#a relationship should be 50/50

[nymphpens]

a relationship should be 50/50 she's in love with him and he's half agony half hope because of her

#nymphpens #dark academia #poets on tumblr #dead poets society #relatable #poems #tumblr text post #classic literature #writers on tumblr #light academia #persuasion #jane austen #classic literature memes #lit memes #memes #a relationship should be 50/50 #pride and prejudice #anne elliot #captain wentworth #shitpost #tumblr text memes

[aroaceofthesea]

A relationship should be 50/50. You don't exist and I live alone with my 50 cats

#aroace #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #the kind of relationship I want #a relationship should be 50/50 #this came to me in a dream #idk if this has been done yet #mine

[maulling]

i love to show astaroth songs that make it go insane. and i love to go insane when it shows me songs

#a relationship should be 50/50

[crippledasinfuckyou]

sometimes a healthy relationship isn't 50/50 because it can't be, and that's okay.

disabled people who cannot take on an equal portion of the work in a relationship deserve to be loved too, if that's what they want. and as long as their partner is getting the support they need, and is happy to take on that work, then what's the issue? it's nobodys business but your own the way that works in your relationship.

if you or your partner are disabled, and you can't split the work in the relationship 50/50, that's okay. you're not abusive, or a baby, or unloveable because of that. I promise

#inspired by: yet another post saying with absolutely no nuance that if ur partner doesn't do 50% of the work in the relationship u should #leave them. which fucks me off supremely #my husband has hemiplegia among other things #and literally CANNOT do about 85% of the stuff that needs to get done #and that's okay! because I am happy to take that on! #equality in relationships doesn't have to mean splitting things 50/50 #it can mean having an honest conversation about your needs and abilities and making it work #disabled people deserve love if they want it #disability #actually disabled

[liplessthomas14]

It's so funny how most straight girls nowadays are like "Oh I'm an independent woman and I don't need a man to save me or tell me my self worth because I'm a perfect QUEEN👑💅"

But then when they're actually looking for a guy their whole attitude is "My guy better pay all my bills and buy me whatever I want and be a millionaire and ofc he should be sweet and vulnerable but not too much because who else am I gonna dump all my emotional baggage on? And obv he should get jealous but just the RIGHT amount of jealous because if it's too much I'll dump him and ofc I'm not some housewife so he better do the housework too and compliment everything about me and be amazing in bed. And duh he should be taller than 6ft and have six pack abs and be hot af and I deserve it all because I'm a perfect QUEEN👑💅"

(No hate to straight women, I'm one too, but it's ridiculous how social media and most booktok novels these days are promoting these unbalanced relationships and high, idealistic standards for men and then labelling it as "feminism")

#this is #toxic feminism #and #misandry #a healthy relationship should be 50/50 #and feminism is about equality #just to clarify #this is actually a thing I've seen in a lot of young women which is y I'm posting this #but i know not all straight girls are like this #toxic relationship #toxic love #toxic people #breakups #straight couples #straight people #healthy relationships #high standards

[fabuloustrash05]

I said it before and I’ll say it again:

April O’Neil in any version of TMNT should NEVER have a romantic relationship with ANY of the Turtles. It ruins her dynamic with the others Turtles and sometimes it also her ruins her character.

#I say that yet I like the potential of 2012 aprilnardo #fanon wise it’s fine #fandom go nuts! #ship what you want #but in the canon story? no thanks #look how 2012 massacred my girl! #i’d say around 50% of Aprils character revolves around her relationship with Donnie or his crush on her #however #I don’t blame her #I blame the writers #they obviously struggled to write her as her own character so they focus only on her being Donnie’s love interest #Look at the bright side #At least they didn’t go with their first draft concept of ALL the turtles being in love with her #ew #I’ll stick to her being their big sister figure/the mother they never had but so badly needed #as it should be #random thoughts #tmnt 1987 #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2012 #tmnt bayverse #rottmnt #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #april o'neil #tmnt april #tmnt leonardo #tmnt raphael #tmnt donatello #tmnt michelangelo

[sherlock-is-ace]

