#for themselves

[furiousgoldfish]

Parents who compete with their own children are sick.

Even to look at a child with competitive eyes, for an adult, is shameful. You are supposed to take care of that human being, not be jealous of the attention, not take them as a threat to your insecurities, not make sure they don't 'have a better life' than you did, not someone to outsmart and put down for being stupid, so you could feel superior to them.

Normal humans do not want or desire to feel superior to children. There's no need. It's very clear that this is a child, inexperienced, clueless and completely non-threatening human in development. Anyone can outsmart a kid or steal attention from them, because they're children! It shouldn't soothe anyone's insecurity to do that, it should make you feel absolutely terrible because why are you competing and taking resources away from a literal child! Are you that hungry for attention and praise? Are you that clueless that even a child's intelligence comes off as a threat? Are you willing to inflict damage, insecurity and neglect on a kid to feel better about your own damn self? A child being damaged and neglected is what makes you feel good and happy inside?

Pathetic. Shameful. Sick and disgusting. Thousand years of shame on you if you ever do that to a kid.

#narcissistic parents #abusive parents #competing with kids #child neglect #child abuse #psychological abuse #emotional abuse #taking attention away from children #for themselves #taking childs confidence #to build up their own #making themselves a competition instead of caretakers #sick #gross #disgusting #pathetic behaviour

[roryzs]

the one thing about toh is now i crave more kids that seem cool at first but they’re actually huge dorks. and this becomes progressively more apparent as the series goes on as it should be

#like COME ON FROM EP 1 AMITY WAS HASHTAG MEAN GIRL BUT WE ALL KNEW SHE WAS A BIG NERD AT HEART. #which is not automatically dork but w certain flags is dork adjacent and MY GIRL HAD THEM. #HUNTER WAS FUCKING SILLY MAN #we only got hints of it when he was golden guard but in ttt we got so many moments and i will be eternally grateful. #and by hints of it i do mean he was still hilarious but he still held himself to Absurdly Mature soldier standards #also ‘kids’ is used very loosely here just take it as characters in general. i love this trope #toh #i’m glad we got to see them grow from ppl who held themselves to super high standards that ultimately left them unfulfilled #and manipulated by their parental figures #to kids who felt secure enough to be silly and indulge in their interests and talk about their feelings out loud and see another purpose #for themselves #dude amity went from business tool to LOOK HOW GENUINELY HERSELF AND HAPPY SHE LOOKS IN THE END. #got her own career good relationship w her dad now dork ass girlfriend mutually supportive FRIENDSHIPS #hunter went from destined to be DEAD 💀 FEEDING BELOS PALISMEN TO LITERALLY CARVING PALISMEN + SUPPORTIVE FRIENDS ALSO + #HAVING THE GIRLFRIEND OF ALL TIME + SMILING!!! NO EYEBAGS!!! DO YOU SEE HIM LIKE ACTUALLY #oh ok we get it. i’m passionate #anyway yea. i’m passionate #the thing i like about amity is she seems like a coolkid but u realize she’s a dork. and she’s both #hunter is not a coolkid #hunter is a dork that can make excellent one liners #and kick your ass #‘one liners’ this is doing him an injustice btw #but he is not a coolkid #do i love them both? yea #the kids ever fr

[not-poignant]

🎯 and of course all the ✨✨✨

The first has been answered! But:

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it.

Nawww anon.

*thinks*

The hurt/comfort ratio in my fics is like, perfectly balanced for me, and I'm very lucky that this seems to be a good balance for other people as well! It's really nice when we can share in that feeling together, because imho, hurt/comfort is a really great kind of collective genre for coming together during the angst, and then also being together during the comfort part as well. Idk, I like that part about my writing. :)

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From this fandom meme!

#asks and answers #memey goodness #i remember for me it was like a goldilocks thing #fics would have too much angst and not enough comfort #or too much comfort and not enough angst #obviously everyone's writing their own perfect ratio #for themselves #but there's something really nice when your personal ratio #that you worry no one else will relate to or like #is actually the sweet spot for some others as well

[statementlou]

To add to your independent post, Billboard considers Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift as Independent Artist because they are not under the Big 3. Bad Bunny is signed as a distribution deal with a Puerto Rican Label and releases in the US under a contract with Universal Latin and another company so it doesnt count as UMG and Taylor is with Republic Records. Billboard does an Independent Artist Chart each week www billboard com/charts/independent-albums/

