#which is always nice

[pushing500]

Apologies for the lack of updates, I’m currently moving house and it’s very hectic with all the packing and cleaning and organising.

Hopefully I’ll be settled in fast, and my new place has less venomous spiders than my current one. Gotta love being Australian, yeah?

[sniperct]

both my soyona/brooklynn fics are definitely doing better than I expected for a niche ship in a ...well idk how small or large the extended fandom is but the m/m ships are more popular than the canon f/f ship on AO3 lol

[bagel-boy-sama]

I got lovebrush chronicles because I'm legally required to play every gacha game ever and I'ma say, I'm pleasantly surprised. I could see this taking over my life and I'm barely joking.

The plot is kinda odd, but interesting. I'm eternally thankful that the "guardian who isn't related to the MC" isn't a romance target.

None of the characters are all that annoying, though some are getting very close in the alt world. I'm really hoping it's not a constant.

Ayn best boy, goodbye.

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

even if I think the curtains are just blue several months down the line I’ll realise that I was actually processing a profound grief over something or other

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[strawberri-syrup]

cooked food for myself for the first time in ages. feeling yummy

[springtrappd]

since the vietnam post is getting notes again can someone remind me to drop a quick history lesson in the reblogs when i'm not busy riding the wave of post-physio pain-free bliss. Thanks

[journeytodrawiii]

Praise Watercolour✨✨

I just finished up a page in my new sketchbook, and I'm proud to say it's the first colourful page!! I'm waiting for it to dry properly before I post it, but boy am I happy!!! Watercolour just has something so ✨special✨ about it. My acrylic paints are wonderful too, but watercolour is so quick and easy. Putting it down on paper feels so effortless. Not that I don't take my time and fret over bled out sections, but I still find it much easier compared to acrylic. It also helps that I have some really wonderful watercolours, I have NO idea where they're from as I just recently found them in an old box of children's art supplies in a dusty box (and they're unlabelled). Still. Just had to praise the ✨wonder✨ of watercolour. Love them so so so so so much. Yippie!!

[theothersarshi]

I don't believe in gender as this... Immutable Thing. I'd call myself gender critical, except I discovered at some point that it doesn't mean what it ought to mean. (it ought to mean a recognition that gender is artificial and a free-for-all, *grumble*)

But there are certain markers of gender. Certain things. Certain small, can't-put-my-finger-on-it things of gender that we learn from others. What is a woman? Oh, such and such. What is a man? Oh, such and such. Associations. An entire unspoken vocabulary we no longer need to interpret consciously, because we're so used to it we do it automatically.

We learn how to people from other people, and we might emulate things we believe are sensible, things we feel are right for us. Things that make sense to us. Sometimes we do it on purpose. Sometimes it's by accident.

(My bf's fashion choices have rubbed off on me consciously. Whenever I visit a certain city, I pick up some of the accent unconsciously.)

I remember, before PhilosophyTube came out as trans, that I started getting a trans vibe. Something about the grooming that was different, I think. Something that felt purposeful and still within "manly" limits, but it felt like a change (especially watching videos out of order) and which felt feminine in approach.

I wouldn't be surprised if trans people were keeping an eye on queer people and picking up and integrating queer-specific gender markers or having queer-specific gender riffs on more general gender traits, which other queers might pick up on more easily.

As a lesbian, it’s happened twice already that one “guy” stands out to me and I think “huh maybe they’re kinda cute and interesting, I wanna get to know them” and then I get to know them better and it’s a closeted trans girl who I somehow sniffed with my little nonbinary lesbian nose

[idontmindifuforgetme]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[pushing500]

your mechanitor's message series has me wanting to draw art of my own colonists

I highly recommend drawing RimWorld pawns as a great way to practice art! I sometimes feel like I should try harder to figure out digital art because of all the stuff I end up drawing while I'm playing. I'd save a lot of money on sketchbooks and paper if I was drawing on my laptop.

I have a whole bookshelf dedicated to sketchbooks, and my desk is running out of room for pencil pots!! Still, I enjoy looking back at older art and feeling like I've improved—and like I'm improving a bit more each day!

It's definitely worth trying, in my opinion, and if you ever feel like posting your efforts... Well, I can never get enough RimWorld content! <3 <3 <3

[extravapalooza]

little charcoal valentines angel that im gonna risoprint for a shop drop in the next few days ^_^

[lilislegacy]

*percy seen from a far, wearing a suit*

piper: do my eyes deceive me or is percy jackson wearing formal clothes? since when does he have the ability to look like a domesticated human being?

frank: how come HE, percy of all people, king of untidiness, can wear a cream linen suit and look like a celebrity, but when i tried one on i looked like a man-child going to a high school dance?

hazel: sweetie it’s just because it’s such a casual suit, and you’re much more elegant than percy is!

annabeth, turning to them: um okay, hi percy’s best friends? can you guys compliment him without insulting him?

leo: his ass looks incredible.

grover: has he been working out?

annabeth, side eyeing them:

annabeth: okay, you have all now either insulted him or hit on him. how about from now on, you do neither?

rachel: how about we do both? because i’ve actually just perfected doing them at the same time

[zishu-arts]

nicknames

anybody remember this au?

[suntails]

stalemate

[royalarchivist]

Slimecicle: Whoever said "yaoi is dead" dude, I think you need to put on your freakin'– your bi-focal lenses. Anything's possible.

💗💜💙