#vrambles

[towersofviolet]

there's no feeling more blessed than getting into a new piece of media that has sooo much content

[vbeingabitch]

dead naming and misgendering a trans person is being okay with their blood on your hands.

outing a trans person is being okay with their blood on your hands.

transphobia is being okay with kid's blood on your hands.

do not forget this.

scream it from the roof top if you have to.

protect loudly.

[tetradic-echinoidea]

I try to keep myself distanced from much of any internet discourse, and fandom discource in particular, but I've caved a bit from the sheer shock of seeing people's reactions to omfd s2...

We NEED to go back to the very basics of media literacy. Like elementary school level stuff. Everyone should complete a little quiz after watching something that starts with questions such as "Identify the main character(s)" and "What were the key events in the story?" because let me tell you there seems to be some confusion about it

[paranoid-paroxysm]

my top 10 pokemon in each region pt 2

Sinnoh

1. Froslass

2. Empoleon

3. Weavile

4. Munchlax

5. Toxicroak

6. Gliscor

7. Turtwig

8. Carnivine

9. Luxray

10. Gallade

Unova

1. Trubbish

2. Tepig

3. Zoroark

4. Stoutland

5. Maractus

6. Scraggy

7. Blitzle

8. Zekrom

9. Deino

10. Genesect

Kalos

1. Malamar

2. Diancie

3. Pyroar (Female)

4. Trevenant

5. Zygarde

6. Goomy

7. Dedenne

8. Pangoro

9. Noibat

10. Froakie

[apothe-scary]

“I wonder if I can have children….I’ve never tried. Always been careful when i did have partners…..but maybe…I wonder if maybe I DO have children. Now thats a thought.” He ponders. He was fairly certain he didn’t. But you never knew. Though he was fairly certain he knew. Hed checked on old lovers several times and while some had kids, they were always long after hed been with them. And never the right ages to have been his.

[creation-void]

Sometimes you get happy, and then your depression tries to ruin it. So you have to take out your self care gun and shoot him.

[danceswithfoxz]

Going over to ghosty goos house this weekend, probly won’t be back til Tuesday. Hope everyone has a good one ouo/

[towersofviolet]

YES i want to study toki pona more NO i don't have a toki pona name yet NO it's not that important in the grand scheme of things but YES it bugs me

[towersofviolet]

hyperfixations really form over the most random and unexpected things

[vbeingabitch]

small reminder that no one is privileged to know ur system

[vbeingabitch]

people should stop pretending systems have to be palatable for them. have too many introjects, have a bunch of non humans, used neos and xenos, make shit pretty or chaos, have a bunch of proxies or dont. fuck with people and pretend to be each other when someone dosent wanna talk. block anyone whos a bitch. be open about your opinions and block hate tbh. blocking people is free and you dont gotta be what anyone wants. idc if its parents or partners or friends or anyone. you dont gotta fix a box, you are already struggling to find who you are dont let anyone else try to force you to change who you are

[towersofviolet]

toki! tenpo suno pini la mi pu. mi wile e ni: sona toki mi li kama wawa. toki ni li pona li musi tawa mi. tenpo ni la mi kama sona. mi toki. mi musi a! mi tawa.

[towersofviolet]

finally got round to watching squid game season 1 but i can't engage in my usual tag diving and fanfic hunting because everywhere is flooded with season 2 spoilers 😔

[towersofviolet]

window ppl in my house and i'm still in bed 🥴

[tetradic-echinoidea]

It makes me sad that so much of the creative community on social media has succumbed into this petty squable about what kind of engagement is worthwile and how creators aren't content machines (which is true! but!) and how they're all going to leave if people don't start giving their energy to these creators in a specific way... like, girl. You know that's extremely toxic, right? You know that your followers and their followers aren't engagement machines only there to spread validation and help all artists grow an audience? That it's not ANY individual's job to build an audience for YOU??

If you've looked at social media these days, literally everything and everyone is screaming for our attention all the fucking time! Hey you're not engaging with the news enough, or in the correct way, or hey you didn't give a statement about this or that or you're not supporting artists and creators, because you are only liking things, which doesn't "do anything". By the way buy this product! Help these hundreds of people fundraising for money, why do you not reblog their posts?! Why aren't you caring enough?? Wow, you only liked this post again? Why aren't you helping these people??

Like. I'm sorry to say but as much as social media and the internet connects us, everyone has the right to determine the level of connection they want to have with you. Creators don't owe content to anyone, but no one fundementally owes them their energy and time (or space on their blog!) either.

Staking the existence of your creative pursuits on strangers, without their knowledge, is doomed to fail. A random person seeing your post and liking it has no clue you have set them an expectation of "helping you build your audience". They are primarily engaging with your work in a way that is comfortable and natural for them - whether or not that is through a simple like, reblog or a comment/ask. It might also reflect on how much they liked the thing they saw - or maybe they want to check it out later, who knows. It doesn't really matter. It does everyone a disservice assuming the worst of people who don't engage in the way you decided is correct and worthwile. You can't force people to be moved by your work, or to want to show it to other people. If they don't they don't. They aren't doing anything wrong by engaging with the things they truly love and care about, and not engaging with things that they do not want to engage with.

Sitting there seething that the people walking by aren't stopping to talk to you isn't gonna make those people wanna stop and talk to you. They don't fucking know or care that you want something specific from them in return for putting yourself out there on a website out of your own volition.

The unfortunate thing about creating art is that it is sometimes very lonely, and difficult. But there are things you can do to alleviate that without putting unfair and toxic expectations on total strangers. At some point you have to just realize, that to get the sort of engagement and conversation you want you need to go somewhere and ask for that. Whether it be your friends, mutuals, people you share fandoms with, or asking a more experienced creator for feedback. Finding groups where everyone wants to share and receive feedback.

I reblog things from my friends, and things that really speak to me or that I have something to say about, because that's what I want to be doing on my little blog. I wanna support the artists I wanna support! It doesn't mean I don't want the art I don't reblog to succeed, but no one can give their time and space to everything and anything they see. Give it to the things you like! Give it to the things you authentically want to give it to! I don't know about you guys but I would rather have 1 reblog by a person who really fucking loved something I did rather than 10 reblogs by people who reblog everything they come across out of some sense of duty.

Also, I am just asking - if the point of reblogs is to spread the work of an artist how the hell is a "dump side blog" with likely no followers going to do anything?? Anyway, sorry to the 5 non-bot and non-dead followers I have, I just needed to have another 0 note rant on the tungle because this shit irritates me to the nth degree. Truly social media's idea about helping and community is so fucked and full of toxic entitlement. Ideally a community is a place where people help each other, but social media is like. million little disjointed islands of semi-communities and constant flow of strangers between them. It really is not the ideal place for that deep sense of belonging.

[vbeingabitch]

hot take, prosecutors genuinely are sometimes the only alter whos willing to protect you. sometimes theyre the one who cuts off that abusive friend, in a shitty way, but they did it. obviously alot can be harmful but in the system community i see wayyy too many people act like protectors cant be mean and harsh or if you all hurt people youre a bad people even if they needed to hear it. every alter is needed in some way