#in this house we fucking HATE

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

I found out it was his birthday two hours ago so I SPRINTED.

#anyway #i love you vash my babygirl #it's also nai's birthday but get fucked nai #we hate nai in this house #trigun stampede #trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #roberto trigun #meryl trigun #mashwood #merylwood #vashmeryl #vashwood #tristamp #vash #my art #spiteful art

[sleepyhypster]

#stray gods #stray gods the roleplaying musical #to be clear: fuck apollo we hate apollo in this house

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

At this point, Wilson definitely packs a second lunch that he writes his name on and "hides" from House because it's the only way House will actually eat lunch. He definitely goes out of his way to make sure he brings things he knows House will enjoy, too, instead of just bringing stuff that he likes.

#This is basically canon because theres that one episode where he packs salad or whatever to fuck with him #People talk about this all the time and I love it #Honestly though this is so close to the edge of what would be considered canon that it's barely a headcanon #house md #house #greg house #james wilson #gregory house #hilson #hate crimes md #hatecrimes md #wilson #housemd #We also know that House has a tendency to just casually starve himself because he doesn't care enough to eat #or he doesn't follow his bodies hunger cues (autistic king)

[puppyeared]

We’ll play forever, me and you…!

#the owl house season 2 #the owl house spoilers #toh 2b #toh spoilers #kings tide spoilers #BABE WAKE UP NEW BLORBO DROPPED!!! I love the collector he’s so fucked up but so cool #I really wanna see how they deal with the collector because I don’t think we have a reason to hate him yet. unlike people wanting to grab #belos in a chokehold. fucking Straight White Man is a child abuser AND colonizer we have every reason to get his ass LMAO #I wouldn’t say collector is like. innocent. but he does hurt people and I think he does know but doesn’t really care #like apathetic almost. we also don’t know why he was sealed away so like that could change? but rn I think he’s cute. like a grizzly bear #you know it could kill you but it doesn’t stop you from wanting to hug it LOL #the owl house fanart #the owl house #toh fanart #toh #toh collector #the collector #king clawthorne #toh king #kings tide #my art #myart #eye strain #the owl house 2b

[solar-halos]

i think if thg characters were playing monopoly annie would steal the monopoly money but still lose anyway. finnick is the banker but he looks the other way bc she’s pretty. when johanna notices she just literally fucking pounces on annie. haymitch takes this as his opportunity to steal even more monopoly money. katniss is already asleep by the first few rounds bc she doesn’t like how long the game is taking. idk i just thought i should share that

#i fucking hate monopoly #and i think delly would too #except she’d hate it bc the thought of buying someone out of house and home would make her sad #i can see madge and gale being business partners tho #effie would be the first one out and immediately start rambling about bad sportsmanship #i think that’s it #peeta finishes out the game for him and katniss #no one ever wins but he and finnick stay up all night trying as the last two ppl still in the game #oh i should prob add some actual tags #annie cresta #finnick odair #johanna mason #haymitch abernathy #what do we think

[kazz-brekker]

finished reading the golden enclaves and idk if this is a hot take but i feel like it had better exploration of the importance of communal unity and the necessity of societal change than like 99% of books that people like to classify as hopepunk these days simply for not just being like "working together is so good, i love community, together we can accomplish so much and change the world for the better <3" and was instead like "yeah, this work is going to be really fucking hard. it's going to suck, and it's going to be unpleasant, and people are going to hate you for doing it. and maybe you'll feel like giving up because it feels like too much, and being complacent and just going along with the status quo would be easiest. but you still need to do it, because it's what needs to be done, and eventually the world will be better for it."

#i feel like so many books people classify as hopepunk are like 'uwu working together is so fun i love other people let's fix everything <3' #and el higgins in the scholomance is like 'listen up fuckers your houses are built on torture dungeons and we ARE going to change that' #'and i don't care how much you hate it because that's what has to be done' #pie says stuff #the scholomance #the golden enclaves #naomi novik #books #anyway. good conclusion! love when someone looks at a walk away from omelas situation and is like Fuck No

