#I just need some variety

[redysetdare]

enough stories about how someone learns to truely be happy through love. i want a story where someone is desperately seeking out love thinking it's the only way to be happy only for them to learn by the end that happiness is what they make of it and they don't need love at all to make it.

#aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #aroace #loveless aro #loveless #non-partnering #nonpartnering #non partnering #nonamorous #aplatonic #enough of amatonormative tropes in media!!! enough 'you're miserable without love' stories!!! #less “you're too focused on ambitions to make you happy that you dont let yourself fall in love” #more “you're too focused on finding love to make you happy that you wont let yourself live” #more “there is so much more to life than love and so much more that can bring your happiness if you just let yourself experience it.” #maybe I should write this story #and when i say love i mean all love. not just romantic love. #which is why i tagged aplatonic too #while i mostly see this trope in terms of romantic love i think there's something to be said about #telling stories where people are perfectly content alone too #it doesn't have to be sad or pathetic to not have friends by choice. they dont have to be a miserable person to not have friends #i think we need more variety in stories where it shows people just content in their lack of love or relationships in all shapes #not everyone wants a family not everyone wants friends not everyone wants a partner not everyone wants love #some of us are content without. that should be explored without the need to fix it.

[uncanny-tranny]

Basically, my philosophy around disability fakers is: I would rather a thousand people fake a disability than have one disabled person suffer without care, aids, compassion, or any help.

#disability #disability advocacy #and there's a difference not many people seem to recognize between faking and realizing you don't have [x] problem... #...such as realizing you don't have [x] disorder because it is instead [y] disorder... #...or you haven't completely understood your care needs/your symptoms/what helps you... #...and some people see ANY change in your understanding of your disability as proof of maliciously faking... #...when i suppose in my personal experience people don't *maliciously* fake disability... #...i'm not saying it could never happen but that i don't think it's the *only* thing motivating people called fakers #i just think (like most everything) this is complex and nuanced because it's a *human* experience #like for me personally i /know/ i still have a lot to learn about my disabilities... #...like... i realized recently that my hands shouldn't be in AGONY when warm water is ran over them when it's SLIGHTLY cold inside or out... #...and i realized that i likely have a Noticable limb difference that needs checking out. does this sound like i'm faking... #...or that maybe i just didn't really explore my own needs and body because of a variety of factors? #i can assure you it is because i haven't really thought before about how i deserved to understand how to best help myself

[royalarchivist]

Pac: I'm not going to say anything to you guys [Chat], I'm not going to say anything to you. I'm not saying absolutely anything, I'm not going to comment. Man, you broke me here, you broke me in 3 parts! I'm not going to- no no no no no, I won't fall for your game, I won't fall for your game.*

Pac's chat allows viewers to make music requests, which led to this very well-timed moment today where Careless Whisper started playing as soon as Pac met back up with Fit.

* [Approximate translation. I'm not a native Portuguese speaker, so as always, please feel free to let me know if there's a better way to translate things!]

#Pactw #Hideduo #FitMC #FitPac #QSMP #December 6 2023 #Edited #in the sense that I had to edit the music back in because Pac's VOD mutes all music #Luckily another fan shared a screen-recording of it so I was able to tell when the music kicked in in the original #so TLDR: I just put music back into this clip since it was muted #I'm so glad I finally have context for wtf that was about because I was watching from Fit's POV #and all of us were like ''??? What's wrong with Pac rn?'' #also I realize that a lot of the recent clips have been Fit or Pac-centered #I've got a little bit of time to add stuff to the queue tonight so I'll mix some more variety in #it's funny because I started posting Fit and Pac stuff more to ADD variety and then over-corrected #lol #Pac #Fit #I can't stop laughing over Pac's POV because he genuinely looked so insane in Fit's POV #I need to go back and pull up that moment now

[noodles-and-tea]

you, yes YOU, who's your favorite character to draw right now? do you have a preference?

And as a surprise to absolutely no one… it’s him.

