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Rats rats rats!! 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀💛

Inspired by the designs of Juliette (@/cy-lindric)

#character design

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this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

#pain as poetry love that #humans

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we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

#dont worry op i still go kyaaaaaaa >w< at quality moonshine whump #fandom #i was raised in the hellmines so i still seek the noxious gas #theres just something about extreme emotional and physical pain as an equalizer

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

#good comics #lgbtqia

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3500 years ago a bunch of people decided to build a tower to the sky and now I have to worry about keeping up my Duolingo streak

#quality shitposting #hellsite (affectionate)

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#muscles #humans #beautiful people

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i think about this scene all the time

#thinky thoughts

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

#places

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#lmfao #quality shitposting

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For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

#fandom

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Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?

#THE EPIC OF EA NASIR AND HIS SHITTY COPPER

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escapist media in general is an ongoing fascination for me. media written with escapism as a main priority typically requires very little thought from the reader - the whole point is to kick back and live vicariously through a fun story, after all. they're narratives written to prioritize reader comfort.

but because they are written to be as unchallenging as possible, they often come with a set of underlying assumptions that can be just fucking fascinating to unpick. like yeah, why IS it assumed to be escapist and indulgent to enjoy colonial wealth without thinking about it in regency fiction. why IS the self inserty female protagonist, who is assumed to be as universally relatable as possible, written to be sweetly naive and sexually inexperienced. why does this "queernorm" contemporary world replicate patriarchial structures exactly but just with Gay People Allowed. why are these ideas assumed to be easy and comforting? can the writers not imagine anything better than the status quo but except maybe with more gay people and poc if you're lucky?

the fact of the matter is that "unchallenging" fiction tends to just simply replicate dominant cultural narratives as a point of comfort. we won't challenge the reader, so we won't think about the way we write certain things. everything we think of as comforting and safe are, of course, universal, and could not be founded on any harmful ideological assumptions. there is nobody who could be alienated by this.

and that's the sticking point to me, in terms of escapist fiction: it's always necessary to ask whose comfort is being prioritized. you've got to interrogate who gets to escape and the mechanisms by which that escape happens. escapism can be good and necessary to survive the current world, but it does not exist in a vacuum separate from the real world, even if it pretends it does!

#thinky thoughts #fandom #writing

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#lmfao #quality shitposting #games

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!!WIZARDS!!

I drew these last year and made them stickers that I sell at cons, but I forgot to post them online! (If you happen to go to Dokomi this year I'll have these with me there) (the two cats at the top are based on my friends' cats, who are perfect and special)

#cute things

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#the epic of ea nasir and his shitty copper

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@escapescapes

#glitch art #abstract expressionism

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Anastasia Trusova Born (1989). Russia

“Bedtime stories”. Acrylic canvas 40 x 50

#patterns