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dev patel really said "i support trans ppls rights....... trans ppls rights to kill bigots with guns and metal pipes and chairs and cool knives'' anyway watch monkey man

#monkey man

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worst thing abt finals is not just the hair-greying exam stress but also the fact that during all this i can't stop thinking abt how i can make timber say a stupid joke and have flash roll his eyes at him

#flash sentry #timber spruce #equestria girls #flashspruce #timberflash #like. out of ALL the times i can have ideas it's NOW?

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timber:

flash:

timber, for the 1820193020th time: did it hurt when you fell from heaven

flash: you know what

flash: yes it did, it took me 12 WEEKS to recover and it was HARD because i had NO insurance

#flash sentry #timber spruce #equestria girls #flashspruce #timberflash #if this finds itself in my fic. you know why 🫡

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FLASH, TWILIGHT, SUNSET, AND TIMBER ALL IN A POLY RELATIONSHIP HEADCANONS?????

pls. i beg of you.

i just thought..

if timbertwi, and sciset, and flashspruce

why not flashsprucesciset?

IVE BEEN SAYING THISSSS

i think i'm personally not toooo attached to the hc but that's probably because i've fallen a bit out of eqg

honestly tho? timber has two hands, sci twi has two hands, this definitely works

#equestria girls #timber spruce #sci twi #sunset shimmer #flash sentry

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brain in the middle of writing: okay but would flash say this

me: why don't we watch back his scenes and check

brain, autism triggered: absolutely FUCKING NOT

#guys i like him so much i cannot see photos of him without disintegrating into chaos #im actually so ill #flash sentry #equestria girls #yes he's my favourite character yes i cannot stand to see him in any of the scenes he's in

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i am literally THE insufferable english lit student. take me back to when i was 16 and watch me wow my white english teacher

me writing the definition of us: guys every conversation flash and timber have is just another allegory about their respective internal storylines in the fic, if they say shit and you think it means something else subtextually or metaphorically it most likely does! 😁

#flashspruce #timberflash #forgot to say with or without yolk = messy. without yolk makes shortbread crumblier i.e. messy; with yolk gives shortbread structure #smth smth timber's not over twi even tho it's been months but flash is okay w it bc who knows what timber's going through better than him

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weeee thanks for the tag!!

repeating the advice: don't dox yourself <3

Are you named after anyone? not that i know of? all i'm aware is that my name is genderless which was like foreshadowing to my gender lmaoo

When was the last time you cried? oh literally today. i am a massive (but private) crier and i'm not ashamed of it!

Do you have kids? nah, wayyy too young for that right now lol. i was actually thinking about this today and i don't think i will want them either. too much responsibility and i'm too sensitive. i'll be the gay relative that spoils my friends' children

What sports do you play/have you played? did basketball for like 4 weeks at a club when i was in the single digits. then in high school my school was big on netball and hockey. never continued any of them after

Do you use sarcasm? my (ex?)crush wrote on the back of my shirt on the last day of year 13 that she wished she could be as sarcastic as me. take that however you will

What is the first thing you notice about people? probably how they talk about others. if it's not genuine criticism, i get a bit put off bc who's to say you're not gonna talk about me like that? or anyone i care about? i probably do it myself but definitely not liberally to people i don't know

What is your eye color? dark brownnnn !!

Scary movies or happy endings? happy endings because this bitch can't handle scary movies

Any talents? i won't say writing or art, but i will say having good attention to detail. actually— maybe i taught myself to do that too. who the hell knows

Where were you born? uhhh somewhere i have not visited once since i was born <3

What are your hobbies? writing, art, reading but bass boosted. autistic level obsessed. my friends say they wished they did their hobbies like me, but i don't think they understand how obsessively that is

Do you have any pets? nope but i am friends with soooo many cat people. so naturally, i like cats. i may have a cat one day, but that depends if their cuteness defeats my desire to keep things in my room orderly

How tall are you? i am SHORT, like under 160 cm. bengali genes

Favourite subject in school? oof. i wanna say english lit but i also loved chemistry. i found school fun when i ignored standardised testing <3

Dream job? i don't really have one? over time i've just developed this desire to not have a job, but society doesn't work like that anymore. part of me has always, since i was young, wanted to be a writer and i can definitely be that, just not easily. i'm still gonna try and see where it gets me. maybe one of my friends will publish my shit when i'm dead and they'll be come classics. i may also open up art commissions one day (emphasis on one day)

i'm currently in pharmacy school rn so that's kicking my ass but i don't dislike it! helping people is neat and medicines are cool when you're talking about tablets and syrups instead of rushing around in hospital (i am ignoring the existence of hospital pharmacy). i also get to write an oc i love with as a pharmacy student too (you see what i mean about obsessive hobbies?) so there's that

marvel is right, multiple jobs is realistic. if i'll get money from what i love to do, i'll do it too. considering our current economic crisis at the moment, it's more realistic than ever

15Qs and 15As!

