#nowhere I would rather be

[stuckinapril]

I’m happy for the little life I built for myself

#there’s a lot of ways to go #i am nowhere NEAR the dream life I really want to attain #or the dream person I want to be #but high school me #hell even freshman in college me #would GAWK at the life I have so deliberately made happen. #the solid network of friends I have #the confidence I’m slowly but surely growing into #the discipline I’m harvesting bit by bit. i do not claim perfection but I am 100% improving #I’m just happy idk! i don’t compare myself at all now bc I know I’m on the right track #especially compared to where I was like 5 years ago. such a different mind state from now #and no one can take that away from me #there’s a lot more to go. a lot more. but I thought I’d pause and be intentionally grateful for what has been accomplished #bc it actually puts things into perspective to look at the past rather than just look to the present. it creates contentment #i get so caught up being hard on myself for not accomplishing certain things yet #that I forget I pulled myself out of such a deep rut by the skin of my teeth #and that’s important to keep in mind even as you progress to your goals #anyway <333 happy content in my own lane etc etc #p

[laesas]

I don't know how much more explicit the message of "THIS IS GROOMING" could have been without Be On Cloud superimposing it in all-caps text over every one of Non and his teacher's scenes. People interpreting that as "cheating" are cracked in the fucking head.

#dead friend forever #dff the series #barcode fucking killed those scenes!!! the desperation and discomfort and resignation!?!! #the fact that Non was textually terrified of dying at the hands of Tee's uncles gang unless he found that money #and once he accepted it and Keng held that power over him did he lean in to kiss him. #theres a reason that even universoty professors are fired for having relationships with their ADULT students. #because holding a position of institutional power over someone like that in a relationship is deeply deeply disfunctional and bad #do you think that if you were a child that felt they had literally nowhere else to turn. not to parents. or friends. or partner. #and a teacher said they would fix all your problems in a room with a closed door and kissed you. #you wouldnt feel obligated to kiss back and offer yourself up in exchange??? #because what?? you're too moral??? you'd rather die??? #THIS IS HOW GROOMING HAPPENS. ITS ADULTS SEEKING OUT THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN THEIR CLASSES AND HOLDING SOMETHING OVER THEM. #IF I SEE ANYONE CALLING NON A CHEATER AGAIN I AM GOING TO KILL. #ITS STATUTORY RAPE. YOU THICK FUCKS. #KENG MADE HIM KEEP HIS SCHOOL UNIFORM ON. HE'S A FUCKING PEDOPHILE. #IM GOING TO KILL. #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SOME OF YALL ARE THE STUPIDEST MOTHERFUCKERS AROUND. YOURE STUPID. YOURE SO FUCKING DUMB. GODDDDDDDDDDDDD

[satans-knitwear]

I can keep you warm, right here 🖤

Treat me ~ Tip me

#This sure is a view. #Hey my loves!! I hope your week is going okay! My weekend has started today!! Which is rather exciting!! 5 day weekend?! #My own mini holiday. But i am going nowhere. And doing nothing. I am literally just hanging out at the house with the dogs. #Satans knitwear #Alt pinup #Pinup girl #Any tips or treats would be massively appreciated right now 💕 #Any kind of support means the world to me 💕✨ #Pretty lingerie #black mesh lingerie #Mesh corset #Underbust corset #Mesh bodysuit #Chain detail #Thighs #bi girl #uk girl #cheeky #wlw

[chevril-glove]

Whatever you do, don't think about Aziraphale and Crowley while you're practicing On the Street Where You Live. Certainly don't think about the headcanon that they can sense each others' proximity on Earth, or the fact that they can travel the whole earth to be near each other. And DEFINITELY don't think about how Crowley would "let the time [world] go by," as long as they could be near each other.

But if you do all that, you might as well put on a wig and a scarf and sunglasses and make a video.

#good omens #my fair lady #cosplay #just to know somehow you are near me #nowhere else on earth that i would rather be #let the time (world) go by #on the street where you live #ineffable #ineffable spouses #ineffable husbands #ineffable wives #crowley #crowley cosplay #fem crowley #aziracrow #ineffables #so many ship names

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Terezi: H3Y TH3R3 VR1SK4, W3'R3 4W3SOM3 TOG3TH3R.  YOU KNOW TH4T 1’M NOT LYING, W3'R3 B3ST FR13NDS FOR3V3R!  BUT 1F YOU WOULDN’T M1ND, TH3R3’S ON3 TH1NG 1’D L1K3 TO R3QU3ST: 1T’D SUR3 B3 GR34T 1F YOU COULD PL34S3 STOP MURD3R1NG 4LL OF MY OTH3R FR13NDS!