#I’m just obsessed with his features and shapes and him #he’s so fun to draw and stylise #I’m SORRY #I literally keep trying to draw other things #but it’s just like…. mrlnnnnn #UGG #TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME PLEASE I NEED SOME VARIETY IN MY LIFE #my art #ask #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys

[seahdalune]

Papa Louie fan starter pack

#shitpostdalune #i just found it funny that Papa Louie fans make up so much stuff about their fav characters #(this includes me. i am also guilty of this. look it's kinda fun) #because the best WE'RE GETTING? 3 lines of lore. maybe a holiday photo #the last meme was entirely unplanned but i felt i needed to add a different variety of meme to balance it out #also. doesn't it look like something a player would make? i would not but i know some of you do

[noeggets]

i was looking up animals in the hedgehog family cause hedgehog's are not rats/rodents they are erinaceidae's and the only other erinaceidae i could see included in the family is a moonrat which looks like this

it looks like a mix between a hedgehog and possum, it looks like a hedgehog but with long legs,snoot and tail. Hedgehog but no spikes version

#talkin #i was looking this up because i wanted to make Amy this cause my inner's are telling me if im gonna make- #breezie a porcupine which isn't in the hedgehog fam i can make Amy something that's not a hedgehog #idk i feel like some animals are exclusive to certain people not that there cant be two hedgehogs i just want variety #like i feel like since it's said Knuckles is the last echidna left i need to respect that not include any other echidna's besides Tikal- #and Shade because if he's the last let him be the last #Tikal was stuck in timespace so she gets a solid pass and i haven't finished sonic chronicles yet but i like Shade #Like when they made Silver he was a mink lets keep him a mink VARITY! #this is just a me thing

[lesbaurinkos]

dan and phil think they’re so funny. well what if i dan and Kill myself. what then

#i don’t need them. i just baked some nice bread of my own NOT of the mikey way cement variety #and made a nice grilled cheese with it. i don’t need these homos. i don’t #(pleaseplease please hello please there can still be hope if we maniphest together. Hello

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

TG: do you think former president ronald reagan smacks rats

EB: sssmacks…rats?

TG: yah do you reckon he smacks rats

EB: oh yeah he TOTALLY smacks rodents—what in GOD’S NAME are we talking about

#submission #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #dave strider #john egbert #mod terezi #i'm with john here but i totally agree that reagan smacks rats #but only if that is meant as an insult #anyways i'm bopping to rush rn i kinda wish music on the radio wasn't so regimented #sometimes i wanna go from ajr's karma to rush's freewill to heart's barracuda and back to lil nas x's old town road #the media could stand to be a little more eclectic and delineated is all i'm saying #it's not gonna kill anyone if we have some fucking variety that makes no sense to the advertisers #but exposes people to enriching experiences that they may not have experienced otherwise #like a while ago i was talking with mod kanaya and they've never heard of blue oyster cult before #and i was like wtf you need to listen to it #if only the once for no other reason than just for something you've never heard before #maybe i should start a vinyl collection and do amateur djing out of my room #anyways if you're following us and are under the age of twenty go listen to blue oyster cult right fucking meow #this is my one command to you

[milkweedman]

Trying to finish something I was supposed to do ages ago--spinning a contrast color for this sock yarn. The fleece (southdown babydoll) had a pretty wide range of grays, most of which I blended together. But I intentionally left the darkest gray out of the mix so that later I could spin up just that, and have a dark gray for the toe and heel. So, now I'm doing that.

One thing I did not realize until now (due to intentionally avoiding working with the darker gray locks) is that they are all much shorter than the other colors of gray, and a lot of them are way finer too. That's not ideal, so I might not use it for the toe--it won't be as hard-wearing of a yarn and the toe/ball of the foot is what wears out the fastest on my socks by far, so. It's fine though, I just want some kind of decorative element that uses the fact that this fleece had lots of nice colors.

I'm also not that surprised, I guess. The longest locks were always the very light gray ones. Hard to know why without seeing the sheep though.

