#[no need to reply to this today]

[aro-bird]

Okay, for aro awareness week, I need you all to start recognizing that:

NOT EVERYONE IN THE ARO COMMUNITY IS FROM THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE.

Please, when we're having discussions about aphobia, allonormativity amatonormativity, and other issues for the love of god STOP PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T EXIST AND LISTEN TO US!

We aren't just your token aros that exist in the other side of the world just for you to prove that we are everywhere or whatever point you're trying to make, we are living, breathing human beings and members of the aro community and we deserve respect and to be remembered not as a point in your discourse but as equals.

I am sick and tired of people just assuming that everyone in the community is either from the United States or Europe and only centering those voices in the discussion. We exist too.

#mayaposts #aro #aromatic #aro awareness week #aromantic awareness week #aro awareness week 2024 #aroallo #aroace #arospec #filipino aro #asian aro #poc aro #sorry this came about after someone replied to me saying that not everyone can afford necessities with one income and that rent is too #expensive these days with ''just move to less expensive cities like amsterdam or london and get a full time job'' and it PISSED ME OFF #mind you it was a discussion on why aroaces (who may not have partners or roommates) struggle in today's economy #the other person was not only dismissive of the op who was explaining the frustrations of needing to work multiple jobs to stay afloat #but also trying to just dismiss the struggles of single income people (in this case non-partnering aroaces) #and the implication that we should just ''move out of london and amsterdam and get a full time job'' to be able to afford rent #is such a privileged european/american take #sorry im ranting now lol im just peeved off #i dont even know if the other person was aroace at all tbh but whatever

[maggiecheungs]

moonlight chicken as text posts (pt. 1)

#moonlight chicken #asianlgbtqdramas #thaidrama #asiandramasource #earth pirapat #mix sahaphap #jimwen #earthmix #midnight series #moonlightchickenedit #ellisedits #moonlight chicken text posts #finallyyyy earthmix chicken era 2.0 is upon us #life has been too much lately i only just managed to watch the eps today #i have brainrot now but i also desperately need sleep :( #will try to come back properly and reply to messages etc soon #🤞🤞🤞

[cozylittleartblog]

:)c

queen pin real. we all have to be a little self-indulgent sometimes 💙

#deltarune #queen #Q5U4EX7YY2E9N #enamel pins #utdr #video games #deltarune chapter 2 #turns out the budget Did allow for this and i instantly could not help myself #alright boys now don't let all these milfs be shelf warmers #deltarune fanart #pins #i wanted to do something more interesting with the wall but i was like 'this is a backing card and i need it done Today' so . window #gotta take advantage of those sales!!!! backing cards probably go in the trash anyway #.... i save all mine though 👉👈 i have a box full of backing cards from all my pins. they're pretty...... #ok in the tags or the replies: do y'all save your backing cards. yes no or only sometimes #this is the tallest pin i've ever made. the first pin with screenprint. aND THE MOST EXPENSIVE PER UNIT LMAO

[mumblesplash]

someone tagged the hope poem post 'the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls' excuse me while i cry in a corner forever

#[guy at a party meme] they don't even know about my lifelong obsession with that song...... #man okay the thing about that post right #is i browse the replies for a bit basically every time it pops back up in my notifs #bc every time there is a not insignificant number of new tags saying something along the lines of 'i really needed this today' #and more than once people have left tags in there about how that poem helped keep them ALIVE #and like goddamn i did not set out with that intention but if i accomplish nothing else in my entire life #i did once write something that helped #and there's been some days i've really needed that #mumbling

[mattodore]

OC Evolution tag: 2024 <- 2018

choose an oc and show the progress of the earliest to latest version of them

tagged by @elderwisp! it took me hours to find the oldest trays i could of theirs but uh... yeah. everyone else i've seen do this had such nice sims in the past but i think my old sims have to be some kind of sin against god.