thank you for this, very interesting!! (about this) I feel like this really shows how stupid this distinction has become, since obviously by any rational metric Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny (and Louis) have major league representation who operate in particular ways that are basically the same as the Big 3 and are playing on the same level. So it makes sense that despite technically being "independent" Louis considers himself a major label artist. He said that he considered going independent, which in the way he means would mean he (/his team) would have to handle promo, manufacturing, distro deals, wrangling with streaming platforms, everything, themselves, and without the infrastructure to just slot into that a big label have, a part of which is the handshake network of ins at radio stations and tv shows etc etc- but to get that he takes on the trade off of having a label who press for hits and for him to do certain things (both of which he mentioned in yesterday's interview wrt BMG who thought BTM was too alternative and that he should press for radio play, but it's worth noting that Louis got his way with BTM and didn't seem too bothered about going out to do the US thing, this isn't SYCO, it's just a little trade off). And the way Louis phrased it ("what I didn’t want to do is go out on my own and then be sat on me rocking chair when I’m 60, 70 going, maybe I should’ve had one more go with a major label") to me says that even though he had made the decision that his priority was to do what he wanted even if it meant not getting hits, he didn't want to cut off the possibility of having it all, the control and the hits. I love how grounded he seems about it all- like yeah wouldn't that be fun and I will try for it within what feels good for me but beyond that, no, and if it doesn't happen NBD. But yeah, he likes the numbers, he wants to fill stadiums, he's said it and I think he'd say it more if people could also believe that he's also good without it instead of latching onto that as unhappiness with anything less. Anyway IDK anything about the Billboard indie chart thing but I can't help but wonder if it used to actually be a chart for artists who were out there doing things small scale and DIY and because of the ridiculousness of this semantic issue is now just always topped by Bad Bunny or whatever. Honestly the definition should get fixed because there are still artists putting things out themselves or on small labels and not going through major distros or having access to major league promo and for them to share a category with these behemoths (Louis included) who are benefitting from corporate connections and handlers just doesn't make any sense. But since the (outdated and useless) definition does remain in place, I will point out that the fact that Louis can claim and play both sides works out quite nicely for him, and you know that's not just happenstance or luck, he's very clever about these things.

#blah blah blah #I am happy for bad bunny + taylor etc for their business acumen and keeping the money they make #for themselves #I love the idea of BB keeping that money in PR - iconic #maybe he can singlehandedly fund independence

[cherry-blossomtea]

Anyway one of these days I should really write out the sprawling co-WoL narrative that my friend and I have painstakingly crafted these last few months because it’s about unconditional love and overcoming grief and learning to live with the past and friendships that are so powerful they transcend lifetimes, two people whose fates are so closely entwined they couldn’t escape it if they tried. It has blorbos in it. The blorbos are in there.

#the Ryl and V’Celia show starring ME #apparently people don’t usually write actual narratives for their wols #the WoL is sort of just a placeholder #for themselves #and yeah Rylaxha is a self insert but like #she’s a fully realized creation! fuck! #sproot adventures #song of the lost

[professor-pants]

Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive

#very capable of taking care of themselves very eager to take care of someone else #would kill a man for even slightly offending their partner #does what they're told #am i on to anything here? #these people come to mind: #crowley #bucky barnes #izzy hands #the doctor #mostly when it comes to clara oswald #ronan lynch #pearl #from steven universe #romeo #except his person is mercutio not juliet #riza hawkeye

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

#cw: suicidal ideation #cw: suicide #cw: self harm #cw: mental health #cw: depression #i made the balloon the main representation of my self destructive urges for a reason but im not going to explain it #i tried to keep a lot of the details in this vague #it would be my worst nightmare if this comic encouraged someone to hurt themselves #so. please dont #for a long time even the thought of making this comic felt so insipid and narcissistic #with the state of the world as it is #having the only threat to your life be yourself felt so privileged and trite and shameful #but doing this comic made me sit down and process things in full #and im just. very grateful i didn't give in to my thoughts back when i sincerely felt i'd be more useful to the world dead #i also feel the need to say that this wont represent everyone's battle with mental illness. its unfortunately different for all of us #there is no fix-all #and im afraid this might be one of those comics that either resonates a lot or misses the target by a mile #i made it for myself foremost. and now that its done im glad i did it #thank you for reading #and please stay alive #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics

[lgbtlunaverse]

Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.

#this is about tenko bnha #but it is also about dahlia ace attorney #watch the nezumiVA videos on ace attorney trilogy they're great #anyway dahlia saying she (at like. 6 years old) apparently convinced her father to abandon her sister. hmmm #also everyone including herself thinking of her as the manipulator in control with terry when she was 14 dating a 20 y/o #anyway these characters both did do terrible things but feel the need to pile on more and remove nuance from where it exists #to convince themselves that this is what they really want. that they chose this. #it's about the loss of control it's about being a victim feeling worse than being a villain #at least if you were the bad guy you had autonomy #shimura tenko #shigaraki tomura #dahlia hawthorne

[werewolf-cuddles]

Here, have a mirror of the final Nightly build of Citra (March 3rd 2024), and the most recent build of Yuzu I could find via the Wayback Machine. (February 28th 2024)

EDIT: On April 27th 2024, Uncle Wario was assassinated by the Nintendo Ninjas. The Yuzu and Citra mirrors will be reuploaded elsewhere soon.

