#oops next time <3

[p0ssyart]

childhood fixation grabbed me by the throat so hey im posting

#my design is 90% based on the WSND design #btw the pups with scooby are referred to as the 'secret six' for my non scooby mutuals JSJSJ #op #digital art #scooby doo #shaggy rogers #velma dinkley #mystery inc #they are a POLY on this blog!!!!! #fred jones #daphne blake #daphnes african shaggys a jew and velmas korean on this blog😌 #FUCK I SHOULDVE GIVEN FRED A BRACELET LIKE I DID SHAGGY HE HAS ALLERGY HCS FUCK #oops next time <3 #shaggys is for chronic vertigo he has where he has just Fallen over at moments bc an episode hits so fast #so he wears it for the small chances that he is alone #also scoobys a service dog :3 #everyone in this gang has Something wrong with them <3 #because i said so #also i put my sona giving him a Kiss bc fuck you i get to

[wigglys-dikrats]

i counted so you don’t have to and the fuck word is said 88 91 times in nerdy prudes must die

#most of them were said by max #i think that’s the new record ??? #next one was firebringer with 79 if i remember right #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #npmd spoilers #nerdy prudes must die spoilers #starkid #team starkid #starkid spoilers #my post #3 days later edit: i recounted and got 91 oops #i think the three extra were said very subtly in the background so i just didn’t hear them the first time rip

[prince-liest]

I’m a sex-repulsed ace, and reading the latest chapter of 666 (as well as your analysis here on Tumblr) made me realize that I have been subconsciously thinking about MY OWN sexuality from an allo perspective? And that it has kinda been messing me up?? Like, ever since I learned that sexual attraction was actually a Thing and that it’s Important To People, I had been carrying around a fear of being deficient in some way and not being able to love to the same extent as allos. (1)

Even though I know logically that’s complete garbage and totally untrue, I felt left out of the loop because people seemed to care strongly about this thing I couldn’t even imagine. Whenever it looked like a relationship might happen I panicked for a reason that I couldn’t understand. But now I’m starting to realize that it’s because I was subconsciously terrified of an ‘ulterior motive’ behind the other person’s reasons for wanting to be with me. (2) That part of the reason they even cared was because of something I don’t experience. So thank you, because this realization just clicked into place while reading your work. The thing is, this way of thinking was just internalized in such a way that I didn’t even realize it was there until literally this week. And I think you’re right; one of the main reasons behind that is because I’ve always consumed media written from an allo perspective. (3) If ace/aros are shown at all, they’re depicted as “lacking” and their character development usually revolves around being “fixed” by the story. When I was ~10 years old my mom sometimes let me watch the Big Bang Theory with her (looking back, maybe not the best decision). Anyways, there was one episode deep into the series where Sheldon (who for the past nineish seasons was probably the closest thing to mainstream ace rep) has sex with his girlfriend for the first time. (4) Afterwards, he says something along the lines of “that was better than I thought it would be”, and it’s presented as a Very Good Thing and a big step in their relationship. I think a lifetime of stuff like that makes it very easy to internalize aphobia and feel like the lesser part of the relationship. Or to feel like the other partner is making a huge sacrifice to be with you. That got wayy too long, sorry. All that was just a lot of words to say that I appreciate you. Take care of yourself!(5)

The portrayal of asexuality that you see in media being almost exclusively as you described is very tedious to me because it presumes that something is inherently lacking in aro/aceness rather than that feeling of "lacking" being something that is induced by societal norms. Actually, one of the things that I find additionally alienating is that fandom spaces specifically have been getting better and better about ace characters - but got damn does fandom not jive with aromanticism. Like, a character doesn't want to fuck? That's becoming a liiiittle more fine, it's 2024, we stan consent. But not shipping someone romantically?? Not so easy, now.

I'm glad that my work has been something that resonated with you in this respect! Alastor cares a lot about his reputation as a demon but is pretty blatantly a person who could not possibly give less of a shit about being "wrong" for not being experiencing romantic or sexual attraction. The explanation Viv gave at one point for his own understanding of himself (that he thinks he's just "waiting for the right woman") actually stuck out to me a lot because it's a very "well, nothing is wrong with me for not feeling anything, it's the world that's failed to produce a suitable person" perspective.

