#you can do this!

[themissingmango]

[spamtonsmakemehappyyy]

hiiiii just here to let you all know you're wonderful, amazing people. i want you to know, and to hear, that you are indeed validated. you are cared about. you are loved[platonically]. if you ever experience a horrible, unpleasant person bullying you and attacking you just remember you're better than them, you're superior and you are a GOOD. PERSON. you hear me? love yourself okay? i'm here for you if you ever need feel good art to cheer you up!

[johnlennonofficial]

someone should design a. bunch of motivational posters for the bathroom for when your tummy rly hurts and u need help getting through it

[maboro4i]

Sometimes people speak names of famous people as gossip and such, or even here and like I'm sorry you guys haven't moved on from this whole being spectators of other peoples who feed on your attention lives yet

[wisyhana]

Cry cry cry your eyes out and love yourself a bit more...

[giadinaye]

I keep on fucking up but at this point I've decided to vibe with my fuck ups. They're kinda cute once you get used to them. :D

[kithtaehyung]

HI RYEN!! SO I GOT A CODE YAYYYYY!!

But I’m SO nervous about ticketing today because I’m a newbie when it comes to Ticketmaster and buying BTS tickets. I’ve been hoping and manifesting floor tickets but I don’t know everything that will help my chances at getting them…. I know it’s all a gamble but if you have any tips on what to do to help the process, I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT AND I LOVE YOU SOSOSOSO MUCH 🫶🫶

(also video call was so good omg my heart 🥹)

YAAAAY good luck today !!! Even though floor seems magical don’t let it be the end all if you can’t snag it. Seats around the arena are gonna be just as good!

Tips for ticketing: stay calm while picking, have payment ready, and have backup plans that you want to go for instead of trying to panic decide if you can’t get your priority pick. Good internet is a must.

There are also gonna be seats that appear to be free, but you may find out they’re already taken all the way in checkout. Stay calm. Keep going and try for another seat.

[callmeronstoppable]

send in ⚔️ for sender’s muse to attack receiver’s muse. (Kim) //friendly spar time?

Kim had told Ron that she was going to test his combat skills at some point. But in order to truly test how far he had come, she wasn't going to tell him when she was going to strike. Ron had been distracted by an attractive college girl on the opposite side of the road.

Then just as Ron was about to say something, he turned around just in time to see Kim coming at him. He was just able to jump backwards with a yelp to avoid the sudden strike.

"Dang Kim, now? Really? I am warning you though. I have learnt a few new moves!" With a sound of confidence bordering on arrogance, Ron sprinted forward, jumping up into the the air, he pointed his foot out, dropping down and attempting to throw a kick at Kim's head. It was a decent attempt by Ron, if not slightly off target and leaving him vulnerable and exposed.

@impossible-possible

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[iiota]

refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

EDIT: please also consider donating to this family their 93% to their goal!! and also please check out this post featuring more places to donate

[wishfulsketching]

Girl dad Silco is a source of endless entertainment for me

Extra doodles:

Someone save Sevika, she is in hell

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[mearchy]

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

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