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#remind me to never ask my mother for opinions on absolutely anything ever again #i only wanted to see which illustration should go on my portfolio for kidlit art #and her wonderful opinion was to take out an illustration of two dudes EATING TOGETHER because and i quote #"gay relationships are not suitable for children books. it simply isn't their target audience'' #does she need the list of the thousand of books that are literally about gay couples or about gay kids?! #they're not even like overtly gay they are literally eating together!!! (sure it is actually gay cause it's fanart of a bl but whatever lol #it's literally two guys sitting at the same table eating... #how is that not appropriate for children?! #also even if they were gettin married or whatever... how's that inappropiate?! #ALSO also i'm sick of reading in every illustration agency how they're looking for artists and writers and whatever who tackle queer storie #like sure i'm not gonna say gay people don't experience discrimination but it's not the fucking 50s... there are opportunities out there #idk i'm just so fuckin upset right now because she's saying I'M the one that's taking it bad #like the whole ''i'm not homophobic but.... blah blah'' #and it drives me up the fucking walls to have to deal with this when the only thing i wanted was to have a char about which drawing looks #the best for a professional portfolio lol #anyways now out of fucking spite i'm gonna send all the gay ones i have lol #dkfjhkdfg #angel talks #personal #wish me luck on this email btw i need work! #dfkjghdfg

[3-aem]

Everyone in fandom constantly fighting over ships and stuff but yall haven't known true suffering until you go over the m/f side of a half dead to fully dried out fandom and are stuck drinking the dust coming out of a rusty 89 year old faucet.

#botw is a weird kinda scary time #LISTEN #they just dropped some really hard hitting clips in links memories and I NEED TO SEE MORE #like hello the scene where she's just at the fountain of power and being like why tf am i such a failure I've tried so hard #1. ouch #2. when link turns around at the end from standing guard bc empathy is a fucking BITCH #ugh #also like yea the crying scene #i wanna say str8 couples are valid too but str8 fic gave us the following: #m/f omegaverse lawsuit in real court #50 shades of gray #the after series ft the most toxic relationship ever harry styles would probably never #cassandra clare or w.e. her name is #so objectively idk if it's worth it Nintendo should have just given me more in game food rather than forcing me to scavange for scraps #and try to shoe horn my very gay mind into a straight setting

[fleetsonourgecentral]

what kinds of pranks do Sonic and Scourge do?

Pretends to be good at coming up with pranks for the sake of this ask

Honestly just think of every time Sonic has pretended to be dead or that a situation is hopeless, only to turn around and be like "lol bitch u thought". And then make it worse. Because those are their absolute favourite kind of pranks. Scourge's presence just makes everything worse because he'll think of ways to make it look more realistic. Poor Tails has a very vivid memory of Scourge coming home one day after a battle, ears flat against his skull, carrying a bruised and bloodied and lifeless Sonic in his arms, growling a choked-out explanation about how Robotnik... Sonic couldn't - that bastard is going to pay for what he...

And he lays Sonic on the sofa, disappearing elsewhere into the base, making small noises like he's about to start crying. And Tails is distraught and starts shaking Sonic, begging him to wake up, tearing up when he receives no response, and he's just taking a breath to start wailing-

And then Sonic screams "RAH!" and grabs him and Tails shrieks so loud it rattles the windows, and from the next room he can hear Scourge laughing his ass off. Fucker left the room in the first place not because he was crying, but because he was laughing

Tails sulked for a week straight about falling for that trick again and Sonic and Scourge were told to clean the damn fake blood off the sofa and off the floor (which they didn't do)

Those are the kind of shitty pranks they pull. Not the only kind of pranks they'll pull, they'll also steal Tekno's stuff while she's working to confuse her, she's sure she put that screwdriver around here somewhere, or they'll place important things in difficult to reach places and replace them with taunting notes, or (like you mentioned in your previous ask) will drop paint on someone. They especially like dropping paint on people. But occasionally pretending to fail a mission, or pretending that one of them is dead, is their favourite type of prank, although they don't do it often in order to keep it at maximum effect