Thanks for the tag, Marvel, this sounds fun! Tagging: @smallcrystals, @digikate813, @eddiescorner, and @bevinbrand if she feels like it :) Don't dox yourself on the 'where were you born' question tho, y'all. We're better than that. Are you named after anyone? Two people! My Uncle Stephen and my Nana (maternal grandmother). My brother was named after my dad's high school best friends

When was the last time you cried? I think the last time was a couple weeks ago watching anime. I love a good cry, I've embraced that that's how I express a lot of emotions

Do you have kids? Nope! I'd like to someday, but all in due time.

What sports do you play/have you played? I'm not a team sports kind of girl anymore, but I played soccer as a kid and really enjoyed that.

Do you use sarcasm? Usually only obvious sarcasm. Bevin and I will often use excessively obvious sarcasm with each other to express love. A little linguistic game we play with each other. We never enjoy spending hours and hours on the phone together. So unlike us! Where would you get that idea?

What is the first thing you notice about people? First thing? I feel like my anxiety is charge of that: looking out for how friendly they seem, what they laugh at (if they do), how approachable they might be. I had pretty bad social anxiety disorder from like 14 - 22ish and human beings tend to do the social thing once or twice.

What is your eye color? Hazel! Looks brown but up close you can see there's a lot of green around my pupils, too.

Scary movies or happy endings? My media diet is heavily skewed towards happy endings but every now and then, nothing satisfies like a good tragedy.

Any talents? People know I like the writing thing! I'm also learning to draw now and picking up guitar again for the first time since before uni!

Where were you born? A hospital about... 30 - 40 minutes away from me? I don't live in that city anymore, and haven't since I was 3, but we stayed in the same general province!

Don't dox yourself, folks!

What are your hobbies? Writing, drawing, guitar, going for bike rides or walks. Geeking out by myself or with friends! I'm also starting to learn some German and pick up a few more cooking skills.

Do you have any pets? Nah, wish I did. My living situation doesn't allow for it. But my dad has a dog who I love so much and get to visit! And my sister has two cats who used to live with us that are excellent cuddlers.

How tall are you? Uhhhhh I think 5'11? To use ancient Tumblr Lingo: Tol, not smol

Favorite subject in school? In Elementary - Middle School, it was English, because reading and writing. In high school, Psychology, Legal Studies, Guitars, History, or Writer's Craft

Dream job? Cool question, I'mma over-complicate it! For my career, it's either one of two things: Creative and/or helping people. Add another axis onto that: Stability vs. freedom. I like stability. It helps me feel happy and builds self-esteem to build stuff up. So since most of the creative jobs I'd be down to try have a lack of stability (and often crappy working conditions), I decided to start with stability and helping people! My current job is actually the goal I set for myself to get into in 5 - 10 years. So. Whoops! Got in early! I can't stay beyond this year (covering a mat leave) but wow has it been good experience. And it's cool shit that I like to think supports people in building something good for themselves.

Not a ton of creativity though, and so what's cool about life is that the time horizon isn't just right now, forever. The job I'm in now is a dream job of mine based on the criteria I set out (stable, treats me right, and helps people), but I have other dream jobs I'd like to also try out!

For example: I'd like to become a published author! And I'd also like to learn storyboarding to maybe try being a storyboards artist someday, or some job in animation.

What I like about the job I have now, too, is that I still have enough energy in and around my job to have a life outside of it. So I can build the creative skills that'll lead to cool stuff and opportunities down the line.

Having multiple dream jobs I think is realistic. And just kinda fun to not only achieve one thing, but look forward to what else I can do!

#ask meme

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me writing the definition of us: guys every conversation flash and timber have is just another allegory about their respective internal storylines in the fic, if they say shit and you think it means something else subtextually or metaphorically it most likely does! 😁

#honestly ive grown so much as a writer that im almost tempted to remove all my other stories and just post this one #the only reason i won't is bc i know 21 year old me may be better and then think bc i deleted my old stories that i can delete this one too #and im proud of it atm so no 🫶🏼 #equestria girls #flashspruce #flash sentry #timber spruce #timberflash

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I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#THISSS

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you ever think timber was told he was sooo mature for his age

#timber spruce #equestria girls #i am in pain hello #this is what i get for writing flashspruce fic at 11 pm

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i now have a title 😈

#equestria girls #flashspruce

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i really need to read sci twi being utterly in love and heartbroken over timber im so serious idc what anyone else says, they were in love

#maybe it's just bc i know timber would be heartbroken over sci twi but i need to see the feeling reciprocated #pls 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 #equestria girls #timber spruce #sci twi #timbertwi #like sorry but there is this obsession with first love shipping which is just so unrealistic

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the way marvelandponder writes sunset and flash’s friendship is SO good it makes me want to punch a wall

#like ARGHGHFHHGHFH #eftd #empathy for the devil #equestria girls

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💖 🖊? Maybe these can go hand in hand! (Unless you want to keep your favourite parts for when they come out haha)

Fanfic Ask Game! Hehehehe! I was hoping somebody would use the pen! I'll answer the first one in general, then give you a snippet from an upcoming story I just finished revising (off to be illustrated!) 💖 What do you like most about your own writing? Hard to say, but I really love writing and dialogue. I've had to read back so much of my own stuff since I try to edit it to a good point before it goes to Bevin - so I will admit a terrible sin: I laugh at my own jokes. I also cry at my own stories, but I cry easy! 🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP. (let's goooooo!)

