#i hope the number grows

[puppyeared]

AKA... the CATS!!

#the owl house #the owl house spoilers #toh #toh spoilers #o titan where art thou #I KNEW THEY WOULD GET ALONG. LETS GOOO #ppl digging up the raine and luz art i made last summer like OP how does it feel to be right LMAOOOO #i hope they regroup with the hexside gang this week. please i want to see the cats grow in numbers #also!! very excited to see luz's palisman!! i was thinking it would be a bat because of that aesops fable with the birds and the beasts #the way the fable goes the birds and the beasts were at war and the bat would say its a bird when it sided with the birds but it would also #say it was like a beast (i think a mouse?) when it sided with the beasts. anyway i just think it would go well with luz reconciling her #life on earth with her life in the demon realm? but id also be happy if she gets a bird so shes like an honorary clawthorne!!! #specifically a blue jay to go with hunters cardinal? but im just excited overall to finally see her palisman #also i think that bat queen was the collectors palisman considering how big he is in kkkohd #esp because the collector must be really fucking old if the bat queen cant remember her owner AND we didnt know who the collector was in s1 #my art #fanart #the owl house fanart #toh fanart #toh 2b #the owl house season 2 #toh raine #toh luz #luz noceda #raine whispers #o titan where art thou spoilers #HISSSSSSSS

[redheadarcher]

I'LL BE DOING AN UNFOLLOWING SPREE !

i want to follow & write with every single one of my mutuals but. i’ve come to realize that i’m following a lot of people who just… don’t seem too interested in writing with me. people who never send memes or like starter/plotting calls or never interact with my posts in any way and after a while it does gets a little bit boring to be the only one trying. this is a two way street so if you’ve never showed interest in start anything i’ll most likely unfollow because i’m here to write & develop stuff, not to be just a number.

that said—IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN STILL BEING MUTUALS / WRITE WITH ME, GIVE A LIKE ON THIS POST ! otherwise i’ll mostly likely unfollow. if i unfollow you but you still wanna write, i’m more than okay with following you again

#i hope u guys don't get me wrong #but this is something #i’m noticing more & more #now that i’m on the dash #pretty much everyday #i know i am slow & i respect that #other people are too #this is not the point here #the point is sometimes it does feel #like you’re being ignored #when ppl don’t send u anything #or when u send just to #not get anything in return so #i guess i’ll start to curate better #my dash with people that #are interested in writing with me #and not just have me as a number u know ? #i want to put my efforts in #somewhere that will lead to something #bc i wanna see scalett grow #❅ wιтнoυт arrowѕ ( ooc ) ❅

[sneez]

since i started testosterone in february i have been reading a stanza of andrew marvell’s poem ‘the garden’ every month to track the way my voice has changed. today i finished it :-)

#my voice #does it belong in that tag given that i am speaking and not singing. ah well in it goes #andrew marvell #it is exciting to finally be able to post this! given the nature of the project i've been working on it for a while #i can't remember if i was initially intending to post it but i think it's neat so you guys can see it too :-) a questionable gift unto ye #it's one of my favourite ever poems which is why i picked it. partly because it's a cracking poem but also because the garden in #question is very likely fairfax's garden given that marvell wrote it whilst he was living at his house to tutor his daughter :-) #i love the line about melons. i love the idea that fairfax was growing melons. his melonship #also 'the luscious clusters of the vine upon my mouth do crush their wine' is such incredible imagery i think about it all the time #stopping myself now before i start explaining all my favourite parts of the poem because then i would just be reciting the whole poem #sorry the audio quality changes quite a bit by the way i kept changing where i recorded #oh also i skipped a month because my voice hadn't changed at all (between the first and second stanzas i think) which is why the #number of months doesn't quite match up to the number of stanzas #i do wish i had recorded a stanza when i was one month on T given that my voice barely changes in the last few verses. ah well #anyway i hope you enjoy it my dear friends :-) holding you all in my arms #also as usual i have a few messages and things to answer so i will do that soon! i have been enjoying being active again after so long :-) #ive got a song to post soon too. he he ho ho ho. hum hum hum

[othellotron9000]

I'm determined to find proof that I am the older twin. Adding this to my list of projects

#nardo i hope you're ready for some experiments #wip number ... 12 is it? or 13 #ugh i need to finish these projects... #the list just keeps growing #ooc tags next -> #rottmnt #tmnt #tmnt rp #rottmnt rp #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #disaster twins