#sonic the hedgehog #scourge the hedgehog #fleetway sonic #stc sonic #fleet!sonourge #asks #headcanon #fleetway tails #i feel i should emphasize more that these two are absolute fucking bastards #just. the absolute worst #they fit because no one else should have to put up with being in a relationship with them #but the tradeoff is they often make each other worse and enable one another's bad habits #does scourge become less of a villain? #yes #but he's also going to make sonic worse #the balance isn't perfectly 50/50. overall scourge is receiving more good influence than sonic is bad #but there's still an influence #and honestly sonic is already such a dick who finds those kinds of 'haha u thought i was dead' jokes funny #it would not take much for scourge to enable that #'wow that's a horrible prank to pull' correct. it's because they suck (affectionate) #fun fact in the ghost au i have a scene in my head where the 'i'm dead' pranks come up #but it's from the freedom fighters' pov set right after they find sonic's body and it's not a very long or important section #so i doubt it will ever be written bc it's set before scourge even arrives in the fleetway dimension #but just know it's there. in my heart. and that maybe. sonic would feel bad about the pranks in death if he ever heard them talk about it

[jiiyawns]

local boy genius overthinks things, what happens next will surprise you (heartwarming)

#doodles #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #Miles Tails Prower #lol all caps #i guess if i have two of them i should have a fic tag now #fics #anyways this is essentially More Sonic Headcanons But This Time From Tails' Pov Lol #and accidentally a lot of sonic and tails bwotherly relationship too #50/50 sonic character exploration and bwother bond #they're cute and i like them

[nymphpens]

a relationship should be 50/50 she loves Austen men and he becomes one

#nymphpens #dark academia #poets on tumblr #dead poets society #relatable #poems #tumblr text post #classic literature #writers on tumblr #light academia #jane austen #austen men #mr darcy #captain wentworth #mr Knightley #henry tilney #classic literature memes #lit memes #a relationship should be 50/50 #shitpost #tumblr text meme #pride and prejudice #emma #northanger abbey #persuasion

[helianskies]

ugly maths.

i hate maths, right. i don't usually like numbers, and if i do like numbers it's gotta be an 8 or a 48 and nothing else.

thing is, i've recently caught myself doing maths again. ugly maths. the kind of maths that, really, i've been trying to avoid as much as possible because, well, it's ugly!

you... wanna see?

okay, fine... but don't say i didn't warn you!

ugly, see? look at all those numbers! not a 48 in sight!

huh? what's that? you don't see what i'm on about? oh... oh! hang on, lemme just—

better? yes? no? no? okay, what if i—

mmh, yes. ugly numbers. see it now? can you see why they're ugly?

here, i can make it worse.

these numbers are ugly. the maths they make me do is ugly.

now i'll level with you: the worst ones by far are the yellow numbers. the maths they make me do it the ugliest.

why ugly?

because it makes me ugly.

those numbers turn me into not only a suddenly number-obsessed fool, but a fool who also cannot understand these numbers and what they mean and why i feel like they reflect on me and my ability.

87, 75.

the thoughts are as follows:

• the orange numbers are big, so why are you being ugly about the yellow ones? you should be happy with what you have. so many nice big numbers! not everyone receives that.

• is it that there are two different audiences for these two different fics? perhaps. they are quite different works, with different appeals, and different themes. maybe you are reading too much into it.

• why are you obsessing over numbers anyway? you don't like maths! you left maths behind when you were 16, put it down!

okay, okay, fine! i'll put the maths down. right here, in fact!:

that 87 was an 83 at the start of the year. the 6161 it is attached to was a 5453.

4, 708.

ugly maths.

the 75 is a nice number. in fact, compared to 87, it is beautiful, radiant, enchanting. at the start of the year, 75 was 48. wow. now that is one sexy number!

27.

mmmm.

6161, 1061.

5100.

87, 75.

12.

mmmm.

you know, my most favourite comment left recently on a fic of mine was 2 characters long: :(

it made me :)

well, actually, it made me >:) because it was left in response, presumably, to one of the key scenes in a new chapter which left the exact impression on someone that i hoped it would.

they must be the only one who reacted like that, though.

