#it just means a lot

[bigassbowlingballhead]

I really love the symbolism of Alex and Henry swapping items instead of Alex holding both.

Especially after “I’ve never owned a key before” like, that’s just the start of what Alex can give you that you’ve never had before.

#it just means a lot #especially being that key #the literal key to Alex #red white and royal blue #rwrb spoilers

[shima-draws]

How do you feel about your kieranpon au gaining alot of traction lately? I've seen it talked about in several discords, and of course all the new art on the tag?

HONESTLY I’m super flattered and happy to see it’s getting so much love 😭 This isn’t the first time an AU of mine has blown up and it always takes me by surprise. Y’all are so sweet, I’m so glad you’re enjoying it enough to want to make content for it yourselves!! It’s the ultimate compliment to an artist to create something that other people get into and start talking about. Makes my heart all fuzzy and warm 🥰

#Shima answers questions #Kieranpon AU #Shima’s AUs #I’M SUPER GRATEFUL. Like. You have no idea #Every time somebody mentions it or draws something for it I’m like. AAAA?? MY AU?? MINE?? 😭💖 #IT JUST MEANS A LOT #Especially since like. This is just how I am. My brain never shuts off so I’m always thinking of new stuff #New ideas and AUs and characters and whatnot #It’s just nice to get a reaction for that. To have someone appreciate that my brain is always on creative overdrive haha

[csoisoi]

kalego cares in his own little ways<3

"do you need first aid?" the first thing he says to iruma

#it just means a lot #to me at the very least #kalego cares for the misfits #all throughout the series actually but this in my perspective is one of the more noticeable and straightforward showcases #with walterpark and the tutors it looked like he was being harsh with them #even though he's utilizing his teaching skills and connections to get them to become the best versions of themselves #he cares fr<3 #csoi posts #mairimashita iruma kun #mairimashita! iruma kun #mairuma #welcome to demon school iruma kun #welcome to demon school #iruma kun #m!ik #suzuki iruma #naberius kalego #csoi talks too much in tags

[carousel-crows]

guys i'm sobbing

all my life i've been told that since i share a face with someone (my twin), we're the same people. i've been told that we aren't different people with different interests and beliefs. and it hurts, even when it's a joke. we always have the same jobs, we get identical gifts, etc.

anyway this guy worked with my sister yesterday and he's working with me today. he made a joke and i didn't get it and he said, "you reacted the same as your sister." and i offhandedly said "yeah, i mean we have the same face, most people say we're copy and pastes of each other," yk.

AND THIS GUY

he goes, "no you're not. you're unique people. you deserve to be recognized as such. you have very distinct personalities."

and so now i'm sobbing on my break that ends in two minutes because not even my parents, not even my dad (who's also a twin, albeit a fraternal sister), has said that we're distinctly different. sure, some people can tell us apart, but no one has ever once said that we're different.

#anyways #auggie talks #long post #personal #sorry #it just means a lot

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[campfiretaxidriver]

Ugly crying in a hotel

My work has a pride work group, and I just sit in and listen usually on teams because my office is not super…. Welcoming, based on where I live. And a few months ago they put out a survey, and I indicated this and that I’d love a mentor, and never heard back.

And we’re at a conference, and they had a pride group dinner for the attendees, and after back and forth I ended up going, and first things out of someone’s mouth is that they wanted to mentor me, and they’ve been meaning to reach out but didn’t want to initiate the formal mentorship process because it has supervisor signature and she didn’t want to out me by accident so she wanted to chat about how we can get around it. And the head of the committee asked me for a conversation because she wants to know what they can do to support me better and what I need from the group as a whole, and I just.

The kindness of people who were strangers had me feeling things 😭

#ren rants #like I should’ve known that they would be good!!! but for #it just means a lot

[sawkinator]

My Stardew Valley hot take is that I simply do not think the fishing minigame is as bad as people make it out to be

#Sawk talks #stardew valley #I'm not a gamer by any means and I've still caught all the fish without mods #I think a lot of you just need to Git Gud

[pickled-flowers]

Sex positivity is also about not calling Ace people prude and using virgin as an insult 👍 hope that helps