i’ll tag @stinkrascal, @wldestluv-rs, @spurgees, @veone, and @warmsol <3

#thank you for tagging me 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 #river dipping #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #echthroi #ts4 #icb i'm letting these versions of their sims breach containment... dennis reynolds voice this doesn't represent them!! #and these aren't even their oldest versions like these are just the trays i found in onedrive #ik i made theo's original sim in late 2017 but i couldn't find that version :( also can't find older screenshots of his sim before 2019 #so the original super alpha version of his sim is gone forever i think.............. and let's celebrate that actually #some of the cc i used to have just wasn't there like theo's skin had to be replaced entirely... i think i used to use like msblue or summat #but i tried not to make any big changes just filled in what i knew used to be there #tbh i think my sim style only started looking really nice july of last year like kjnghkfjnkghjndfkg DON'T go back in the archives!! #really i gotta go through my old posts and private and delete a bunch of stuff. especially the edits i plan to redo eventually. #meant to post this when i woke up but got distracted making a sideblog and going through old posts #and then i took A Nap #(three hours long) #i need to reply to my messages now 🧎 feel a little off today tho so. might be slow at it

[front-facing-pokemon]

#tropius #HE SO APPY!!! FUCK!!! HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS ONE #i've never looked at tropius up close before i didn't even know they had a little helmet and shit. this is WONDERFUL. they're SO appy #i hope you all appreciate this as much as i do because this is very good. i don't even know anything about tropius. jack SHIT. except that #they're so appy. and i will accept this. i gotta work but i've been too busy thinking abt how appy they are #i also started the process of remaking my main blog. bc it just had a lot of posts on it all the way back to way back in my past #and i felt like it was weighing the whole blog down and making me not want to use it. and that blog needed some housekeeping for me to want #to associate myself with it. so i'm currently in the process of coming up with a new URL before i start really renovating #so the hunt for miss ffp starts anew or something. unless i've lazily replied to you in a comment once and you remember my url #i've done that to a few of you. demifiendcruithne is one. shoutouts to you demifiendcruithne you're the best #then there was that one who assumed i use windows. despite recognizing that i'm “rather techy.” yuck! #had to respond to that one to clear up any suspicion that i might be a windows user. this is all totally unrelated and also will be #totally irrelevant by the time this post gets up anyway. hopefully. y'know if i haven't come up with a new url by then then #i mean. that's my fault. but this isn't gonna post until july 23rd. 10 days from today. so. hopefully! #see you all then

[alloutshirt]

happy for them <3

#lt band #isaac #michael #today has been a long week for me lol #so friends i need to reply to all is good ill update you later or tomorrow cause i might just crash as you as i see my bed #reading tags under my post has been a highlight and only thing i had time for so thanks <3 #x

[flingza-roller]

i like dissociated for a month and now its my birthday. 4 am good morning

#my art #inksona #do i even fucking tag this as splatoon asgksg #someday ill make a new ref for my sona. not today #sorry that this is the first art i post in over a month 💔 #my burnout is... a lot worse than i thought #sorry followers #also. @ that one anon who asked about squeacher. if ur still here #i WILL give u a good reply #with doodles and all #i just.... need a bit more energy.... #oh i guess #crime three #theyre in this pic solely to bully me #i put them through a lotta shit in their au so they deserve to flame me i think #btw if uve read this far my gfs bday is on the 17th too so #HAPPY BDAY NYA I LOVE UUU 💗💖💕💞

[leupagus]

Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties – and calls for a ceasefire – reaches a tipping point. In fact, there is recognition within the administration that that moment may arrive quickly: Some of the president’s close advisers believe that there are only weeks, not months, until rebuffing the pressure on the US government to publicly call for a ceasefire becomes untenable, sources told CNN.

A lot of this pressure — the majority, I would wager — that Biden and US national leaders are getting is the result of people calling their reps, attending protests, writing to their newspapers and generally making themselves heard on this issue. People make a difference, and it's always worth reaching out to your legislators and telling them what you think.

