#and it's working so who are we to judge

[herebecritters]

Please understand that, more often than not, works of fiction are a fictional exploration of concepts and ideas rather than a declaration of morality

#there’s a difference between fiction that condones disgusting things and one that’s breaking them apart and analyzing them through fiction #reading comprehension and understanding context is important YALL #please I beg learn how to separate fiction from reality folks #every so often I’ll see people making WILD claims about a person because they wrote a complex and flawed character #most of the people I know who enjoy exploring dark and questionable themes in their work are the kindest and most selfless people I know #while the people who sit atop a pedestal and judge every aspect of a stranger that they don’t know turn out to be the most selfish and vile #i should not be scared to write a story about morally questionable characters finding humanity #but yet here we are #Ive seen this kinda stuff do more harm than good too many times #sorry to post a hot take #just good lord I’m old I’ve seen this shit too many times #stop eating each other #you will see conflict and dark themes in my stories #if you cant handle messy themes in fiction please feel free to unfollow or block me for your own mental well-being #I’m sure I’ll regret posting this later but just putting it out there #hate being reminded that as a creator strangers are staring at you and making horrifying assumptions about who you are as a person

[dirtytransmasc]

modern got au in which asha is a "teen parent"

or more accurately, asha and theon have a much larger age gap, 10/15-ish years, type of age gap (she's at least 18/19 and theon's only like 4/5), and in a series of freak events, their lives are turned on its head.

their brothers were dead. their mother and father were ruled incompetent, the former left a shell of herself after the loss of her sons, no longer able to care for her remaining children, the latter was never a father to begin with and he didn't seem to have any wish to become one now.

she was an adult by law, meaning she was free from the hell that was the system. her kid brother - the one who smiled at her for seemingly no reason, the one who crawled into her bed when thunder rattled the house, the brother who held her hand on their rare family outings - was not.

she couldn't leave him there, even if she wanted to, even if it would make her life so much easier. she wouldn't abandon him like the rest of their shitty family. he was blood for fucks sake, she'd die before she let's him get taken away from her and given away to strangers to be used and exploited or treated like a shelter puppy to be pitied and fawned over.

cue asha fighting for custody of her baby brother, doing whatever it takes to be deemed a suitable guardian, and the two of them taking on the world together.

more thoughts:

they have to find an apartment cause they can't afford to keep their family home. moving into the cheapest place they can find with only the stuff they can fit in asha's truck, sharing an air matress and eating off of a coffee table while watching movies they rented from the library.

asha cleaning her brother up before his first day at his new school, trying to get him to look suitable, but not really knowing what suitable means for a kid going into kindergarten/first grade

theon comforting his sister when she gets overwhelmed with it all, doing his best to ease her tears. the night ending with them both curled around each other, just two scared little kids trying their best.

asha fighting anyone she has to to keep custody of theon, whether it be the social worker, the judge, people who called cps to report her. she doesn't care, no one will take away her baby brother.

asha taking theon to work with her (she works in a boat shop cause she already knows what she's doing) and having to keep him entertained while she works so they don't get sent home.

their first christmas/birthdays by themselves. theon putting together gifts at school (finger paintings or paper mache or something of the like) and asha cherishing it forever. asha spending all the money left to her name each time to get him something nice so eh can feel like a normal kid.

theon doing sports in school (little league or something) and asha making sure she goes to every damn game, being the loudest in the stands.

asha getting more and more used to being physically affectionate with her brother at time goes on. before everything she'd tense up when he'd hug her legs or hold her hand, but now she scoops him up like a rag doll, ruffles his hair, kisses his forehead, without a second thought.

{I'm so normal about them I swear}

#I just think the spin on their dynamic. with him being so much younger than her. the only bit of family she has left. completely dependent- #on her. all of that. would be so interesting #it puts her in this position where she needs to learn to be softer and gentler for his sake instead of just all tough and mean to survive #and just imagine them together #she has to be a parent. she's gotta bathe him. feed him. clothe him. put him to bed. put him through school. deal with bullies. talk to- #his teachers and his friends parents. she's gotta be the 'teen mom' who everyone's always judging and staring at. #all while she's working and finding them a place to stay and learning to be an adult and coping with the loss of her family #and theon's just a kid. he's gonna have bad days. he's gonna throw tantrums. he's gonna need to be held. he's gonna get sick #and he's coping too. his big brother's are dead. his mother essentially died with them. his father gave them up. he's too young to really- #understand any of it. he just knows they're gone. #they're gonna struggle. but they're gonna make it #and maybe they run into some familiar faces along the way #maybe theon is take from her briefly and we meet the starks (maybe they offer to lend her a hand while she gets herself together) #maybe the shop she works in is run by our man davos who is always willing to help out someone. especially kids. in need (he lets theon come #to the shop and lets her take time off to attend to his events. etc.) #idk. I got a lot of thoughts and no time nor brain power to right this #asha greyjoy #theon greyjoy #yara greyjoy #got #game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #my beloved squid babies #asha being a good big sister has my heart #she's trying her best ok. she's struggling but thats ok. she's giving it her all and that's all that matters. #theon is our baby

