#cultivate a space

[john-gosh-darnielle]

fools rush in

and the doors slam shut

(happy April fools there's no trick here it's just one of a handful of TMG songs that have the word fool in it ily all happy booping)

#if you really want #to conjure up a ghost #cultivate a space #for the things that hurt you the most #One of the lines ever fr tho #tmg posting #tmg lyrics #the mountain goats #mountain goats posting #artists on tumblr #the mountain goats fan art #tmg fan art #doodles #ghosts #april fools #ish? #outer scorpion squadron #all eternals deck #SoundCloud

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This is the start of something new

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#Poorly Drawn MDZS #MDZS #wei wuxian #lan wangji #season 1 #*I never knew that it could happen till it happened to me* #Listen there were so many good scenes I wanted to draw and maybe one day I will but dang #sometimes when there are too many good moments to draw in a summary comic you have to abridge them into something that gets the vibes #The teen boy shenanigans that wwx drags lwj into are fine and good and *funny* #but they are also 15 and 15 year olds will say whatever comes to mind whether its well formulated or not #Less of a gay awakening and more of a moment of realizing that theres a door labeled 'homosexual thoughts' in the back of the house #and someone just threw a baseball into the window of it #poor lwj for he now spends the rest of his teen and young adult years haunted by this moment #only to cultivate it into a garden in which he will one day marry this man #Live your life in a way that would make teen you implode -> my daily advice column wisdom #Side note: this comic is vertical because I...ran out of space on my page. I have been meaning to experiment though #might continue like this? Maybe...

[dangerous-advantage]

jin ling, having done some stupid shit: my uncle's gonna kill me!

lan sizhui, serenely: it's ok, your other uncle's a necromancer

#hey bitches i'm back and tentatively looking to enter a new fandom space #first post into the mxtx assorted fandom i can't believe it's something this stupid /lh #fun fact this is the first fandom i've entered that i am actually intimidated by #like idk why maybe bc it's a larger fandom or one more established? like what are the rules here /silly #anyway i might end up writing something for this. i'm also back from having disappeared idk if i'll be here consistently but we'll see #mxtx #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #jin ling #lan sizhui #has this been done? if not i'm disappointed in this fandom #i say as if i have any experience with said fandom #look man this is stupid as shit but it wouldn't leave my head #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[rox-of-iu]

the same clownery as usual lads 🌳🍑

!spoilers (but not for today's upcoming chapter lol)

'cultivate' by amazing wonderful talented @neonghostcat

#cultivate #cultivate: slow life on a monster infested mountain #liushen #listen i know the space between posts is shorter than usual but I had these done and didn't want to hold onto them so uhm everyone hush #anyway hsdkj #i know ive already said this before but youre gonna hear it again aha i loovee shen jiu and esp how he's written here he's so fun #💞💓💖💕 bastard meow meow #hes such an ass but he means good deep down 😭😭 #anyway rip to SY's most probable aneurysm once he reads how SJ decided to sign himself lmao #and also congrats to SY for his first child in a rebellious teen phase ahhasjdh #but tbf xiao draco does scare me to death fr fr troublemaking children are terrifying stay strong shen yuan hdjsah #and thats about it im gonna go take a nap now cheerio everyone

[uncanny-tranny]

Begging people to stop seeing skills like compassion, care, kindness, empathy, patience, and whatever else less as inborn identities, but rather as skills. Essentializing "goodness" to the degree that you identify as kind rather than doing kind is going to destroy your self-image, but also what you think is kind.

#advice #i talked about this before probably but i hate when people essentialize Good Things to this degree #i would rather somebody try cultivating empathy rather than identifying as empathetic #because when you put so much stock into Being Empathetic you risk putting yourself in a space to rationalize when you aren't empathetic... #...you're not always empathetic and that is okay. quite literally we all do it. it's not going to send you to Hell... #...you aren't going to get a sentence in Bad People Jail until the sun explodes... #...you will learn what lead to the incident that you weren't empathetic about and you will learn what to do about it... #i just see essentializing these things as a mild red flag many times #anyway: you aren't a bad person because you're A Person. we all are. you just learn more about what that means #you don't have to be kind to do kind💛

[whumpbby]

I'm not making fun, I'm just saying that MDZS would be so much better if every Sect Leader outfit integrated a boob window.

Likes, a special guan and hairdo is all very nice, but I think an open chest would be a much better call-sign, especially from a distance. Better for visually impaired. It would also raise morale exponentially!

Just saying.

#mdzs #headcanon #sect leaders are steonger yeah? #they need more space & air #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #let them breathe!

[commsroom]

hera wolf 359 is the most trans woman character of all time. it’s the way she’s treated as a woman implicitly - that people have those expectations for her in terms of roles and affectations - but not a real woman, always with the caveat she’s a different category of person. that she is canonically deadnamed and de-gendered as a form of control. the general distrust she feels, fear that respect for her identity is insincere and/or that it can be revoked at any time, if she’s too disagreeable. that she is reflective about her identity and place in the world to an agonizing degree, in a way even the other marginalized people around her aren’t quite, not in the same way, because it feels like all she can control. that she has an internal self-image, cultivated inwardly and maybe not even knowingly, even while she is under the impression no one will ever be able to see her, and that being seen in the way she exists in her own subjective memory is pivotal to some of the biggest moments in her character arc... that she feels this physical loneliness and this seemingly insurmountable gap between the way others perceive her and the way she thinks of herself. and most importantly, that the ways she feels different, the things she feels make her fundamentally doomed... so much of that is just not true and falls away during the course of the show...

