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pearlssandgl0ss · 8 months
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My life doesn’t look how I want it to, but I’m working my damned hardest to get there. Taking it one day at a time 🩷
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not-gray-politics · 3 months
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Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.
#I see so many transfems say they want to have “flat stomachs” or do diet and exercise regimes to try and get an “hourglass figure”#and it really worries me. girls you do not have to destroy yourselves to fit into unachievable beauty standards#the vast majority of cis women don't even fit those standards#and the same goes for you transmascs! I see you! I see you trying to get smaller chests and hurting yourselves with weight loss routines#and excessive workouts. it's not worth it. weight loss has OVER a 90% long-term failure rate and there's a reason for that#I assure you whatever diet you think you've found that “works for you” won't be working so well 5 years from now#and you're going to blame yourself for “slacking off”. but it's not you. it was never you. it was designed to fail.#these standards are made to hurt people and then sell them a false solution at the price of your health#I encourage you to transition if you'd like and live your best life I really do. but please please please do so SAFELY.#if weight loss is part of your transition goals please reevaluate WHY you believe thinness is necessary for achieving femininity#(or masculinity or androgyny but this stuff particularly affects women in the way it's marketed)#do research on fatphobia and the roots of weight loss culture. Learn where these ideas come from and why they're so prevalent.#It's extremely important#take care. stay safe. love you very much#trans#fat liberation#transgender#lgbt#trans rights#fat positivity#diet culture#fatphobia#transfem#trans positivity#transgirl#trans women#trans woman
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cozybacon · 1 month
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Its Funny Cause Certain Ppl Will Look At Your Accomplishments On Social Media & Somehow Think You "Lucky".. As if iT Was Given To You. Not Knowing All The Shit We Went Through To Get Here. All The Sacrifices That Had To Be Made Just To Have 10% Of Fun in Real Life. Remember When You Look At Tumblr That Its Social Media. Everybody Shows The Good But Nobody Shows The Bad. Dont Forget We All Human Beings At The End Of The Day. Be As Weird As You Want But Dont Come On My Page Hating On Me Or What I Show Cause 1. You Dont Even Know Me. 2. You Have No Idea Of The Hell I Went Through To Be Able To Just Enjoy Real Life For A Little Bit. Grow Up. We All Got The Same 24 Hrs & im Not Even Where I Wanna Be But Ima Have Fun OTW For Sure.
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supercantaloupe · 5 months
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@widevibratobitch @verdiesque
can y'all either @ me or block me already this is getting exhausting
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starredforlife · 2 months
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If you fucking morons cared one ounce as much for palestine as you do for this horrid little show.
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What are you doing for self improvement?🤔
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heckitall · 8 months
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Fic recs (I have a whole doc- many of these are simply on my to-read list lol) (these are all on ao3):
We'll meet again soon by chiangyorange
Like Father Like Son by eternalglitch
I may be invisible, but I still look good by Dandy
TMNT: Mystic Forest AU by AmevelloBlue and IbbyWondrous
The Dawning of the Hour by Faiakishi
Brother Dearest by Wardenov
The Neon Void by sugarpastels
and slightly shameful self advertisting:
Saviors of the Yokai by MostlyVoid_PartiallyStars (<- me)
BOOM even more added to the list!! ty ty, and ty for self advertising!
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attenjtion freaks
its me
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percicosoftcore · 2 years
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aaaaand we’ve reached the lucky number everyone! there’s officially 3000 works in the nico di angelo/percy jackson tag on ao3 to brighten up your days from now on. 🤍 i’m so proud honestly it makes me emotionally wrecked 😫
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nov1963 · 3 months
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How it feels after doing your stretches given to you back in physical therapy.
It's almost like these things rlly work! And you feel good during physical therapy bc you're actually doing said things! Let my posture get unchecked lately, and I can feel it. Aside from my thumb still bothering me, which is feeling a lil better now, my shoulders have been a real menace lately! But I feel soooo relaxed and good after doing my stretches. Yay to that. Also when you're loose, your shoulders/neck don't hurt as bad, therefore making it easier to have a nice posture! Win win!
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rubberbandballqueen · 8 months
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hmm i have like, 500-600 taiwan dollars leftover in a tin from the last time i visited relatives... i wonder what would happen if i just handed it to my little cousins like. "yep. here is gift. have fun."
