Let's Be Weird Together, It's Less Lonely That Way
Hi, my name's Marion! They/Them. This is my own little corner of the mind. I reblog a wide range of things, but will usually tag nsfw stuff (except the earliest ones sorry!) Enjoy your stay!
Before we continue, is this a personal moral failing or a mental illness? I need to know whether I should treat you like an evil monster or a helpless child when I unperson you.
I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!
People will call anything a tumblr heritage posts these days. Saw two different things tagged tumblr heritage post today and both had been around for less than a week.
That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.
The strangest thing ever to me is that people won't even bother to think about something in an imaginative way. I like to use weird conversation starters when a convo gets dull or I have nothing to say, like "if you were a god, what would people worship you for?". The sad thing is, this never goes very far. If they play along, their answers are short and boring and they don't continue the thought. But more often than not they don't just not give an answer, they downright refuse to think about it, refuse to even consider using their imagination. Adults are so boring sometimes.
Had a dream where I was bit by a wolf spider and wasn't bothered by it but everyone else around me was panicking "You're gonna die!" so I was like "oh, so I am". And so everyone asked me what coffin I chose and I told them I don't have a coffin chosen and everyone was all like "What do you MEAN you don't have a coffin picked out???? Get in that!"
And I tried to go to the coffin shop but I couldn't print a ticket. So I decided not to die
If I can engage in a little backlash to the backlash to the backlash, I think it's a mistake to assume that everyone who writes a "Superman (or a stand-in) is evil, actually!" story is coming from a place of "If I had power, I wouldn't be good.", rather than "Nobody who has had power over me has ever been good to me."