1.

have i mentioned that that 87 and 75 include author responses?

i won't try to do more maths, there. it might not end well for me. the maths is making me tired enough as it is, and i have an early start tomorrow.

oh! but, that being said, i have another set of ugly numbers to show you, so keep 87 and 75 in mind.

ready?

838, 245.

(want a hint? the green numbers!)

838, 87. 245, 75.

9.6, 3.3.

ugly maths. it's ugly again, see? i don't like it. i'm seeing numbers within numbers within numbers, and i can't seem to stop!

the numbers make me ask new questions:

• why is it not good enough?

• people seem to engage more with one fic over the other, so shouldn't you prioritise?

• is all this maths this really good for you?

no, it isn't.

i want to avoid ugly maths. ugly maths makes me want to tear my hair out. it makes me want to start from scratch. it makes me want to grab someone and scream. it makes me want to cry and press a button that has tempted me many times before when the numbers become too ugly to bear.

ugly maths turn me into an ugly person.

ugly maths make me obsessive, paranoid, anxious, regretful, vindictive, spiteful, alone.

i hate maths. i hate numbers, just like, it feels, the numbers hate me.

#helia rants #cw vent #i'm okay but i'm not #this has been playing on my mind over the last couple of weeks #it's aimed at the sky rather than anyone here #i know i'm not the best myself as commenting. i justify it to myself by affirming i don't read much. which i don't. #since the start of the year i have tried to comment on everything i have read #bearing in mind i may also dm someone rather than comment because i want to scream and ramble about their fic more personally #that being said. i know i'm not the only one who finds themselves doing ugly maths #and in turn starting to feel uglier too #i don't like looking at the numbers #i was doing well at the start of the year #but as i open my drafts and look to a new chapter and at the notes i wrote #i can't stop myself from opening the fic. from seeing where it's at. from seeing if it's changed. from checking my inbox to see if... #if only... #what it's meant is that i've come to a point where a fic i loved has become exactly that: a fic i loved. past tense #the other fic is still a fic i love. but i know deep down that that is tied to the numbers too #i hate that this is what i've become #because i have tiny fics. fics with 50 hits and maybe 1 comment. and i love them. i still love them #but when it comes to the big ones. the multi-chapters. the hefty fics. after a point all i see are numbers #and those numbers have come to determine both my happiness and fulfilment as a writer #and so i am ugly. i am sad. i am pathetic. #and i don't know how to stop. #helia's stuff #this was meant to save back into my drafts. i was editing tags. tumblr decided it should post. so... so be it. #also this is not an attention thing if anyone dares go 'oh but you're a good writer uwu' i might do something we'll all regret #this is also not a 'ffs comment on my fics will you 😒' hell no #it's just about me. and my issue. and my unhealthy relationship with these fucking numbers. #gotta get this shit out of my head somehow :)

[achairwithapandaonit]

by any chance does anyone have any demon slayer fic recs where nezuko is actually more of a proper character and gets development and is allowed to grow? cause honestly the further i've gotten in this manga the more disappointed in it i've been with the lack of meaningful development, especially in nezuko

#no idea if this is actually a controversial opinion on the series cause i've not come across much criticism #but i do think it falls short on every character. the concepts are great and i enjoy the characters and had a lot of fun watching and #reading this series. but i do think that it fails to do much that's actually meaningful or impactful with any of the characters #ready to be disagreed with but i feel like the only development nezuko ever got was when she went to attack those humans and had to #be restrained by tanjirou. and it falls incredibly flat when she never really has any other struggles other than at the start of the series #i thought she was meant to be a main character but she's more like a set piece #maybe i'm just missing something cause i'm still about 50 chapters from the end. but i just got so disappointed after they did nothing with #her becoming sun resistant except pull a gag that i didn't want to pick the manga up again #like that was the chance to do more with her and finally give her development and let her relationships develop! and the fact that they did #nothing kind of highlighted to me that the series really hadn't done much with any of the characters #there's beats where it feels like there's growth but i don't actually know what about the characters has grown??? apart from getting a new #power and being stronger because of it #they don't grow as characters. and supposed development only ever happens during fights or off screen #anyway i should stop criticising. i'm just very disappointed cause i really enjoyed the manga and then that happened and it was like what's #the point #criticism #demon slayer criticism #<- so you can block the tag if you don't want to see this stuff #it feels very negative for the fact that you really can't expect much from shounen. and i DID enjoy it. it's just disappointing #(the shinobu thing is also annoying. like i like that she can't decapitate demons and that she uses poison but the reason for it being that #she's weak and small is bullshit and FEELS like it's written that way because she's a woman)

