#free use adjacent

[thehornylily]

not to be too much of a nerdy pervert trans girl but lowkey just got so focused on minecraft that i just simmered in my own sweat in my cardigan at my chair rather than turn on the ac for like. 2 hours. and when i went to masturbate the musk that wafted up? I think if this was someone else id prolly go feral for this cock. Anyway someone come be my little free use gaming cockwarmer so my cum doesnt get wasted on my stomach and so i can be clean even after gaming

#free use adjacent #rare toppage #tgirl musk #quick thoughts

[raayllum]

A beautiful cuddle papa

#tdp callum #stella #brotp #s5 #5x02 #screencaps #callum #feel free to use #arc 2 #rayllum #adjacently

[paperrcrownss]

bread and circuses.

#i am about to write tags that are so long #sorry. ahem #was thinking about ideas for the pds2 designs. realized that i had not drawn #ashe (well i did once) or the trickster. went “oh ill do that real fast. wont take long. they dont need an s2 design” #looked at official designs (which i had never done ???) went “huh ??” cause they did not line up with my brain At All #took half a week to put those brain designs on paper. now we are here. #yeah i always thought the trickster was a clown/jester or clown adjacent #but some of this shit is just made up ima be real <3 #i had fun drawing it tho !! hope you had fun. looking at it ??? yeah #feel free to ask me about design things teehee #n e ways #jrwi #jrwi pd #ashe winters #jrwi trickster #( <- do people use that one or the other one) #jrwi fanart #✦ the king draws !!

[oqulis]

actually speaking of thara. you will behold their fruity little outfits

#thara #arttea #dnd #dnd5e #tiefling #d&d #dungeons and dragons #<- I will tag these guilt-free because while I do use my one system now I made them originally for dnd GJDHSKSHKD #anyway. tag ramble incoming. I love them sm #the divine and infernal are one and the same entity; the tongue you speak determines the nature of the interaction and nothing more #they happen to be a desecendant of August - god of omens #they died once and came back wrong and now they’re SO funny #sylvain and folenthraud are two countries on the minor continent of lothain. sylvain is more rural woodland and farmland #whereas Folenthraud is a big fucking desert where a lot of the economy is based on ore production and refinery #the plague mask can go with any outfit. they wear it often #(they love to pretend to be a doctor and sell fucked up little medicines <3) #aubenon is where a lot of the campaign takes place and it’s a little more focused on trade and industry #that said there are Horrors in the woods. I’d describe it as slutty gothic steampunk-adjacent fantasy except also it’s haunted

[warlordfelwinter]

delphi's fireteam is..... trying their best

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started by @chasing-kitsune telling me mirei was leaving gifts at delphi's door post lightfall, which made me ask if there was any indication of who they were from, which led to ransom note condolences that delphi assumed were somehow from the witness for one fury filled second

#mirei is mostly bringing him random shiny garbage like some sort of magpie #but the knife is funnier bc it's vaguely threatening #mirei is also Not leaving ransom style notes but the image was too good to pass up #destiny #doodles #oc: delphi #i don't know why shot reverse shot is so dear to me right now but it is #i also don't know what happened to my art style but i'm digging it. #it got like. anime adjacent and i don't know why or how #and i figured out how to use the 3d models in csp so now i'm unstoppable #no more do i have to find pose reference i can just grab the closest free model and then adjust it and the camera to my whims

[jup1tersparx]

smh too many of these desolation playlists are focusing too much on the fire part rather than what it symbolises

#some of these arent even using the right symbolism for the fire either #its not holy reclaiming cathartic free fire #or explosive angry fire #its constantly burning pointless destroying mercilessly fire #its not the glory of the flame that matters its the act of destruction #come ON guys #jupiter talks #also candle queen is a Web song look at the lyrics #(or web adjacent anyway)

[simcardiac-arrested]