[baishouqijia]

i am desperately trying to be more active but i'm experiencing mental burnout. just want to say thank you for the interactions even when i'm only checking in here now and again - i'll respond when i'm feeling better! <3

#nothing really happened - work and the house just got on top of me. #for context i was promoted to a management position in october and i hit my stride so i have a lot of responsibilities and i'm hhh. #having to play catch up in terms of skillset. i'm good at my job but i'm not the best - therefore ? i must keep pushing :y #as for home... Man (horse.jpg) #we bought a house a year ago. i envy people who renovate days after moving in. we're a year in and i'm only just redoing the kitchen floor #after a leak that happened in JUNE 2022. it's expensive as fuck and takes so much time. #i'm so fortunate to be able to afford a house but like. i won't lie. it's really hard having to be responsible for everything that goes #wrong with it. my kitchen has been subfloor for months. we destroyed our kitchen island trying to make room for the floor to be done #so we're down storage and stuff is just piling up. eh i know this is like. first world problem and really not a big deal. #but when your house is in disrepair because you don't have the money to fix it quickly or time to do it yourself. shit's hard. #anyway this is a rant. don't want a wrench or a tissue- just wanna get it out. #[puts on pantalone hat] i have money anxiety too #like i earn the most i've ever earned. i won't really get much higher than this atm. i'm due a bonus and i can cash out my shares #but fixing up the house is so expensive. i'm worried i'm gonna lose it all somehow. idfk why. when things are going well i worry i'm gonna #lose it all somehow. growing up poor does a number on your resource guarding. if i spend a penny I Will Lose It All. #' dima why do you like pantalone so much ' HE JUST LIKE ME FRRRR #sry this is a ramble . i treat tumblr tags like my diary but i hope you enjoyed the read xoxox #anyways! point is! i'm alive! i'm itching to come back but i dont have the mental space for fun rn. #can't have fun until i feel safe enough to have fun if that makes sense. #aight byeee

[saturniade]

dug up that first doodle (awesome snapshot into what i was doing a year ago: REDRAWING HEARTSTOPPER PANELS WITH OCS I GUESS.) & redrew it a bit & realized ive slowly but surely made progress re: art and faces and proportions… idk i think its neat:--) + I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!! DID YOU KNOW???? LOOK AT THEM!!!!

#re:1st pic i think ive also been influenced by hs's artstyle and so the proportions of the og are a little cartoony/stylized #but still teehee progress. matias has been growing into a proper beefcake and as for lateef i finally started drawing his microhorns:--) #doods #yoo my post #ocs #yeah a year ago ive been thinking about them SOLELY i think. ive made up like 5 aus they were my blorbos number 1 the same way buzzwarp are #and you know theyre foreva in my heart...!!!! christ i hope we finish playing curse of strahd one day its been like 3 years #i NEED lateefs happy ending you dont underSTAND!!! *destroys everything in the room with my psychic beam*

[ars0nism]

while yeah the popularity of m/m ships is (partially) rooted in misogyny (bland love interests leading to everyone shipping the main characters with the best friends), its also because the majority of fandom is made up of cishet teen girls who really do not care for f/f romance, a concerning amount of them even being disgusted by sapphics. heartstopper's popularity in contrast to most f/f projects failing or being canceled isnt because m/m is more accepted, its that the straight men who fetishize lesbians do it more often in porn, whereas straight women are more likely to consume actual romantic media. you see this in fanspaces where the female characters ARE wellwritten and have chemistry with each other and how m/m still overshadows f/f on the ao3 tags of such fandoms. in this essay i will-

#tired of tik tok sapphics blaming mlm for us getting more rep when really its just a case of fetishization and misogyny #the only reason achillean media gets blown up more is bc straight women are more likely to consume romantic media than straight men #its like the whole 'trans women have it worse than trans men' debate. the struggle isnt comparable bc theyre rooted in different issues #of course theres overlap within these issues but at the end of the day the discrimination we face isnt identical #i wholeheartedly support wlw getting shows. im genuinely looking forward to first kill actually it looks really cool #this is just an observation i made specifically in destiny bc the ao3 destiny tag top relationships are mostly m/m or f/m #last i checked at least #but they do have fascinating characters. hell like three of my favorite w/w ships (two of which are canon) come from there #but yeah i only involve that one bc its been my number 1 special interest for a while #there are more media where it would make sense for f/f ships to be popular #like if we removed straight women from the equation ao3 would lose 80% of its fics but the balance between m/m & f/f would be a lot better #this also isnt an attack on straight women idc about straight women yall do whatever this is specifcally #about the straight women who fetishize the shit out of mlm & then turn around and be grossed out by wlw existing. ur not cute #anyway idk if this is coherent im miserable and exhausted and dizzy iwas just thinking about this #shoutout to ronance btw i hope you grow ur a wonderful ship and i love you #shoutout to arcane too im in a server with a bunch of sapphics bc they all flocked to that show like FLIES #its wonderful i love them #im not sure about the cancellation rate though. netflix is just a little fucked up i guess