Her knuckles clunked against the hardwood, resounding.  Floorboards shifted and sifted dust until a chain lock clocked open, and the door stepped back to let a half-awake, swollen-eyed Timber Spruce work out how to parse the view. “Sunset Shimmer?”

Mud clung to her rain-filled boots as Sunset stood on his covered porch feeling like a wet rat in a sewer drain. “... Hi,” she said, soaked through. “I’m sorry. I know it’s late, and dark, and you probably don’t exactly want to see me…” Over her shoulder, the rain splattered on her motorcycle, pouring off the roof. What’s he supposed to think? Any sense of cool had abandoned her and a chill broke through her layers. “I’ve got something I need to say to you.”

All the sleep loitering his eyes cleared out, and Timber brightened as if a shiny new bus pulled into camp. Chest sitting higher enough for her to notice his musculature, he pulled the door open with all the enthusiasm she got out of Banana or Spike. “Yeah?”

She got one look down at herself. He seemed to do the same, and he elected to join her on the porch. As he did, she reached into the inner pocket⁠ of her jacket and pulled out what she came for: two tickets to the Fall Formal. 

Once he locked eyes with the ticket stubs, the power of his intense brows shrouded over everything, trees fallen on the forest floor. Thunder rumbled somewhere so far off that it could’ve been a bend in the wind. “Oh, no,” Timber said, kind of smiling. “I gave those to Twilight. She should get a chance to use them with someone.”

Sunset only moved to nod. Her leather creaked like the rain.

The firm hold his brows had deepend, gutting a trench between themselves⁠ until suddenly, they let go. 

“Get back together with her,” she said, blacker than the pitch outside of the porch. 

“Sunset⁠—”

“You make her laugh. You’re the same kind of weird. You’re good for her.” She could hear the rasp of her voice working over that one. “Maybe she rolled her eyes a lot and things ended, but I was there. I know she loved you. And I can guess how you feel about her.”

Timber listened to her in the rain in his pajamas and bedhead-hair. 

“I thought if you broke up, she’d be sad but…” Celestia, the sound of how she cried the first night. Twilight’s rawed out voice dragged out into shaking quiet before another blast like each breath was a new wave. Sunset’s hand gripped her own soaked shirt just the same as she’d gripped the shirt on Twilight’s back. Mist crested off the eavesdrops. “I want her to stop hurting,” she said, Timber’s edges blurred. “She’s my best friend in any world.⁠⁠” Dull-eyed, she shook her head, tickets raised. “So? What’s stopping you? Go on and ask her to the dance.” 

The wind changed and Timber shook his overly fluffy head. “... You have to know I’m not going to do that, right? You have to know that.”

Sunset’s ribs cramped, stitches in her sides. She shoved the tickets into his chest. “C’mon! I know you still like her! You crazy kids deserve each other⁠—what’s wrong with you?”

Rubbing the spot where the mushrooms on his shirt distinguished him as a Fungi at Parties, Timber looked down at the tickets at his chest like he was expecting something else to be there. “I don’t know what she told you about our breakup but think about it for a second: You’re talking about Twilight Sparkle.” He turned his chin to slant his look to her. “You really think she’d ever make a big decision without thinking it through?”

#THE SNIPPET. I AM REELING #'you really think she'd ever make a big decision without thinking it through' WHAT THE FUCK!!!! #the line abt how twilight cried idk how im gonna survive tef #also the comment abt laughing at your own jokes: AS YOU SHOULD!!!! enjoy your silly jokes!!!

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me when i get this urge to dote on timber spruce and do everything for him so he can just sit there with his big eyes and pretty face

but i do not exist in the eqg universe, so i make flash do it instead

#flash sentry #timber spruce #equestria girls #flashspruce #timberflash #working on the fanfic rn and haha *finds how many times i refer to timber's eyes as bambi eyes*

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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

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Toni Morrison? Alice Walker? Zora Neale Hurston? Ralph Ellison? James Baldwin? Lorraine Hansbury? Maya Angelou? Octavia Butler? Langston Hughes? Bell Hooks? Many many many many others? Go fuck yourself you lazy, anti-intellectual asshole

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