#coming back online just to post this

[hellrobin]

stanning tim drake isn’t a choice or a lifestyle it’s a feral cat that’s wrestled its way into my house and is repeatedly mauling at my head

#coming back online just to post this #thesis statement #tbh #dc #tim drake #shush esme #tim tag #robin #red robin #red robin dc #red robin 2009 #dc robin #timothy drake #tim drake robin #pinned

[ruth-westside]

The Lamplighter

Jorvegians have a winter custom of putting a lighted candle in their window in hopes of seeing the Lamplighter.

Also known as the Waxen Walker, it is made of candle wax with a heart of fire. However, the heart slowly melts its body, leaving a waxy trail wherever it goes. As such, it only lives during the winter months when the temperatures are cold enough to help it hold its shape.

It wanders from place to place, consuming the candles people put out for it, replenishing its own body with the candles and reviving its heart with the tiny flames.

Nobody knows for certain how it came into existence, but it is a gentle, peaceful creature that gives hope and protection to travelers who find themselves lost in the wilderness.

Perhaps it does not want others to suffer the same fate it did.

#star stable online #star stable #sso christmas #it's based on a bug the gen 3 friesians had in the christmas village back in 2020. hence posting now instead of back in october #just took me 3 tries/3 years to come up with a version I liked

[lunarharp]

witch sketchbook

#witch hat tag #orufrey #partial nudity / #first is for 'promise' theme of whatober. saw there was an event so im bothering coming back online to post... lately i dont feel like it #especially twt..the last oru is just for here. i just feel so happy while drawing alone & then after posting it there like..mood drop. #not good at internetting... maybe i should just take another break & isolate myself forever... *thinks this literally every other week* #i like the nice tags on here though :) #i have nowhere else to complain about the following thing either so i'll do it here. theres a bug in baldurs gate 3 keeping my chararacter #from fully romancing their man. What's up with that. 180 hours of fighting the horrors for this. Aint that just life..

[cpunkhobie]

"It's strange to sexualize these adult characters" yall needa stfu I'm serious

Especially since it's not the same as aging up a child character to sexualize them ??? Because it is explicitly stated in canon that they're adults now ? He's a dad ???? And it's not like that people are drawing show!leo looking Like a Teenager, they're drawing him as An Actual Canon Adult. The way that shipping discourse has ... I don't wanna say poisoned cause it sounds wayyy too serious than it actually is, but like, yknow some peoples idea of sexuality n shit is fuckin crazy. "They were children for most of the show" and they grew up ?

#jonah with a megaphone #leo txt #discourse #sorry for discourse posting being the first thing I do when I come back properly LOL I just touched grass for a bit and needa get back into #the chronic online mindset #/silly #rise tag

[wildlyfreemoon]

i just had a thought that was like:

keith wouldnt mind being in love with boys, if it didnt mean being in love with lance.

lance wouldnt mind being in love with keith if it didnt mean being in love with boys.

#i had literally just woken up and thought this #they plague my every thought #sorry for literally coming back online after like 5 days mia with a klance post #actually im not sorry #they mean a lot to me #klance #keith kogane #keith voltron #lance mcclain #lance voltron #voltron

[apnourry]

rediscovering this gem of a pose

#hi #me #my face #I can't share this with irl friends so online will have to do #cute girls #girls who lift #girls with tattoos #the irony of everything being covered lol #penguin socks #wombats #girls with glasses #the way I was so worried the ass wouldn't come back when I was super sick and dropped a bunch of weight #hah #the workouts have been worth it baby the ass is back and bettah than evah #I realize the RISK of posting this and how likely I am to get unwanted messages but like I take pictures just to be #comfortable with how I look whenever and to appreciate every stage of life right and I should be able to post for myself #the tags are a habit and ramblings #anyway #i love yall #hot girl shit #AS USUAL #selfie #mirror selfie #typical vain girl stuff #later taters #happy weekend #btw #the claw clip looks like a little friend I just noticed it lol #my tiny companion! #comrade Clawdette

[fleouriarts]

feeling bad about my art lately. will probably not post for a while. but i wanted to at least dump some stuff here before i retreat into my hidey hole

