#toxic stew

[glacierruler]

toxic stew is a great ship name but consider

suspicious stew

bc minecraft reference

(srry if this is rude)

No you're fine I love this lmao

This is making me have so many thoughts and I can't decide so I'll leave it to a poll

Should suspicious stew be EVERYONE x Steve or should that be toxic stew?

Whichever one wins for EVERYONE x Steve I'm using the other for Withy x Endy x Steve

[kuroananosanji]

I’ve mentioned on my priv twt that Zoro calls Sanji “廚子” (chu zi) in the Chinese translation and that somehow sounds… romantic? “Cook” or コック in English/Japanese sounds like just your average nickname among dudebros but 廚子 sounds like something you’d call your wife (if you’re some grumpy old man). Maybe it’s coz Chinese people have a habit of calling their spouses insulting nicknames (see: 臭婆娘、老婆子 which are just variations of “old hag”😭), so we can’t help but interpret zosan as some boomer “ol’ ball and chain” couple

[clowneree]

killer (2025). directed by me 😏

+ other art of jonah and hyeon-u under the cut

[capybarasatwork]

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[jerksbitch]

twitter has poisoned this fandom i fear ... we used to be a community..

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

If Adora and Catra both did crap to hurt each other then why do I never see comics abt Adora feeling like crap and feeling bad for hurting Catra

[dipplinduo]

S&S Dipplins

Hi I've been going insane over your fic for the last week (possibly longer I'm terrible at keeping track of time) and I just had a random thought from the last chapter;

Was briar even there?? Or was she just a hallucination?? Bc kieran says 'but he was alone in this hallway since the start' and that's getting my silly little theory brain going that maaaybe she wasn't even there and pecharunt just made him think she was

[candyredterezii]

The defense/reason Utena is lesbian because of her having heavy trauma related with various men is a biphobic statement and completely ignores that bi women can and do face abuse from various men in their lives as well but we aren't ready to talk bout that yet I think!

[6mayhem]

anyway i need to hang out with my brother again he is the one person who i am pretty sure knows literally everything about me so he's the only person i trust that i can absolutely not disappoint. nothing i can do could be worse than the sum of everything i've been doing to that poor man (and him to me) the past 19 years

[glacierruler]

I am a toxic stew shopper all the way.

Stevehero is really good too though

[tricksterlatte]

The Online Fandom 7 Deadly Sins

sloth: complaining about how no one writes the tropes or pairings you like and bashing what's already out there, while refusing to create anything you desire yourself

greed: zine and other finance-related scandals with zero remorse for those negatively affected

gluttony: spending rent money on merch, experiencing buyer's remorse, then repeating the same process next month

wrath: anon hate over literally everything under the sun, even harassing official writers and threatening them if they don't make your ship canon

pride: devaluing other's characterizations and ships to praise yours as better, whether through a canon perspective or a moral perspective, when neither matter in the long run when it comes to your own enjoyment

envy: trash talking others' fandom creations or saying you won't bother creating anything because it'll never be as good as them

lust: fighting over who tops or bottoms because of your personal preferences when one, both, or neither could happen, especially when most of these characters never even kiss canonically nor have most people fighting done any of these things irl themselves

[validity-system]

your blog confuses me somewhat but i support it.

🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

[yesplsnothankyou]

I only come on tumblr when I'm at the very end of my rope and barely hanging on by a quickly disintegrating thread and I don't know what that tells you about me

[melonisopod]

See I think the problem with stuff like Twilight, 50 Shades, The Notebook, etc is that I would be so much more in favor of these toxic, codependent relationships if both parties put equal effort into being horrible people. They’re all one-sided, you have one person who absolutely sucks as a person and then you have a long-suffering saint enduring the other’s abuse.

Heathcliff and Catherine are so perfect as a couple because they are both terrible people. Their romance is so sexy and compelling because they both suck. I so badly wanted them to be together and ruin each other’s lives not out of spite for them but because it just would have been such a narratively satisfying trainwreck. Those two hugged and kissed while ripping each other’s hair out and squeezing tight enough to leave bruises, it was awesome.

We need more romance like that. No one is doing it like them.

[howifeltabouthim]

Her love, her jealousy, the never-dying pain always preying on her heart-strings . . . , her keen sense of the humiliation which had come home to her, were all rising fiercely, bubbling up with fiery heat.

Ellen Wood, from East Lynne

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

I do genuinely wonder how much of this is related to students not actually reading (or not finishing) books that were assigned in school, too. Like, if you only read the first five chapters of Gatsby and then get behind on your reading because you have a history project or the big game or an after school job or you just don't want to read, yeah, the major themes of the book are going to fall really flat to you. Even if you learn what the ending is, not experiencing the build up to it and seeing how unhappy all those characters are really dampens its impact. As a former English teacher teaching literature in schools often feels like a damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don't situation, because you literally don't have enough school hours to read most books out loud in class together (which I think is necessary for many students) but in assigning reading for homework (which you need to do in order to not, as a colleague of mine used to do, spend from November to April the same book until every child loathed it with the entirity of their souls) you're going to lose any kid who struggles with reading on their own (or who struggles with comprehension when reading without check-ins/discussion.)

I don't know what the solution is (only read short novels? Do more early reading intervention with all children so by the time they get to high school they actually know how to not just decode but fully understand the text the read? Make English class longer??-- I quit teaching largely because of the institutional refusal to ever make changes that benefit children, don't ask me) but, as with many things, it's hard not to place some of the blame on the continued defunding of education and all its knock-on effects.