#choices had to be made

[a-yaos-little-murder-beans]

Me: I run out of shelf-space for my manga and books.

Also me: Dedicates one whole shelf towards her xiyao standees and other merch.

#choices had to be made #XiYao won #I am not finished with decorating it yet #but I am quite pleased with it so far #it looks better than expected #xiyao #books #manga #personal stuff #akikos shitpost #mdzs merch #late night shitposting #maybe I post a pic when I am finished with decorating

[aobawilliams]

To follow up on the last poll, since I don't think I've ever mentionned this au here. Just curious.

Feel free to put in the tags other suggestions, I'm curious what you'll come up with!

#cro shouts into the void #dumbass trio time travel #my hero academia #honorary mention to Monoma-Shinsou-Aoyama who would have been really fun too #choices had to be made

[saltygilmores]

Top two albums of all time?

#as the hugest backstreet boys fan I'm sorry I left them out #choices had to be made #BTF is special #Songs about Jane would go in my top 5 too #Maroon 5's music has gone steadily down the crapper since HAO #Matt's music got repetitive too #these dudes need to stop being happily married and be more heartbroken again

[flammedoudoune]

Made an influence map like it’s 2010 and we’re hanging out on deviantart

#this was both fun and diffiult to make #choices had to be made #but this legit helps to have a clearer idea of what i want my artstyle to be like #influence map

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[mylittleredgirl]

okay tumblr’s exclusion from the twitter social media ban list is hilarious but genuinely we do not belong on there. if a real human person asks “where can i find you on social media” and your choice is a swift death or revealing your tumblr, most of us would simply expire. half of y’all change urls every week like you’re in witness protection. just imagine for one second attaching your wholeass government name to your latest two am clownposting and tell me that didn’t send a cold chill down your spine. the only place i ever want to see the words “connect with me on tumblr!” is on the ao3 profile of an author i’m actively stalking. anyone in the world can follow me except anyone i personally know. antisocial media.

#with apologies to beloved mutuals ekjohnston and adibkhorram but this post had to be made #you are braver than any marine etc #i revealed my url recently to some very nerdy lifelong blood-oath level friends and lost feeling in my hands for like six hours #we read each other's livejournals during our peak Dramatic Feelings And Bad Choices years and it still gave me pause #rip twitter #that tumblr lyfe #containment breach

[allysketches]

gets in charge of the bookshop for 1 (one) day: shows up in a cardigan vest and metal sleeve garters, keeps the shop CLOSED, avoids selling a single book... iconic, truly did THE MOST, 10/10 😩👌🏻

(also, the way he was this 🤏🏻 close to finally achieving the status of house husband he's been dreaming about for MILLENIA just to have the rug pulled out from under him last minute... truly DEVASTATING 😩 my girl really can't catch a break 🤧)

#good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #do you have any idea how hard it was to distinguish wtf he was wearing exactly #when this walking disaster idea of fashion is black on black on black on black??!?!!? #i had to up the lightness to the max #and i'm still not 100% on the details tbh #but oh well #I'm sure I made better choices than he did

[hauntedsuns]

Favorite mech, album and song???

Evil Question to ask me, Master of Indecisiveness&changing opinions, but rn in this exact moment, I would like to say it's between Toysoldier, Brian and Jonny for favorite mech, High Noon Over Camelot and uhhh,,gonna choose a song NOT from there, so maybe Actaea and Lyssa or Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser?

#very hard to choose ngl #if i had to pick one from HNoC I would say #Blood and Whiskey The Hanged Man Rusts or Skin and Bone #i also love ALL the mechs #but alas #choices had to be made #sunlit asks #dear&true cthulhu

[stil-lindigo]

into the hobie-verse! (inspired by all the hobie concept art)

prints

#at the end of the day i think they made the right choice going with the design they did #but that doesnt mean i can't still brainrot over all the potential hobie variations #tall!hobie with those headphones might be my favourite like i think if i saw him in theaters i mightve had a heart attack #its so cool how christie tseng managed to indicate so many subtly individual personalities with each design and i tried to carry that over #like how hobie (foreground right side) is sorta moodier #and how hobie (white hair and white pants) is a bit more boisterous compared to the others and their laid back attitudes #i might be reading too much into this #hobie brown #spiderman #spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #spider punk #stillindigo art

[pherredraws]

better call ice king or whatever the fuck

#adventure time #fionna and cake #petrigrof #simon petrikov #betty grof #i have a singular braincell and it is dedicated to making everything about bcs all of the time #what if love wasn’t enough!!!! what if you made your choices! #what if you didn’t have any regrets what if you had the time of your life with him!!!! #what if there was a man who is jokes and then you look at him and realise he is so so so sad

