#you are very considerate and respectful

[ask-sentient-vehicles]

Do you headcannon any engine as being part of the lgbtq+ community? You don’t have to I’m just curious. Sending blessings your way ☺️🙏🏼

Oh boy, uh, I'm scared that I'm going to get cancelled for this by other users (˃̣̣̥﹏˂̣̣̥)

They're all either straight asexual or aromantic asexual. Though a lot of people considers aces and aros to be LGBT, I don't consider myself to be part of the community despite being asexual. Not saying other aces and aros shouldn't allowed to be in it, if it makes them happy go ahead!

Technically engines are agender. They are assigned male or female but they are still machines. Machines don't have genders. I don't really have to go too deep into that. (Again, NO HATE TOWARDS NON-BINARY PEOPLE, I will never revile someone for that, I respect them for who they are, and I let them be)

TLDR; I say no, but some could say yes.

[jin-zixun]

i think it's actually very brave to fight for yourself when no one else will, to insist upon your own self worth, if only in your own actions and self-preservation, when everyone around considers you worthless or unworthy.

If no one else cares about you, you will care, if no one else loves you, you will try to show yourself love to the best of your ability, even if you don't know it, if no one else will protect you then you will fight for yourself. Keep yourself alive. No one else will and it's you're no less worthy than who you're being told to put yourself to the side for, to die for, to admit you are nothing for.

It's trauma, it's resilience, it's survival, it's fight, it's advocacy, it's perseverance, it's natural, it's difficult, and it's brave.

[eff-plays]

Actually, no, I disagree. Astarion has his reasons for many things he thinks and disapproves of, but some of them are just ... He doesn't like it when people are nice. He actively likes cruelty. Those are both true.

And yeah, you get why. He's well-written and his motivations are understandable! You can have a lot of very long and sad meta posts about how he thinks cruelty is natural and kindness is fake, but that doesn't remove his joy at cruelty and his distaste for kindness. Those things are still true. He can get better, yes. He does get better if you encourage him to. But he starts out as an absolute jackass.

Stop woobifying him fr. He's a piece of shit, even if he's a well-written one. Just because you understand him doesn't mean he's right or somehow the only sane person in the group. Cruelty is not intelligence, kindness is not a weakness. xoxo <3

[envolvenuances]

and I think child modelling should be illegal I'm not even joking

[enbyjane]

the truth is (a perspective on love)

context: edit based off a personal conversation with @onlineproblems about parental love, unconditional love and the love we deserve bonus: her wise perspective:

more bonus:

[teafiend]

[over-fen-and-field]

The trouble with these romance shows is that I'm enough of a romantic to swoon over the pretty dresses and longing stares and grand gestures, but enough of a pragmatist that I'm almost always rooting against the central pairing. They're always passionate, sure, but godawful at communicating and often deeply incompatible on a basic level -- think, one wants kids and the other doesn't. Good chemistry doesn't make up for wanting different things out of life. Sometimes opposites can attract, but that works when each part is longing for what the other brings to the table, not when they're consistently frustrated by it.

My basic test for a good fictional couple is whether I can imagine them enjoying each other's company while doing something incredibly mundane in ten years. Say, what do they talk about over the breakfast table on a completely random, unremarkable Tuesday morning? Do they like each other's friends? Do they know what to get the other person for their birthday?

With so many of these couples, I can picture them having a lot of incredibly hot sex for 1-3 years, punctuated by periods in which they aren't talking because of stupid and completely avoidable fights, and then they get bored and are stuck being civil in public and avoiding each other in private. In the long run, they'd both be better off choosing the "boring" alternative that the show presents as a threat to their budding relationship, because they communicate more openly, share core values, and genuinely respect the other person's agency and individuality rather than immediately becoming possessive and presumptive.

[britneyshakespeare]

they cut off my tags on that thoreau post. i wrote like much more of a rant and tumblr didnt even tell me they were cuttin it before i pressed post

[the-insomniac-emporium]

finished a really good (and weird!) book and now I'm gnawing at the bars of my mental cage because

There's a death sequence at the start that will haunt me forever

As far as I can tell there's nothing else written in this universe, and there's so much interesting lore building that I'd love to see get explored more

I still don't know how to pronounce several character names

One of the main dudes meets a "woman" (in parentheses because the character doesn't identify as a woman, but is briefly referred to as one), later finds out ze's gender fluid (at least that's probably the closest real life term for hir), briefly questions his own sexuality, correctly uses hir pronouns, and in the end goes "yeah I don't fully understand your gender or what that means for my orientation, but I know I like you :)" and they kiss.

I haven't seen anyone else talk about this book, ever, and even finding it online was hindered by the fact that it shares a name with a famous album or something. I only have the book because I bought in 6+ years ago at a secondhand shop

It's making me want to work on my own Sci-fi stories but also I immediately want to reread the book

Anyway it's called Up Against It, the version I have lists the author as M.J. Locke, but I think some places show Morgan J. Locke.

[random2908]

I don’t remember how it came up, but my dad was saying one of the few traditional foods he really liked was cholent. I was like ?? I’ve never even had cholent, because it’s meat stew... But apparently my grandmother’s cholent was vegan! I’d never even heard of vegan cholent! Now I’d like to try it, but my dad unfortunately doesn’t really have much of an idea of how she made it.

[trunksette]

[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

okay okay okay one more dungeon meshi thought

I keep seeing people saying Falin is "better at social cues" than Laios. Y'all she's just quiet. 😭 She just keeps her mouth shut. 😭😭 Girl was proposed to, said "let me think about it," and then did not even tell her own brother. She doesn't know what's going on either she's just quieter about it!!! 😭😭😭

[strikersin]

Ohhh... they weren't returning my attempts at conversation because they were mad at me

[numberone-wifeguy]

05/07/24

[ashleygraves-number1defender]

This art is so cuteeee 🥰 fav BOP is a very tough choice but Eurasian Kestrel! The reasoning is in the tags because I intended it to be a short explanation and wound up rambling, oopsie

Heres my girlie and the main reason behind the favouritism lol; she’s a year and a half old Eurasian Kestrel and owns my heart and soul! (Last pic was with her juvenile plumage)

american kestrel

tell me your favorite bird of prey :-)

[syncogon]

ok i will stop complaining about my yb rarepair bc shoutout to this person for editing an entire an entire mv for mqmb / xj

miqin mubei x xiao-jing!!

eighty thousand views!!

[godzexperiment]

How tactile Nix tends to be though especially curiosity wise (the way he just barely connects finger tips with something to memorize/feel it or trace along to memorize all the tiny details) often just the slightest movement at his waist usually to do so along walls etc