#but i will do my best

[lizard-queen-izzy]

Hey hi, hello. I hate hate hate to ask for help but I'm opening emergency commissions cause my card got stolen and I'm leaving in the morning for a 3 day trip and now have no access to my money

Payments made through PayPal, please please lmk if you're interested or know anyone who might be

[I'd be able to get it done by next week once I get back Wednesday night depending on complexity]

#my art #emergency commissions #commission #art commisions #please. i hate to ask at all but #i will draw basically anything within reason #unless i physically cant #but i will do my best

[meownotgood]

con prep this week... probably will be mostly busy + exhausted.......

#but I will do my best #I have to work all next week and weekend too so I'm gonna be working for like 14 days straight 😭 #hopefully spending ridiculous amounts of money at the con will save me #still hoping to make progress with the gale fic and maybe finish it next week #yawn honk snore mimi

[monobmp]

WIP I haven't drawn sonic stuff in a long long time so learning perspective and stuff with these proportions is a lil jank for me

#i dont even know if that emerald perspective is right #shadow alone already looks jank #but i will do my best #also sorry i havent been uploading its hard keeping up 2 accounts #mono sketches

[blonde2nite]

just a girl playing her guitar....badly

#i love my bass guitar #i am not good at it #but i will do my best #girlblog #girlboss #this is what makes us girls #gaslight gatekeep girlblog #female hysteria #girblogging #this is a girlblog #girlcore #idk how to tag this

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

@the-little-fox-in-the-box brought up an interesting point about people disliking Roman history, and I think it's worth exploring a bit more:

Why call out Rome specifically? I think there's a couple of reasons: one ideological, and one psychological.

First, the ideology. You are correct in that colonialism and imperialism have happened in many cultures; they aren't solely Roman or European. But European colonialism used Roman colonialism as a model, and fascists like Mussolini lionized Roman militarism, machismo and ethnocentrism. The word fascism itself comes from the Latin fasces, a symbol of Roman authority. So more people alive today have felt the echoes of Roman oppression compared to, say, the Aztecs' wars.

Even today, fascists like to romanticize Roman history so they can pretend their prejudices are historically justified. They want a myth of us versus them, of civilization versus barbarians. People like stories of good versus evil, and applying that to history makes it easy to digest. The fascist narrative is simple, exciting, glorious - and bullshit.

So I like to point out that, for instance, Caesar was an imperialist and mass murderer. Not because I dislike Caesar, or want to shame people for liking him - I love talking about him! And being able to separate "I find this historical figure entertaining" from "I agree with this person's actions" is very useful. If a reader on the alt-right pipeline pauses and thinks, "Hang on, maybe I should look at the other side of the story..." then I've done something good.

Now, the psychological reason. Humans struggle not to lump each other into "good people" and "bad people." And on social media, "problematic" media and characters are lumped into "bad people." Being interested in or entertained by "bad people" is conflated with "condoning bad people's actions." So, since my avatar is a cartoon of Julius Caesar, somebody else might accuse me of condoning genocide.

It sounds silly when I spell it out like that, doesn't it? But this over-simplification happens constantly on the internet. And that over-simplification makes people scared, so they either apologize for liking what they like, join the "you're not allowed to like anything problematic" crowd, or else deny the thing is problematic at all (e.g. claiming Julius Caesar's war in Gaul was justified. Yes, I've actually seen people do that).

Or, for me, I just try to live with the fact that everyone's capable of good and evil. And I try to sit with the problematic parts while still allowing people to be human, and complicated, and capable of change. That's why my pinned post says "Everyone welcome." We're all works in progress.

That's just my best guess. I ain't a sociologist.

#jlrrt speaks #historiography #roman history #the-little-fox-in-the-box #and i especially want to welcome all jewish/muslim/female/queer/poc/disabled/etc folks here #i don't know everything and might make mistakes sometimes #but i will do my best #jlrrt essays

[mausarchive]

LET IT BE KNOWN THIS DAY, as we venture forth into these upcoming unknown moments: all of the girlies can always talk to me

#txt #forewarning i am. tentative. but ill always come back around eventually #im shy to be honest it makes friendship Difficult #but i will do my best

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

I am the kind of girly that if you compliment my clothes I will add where they're from in my thanks

I get compliments on a pair of pants I have and Im constantly just "thanks! they're from pacsun :]"

#if i post a picture and you want to know where something is from i will tell you to the best of my ability #some of it is old ass hand me downs that dont have a tag anymore #but I will do my best

[whimwolves]

I had no idea my centaur art would get that many notes (thank you all so much btw) but I want to apologize for my blog banner being That . I prommy I will change it someday (I probably won’t) (I will continually forget to change it)

#Love you guys #I have no idea how to use tumblr or be normal tho #But I will do my best #whimwolvesrandom #You can block the whimwolvesrandom tag if you just wanna see art btw im gonna try to keep things organized

[jupitercomet]

I can’t stop thinking about boxer bradley 🧍🏻‍♀️

me neither.... boxer Bradley thought night?

#full transparency i have been up since 5am so i might fall asleep #but i will do my best #what's up doc

[citrucee]

great news! he is no longer a floating head!!!

#wip #3d art #other's ocs #OUGHHHHHHHHHHH CLANBCY #i need to weight paint him but god. the coat. the fucking coat #idk why i was like hm yes this will be a great experiment (does something way more complex that i can handle) #but i will do my best #good lord

[geth-consensus]

I wrote this in a three hour fugue state because my brain would not let me operate like a normal person until I wrote something and posted it. Please enjoy the frog show brain rot.

#amphibia #amphibia spoilers #my writing #let’s take The End and put a question mark after it #i can't say how actively i will be able to update this #but i will do my best

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

#when the date went so wonderful that you don't even mind that you forgot your umbrella at home #crowley is doing his best and aziraphale appreciates it very much #aziraphale's very special version of pride and prejudice can't get wet #so you gotta use the four year old newspaper you found in your bentley #I am not mentally ready for season 2 #it will change me in a way that I cannot even explain #thank you neil gaiman love of my life fr #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #aziracrow fanart #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tenannt #micheal sheen #neil gaiman #digital art

[pocket-dragon]

POV you ate shit during the family drama hour and your adopted peepaw needed your dogs help finding the Temple

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #dnd #bg3 spoilers #durge #the dark urge #durge spoilers #bg3 scratch #dusk #bg3 withers #comic #scratch and my durge share a warriors bond #he is the best boy #doing his best OH NO your one the floor and I AM CONCERNED #big doggo moment

[skellydun]

why is it when people ask me what i want as a gift i immediately become someone who enjoys nothing at all and has never wanted anything a day in their life.

#my birthday is a month away and my best friend and i #will be on our vacation in a treehouse and so she's trying to make it a Day and wants to have gifts there and im like uh #who am i ? #what do i like? #28 on the 09/18 baby

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

#I'm so proud and happy for my coworker and I've been trying to figure out how to let him know how amazing I think he is #what gets me the most is that he's keeping this super down low to avoid giving any hints to his kid #he has a lot of queer friends so he already is known as an ally but there's always a chance it will be different if it's family #and he took that chance and crumpled it up into a ball and slam dunked it into the garbage for three points #and decided that even if his kid wants to hide it from him for the rest of his life he will still do what he can to make their life better #pflag #parents doing their best #parenting win #good news #allyship