[crescentfool]

judgement day 🌕

#persona 3 #persona 3 spoilers #aigis #minato arisato #makoto yuki #nyx avatar #lizzy does art #a belated january 31st from me to you! i technically started this at the start of january but got a lil sidetracked teehee! but its done no #i am forever enamored with the fight with nyx avatar- not only is she gorgeous but the boss fight's design really sells the themes of p3 im #i still love how much the major arcana are intertwined with p3's story- from the full moon operations and the final fight #and the lengthiness of the fight. i personally don't consider it tedious bc i came Very Prepared (its the love for grinding in tartarus!)- #but i think that the length has always been a testament to the indomitable force that nyx and nyx avatar are- something that should be- #impossible to go against! yet sees continues to show their perseverance in the endeavor because that's the choice they ultimately made. #i hope to get the chance to draw nyx avatar again sometime! she is absolutely lovely to draw. i had a lot of fun working on this :D #and i also hope everyone has been enjoying the remake <3 i've been enjoying it a lot but i won't be elaborating here. take care!

[egophiliac]

this chapter has been so absolutely nuts that I actually low-key forgot that I had a couple of new UM posters to do! wild! anyway, I gotta think about Lilia's some more, so here is my beautiful electric crocodile son in the meantime. god I hope this reads properly

(I went with Volt to go with his name, but there's a Bolt version too in the print-size folder!)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #unique magic posters #sebek: i have no choice...i'm going to have to use my special secret technique... #sebek: (furiously shuffling his socks on the shag carpeting) JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP #i love him so much #it turns out i had missed a couple of scenes in his hexagon map so i went back and made sure to hit everything #and i am SO glad i did #i almost missed the spoon scene! I ALMOST MISSED THE SPOON SCENE #every single bit with little sebek and silver is just such a delight #in fact every single bit with big sebek and silver is pretty delightful too #sebek going 'silver if you don't come out RIGHT NOW i'm going to tell everyone your embarrassing fishing story!' is a personal favorite #tell us the story sebek. TELL US

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #participated in altades' dance collab :3 very grateful for the opportunity and many thanks to them for organizing this! #there was a lot of vw arc choices... but i went for the leonof arc bc it's a dear vw moment to me #i think a lot of the leonof arc further breaks down vash's ideology and for the readers - together with ww- to learn that his ideals aren't #pure naivety and that vash knows he's at an odd standpoint with himself. he's criticized ww for shooting rai-dei just prior when ww had don #so on the behalf of vash but here he thanks him for killing on behalf of his home and its genuine. bc vash's presence - although it's not #his fault - he was the reason leonof and gray had gotten to the ship and killed people there. that's the guilt he has to live with and #despite his anger he'd still resolute not to kill. meanwhile ww just did what he had to - beating down on a seemingly immortal monster but #at the core made up of many lives he had to take and i feel as the fight dragged on - his own mentality waned. committing active carnage #while remembering the orphanage... and bearing that guilt alongside the words vash left with him during rai-dei's death #only for vash to thank him afterwards what he's done and for apologizing for pushing his beliefs on ww when he had no solutions of his own #anyway. i just have so an immense love for this arc bc they just got around to appreciating each other in weird ways. though ofc its still #weird and confusing for ww bc every new info on vash it'll just be strange to him as someone who's human #ruporas art

[abyssalcryptid]

Why Rolan isn't recruitable

#nothing gets done at camp bc theyre both yapping #this is may be the silliest thing ive ever made #it came to me in a vision #i had no choice but to make it but im choosing to subject other people to this #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #rolan #bg3 rolan #abyssalcryptidart #i dont even know if theres a ship name or if i even ship them dont look at me

[alusart]

This might be the most beautiful parallel in young royals.

#During that scene in s2 wille did it purely for simon #he had started questioning his rol and all that it meant #at that point it was all about “the crown or simon #but it wasn’t until season 3 when he realized there was no choice to be made #if he continued living his life for his family it would never be his!! #there was only one choice that would actually set him free and he took it #im so proud of him🥹 #young royals #wilmon #young royals season 2 #edvin ryding #omar rudberg #simon eriksson #prince wilhelm #simon x wilhelm #wilhelm x simon #young royals season 3

[moonlayl]

This man straight up had tear tracks on his face while walking towards his execution coronation 

#the character that you could've been had the writers not made a sh*tty choice for ep 8.... #aegon ii #aegon ii targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon #dance of the dragons #team green #tom glynn carney #tom glynn-carney #layl.text #1k #2k #3k