#I'll be brave and I'll be kind

[sollucets]

doorways

#only friends the series #ofts #only friends #bostonnick #mark pakin #neo trai #cw flashing #mdni #rowan gifs #khaotunq #tuserhidden #tusersilence #tostrangers #tusermona #uservid #usertaeminie #im not sure if this has existed yet but. well #this kind of parallel is precisely my shit. thank you episode love you <3 #i'll brave the bar lighting for you

[ruegarding]

imagine meeting someone and only seeing them in their worst moments. and instead of resenting them, instead of thinking less of them, you find only their best qualities. that's bianca, nico, and percy.

#bianca and nico see percy fuck up their rescue and only think of him as kind and brave #percy is bitter and angry and stressed the entire time but still manages to see bianca as someone who carries too much responsibility #and percy saw nico lash out and still decided to save him. no one asked him to but he did anyway #bianca #nico #percy #i understand these three in a way you cannot even comprehend. it makes me SICK. #they all tried to resent each other. and they couldn't! #i have so many bianca feelings one day i'll post them #big three kids #min talks pjo

[sleepinglionhearts]

Work things, OCs, and... yeah

#doodles #non-fandom stuff #oc art tag #don't worry about it beaumont sam usagiman is a kind creature #the demons in the last image... ah someday i will talk about the demons #they're designs for a thing that could either go the dating sim route or weird workplace comedy route #anyway. creatures. #if ur brave enough to ask about them i may actually respond #likely with my usual slow pace but i will respond eventually #the girl with the red hair up there named Dea #she's part of that strange fantasy idea i had a whiiiiiile back #maybe i'll post more about that too; i already made one post about them #I have some drawings and pages done in that world but... idk they need work and all #i just don't know if theyre interesting enough to worry over #ah the troubles of creating things

[vegaseatsass]

Be My Favorite is rewiring my entire brain istg... just unraveling those brain wrinkles and resculpting them in exciting new shapes and patterns

#be my favorite #be my favorite spoilers #what an episode #for kawi to realize it's not just about being kind to himself and fixing the life he wants #but being kind to pear and pisaeng and caring about the life they get #especially worst timeline pear #he has time-ruined her life beyond all belief #will he take responsibility #and like ok ok ok the thing where pisaeng is like you helped me with something big and i'll always be grateful for that #the specifically queer experience of the person who makes you KNOW you're queer #pisaeng knew-ish before kawi. he and his mom have discussed it #but kawi made it firm and unchangeable and something he could no longer hide from or run from #so no matter how much kawi hurts him after that no matter how much he confuses him and pushpulls him #he's that person to pisaeng the person who made everything clear the person who made him brave #ahhh that's so reallllllllllllllll #and praying with all my heart they are very deliberately writing not and notpear and notkwan the way they are #never expecting us to ship it but laying the groundwork so we understand this future #pisaeng was right to friend breakup with not and has stayed right #please if the show does pearkwan it will become my new top ten stars show of all time i'm trying to manage my expectations #because i don't THINK it's going that way #but o! how i want it! #but yeah ships aside just kawi realizing that pear's life going well matters more to her & her happiness #than his life going well #and realizing thusly that that matters more to HIM #than his own successful future #i would like to see it #treat the girl who has been so great to you greatly please #and that guy you're so grateful for? who you feel unworthy of? #stop focusing on what is bad or unworthy about you start focusing on how to support him and his life into something worthy of him #do you see it? my vision??? gah this story has so much potential i'm so hype

[non-un-topo]

Went to a support group specifically for FTMs last night and had a good time. Surprised myself by tearing up. That's not a very cis sign, is it

#denial is an oppressive power #i know what i am lol. and still. #i've got a lot of internalized transphobia that i wasn't completely aware i had. not brave enough to air it out in the group #for fear of saying something 'bad'. everyone else seems to have it figured out already. most are on T. #i just don't want the group to sort of influence me in one direction. #< a ha. internalized transphobia. also i don't think i need their help in that department. i'm already mentally there. just blocking myself #a research project i'm doing atm is really bringing these feelings to the front. #how am i 26 and living far away from my parents and i'm STILL like 'i can't disappoint my mommy' #i know the answer. family baggage and high expectations etc. snore. #someone in the group kept telling me 'you don't have to go on T just because everyone else is doing it' and like........................... #idk if i found most of their thoughts to be very helpful. they just kind of liked to talk and were clearly struggling with insecurities. #but i had to fight that urge to be defensive. that is not how i feel and that is not what's even happening. #this person had a problem with putting words into people's mouths. don't do that in a support group lol #but other than that they were fine and everyone was super nice. it helped to talk to an older trans guy. #i'll say it again. if i wasn't fucking 5 foot 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bongo-clash]

Ghost Taxonomy!!!