[franeridan]

my need to get to the point in my comic where things actually start to happen asap vs my knowing that properly setting up the characters and their reasons/personalities first will make for a better impact once things do start happening, an everyday internal battle of wills

#i wanna get to the first plot point NOW #but every time I sit down to start a new strip i go wait i have to........I have to put this specific thing on the table first........ #and the number of preliminary episodes just keeps growing #and growing #and growing!!!! #flails on the floor in distress #i just hope it's painting an image of the characters proper enough that their shortcomings will be understandable in the end hahaha........ #orz #this is why fanwork is easier

[jazzboys1]

I am having soooooo much fun posting on my little patreon page to my audience of 4 people hope u guys are having fun too!!!!!!!!

#this is not sarcasm im very happy about this! i hope the number grows!

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Many, many thanks to all of you who participated in Elder Cats Appreciation Week! I cannot express the extent of my appreciation for those of you who participated, both big and small, every day or just one or two. It was wonderful to see a variety of new content and positivity for the older cats, and look at all the different ways you all contributed. This was so much fun and I hope to do this again sometime in the future!

I do encourage you that, in spite of the appreciation week being over, to continue playing with these characters and including them in your stories and HCs and fun - to reflect on why they are often left out/reduced to singular and otherwise flat roles/antagonized either due to their inherent age, or argued younger because they’re more “well liked” over others.  At the end of the day, the goal of this week was to shed some light and appreciation on characters that are often neglected in fandom, and the best way to continue that work is to open yourself further to those you may not otherwise consider. Even just a little bit. That’s how we continue to broaden our horizons.

Happy days to all <3

#anyway yeah - thanks for coming into my world for a little while <3 #oldiesweek #extemporize back chat #i have two more art pieces that i was late in producing that i will be posting soon in makeup - unfortunately my jobs made it #so that i didn't have enough time for all of them - but i will not neglect them <3 #i feel a little guilty but also i need to come to the realization that i produce the majority of content for these cats anyway #i also encourage you into looking into senior and adult cats in your area that may be in need of homes over their kitten counterparts #should you have the means to care for them #and - if you have older people in your life who you care for - to educate yourself on the current state of the elderly where you live #elder people are amongst the top neglected portions of the population in North America #1 in 10 individuals in these groups have reported abuse and neglect #10% of Canadian seniors are victim to crime every year with the number rapidly growing #and covid *severely* increased some of these statistics in cases of casual verbal abuse and violence #that the theatre and performance world greatly under values older actresses especially unless they are within a prime of diva-hood #and remember though it may seem far away - someday you will no longer be in your teens and twenties #your life does not end when you are 30 40 50 and beyond #opportunities in your life should not be limited as you age - your *worth* should never be limited or affected by your age #because if there is nothing else i hope people step away with it's education #anvil-y? yeah but some anvils need to be dropped

[ijustwannamakeemojis]

Is it okay if you give the temp you use for the little flags?

This, this is going to sound selfish and I can't really stop you from doing so anyway but I would prefer not to?

There is a technical issue of I don't really have base versions of the flags? If I need a six stripe flag I just recolor a different six stripe flag. I also just use a little app on my phone so I can make em at work and I'm not sure what I can save it as that would be helpful?

And my poor justification for this is there aren't really a lot of pride pixel heart designs at least like that have a lot of them I can only think of one user whose name I can't remember whose hearts have a white shine to them? So a part of me wants more different styles, maybe with a different shine shape or brighter colors or sparkles or a little bigger or smaller.

But deep down the reason is just I want to make them and the idea of missing out on making one because someone else did is irrationally devastating and I don't wanna be an ass and outshine them by making it myself and posting it here. Kinda of like imagine you are putting a puzzle together and having fun. You are enjoying the hell out of the challenge, especially a particularly hard part it's exciting! and then you come home one day, and that part has been done by your roommate because they wanted to help and thought you were struggling. You say thank you because you don't wanna be an ass but you don't really wanna do the puzzle anymore because it doesn't feel like your puzzle.