[sparky-is-spiders]

Hi! I’m here suffering from lack of good Archivist!Sasha content as well 😭 On that note, do you have any fic on that topic you would recommend? Or just good Sasha fics in general, (or Jonsasha, if that’s your cup of tea)? Thank you in advance 😊

Tragically, I think there is a general dearth of good Archivist!Sasha content (and just about none of it Jonsasha content, as far as I can tell (and not only is Jonsasha my cup of tea, but the ONLY thing standing between it and the #1 OTP spot (currently occupied by JE) is the fact that the Jonsasha that I desperately crave exists in my brain and nowhere else)). Admittedly, I haven't looked very far into her tag yet (I should rectify that at some point tbh) but I've dug around the Jonsasha tag when I first got into it, and I know at least one fic where Sasha drifts towards Beholding through an interest in office gossip.

In terms of Jonsasha Ao3 has:

This very good Sasha lives fic where Jon shows up to Georgie's with an unconscious Sasha and everyone involved is very confused.

These two fics are cute also. The former is by @/suttttton and is them getting together, the latter is established Jonsasha from @/dickwheelie.

Eyevatar Sasha might actually be thinner on the ground (outside of fix-its where she solves everything and her canon reckless curiosity is completely ignored). Ao3 has:

This fic, which is Jongerry with outsider PoV Sasha. Just barely has the implication that she might be shifting towards the Eye (via prying into the lives of her coworkers) but gets a mention through sheer force of Excellent Sasha Characterization. I read this and I feel like I'm reading a fic from a Sasha Understander.

There's also this fic, which looks very promising but which I haven't actually gotten the chance to read yet, so I can't speak to its quality.

Unfortunately I've only gotten into Sasha fairly recently (especially as compared to Jon, who my brain latched onto in a deathgrip from the start), so I haven't gone through her tag yet. A scroll through the Archivist!Sasha or Beholding Avatar!Sasha tags pulls up a lot of fix-it and J//mart, which isn't really what I'm looking for from the concept. I'm sure there's more out there, and if/when I find them I'll come back to this ask probably, but I lucked into Reverse Nighthawks (I was on a Jongerry kick).

But god every day I wish that I could write romance and/or longfic, because about a year ago I read a Jonmichael fic that, when discussing alternate universes (where Jon ended the world) it's revealed that he once did an apocalypse out of love for his Archivist, Sasha James. And it was one (1) single line, but it struck me so hard because god. A perfect concept I think. The potential dynamics of Archivist!Sasha/Assistant!Jon are enthralling to me. Jon destroying the world (or helping her destroy the world? Cute date night I think: bringing about armageddon with your eldritch monster partner) for Sasha... anyway mostly I mentioned that one because My God if I have to live with that tantalizing AU rotating in the background of my mind 24/7 so do the rest of you.