Okay, so you know the taxonomic classification system??? Like, this thing, where the genus and species make up the scientific name of an organism: 

(This diagram and all the other diagrams that’ll be on here are made by me so sorry if they’re messy!!!) (Picture transcript: downward triangle split into eight sections, labelled (in descending order): domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.)

Huge Huge Huge credit to @its-rat-time-babey for this idea, because it's so cool and the concepts in that post hugely inspired some of my own takes on this- this being a taxonomic system for ghosts as well as humans!!!!! I'm gonna be referencing both kinds of taxonomy here, so we’ll call the ghost one ‘phasma-defined taxonomy’ just to differentiate!!! :D

There are only seven categories in phasma-defined taxonomy because there’s not really a kingdom category equivalent (which is the one to do with animals, plants, fungi, etc.), since it’s sort of covered in other sections, but we’ll go into the categories themselves now with a diagram!!

(Image Transcript: Diagram is labelled ‘Phasma-Defined Taxonomy’. The diagram is a downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): formation, origin, composure, state, subsistence, denomination, and temperament.)

Alrighty, now that we’ve got a thing with them all on, here’s what they mean, and what makes up each category!!!

(Explanations + examples under cut!!)

Formation: Basically just how much of a ghost they are?? It’s barely used as a category because obviously the majority are full ghosts, but with the existence of halfas, and mediums (who carry just enough ectoplasmic content to survive in the GZ’s atmosphere/be recognised as an ectoplasmic entity), it has to be taken into account. The sections in this category are, as mentioned before: full ghost, halfa, and medium!!

Origin: How they came to be!! There are only two sections to this category, being natural, and post-Eukarya. Natural just means that they were never a living thing, and were created purely from the GZ’s energy (or another ghost’s if we’re getting into Ghost Procreation™). Eukarya refers to a part of the Domain section of the normal classification system (which we’re calling ‘Sapien-Defined Taxonomy’ just to make it easier to differentiate), and short-hand it just means that the organism- multi celled or single- contains a nucleus. Post-Eukarya then means that they used to be made up of cells that had nuclei, but because ectoplasmic cells lack a nucleus (a thought I have about ectoplasm’s properties that I’ll maybe talk about at some point!!!), they don’t anymore!!! So, yeah, there’s natural and post-eukarya. 

Composure: Composure is their sentience, and this comes in three sections!!! Sentient, non-sentient, and simplified!!! The definition of sentient is “Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception/Experiencing sensation or feeling”, and then obviously ones in the non-sentient composure lack that!! Simplified is basically a weird spot between, in that they might kind of have a capacity for feeling (or, more specifically, they’re made of a feeling), but they don’t really have sense perception at all- like, certain kinds of ‘blob ghost’ can be comprised of a certain emotion, but they’re not really things that think??? Just an emotion that has a form and sometimes a face, if that makes sense. 

State: Fairly standard- just what state of matter they are!!! You’ve got solid, gaseous, and subliming!!! Solid and gaseous are pretty self-explanatory- just ghosts who exist exclusively in that state of matter- but subliming ghosts can go between either state!!! (Ghosts/ectoplasm don’t have a liquid state, because the solid state already really weird but still a solid?? The closest it gets to being an actual liquid is just. Weird clumps. If I figure out how to word this better I’ll talk about it but rn please please just go with me on this lmao!!!)

Subsistence: Subsistence refers to how they regain energy!!! The two categories here are ambient and active!! Ambient just means that their body absorbs the ectoplasm in the air automatically without any effort on their part, and active just means that they have to consume/ingest ectoplasm and/or other forms of energy in some way in order to get it into their system!!

