#you absolutely DO NOT have to match

[misfxts]

[ FRIENDS ]: the sender, unable to attend directly, sends friends over to protect the receiver when they encounter a threat.

except it’s Rene sending Agni (and a bunch of Murkrows) to help Iris—

Right place, right time. @brrnedoutbrrista

[ FRIENDS ]: the sender, unable to attend directly, sends friends over to protect the receiver when they encounter a threat.

Iris currently stands between a group of thugs and a small group of Shiny Pokemon that came out from the woods, her heart thrummed loudly down her ears and neck but she stood firm with her arms out wide to either side of her.

Damn, she should have known that word surely had gotten around that the Rarity Child, the human shiny charm herself was in Jalur. It wasn't uncommon that Iris had been approached by poachers and the like for her abilities-- she'd swiftly alert the police, but that didn't stop them.

"Oooh, look at this little princess boys! Thinks she's a real fuckin' girl boss that can take us down with some stern words!" The leader of the thugs barks out, his cronies cackling in response, he turns to look at Iris. "Listen lady, you're all over social media, I know you got a bunch of baby Pokemon that can only do those fancy shows you do-- except for maybe that Luxray.. buut one of my boys here got a mean lookin' Donphan with an' even meaner earthquake soo... checkmate."

The leader begins walking forward, the rest of his team following but Iris stands firm.. even when the leader was face to face, staring right down at her.

"..Move. I'm not gonna ask again."

Iris shakes her head.

The leader sighs, rolling his shoulders. "..Fine. You asked for it, bitch."

That was all the warning Iris got before the man cracked a punch so hard it slammed her body into the ground, her head was spinning.. hard to see..

"It's five of us against one of you, and I don't see anyone coming to save the little baby of the Adelaide Family.. no one is coming for you, Princess."

[lucabyte]

Taking pride in One's own appearance.

[prolibytherium]

Just in general I think trying to look to pre-late modern period history for validation of LGBT+ identities is an absolutely useless venture. Every single underlying human experience defined through the lens and framework of LGBT identity has always existed, but it's impossible to pin down Exactly who and what a figure might have been if they existed in this contemporary context and decided to self identify via these labels.

It's also a wildly reductive lens that flattens the complexity and variety of how sex and gender has been constructed across time in different cultures, how sexual norms have varied, etc. This is not a constructive approach to learn about history and you're never going to be able to fit historical figures neatly into little identity categories.

[canisalbus]

What if we were gay dogs holding hands while looking at art in the museum. JK. Unless...

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[tvok]

he ain't heavy, he's my brother [dimensionswap au]

[sforzesco]

a scene from the comic script I junked— I’m going to re write it eventually, but I realized after I finished it that I was holding back on the vitriol and the ugly teeth marks in the rivalry, like truly what is the point of doing a comic about geta and caracalla if you’re going to soften the blows lmao

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[imerian]

Vr46 academy keychains

Set of five charms that all match in different ways

˚　　　　✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　 . ✦　　˚　

Open for detailed pictures of each one

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ *ੈ✩‧₊˚

ִֶָ 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆★⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ

:･ﾟ✧:･.☽˚｡･ﾟ✧:･.:

˖⁺‧₊˚⭒✮⭒˚₊‧⁺˖

. ݁₊ ✶. ݁ ˖ˎˊ˗

I ran out of tags so I'll say it here but i would greatly appreciate a reblog, especially if you share your thoughts on these pieces in tags (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

(Also i forgot that bez have matching part with luca so I didn’t add that to tags sorry

[backpackingspace]

Okay no idea if tattoo's were a thing in ancient greece but regardless imagine penelope and odysseus having an olive branch tattoo around their hands that connects when they hold hands.

[aurorangen]

Next minute you know, there was a giant centipede on his arm but he was too busy acting cool to notice it 🫣

Aaaand some extras!!!

[beneathsilverstars]

the dissociaterrrr

(They're good enough at Tetris that a couple dollars in quarters will last them a decent amount of time, but sometimes they splurge and get the $12 all-you-can-play pass. The album they're listening to is harsh noise!)

[sysig]

Caughtcha, gotcha, not letting go ♥ (Patreon)

[mika-you-nerd]

Duality of man

Trust me I am super normal about this guy

[quaranmine]

i guess it is a given that i am probably not an average or standard user of websites but whenever tumblr staff says something about the website being hard to use, or refusing to let us have options to turn something on/off in the menu because "it's adding bloat and too many complicated options for new users" i just get so confused. like what?

i love settings. i love little toggleable sliders. the first thing i do whenever i get any account or device is go into the options to make it exactly how i like. i spent 2 hours setting up my firefox to perfection. i have memorized and examined every tumblr feature multiple times. getting a new phone or laptop is like a fun 2 week long process of arranging settings and personalization and notifications. it baffles me that tumblr wants to REMOVE options. i love options!!

[bonefall]

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

[tj-crochets]

On the one hand I want to go sew something but have no idea what, and on the other hand I want to sit still and play more Coral Island and rest and recover It's great having my grandma visit, I love her dearly, but oh my gosh she whines about wearing a mask more than the ten year old I used to babysit did when he came to visit (for the record he did not whine at all he was really good about it even though he 100% does not wear a mask at home) and she insists she knows where things are in stores (she does not) and she keeps insisting we try to play pinochle except A. she does not remember the rules and B. she insists all the guides we are finding online are incorrect. This is because she does not play Actual Pinochle, she plays House Rules Pinochle-Adjacent Card Game, a game she made up herself and insists is the real pinochle. I have only ever played actual pinochle a few times like a decade ago. My brother has never played any pinochle. We have yet to play an actual game she just keeps launching into attempts to explain it that make no sense

[chloecherrysip]

We're going to save your brother.