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #don't you understand #the fact hera's womanhood and personhood are directly tied #that she defends lovelace from dehumanization while very pointedly calling her a woman #when minkowski later does the exact same thing for hera #that this MATTERS to hera #that hera's perception of self is something she thinks about so much #that she cultivates inwardly even when she had no reason to expect anyone would ever see her for real #and why it matters then that those scenes in the finale happen in a space where she is physically equal to the others #that eiffel and pryce #the person with the most positive impact on her + the person with the most negative one #both stand in the same space as her and are impacted by her physically and SEE her. have no choice but to see her as she sees herself #don't you get it...!!

[mcromwell]

I think this pad of giant paper just lives on the dining table now. Breakfast burrito in one hand, crayon clenched in the other, mid quality restaurant style

#i get to cultivate my space just how i like it and it feels Good #crayons

[ibis-gt]

hey, a genuine plea from someone who used to love this space: please learn to treat artists & writers as human beings and not factories.

part of what drove me away was the absolutely constant push to be making new things. i’d post a piece of art or a comic or a fic and get tons of people asking for what was going to happen next, just more more more nonstop, and it was overwhelming and so discouraging. it didn’t matter how long the thing i’d just posted was, people just wanted more. when i went on my hiatus because i felt totally tapped out, i got asks & requests STILL asking me to make more things, telling what of my stuff they missed, keeping that pressure on, and it SUCKED. i couldn’t even rest on my break because of that and along with other huge problems in the community, it made me quit this place for good.

just, please learn some etiquette about how to engage with art and writing, please stop asking for more all the time. if you want something you need to either learn to make it yourself or put your money where your mouth is and pay for it. if artists or writers ask for requests then it’s okay to ask for things for free, but don’t assume that’s the case for every single creator out there. for the love of god don’t read someone’s fic and then say ‘what if you wrote this again, but with this different thing that i like more’, because you sound like an entitled child.

PLEASE remember we’re human beings with lives and other circumstances, we need to make money to live or we need to go to school or take care of ourselves and our families. we are more than the drawings or stories we create and if you treat us like factories, you’re just going to burn us out. we are not ‘content creators’. we are PEOPLE.

and hey! for any other creatives out there who feel this way, feel like your audience is draining you dry or a community isn’t treating you with the respect you deserve? there is nothing wrong with dropping that space and moving on to something else, something better. sometimes things can’t be fixed or reformed or shaped up. sometimes the rot is so deep that it’s not worth breaking your back trying to pull it out. If a space isn’t good for you, save your mental and physical health and leave. i’ve been in a much better place in almost every aspect of my life after getting out of this community. you don’t have to stick around if you don’t feel valued. anyone telling you otherwise is thinking more about themself than about you, so fuck ‘em.

#literally the you can leave skeleton meme you CAN leave and it is sometimes the best option! #lol i saw someone a while ago saying that you shouldn't leave a community just bc of bad behavior #that you should stick around and try to reform it. um. no! #that is a very privileged position to hold and especially rankles after a lot of people of color left bc of racist harrassment. #or like. a friend of mine who left bc her boundaries were repeatedly violated and ignored in favor of Popular Artist. #like. that's not something you fix by blocking people. that's something you Get Away from bc it's so deeply ingrained and normalized #like yeah in some situations you can shape the community you want to make by blocking assholes and cultivating a following of cool people #i did that and then i LEFT the broader community bc it SUCKS. and i am far happier with my little circle of friends. #you are not beholden to stick around and stew in a space that treats you badly. ever.

[aetherknit]

i know we're all trying to move forward, but its been a few days and i'd like to speak more clear-headedly on the subject: with regards to Dream, i think its... extremely unfair to warp those exiting the fandom as suffering from some kind of "mob mentality." this isnt a result of misinfo or fearmongering -- in general, i think ex-dtblr bloggers fall on a wider spectrum than people believe wrt whether Dream is a bad person and how guilty he is.

although i can only speak from my experience/feelings, the thing that tipped this into "i really need to leave" territory, even though things still seem like a gray area to some with the trial in the air, is that this is very much an issue that can only exist because of Dream's platform, his fan community, and (as he noted in his twitlonger) parasocialism. i think many of us were put in a position where we realized a victim came forward, and our kneejerk reaction was that we didnt WANT to believe her, and that was an appalling thing to confront.

it all fell into perspective for some of us who have defended Dream tooth and nail in the past: how damning would something have to be before we believed it? really, in this situation, the only thing we could do was withdraw active, public support. sure, sure, parasocialism is to blame; if that's really the case, we all needed the wake-up call 😭 a lot of us have been through this song and dance with former creators -- blind faith only gets you so far before we have to remember ourselves.