But having that kind of confident perspective of your own rightness in the world is really not often portrayed in media, or even in fandom, which even ten years ago was still in the throes of standardizing "Oh, no! Me, gay? These feelings are so wrong!" style m/m content and is honestly not that far off from essentially that for aro/ace characters.

Anyway, all of that is to say that there's not yet much out there that doesn't frame allo/amatonormative values as the default that "even aro/ace people can (and should want to) achieve," and that it's really fun to write a fic that is unequivocally from the perspective of a character who is aroace and doesn't see it as even remotely a fault in himself. Does he have moments where he's a little confused and trying to process how things fit for him? Absolutely. But he just doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who thinks he owes romance to Vox of all people, hahaha. I've written him trying to conform to allo/amatonormativity more with Mimzy, because I think the social standards of their time could push him into it, but Vox? Absolutely not, he does not respect Vox enough for it to even enter his mind.

And then, on the other hand, writing it from an aroace perspective centers the way that romantic and sexual interest can feel like a betrayal of a good thing. With a character like Alastor, it frames romantic and sexual attraction the same alien way that we usually see aromanticism and asexuality framed as.

In the end, this is just one of a plethora of different experiences that aro/ace people can have, but it's one that I really wanted to see represented more, so I'm very happy to write it. I'm glad that you're enjoying it!

#ask #personal #Anonymous #long post #t #aroace #ace #he cares about Vox at this point! #but that's. not really the same as respecting him. #anyway this next chapter is important to me because it's very #how do I put this #“this was okay at the moment but that doesn't mean he's okay with it overall and forever” #“and it does not mean that they've 'progressed' their relationship to the point where Alastor being aroace is a 'nonissue'” #“(feat. ofc the heavy implication that it was an issue in the first place)” #ANYWAY. SOMETIMES I HAVE A HARD TIME EXPRESSING THIS IN NON-FIC WORDS #SO HOPEFULLY THE FIC AS IT CONTINUES SPEAKS FOR ME. I AM GLAD THAT IT HAS SPOKEN TO YOU SO FAR <3 THANK YOU!! #sexuality #my writing #hazbin hotel #this is a hot button topic atm and it took me a minute to write a reply #that didn't seem like it invited discourse lmfao #actually I still feel weird posting my opinion this strongly oops OH WELL

[hella1975]

i want the next taob chapter to be done before halloween and im putting that here bc historically the only way i can kick myself into writing is when i have a public deadline haunting my every waking moment. WISH ME LUCK

#GODSPEED ETC #i havent even LOOKED at this next chapter which is bad even for me #like usually i'll post a chapter and then ride that high long enough to at least hash out the finer details of next chapter's plot #so it's ready for me to start writing as soon as i feel the urge #but not this time!!! tbh it's a weird chapter like im kinda stuck on what to do with it bc i know im not happy with my current plans #but i CANNOT BE FUCKED to do a sit-down plot hashing session so i just. havent #and now it's been five months oops <3 #taob updates

[ryonello]

valorant catgirls on the brain again .... fade this time :3

#fade #valorant #hazal eyletmez #sorry for no art for a while ! i have been um . going thru it #this month has been the worst for a long time i am having a lot of SHit Happen ALL AT ONCE but i keep trucking #🥺👍 #my car kaboomed . and i need to buy a new one . and everything costs so much #+other financial shit happening BUT ITS FINE BC I HAVE A BUNCH OF CONS NEXT MONTH #i am goign to be exhausted but i am going to be okay . staying strong staying positive crying a lot but thats fine it is like that sometimes #hope life is treating yall better than me rn <3 #sorry for spontaneous vent in tags on unrelated art oops #anyway ! :D #i will be at adelaide ozcc next weekend / melbozcc the following weekend / sydnova the weekend after that ! #ALSO super lookign forward to smash and avcon in july !!!! will have new merch for them if they arrive in time :] #but yes . back to binging totk to cope :] maybe new link art when i have free time again i love him so fuckign much its insane #mwah #my art

[rabbitsommelier]

thanks for stopping by the stream earlier if you did! heres a pearl i did during!