OHHHHH MY GOD COMING OFF ANON BECAUSE !??!?!? SCPSL MENTIOn!!?!??!? you are the ONLY person i've EVER seen that mentioned that game in being similar to lethal company ohhhh my god oh my god i used to be so crazy autism over that game Okay. okay. oh my godddd I LOVE(D) SCPSL SO MUCH and it makes me so so so happy to see a game like it get so popular!!! i love lethal company!!! and i love the creatures and the randomly generated facilities and the PROXIMITY chat and the lore (sigurd adn desmond<3) and i love that ALL MY FRIENDS CAN AND DO PLAY ITTT ^__^ its like 14 year old me got blessed by the autism fairy joy and beauty to the world

i don’t know how to say this in a way that wont make me sound like i shouldnt be allowed in public spaces so i’ll just go ahead and say it. I have 200 hours in scpsl

#i havent played it in like 2 or 3 years because one day #it just stopped working on win7. But i got win10 now so theoretically i could play it again. but do i want to #it’s not that it’s a bad game! like i said i’ve had a lot of fun with it. just like lethal company it has some truly #hilarious and truly scary moments #however i can remember a few times where it was just not fun ….. maybe it was the players or the unfair balance or wjatever. But well #i did love it. i love scp and getting to play an scp game for free was life changing to me. IT WAS SO FUN!! #AND I HAD THE MOST BLISSFUL GAMING EXPERIENCE BECAUSE I HAD A BUG WITH MY GAME WHERE I COULDNT HEAR ANYONE AND NO ONE COULD HEAR ME #Probably pissed off my teammates numerous times but well . At least got to exclusively vc with my friends on discord #i think the thing with lethal company (and by extension amogus which is also smth i associate lc with) is that you can play it exclusively #with your buddies. you dont have to join some random ass lobby with random ass people just because the game needs 20 players. U can just #have actual fun. because yes proxy vc is a fun feature for a game but i am seriously grateful that scpsl was bugged for me #i’ve played a lot of ‘shooter’ games (or just games similar to genre) and like Sure im used to people being jerks in game chat or something #but there’s a difference between game chat and straigjt up vc ….. so yeah. i know that it’s barely scpsl’s fault but i just felt like sayin #all that. Blinks #where am i . what am i talking about #sorry for the weird not quite rant about scpsl BUT YES i do think lethal company is quite similar to it. And like if that game was fun again #not to mention the creatures!!! like. coilhead? 173 but well it’s a common trope. eyeless dog? literally 939. A MASK THAT POSSESSES YOU? #DUDE . THIS IS 035 . BRACKEN? okay that’s like 096 but a little to the left #all they need to do now is add a 049 adjacent creature Or perhaps an evil ai computer that locks you in the building or makes landmines #explode on their own. i dont even know. zeekeers hire me #and yeah i love the rng of it all because it makes for a uniquely hilarious/terrifying experience each time. Something it sucks so bad and #you get a facility with like 1 door which is locked. but that too is funny. to me lc isnt about winning it’s about dying in the funniest way #sigmund and desmond lore is also rly good <3 i hope it gets expanded upon. Would love to see some more worldbuilding stuff like WHATHAPPENED #cramswering #anyway. it has been years since i played scpsl and i know tjat they did a bunch of updates and added a bunch of scps . So i dont know if the #game is better or worse now. and i dont know if i want to find out…. what if my game becomes unbugged and i hear people #now THAT’S real horror game material if you ask me

[gerandor]

#GUESS WHO #nvm im gonna tag this anyway #Michael mando #nacho varga #well its adjacent #icons #free to use #mm with black nail polish 🫠

[mishkakagehishka]

Idc anymore i think i'm a good enough writer that i can say that when i noticed the pattern in what exactly makes a book "good" on booktok (and, bc of that, what makes it popular and top bestseller lists), it feels almost demeaning and denigrating to the entire craft. Idk if i should blame the way tiktok-esque social media has utterly rotted everyone's ability to concentrate and read more than three sentences, but literally none of those books are objectively good.

(Yes, yes, art is subjective. HOWEVER. Art is subjective when you look at style, at themes, at motifs, at plots and characters. Art is still a craft, it still requires skill. I've seen beyond the tiktok quotes of these books. Not even their editors are good given the amount of typos/spelling mistakes. That is not something that you should find in a traditionally published book.)

You look at these books, and you know the only reason for their existence is to make money. I cannot and will not accept that as art.