Senators' info is pretty easy to find, since you've got two for every state (even DC and other non-state people have someone they can call!) but sometimes it's a little tricky remembering who your representative is, especially now with the district lines having changed up. So check your address here and then call their office — I've found more luck getting hold of an actual person at their local offices rather than the DC one, fwiw.

#deleted my previous reblog of someone else's post #because someone in the replies said 'maybe hitler had the right idea' and I just...don't need that today #plus frankly if you say 'israel is committing genocide' and then allow comments like 'jews should've gotten genocided harder' #then you terrify me and I cannot trust you on... pretty much anything #but I think this article will show people that their voices matter! #please reblog if you feel like this is something you can support—I'd love for more people to call their politicians #YOU CAN DO THIS GO GIVE PEOPLE A CALL #politics! #eta: also note the headline of this article—specifically calling it 'carnage'—reflects a more accurate depiction of the violence #that the Israeli army is inflicting on Gaza #I think a LOT of newsmedia has done a bad job of using terminology in this and other issues #(remember when nobody would write that Trump was lying despite clear proof that he was in fact lying) #but this indicates that there's more desire in the media to describe things in clearer terms #which again is progress!

[invinciblerodent]

yknow, no, i'm not done thinking/posting/being deeply angry about the whole "bbuuuhhh Astarion is gay and was made playersexual as a game mechanic bbbuuuhhhhhhh" garbage some people still spout.

like this type of sentiment is always annoying and wrong, but it's specifically this character for whom it's especially annoying to me, just because on top of all the regular host of issues, it also deeply contradicts what I believe is the central theme of his whole goddamn story.

(excuse the rant please.)

Like, my skin already crawls at that term, "playersexual". I hate it, and find its use either vaguely ignorant at best, or blatantly pan/biphobic at worst. but even just besides that....

This character is a man whose narrative intentionally shows his presentation of himself, and of his masculinity, as being contradictory with convention. This character is one whose entire arc is about discovering who he is beyond the boxes he was assigned: a spawn, a monster, a seducer, a tool, a predator, a plaything, a victim, a sexual object... these are all identities that were forced onto him. And if he's given space to discover them, turns out, none of them are things that he actually wants to be. if you give him space, and affection (romantic or otherwise), and acceptance, and help him attain closure and catharsis, he expresses desire to be... an adventurer, a lover, a friend, a protector, so many things, but all of them in his own way. That's the point of his story, control vs. autonomy.

How.... myopic does one have to be to see that story, to play that story, to play an active, participatory role in that subversion, that search for the self beneath the masks, and declare that actually, they made him this other box for him to fit into, so... it's fine, i guess, to ignore what he says?????? it's fine if they pick and choose among his expressed traits which ones to use and which to disregard, because they decided (based on frankly homophobic and rather misogynistic stereotypes) that he cannot be different from their perception, despite him literally saying otherwise????????

Astarion's entire figure is a succession of trope-subversions. I could write essays about all the ways in which, in the romanced spawn game, the narrative sets up tropes (primarily in act 1), only to then purposefully knock them down and contradict them as the game progresses.

Like..... He was to take revenge by taking power for himself (like he thought he wanted, like Cazador did to Vellioth): ended up taking his revenge and rejecting the power that could have come with it, and despite that having a price, being content and grateful for it (and realizing that the alternative would have had an even greater price he would have paid unknowingly). He starts out using sex and sexuality as a weapon, and a tool of manipulation, like he did for many decades: ends up expressing discomfort with being seen as a sex object, resuming his sex life by saying "I love you" before his partner would have, and proposing sex with them as a beautiful metaphor for his own rebirth.

His whole story starts out with him thinking he requires protection from the player and that the only way to get that is through using his body and looks as a bargaining chip: later he discovers in himself a desire to be the protector himself, which he talks about more than once, and expresses varying degrees of discomfort at the thoughts of both using his body to gain something, and needing a protector.