#splatoon 3 #side order #splatoon #pearl houzuki #somme-stuff #artists on tumblr #i forgot to enable vod publishing #oops! sorry!! next time ill make sure its ticked!

[lorebird]

Some pokemon doodle rqs for @tentatechnologies and @saint-nevermore :3

#my art #pokemon #seviper #hawlucha #I WISH ID DRAWN THEIR SHINIES BC THEYRE BOTH SO GOOD AND V SIMILAR #but I didn’t realize until after I’d already painted seviper </3 #man I started these on Friday and then spent all my free time organizing the 1737284839 new brushes I’d gotten instead of finishing them #one of my teachers sent 2 brush packs (one w just the basics and another that I assumed was just yk. some fun little textures and stuff) #JESUS FUCKIGN CHRIST I THINK THEY SENT EVERY BRUSH THEY HAD ON THEIR COMPUTER IT TOOK ME. SO LONG TO ORGANIZE #but I have SO MANY FUN TEXTURES NOW #SO MANY HALFTONES!!!!!!! #(which I. didn’t even use for these oops. that’ll be the next one) #(probably)

[crescentfool]

IT IS MINATOAST'S BIRTHDAY!!! so i gave him a little bag and some goodies :3 bonus screenshot of a wip under the cut :)

what if we were mirror images and i duplicated the ryoji plushie so that i didn't have to redraw the base and oh my God. boyfriends

#splatoon #splatoon oc #splatoon 3 #lizzy does art #minatoast #yes i had to put ryomina there ITS CALLED SELF CARE!! #i've always wanted to draw him with a messenger bag of sorts filled with things he likes. yes ryomina is one of them #i love him so so much and i want to draw him more WAH... i have so much lore about him but unfortunately i can only draw so much #but ONE DAY!!! ONE DAY!!! U WILL SEE THE VISION #how is it that me naming my in-game character as minatoast AS A JOKE led to a wholeass character. oops #this is why you dont JOKE ABOUT THINGS!!!! #i wish i could draw more for him I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS BUT. NEXT TIME NEXT TIME #um anyway bye im going to play among us

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

#im posting this very late because i was sort of weary of how it came out and ended up messing w it until it was like 4am oops. #and i have plans tmrw so... oh well! i did my best and ill put it out while i can! #and i tried to make the scene match barnard's colors lol #finn's ocs #finn's art #i know i said id do more sillay stuff with the simpler screentone only style but i had a couple more of these in me #and this is the first piece im making thats like an actual part of the story too rather than just setting stuff for fun #i wanna write something to go with it too but for now ill just sort of briefly explain the context in the tags here: #barnard has a pretty bad case of OCD and his compulsions have made it difficult to make friends in the past #he was never outright bullied or anything but people just didnt really have the patience to deal with it #he has compulsions that include stuff like walking through doors until it feels right and needing things to be perfectly aligned #which in group settings has lead to people having to wait for him to finish his rituals and join them #they might find it tolerable at first but eventually they grow impatient and hes just... not invited to stuff anymore #but juno is a newer member of the guild who ends up frequenting the same library. hes also kinda a little weird #and they dont become fast friends or anything but just sort of naturally spend time in the same place #though they never plan meetups they eventually fall into a routine. around the same time theyd just both be at the library #and read next to each other. and maybe talk a bit. and eventually they end up walking back to the guildhall together #since theyre going to the same place after all. and juno always waits for barnard outside the door #eventually barnard asks if this bothers him. juno kinda just tells him 'of course it does' without any malice or anything. just a statement #barnard is surprised and apologizes and juno says not to. but the next day juno doesnt show up at the usual time. #barnard assumes hes committed somekinda more by bringing it up. he ends up staying there late reading to get his mind off it & not ruminate #but when he leaves juno is in fact still waiting for him down the hall (see pic) having collected a bunch of books literally abt ocd #he fell asleep bc barnard stayed later than expected. and hes an eepy guy generally. and also one very bad at expressing himself #but now barnard gets that juno's 'of course it [bothers me]' had the implication of 'but its worth it' which no friend has previously done. #and from the interaction juno was also able to understand that this isn't something barnard just does for the hell of it so. he studies. #and checks a bunch of stuff out because he thinks it could help his friend too (theres ocd workbooks and such- i remember working w them) #and thats the point where they became more ''friends'' than ''pleasant library acquaintances'' #from there on they also do get into juno's problems. whole other bag of worms. but this specific scene is more about bernard from his pov #sorry about when i said briefly explain. i lied </3 #but compared to the whole sequence im picturing its brief so shhh