God this is such a rambly way to say no but I'm not gonna stop you from saving and editing them but until I can get over this weird possessiveness towards the project and the part of my brain that is screaming "but I can make it for you!!" I don't think I can help without causing ourselves distress and I'm very sorry about that

#i do hope we can get better at this but group projects are so hard for us unless we go into it wanting it to be #but seriously just save them we use uhh pixel studio and the fill bucket is a life saver the like weird one below the normal fill tool #should probably add something to our pin about this #a smaller note is we don't get a lot of asks 90% of the flags we make are popular terms or terms we personally use and idk i wanna grow #brain like when number go up aldjha #we are looking into starting therapy so yea hopefully that goes well

[farshores]

Dragons are essentially eldritch beings imo & I wnna work to display them as such in any future artworks n the like but yknow whats also a fun idea

sprinkling that same godly horror onto the LDB

#growing fangs/horns/wings/etc. the more often you use Aspect #or just maybe significant wins (specifically against Alduin or Miraak) or a notable number of souls absorbed kinda just warp the LDB into.. #not exactly mortal anymore #hm... #like maybe not full regenerative abilities cus squishy mortal body but imagine their body just fucking #resetting a bone/regrowing sinew like a dragon would - possibly something that is more likely to happen under aspect #as quite literally the ldbs soul is out n about - mybe in control depending on how good the ldb is at handling it #idk how to horror/eldritch good but i hope yall get what im rambling about

[sysig]

They all really come out of the woodworks for apples

#Bug #We shared the apple :) #Big ol' tangle of mealworms (and their parents) lol #I'm still raising them - a bit haphazardly - since the Household pet lizard will eat them #And I want to have a stock to welcome someone else home when I get there #I've also accidentally made two colonies - the ones featured here and then what's meant to be a mealworm-only enclosure #The mealworm-only batch are currently in quarantine as there was a mold infestation that culled their numbers :( #These lads seem pretty energetic and healthy tho so I'm happy for that #They cute lads I do like them #Hope they continue to grow well

[samwisefamgee]

god wants me to kill myself sooooo fucking bad lately lol nice try bitch im queer

#you dont even fuxking know #the number of. literally impossible coincidences that have taken place to make my life just so much shittier lately #i have been sooo strong ive written like two dozen text posts just bitching and bitching about the sheer fuxking insanity of it and i only #posted like one of them im doing so good being so strong #that said i want to fucking die today lol this shit is melting my brain #it just never ends #the past two weeks have just been... so bad lol #i havent been able to see my bank balance in weeks i just know im so in the fucking hole it doesnt even matter #i havent had a working phone in a month #my family just vacationed in hawaii and im living in a moldy trailer #and the physical and mental health just go and go and go #and the mold grows and groes and grows #my friend offered me a top of the line pc for free and it felt like offering a homeless guy who loves music a grand piano #like yeah lemme just keep that under the bridge downtown where i stay lol #itll be fine #its like all the nice things id love to experience are dangled just out of reach of my fuckin cell bars lol #might fuck around and get addicted to a third substance in light of hope being a fool's errand in a truly random universe #life isnt guarunteed to get better no matter how long you wait or how hard you try actually and that is a hard fucking truth for everyone #alcohol is free and can keep your mind off how much mold & dust you breathe daily & breathed in the past 2 years & thats also a hard truth #also reading this i need to clarify in case anyone else reads this shitsheet. i do not want to vacation in hawaii. colonizer shit #what i wouldnt fucking do for just a week up by priest lake tho :(

[biillys]

Today I had to unfollow a blog for saying that Billy was abusive and a monster and that any fan who likes him is fucked up

ughhhhhhhhhhh u see that opinion thrown around so much and honestly it's tired! it's boring! it's not even like? true? it's just something the loud and annoying tumblr and twitter stannies say to justify their refusal to acknowledge or deal anything billy related 🙄

i promise u, you will not miss them on ur dash!!!!

#'billy was abusive!!!' okay billy had anger issues and some serious emotional repression and not many healthy ways to try and express them #but like... 'Abusive' sure is reaching #'billy is a monster!!!' bro was fucking possessed and the gangs way of dealing with that was shoot first; care never sooooo #'any fan who likes him is fucked up' not even gonna like. explain this one. #that being said! @ all of you that DO like him and love him and see themselves in him: ily i hope ur doing okay i think u deserve the world #like those big st content source blogs that have decided to not reblog or post about billy even though theyre all 'were ur number one source #for stranger things!!!!!!' i think ur shitty. cos then so many other people are like ohhh billy's Problematic billy's controversial! #better cancel him!!!! and then just dont even like. even TRY to understand or grasp anything about the hargrove/mayfield house #and its like im literally gonna bang my head against a wall grow UP #anyway anon i hope ur dash is fun and chill and billy loving again!!! 💖 also sorry for the late reply!!! #m #msgs <3

[on-a-sunbeam]

Hi guys I'm going insane thanks for asking!!!!