[murasaki-cha]

Examine Qin Jiu flirting lovingly annoying the crap out of his Big Invigilator A💕

#look you huo was pulled so if it works ut works who are we to judge #全球高考 #global university entrance examination #global examination #quan qiu gao kao #qqgk #jiuhuo #qin jiu #you huo #bl manhua #danmei #danmei novels

[brittlebutch]

forgive any incomprehensibility but the notion that the world can be cleanly split between the two immutable categories of 'the neurotypical' and 'the neurodiverse' ignores the reality that any person can at any point for any reason be arbitrarily 'diagnosed' by a 'professional' and shuttled between categories with no regard for the notions of 'accurate traits' or 'specific symptoms'. nice dichotomy what lies outside of it? you understand me?

#N posts stuff #i'm reading some old issues of 'Phoenix Rising' and a line in one of the articles really caught me #''we are questioning the very foundation of psychiatry which uses mental illness; which is often just behavior that is judged strange #by some usually conventional middle-class-standard of morality'' #also thinking about that post i reblogged yesterday claiming that 'posture sway' is a Symptom of adhd like. #Embracing the pathologizing of average behaviors VS the like. weaponizing of diagnoses against 'undesirables' #idk am i making sense? lol #like people talk about this re: disability - the notion that anyone can become disabled at any time but that's usually in the context #of like. 'anyone is one bad accident away from being disabled' but Neurodiversity in particular does not even require that much #another Phoenix Rising tells the story of a woman who like. got a little sick at work and diagnosed as 'stress' and prescribed a #heavy tranquilizer that caused side effects no one had told her about; she got confused at her appointment and her subsequent #panic got her involuntarily committed as psychotic where they upped the medications and gave her ECT until the combo #caused so much brain damage that she seized and died. bc she threw up at work one day. the categories are not immutable and #the people who define them have agendas. who benefits from buying into this dichotomy? you understand what i'm saying? #anti psychiatry

[kyouka-supremacy]

Today was a good day :)

#Today three strangers were kind to me in three different occasions. It was such a nice coincidence :) #I've been working on Akutagawa's birthday the entire week and today Akutagawa posts were all over my dash. I'm so happy! #I managed to do all the edits I had set up to and I'm glad :) #I dressed rigorously black and white and wore the black striped pants I bought because they reminded me of Beast Akutagawa's outfit #I did my nails black and red!! #My mother called me to congratulate on Akutagawa's birthday #I even baked a cake with a friend and they were so sweet ///// #I'm so grateful they managed to make time for it even though they've been so busy and tired because of their job #More than everything I'm grateful they weren't weird about it #They found it a little silly but they never made fun of me. They helped me pick the cake. #And today they even told me that they looked up a video of the character to understand me better #Which TERRIFIES me because no way anyone could get a good impression of Akutagawa from a single video #But if we ignore that it was an unbelievably nice gesture :') #It's just such a foreign feeling because outside of my blog I NEVER talk about my hyperfixations irl. #Because when I used to when I was younger I was only met with scorn or mockery so ever since I started university I simply learnt not to? #And it's just so genuinely weird to talk with someone irl who wouldn't judge me for it– #and not really in the good way because part of me is still convinced that they *are* judging me for it. #Doesn't matter everything suggests the contrary. And I keep overthinking if I overshared about Akutagawa or if I said something dumb #But I'm trying it not to get to me. Today they've been nothing but nice through and through #Whatnot. The last months were very tough for some reason I'm just happy good things can still happen :) #I want to start the queue again now that I'm generally more free and done with Aktgw's birthday and everything. #I also have new exams the first days of April and the program is pretty heavy and wide. On top of following courses. I'll see what I can d #I'd like to start regularly posting again because I'm afraid if I don't I'll just sulk further in misery. We'll see. #Ah I need to catch up with the dash since I've basically not been on Tumblr for three days... #That's it just rambling. I hope everyone's days are nice too!!! #random rambles

