#there are extremes on both sides

[oonalovesastarionssimpleplan]

Why do we live in a world where you have to apologize for having empathy for a sexually traumatized character.

Instead of apologizing for feeling the need to sexualize a sexually traumatized Charakter.

[camembri]

you wanted zoro to be on whole cake island to fulfil your weird desire to see zoro punish sanji. I wanted zoro on whole cake island because I think he's stupid enough to right place wrong time the plan and accidentally marry Sanji in full view of the whole wedding party in what becomes the most elaborately constructed comedy of errors ever written. we are NOT the same.

[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[satsuha]

🎉 happy anniversary 🐙Ⅱ!! 🍻

can't believe it's been a year already!! i love this game to bits

[chesedelhim]

new discord update is like literally the worst update of an app ive ever experienced and im putting that over tumblr fucking live

[oifaaa]

The juxtaposition of Morrison and Winick both writing Jason in the same series back to back will never not be funny to me bc Grants like "He's dumb, ugly, doesn't shower and can't even tie a knot, he's also got a stupid costume" followed swiftly by Winicks "he's actually drop dead gorgeous, he reads Jane Austin, he's exactly where he wants to be, he's been 5 steps ahead of everyone this entire time, and oh would you look at that hes got his sense of style back"

[crossdressingdeath]

No thoughts. Head empty. Gortash being the only person in the world to love and care for Durge both as Bhaal's Chosen and as an amnesiac hero only.

[ovaruling]

i am so sick of this

there is an established relationship between advanced age of the father and risks to the mother, to the pregnancy, to the fetus, and later to the child.

older men’s ticking biological clocks are harmful. their ages literally compound the dangers to women and to the children they have. increased age of fathers is related to things like gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and preterm birth, just to make a few. later health and mental problems have been observed in children of older fathers.

the number of older fathers is increasing. men feel entitled to father children well into elderliness. men also tend to seek out young women with which to have these children. the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is currently the highest it has been since the 1960s. abortion rights in the U.S. are in extreme peril. this altogether makes the risk to women who reproduce w/ older men much, much greater.

i think we as a society need to start talking about this a bit.

screenshots of additional NYT article under the cut because i couldn’t figure out how to link without the paywall.

[iceagebaby]

Boone did not expect that, when the Courier told him they met this "older grumpy-but-cute doctor"

[jewreallythinkthat]

If you haven't heard, the UK has experienced multiple far right islamophobic riots this last week. It's been awful.

And what really rubs salt in the wound is I am seeing multiple people posting about how awful it is that hate has been stirred up against PoC and the Muslim community in the UK as if they themselves haven't been literally posting that Jews lie about antisemitism and stirring up violent hatred against Jews the past nine months.

I don't want this to come across as minimizing the fear Muslims must be feeling at the moment, especially as I know what it's like to be constantly on guard walking around for fear of being attacked however it is absolutely infuriating that the very same people calling out anti-Muslim hatred have been stoking the fire of anti-jewish racism under the guise of justice. Their hypocrisy is back on show once again

[syekick-powers]

it's fascinating to me how tumblr users who talk about worldbuilding seem to fall under distinct camps of audiences who don't care about detailed worldbuilding logistics at all, audiences who just want things to make sense and cohere internally even if it's not perfectly realistic, and audiences who seem less interested in stories and more interested in just hearing about the tiniest most irrelevant minutiae of how a fictional world works to the detriment of actually telling a story. and then there are also storytellers on here who also fall under three similar camps of writers who don't really care about detailed worldbuilding and mostly paint their worlds in broad strokes, those who put a fair amount of thought into their worlds but don't really get down into the fine details, and those that plan every tiny little fucking thing out. the variety of humanity is truly fascinating

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Horse Yaoi trotted so Horsegirl Yuri could fly.

[flo-n-flon]

"While it's fresh. I need everyone to tell me what they saw and heard, so that I can write it down. There will never be a better time."

Of all the accounts Loial gathered in Thakan'dar that day, the Aes Sedai's proved the most difficult to acquire. Those who remained were elusive, bustling around the Healing tents and churned fields. Nynaeve Sedai and her helpers, paying no heed to the fragility of Humans, were bringing back from the brink of death so many that a constant flow of barely healed soldiers and channelers shuffled toward the Travelling grounds, freeing much-needed beds inside the tents.

Moiraine Sedai would not answer his inquiries about the events at Shayol Ghul either, intent as she was on the care of a drawn, but gently chiding Tairen woman.

[possessable]

pioneering the extremely specific art genre of "character leaning on oversized slide puzzle with design vaguely themed around them"

also sketch because his dumb face is cute here too

[extreme-unorthodox-cuddles]

A pred going about their day, completely normally, just doing simple daily tasks, relaxing doing some hobbies, maybe going out for a walk somewhere. Just a common, casual day.

But the entire time, they have a companion with them, unseen to the world, but not unbeknownst. The pred often keeps a hand on them, to let them know that they haven't been forgotten about, but it's hard to forget about your friend who is currently your stomach to significantly bulge out as they sit inside it. The prey is happy, comfortable and warm within their friend, confident in the fact that they're as safe as can be where they are. The prey feels a hand gently press by them, and they return the gesture in the same place.

It's a nice experience.

[aimseytv]

cannot stop thinking about c!aimsey grabbing c!guqqies lifeless body and holding it as tight as humanely possible, her knuckles turning a dark shade of blue from the pressure because every inch of aimseys body is screaming that there is a hope if she holds her dead lovers body tight enough, she will come back. despite bloom knowing this won’t happen, she does it anyway. she clutches onto guqqie, trying to clasp onto pieces of her clothing to hold her closer. she is whispering apologies, but the whispers quickly begin to get louder as the words aimsey sputters start to match the intensity of her own heart beat, to the point where aimsey is screaming and begging for guqqie to come back as it echos through the ghost town. tears begin to fall onto guqqies pale face, aimsey cupping it gently while still muttering incoherently about how this is all her fault, how this has changed everything

suddenly, it all goes quiet, no more talking, and the rain stops. all there is to be heard are sobs. aimsey realises that she isn’t coming back.