#hear me out on this...

[bamsara]

This is a real broadcast they are doing. Calling men 'babygirl' has stumped them

#had the news on in the background and hearing this made me spit out my fanta

[gogoakechi]

#keep hearing all this new shit spotify is adding and it makes me wanna start killing #personal #spotify #edit: @ people asking about videos #at least on mobile itll play the music videos to popular songs and is also rolling out video podcasts #havent looked at them myself but got damm there are ads for it

[azherwind-art]

"Tell your favorite creators that you like their work, people usually enjoy things silently, but hate tends to be loud"

This is a phrase I just heard from Dnd shorts that captures perfectly why I often try to make the effort of commenting on posts and telling people that I enjoy their work and why Even to small creators, I advice everyone to make the extra effort to tell them, I can guarantee it makes all the difference in the world, it's not cringy or obnoxious, it'll just brighten someone's day

#text #random dambles #please don't think I only say this because of me #I'm very lucky to have gotten such nice messages and comments #I just feel like on every site I see less and less people interacting and saying how cool someone's work is #I've seen AMAZING artworks on all platforms with near to non comment #I know for a fact people engaging with your work is the favorite part of most if not all artists out there #so sad Jocat is retiring out of hearing the hate too loud

[radioroxx]

this is kerdly 2 me. btw

#utdr #deltarune #kerdly #kris deltarune #berdly deltarune #roxx art #ok hear me out. ok . ok #AHDKFK LISTEN. LISTEN HEAR ME OUT OKAY LISTEEEN #guys. guys #hi #ok tbh i really like the kris’ i did here… might have to change a pfp or two….. we’ll see #also. erm. this was supposed to be a dumb stupid doodle comic but then… i liked how the colours were turning out so….. </3 #anyways. ill draw more deltarune promise. u can even request it of me #love and light. signing out goodbye

[last-pages]

theyre all teenagers of the late 2000s though because think. percy listened to green day. thalia was punk. piper probably layered long tank tops. nico played roleplay card games. they WERE 2000S KIDS AND TEENS

#please it's so true okay #hear me out #percy jackson #thalia grace #piper mclean #nico di angelo #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #hoo #heroes of olympus #2000s

[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

#hlep #original #mental health #my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need. #the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it #i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support #and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist. #the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28! #a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents. #they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of #huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the #longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong. #and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives. #you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead? #or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of. #no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow. #i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel #i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong. #just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop

[nousanti]

Laios Touden

#laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi fanart #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #fanart #artists on tumblr #guys hear me out #HEAR ME OUT #i wanted to capture his beautiful stare and body shape

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

#i’m part of the demographic where i was a kid when adventure time started and now watching fionna and cake as an adult makes me emotional #because did they keep us in mind when writing fionna and her attitude towards life #the dissatisfaction #the hoping for something more #something more magical than this dreary life filled with working to live and living to work #it’s so reflective of how life feels for me and perhaps many of us #and also Simon’s episode was so sad but so well thought out #exploring his feelings after the events of the adventure time finale is something I’m glad we get to see #there were already so many layers to his character in AT but now it feels like we get to dive deeper #I also felt emotional hearing Rebecca Sugar singing and writing a song that encapsulates his feelings so well #😭 it’s been awhile seeing her work exist alongside these characters #and all of these emotions get stronger because I remember AT being the one to inspire me to be a storyboard artist #when I was younger I used to follow many of the board artists here in tumblr and would get so inspired by them #to create simple but powerful boards that can capture the feelings of characters so well #Rebecca Sugar’s songs for the AT characters inspired me so much too #I’m sorry this is long I’m just feeling so many things experiencing all of this again as an adult #my art #fanart #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat #simon petrikov

[wildflowercryptid]

black cat bitches, we've finally won.

#I CAN FINALLY HAVE A CAT LIKE MY IRL ONE IN THE GAME WITHOUT MODS!!!! #anyways i'm starting a new file for the update we'll see how far i get #so if you guys don't hear me for a few hours... uh this is why #worse comes to worst i won't get far & i'll just have to wait until the update comes out for switch to see the new content #since i already have most of the game completed on there #stardew valley #mj.txt

[loumands]

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw or a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

#the way some people (usually lestat fans lol) talk about louis being an unreliable narrator has frustrated me #i still insist louis' unreliableness is mostly subtle (passing quickly over things he doesn't want to think about #presenting things that factually happened in a way he can build a story that makes sense to him #not knowing what lestat is thinking and feeling so interpreting him differently than lestat himself probably would) #rather than he's telling something that didn't really happen or is under armand's mind control or something #like for example i think it's been made very clear all the abuse really happened they're not gonna suddenly pull the rug from under it #if anything i feel lestat is going to turn out to be even worse than louis perceived him when we hear people who are not in love w him lol #keanu.txt

[demaparbat-hp]