[groaaaaan]

deltarune asriel and papyrus were online friends on whatever the deltarune equivalent of club penguin/animal jam is

#papyrus #asriel #papyrus deltarune #asriel dreemurr #asriel deltarune #papyrus undertale #asriel undertale #deltarune #utdr #safeutdr #i like this hc of mine bc i think it can coexist nicely w/ my stubborn insistence that pap is in college w/ asriel #and the more popular consensus that he’s just being a fuckin hermit in the house #and even the theory that he’s the knight or whatever the fuck lol. this is all encompassing which means u agree 🔫 /j #anyway! who wants to think about what online kids multiplayer games would be like in the dr universe? nobody? great! #so like part of the appeal of playing as animals or monsters is that. in real life we are not these animals and monsters. #so it’s fun to play as them :) #but obviously in deltarune a lot of monsters are animals and such #so it wouldn’t work as well? at least not in the same way as like animal jam. #judging by the giant monsters AND human movies they’re treated pretty equally in media #so i think maybe a game where u’d be a animal/monster would be more fashion based? like movie star planet or something idk #i think a game more equal to animal jam or club penguin in the dr universe would be smth where u play as something not human nor monster…. #perhaps a plant? :) #tdlr; papyrus is friends with flowey in every universe SEND POST #perry posts #edit: ok i still think papyrus and asriel will be bffs in deltarune (mark my fucking words) but i disagree with this post a little now #see i think deltarune is supposed to be more reminiscent of when toby was a teen #so like. i think deltarune ‘takes place’ in like the early 2000s so azzy probably wasn’t playing animal jam or whatever #but eh this was never that deep anyway just dumb hcs :p

[luminisvii]

with how the splat 3 fanbase is acting about splatfests, you'd think there's something real and tangible on the line and not like, superficial bragging rights and a few extra snails. idk why people are sitting here and getting angry at shiver as if she's a real person who has any actual will to do anything and not just pixels on a screen, especially when there are legitimate issues with how splatfests are designed and run in splat3, and that's the devs and nintendo's fault, not shiver. she's not real and she can't do anything to you. and i've seen way more complaining about the concept of "toxic shiver stans who always pick shiver and ruin it for everyone" than i have any actual evidence that these kind of people exist on a mass scale. it really feels like that kind of person is a guy that the fanbase made up to be mad at every time they lose. i agree that there are huge problems with splat 3 but the moment someone lays the blame on shiver they throw all credibility out the window. it's not shiver, there's no evil cult of shiver stans manipulating the splatfests, and don't get me started on how people are talking about the asian playerbase with these splatfests.

#luminiscore #splatfest #splatoon 3 #listen guys. ive been playing since splat 1. and let me tell you. even then it wasn't as bad as this #*old man voice* back in my day callie won almost every splatfest and we liked that JUST FINE. ok we didn't #but judging from numbers of past splatfests majority of the player base DOES pick based on what they like best and not the idol #so idk why im seeing people call for idols to be dettached from splatfest thats not gonna change the issues with balance #like i hate to break it to you all but majority of the splatoon player base are casuals who are not deep in the fandom if at all #and they do not care about what your ideas of fairness are. they just wanna play #and its stuff like. i think a lot of you seriously underestimate how popular stuff like vanilla ice cream is. it's not shiver #im just amazed and baffled by all the hatred and vitriol directed at shiver bc ive never seen this before with splatfest discourse #the WAHHH (insert winning team here) IS FULL OF EVIL SPAWN CAMPERS excuse is as old as time and should not be listened to. sorry #and in no world in a pvp game will the enemy roll over and let you win and play “fair” bc you want them to. thats not how it works #and i despise how whinging and screaming from a small and super toxic section of the fandom is poisoning discourse for casuals #touching grass isn't enough some of you guys need to start a garden

[callixton]

my life if i felt comfortable initiating physical touch w friends :’) >>>>>

#it just does not come easily to me at all it takes a lot of time & trust (spec of someone not judging me or thinking less of me bc of it) #and i need to trust that it will come if i just work to maintain these relationships and we both become more comfortable #but then i see other people who find it so easy to greet each other with a hug or whatever after knowing each other for the same/less time #and i just feel kind of bad and jealous. like i wish i was able to use it as a way to get closer with someone rather than a byproduct #whatever it’s fine #and i DO have people who i am very comfortable with i just wish it didn’t take so much for me to get there #ted talks

[freetobeeyouandme]