#i think people misconstrue the fact that dtblr was cultivated by its long-time members into something negative #in reality a lot of us have just known each other so long that we ended up being some of the pillars of the space and #some things we think similarly on because in the past weve pushed and argued and changed each others minds #<- that part is just my biased perspective though obviously everyone is entitled to their own biased view LOL #.txt #dream situation #negativity tw #long post

[teekays]

it’s really great to be asexual and see your posts about sexualizing things/kinks. it’s like pits, piss, teeth? makes as much sense as boobs to me. very weird for me to see people be like no _______ (something you post about) is not sexy but _____ (conventional sexy thing) is and it’s different. as someone who is essentially “sexy-blind” it’s ironically easier for me to see the appeal of niche kinks simply because people who enjoy it will explain it, while people into “conventionally sexy” things kinda take it for granted that people will understand why it’s sexy. anyways keep being piss’s strongest soldier or whatever it is

WAH this is genuinely so very sweet to hear 😭🥺💘💝💖 it can be difficult sometimes to put myself out there and speak my truth about the unconventional stuff i like so it's always very nice to know i have allies who, even if they aren't into it personally, are like yeah! i get it! dudes rock! and i will continue to be piss's strongest soldier in your honor 🫡🫡🫡🫡

#every day the Friends Of The Blog. Viewers Like You. blow me away with how kind and open you are i love the little vibe we've cultivated #here in this space.... this is us rn -> 🤜🤛 we r fist bumping #asks

[yearningaces]

So you're fine with sex?

I don't care what other folks do in private and as long as everyone is of age and consenting that's for them

Pro sex workers

Pro adult spaces for adult content

Kink friendly

I just want nothing to do with those things and want to be given that same respect that I give to others who do enjoy it

#letters of yearning #i mean i dont have issue but i want to enjoy my own stories and cultivate a adult space that dosent cater to children that is ace centric

[menoasmess]

(Last one for the pride rec🫡)

#this gilded abyss #checking out #under the whispering door #ocean’s echo #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #lgbtqia books #queer books #Menoa rec #space belongs to queer people #space gays #space lesbians #lgbtq books #book rec #pride rec #read queer #book tag

[thebroccolination]

Just as a general thing: we won’t all agree on what actors deserve our support.

I don’t and won’t use antagonistic language or attack anyone, but I have and will block people who ruin the vibe (it’s healthy! 🥳). I’m just in fandom to have fun, so I’m not gonna fight anyone. I don’t have fun by tearing people down.

I completely understand not wanting to support certain actors. There are actors I don’t support. We don’t have to be at war or anything. They’re celebrities. The world is on fire. The new Zelda is out. There’s fic to read. Food to eat. Cats to befriend.

I like Krist. While I don’t know him personally or have a way of seeing into his mind or heart, I do see kindness and growth in him, and I like the person he seems to have become. I’ve seen him advocate for marriage equality and protect his queer friends, and I think recognizing someone’s growth helps them become their best self.

I don’t think relentless punishment or endless mockery helps people become better. I think it makes them worse. Anxious, depressed, or even suicidal. And despite the tendency toward dark humor in fandom, I truly believe most of us wouldn’t actually want that for anyone.

That said, I also don’t have the energy to care about every actor’s rehabilitation, so when I’d rather not support one, I withdraw my engagement completely. I don’t talk about them publicly. They’ve either lost or never earned my attention.

I’ve chosen who I want to uplift, so that’s who I give my energy to. I want to see them happy. I want to see them succeed. The ones I don’t want to see, I ignore. I have other stuff to do. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The way I see my time on this planet (and therefore in fandom too), I’m here to leave the spaces I occupy brighter than they were before I arrived. I won’t always succeed, but that’s the aim. ✨

#i love making friends in fandom but i’m also a big believer in cultivating your space carefully #krist perawat #be my favorite #gawin caskey

[cowboystatic]

i think the funniest thing ever is when staff changes anything on this site even slightly. like this is the gay autism website what made u think a design change that offers no increase in functionality would appeal to this demographic

#abt the notes bubble obvs #i have no idea how much of this site actually has autism and how much is that i cultivate my space #but regardless #i think it’s so funny to watch the blog color change or the icon or the notes bubble #and everyone immediately hate it #me too tho #flints stuff

[wangxianficrecs]

Proud Author Spotlight

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hello! for WIP Rec Week I'd like to nominate my current WIP. why do I think readers might like the story? well, it's a retelling of the Untamed story In Space, and it's not complete yet but it did fully get through the Sunshot Campaign so I think there's plenty of story there for readers to enjoy! @mikkeneko

(say hello to my) thirty million little friends

by Mikkeneko

M, WIP, 133k, Wangxian

Summary: Wen Ruohan has launched his aggressive bid to rule the galaxy, and the scattered and wounded remains of the other Great Sects must unite if they are to have any hope of opposing him. Our heroes find their way to safety and to each other, working together to fight back, but there is still something missing: Where is Wei Wuxian? When Wei Wuxian at last returns from his brush with death, he brings with him a darkness -- both figurative and literal. But his new, dangerous nanite technology may prove the key to winning the war.

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

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