#they were nice to me

[non-fantasy]

people are just mean and weird about hiyori!!! like someone told me "i don't ship liphiyo because i see them as just friends" which is fine but then they went on to say "yeah, hiyori is aizo and yujiro's sister/daughter" and it became really obvious that you do not actually think they can just be friends!! you are trying to erase hiyori as a possible love interest in any possible way and it's weird because hiyori??? is the mom friend??? she is literally only ONE MONTH younger than aizo and yujiro why are you treating her like she's the daughter !!!??? and like people SAY they're just having fun and making headcanons and if it were just that, it would be fine, but WHY ARE YOU CALLING LIPHIYO INCEST AND COMMENTING DAD AND DAUGHTER ON MY SHIP POST

like also remembering that time someone commented on my G-rated fic saying it was totally inappropriate for me to be sexualizing minors and i went "?????" and then i saw a aizo/yujiro porn fic but WHEN I CHECKED THE COMMENTS THEY WERE ALL "WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS" AND "THIS FANDOM WAS LACKING IN SMUT"???? and one time someone was called out for liking lewd aizo/yujiro porn fics BY HER TWITTER MUTUALS WHO LIKED THE SAME CONTENT and the time someone was like "i can't ship liphiyo because hiyori is like a baby to me and i can't see her having sex" and WHAT???? THEY ARE THE SAME AGE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS TREATMENT IS WEIRD

and like you look at non-fantasy music video and say it's a mv about hiyori shipping aizo and yujiro and LITERALLY EDIT HER OUT OF IT and ignoring the context of it being HER DREAM ABOUT DATING AND MARRYING THEM and you are literally trying SO HARD to get her out of the picture of HER OWN DREAM

and like this is even obvious in the way that people treat her other ships! when nagisa was introduced, people started shipping hiyori with him ENTIRELY TO SHIP HER WITH SOMEONE OTHER THAN AIZO AND YUJIRO. people shipped hiyori and mona before they even had a single canon interaction but in the "bonus lesbian established relationship in the background of a m/m ship" way! i have a LIST of "guys hiyori is shipped with despite either not having much information known about him yet or being such a side character that you'd be forgiven for not knowing he exists"?????

and like people try and say that liphiyo shippers are homophobic??? and like what????? when it's a poly relationship between three people who are all in love with each other???? you're aware that homophobic does NOT mean "doesn't like a popular m/m ship" right????

AND LIKE IT'S SO FUCKING WILD because oh okay! the translation of hiyori's second novel is biased???? to erase times where hiyori's heart races around aizo and yujiro because they touched her and there's a part where the translation explicitly contradicts how the japanese fandom reads the scene and the translator pointed to that to say that yujiro was DISGUSTED by hiyori???? do you even like canon if you have to change canon so much to make it fit your views?!

i remember the person who said that the herotaru anime was bad because hiyori was TOO IMPORTANT in it and like. IT'S HER ANIME. and you say she's TOO IMPORTANT to aizo and yujiro and "they were doing just fine without her" and "it would be better if aizo and yujiro were the protagonists" and WHAT? ARE YOU SAYING??? THE ANIME IS LITERALLY TONING DOWN HOW IMPORTANT THE THREE OF THEM ARE TO EACH OTHER. and comparing this to enstars making anzu TOO IMPORTANT to trickstar and like!!! WHAT????

this isn't getting into how i've been treated by fans in this fandom but i am just!!! i am OKAY with people not liking the ship! BUT THIS IS JUST BEING WEIRD. THIS IS A WEIRD WAY OF TREATING GIRLS IN MEDIA. THIS IS A WEIRD WAY OF TREATING FANS IN MEDIA. STOP IT.

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

[o0kawaii0o]

no mercy 😭

[pangur-and-grim]

I updated the breeder on what's been happening, and she called Belphie out for being bald

[hymyarts]

"We Myrmidons are not the sentimental type."

[dazzelmethat]

Some crickets and grasshoppers and my thoughts about them.

I've always been interested in bugs since I was real small.. I should draw them more often.

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[moonlightkhalessi]

First day at my new job done ✅ 🎉

[barghest-land]

drawings from paleo expedition to dagestan, done right on the trip. sometimes messy when it was cold and rainy, but i won't correct it. i think it's cool to leave it just the way it was done, and not retouch it after. there will be more drawings later, but those will be done from home

[nothorses]

after having an entire hour long conversation with my coworkers about what "degendering" is, and the importance of using trans people's pronouns when you know them- rather than always defaulting to "they/them" no matter what- and still getting "they/them"ed by people I trusted not to fucking do that to me, I have decided that the name and pronouns circle of introductions for new additions to the group will now include the very clearly stated boundary that they do not use "they/them" pronouns for me.

your move, cowards!

[kingzombear]

The VAs for Jax and Zooble are at my local con, so I whipped these up real quick and gave em these as offerings, they said they liked em! <3

[blakbonnet]

as an indian person, my favourite thing is seeing what people who aren't from here have done with my food; i'll go to an indian restaurant in a random corner of the world and they're putting oregano in their palak paneer or a balsamic wash on their naan and it's like "yes good tell me how you folded your culture into mine and came out with something new and lovely, we're holding hands across oceans bestie"

[thewanderingmask]

congrats to these lovely folks!

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[mipexch]

i love animating these little freaks

[taffywabbit]

i have lots of flaws but i do at least take a fair amount of comfort knowing that, if i were a customer NPC in a fast food/retail management game, i would be one of the chill early-level ones that can wait a super long time before they start getting impatient, and you breathe a sigh of a relief when you see them show up in a harder level