Been thinking about the The First Shadow spoilers for days and like I obvi wanna watch it myself to get the full picture (the moment a slime tutorial drops I want to be notified please) but it's very funny how it turned me, a major Will-has-powers sceptic, into a huge Will-has-powers truther like...I don't want Will to have powers to solve the plot but if that could cause more problems? That would be delicious actually, maybe. Like I need the full picture but we can cook with that, I think

#stranger things #st theories #st the first shadow #like idk if I like 'it's an alien did it' but then again...what was s1 but 'an alien did it'? so like I'd need to see the whole thing and #then the execution of S5 to judge it but in gernal idk if I'm upset about it. It feels a bit weird with the vecna reveal but we'll have to #see how they do it #but for the will has powers because of his time in the ud aspect? I'm down actually that could be FUN. and it would work with the whole #powers as metaphor for otherness aspect. Because the protags are portrayed as not-bigots. So they won't react to any normal 'otherness' #badly. But to something stranger? Something that was portrayed as smth you can/should fear a little maybe? Are justified in othering a lil? #imagine if that applied to Will and he suddenly had a reason for believing his friends and fam might hate him for who he is? and then we ge #proper Will Henry parallels? #plus the bigness of that could maybe actually be a good reason for will to run off into the UD prompting the party to go find him again. #and this time they find him not el bringing us full circle #the first shadow spoilers #tfs spoilers

[acornered]

Love how we were all like, wow it's pretty shitty to make fun of teenagers for liking something mainstream and mediocre, maybe we shouldn't do that anymore...UNLESS IT'S THE THING THAT I PERSONALLY HATE.

#can we all just get a life and let swifties be cringe in peace #this is literally the superwholock website you have no buisness judging anyone's taste in anything #like I hate to break it to you #but that one popular post full of homestuck quotes #where everyone is like ooo these were so raw so deep #reads exactly like these taylor swift lyric compilations out of context #like I get taking the piss because she is a popular yt woman with a bajillion dollars #but targeting people who find something profound and resonant in her work #especially neurodivergent teenagers #is just such a bad look #I'm already sick of it #let he who is without cringe cast the first stone #etc etc #swiftcourse #acornposting

[anotherpapercut]

sometimes I feel like there's a narrative on here that like. people who work and live not with their parents in their 20s are somehow privileged and its really annoying as someone with 0 family and 0 built in support system lol

#this has nothing to do with the previous post i was just reminded of some unrelated posts I've seen #like i get what people mean but i really dont consider it a privilege to have to graduate at 16 and immediately start working to pay rent #causing a severe worsening of ny physical and mental state so that i can afford to eat #and i would just like to say for the record that id never judge someone for living with their parents because im so envious lmao #just like. of the idea of having parents that would take care of you. ive always been so fascinated by that #because my sister got married at 19 to get out of the house and then depended on her husband bc she also has trouble #working due to disability. were both physically and mentally disabled so we have that in common lol #and then she had to contend with becoming entirely dependent on a man who then had incredible power over her #and now theyre divorced and she has to try to figure out how to do all this stiff at 33 that our mother never taught us #and that ive figured out on my own over the past 7 years. and i just think damn i wish we had family lol #like maybe if we even had 1 relative who cared enough to like. check in with us even?? let alone help #thats always just seemed really incredible to me. and ill never really be able to wrap my head around it

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok Things

#autistic Tuvok #he knows (old) Vulcan sign bc he was taught by that monk he was sent to #the monk was already an old man and Tuvok by canon's time is in his 90's-100's so I'd wager it's a biiit outdated #luckily his family is telepathic - unluckily most everyone else he interacts with on the daily isn't #I think being nonverbal was something he experienced more when he was younger and became overstimulated more easily bc he didn't know what #being overstimulated was or what signs to look for - what to avoid etc #I love Tuvok he has a whole little personality arc #tfw you express your emotions 'wrong' no matter where you are #or who's judging you #st voyager #st voyager art #Tuvok #Tuvok art #I hold him very dear to my heart #I think he worried that he wouldn't be a good father for a long time #but after having one child he and T'Pel looked at each other and were like ACTUALLY.....Can we get three more of these things??? #I'll bet people who work with him think that he must get along smoother with Vulcans - but no. #Vulcans also consider him strange and socially inept - just in a different way #and he doesn't care!! anymore!! #Forever thinking about the fact that Tuvok is lonely yet doesn't seem to know how to make friends #Tuvok: (is lonely) ............ -goes to read in the corner and just let that simmer- #WELL let me rephrase - he KNOWS....it's just....so MUCH #ugh... #heheh I dunno if I explained it right but yeah -nodnod- #Tuvok is the type of adult who was a punk but looks at punk young people now and is like -disappointed sigh- kids... #His son Elieth is trying to tell him why it's okay to stim yes even in public and Tuvok is only half listening bc he's distracted by #a piercing which he was NOT informed of........=_=.... #Tuvok is old and he can be wrong sometimes as a treat <3 so he can have the experience of his kids being like D AD!!! LISTEN TO ME!!! #also they're wearing some sort of formal garb for an event of some kind #Me: uugaahah lights to BRIGHT makes me antsy and a lil mad!!! -dims them- aaa just like Tuvok ~