Denomination: This is where we get into the more nuanced categories of phasma-defined taxonomy!!! Denomination just refers to what kind of ghost they are, with examples like shades, wraiths, banshees, and poltergeists all being different denominations!! There are a lot more than this though!!!!

Temperament: This is probably the broadest category out of all of them, which is why it’s at the bottom, but it’s also easy to understand, since it literally just refers to cores!!! Not going to list every option, but examples include: ice, fire, and electricity!!! There are a ton of different types of core, and the way they’re externalised can vary wildly between even same core-types, so it can be hard to properly pin down temperament, but it’s also an important one, so there’s a reason it’s here!!

Their classification is based on their denomination+temperament- like how they’re based off genus+species for the Sapien-defined taxonomy!!! 

Right!!! We’ve got the explanations, so now for some examples!!! We’ll start with Vlad just because he’s fun!!!! Here’s what his classification looks like!!!

(Image Transcript: Downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): halfa, post-eukarya, sentient, solid, ambient, revenant, fire. Vlad is labelled a ‘fire revenant’.)

And just for the sake of it, here’s two more examples!!! Spectra!!

(Image Transcript: Downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): full ghost, post-eukarya, sentient, subliming, active, obake, plasma. Spectra is labelled a ‘plasma obake’.)

And a Danny just for fun (and also so I can mention how much I love him being a banshee)

(Image Transcript: Downward triangle split into seven sections, labelled (in descending order): halfa, post-eukarya, sentient, solid, ambient, banshee, ice. Danny is labelled an ‘ice banshee’.)

As for whether or not some ghosts make use of Sapien-defined taxonomy??? They do!!! It’s particularly useful for  post-eukaryotic ‘animal ghosts’ like Cujo, because sometimes their denomination can be kind of hard to pin down, so it’s just easier to refer to them through their living classification!!! Like, you couldsay that Cujo’s a Grim, but you don’t really know on first glance and not every dog ghost is a Grim, so if you can just say ‘he’s a dog’ then you circumvent the issue (it’s still good to know though)!!!!

And there we have it!!!! That’s pretty much all I have to say about it, but if you have any questions or just want to talk about it more, please do!!! I absolutely love this sort of stuff even if I’m not like. An expert on it lmao!!! I’m kinda working on the stuff about ectoplasm as a substance atm, so hopefully I’ll actually post that at some pint because I have Thoughts™ lmao!! Either way, have a good day!! :D

(Post about ectobiology/ghost anatomy is up now that has some expansion on ghost post-eukaryoticism + some other stuff if you're interested!!!! Here it is!!!)

#danny phantom #ghost taxonomy #ghost classification #ghost science #ghost biology #ectobiology #phasmology #Bongo's Ideas!!! #I've had this written in my notes since pretty much the Day I got tumblr and I'm finally unleashing it!!! #I'll be honest with you this is probably the first of a Lot of posts about ghost science & history #Kind of nervous about posting this but I'm Very Brave and also I love talking so!!! #dp headcanons #dp hc #danny phantom headcanon #danny phantom hc

[andthebeanstalk]

i love that you are still here on this earth. i am relieved that we've both made it this far. and i am so, so happy to be here on this planet with you. thank you for that.

#original #this is bc i wrote a super long post about mental health and ableism and saved it to my drafts after finishing it bc it is #intense enough to give it a breather and a second look before posting it #it started as an angry thing about suicide and ableism but ended in a long beautiful monologue that basically can be summed up w this post #which is. ya know. actually a really good sign for my overall mental health. just... considering how those topics used to spiral me #like send me into a downward mental spiral to a dangerous degree. this is way way better. (if almost as time-consuming lol) #but also i may have literally just been repeating another post i've made so #idk #but anyway thank you for being here. please stay alive bc in 20 years i am going to have a party and you are invited #i am saving you a seat just like all the other kind folks you could meet in that time if you don't run into me specifically #but you need to be alive to be able to go bc I don't think ghosts exist and i definitely can't see them if they do #so you gotta try your best okay? just like you've been doing. hold on. be brave. and i'll try to do the same. #because baby i'm going to that fucking party. #and it is going to RULE but it will be so much better if you're there too.

[earl-grey-love]

I kinda need to go back to the drawing board in terms of my s/i because his lore got all scrambled up due to my f/o change. Like he initially didn't "romance" anyone until way later on in his time there, but now I like Levi and S-tan it's going to play out quite differently.

