could not be any more ironic.

Imagine spending years liking a ship 95% of the fandom thought should be illegal (for what reason, they could not say). Then the one ship people thought was going to set every other ship straight ended up being only vaguely implied. Suddenly, any character could end up either Deku or Ochako.

Certain people who never liked Dekuchako in the first place use Kacchako (a supposedly illegal ship) as ammunition against Dekuchako shippers who thought they had it in the bag. And I just think that's funny. I'm not participating but that's funny.

[psn-stalling]

Look, if someone can bring him back to his senses, it's her. There's no other way around.

That's not true. And you KNOW it.

If things go wrong here everything is going to get worse again- She ALWAYS makes everything worse- She shouldn't even BE in the league club and she DEFINITELY shouldn't be doing an OFFICIAL match here.

There's other ways around. She doesn't need to be the one to "fix" everything. We can fucking handle it just fine ourselves.

It was getting better for everyone until she stepped foot into the damn academy.

Now look at where that's gotten us.

[cyberfunsupporter]

no cause it’s the fact pin was so willing to accept that she was going to suffer for the rest of her life just to protect anin’s place in life and her royal title… she was willing to be alone and listen to anything princess patt told her to do, she was willing to marry an awful man and have a family with him just to keep anin with her family and to keep her “happy” because she doesn’t perceive herself to be an integral part of anil’s happiness… pin thought it best to let anil stay where she was because she didn’t want anil to face any of the loss she’s felt or go through anything hard, she was okay with braving everything by herself just to keep that safety of knowing anil was safe in the palace with her family and all that… literally sickening actually. and she so obviously didn’t think anil was in her right mind when she said she’d run away to england and drop her royal title just to be with pin. that’s why she’s so insecure and jealous, because she thinks anil can do so much better and can get greater things, like a woman of her own rank or even a commoner from england. she thinks she’ll get usurped with just a moment of anin’s attention on another but pin will never even open up about that fear till prompted because she’s willing to force herself to seem okay with it just to protect anil’s happiness LITERALLY SICK the pin really is loyal 😭💔 fawk

[struggling-to-find-home]

Gotta love general medicine for teaching me to take every single failure in stride

Life truly gets better when you don't get upset over it and just keep going

[grayintogreen]

I gotta say TYBW has really got me having some kind of cuteness aggression with Urahara (like god that new animation does him so good) so I feel this is someone in the studio going “let’s make him super adorable before we brutalize him.” It has to be. There is no other explanation.

[gothmods]

This idea of enforcing lengthly wait times and psychiatric assessments in order to access hrt is a very personal matter to me as well since that was my experience and not only did it cause unnecessary and prolonged distress but also involved downright ableist and ill-informed probing on my status as an autistic person

I wasnt even approved for puberty blockers until 2 years in despite already being largely post-pubescent when i was referred and had to have a hospital board approve my case despite my turning 18 before them passing a verdict

What is so traumatising about the process is the denial of autonomy. I knew the consequences of hrt, i had them rigorously explained to me over almost 3 years of compulsory medical and psychiatric evaluations (including seeing a fertility specialist about freezing my eggs in case i wanted biological children, so i was considered old enough to consider child-rearing but not old enough to make my own decisions about my body outside of that????)

And still i had no control over the decision on whether or not i could start hrt

Then i transferred to the public adult sexual health clinic for the remainder of my care and it was such a system shock because one of the first things the endo said was that it was not her job to monitor my gender identity or feelings - it was mine, and that as long as i kept wanting hrt she would keep prescribing it

Surgery was a similar experience, my surgeon advised me on the best options for my body and the outcome i wanted - and the decision to undergo it was mine and mine alone

You cannot remove regret without removing autonomy

And yet people wonder why teenagers, a group so frequently denied autonomy in the basic happenings of their lives, would be resistant to being denied control over their transition