#what am i meant to do?

[artist-of-obsessions]

What is the point of creation?

What is the point of creation, when someone who doesn’t know its worth can tell a machine what to make and be satisfied with the result?

What is the point of creation, when all I make can be soullessly fed to technology, copied over and over and over again for the profit of another?

What is the point of creation when nobody cares where the art is made, just as long as they receive an image?

What is the point of creation when my joy of it is being snuffed out by the greed of others?

What’s the point?

[chronicallysickofthis]

Love love love it when people tell me I complain too much as if I don’t put so much of my energy into masking how much pain and fatigue I’m experiencing

[steverogers888]

How am I meant to live knowing the things they did to him?

[justarandomsimp77]

Bro I stg I just had this conversation and it's kinda ticking me off..also this is very controversial..

??: "Wait wait. Say that again?"

Me: "Oh? I'm saying that all woman and men should be treated the same!"

??: "yeah but men literally burned us!!"

Me: "..Yes but do two wrongs make a right?"

??: "no shit! In this case they do!!"

Me: "okay but men nowadays can't even look at a woman for more than three seconds before having to turn away thinking they are a pervert.."

??: "Well that's too damn bad!"

Listen I just CANT with these people!! They make me want to just

🤭🔫

[cubestresser]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infinitycow.eplay

What-

[delirious-donna]

Oh ho… thanks for the tag! 🤭

He is one of the reasons I can’t just leave my phone lying around. Not just what’s saved in my camera but also some of my rotating wallpapers are a touch risqué.

112 days Nanamiless.

I miss him so bad I'm losing my mind.

[velvetboyette]

The huge ass lump I got from smacking my head finally like 100% went away and I woke this morning with a smaller less painful one but still a tender spot on THE FUCKING BACK WHY AM I MAKING SUCH HEAVY CONTACT W THE WALL IN MY SLEEP

[papanowo]

i think dan should get to be a little weird too. as a treat

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[delicourse]

i miss them a little if im gonna be honest

[seagiri]

my guys

[contact-guy]

Please join me in imagining THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES from the perspective of a girlfailure with great hair, as she attempts to shoot her shot with a famous detective and make some money. Neither of these work out for her particularly well, but she comes out of it with a great story to tell at parties.

this is part 1, there will be a part 2!

(This is part of the Watson's sketchbook series)

[gideonisms]

I always fall for someone and forget that like I LOVE getting home and everything is exactly the way I left it in my apartment which is my beautiful space where no one will ever turn on the overhead lights or want me to come up with something to say and a facial expression to make, right now, quick or they will think I hate them! The pressure is on! The clock is ticking! Except it's not ever ticking in my wonderful apartment. An idyllic world where my body language just does not matter and I only do the tasks I want to do

[northstarscowboyhat]

Soooooo, the glasses are Canon now right?

I mean Clover is usually wearing a hat that shrouds their eyes, so it wouldn't be the hardest thing for you to draw....

And it's adorable.....

Please please please please please please please please please please please please

Vote on your phone below if you want nerd glasses Clover to be canon in the LCCU (Lucky Clover Cinematic Universe)

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[mossy-aro]

ultimately i think my insistence on aro positivity honestly is as much a political stance as a personal one.

when i say aro positivity is crucial and that i dislike doomer-ist posts that express sentiments like 'I hate being aro so much I wish I was dead instead’ it's not because I don’t think there can and should be a space for negativity and acknowledging self-hate, or the many ways being aromantic can really suck sometimes. i find that to be very important!

that being said. there is smth here about how self-hate posts are sometimes just arophobia that we inflict on ourselves. and when we put that out into the ether it (intentionally or not) can become arophobia that we inflict on other members of the community. i think there absolutely needs to be a place for negativity and the expression of anger and frustration and self loathing even - these are all good things to talk about because these are things that we experience. that being said, it can also be genuinely upsetting and triggering to people to have what is essentially arophobia shown to them and then have that be validated by other aspec people. your personal thoughts can affect your wider community on a level you may not anticipate. and i understand it i truly do! it took me so long to be able to recover from accepting being aroace - it threw my entire world off kilter and made me question everything about my place in the world.

but my insistence on aro joy and positivity is because ultimately i do believe that building is at the core essence of it all. that ultimately discussions and the purpose of community should be about construction, not destruction. and this is both a personal and a political stance. talking about how much you hate yourself and cultivating online discussions/spaces where negativity about aspec identity is the main and only theme is destructive - if that’s where we let the conversation end. these thoughts can and should be used as a vehicle to look for a path forward!

joy and positivity create a space where the focus can become on forging a path forward, on construction, on community building instead of tearing ourselves and others down with negative thoughts. it’s not productive or healthy when it stops at a place of negativity - it becomes actively destructive to the essence of community.

and i do think that this is especially poignant considering the fact that being any kind of queer, but especially aromantic (and/or asexual) means forging a path for yourself and making your own happiness where there is no obvious way forward. our communities exist mostly online (right now, anyway), there is little recognition of our existence in the real world, the effects of amatonormativity are both pervasive and actively dehumanising, and there are legal, economic and social structures in place actively making our lives more difficult. yes that all sucks! it’s good to acknowledge that. we need to in order to change it. but more importantly, that’s not the end. we are still here and our happiness, our future is for us to determine. even if we can’t change the laws or society, loving yourself and understanding aromanticism as a political identity (as well as personal), as a radical worldview, and as a protest against amatonormativity is essential for both community and personal well being. the personal is political.

tldr. i guess my point is that as a community, we should focus on building, improving, and nurturing ourselves and each other (construction) as opposed to destruction. we should recognise aromanticism and asexuality as political identities as well as personal ones and rely on community and self-love in the absence of anything else as a form of protest and political power. destruction (the recognition of everything that is wrong) is essential as a starting point - but where do we go from there? we rebuild.

[blueskittlesart]

batch 2 of instagram requests, alt outfit edition