[averagebsdenjoyer]

dottore fans are so funny bc wdym "y/n has terrible nightmares so Zandik spends the night with them, craddling their head in his lap until they fall asleep🥺🥺" or "dottore is mean to everyone but has a soft spot for you" Dottore would literally call y/n a slur and spit in their grave after putting them in said grave. He is absolutely feral, this man is NOT for relationships and love, he probably thinks the cl!t is a myth to fuck with men's self esteem (greatest doctor my ass, he can't even hold a crying baby without shaking the little sperm for "experience")

#man I hate dottore #in this house we love dottore but we slander him more #hc that he calls kids “failed abortions” and “walking little sperm” #man I want to watch him fall down the stairs #fucking bitch #"dottore can die and I will laugh #genshin #dottore #dottore x reader #no shade to writers who write him soft it's just funny and i stand by my point #But honestly these fics r so silly I love reading them #Got me giggling and shit

[dirtytransmasc]

something that breaks my heart, is that when viserys calls Alicent, Aemma, at Driftmark, she doesn't look surprised. she looks offended and saddened by the fact her own husband of at least a decade and a half can't remember her name, that he calls her by his late wife's name. but she didn't look surprised. it's happened before, and by the way she and Criston (though there was the faintest look of murderous intent in that man's eyes, cause he doesn't want to allow that disrespect to come to his Queen) don't really react outside of the discomfort and offence of it, means it probably happens quite a bit, enough for the two of them to react as little as they did.

#I know my girl has a pretty good poker face #she had to in her position #but her lack of surprise felt just a tad too natural #I hate thinking about Viserys calling her Aemma #neither woman deserves that #especially when we see alicent wearing Aemmas robe ehe she was younger #viserys is a sick fuck and im so glad he's dead #alicent hightower #aemma targaryen #criston cole #pro alicent hightower #pro team green #anti viserys i targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[snowflake-sage]

Standing in the kitchen at 3am with your dog barking at you and your friend barking at you over the phone is kind of a core memory

#get you a friend that stays on the line all night bc you hate being alone in the house at night #I’m watching the house for a few days bc my mom and grandma are on vacay #I’m not anxious or afraid I just feel uncomfortable being alone for so long #like I’m fine I can handle it I just dislike it #sceppy was the one barking at me #we literally fell asleep over discord call #fucking love him #he also barked at me #art #doodle #drawing #furry #furryart #fursona #digital art #furry fandom #furry art #furry anthro #mae rambles

[puppybot]

before me and my boyfriend were dating i would invite him over to my dorm to watch house md together and i thought i was soooo smooth but routinely we’d have to stop mid sloppy t4t fuck because the most gruesome and inhumane medical malpractice was blasting us in the face from my laptop and after all that somehow he still decided i was the one

#specifically getting face fucked while cuddy was cradling rachel screaming and crying and we were like this is so fucked we have to stop. #house md #hate crimes md #t4t #malpractice md

[burst-of-iridescent]

many things have already been said about how the southern raiders proves that katara and aang are incompatible, but i think the real nail in the coffin isn’t just that TSR reveals a lack of understanding between the two, but a lack of trust. 

the minute katara tells aang she’s going to find yon rha, her mother’s murderer, his first question is “um… and what exactly do you think this will accomplish?”

right off the bat, his response to katara’s serious, emotionally-charged announcement comes off as accusatory and condescending, so it’s no wonder that katara responds defensively:

“i knew you wouldn’t understand.” 

at this point, aang is supposed to be katara’s closest friend. they’re just weeks away from getting into a lifelong romantic relationship. and yet katara doesn’t respond to aang’s remark the way you would expect someone in her position to react: she shows no betrayal, no disbelief, doesn’t even seem to really be hurt by the fact that her dear, trusted friend doesn’t see why she would want to find the man who murdered her mother.

her choice of words is also particularly telling: she doesn’t say “you know what it will accomplish” (which would indicate that she at least has enough faith in aang to believe that he realizes what this means to her) or even “you don’t understand” (which would be a more realistic response stemming from hurt and anger) but rather “i knew you wouldn’t understand.” 

this means that katara, at the point where she and aang should have been closer than ever, didn’t expect his understanding. she didn’t expect his support, or his sympathy, or his compassion. in fact, her reaction suggests that she was prepared for this exact response all along, that all she did expect from aang was precisely what she got —disagreement, dissuasion, and a complete lack of empathy and understanding.