#submission #source: Ninja Sex Party #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #terezi pyrope #vriska serket #mod terezi #i would rather be waterboardeded than listen to people sing out of nowhere

[raytorosaurus]

lowkey thinking of like....series of posts where i analyse mcr guitar parts.....im by no means an expert in music theory but it could be a cool hyperfixation-friendly way to learn more 🤔🤔🤔

#plenty of people Have to have done this in the past but ive never actually rly seen one #if you know of something like that link me...unfortunately i find that shit soooooooooo interesting #my toxic masculinity trait of choice is 'oh this thing is nice/cool. now How Did They Do It And Why Does It Work.' #specifically interested in what kind of scales ray favours for his solos and how frank and ray's parts stack #the issue with this is 1) i am nowhere bear and expert and this would quite likely involve a lot of incorrect guessing and potshots #and 2) i am SHIT at learning by ear so i have to trust a tab... #but it would be funnn..... #like it would primarily be for Me/discussion rather than informational haha

[crescentfool]

beaming everyone on the dashh with good brain day vibes!!! i hope that you all can remember to extend self-compassion to yourself whenever you're feeling down about something 💙

#lizzy speaks #the human brain works in such profound ways i think #lately i've been thinking about that post that was like 'you will always be your oldest friend take care of yourself' #it's definitely a sentiment i agree with and i appreciate how it emphasizes the importance of extending compassion to yourself #you wouldn't say such hurtful things to your friends right? (or at least i'd hope so) #so why would you say it to yourself? #you are your own friend too. and i think everyone has a beautiful soul within themselves. nurture it! water it! feed it good thoughts. #basically i wish everyone a 'i hope that your brain is not your own enemy but rather a friend that you can find comfort in' #things will work themselves out with time. there's beauty in life and you will find small delights to cherish!! i am manifesting it for u!! #and for those who find it difficult to transition from a self-critical mindset to one that's more compassionate and nonjudgmental #i truly think that with time you will be able to rewire your brain to be kinder to yourself. i'm proud of you for taking any first steps :) #there are times in which it feels counterintuitive to go against habits that feel hard-wired... but brains are very malleable littel guys- #with such a wonderful capacity for changing and learning new things. so i hope everyone can learn to be their own best friend! #not to undermine the importance of a support network ofc. that's good too and im all for that!! but i hope everyone remembers to be kind- #not only to others but also to themselves!! you're going to do great out there!! i love you all!! #ive just been thinking about this a lot... i needed to get it out there. you all shine so brightly!!! we shall be fine!!! have a good week! #sorry if this is out of nowhere but if there's anything about me you should know it's that i'm the 'hey dont cry 8 billion people on earth- #ok?' post. idk i just find great joy in knowing others are out there thriving and finding a daily delight yknow i love humanity!!

[ladyluscinia]

I do have to appreciate (?) how hard the haters work to ensure their definition of bigotry is Izzy-escape proof. I mean, yeah, if you are saying that it's functionally impossible for him to not be some flavor of bigoted because technically the very concept of having socially informed ideas about ways to be a man and men's behavior is intrinsically linked to homophobia and misogyny and racism, and therefore expressing any negative opinion on how a male character is behaving counts as such...? Alright then? Telling a man not to sob over a breakup (even with a hypothetical woman!) is homophobia AND misogyny if you consider the social reason that would draw attention as a behavior to criticize and our society's collective idea of masculinity. You've defeated me with your social studies thesis logic on Every Insult Under The Sun Can Be Traced To Bigotry 🤷‍♀️

But in practice I still just don't think it's worthwhile to say the antagonist with the literal raison d'etre of not being 100% supportive and approving of the protagonists in order to cause conflict is being irredeemable or violently bigoted by *checks notes* insulting men in the story about men. Just like I don't think Stede or Edward or the rest of the crew are being irredeemable bigots by also having socially informed ideas about masculinity???

Like, looking at it that way Stede is a clear misogynist (and more, but we'll stick with just the misogyny bit). I don't think he even realizes he is one, but the whole Mary sequence and just being a man in the 1700s makes it pretty obvious. He might do less misogyny in the future on account of just not interacting with women (suspect behavior tbh), but fundamentally he has not remotely addressed or deconstructed the misogynistic ideas that shape his entire perspective. Honestly, he's probably not going to at this point. They drew attention to his worst behaviors under the framing of just kinda being a self-centered ass, made him realize he fucked up and apologize to the woman he hurt over the course of about 15 minutes, and then sent them both toward happier endings.

Is this story saying that misogyny is actually fine and misogynists are admirable and likable people? Or that misogyny is just a surface level form of bigotry that doesn't really affect your attitude toward women once you stop being an ass? Or, maybe, is the story just not about misogyny???

And if it's not about misogyny despite being literally incapable of avoiding characters expressing misogyny (since in reality that's not so cleanly excised), then why on earth does it have to be about homophobia? Is it just because the leads are gay men?