I'M SO SORRY BUT OKAY FIRST OF ALL so I got like two weeks of stuff done in like. A day. Which meant I had two days where I literally had nothing to do besides watch this and lose my mind SO. I have THOUGHTS.

Elias is back!! Elias lore!! Elias getting his half-brother to kill his dad!! Also he Said the Thing heh!!

(For. For reference. Because that is a joke that is maybe waaay too specific)

The guys just. Acquired a baby. Okay. Sure. Why not, I mean. There doesn't even need to be fanfiction at this point they're just doing it for us. Like the fact that this is a real thing that happened is wild to me but MOVING ON.

Eeexcpet I'm just moving on to Identity Crisis. Do you. Do you understand how incredibly normal I'm being about this entire thing? :) I JUST. So Reese has been trying to spy on him! (And like, rightfully so, kinda, because if I worked with someone who knew everything about everyone but learning their favourite colour was like pulling teeth I'd be a whole lot curious too) He's even got Fusco helping him and everything, and then he gets a chance to actually learn stuff and he doesn't. Which like, low bar, maybe, not asking people personal stuff when they're out of it, sure. But I'd also argue that there's a lot you could ask that like, reasonably wouldn't make a difference to Finch. (except it WOULD, and that's the thing, isn't it! He's a very private person!) But he doesn't and I just. HMM. I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS. ANYWAY. (oh ALSO I thought that the big twist reveal was going to be that he wasn't actually still affected by the drug. That he'd gotten over it and he just wanted to test Reese and see what he'd do. But no!! He says goodnight Nathan and I'm even more insane about that!!)

Reese lore!! Finch lore!! Finch was engaged and then faked his death??? Also, was Jessica a number and Finch just couldn't save her or what was going on there? Because HOO BOY the angsty potential if true!!

ALSO IS THE MACHINE ACTUALLY GOING TO LIKE BE A CHARACTER??? Because I was joking before but I am SO down for that please. And also the ENDING I'M SCREAMING. Who. Who was on the phone. Inquiring minds want to know. (also I literally love how Reese's thought process went: Friend is gone. This is bad. Maybe the god machine knows?? I'm going to threaten a camera into helping me. Like alright buddy you have no basis for thinking that'll work but I love it)

And ROOT??? Excuse me??? So I had it on very good authority that Amy Acker's character was going to be good but I. Um. Did not know that she was Root. I thought that was going to be two separate people. Whoops. But Root is back, kids!!! And she called the hit on herself what kind of Irina-esque crap is that!! Girl what!!! Can't wait for her and Finch to get into a fistfight or whatever worthy opponents do with each other!!

Also Nathan built the backdoor? That's actually so interesting like if Finch was okay with letting the irrelevant stuff get deleted then did he change his mind after Nathan died, like an 'oh this is what you would've wanted' kind of a thing? And also do we know how Nathan died, and I just forgot? Because I very much do not remember. But if he got killed, let's say, because they all think he built the machine, then is that why Finch let him take the credit for it? Like sure just being bad at human interaction is also a valid reason because same, buddy, but that's a lot more sinister if he just actually suspected he'd be killed and let Nathan take the fall. (Yadda yadda insert the fact that he says he knows what it's like to lose someone and I interpreted that as being Nathan at first but then we learn he had a fiance, Nathan saying 'oh no I'd know if you were seeing someone cause we're such good pals!! :D' And Finch just going ':) right.' More of my insane theorizing, yadda yadda...)

ALSO EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU ALICIA CAUSE SHE SAID THE THING!!

Like BOY that's what I've been saying!!!

Anyway can't wait to go even more insane!!! Aren't you all excited? :]

#jules watches poi #<- i love how this tag is just me growing increasingly more deranged #also shout out to reese sitting in the back of the car while fusco and carter yell at him like he's their disobedient child #it means everything to me <3 #also finch listening in on reese's therapy session that's so funny #also did root learn how to be a therapist JUST to do this?? because BOY that's commitment #ALSO. ALSO. HOLD ON. #so did finch purposely not tell reese what the key was for in hopes that he would try to figure it out himself #(and therefore not get involved with the current number) or am i just actually going crazy #hnnngh