(I'm on Tumblr, of course I have to explain every point. Artists who make money off their art =/= people who only create art meant to be profitable. There is a difference between an artist who hopes to monetise doing what they love, who creates what they wish to see more of and who happens to then create something that other people wish to see more of, and a person who looks at what's trending and decides that making an unholy frankenstein's monster of a book that mashes all those trending tropes and motifs together would get them rich quick. The fact that a lot of these booktok books become popular because of nepotism is just the cherry on top. It's soulless.)

And to finally say what I wanted to say, it's because none of these books have any deeper message or even artistic value to them. You will find a few out of context quotes or paragraphs, ones written specifically so they'd look deep and beautiful when taken out of context, so that people would post them, so that people would buy the books. Entire books written just so those few lines could become viral and make cash. It cannot even be compared to a hook line writers would post to get people interested in their works, because in booktok's case, those are the only lines of quality and in the context itself, they are often out of place and forced.

I just hate booktok, i hate what modern social media has done to art. It's all created to be quickly consumed, for the few ☆aesthetic☆ glances, and then discarded. Just to make more money for those who are already nepo babies. As if artists needed more obstacles to jump over.

#of course historically it's always been the same #people with free time to create (rich powerful) created #very rarely did you see someone from a humble bg make it as an artist #which is why killing maiming everyone saying Shakespeare was actually a rich guy btw #but like it makes me angry personally #before you call me just jealous - i don't have any wish to monetise my art #my career ambitions lie in a different field (tho adjacent i suppose since i'm a linguist) #i'm saying it makes me angry for other writers who want to make money doing what they love most #it's always been hard. you've always had to have connections or fight tooth and nail for a chance at being published #why? because of how SUBJECTIVE it is #but at least if your skills distinct you and if you bring a truly unique concept you'd have better chances #then modern social media rolled around and no longer can we just publish and disappear no no #WE have to market our works. on twitter on instagram on podcasts on the radio and tv it's up to the authors #i already found that demeaning enough as an introvert #but now it's not even that. publishers no longer look for unique and distinct #they found out booktok is the real cash cow. they look for colleen hoovers who publish fifty books a year #all of poor quality but with enough aesthetic lines that they can easily be marketed thru #the youth who uses AO3 tags and ''omg it's so girlboss!'' and ''it has representation! (not really it's always piss poor rep)'' to market #it to others. who take the same line over and over and go ''omg... this is so deep'' but the lines never look good in context

[lifesver]

cw for ‘it’s fucking dire’ but now i have this ultra bad ending verse in my hands and i blame lamb but also me

#when u um… eventually snap under torture and brainwashing #when u uhhhhhhhhh have the capabilities of wrath and violence but u have only ever done it to protect ur friends #when u set ur friends free and then it’s just u left trapped at this house. with people who think well maybe u could be useful #ITS DIRE #its so corrupted protector. like the goodest most paladin adjacent dude getting his brain messed with

[ikeepwatchinghelicopters]

Random thought: What if Illya is allergic to a particular food but he has no idea because that ingredient is not used in the USSR and he tends to be very conservative when it comes to food when he is on missions abroad? Then Napoleon is trying out some foreign recipes and uses the ingredient and Illya has a bad allergic reaction. They rush him to the hopsital and he ends up being okay, but Napoleon is understandably freaked out and very worried. So, he starts shouting at Illya being all like: "How could you forget to mention you are allergic? I almost killed you!" And Illya's blinking at him like: "Cowboy, I had no idea."

After that Napoleon and Gaby (and also Waverly, but he does it much more covertly) pay extra attention (too much attention, in Illya's opinion) to what Illya's food contains.

#tmfu #napoleon solo #illya kuryakin #kind of napollya adjacent #random thought #feel free to use it in a fic

[blue-chimera]

I've been working on something about the role of prejudice in cycles of violence & how we see that play out in Supernatural. Meanwhile, I've been having fascinating conversations here about sex, misogyny, consent, gender performance, etc. (especially in regard to Dean) that have challenged me to think more carefully about where I draw various moral lines, as well as the meaning/importance/function of accountability in society at large (what "counts" & why that matters).