why is this something you would expect of your best friend? shouldn’t you believe that you can count on them for support? shouldn’t you be hurt if they don’t support you? shouldn’t you at least be surprised if they don’t?

katara doesn’t trust aang to do for her even the bare minimum of what a friend should — and at the same time, neither does aang trust katara. he immediately assumes that her trip is about revenge, and then compares her to jet. shouldn’t aang know katara, his dearest friend and the girl he loves, better than this? shouldn’t aang know what katara is and isn’t capable of? shouldn’t he trust her to make the right decision?

instead, it’s zuko, who isn’t even katara’s friend at this point, who insists that it’s about justice and closure, not revenge. it’s zuko who stands by her side without judgement and believes in her to make the right choice. it’s zuko who trusts katara to stay true to herself. 

kas love to talk about how kat.aang’s friendship is the perfect basis for their romance, but in TSR it seems like katara and aang aren’t even friends. neither of them trust or understand each other the way friends should, let alone best friends who supposedly harbour romantic feelings. the southern raiders doesn’t just prove that katara and aang would be incompatible in a relationship — it calls the very foundation of their friendship itself into doubt.

#anti kataang #zutara #the southern raiders #in this house we hate book 3 kat.aang #fuck book 3 kat.aang #only book 1 kat.aang has any rights

[rosenecklaces]

the types of brain you need to have to really be the kind of person to hold elain and nesta age as a ¨gotcha!¨ as evidence that they are oh so terrible about their first interactions with feyre... one of them is just like one year older if not two than her... yall now that, right. thats common knowledge... right?

i want all of you to tell me if youre mind and maturity at 21-22 changed completely from your 18-19 self all of a sudden, quickly

#the archeron sisters #THEY Where THe olDERS thEY shOUld hAd donE mORE To tAKE caRE oF FEyre #feyre was a 19 years old... how the fuck yall expect early 20s summ to basically raise someone as grown as them #sure they could help. but we dont know if they didnt in the first place... someone had to do sum for the damn house and sure as hell wasnt #feyre. she literally told the reader that lol #all this people hating 1/2 of the archerons needs to a. learn what sibling relationships are like outside dysney movies #and b. gang up agaisnt the real bad guy of the story: their fucking lame neglectful shitty ass dad #and the equal shitty mom that raised them with clasist ideas and misogynist grooming futures for two of her kids #but shes dead so whatever the devil already took her #feyre archeron #elain archeron #nesta archeron

[greghatecrimes]

POV: you’re dying of an unknown disease and the head of diagnostics walks into the room to take your medical history holding his three year old daughter. wyd

(messy doodle for the Baby Thirteen AU. Pose is referenced from and inspired by a lovely piece of fanart done by @/emkayoh. See below the cut for more details on Thirteen’s outfit!)

#at the point in my art skillz where i know it’s not great but its good enough for shitposts! so fuck it we ball! #me: goes from realistic study of amber to THIS lmaooo #house md #hate crimes md #remy thirteen hadley #greg house #baby thirteen au #my art #the hanukkah socks are my favorite. maybe even more than her shirt

[chamiryokuroi]

To the person that messaged me all angry because I said using chat AI to rp with bots was bad because you’re taking part on fucking over writers and you said “that’s not how it works”

Oh but it does.

I am not replying to your ask because I will not be sharing your @ for your own sake.

But do you really think that this silly little AI isn’t bad, that it won’t ever take over peoples jobs because “someone made them” (no shit) and “It’s not scrapping info like other AIs” (the mere facts that it is an AI by default means it does scrape info to update itself based on what feed it)

it will not stay like a little fun game forever. Sorry, but it is ridiculous to believe that this content will not eventually be used to feed others AIs that will be used in less that “fun” ways to fuck over people’s jobs.

The use of any AI right now when there are no laws, no regulations, and no accountability to how the content you are feeding to them is being used is just stupid and selfish.

But sure keep RP with blorbos, who cares if in the future all books, all comics, all games, are written by AI and all the people that worked hard to become artist are pushed to the side, who cares about them when you can RP with your silly little fake husband.

#fuck AI #in any and all forms #all my hoomies hate AI #this house is anti AI in all its iterations #until we have laws and regulations I will not be using any AI #regardless of how much fun or silly it is #anti AI #and btw if anyone knows how AI works it would be me who fuckingg works in tech