#hivemind tv #riley savage #graydon weaver #hmfcu #quadeca #jane remover #eden burke #my art #2023 #fanart #doodles #its like. augh. longtime fleouriarts followers are familiar with my eternal tango with posting art online #doing this since i was 11 has like rotted my brain and made me rely wayyyy too much on external validation to motivate myself #and every year or so it gets bad enough that i take a break. but the break usually only lasts a month before i miss the feeling #and come back and then the cycle repeats #its probably worse now bc this is a fandom where getting seen by the creators is not really that hard #so there have been times where im like 'well idk if i wanna draw this. but if i do maybe hivemind will rt it :-)' #NO!!! THATS NOT WHAT ART IS ABOUT!!!!! i cant keep letting myself get addicted to the numbers going up man i gotta get out of here #and i was reading a quad interview from around when idmthy got released. cus hes also brain poisoned like this. but he managed to get out #and now just kinda comes online to release music and then leave #i need to be like that. i need to take a break from art posting thats so long that i come back as a changed man odysseus style #idk. its been so long since i drew stuff that no one gets to see but me. all the art i keep to myself is just out of embarrassment #i need to relearn how to draw stuff just for the love of creation and not “maybe people online will like this one” #or “this new thing came out i need to prove my love of it by drawing it” #sometimes it leads to good art but more often than not it just makes me feel worse #whatever. if any of yall are in the hivemind jane or quadeca discord i MIGHT still post stuff there. but otherwise ill keep to myself and m #friends for a while i think #woooooo this is queued to post while im in orgo lab everyone wish me luck with my thin layer chromatography

[torchstelechos]

You know those "do not separate"/"often bought together" memes that people did for the Submas plushies? I like to think Immortal Volo found out that Ingo had a twin fully because he saw one of these memes and went, Ah fuck I separated them :(

#PLA #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon volo #pla volo #Submas #ingo pokemon #pokemon emmet #immortal Volo #Look me in the eyes and tell me immortal volo wouldnt be chill as hell and have a social media account #this good bitch runs a historical fact check twitter/tumblr and got recommended Submas things when Emmet/Ingo liked his train history post #and he just has to live with the knowledge he didnt buy them together and separated them #Hes like ah shit I guess to make it up to them Ill post a lot about trains :/ #and when Ingo comes back and gets most of his memories back hes like VOLO WAS MY FAVOURITE TRAIN MUTUAL???? THIS BITCH???? #The biggest betrayal was not that he was separated from his twin via time distortion rift #but that his mutual online didnt even fucking like trains :///////

[mainapnifavouritehoon]

hi guys i-

#Hey so i wanted to talk about this really bad this has been bothering me for quite some time #i have been busy a lot these days and i dont get time at all to do anything but i can see myself wasting my time just scrolling #I have school and then coaching and then ofc i have to study on my own for which i barely take out time as im highly careless #My last 2 exams went absolute shit and that fucking scares me because i'll be having my JEE soon #Mummy has been telling me to stay away from my phone and ik she trusts me but she but she deserves a daughter that studies ig? #And now i kind of consider that as an option because this phone is very very distracting #I have been thinking about deactivating but i realized it would mean i would lose all my precious posts and interactions #So i wont be deleting this blog as i am too attached (i will be coming back istg) #I will be taking a break and ig thats what yall call a hiatus #I will be giving away my phone to my parents (trust me i have to) #Ik this will be hard for me to just leave all of a sudden so i'll slowly start vanishing if that makes sense? #This message also doesnt mean that i will be shutting down my phone rn at this moment and that this is goodbye #This is just to prepare the people that i love and who love me that i will be highly inactive and not come online for maybe months #This is not an impulsive decisions i have really thought through this #Also just to tell you again MAIN ABHI GAYAB NAHI HONE WAALI BUT THODE TIME MEIN I WILL GO ON A BREAK THIS IS JUST A PRE HIATUS MESSAGE #Also i hope you guys will still love me and remember me once i come back #Because coming months are going to be hard for me #I hope you understand and ily guys okay? #(Oh god why am i so dramatic about everything) xoxo

[youngblood-valkyrie]

Prepare... for unforseen consequences...