Water Half-Child

#atla #zutara #avatar the last airbender #katara #zuko #katara of the southern water tribe #Halfblood AU #katara art #katara fanart #atla art #atla fanart #atla au #atla zuko #zutara fanart #zutara au #Halfblood AU art #earth kingdom #water tribe #I'm about to pull a Blue Eye Samurai with this one hear me out #Kanna settled down in some peaceful village in the Earth Kingdom after leaving the North #She married some local EK guy and had Kya #Years later Kya fell in love with a warrior from the Southern Water Tribe who stayed in her village to recover from battle wounds #A few months later Hakoda left her to go back to the wife and son he had left behind in the South. He didn't know Kya was with child. #Katara never knew her father. Her mother died at childbirth and her grandmother raised her in the village. #Kanna taught her how to be a healer and told her to always hide her waterbending. When Katara was fourteen her grandmother died from illness #Katara was safe. She had peace. But she wasn't happy. There was an itch underneath her skin that told her she could be more. #Then Zuko crashed into her life and turned her world upside down. He was a half-child just like her. Always never enough. #He has a mission he cannot tell her about. She understands. She doesn't even want to know. He's offering her a way out and she will take it. #If meeting his infamous uncle in Ba Sing Se for some obscure business is what it takes to be free then so be it #Helping Zuko figure out his identity might be important too.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY WE DON'T SEND NEIL WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IN S3!!!

From the Lucy Eaton's podcast Hear Me Out interview with Neil Gaiman :)❤

Neil Gaiman (talking about Oscar Wilde's Salome): "She's got the thing she wants, not in the way that she wants.

Lucy Eaton: Yes - which is ultimately a kiss.

Neil Gaiman: Which is ultimately a kiss and I... you know, it was a lesson that I learned many many years later when I was writing Good Omen Season 2 and fans would write these letters in going: 'I hope they're going to kiss.' And I'd see you know every fourth or fifth letter was, you know, 'Just tell us that... just make us happy. Because, Crowley and Aziraphale are they going to kiss in this season?' and there was a point where I started to go, 'You know, I can give you what you want, but you won't want it.'

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #interview #neil gaiman #lucy eaton #neil interview #s2 interview #s2 kiss #2ep6 #2i6i15 #hear me out #her me out 2024 #salome #oscar wilde #fun fact #bts #ixi says ngk

[camembri]

you wanted zoro to be on whole cake island to fulfil your weird desire to see zoro punish sanji. I wanted zoro on whole cake island because I think he's stupid enough to right place wrong time the plan and accidentally marry Sanji in full view of the whole wedding party in what becomes the most elaborately constructed comedy of errors ever written. we are NOT the same.

#need a fic where zoro genuinely does marry sanji on wci without planning it #type of thing to happen to goofy pre ts zoro #zoro in the same mindset in which he created the usopp sword: well i didn't mean to but i guess this solves the immediate problem #and ofc he just rolls with it #they look at each other after the dust settles like. hey wtf was that. and immediately blame each other #pre relationship AND feelings realisation on both sides #dont get me wrong i love fake relationship that becomes real but hear me out #legal accidental relationship thats extremely convenient and also funny until you pavlov yourself into being in love #vinsmoke sanji #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro #zosan #one piece #sanzo #zoro

[zephyrine-gale]

thinking about scaramouche team dynamics ft kazuscara

#kaedehara kazuha #scaramouche #wanderer #genshin impact #my art #their colors complement each other... very tasty if u ask me #i think scaramouche would feel validation if kazuha ever told him he could hear his heart beating #they should travel together ajdfgkjh #but also #i need kazuha to figure out scara had connections with his ancestors #i want Confrontation

[zosanbrainrot]

part 2 of Zoro in WCI

01 02

I tried to write something to sum up my thoughts on this, but then it got longer and longer and tbh I'm itching to write a fic set in this AU djjdkf I think I could develop on their inner feelings more than in the comic form

Before posting the first part I didn't realize people had such strong opinions on how this would play out lmaooo

imo, of course Zoro wants to fight Sanji, not with actual intent to harm (they threaten each other on the daily, come on), but because that's how they are together, how they communicate. He respects Luffy's decisions and their goal here, which is to learn what's really going on with Sanji, but he's gonna be pissy about it all he wants. They both have so many intense and conflicted feelings about this and neither has any idea how to resolve them. So they fight.

ofc yall are free to headcanon this interaction any other way you want <333

#hope you can hear the moment Sanji's heart shatters #you're walking the painful path you chose and then even this stupid marimo instead of playing your usual game of threats and violence #instead of making this easier for you he pierces right through your heart with the tiniest confession #I never hated you #but even if he didn't use to #he sure as hell despises every inch of you now #he must he has to #but this is what you chose #it is what you deserve #ANGST #PAIN #wci zoro au #obvi if I were to write it wouldnt write first person this just got out of hand #i love angst can you tell #zosan #i love keeping them in the 'what if maybe no he would never' hell #roronoa “i love you but I will take these feelings with me to the grave” zoro #blackleg “I need you to hate me because I simply don't deserve to be loved” sanji #rorona zoro #black leg sanji #sanji #zoro #my art #whole cake arc #whole cake island #one piece #one piece fanart

[mamulgogi]

#across the spiderverse #spiderverse #the spot #my guy my dude #hear me out I'm a monster lover and he's so cute #silly goofball #atsv #marvel #I listened to my little dark age while drawing him #sunny draws