#also I'm very sorry how much this was About Jon #I really /do/ love sasha it's just that jon lives in my brain literally all the time #I am incapable of making a single solitary tma post that is not like 50% about him #not a Single One #every character and relationship and dynamic must somehow include jon to interest me. I struggle to care about jon-less anythings #it's a Problem #anyway I really really love sasha and want to write her one day but I need to finish my JE stuff first #the thing is the sasha in my brain is in zero other places #I extrapolated some stuff from canon to create a Blorbo but I don't think many other people interpret her the same way #I have some sasha and jonsasha stuff lying around somewhere but the gist is that I think sasha should become a morally questionable eyevata #who feeds the eye by invading people's privacy ''accidentally.'' based on her actions in the s1 finale she's probably a good person usually #but is reckless when protecting those she cares about and ESPECIALLY when curious and I want her to be a lil freaky with it #too tired to string my sasha thoughts together properly but they're mostly about how she should have a fun corruption arc #I want her to end the world in s3. I want her to have extremely difficult and complicated feelings about leaving the institute. about being #an eyevatar also. I think she didn't get enough screentime to say a lot for certain but she has enough interesting and complex things in he #brain that she could offer an interesting perspective if she survived or was the archivist. I also think she and martin should've switched #places. sorry martinlikers but she had more stuff going for her and also her perspective would be unique and interesting instead of yet #another 'the Eye is Bad.' that's actually the jonsasha thing I like the most. reading her statement and there's so many parallels between #her and jon. I think they'd compliment each other in a way literally no other jonship could manage #anyway sorting tags #jonsasha #asks #thank you for the ask btw!! I am. VERY. passionate about this subject. sasha has so much potential and stuff going for her but I get so #bitter because nobody is willing to engage with the stuff I find most interesting about her. probably another reason it took me as long as #it did to get Attached to her. I spent too much time with fanon sasha who's had the potential and complexity and points of interest #stripped away so that she can fix the world for jm to get together which is so much more boring than whatever the hell was wrong with her #(affectionate) (I like my characters a lil weird and fucked up. a lot weird and fucked up even) #ok veryvery tired need to stop rambling and think about sasha some more. #oh wait one more thought actually she's autistic and trans (projecting but also. like. tell me i'm wrong) thank you and goodnight

[kithj]

stole this from someone else's review on goodreads but this is the reading experience for this book

#though i do think the writing was interesting he had a unique style #the entire story around this book + the actual story in the book is heartbreaking #i was honestly thrown at the beginning not by the writing but um. use of racial slurs. but as the book progresses it criticizes it #but unfortunately does still continue to use racial slurs (it was written in the 50s) #so like huge trigger warning for slur usage especially anti black slurs. unfortunately a product of the time it was published #the book i think actually does a really good job exploring the complex relationship between marginalized groups within the US #and it's a shame that a lot of the commentary about american culture & racism is still relevant today #a very hard read but im going to be thinking about it for a long time #actually also huge cw for suicide & alcoholism as well i should say

[andromeda3116]

i know that the "adulting sucks" thing has been overdone to the point of obnoxious, but seriously

seriously

adulting fucking sucks

#running the numbers on my budget and calculating how much i can afford per month on things #bc i will likely need a new car soon and i need to figure out what kind of budget i have for it and what my options are #and i get a bill from a doctor's visit in fucking november for almost $150 after insurance payout and my copay and like. #hey i was told on my insurance shit that i would only have a $50 copay! and i had met my deductible! #it legitimately looks like they waited until it rolled over to charge my insurance specifically so i would no longer have met it #like the visit was in november. why did you wait until mid-april to payout? #my insurance rolled over at the beginning of april. huh. what a fucking coincidence. #idk who to call about this but this stinks of bullshit #i should not be owing that money. period. and there is absolutely no excuse for sending me the bill for it eight months later. #and i need to clean my apartment. and i need to feed myself at some point. #and i need to cancel att and set up the comcast internet that's recently been folded into rent as an amenity #i have already gone through and canceled all the subscriptions i don't use #so check that box off #and like. i don't want a roommate and i really am not looking for a relationship with anyone. #but doing all this shit on my own and having to pay every bill on my own and having to do all the cooking and cleaning on my own is just. #exhausting #i am so so tired #and i'm looking at things and i intend to go through online school for a communications degree which will be reimbursed through my job #and there may be a lead position opening up soon which everyone seems to be pushing me towards which would be a title change #and significant raise at the cost of added stress #and i feel like butter spread over too much bread #i need to work anti-burnout measures into my schedule and budget now to get the structure i'll need #but i am already so tired #but i need the raise and i need the degree to gtfo of this career