#spinning #handspun yarn #southdown #hand combed top #sock yarn #ive been trying to work on the hat but i need to frog and debug and also come up with some new peeries #and all of that requires brain which i do not have #and i realized actually i just wanted to knit socks and not think abt stuff #the distaff spinning... i am also having problems with #holding it is killing my hands. didnt realize quite how much until i switched to spinning this #which is not usually painful unless my hands are already fucked #so while i love that distaff i dont think i can really use it RIP #next model i might try one of the longer ones that can be held in place a variety of ways rather than exclusively held in the hand #i dont know what theyre called but ive seen tons in paintings of spinners. usually like the length of an arm maybe ? #could work better. we'll see #supported spinning

[mugmegan]

I always get leg pain whenever my period hits so I am kinda confused to never having seen discussion of it. It makes standing hard and is one of the most bothersome parts of my period hurdles. So...

As example, I get it from around the hip and crotch area all the way to my knees and down to my ankles. Where my legs meet my hips, knees and ankles hurt the most, while I would describe the pain to generally feel like a nerve running down my legs is aching.

#polls #periods #there are appreantly a variety of reasons for why leg pain happens along with periods according to google #some are the concerning kind that is because of an underlying issue and need to be checked out #some are just normal #I dont know which is mine but I am just curious about how many people also experience this #cuz my leg pain is sometimes worse than just getting cramps in my abdomen

[devotionconsumed]

fire and water looked so lovely together. it was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.

a rinezha playlist

apple music | spotify

cover art: twitter user @/ rabentanz_

tracklist art: Josef Püttner

#tpw #the poppy war #rinezha #im sorry but u guys need to stop using taylor swift THERE IS MORE MUSIC OUT THERE #fang runin #yin nezha #playlist #fanmix #fanmixes #u guys also need to stop making playlists 79 hours long #learn the art of curation fr #my rin one is gna slap so hard just u wait #rf kuang #i love taylor swift btw but cmon lets add some Variety

[july-19th-club]

this is just a me kvetching thing but you cant put multiple full albums from one or two artists together and call it a playlist. a playlist is the close cousin to the mixtape; it's curated, it's organized, it's not just slapped together. three full albums is just albums . i dont need these to be in a separate spot to enjoy them i can just listen to the album. if you entitle your playlist something specific i expect to find diverse yet related musical entries that all relate to that topic, not . three albums .

#i knowwwwwwwww you like the artist's music. you dont need to put more than four of their songs on the mix for me to know that #if i wanted to listen to all of wasteland baby i would just go do that. this is a playlist entitled 'stolen child' i expect some variety! #upon the theme of the stolen child. doesnt anybody know how this works

[tyrianlynch]

Me flipping through the DSM-V attempting to diagnose the lynch brothers

#I’ve definitively diagnosed declan even tho it’s not something the APA has technically approved for the DSM-V #but I can’t just wait around for them to approve it yknow life must go on #and I’ve got like 2 top contenders for matty #but even tho we have the most info about ronan he’s the hardest to diagnose #he has symptoms of a lot of different disorders and could be categorized in a variety of ways #so he might take some time #NO I’m not a psychologist BUT I’m really mentally ill does that count #also my psychologist said I need to stop diagnosing my friends and family so I’m just doing it to fictional characters now #trc #the Raven cycle #tdt #the dreamer trilogy #declan lynch #ronan lynch #Matthew lynch

[noodles-and-tea]

More trolls again

#I’ll get some variety in there soon dw #this was just like a work thing I had to do #I still need to draw bkdk in those haircuts from like last month or whenever #my art #trolls #Broppy #dreamworks trolls #branch trolls #poppy trolls

[dingodad]

i think itz also rlly silly when ppl act like the hiveswap purplez conflict w/ gamzee being part ov an obscure cult bc like. even if we operate under the misconception most purplez arent cultistz itz not especially unusual tht a group ov like 4 trollz on a train who kno each other personally would be in the same cult. like especially with the higher castez hiveswap iznt rlly depicting Every Possible Type Of Guy within each caste az much az just specific cliquez tht are riding tht train at tht moment. i think a lot ov complaintz abt the hiveswap trollz being samey miss that context. understandably given friendsim stripz it but

i mean to be honest i understand the other side of this complaint. when a game is sold to us as an exploration of alternia, with a human audience surrogate protagonist who's learning about this alien world as we are, it's absolutely normal to think along the lines of "why would this story - and the webcomic that precedes it - only show us purplebloods who are clowns unless it was trying to tell us that purplebloods are clowns?"