After one of these, it occurred to me that I've been called an apologist in a lot of different contexts, & I wanted to reflect on what a critic might call my instinct to "make excuses" for other people's moral transgressions. Reflecting brought me to the conclusion that I see empathy & understanding as more useful products of discourse than accountability or allocation of blame, so I wanted to talk a little bit about the impact of these on character analysis as I see it.

[To be clear, I'm deliberately differentiating between impact in discourse vs. the role of these things in society, because that's a much more complex topic. So this is not directly related to any previous discussion — just a tangent off a tangent!]

I'm not sure if this is the most useful way to think about these kinds of things, but I tend to view allocating blame to others as easy. If you want to get biblical: we'll see the splinter in someone else's eye & miss the plank in our own. Or, to get more scientific, it's the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) at work. We see our own behaviors as primarily driven by our circumstances (I was just snappy because I was sitting in traffic for the last 2 hrs — not to mention this terrible headache. Anyone would be snappy after that!) & other people's behaviors as primarily driven by immutable internal characteristics (wow, that dude's impatient; geez, that lady's mean).

So, how does this impact our understanding of other people (real & fictional)? Well...

The FAE makes us feel like we're passing judgment appropriately & just holding others to the same standards we're holding ourselves to, but most of the time, without realizing it, we're passing judgments on others that we'd never pass on ourselves. It's the natural result of the fact that we have extremely limited knowledge of other people's circumstances (including both external factors, like an ongoing divorce, and internal ones, like feeling sick that day) and extremely detailed knowledge of our own circumstances.

So, when we judge ourselves, we do so in a holistic way that accounts for all these details (as there's no way to just set that knowledge aside). But when we judge others, we have to actively imagine (or seek out knowledge of) the circumstances impacting them if we want to judge them with the same ruler (and thereby possibly exonerate them). Meanwhile, because we don't have to do this "extra work" to comfortably exonerate ourselves, it can feel like it's not part of a fair judgment, it's "a reach," or that motivated reasoning is spurring that extra work, when it's really just an attempt to level the playing field.

To sum up the above: I think our natural instinct is to err on the side of attributing things to someone's personality that should be attributed more to their circumstances, and so I push a little harder than most people in the other direction to try to correct for this. Now, this perspective might lead me to ultimately make more mistakes, but it doesn't feel like I'm wildly overcorrecting. (Of course, how would I know?)

However, even if I am, there might still be sufficient value in this approach to justify doing so. (More on this in Part 2: Who cares if we're "fair" to fictional characters? What's the value gained here, anyway — especially if it turns out that this approach does lead to overcorrecting?)

#long post #half-baked ideas #I legit thought this was going to be just a few sentences when I started #please feel free to respond to just a tiny piece of this if anything catches your eye as an especially odd or confusing take #although I don't honestly imagine anyone will wade through this manifesto #thinking out loud #also: it's possible that I'm unfairly conflating “accountability” & “blame” — something I plan to think more about #things I'm mostly just trying to clarify to myself for greater self-awareness & understanding of my own perspective/goals #gotta examine your own thought processes #maybe I'll pull out some excerpts at some point #spn adjacent #character analysis #manifesto #there's probably plenty here that's illogical #or just plain wrong #but hopefully there's something useful or interesting in here somewhere too!

[unproduciblesmackdown]

NOTE: THIS ITEM IS CURRENTLY IN PREORDER. IT WILL SHIP IN JUNE-JULY 2023. We will be printing based on preorder size, so grab one now if you want one!

More than 40 trans writers and artists have joined forces to explore the deeper meanings of the Fast & Furious franchise (and also gender). There's really no way to know why this exists, but it does, and you can own it! Suitable for F&F fans and newcomers alike. Contributions include:

- A new short story by Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin - A demolition derby driver’s perspective on 2 Fast 2 Furious’s derby scene - An essay contemplating the queer symbolism of Cipher’s bowl cut - The scoop on the franchise’s only canonically nonbinary character - Instructions for an F&F-themed tabletop roleplaying game - A contemplation of which Taylor Swift album represents each F&F character - Plus: Bingo cards! Comics! Haiku! And, of course, hot gay erotica…

2 Trans 2 Furious is edited by Tuck Woodstock & Niko Stratis, with cover art by Mattie Lubchansky and zine design by Shay Mirk.