[cosmicmakos]

imagine holding your f/o when they need comfort from their lover (even if they don't make it known and/or try to deny it). they feel safe in your presence and can finally let their walls down and release all of their pent-up emotions while in your embrace.

#my favorite war criminal <3 would sometimes avoid letting herself let her emotions out #half the time its because her mission takes priority and she wants to avoid distractions and the other times she denies she needs it #when she first came back to the citadel after she died and got brought back she shoved all her emotions down when she saw me again #a friend of hers convinced her to go over to me while i was watching skycars go past in the market area #she came up right next to me and said my name quietly to get my attention - all i could do was stare at her confused #she started to stumble out what happened and to tell me everything but she started talking too fast and the tears made it worse #i pulled her close to me and told her it was a story for another time while she mumbled apologies into my neck #she held on to me like i was going to disappear into thin air #during the war she just refuses to give herself a moment's rest since the galaxy is depending on her to save it #she always tells me her emotions can wait and goes off on her next important mission #unless we're all alone between missions she won't let her emotions out as they could compromise the task at hand #if those conditions are met she finally lets her emotions out while i hold her close to me for as long as i can #corporate necromancer has a hard time letting her walls down and at one point it caused an argument between the two of us #she doesn't like/want people to see the vulnerable side of her #she thinks it'll make people think less of her or make her look weaker #she slowly opens up to me and after some time she doesn't keep her walls up around me #its hard for her to admit she wants to be held while she lets her emotions out but one of the times she did was before the o4 relay mission #oops only two characters on this one since i have too many thoughts on this #f/o imagines #imagine your f/o

[scaryanneee]

NEW FIC IS UP! PRETTY THINGS: ASCENDED ASTARION SMUT ONE-SHOTS (a companion work to Think of Me)

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #my fic #LOL I spent way too much time writing this today OOPS #its fine im technically unemployed for like the next 2 days #so i gotta get in my fic writing while i can ig

[tracle0]

I wrote something yesterday!

#it's not something huge but it feels like good progress and I've missed this feeling for so long! #I keep flip-flopping between wanting to get away from TCD and wanting to write it. It feels like this is the one holding me back #and at the same time the one I should write next yknow? #and I got a lil chunk of that done. Maybe chapter. Uh. 6? Bit of that? #the last complete chapter I have is 3 oops #but that's okay! It's progress! We're getting there! #additionally my brain was just. Settling a little easier into it. It didn't feel so critical and angry about it. which is a fucking miracle #belove Atlas and their terror.... #I can share a lil snippet soon if you want!

[bortmcjorts]

[ID: two versions of a drawing of my oc nibble, a humanoid robot with a computer monitor head. she's fat with a square monitor, and she's wearing a pink t-shirt that says "a byte and a nibble." her arms are black and look like fingerless arm sleeves, and her legs are a gray purple with markings that look like jeans. she's standing with a hand to her chest, and a face displayed on her monitor is winking and sticking out her tongue. in the left version, she has a power cord tail, and in the right version she doesn't have a tail. end ID]

so there's this computer...

