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New Crow Time - When you drink from silly fountain you get cartoon powers.

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Look. Currently at 1.18.22 and-

I can get behind the literal super saiyan blue transformation, but the whole "do the funny Gear 5 by committing seppuku"-? Girl you SURE you dont have neurodivergence? Cause I have autism and "kill the self for temporary free ascension" is peak (  ◕_◕) if u ask me

And then you do this

Girl. Girl thats a diagnosis and a half. You made a COMPLETELY BLUE MELON like- i can SMELL the neurodivergence on you. I thought your heightened power level was cause, you know. "Chaotic neutral asexual girl who becomes the queen of the underworld when its halloween AND is also slightly insane and peak >:3c". Adding autism to the mix is basically 2 more digits on the power level.

Now if you excuse me i need to figure out at what point the void dragon stops being a bad guy SPECIFICALLY because the entire floof squad has less self-preservation than a minecraft creeper

I got ADHD bud, "burn yourself out for days in a burst of unbelievable power you cannot possibly replicate or do on command" is my final smash

#not to be that guy but like while this post is funny let's try to avoid diagnosing strangers on the internet and being like “you have x” #and state it as if it were a fact #even if it's correct idk it still feels rude and presumptive

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happy stab a roman senator day

#the goofy ass eyebrows are what get me

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Hey maybe we should stop asking ourselves if something is 100% completely original and never been done before and instead just ask if something is a good story

#How ironic that this itself is not at all an original take #Some thoughts ig #It’s so hard to be original in general #Are we seriously going to shut down an upcoming project just because it sounds a bit cliche #cliches are cliches because they’re *good* #wild robot #dreamworks #bc that was what prompted this #But it really applies to anything

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office au 💻📉📌

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trimming my hair on a whim and inadvertently gave myself dainix's exact haircut

#omg red it looks so cool #funky fun fresh #also that caption- #aurora

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So based on that last ask with King Arthur is he choosing to fall in love with Gwen even if she has a high chance of falling for Lancealot? If so, it's tragic. Doomed to love another that won't fully love you back.

Does Arthur even just tell Lancenalot to get the hell put of the kingdom some loops?

I think it's more like-

You become aware of your existence somewhere around the age of 3. You were born under mysterious circumstances you don't know the details of. The first time through, you were growing up in a castle. Lately you find you are growing up among peasantry.

Maybe you have brothers. Maybe you have a sister. Maybe you're an only child. Your family is distant either way. They speak welsh. They speak latin. They speak french. They speak english with american attempts at british accents.

The first few times through, there wasn't a sword. Now it's a consistent presence - a shimmering blade stuck in a plain anvil or a large boulder, haunting your hometown or a nearby forest glade. It looks different every time, feels different in your hands. It was made for you.

There are more trials every time. In the first stories the crown was yours from birth. Lately it's been further and further away, behind more tribulations and tournaments and beasts to slay. More guidance from the ageless old man you remember from the earliest days, the welsh days. He's different every time. Everything's different every time. And still nothing changes.

The crown is yours. It's inevitable. And when the crown passes into your hands, it carries the kingdom with it. It's yours now. And it's going to thrive! You hardly need to do anything. Heroes flock to you and pledge themselves as knights, then spend the decades tearing off on wild quests and adventures, getting into the kind of trouble that serendipitously always keeps the kingdom safe. The adventures feel familiar, but never quite play out the same way. Chalices, black knights, fairy women, questing beasts. You rarely see them for yourself. You're too important, after all. You're the kingdom's beating heart.

You have a queen. You don't spend much time with her. It's jarring how much she changes every time. You hate how much it surprises you the times she genuinely loves you; you never really get to enjoy it. The kingdom doesn't run itself, even if just having you around seems to make the forests grow thick and the rivers run clear. Mostly you spend time with her when you're rescuing her from abduction. You very rarely have children together. You miss them.

It didn't used to end in fire, but lately it never ends in anything but, and you never know when it's going to start. You're never home when it starts, but you spend so much time out tending the kingdom or questing anyway. But you always learn too late - treachery. Your knight, your vassal, your bastard child, your lady love. Camelot is burning. You watch your life's work precede you into the grave.

You die. You sleep under the mountain. You dream. It's quiet.

Somewhere in the world, a writer picks up a pen, and you become aware of existence somewhere around the age of 3.

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omw home 4 christmas

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tumblr i just finished spiderman 2 (the game) and I CRAVE parksborn (I think that's their name) content. pls link any good fics or fanart or anything, ao3 has not satisfied my needs sufficiently

#preferably for specifically apiderman 2 bc I have not played the other two games #i'm sorryyyy i want to tho #the 2nd game was free on the ps5 so #in my defense #spiderman #insomniac spider man #insomniac peter parker #insomniac harry osborn #spiderman 2 ps5 #fanfic

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I'm sorry that the terfs made their way onto your blog but it does feel good to see you support trans people. Thank you for that

Always.