making inferences and reading between the lines like that is an important part of reading any story but i think it's especially relevant when we're talking about homestuck, which is particularly economical with its storytelling and pretty much always tries to give the reader the space to figure things out on their own rather than tell us everything outright. like if we spent our whole time playing hiveswap assuming everything we saw could be an outlier we'd basically never end up learning anything about alternia at all. which to me feels pretty cheap

but along those lines ive also never really understood why people chose to interpret the homestuck trolls as all being freak outliers either lol. like i have basically assumed since day 1 that the 12 homestuck trolls were pretty much representative of their castes as a whole. the hemospectrum/alternia as a whole only even exists to facilitate the existence of these 12 characters specifically so why would that not be the case. why would purplebloods NOT all be clowns just because gamzee is

#when the troll call trolls dropped i WAS pretty annoyed at just how close to the archetype they all played. #like i understand that lawyering is a common teal blood job but there factually has to be more in the empire that needs doing #than just lawyering. and some butlering and some animal ranching. #so i do wish there was more variety but i dont think the hiveswap trolls cheapen the homestuck trolls at all like others have suggested. #EXCEPT. nepeta.

[a-snowpoff]

When the complex puzzle you spent 5 minutes giving the clearest and most concise explanation for, ends up making a straight path to victory, smh my head.

Baking collab with the charming @jnpie :> Jnpie had the initial inspiration and idea and I hyped it up and helped with the baking and picture taking XD

BUT CHECK OUT THE INSIDE SURPRISE!!!

More surprises and fun under the cut!

LOOK! JNPIE HAD THE AMAZING IDEA TO USE A SPRINKLE TO MAKE MY SIGNATURE SNOW POFF WITH THE COIN!!! HEEHEE, I really really loved adding this easter egg in 🥚

Cake crumbs do be lookin' like temmie flakes, OM NOM NOM!

Gosh, this was so fun to look at AND eat, hehehehe!

This was my first time making and decorating a cake! Being able to create this with a friend made it so much more fun and a memory I will always cherish! Oh, and yes of course the cake was heckin' dang delicious!

#Hey have you seen the blue cake ring for the frosted cake? #art collab #baking collab #cake collab #papyrus #undertale #alphys puzzle #a-snowpoff #jnpie #friend tag #oh man I have some funny memories with this cake... #like we tried to make 2 versions... one with and one without frosting to stick the layers together #the frosted version was our main attempt that jnpie assembled while I layered an unfrosted one #the thing is... I didnt have enough variety and all the cake rings were together so i accidentlly kept taking rings for the frosted one #we had sketched out exactly how we wanted our main cake to look when you cut a slice out while the second one was more for funsies #So not once... or twice... or THRICE... or however you say that lol.... did I have to undo my test cake but like maybe 4 or 5 times! #Because I was such a goldfish brain with ocd trying to make it have variety that just wasn't going to happen sdkjhgsdjg #I kept going... dang I could really use a blue cake ring... OH HEY LOOK AT THIS #EXACTLY THE COLOR I NEEDED RIGHT HERE! #5 minutes later... #Facepalming to infinity and beyond hahaha #also I stacked maybe 50 books to use as a tripod for my ipad to take pics for the stop motion turn arounds LOL #I had to get the lighting JUST right... also several attempts to get that to my very high standards nyeh heh heh! #Jnpie wanted to cut into the cake as soon as it was ready heheheh... but no! PAPYRUS MUST SPIN AND LOOK HE DOES! #Papyrus spin go BRRRRRRRRRRRRR! #really I should have posted this sooner but i was so indecisive on which pictures to use and share #plus i thought of drawing some extra artwork to pair with it but aaaaahhhh #the world needed to see this cake NOW DKJHDGK #gif