[mousegirl-cheerleader]

So much emphasis all the time on holding a singular job for as long as possible

I really don't think there should be anything wrong with working at a new job every year or month or whatever if you want to

#I understand the way jobs are set up #like you gotta work as long as possible in one job to get increased benefits and stuff #I just don't think that should be the way it works #and I don't think that we as a society should put SO much of a person's worth into having like #a single steady job for years and years #and judging someone who's had lots of different short term jobs

[niishi]

Sensory issues that make me not want my hair to touch my neck/ears

vs.

chronic migraine disorder that can be triggered by wearing my hair up for too long or wearing anything on my head at all

vs.

ppl telling me they like me more with long hair&making me feel insecure about having short hair

#im gonna kms #its an every day issue #i dont have this problem when i have short hair #but i HATE feeling judged i get so hyperfocused on it and it makes me so sad and i cant cope w it tbh #its something i work tirelessly to change by trying to be mindful and not give a fuck but #its HARD #so many ppl express how much they like my long hair better and I just wish they'd keep it to themselves #bc now im like rlly insecure about having short hair again #idk.... i remember back in the day when i was working at the smoke shop and had short hair #there were a bunch of girls who would express how good it looked and how theyve always wanted short hair but #their face was too fat or it wouldnt look good on them #and i would encourage them and tell them if its what you want and it would make you happy then it will always suit you and look good #no one in this world has a “face” for short hair #all of our faces suit whatever hair we want for ourselves #but pol have this opinion based off of society constructed beauty standards #and will just outright way or imply #that you look better following those standards #i think ppl should find happiness and self confidence more attractive than adherence to beauty standards #i successfully convinced one of my coworkers and an old and younger customer to cut their hair short #and they were so bright and excited to show me after they did it #and i hyped them up to hell and back like it made me emotional bc it takes courage to embrace your happiness #despite others judgements #im just #not as brave anymore #im rlly tired tbh #anyways srry im just emotional bc my head hurts and im overstimulated from my hair touching my neck jshfjekduriwj

[antisocialgaycat]

quite interesting how someone ive never met and probably never will meet knows me better than anyone else

#just a load of garbage #really says something about me doesnt it #me and my trust issues #i mean if someone doesnt know who i am they can't judge me #the only person whos come remotely close to knowing me that well is sarah #then behind her is jade #god i miss jade #im literally seeing her on sunday but chances are she'll be the same as last time #ignoring me bc her phone is more interesting #anywho #can we just notice how the only person ive trusted since december is someone i dont know #hm what happened in december i wonder #oh yeah #my auntie got killed #and why did she get killed #cos she went to israel #which i found out when? #after she'd been dead for weeks #maybe i dont trust people cos it seems like no one trusts me #even though i know they do #or at least i think they do #god who even knows at this point #i sure as hell dont #oh did i tell yall ive started praying again #everythings gone to shit so may as well hope for divine intervention #probably wont work but gonna try anyway #maybe the big dude in the sky does care after all #dont mind me yall

[imp-thing]

Remembering that zodiac signs are canon in the Detective Grimoire games' universe and also that Penny stated herself she's an Aquarius, plus me being a fucking nerd made me come to the conclusion that Fitz might be an earth sign and that's why I don't think Penny and Fitz's relationship worked out.

#another pair fallen victim to a doomed relationship because of zodiacs... sigh.... #/j #I'm not really the one to judge how a relationship can work based off of zodiac signs but this can't be a coincidence #she's an air sign that likes birds and birds can fly in the air and he's an earth sign who's a gardener #THIS CANNOT BE A COINCIDENCE COME ON PEOPLE #but for real this relationship wouldn't have worked anyway with or without zodiac logic so we might as well bring it down more /j #detective grimoire #tangle tower