#yuzu #citra #emulation #piracy #nintendo #fuck nintendo #keep circulating the tapes #but also fuck the yuzu devs while we're at it #from what i hear they brought this on themselves #putting totk compatibility patches behind a paywall #directly profiting from piracy

[tizzymcwizzy]

this is a poster i made for my call to action assignment in humanities! it's a bunch of basic and easy stretches for people who sit and work at a desk all day (me)

the idea is that you'd put the poster up above ur desk and do the stretches every 30 minutes or so,, the whole routine won't take more than about 6 minutes to complete and when done regularly it can prevent wrist, shoulder, neck and back pain! :)

all these stretches can be done while sitting (although i HIGHLY recommend you stand up and move around while taking a break from working)

you can get a free digital copy of this poster here on my gumroad!

and you can order a print/poster here from my inprnt!

#i mostly made this for me but i hope it can help other people too! #also thinking about maybe putting this on smth like gumroad so people can download a high quality pdf to print themselves #lmk if anyone would be interested in that 👀 #my art #artists on tumblr #stretches #edit: this post popped off okay‚ also a lot of people expressed interest so i made a gumroad! maybe ill put other stuff there thatd be cool

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

#yes i want things to be free like ??? that is not a weird desire #'but but it costs money to keep up' ok and? how is that my problem #the government has plenty of murder dollars they could reallocate a few to make internet services universal if they wanted #also these companies were perfectly capable of supporting themselves before the internet got drowned with ads so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #edit: muting notifs on this post bc new additions have kind of petered out #so no one feel bad about adding something someone else has said‚ it is not bothering me im just trying to keep my #notifs page cleanish lol #also since i saw some people are being redirected to read my tags: firstly hiiiiii this is a special secret message for you:3 #secondly i have learned since making this that the reason they were able to support themselves previously was because #of investors bankrolling everything #and theyre now finally realizing that theyre never going to actually make a profit and arent as willing to invest #however thats just a minor correction and doesnt change my overall point #once again. so many murder dollars #so thats why im just adding it here in the tags rather than making an actual correction #anyways . love yall 💕 #origibberish #bigger gibbers

[candaru]

no no. you don't get it. the reason I injure my blorbos until they can't walk is because that's the only way they'll ever let someone else carry them. the reason I curse them to be sick and feverish is so that they'll finally open up about their emotions while delirious. the reason I force them to overexert themselves to the point of exhaustion is so that when they pass out they can finally rest.

I'm doing this for their own good.

#angst #whump #writeblr #hurt/comfort #does anybody hear me. hello #it's about forcibly stripping a character of the pride that keeps them from letting themselves be human

[strangeracrossthestreet]

credits for the images:

letstalkpalestine

#israel #israel terrorist #gaza genocide #free gaza #free palestine #palestine #but hey! let the worlds that be twiddle their thumbs a little longer #let people delude themselves into thinking that when they call palestinians 'animals' they mean “only hamas” #im sick to my stomach #how can I sleep when this is going on #how can I sleep when gaza cannot

[artistotel]

hey! for todays protest, i made this little zine about palestine (holding just simple and basic information).

you can download the zine here, fold it yourself, and distribute it around.

no credit is needed. feel free to leave it around bars, protests, or wherever. simply print it (borderless) and fold it. here is a tutorial on how to do it.

dont stay silent. there is a genocide of horrendous, atrocious proportions going on. also if you are a zionist here to argue with me, i dont plan to entertain you at all, not on my art blog. fuck off, you'll be swiftly blocked. i see enough of you clowns on my main and i have no energy for you. you can skip the death threats too bc i dont give a shit.

(i'm off to get ready for a surgery now, i just wanted to post it before this. if you need anything, i might take a bit to reply)

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #anti zionisim #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #palestine resources #gaza #palestine #art #comics art #art zine #p.s. i usually put my socials on the end of my zines #i didnt do it here not bc i dont stand behind my words #but bc im not interested in self-promotion over palestinian dead bodies! #srsly you dont have to credit me i just hope this zine gets distributed #and as always do *not* sell this. #its a free resource based in what ive learnt from palestinians themselves #its not made for monetary or followers gain

[adhd-merlin]

some people really be out there typing fanfics longer than war and peace in their free time and then going on about their life like it's no big deal. how fucking incredible. like no offense to tolstoy but that was like. his whole job

#amazing #fandom #the hands of a hundred winters #though to be fair to lev he was also kept pretty busy by all the cheating on his wife #those peasant girls aren't gonna fuck themselves!

[solarwreathe]

let’s not talk about this, ever

#totk #tears of the kingdom #yiga clan #totk link #totk yiga #totk meme #totk fanart #loz #legend of zelda #all clucking cucco quest gave me trust issues #if they can illusion magicks themselves into anything how common are these incidents #'aw man the beloved family dog turned out to be a freeloading yiga spy again. can't have shit in hyrule' #totk spoilers