There's the "this is what I'm good for" type of attitude towards sex morphing into "I am so much more than a thing to be used". There's the whole thing about how important his looks were to both him and his "usefulness" back then, despite him not being able to even fucking see them, (which also kind of includes that silly lovely gremlin-face he sometimes makes), but those are just the ones off the top of my head.

The story, and the romance plot, is about... it's about him regaining ownership of himself, it's about autonomy, his whole recurring "what do you want" line is about respecting his choices and letting him find his way to them, it's about letting him show you who he is, believing him, and loving the man behind the facade.

how absolutely fucking short-sighted does one have to be to then take that incredibly reductive stereotype of "femme-leaning man with theatrical mannerisms who cares about his looks; must be exclusively homosexual and any attraction he shows to women is just a mechanic/fanservice/flattery" (which, that's so fucking insulting to gay men, and bi/pan men, an any man who might express masculinity in a less than conventional way, and to the women who may love them [eta: and of course nonbinary people, and the people to whom masculinity means something wholly different]), and assign it to this character on their own accord, despite him literally telling the player otherwise? despite him verbally expressing attraction to multiple women, and contradicting that stereotypical interpretation wholly and out of pocket??????

like, hello??????? did we play the same game????????? did we play the same fucking game??????????

like don't think for one second that it isn't the pan/biphobia that annoys me more, it absolutely is, but this character is such a particularly egregious example, it's almost fucking poetic.

#squirrel plays bg3 #i feel like this needs a tw but i just. cannot think of what #i'm just..... annoyed. and ranting. and my brain is full. and i'm hungry. #point is; where Gale's central theme boils down to an exploration of devotion #Astarion's is about autonomy #these are the only two i've done so far so i've not yet looked this much into the others #next is gonna be me ranting for hours about Shadowheart's theme of sacrifice; just you wait #(i hope the person who replied to this post; deleted their reply; and then blocked me #knows how heartily I just laughed at that little sequence of events) #(it's like seeing; idk; a bottle of nice healthy kale-spinach juice discarded in the liquor aisle of a supermarket) #(a telltale sign of DecisionsTM made) #(I can respect a “yknow i don't want to engage with this today”) #(even if i will just outright say that i believe i'm right)

[lifeof-pink]

kdj trying to kill himself after seeing the OD is such a visceral and gut wrenching part of the book—

“Something was wrong. A blade… I, I needed to find a blade.” <- this scene (chapter 515) actually broke my heart, i genuinely felt sick reading it. he’s so desperate to die that it’s honestly palpable, it’s like finally seeing that truth behind the snarky mask kim dokja always wears. it took me until this point to realize that every time he tried to sacrifice himself for his companions, it wasn’t just a well thought out plan but a true, genuine suicidality and the acceptance that he might not come back. that he isn’t worthy of living a good, happy life with a happy ending. (which maybe i’m just slow, but i really fell for dokja’s lies, every single time i thought to myself “everything’s going to be fine because he has a plan to survive this,” and almost every single time i was right. except for the end i suppose.)

and fuck, it hits so, so hard.

#tw suicide #like i know thats already a big theme in the book but in this case i feel the need to very explicitly tag that #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #kim dokja #the oldest dream #i wasnt planning on writing a sad post today but alas. #‘are orv fans allergic to being happy’ yes sorry #dont go into my replies like ‘you’re thinking too deep about this’ or whatever #i know i am!! i know its probably not that deep #i know that he probably did see himself having a happy ending probably #but when i think about his character #and when i think about his actions #i cant help but see a bit of that sort of undercurrent of ‘i don’t belong’ #that sort of undercurrent of ‘i want to die’ #his character feels relatable to me #take that statement as you will i guess #not that ive sacrificed my life for anyone #lol #but that passive sort of way he approaches the topic #all jokes and smiles and such?? #and other people are like ‘uhm. no i think you need help.’ and he cant see it #thats so???? #he needs therapy #*i* need therapy #sorry for traumadumping in main orv tag LOL #feel free to get mad at me in replies i understand #this could be a total mischaracterization of kdj #probably is tee bee atche but OH WELL. also i hit tag limit oops. 30 tags is the limit apparently

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Another work tip for you: If you are on the phone with the person who is your point of contact at a business and you want to swear about them after the call, make sure you hang up BEFORE you start swearing. Like. Double check you actually hung up This work tip brought to you by the contractor who thought he'd hung up but didn't and the incredibly awkward silence after he started swearing when I said "Are you aware you haven't hung up yet?"