#my art #half life #gman #half life 2 #half life alyx #black mesa #half life gman #hello!! I'm still around... just in case someone missed me xD #haven't been drawing much good stuff or haven't been feeling like posting it... but i think i wanna get back into it lol #despite everything going to shit when it comes to sharing art online and the existing social media platforms... meh #anyway i fell into the half life fandom and fell HARD for the g-man and i can't get up so i might post more art of him soon #I've even started painting again because of that mf!! can you believe it?? i found a hexagonal shaped canvas at my parent's house... #... and i have the perfect idea of what to do with it ;) #moonlight rambles

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

and today on The Bird App -

What a genuinely hilarious first thing to like on Twitter since 2020. I love both of these women so much 💗

#like it’s almost definitely just Alba showing support for her co-star but also #it does feel vaguely like Alba is fucking with us #like ‘y’know what would make the fans absolutely crazy?’ #not just being back online not just interacting with a post about KTY but interacting with THIS post #also KTY in the video laughing about Meena standing in the corner like 👁 #‘poor Meena’ #meanwhile Meena in interviews is like ‘I’m SO glad they weren’t filming me I was crying it was so beautiful’ 😭 #(but seriously the set up of that shot IS so beautiful I don’t blame her) #ANYWAY people don’t have to be normal about this but also I really hope they aren’t weird about it either #it would be lovely if Alba felt comfortable to come back to online spaces if that’s what she wants #no being weirdos and scaring her away with weird comments about her and her costars #Alba Baptista #Kristina Tonteri-Young #Warrior Nun #Avatrice #Twitter

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

#I may be venting a lil but god it blows my mind #fyp is a blessing and a curse because i don't think ppl were ever meant to be subjected to this many ppl at once #god i took a bird site hiatus for weeks and now BARELY check it and it already feels like a hit #oughhhhh #even fandom spaces have hugely incorporated marketing and networking into them bc of cmms and sponsorship and building portfolio #which would be fine tbh if it weren't for the way socmed is designed #now it's like you can't support too many ppl or else you're shadow banned or you have to make yourself palatable and marketable #and websites with threads in which people will only read the first post before qrting because ratios are seen as five minutes of fame #features that permit beating an algorithm are locked behind a paywall that promises you money if you go viral #and what goes viral is usually incendiary content meant for those ratios or trends. whether for or against OP #even in hobbyist spaces the climate has changed so much due to the monetization and marketing and just. ugh #not to mention side accounts dedicated to gossip in this new priv account culture like...idk #if you have to make another account so you can make fun of a friend on main with selected priv friends it just doesn't sit well with me #and not every priv account does this but enough do and it makes me tired #unsolicited hate comments are still as bad as they used to be on ff dot net except now people openly are proud of it more #why do most socmed feel like passive aggressive sticky notes on high school lockers #there is so much more I could say about everything that has left me weary about the internet but I don't know the time or place #and I don't want anyone to think this is about them because it's a general statement. though if you are doing the more inflammatory things. #maybe rethink that. it's not good for anyone else and it's not good for you either #I keep coming back online to check on ppl and see art and I *know* it's draining for my health every time #but I feel a lot better now that i use socmed less overall. and that I try to focus on what makes me happy #it just sucks seeing so many people i care about endure absolutely wild struggles bc people online do not care. #I like rambling in my tags because this is the only place I ramble except my personal journal and to my wife

[pbscore]

Mmm 🤔 I genuinely think another big reason that trans men and transmascs are holding onto the idea of ‘transandrophobia’ is because a good portion of them, including myself, grew up on this website where the early days of the trans community pretty much coddled and served us, all the time. And then, when many of us actually started to transition (be it socially and/or physically), it was a wake up call that reminded many of us that being read as a man by society means that your are going to be treated differently than how you were previously.

Like, this whole situation is just a giant example of ‘social amnesia’ because anyone who was on tumblr in the early days knows exactly what I’m talking about. There were hundreds upon hundreds of posts made specifically for afab trans/nonbinary people. There was constant encouragement for trans men to express themselves however they wanted to, especially if they presented in a stereotypically feminine way. There were whole ‘passing’ guides made predominantly for trans men and transmasculine people and rarely anything for trans women and transfems.