I think, charitably, that the discourse going down on that post is an extrapolation and over-focus on one element of the point I was making: that for me, determining with certainty that I was cis was a rather fraught process. I was presented with many alternatives, but underlying their imposition on me was the oddly regressive idea that the things I liked, the principles I valued, the parts of myself I was proud of were not permitted of women. My whole life I got smacked with the background radiation that I couldn't like being strong because women aren't allowed to be stronger than men. I couldn't like being loud and boistrous because women aren't allowed to take up space. I couldn't be a math geek because women aren't smart. It was all deeply regressive misogyny from day one, but I started getting hit with it slathered in a fresh coat of paint - all those assumptions still held to be true, but now there was the out that I could do all those things if I just wasn't a woman.

Concluding that the underlying bioessentialist premise was wrong was very important. Absolutely none of those statements were true, and were only ever maintained by cultural saturation, goalpost-readjustment when they were actively disproven, and the occasional bout of lying with statistics to pretend they weren't just Shit All The Way Down. The core premise that certain things were only permitted of or possible for men was bullshit, and I didn't need to surrender the gender I liked best in order to play in the spaces I wanted to. I could simply exist the way I was already existing. I didn't need anything else.

The misinterpretation is the assumption that this being true of me means this is everybody's relationship with gender. I turned out to be cis, so for me, feeling that holding onto my assigned gender wasn't allowed was distressing - just another invocation of the same bioessentialist bullshit I'd been dealing with since the preschool playground. This is because misgendering is fundamentally denying that a person has the right to express themself the way they want. When aimed at me, it says I'm not performing traditional femininity well enough to deserve my pronouns. The same disrespect is the root of misgendering when aimed at trans people. "Perform your gender to my satisfaction or I will confiscate it."

The problem is, bioessentialism is 100% ingrained into the terf playbook, which is why, for instance, all their shitty talking points about trans athletes eventually boil down to "no woman can ever defeat a man in any contest because we are simply naturally weak and stupid and there is nothing we can do about it" and quite frankly nothing disgusts me more than the defeatist acceptance of the very lie that feminism is dedicated to overcoming. Instead of accepting that the paradigm of bioessentialism is a false dichotomy right from the jump, they embrace and weaponize it against the people whose existence proves the dichotomy is a lie. If gender essentialism is fundamentally false, then it is nobody's fucking business what anybody does with their gender. If the lines don't exist, nobody needs to enforce them. And yet there the terfs go, hunting down people whose lives are none of their business and trying to argue that they represent some great and terrible evil, some downfall of society made flesh, something that makes it totally correct and normal for them to spend so much time thinking about strangers' genitalia. They want this to be a noble crusade so badly they won't even examine what flag they're flying.

I love and support the trans people in my life and will always, always stand on the side of your right to exist, but alongside that, terf rhetoric especially disgusts and infuriates me because it is, at its heart, utter cowardice. The world told them they were weak and stupid and inferior and they fucking believed it. And now they think Fighting The Good Fight For Women means turning around and using the same paradigmatic weapon that hurt them to hurt the people whose existence outside the binary proves the weapon is a lie. They're the same shithead schoolyard bullies who made me believe my entire existence was foundationally wrong for years of my life and I will never, ever side with them or the shitty, cowardly rhetoric that contributed to the loneliest years of my life.

Figure out who you are and do it on purpose. Find the real source of the misery in your life and try fighting that instead of the other crabs in the bucket. Trans rights.

#👏👏👏 #how do you have a way of saying things so well red

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#i literally just saw my cat do this #it's so good

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If you could place aurora in one time period technologically, which time period would that be? Or is it a mix?

the whole story was painstakingly crafted to consistently take place on march 6, 1928 in rural nebraska. aurora's social, cultural and technological development are an exact match to this precise window in time

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The Void Dragon (oh, and that Erin guy too)

Erin and Voidy from @comicaurora

I love these two and their dynamic so much.

#Just got jumpscared by this AMAZING ART #My guy how- #aurora #aurora fanart

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bless this iteration of Percy Jackson for genuinely believing, for at least three seconds, that he is the second coming of Christ

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this interstitial is giving me the opportunity to google all sorts of fun hairstyles

#oh this character for sure looks my jam #so intruiged #aurora

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well shit. this was just supposed to be a stream thumbnail

#ZELDA NOOOOOOO MY GIRL #also dang red you didn't need to flex with those hands #goddang #totk