#sex positivity is also respecting sex lives that dont look like yours #or lack thereof #and insulting people by saying they dont fuck make you sound stupid <3 #im sorry i just cant take people who use their sex lives as a flex seriously its just not my thing! #like yea having lots of kinky sex is cool but not having sex and not being interested by sex is also cool #one is not better than the other the human experience is just very varied and diverse #its normal you wont understand everyone your brain isnt even made to comprehend how many human there are in the world #but we should all have spaces to navigate our sex lives as we wish even if that means interacting with sex as a subject as little as possibl

[cosmosnout]

The most doomed siblings ever

#I don’t usually share that many sketches but I think abt them a lot #like ok obv Luffy means the world to both of them but before asl is was just Ace and Sabo being bffs #imagine just forgetting someone who literally used to be your best friend #imagine you remember someone you haven’t seen in years and not having the chance to reconnect with that person bc they’re gone #but you still see that person constantly in everything around you and in all the people he has met #anyway I’m so miserable abt them #art #digital art #my art #fanart #drawing #digital illustration #one piece #portgas d ace #ace #sabo

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr #hobbit #yeah guys idk i just feel like most people read it really young #but jolkein is really wordy and idk how y'all got through that at 8 yo #my attention span could neverrrrrr #obviously not as wordy as like. les mis. but you know what i mean. #lots and lots of context all the time. love that for his worldbuilding not so much for my hold on the plot #and yes i have watched the movies #i didn't completely miss the cultural zeitgeist #yay first time making a poll! if you vote or read my tags this far you are a gem 🫶🏻 #edit: i realize i spelled tolkien wrong. i feel like this proves my point #but also i feel like thats something you spell with your heart and not your mind

[hauntoblogical]

I have seen three different "how much of this site is queer" polls this evening poking fun at staff's 1/4 assertion and not a single indication any of them understand statistics. One someone even replied "This might have some sampling bias" what do you mean might what do you mean SOME

#ghostbloggings #like cmon #queer people who make a lot of queer posts including polls like this... #are predominantly followed by queer people. #and queer people are much more likely to reblog said polls for their queer audience #as sampling biases go? #'99% of responders are x degrees of follower separation from the OP' #is really really clear-cut #oops i was not expecting this to get notes. to be clear I am voting in these polls #they can be fun just... tired of people acting like they Mean Anything

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby has an important FNAF question for Glamrock Freddy

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #abby schmidt #fnaf gregory #glamrock freddy #glamrock bonnie #fnaf #fnaf movie #security breach #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Abby just wanted to know where her fave was at 😭 #she didn’t mean to make Freddy sad #Gregory knows by now not to bring up Bonnie around Freddy #‘I miss my husband Abby I miss him a lot I’ll be back’ #finally Glamrock Bonnie mentioned AND TRULY only mentioned BAHA #one day I’ll draw Glamrock Bonnie will he be okay? who knows..

[thisismyobsessionnow]

Just, lacemaking 💕

#no #I'm absolutely not crying #the love and appreciation for the craft just gets to me #you know #I started learning it when I was around 10 #from BOTH my grandmothers #but no one else in my family has bothered to learn #seeing it showed off like this?? #it just means a lot

[spiderziege]

once upon a time, there was a player

#statue is based on the statue in the hypixel post about technos memorial #background is based on the farming area in the hypixel lobby - i just took a lot of creative liberties #technoblade #my art #i miss him a lot and ive been meaning to draw something like this for almost a year now but it just never felt right #happy birthday‚ technoblade‚ and thank you

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a couple scribbles i cleaned up. also i think i like drawing him in varying states of distress

#i desperately want to know what happened the first time he cried #actually is that something he can do? is he capable of it? #i feel like he wouldn't like it... #since crying is messy and we all know he enjoys/values his appearance greatly #i mean cmon. its an involuntary loss of composure. and especially if he doesnt understand what/why its happening #so in my mind rn hed be idk... kinda desperate to stop crying & act fine? #HES SO FASCINATING. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM <3 #many things probably! #what to do when you're a puppet created as a blank slate while everyone around you already Knows Shit and Understands Feelings #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #welcome home wally #wally darling #i know there's a lot of Head Empty jokes abt him #but honestly he gives the vibes of thinking constantly #always absorbing information and considering and learning and Forming Opinions #he LOOKS head empty. but he isnt. #i just cant imagine him never not Thinking #unless he really is head empty in which case. good for him. i support him no matter what. hes just like me<3