Plus all the other bonus details I tacked onto him along the way as I came up with new ideas. He's a mess of concepts and I need to adjust/remove them to fit with my present interests.

#originally I just copy pasted my s/i from better call #but now they're completely different people on top of the plot changes #so its a case that I really gotta rewrite from scratch #I do know what I want to happen timeline speaking #I see it that my s/i and Levi are kind of the first occurance of it #but yknow how Levi is with the self-imposed friend zoning #but S-tan isn't close behind #and yes I am actually doing poly ship for once #Barbs occurs way way later even though my s/i is interested in him early on #but it does take him quite a while to be brave enough to even talk to Barbs in the first place #anyways yeah I'll be working on this lil project #ship: anything for you dear #ship: intimacy levi up! #ship: my reason and resolution #sunny speaks

[tardis--dreams]

I love this hostel. They're like 'oh we're gonna make your room sooooo cozily warm you'll forget the icy winter cold outside ♡' and then go 'ahhh the bathroom! The room where people are most likely to be undressed and therefore exposed to the Temperatures™️ ! Let's make it.. hmmmm.. -20 degrees! Perfect'

#help #showering was so funny because the goosebumps were insanely visible #and my favorite part about korea is that they have these tiny tiny tiny mini towels so you cannot even wrap yourself into #a nice towel as soon as the nice hot water is gone. no. you'll face the harsh temperatures without any kind of protection #oh well #only 2 nights though so it's fine #maybe I'll just skip the shower tomorrow ㅠㅠ #but probably not #i will Expose myself bravely one more time #void screams

[fideidefenswhore]

☕️ do YOU have any about the tudors, showtime?

Unpopular opinions?

I think the common one is that JS was really rewritten between S2 and S3 to the point where she's basically a different character (although...I don't think that theory floating around that they wanted viewers to separate Jane wrt the Boleyn downfall and Jane as Queen is true, lol, it does really seem like it was just a casting availability issue and unfortunately it did have that effect, doubtful they had that intention, though); but I actually find the writing of Princess Mary to have been fairly inconsistent as well. I do understand why this is glossed over, before BE arrived it's arguably the best portrayal of Mary I we've ever had, and Bolger killed, but if you look at the actual text and subtext of the show the writing for her character was glaringly inconsistent (particularly between S3 and S4), almost to the point where, like Jane, it's like she's either a completely different character or somewhere in the space of time between events, developed amnesia.

#it's interesting that novels do this too. i mean. i overall liked adrienne dillard's keeper of the queen's jewels . but #i did hmmmm that it began may 20 and not before #anon #maybe i'll show the specific gap i'm talking about later #i'm mentioning jane bcus it is actually in relation to jane that i noticed this inconsistency wrt to mary #how she allows chapuys to speak about her would suggest that the show had a cynical approach to their relationship #but they didn't; they had a sentimental one #that would be compelling but tudor productions are never brave enough (the cynical approach i mean) #the closest it's come is TMATL (jane is actually...kind of...passive aggressive towards mary? #like it gives stereotypical AB as stepmother vibes . petty is maybe a better word) #i won't be watching the series in full but maybe if that scene floats on YT i'll watch #bcus i am curious if they'll keep that and sort of hope they don't bcus i found the way mantel wrote about mary kind of. hm. gross?

[exrayspex]

gonna try making lemon curd for the first time. exited to eat it, but these instructions......"whisk continuously on low heat for 5-15min, or until thickened."

i'm gonna be whisking this shit for half an hour minimum, aren't I?

#i can feel it #that's how these kind of things always go #and by the time I'm like ah i need to turn up the heat some #it's already been like 20min #better than just burning it! but so tedious #maybe I'll be brave and do higher heat from the start this time

[v-iv-rusty]

I feel like growing up with parents that are rabid conspiracy theorists about anything and everything affects you like. way way way deeper than most people do (or maybe want to?) acknowledge. and I just wish it was talked about more honestly