#i heard them trying to sound out 'eidelweiss' on the piano so i've also been thinking of giving them this little music box i bought#a while back that plays eidelweiss. put it in little box with money and letter that is like. 'hello. cousin cares about you.'#'but cousin is awkward and has bad hearing and speaking skills. anyway here's some money and a music box for you.'#i checked n it's like the equivalent of almost 20 usd so like. that's an appropriate gift for nine-year-olds i think#today at work i was cutting glow sticks in half for our craft and i was not wearing any gloves so i got minor chemical burns <3#like part of the skin on my thumb n pointer finger got bleached so i went around n showed alllll the kids#like. 'hey. check out my chemical burn. this is why we wouldn't let you guys cut open the glow sticks yourselves.'#'because it will do This to you if you touch them too long. this is why we had you wash your hands when you finished.'#n some of them were like 'just wash it off' n i was like. 'it is a chemical burn. it is on my skin.'#at least i Think it was a chemical burn but i mean it was very minor (makes sense bc it's just glow sticks) so the skin's flaked off by now#similar happens when i touch my hair bleach w/o gloves so i'm Pretty Sure it was chemical burns#we had a table of kids who were speaking cn to each other so at some point i pieced together they didn't seem to pay attn. bc low en skills#anyway i broke my own rule abt no phones at work to look up 'chemical burns' in cn for them bc although they know i speak Some cn#(by giving them minor instructions for the glow stick craft) i was like. 'chemical burns... how to say....'#apparently they are mostly from taiwan which is fun i love it when i Don't receive microaggressions for writing in traditional c':#today's my only camp shift for the week tho... one of my coworkers died last week so i told my boss i could pick up his camp shifts#if no one else had but apparently i'd go over hours this week... feelsbad man. it's summer + we're always understaffed#so there's gonna be a point when the front desk worker is gonna be covering the camps for a little bit which is. i feel bad ahaha#the worm speaks
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konveeart · 1 year
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Iskars said “chaotic” and we agreed ✧˖°. Rooting-out-the-stakes year~
Who would have thought I finished it this time before the year’s end..! I wasn’t sure how to title the 2022 summary, a lot of things happened (and keep happening) that have me both in a state of wonder and stress (and excitement and fear- it’s all over the place). In the end I feel this is the best way to label it, as it was my major highlight.
I honestly thought there is no way I can fill this year’s summary but gave it a shot regardless. Super surprised there were works I wanted to include but didn’t..! My priority was to highlight the works that were the most emotionally-charged with memories of each month. (I think it’s the same pattern I followed last year :3)
::Quick Summary!
January: Loads of zine work, making merch for the first time★ || February: zine work vol.2  ||  March, April: Merch design vol.2 || May: Commissions, hand/shoulder therapy, healing time..~ || June: taking it easy, healing vol.2 + konvid || July, August, September: Pulling the weeds out {thank you♥} || October: Mostly traditional, somewhere in the sea... || November: learning & applying new things, heavy admin, kickstarter, back to physio (lol) || December: heavy-lifting in kickstarter & wind down with warmups, akiangel brainrot & doing stretches~
::Highlights: merch making⭐, perseverance🌱💧, be snail🐌🍀
Thank you for an amazing learning year..! Wishing you all the best for the coming one ♥✨💓
Fun facts:
in my illustration folder I only have 1 (one) illustration finished for 2022. New record?!
Starting in August I got heavy into visual-key (thanks catten~) and it was the only genre I listened to (thank you for the suggestions sush TT w TT♥♥♥) until November..!
At the time (Aug) I was also listening to “Time management for mortals” by Oliver Burkeman and I HIGHLY reccommend it. (I still haven’t finished it entirely, I take my time to listen to each episode and take notes as I go, but it’s really, really good...)
October was heavily traditional sketchbook filled but I happened to draw 3 times digitally so I combined those instead for the art summary. Figures intruding everywhere..!!
I re-read CSM in October because I saw an Akiangel zine and I thought “I want in..!”. I didn’t know this ship was a thing! It’s been doing some serious heavy-lifting for my mood the last couple months. I am obsessed.
I said I’ll take a sabbatical from zines in 2023 to work on my own. I lied. I AM A CLOWN.*
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underragingwaves · 1 year
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2022 End of Year Fic Review
I was tagged by @ulfrsmal (ty for the tag and the sweet mention!) and, uhm, I got a little wordy in this one. Please do click the readmore if you want some fic recs! 😘
1. What is your AO3 account?
captainkilly is my main account that features all my fics, but all my Vikings fics in particular can be found under the pseud underragingwaves
2. How many words did you write total in 2022?
197,158 words, not including the fics that were Tumblr-only.
3. How many fics did you publish in 2022? How many multichapters vs oneshots?
12 fics in total, of which 3 were multichapters. (I am counting the one fic I began publishing in 2021 and updated in 2022 among these as well.)
4. What was your longest fic? Your shortest fic?
The longest one that I updated in 2022 is homeland, heartland (which sits at a comfortable 63k and counting), but I didn’t begin publishing that in 2022. The longest fic that I published entirely in 2022 is The Ascendancy Seat, which clocks in at 60k.
My shortest fic is leavetaking, which lands around 2k.
5. What was your most popular fic? Your least popular fic?
If we’re counting homeland, heartland, then that’s the most popular one in hits/kudos/bookmarks by far. Secondmost popular in terms of hits is the Ivar-centric massive undertaking The Ascendancy Seat, but in terms of kudos/bookmarks the honor goes to another Ivar-centric fic called ouroboros.
