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“…and you can’t help but look up”

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She’s literally never done anything wrong? Ever??

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what day is it

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what if mechs dating sim…

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how is a song from 1970 by the kinks more respectful of trans women than many news outlets are today

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I have a lot of feelings about how the first time the Guide found out its true name, it was immediately used to hurt it.

just...that's the first name that was completely its own that it ever had. because Guide has always seemed more like a job description to me, even if we do shorten it to make it more of a name. and when it was first called Mistholme, that was immediately used to stifle it. and even after that, that name was used to control it for MONTHS! to keep it quiet, to make sure the truth of what happened didn't get out. its own name, something that should have only been the Guide's has never been used in a positive way for it.

How could you ever look at your own name in the -- I can't even say the same way, because that was the first time -- in a good way, ever, after that?

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mechs enjoyer ask game, courtesy of THE mechs enjoyer ask guy

thought it might be fun to make a mechs ask game since I pretty much always ask the same questions so here are More questions to ask each other

1. who’s your favourite non-mechanism character?

2. what’s your favourite album in terms of music?

3. what’s your favourite story (album or smaller narrative e.g. GPTvTMK or alice)

4. whats your favourite album cover art?

5. do you have any mechs merch (official or otherwise)?

6. what’s your favourite song that doesn’t have a studio recording?

7. what’s your favourite setting (e.g. the city, fort galfridian, etc)

8. do you have a favourite piece of fanart (tag the artist and link the original post if possible)?

9. do you have a favourite piece of official fiction?

10. do you have a favourite fanfiction (again, tag the writer if they’re on tumblr and link the fic)?

11. if you were a mechanism, what do you think your mechanism would be? (credit to @dropitdoeeyes for that one)

12. do you have a favourite ship/a favourite character dynamic?

13. favourite non-singing album character? (credit to @x-ca1iber)

14. coolest adaptation of myth?

15. coolest adaptation of another song?

16. what’s your favourite instrument played by a mechanism? (credit to @submarine-prince)

17. how did you first find out about the mechanisms? (credit to @submarine-prince)

18. which mechanisms’ voice is your favourite?

19. which mechanism gives you the most gender envy?

20. have you ever cosplayed as a mechanism? if not, would you? who would you be?

21. what’s your favourite mechanisms headcanon? (maybe some big worldbuilding thing or can just be I think this mech is asexual for example)

so like the concept I guess. maybe send a couple to who you reblogged it from send a couple to people you see with this on their blog and have fun being not normal about this thing we all like :)

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jon in a dress again :3

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The world is so hostile to tweens.....

Like we joke about how our schools growing up would ban the latest toy trends, but that reality genuinely horrific when you think about it. Like maybe 1% of the bans were based on safety, but the rest cited reasoning like

-"kids were bartering for collectibles" (kids learning about economics and product value)

-"kids were wearing them and the colors were too flashy" (kids experimenting with self expression and fashion)

-"kids were playing with them during lunch and recess instead of using our rusted safety hazard playground" (kids utilizing their free time to do what helps *them* unwind).

Play areas specifically geared towards children and especially towards teens are constantly being shut down. "Oh kids today are always on their phones!" Maybe because

-there are barely any arcades left and even less arcades that aren't adult-oriented,

-public pools and gyms are underfunded and shut down,

-"no loitering" laws prevent kids and teens from just hanging out,

-movie theatres only play the latest films and ticket prices are only rising,

-parks and playgrounds are either neglected or replaced with gear only directed at toddlers and unsuitable for anyone older

-genuine children's and young teen media is being phased out in favour of media directed only at very small children or older teens and adults.

-suburbs and even cities are becoming more and more hostile to pedestrians, it's just not safe for kids to walk to or ride their bikes to their friends' houses or other play destinations

Children's agency is hardly ever respected. Kids between the ages of 9-13 are either treated as babies or as full-grown adults, with no in-between. When they ask to be given more independence, they are either scoffed at or given more responsibilities than are reasonable for a child their age.

This is even evident in the fashion scene.

Clothing stores and brands like Justice and Gap are either closing or rebranding to either exclusively adult clothing or young children's clothes, with no middle ground for tweens. Tweens have to choose between clothes designed for adults that are too large and/or too mature for their age and bodies, or more clothes they feel are far too childish. For tween girls especially it's either a frilly pinafore dress with pigtails or a woman's size dress with cleavage. No wonder tween girls these days dress like they're older, it's because their other option is little girl clothes and they don't want to feel childish.

And then when tweens go to school, the books they want to read aren't available because they cover "mature" topics (read: oh no two people kissed and they weren't straight or oh no menstruation was mentioned or oh no a religion other than Christianity is depicted), so kids are left with books for way below their reading level. No wonder kids today are struggling with literacy, it's because they can't exercise and expand their reading skills with age-appropriate books. Readers need to be challenged with new words and concepts in order to grow in their skills, only letting tween read Dr. Seuss and nursery rhymes doesn't let them learn.

Discussions about substance use, reproduction, and sexuality aren't taught at an age-appropriate level in school or even by children's parents, so they either grow up ignorant and more vulnerable to abuse, or they seek out information elsewhere that is delivered in a less-than-age-appropriate manner. It shouldn't be a coin-toss between "I didn't know what sex was until I was 18 and in college" or "my first exposure to sex as a tween was through porn" or "I didn't know what sex was so I didn't know I was being sexually abused as a kid."

Tweenhood is already such a volatile and confusing time for kids, their bodies are changing and they're transitioning from elementary to middle to high school. It's hard enough for them in this stage, but it's made worse by how society devalues and fails them.

We talk about the disappearance of teenagehood, and maybe that's gonna happen in the future, but the erasure of tweenhood is happing in real time, and it's having and going to have major consequences for next generation's adults.

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i wake up and i am immediately thinking about those characters. i eat breakfast and i am thinking about those characters. i do chores and i am thinking about those characters. i do any work, i study, i walk the dogs, and i am thinking about those characters. i go to bed and i am thinkign

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New Ianthe print just dropped in my Locked Tomb series 🫡

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"i love music i wish i could hold it" well you can it's called a CD and it's got a hole and everything

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I have a mechs doodle request! can I have a jonny being a lil shit. talkin catlike behavior. sitting on the person who is least available to being sat on at the time, pushing things off tables for no reason, that kind of thing

This ask has been in my box for mmmm years. I am so very sorry haha

[ID: a drawing of Jonny d’Ville and Raphaella la Cognizi from the Mechanisms. Jonny is sleeping atop Raph, who is surprised by his presence and spills some liquid from a flask. \End ID

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This is my first coding assignment for my software engineering class that started today. It’s going to be a really good semester.

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