So to me, this whole ‘transandrophobia’ thing reads like a giant temper tantrum being thrown by grown ass people who cannot fathom that they are no longer those ‘uwu little soft boys’ from the early tumblr days of their own youth and that they actually have to be accountable for their behavior towards other people now that they are being read as adults/adult men. Particularly, towards women (trans women are obviously included when I say this but I’m just putting this here so there is no confusion).

Like, seeing some of them say such out of pocket stuff like ‘uwu I lost the privilege of having women as friends and being able to see myself as a victim and it feels so isolating being a man uwu’ just tells me how little they actually understand the ways in which systems of power and oppression work AND that they’re making their personal relationships with women out to be completely one-sided while suspiciously not ever considering their own behavior towards those women 🤔.

It’s never as simple as ‘women have it easy because they can become friends with each other and can see themselves as victims because of female socialization (which is literally a TERF term that blatantly supports bioessentialism…why are y’all using it???)’ Did y’all seriously forget that racism still exists for women of color? Did y’all seriously forget that many minority men will still have access to conditional privileges, as long as they can demonstrate ‘manhood’ in an acceptable way (which many of them do, so it ends up leading to serious misogyny in their own communities)?

And it’s really irking me to see not just some black trans men and transmascs feeding into this racist, MRA shit but to also see non black trans men/transmascs using issues specifically pertaining to anti-blackness (ex ‘masculine black people are seen as aggressive so therefore, it’s androphobia uwu’) to try to support their flimsy arguments and it’s genuinely infuriating. Even more specifically, it is white trans men and transmascs doing this while (ironically) denying transmasc poc their identities when we speak up against them. You are taking the context of anti-blackness away from those specific issues and trying to re-contextualize it to conveniently fit your ideas and it is incredibly harmful.

Victimhood has never been a ‘privilege’ for any women, except for cis white women (and even then, there can be limitations), so the fact that so many of these transandrophobia truthers see ‘womanhood’ as synonymous with ‘victimhood’ just tells me that they do not have enough nuance or even respect for what any women, especially women of color, have been through. Ask any woman outside of the US or Canada or the UK about their experiences existing as women. Hell, ask any woman here in the US how they’re feeling considering the insane amount of anti-trans AND anti-abortion laws that have been cropping up. Cis women, trans women, transfems, and afab nonbinary folks are all witnessing the same injustices of bodily autonomy as trans men and transmascs, yet this realization isn’t really hitting home to them.

They’re basing this entire ‘movement’ off of personal experiences where they are treated like the men they are, told to take some level of accountability for their behavior (which their tumblr addled brains aren’t used to), and then claiming that there’s some sinister ‘attack’ on masculinity when it’s far more complex than that. Femininity is in no way ‘rewarded’ as much as y’all claim it is, even in queer spaces.

Both femininity and masculinity can be rewarded and punished, in various ways, that are not going to be easy to understand at first glance. There are people who, when performing either of these things in the ‘acceptable’ way to a cisheteronormative society, will be rewarded the conditional privileges and acceptance that comes with it. And there are some people who will be punished for either not sticking to either of these or switching between them or mashing them together. However, there are many outside factors like race, sexuality, and culture that can also heavily influence who is more likely to be punished for these displays of rebellion than others.

I’m not sure how to end this but I do want to propose a question that more folks, regardless of gender, should start asking themselves before they start speaking on important social issues: is it really about you wanting to help the community or is it about you wanting to be noticed?

Because I’m gonna tell y’all this now…there is a world of difference between the two and you can’t have both, as much as tumblr will try to convince you that you can. If it’s just about you, then it can’t be about the community and if it’s about the community, then it can’t just be about you.

NOTE: if you’re not going to be nuanced or relatively understanding of the power dynamics I’m referring to in this post, don’t interact. I’m not about to argue with anyone.