Like, I'm sorry, but media for 5-year-olds has long been able to tell stories about antagonists learning that it's okay for boys to cry and be emotionally vulnerable and it's mean to make fun of them without insanely complex layers of deconstructing homophobia or intensive requirements to overcome internalized biases. I bet OFMD can teach that lesson without explicit, targeted homophobia. No one is denying in serious meta that Izzy has been an ass? Or that character development to be less of an ass is the logical next step?

I'm not disputing their assertion that Izzy is homophobic because I think the writing team accomplished the impossible and erased homophobia from the background hum of existence for this one TV show. I'm disputing it because the essential second half of said assertation is that this is a meaningfully included and emphasized part of his characterization that will typically justify his future karmic punishment for bigotry and/or require much greater redemptive effort of him to get any sort of neutral-to-happy ending on the table. That's why they care about it. The effect on the story!

If the story isn't about homophobia, then no, the antagonist doesn't usually have "homophobic" as a character trait I need to account for.

And twisting that fairly straightforward narrative interpretation into some kinda gotcha about "So you deny insulting gay men with gendered insults has shades of homophobia?!?" is - to borrow a phrase Lucius used against Stede - "kind of a bitchy question."

#our flag means death #been tossing around ways to word this for a long time #mainly because i'm fully aware this kind of slippery technicality is pretty much universally a bad faith gotcha for a hated character #but like. yeah reality is a mess of interconnected biases and bigotries that all build off one another to justify A excluding B #doesn't mean every single story developed in this intrinsically flawed society has to say something about all of it #does stede know women are people? does anyone want the next two seasons to tackle stede learning women are people? #tbh i would much rather just say he gets it via the 'don't be a self-centered ass' metaphor #ofmd meta #izzy hands ofmd #stede bonnet ofmd #sorry stede but your track record with women? not great 😔 #homophobia #ladyluscinia #no cut because nowhere made sense

[laoih]

I can't even put into words how disappointing and frustrating the vision of Amazon's Middle-earth show is.

This is your vision for Celebrimbor, seriously?

This is the grandson of the Elf who "was made the mightiest in all parts of body and mind, in valour, in endurance, in beauty, in understanding, in skill, in strength and in subtlety alike"?

This is one of the Quendi, "a race high and beautiful, the older Children of the world, and among them the Eldar were as kings, who now are gone: the People of the Great Journey, the People of the Stars"?

This is not to slight Charles Edwards. He's a friendly looking guy and I'm sure he's a decent actor, but in my subjective opinion simply the wrong choice for Celebrimbor.

#LOTR ROP #LOTR on prime #lotrrop #the rings of power #Celebrimbor #or rather: not Celebrimbor #Amazon's fanfiction #he would have been a decent Denethor or Ar-Pharazôn #but Celebrimbor? #nope #nowhere #jfc how wrong can they make these character designs? #Elrond and Gil-galad and Finrod were already a huge letdown #but this is even worse #I hate it because I wanted to love the show #but it doesn't work like this! #Yes – Tolkien's Elves are ageless and more beautiful than humans #if you can't accept that fact maybe you shouldn't make a series with Elves in it #the short hair #the obvious older age #he looks so human and so unelvish I want to cry #lotr rop critical

[soldier-poet-king]

pf session tonight joy and laughing for the first time in eons vs stress bc I have to drive to work for the next 3 weeks and haven't really done that since I once again failed the advanced permanent test in June and have sorta just sworn off this whole thing out of anxiety and self loathing vs bg3 release week is upon us and I have a long weekend to play it vs I have been SO desperately sad and empty lately ????

#franposting #it is too much I'm going to bed #but that also means tmrw gets here sooner #and work is just. been bad lately. and now we're adding extra stress via my commute #like driving doesnt even shave THAT much time off bc the 401 is so bad #and the ttc sucks but at least i can zone out and not fear for my life #i would legit rather drive downtown than on the 401 #fuck highway driving #i need to move to an apt on the subway line so i can have a reasonable commute and also not have to drive #my intermediate license expires in a year and the absolute terror of having to try the highway test again #this is a stupid system and i want to kms over it! i am a safe good regular driver #the city highways are actively hostile to human life and i dont want to use them why do i have to prove my skills on them #i need to stop im gonna work myself into a frenzy again #LITERALLY WHY IS ONTARIO LIKE THIS AND NOWHERE ELSE #stupid multi tiered driving system

[nachosncheezies]

just thought if they had aired never again before leonard betts, as written and intended, there is almost certainly a not-so-small proportion of people who would still conclude that scully's night with ed was about her illness bc There's A Tumor In Her Head And That Must Be Making Her Act Crazy; Ain't That Great Foreshadowing