#misc.txt #ventish #(<-not too bad just tagging for blocking purposes) #like. this is embarassing to say but my parents were and still are severely anti vax. so at some point I need to go get #proper rounds of vaccines #bc obv I was not fucking allowed to #preferrably uh. fucking soon if I can work out how to do it without them knowing #(and if I can't I guess. I'll have to figure out some health insurance stuff bc I could literally be in danger if they did know.) #(which is a whole can of worms on its own.) #and EVEN THOUGH I fully 100% know that everything they fed me was bullshit #I still have so much deep fear around it bc it was drilled into my head so fucking hard growing up #x will kill you. y will make you sick. z will probably damn you to hell forever but maybe not who knows better to be scared and 'safe.' etc #and it's so hard to even explain it to ppl because they go 'oh so you still believe that stuff' and no!! no I do not!! #Ive just been trained since birth to be afraid of anything n everything!! I've been fed lies for my entire life!! thats hard to shake off!! #I WANT to do good things for myself but my stomach drops on instinct just thinking about it #and I am so so so tired of having to be brave about things I never should have had to be brave about. that's all ig. I'm tired. #like either ppl think you have also inherited their insanity OR they just look at it like 'oh haha funny quirky kooky' #no it's kind of torn my psyche to shreds in ways I'm still uncovering. but w/e go ahead and laugh <3

[17yearcicada]

night!!

#bwaa i'm tired. whatever #did our table read 2day it was good! the script is a lot of fun #the sheet we had to fill out w/ our measurements also asked for our pronouns and while i was not QUITE brave enough to put he/him #i did put they/them so. transgenderism win #tried to work on my jesus goes to high school wip but it gets kind of confusing on mobile so i'll just futz w it tomorrow #GOODNIGHT. i am going to SLEEP. and ENJOY it #.txt

[vigilant-shadow]

🍑 + (semi jokingly) calling Xiao good boy

Normally, Xiao would be out by now, patrolling around Liyue or doing something to occupy his mind, but Aether had insisted on them both staying back tonight, and for Xiao to wait for him on the bed.

So, of course, without hesitation, Xiao obeyed, sitting on the bed in a w-pose, heels of his hands pressed firmly against the mattress in front of him. Sure, he usually wasn't one to listen to the idea of taking a break so quickly and readily, but, he found it hard to say no to Aether, especially since he couldn't sense any danger around.

His cheeks flushed at the nickname Aether gave him when he walked back in, a giddy smile gracing his lips. Maybe it really wasn't a bad idea to stay back with his lover more often, especially if he got to hear such nice things in return!

@risingsol

#Risingsol #The kind soul from another realm - Aether #I'll be your lighthouse; I'll make it okay. When I see your monsters I'll stand there so brave and chase them all away - AeXiao #God I could try to be the one; I'll tear down the sky; What do you want? I'll do it all for you - Xiao

[kotaerukoto]

Still thinking abt this. Anyone who's been my mutual since my old blog knows just how much of a dork Makoto can be (shoutout to my ship partners, you guys absolutely know), and especially how much that part of him can be turned up to overdrive when in the presence of someone he's caught feelings for

#ooc ramblings. #that ask meme got me thinking ok (I've needed to think abt something sappy lately I'll try to hit replies tmrw) #HE IS SSSSOOO ENDEARING OKAY I LOVE HOW HE CAN BE AT ALL TIMES BUT IM THINKING ABT THIS NOW #he is like. human golden retriever sometimes. and when he gets flustered. WHEN HE GETS FLUSTERED #you think he's a dork normally? just wait until you see him with someone he loves #until he crosses the threshold and gets a handle on his proverbial spaghetti. and then he becomes....dangerously smooth and cool..... #makoto-kun but with confidence....dangerous..... #god knew makoto with confidence was too powerful so he zapped him with the low self-esteem beam #bad news for god Makoto can go through character development!!!! #i love u unlucky kind brave sincere man you are and always will be the goat. i believe in good boy supremacy

[heartate]

AHRI HAS A REAL BAD HABIT OF FALLING FOR MORTALS

#AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #please #pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee #i'll krill myself KJSDJBCDS #mortals are just so #vibrant and full of life and sure there are bad apples but #there are so many more good ones #and they're so curious and inquisitive and they nurture life #and they're so brave and small and stupid and kind and loving #ahri loves them soooooooo much #and it breaks her heart every time #not just. #partners either #she's outlived so many of her friends #and it hurts so badly #i need to meta about this #ooc.