#long post #i’m just stating my own opinion here so don’t think i’m not considering nuance either #if you want to have a constructive conversation about this topic I’m all for it but the moment you try to bring in some MRA ‘woe is me’ crap #i’m gonna call it like it is and end the conversation because the whole idea of ‘hating men’ is more of an online phenomena than it is irl #y’all just don’t go outside and stay online far too often and allow those opinions to fester in your mind until you’ve made up a strawman #of a group of ‘evil women’ who are hellbent on eradicating men when that’s like…a very small portion of women who are TERFs and we don’t #take any of their bullshit seriously especially when the same ideology they spew that may hurt men…comes back to hurt everyone #trans issues #lgbt #trans #if you’re not going to be nuanced about your response then don’t bother interacting #if you clown on this post i’m blocking you with no damn regrets #pbscore #feminism #intersectional feminism #transmasc #transfem #racism #antiblackness #transgender #trans men #transandrophobia #transmisandry

[ratgingi]

chapter 2: the hunt for Boy

finally did something with alex n bernie again :-]

#dialtown #phonegingi #bigfoot dialtown #dialtown fanart #dialtown oc #jack dlc #hobos creations #savefiles #gay phones #best routes #coming online just to post this and pass back out rq but hello everyone i worked very hard on this please perceive it #these 2 are genuinely some of my fav dateables i have ok . they mean the world 2 me #also bigfoot based #im gonna reblog this again some time later probably #this is. getting pinned for a bit lmao

[mooodyblue]

so sorry for disappearing :( i miss yall lots. i open tumblr every day and think ill finally reply to people and reply to asks but then i just don't do it. i feel bad that i always have to come here and apologize (even though i know i shouldn't have to or feel the need to) and i always feel like im being down 24/7 /:

truthfully i stepped away because my depression has been at it's worst and everything is beginning to feel like a chore and i don't want to bring that energy here at all :(

i miss you guys and i'm going to try and get my shit together soon and reply to everyone. hope everyone is well ❤️

#ive been mostly on twt tbh #but yea #im sorry guys #im just like #not okay #this has been a very bad month #and life is very overwhelming and im overwhelmed and tired and just #im trying so hard #everything fr just crashed all at once tonight and i felt like i should come say smth tonight lol #i really need to come back and write but it's not making me feel better #i've also been busy trying to find online work because i have no money and nobody is taking me #there's just #so much going on #between money issues and me being soooooooo lonely that it's eating away at me i'm just dusbsjsshxjsj #anyway #idk if im gonna post again after this for a hot min i kinda wanna wait till march #we'll see

[dearmrsawyer]

sawyer was sick over the weekend so we got some blood tests done and it turns out she is diabetic, she stayed at the vet a couple of nights, it was really strange to be alone in my room those nights. i spend more time with her than anybody. then we were supposed to pick her up thursday morning and they said to come in the evening instead because her glucose was v low. the vet asked me to find a glucose sensor to bring with me that evening, it was a public holiday so i had to find a pharmacy that was actually open. when we went to get her we waited 90 minutes and the sensor was being weird so they said come back later. finally brought her back home at 11pm and the sensor still wasn't working, had to go buy another sensor and bring her back this morning to switch them out, had to leave her there for a few hours so they could switch them and make sure the new one worked, then come back in the afternoon. i've had like no sleep at all this week, its a miracle i kept my eyes open to get training to give her insulin. she's so much better since she came home, even though she's not stabilised yet she very clearly feels heaps better ❤ it was such a relief to have her sleeping on my bed again last night. i was still up all night because i felt like i needed to keep an eye on her because i didn't have the monitor. we'll be in and out a lot over the next couple of weeks while they fine tune her dosage and monitor her levels.

#i want to know when i get a break #had planed to use this week to catch up on the prof development course i enrolled in months ago that started the day before nonna passed #i hoped it would be a chance to really apply my mind to something because i feel like my brain is utterly degenerated #after the time i took off this week for this i won't be able to do any of it before it closes i'll just have to download the modules #and read them in my own time without doing any activities/participating in discussions #have to keep canceling my dental check up because things keep coming up #i've also spent the last few weeks trying to link my online tax account to my government services account but it says all my info is wrong #no matter what i give them #what do i need to do #my life updates are so miserable. i delete so many of the posts i start because they just depress me #i deleted two earlier this week #feel like i need to get something out so i keep coming back to try #i still haven't asked hr about whether we have that counselling service thing because i keep forgetting bc i always have so much to catch u #on #i'll try to remember to do it next week #tp