Least popular fic is the aforementioned leavetaking, but that is because I only recently uploaded it to AO3 and now backdated it to reflect its original publication date. I think it’s one of those hidden gem fics, haha, because I loved writing this as a missing scene and it allowed me to work with Ragnar instead of the usual suspects.
6. What fic didn’t perform as well as you thought it would?
Honestly, I don’t think I publish anything and expect it to ‘perform’ in any way? I am used to people finding my fics and faceplanting in them whenever, which means that some of my fics initially don’t do so well in terms of hits/kudos but eventually grow into crowd pleasers. I can never predict which one will take off months from now, lol. That said, I think I wanted more people to give the reverie protocol a chance – I know it’s not an AU that immediately incites folks to read it, but I just love the way this one sang on the page for me personally.
7. What fic performed way better than you thought it would?
ouroboros. It is not at all my fave of the fics I’ve written, and I raise my eyebrow at its popularity even though I know that its premise (Ivar-centric smutty stuff) is this fandom’s form of catnip. I have a hard time writing something that is outright smut – it’s a journey for me that I experimented more with in 2022 – and while I’m making the best sort of googly eyes at the OC I wrote for this fic (Malika my beloved) I really do not think it is my best and I’m still surprised when people pick that one over some of my better works.
8. What was your favorite fic you wrote from 2022?
I’m actually going to name 3 fics for various reasons, haha.
First up is The Juniper Tree, in a hands-down-no-contest sort of way. That fic was a work of love for me and returned a sense of stillness and certainty to my writing process that I hadn’t felt in a long time. It is one of those fics I can say ‘wrote itself’, and I love it unbelievably much. Y’all know I love Ubbe best of all and getting to write this whole multichapter from his POV was just… yeah, I had a good cry about this one by the time I completed it. A really special writing experience that I think is my best work to date.
Secondly, The Warlord’s Wake was probably the most… cathartic to write. I had played with this post-series idea for a good long while until I finally started this fic, and it gave me the closure that I think I honestly needed in terms of where Hvitserk’s story ended in the series. I really wanted to write a fic in which Hvitserk had used his position in Alfred’s court to play a very long game that would eventually return him to his feral pagan bastard ways. It was a good thing for me to get to express this, especially because I have seen a fair few fics and opinions in this fandom regarding Hvitserk’s conversion to Christianity (and the Christian-centric narrative some people choose to uphold) that make me feel supremely salty and quite upset.
Last, I’m going to go ahead and name The Maker’s Path. This is the lone fic I wrote for a different fandom, namely Dune, and I got so horribly creative with the prompt I wrote it for that I just need to squee about it some more. I always thought Dune would be impossible to write for (like Black Sails, it’s one of those things that’s just perfect to me the way it is) but I found a little neat corner somewhere in the book’s folds and movie’s visuals that allowed me to put this fic to the page. Getting to work with a Sardaukar character as well as a Fremen character was a cool exercise that only got more pleasing when I managed to include my own favorite character (Alia) toward the end.
9. What was your favorite fic that somebody else wrote in 2022?
Gonna be that person and name 5 for funsies!
Greedy Gods, by @vikingstrash (stellar Aslaug-centric work, I always love how Yume writes Aslaug and this was a lovely ‘missing piece’ of canon to me)
Gatekeeper, by @ritual-unions (I still don’t know how I survived this one and when I say it lives rentfree in my brain y’all had better believe it)
Gnothi Sauthon, by @bouncehousedemons (you know it’s good when I make hearteyes at a reader pairing, okay? this is just comfort food)
Reactions Of Your Kind, by @ulfrsmal (Ubbe/Hvitty goodness that essentially catapulted a friendship – I’m very fond of this one, and it’s a definite pick-me-up)
This lovely Freydis & Liv prompt fill by @mercurygray (it’s in my head a lot, as it has perfectly captured the dynamics between the Valhalla characters and I love the ‘outsider’ POV of Harald in this piece)
10. Tag your friends to do this year-end fic review as well!
@vikingstrash, @mercurygray, @pomprincesse, if y’all have done this I apologize for tagging ya. Also tagging anyone who writes fic in our lil fandom and wants to do an end of year close-out! 😊
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embersign · 1 year
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I haven't done anything tonight yet bc I rediscovered Guitar Hero (damn I feel old XD)
but good news is I've only got 16 things left to do! by tomorrow, I should have more things in the queue than are left to be done, which is always a good feeling
I still have a little ways to go but DAMN I should have the askbox open in about a week! I'm so freaking excited <3
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capricornlevi · 1 year
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hello my loves, i am so, so sorry i have been inactive recently since posting the last fic. nothing new or exciting here but i have been going through a rough patch mentally and haven’t had much brain power at all recently. but i saw today there’s some absolutely lovely and very kind comments and messages and I am so very grateful. i will reply to each one bc they mean the world to me - i appreciate your patience so much
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