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This zine is 8.5" x 5.5" and perfect-bound like a real book — fancy! Interior pages are black & white. We're guessing this baby is like 100 pages long but we'll get back to you on that.

Currently only shipping to the United States, sorry! We're hoping to at least expand to Canada soon, and also plan to add a PDF ebook option, so keep an eye out!

(that "the scoop on the franchise's only canonically nonbinary character" is the page i contributed about our one & only beloved akd-acted cam stone!! plus also if you're interested in preordering a fancy printed copy of a zine about fast & furious, which you don't have to even know about or like, with all trans contributors. including me)

#and i don't even hardly know about it or like it. proof positive #cam stone #i even looked up typical pixel to dpi ratios so my art would be high res enough for printing. Canvas Big & my laptop hated it lol.... #but indeed there's three cam pics including an effort at a kind of pinup adjacent Ooh Cam Stone one lol. carefully placed torque wrenches #anyone look up f&f posting on this site....there's gotta be; right. this whole zine is an ode to that. well here goes a few tags: #fast & furious #f&f #2 fast 2 furious #gets a special shoutout. inspiring us all well beyond [even seeing any f&f related stuff. tfatf.... #also would be one less contributer if not scholar nothingunrealistic.tumblr.com; also the source of my knowing abt cam stone in general; #being the one to know of this project & go ''perfect cam stone opportunity'' like it Really is isn't it #and thus; against all odds but also appropriately; Racing to actually create a page abt them to spread the good news #in that there was like a month & a half's heads up but i still exponentially did most of the actual execution days before the deadline #ran into some technical difficulties in the final hours lol but then seized a Post Submission Editing Opportunity to amend that w/more time #and to go ''i wrote it as fast & furious: crossroads which is what many sources format it as But official materials write it like #fast & furious crossroads without the colon & it's nbd but i would prefer to change it =('' getting a yeah no prob lol.... #fixed up some very minor visual errors & changed one instance of word ordering so that it had some more Prosody imo. didn't mention that lo #plus going ''yeah there can/should be an editor's note to emphasize This Is Really Real Not An OC b/c that's clearer And funnier'' #fast & furious extended universe really has a nonbinary character & if they're for real abt this finale Trilogy call akd up please.... #let's get that cam & vienna cameo it's fast(tm) easy & free (it's not free....might not even be easy but it's more than worth it) #fast & furious crossroads #anyone looking That up has gotta get in on this #pdf / virtual option tba as mentioned....but physical copy rules too. i forget if i sent them my mailing address but i think i did lol #the ideal of being Gifted one like yeah i Will take this around with me then thank you #truly the most formal publishing my Work has ever seen. besides ''online'' or ''once i did a painting that i think was on the wapo site'' #and a very appropriate way to achieve that....but fr what's great is So Many More Ppl Can Now Learn Cam Stone Exists #we've got The Scoop as attested babey!!! 🍨 #and in turn we owe it all to akd everyone say thank you akd for acting that pwns & a je ne sais quoi to boot #which; in turn; thank you kompenso; thank you will roland's pwning acting/je ne sais quoi; thank you michael greif What Works understander. #i have remembered that pixels are implicit in the term ''dpi''....but it's a wash on clarity yet funnier to leave it as i wrote it

[mhaccunoval]

i wish i still had photoshop :(

#mhac.txt #i know there's free alternatives like GIMP and stuff but. #i'm soooo bad at learning new programs. and being bad makes me not use them. and then i delete them. #AND I JUST WANT EDIT!!! #i know i couldn't possibly make the DWP first album back cover that's in my head #but if i could like. manipulate something to be adjacent. or in the very least make the front cover

[sniffanimal]

I have several things that I have articulate and nuanced opinions about that I could talk at length about online but they're also the kinda of things that are annoying to have opinions about and I can't assume everyone will read my opinions charitably so it's in my best interest to keep my trap shut

#its nothing deeply controversial its more like things like languaage use in certain online circles etc #badger rants #its not queer definitions discourse but it is kind of adjacent #its like an opinion i have that has 2 layers. the first and more important layer is i think you should do whatever you want for free #the second layer is fifteen pages of nuanced research about why you should/nt do one thing even though you can