#the person behind the yarn #tj talks about work #he called me all kinds of colorful names #because when I emailed him 'I'm sorry I can't assign you to that job for today it requires 24 hours notice' #and he replied 'I understand ty' #he somehow took that email to mean he could start today????? #like dude. no. I specifically told you you can't #the thing that you need to do to do the job is not at the location it needs to be #because we have not given the 24 hour notice #I told you IN WRITING that you can't #and then you tried to tell me on the phone that I said you can pick it up today???? #as if I forgot ???? or as if I can't just look at the email again? #I know what I wrote man I have it in writing that's kind of how it works

[good-beans]

When the character who has no dreams for the future and has given up on putting effort into society has a pretty solid food theme going on and out of the blue expresses he has interest in opening a noodle shop

It was a gag but Yatsuki has no idea the extensive amount of canon/good end/au details they just clicked into place for me

#ill reply to people in a bit -- i got a second to check youtube (because i thought they were dropping the harrow cover today lol) #but got this instead and need everyone to know that This Fixes Everything #they made fuuta so squishy in this one..... wanna put him in my mouth..... i think hed squeak like a chew toy....... #milgram #fuuta kajiyama #rose posts

[randomminty]

Putting my iono and grusha here as well. They’re friends for streaming reasons

#Imagine getting a good atar score and it not mattering bc none of the courses you applied for need atar #Unrelated i got my atar today :) it was v good heheheheh #For non aussie ppl atars p much a mark for how you did overall in your y12 classes its important for most unis #But it can also not matter at all bc theres other ways to go to uni! And plenty of jobs that dont need uni! Idk! #I saw people saying grusha and iono are t4t. Ofc they are #Pokemon #Gym leader grusha #Gym leader iono #Oh my god i am yet to draw an actual pkmn and not just trainers god. I promise im a real pkmn fan #Oh yeah chongoblog replied to this art on twt i nearly had a heart attack #I woke up to like 12 new replies i and 40 follows i was like!!!!!! Aaaaaaa!!!!!!! #Todays been good so far. Only thing thatd make it better is if my dream uni got back to me….. they accepted my prerequisites i see you #Art tag #Only reason i posted this was to ramble abt atar. Farewell #oh my god i never replied to any of my replies on twt. im so bad at this. i cant think of things to say sjdbowwna augh

[noisytenant]

there are therapists who specialize in cptsd. you dont need to go to inexperienced talk therapy or cbt or dbt ever again if you dont want to. there are options

#indexed post #Highly reductive please do not reply to me reminding me of the various other barriers to access - I KNOW #This isnt to say cptsd therapists on the whole are more competent than others - more research is needed #But like. You don't have to settle. It doesn't necessarily cost any more to have a therapist who is equipped to handle Shit #Sorry i just like saw multiple posts today but ljke #One meme like 'therapists if you talk about anything that isnt garden variety anxiety or depression' #and its like You can literally check their webpage or email them to ask if they specialize in whatever shit you have going on #A lot of therapists are inexperienced or incompetent but if you refuse to select for ones who nominally understand your shit #Then i kinda think youre shooting yourself in the foot

[aqueerchronicle]

Turns out if you squint hard enough nearly every song on 1989 TV is actually inspired by Supercorp!

#listening to 1989 tv while I write #replying to some of the prompts I got today! #I need music to write #wish you would #how you get the girl #wonderland #I know places #this love #you are in love #supercorp #supergirl #lena luthor #kara danvers #kara zor el #melissa benoist #katie mcgrath #fanfics #fanfiction #fanfiction author #fanfiction writing