#vrambles

[towersofviolet]

so i started watching 9-1-1 because it was all over my dash. and uh . i'm on season 4 already

[vbeingabitch]

small reminder that no one is privileged to know ur system

[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]

had a 911 dream last night (actually it was a normal dream that just happened to feature the 118). ravi was there singing a song about frogs while the rest of the 118 listened, riveted.

what does this mean? it means i am manifesting ravi main 2025

[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]

do any other autistic folk have days when your own skin is just so ITCHY it's all you can think about... like it's not been irritated by anything, it's just that i am Aware of my own skin and it's trying to kill meee sjdkallslkfjf

[towersofviolet]

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[towersofviolet]

sjzdjsjkfkaj i've had two dreams this week featuring eliot from leverage... what is the universe telling me.......

[towersofviolet]

saw an elephant hawk moth caterpillar making its way across my garden. apparently they pupate over winter and emerge as moths in may, so i hope it sticks around bcos the moths have this beautiful pink colour and i'd love to see one

[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.

[tetradic-echinoidea]

As much as I do not believe transmisandry/transandrophobia to exist I do believe there is a bit of a trend going on where transmen and transmascs are not listened to when they talk about their relationship to patriarchy. I've seen a lot of posts where transmen are told to understand their place in society as men. And while I agree that understanding the priviledges manhood might bring... It fucking sucks when you get silenced when you try to talk about how your past and present lived experience and therefore the priviledges you're afforded really does not match that of a cisman's, ot if you even after transitioning (whatever that means for any given individual) experience patriarchal oppression. I will personally always continue suffering from it as long as I have my uterus and ovaries. And even if I someday passed as a (cis)man, that will never take away the way living under patriarchal oppression has shaped my life and personhood.

I would like it if trans men were allowed to define their own experiences instead of thrown around the pathriarcally oppressed/opressor boxes with absolutely no regard to an individual's life. It's so easy for ciswomen to throw out any solidarity with a transman/masc individual when he/they come out as a man/masc, as if that somehow erases the same lived struggles. It makes me so sad that a word to describe your identity is a more important factor in building solidarity rather than mutual struggles and experiences!!

[towersofviolet]

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i have to go to the dentist in an hour and a half but i have such bad cramps owowowowoowwoowow

the irony is i cancelled and rescheduled my last appointment for this exact reason! and then this cycle came a week early!!!!!