#which is really a shame #look i deeply appreciate that scully being kinda fucked up was subtle& sprinkled across the whole series like a lil dusting of cake glitter #bc she was roundly beat up and traumatized so many times as main plot points and they could EASILY have gone down the route #of making The Woman's Suffering/Feelings the third main character in every episode like so many other shows #and that really WOULD have changed her #but it's a shame that in doing so it also became something people could miss or forget about #to the extent that Never Again could look like some wild hard right turn that came out of nowhere for her character #and be something that needs some kind of external explanation #rather than being nothing more or less than exactly what she said it was: herself. circles. patterns. ✋. #ig maybe in that sense a lot of the audience is mulder lol #ed jerse doesn't need explaining 😁 she's just Like That. #x files #the x files #scully #txf #txf s4 #i'm sure i have other thoughts if the migraine leaves but this one just came and perched on my shoulder so

[enby-hawke]

It was always you

Holding my hand

Standing beside me

When did I realize I couldn’t live without you?

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Time for an improvement post ya’ll

2020-2022

I feel like I learned a lot in those two years. I didn’t plaster on textures I found on the internet cause I was lazy and drew all those flowers on lucky’s shirt myself and I do like the result better. I only know how to light things one way but goddamn it I am going to master it XD. I was still learning how to get the swirl in the curl and it’s embarassing how messy 2020 curls are compared to my current curls but I’m still not happy with my curls But my hands are passable! Wooo I can’t wait to redraw this is another 3 years or so to see how much better I do.

Lucky is a girl in this piece, but he/him pronouns still cause manners :/

#merrihawke #merrill x hawke #merrill #hawke #da fanart #my art #dances in chair #guess who has a new icon #Aaaah this piece turned out so much better than I thought it would #and I'm so proud of my progress #Sometimes you think you're getting nowhere and then suddenly it all clicks #also I'm glad I've learned to post the next day rather than the moment I call it finished #always find touchups the next day with rested eyes #jonzen art

[perenlop]

pokeani moments that exist purely to make Me miserable:

the line where they call ash's oshawott a throwaway pokemon in the unova league so they're just flat out saying they think it's a worthless pokemon

to thine own pokemon be true (extra angst points for me bc ambipom was my second favorite on the team at the time)

the granddaughter of the guy who trains gliscor calling gliscor pathetic and weak to her face despite gliscor being an extremely sensitive pokemon

pretty much everything about that gible

blue episode (favorite color but they made it a fetish somehow and also dewott and brionne and meowstic are all there and its so bad)

boxing heracross immediately. also that battle frontier episode where it's literally the only returning ash mon (barring torkoal i think but i dont count it bc its native to AG) to get humiliated onscreen

pidgeot returning but gliscor didn't even show up in the miniseries despite being an Actual Character

#sorry ik i keep bringing up the throwaway line but like. its SOOOOOOOOOO bad holy shit #the heracross one isnt aaaaaas bad tbf bc they really make up for it in the sinnoh league #but aside from one ep in the miniseries we never quite get an episode where oshawott proves itself in a battle #i still love that episode bc it still kinda feels like an apology for all the oshawott bashing in bw but i am a little :/ #that battling didnt even come up once #ive kiiinda eased up on gliscors benching episode bc at the end of the day it isssss pretty good to her. also its the best animated one #but its treatment like what i mentioned that still really drags it down to me #and also like. i know ppl praise gliscor being so powerful after the episode but i really dont get why we couldnt have just #had a gliscor training arc onscreen. but ig we wouldnt have that stupid ass gible plot that went nowhere now would we #but like.... we had such a huge stretch between that episode and the league. i really dont get why we couldnt have had a mini arc #where gliscor realizes shes not pulling her weight that well and really starts hauling ass #she doesnt really even sweep in the paul fight. she gets beaten immediately by ninjask #the drapion part was awesome tho yayyyy #but my point is that it wouldnt really change much if gliscor just stayed and got stronger on its own #have the bench episode be a wake up call for gliscor rather than a goodbye one and she becomes super competent #like im not just saying this bc gliscor is my favorite character in the entire show. i feel like its straight up kinda lazy and less reward #rewarding #imagine how the drapion fight could be EVEN MORE cathartic if we saw gliscor struggle and fight to get better throughout the show #as much as i like that specific battle and ash vs paul as a whole... it just kinda proves my point that sending gliscor away at all #was kind of a shitty move #like ohhhhh ash's team is all getting revenge for lake acuity yay!!!!! oh one of them was kicked off for the sake of a shitty gible plot th #which really only served to make shitty piplup bashing jokes and only actually had a conclusion in the league itself #by which time it was too late to actually do anything else with it. yeah we kicked someone off for that. but shes back now!!! #like it doesnt weaken the battle THAT much. in fact theres some value in how ash went out of his way to make sure gliscor could be there #so her defeat could also be avenged. and its still my fave battle in the whole anime. but it just proves to me how pointless that was reall #echoed voice