#yeehaw folks

[wasabi-gumdrop]

unironically obsessed with the best of what american slice of life has to offer: king of the hill

[r-kaye]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hitman (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Agent 47/Diana Burnwood Characters: Agent 47 (Hitman), Diana Burnwood Additional Tags: New Year's Eve, Kissing at Midnight, Balcony Scene, Pre-World of Assassination (Hitman), before anything except the training missions, erich soders is an ass Summary:

There was one agent that people had been whispering about as they saw her pass by, his absence the apparent talk of the evening. Diana had wondered if 47 would show up, but he had seemed to lack any interest in the occasion when she had passed along the invitation. She really couldn’t imagine him there, drinking and mingling.

Of course, 47 wouldn't come to an Agency party.

It's time to party like it's 1999, but Diana feels like something is missing to ring in the new millennium right. or 47 shows up at an Agency party.

[sunriseseance]

Tag game rennaisance!

Tagged by: @sorenserotonin

Rules: answer the questions and tag 9 people

Four ships:

Dani/Jamie from The Haunting of Bly Manor

Pharah/Mercy from Overwatch

Klaus/Dave from Umbrella Academy

Beauregard/Yasha from Critical Role

Last song:

Iris Rose by Orville Peck

Currently reading:

City of Night by John Rechy

Last movie:

Treasure Planet

Currently craving:

A long, lonesome drive

Tagging: @icedenceladus @iwannabeyourdog2 @faerileee @tanniri @hermitreunited @autumndagger @apocalypse-gang @anglophile-rin @le-guin @vulpszerda @wireless-telegraph

[caramel-clowns]

yo do yall wanna see my OTHER cat, ive shown you one, I have two

[dawgsprite]

Do you like have a thing for cowboys or something

oh. hello. yes i do. i have a huge thing for cowboys. i love this ask idk what tipped you off to this let me know if you had a pinpoint moment you realized i have a huge ridiculous thing for cowboys

[hellothereimaloser]

For any of you interested, I have a lil story for my ocs :DD Long time ago I made an outsiders centaur au and I wanted to do my orginal story with it. Basically work more on the world building and stuff!

So here u have the protag Mikey who got adopted by a human family, these two next to him are his bros Hunter and Brent :D

Also I did some sketches of him as a blorbo with teen Hunter and with his two friendos <3

It's a comfort story for me so expect more posts with them <3

[fruitgravies]

jackie’s a menace

prints and more

[amorisrat]

COWBOY PARTY COWBOY PARTY

[flamboyant-king]

What did you follow me for, like what was I mostly posting at the time that peaked your interest? Or did you just like my art and went, "Hey, I don't care, this person is hella so let me click that follow button because I crave more of whatever they have to post."

[lifemod17]

To my fellow 'Empire Now' enthusiasts, may I offer you some isolated vocals?

[kazuusyan]

Dazai carrying sigma like a sack of potatoes

[gayestcowboy]

i’m genuinely going to be so upset when i graduate and leave my college and don’t get to sing sea shanties every week. it’s turned into such a significant part of my life over my time in undergrad. obviously there are social sings all around but there’s no guarantee i’ll end up in an area with one nearby or accessible. i need my shanties. pov i have to start a shanty club in grad school

[spotsupstuff]

Anon from the karma flower ask here, just gotta say i have no regrets, hows sparrows recovery going?

according to doctor (Euros) she'll be just fine after grounding herself a lil. nothing bad essentially happened, she just wasn't ready for all those feelings

[constantvariations]

I remember someone saying "there's no such thing as a good racism allegory" and it's been bouncing around in my head for a while. I'm someone who typically thinks anything can work if given the right circumstances, but then I really started thinking about it and I believe they're right

Because if you want to talk about racism, you should just talk about racism

(This is unpolished and ramble-y, so strap yourselves in)

Racism is deeply ingrained into our society, no matter where you live. Imperialism and colonialism has ensured that no corner of Earth has been left untouched. Choices from hundreds of years ago are still being felt today. There's practically no end to the discussion of its effects on the world and its people

So, why should anyone feel the need to dress it up in cat ears?

I've consumed a lot of media where writers have consciously echoed in part some aspect of racism in their fantasy story: Bright 2017, Dragon Age, RWBY, the MCU, Harry Potter, Detroit: Become Human, etc. The biggest thing they have in common is that the narrative is told to side with the victims, but it somehow always ends up against them

It always sides with the status quo

It's confusing, maddening even, because the narrative oft goes out of its way to show how horrible the system is and how these folk don't deserve their treatment, so why are we going back to normal as if it's a good thing? Why are the people actively working to improve the system decried as annoying at best and monstrous at worst?

Then you look at the people who write these storylines. The beliefs they hold, the people they vote for, which charities and organizations they give to, and it all makes sense. Centrists (at best) trying to look progressive are the ones who need to dress racism up in cat ears and rainbow freckles. They set aside the long, brutal histories and crushing systemic realities to play pretend that racism is Not That Bad and is only done by Those Bad Individuals

That's why Velvet's ears are tugged instead of culled. That's why the Mantle drunkards say mean things to Blake instead of attempting to assault her. That's why everything surrounding the SDC's labor practices is so vague as to be useless while the biggest evidence of their malice is hand-waved away by a writer who says the victim "had it coming" as if someone can deserve being branded by being too much of a brat

These stories aren't meant to make the audience question why our society works off the bloodied backs of the exploited or demands we take good, hard looks at ourselves and how we've been duped into believing so much garbage about entire swathes of people. They're meant to satisfy the people who only feel bad that these things are happening because they (white folk) look like the bad guys. It's a self-congratulatory wank about how "I'm not like THOSE guys, therefore I'm a good person!"

And then there's the characters meant to convey this story in the first place: always inoffensive, mostly aimless, "not like the other girl" types that pander to that delicate palate. Blake - a conventionally attractive, pale skinned girl in fashionable clothes - used to be passionate about equality but only in the right way, and demonizes anyone who does not conform to this mindset despite having no reasoning to back it up while never once demanding better of the privileged people around her even when they do racially insensitive things

The biggest downfall of these racial allegories, be they about cat girls or orcs or elves or robots, is that they do something that marginalized folk have been forced to endure since the dawn of time: literal dehumanization. There are tangible differences between humans and whatever the allegory is, which undermines the very fundamental fact that black/asian/queer/neurodivergent/disabled/whatever folk are unapologetically, undeniably, exceedingly human. By dressing up their plights in cat ears or spottled blue skin, you're creating theater not for the people who actually live through these struggles as a means of connecting with them and providing them a safe outlet for their feelings, but giving the people who benefit from passively allowing the system to enforce said struggles a pat on the head for not being the grand wizard

I don't really know where I'm going or how to end this, so I'll just sign off with if you're going to talk about racism, just talk about racism

[frozenhi-chews]

I forgot my freaking Strawpage for my promo. Ah well. Uh. It's the same as my pinned anyway

[ekleipsi]

--- anyways, so i know i haven't been around much in the last month or so. i've been dealing with a lot of personal issues and my job picked up so the hours there have been hectic. in addition, there was...a thing here that i guess really stung so it took me a second to sort of deal with that. mentally. but.

--- hoping to maybe get back into the swing of things and apply some mental energy here again. i've purged (not necessarily purged, but. trimmed my muse list to a manageable state) and adjusted some shipping status' on my muses so feel free to go back and peek through them if you'd like.

--- might post a starter/inbox call here soon.