#my ocs #ab&an #a byte & a nibble #nibble 💕 #sorry to cubed for being nibble's kid and also waiter bc i would order a serving of their mom lol 😜 (i am kicked out of the diner) #to the two people who sent requests sorry i have been busy and idk when/if i will get to them but i love you #to the person who asked how ive been i forgot to respond and only just now remembered that ask even existed OOPS umm #ive been busy and stressed but overall okay sdkjfkg i need a break from work or i will explode i think #i am also working on a few fanart projects so i havent been posting here much 😔 #hope u r all doing okay tho! #ummm ok that is all thank u goodbye until the next time i draw something <3

[nostalgia-tblr]

in fic news i realised that i've accidentally commited myself to several scenes of jotunn!sylvie porn rather than just the one that i'd initially added mainly for the weirdness factor

#oops #having stupidly made a point of her hiding the blue i need to let the blue run free by the time they get to the happy ending don't i? #on the plus side this is a happy ending where nobody has to kill thor! ...because he already died before the fic even started :( #The Sylki Arranged Marriage AU #i also have to carefully make sure they don't kiss at any point during the 3 1/2 sex scenes that take place before their first kiss #another of my stupid decisions (so far) is a subplot that might enrage all three of the loki/sigyn shippers #my outline is for 16 chapters but i have the nagging suspicion that civil wars should last longer than sex scenes so...??? #(yeah i read a lot about the wars of the roses but i skip most of the boring bits about battles and that sort of shit) #(i am there for THE DRAMA. for the SOAP OPERA. just tell me who died this time so i can update my chart of Dramatic Persons) #(that's english for Dramatis Personae. or at least it should be. the more Dramatic persons are nearer the top of such lists aren't they?) #(anyway this fic isn't about the wars of the roses but one of the chapter titles is The Kingmaker which was an accidental pun btw) #(how accidental? well i only just this moment realised that it's a pun if that gives you some idea of how well-planned this fic is) #none of that shit's in the next chapter tho that one's about frigga being a bitch and sif being hot LOLOLOLOL YOLO OR SOMETHING

[feytouched]

DHL is toying with meeeeeee

#2 days ago they said my esterbrook pen arrived in portugal & will be delivered on feb 5 #i was like oh..... that's a long time for same country delivery but ok #yesterday they were like SIKE it's in your city already hahaha! but then oh oops we're not even gonna try to deliver it #we'll just say you weren't available without even trying to contact you! but we WILL stop by your house to deliver your dad's stuff #not yours tho <3 #postponed to next working day which is today....... and not a peep out of them so i'll believe it when i see it #ką sako lapė

[steakout-05]

i think having TF2 as a special interest really early in my childhood influenced so many things about myself and my identity.... my gender is big men my sexuality is big men and my sense of humour is big men. i even named myself after the "very tiny and scrawny but still big" big man and i think about all the big men in TF2 on a semi daily basis,,,,,, anyway yeah i like the men in TF2 :)

#tf2 #this post is nigh incomprehensible #this is the true effects of autism...... having such a big special interest that it literally influences half of your entire sense of self #i think this is why i feel gender euphoria playing crusty old source games #like i literally feel so connected to TF2 it's crazy #i'm currently listening to a TF2 YTPMV and have it in the corner of my screen and my brain is just going ''ahh... the song of my people'' #i look at scout tf2 and i go ''he is just like me!!!'' #man's got adhd and likes being an asshole to the other team on the battlefield and if that isn't relatable i don't know what is #i also occasionally play as engineer and i always put my sentries in the most bitchy spots ever #like you're taking a stroll over to the point and you're like ''oop. level 3 sentry that i can't get rid of because the fucker behind it- #-won't stop helicopter parenting it. welp.'' that's my gendar #scout main to engineer main redemption arc to scout main villain arc because my sentries kept exploding pipeline #that made absolutely zero sense. #i usually play on training mode because i'm too shy to play on casual again yet and let me tell you #the amount of times i've yelled at the engineer bots because they just won't build a damn dispenser next to their sentries is insane #like maintaining a sentry would be SO MUCH EASIER if you just built a dispenser nearby. like. #when you play engie you start to not even worry about your health anymore because you're too concerned with your metallic kids to care #it's like ''oh i'm at 2 hp. wow. OH SHIT MY SENTRY GOT HIT ONCE AND LOST A SINGLE BAR OF HP I NEED TO HEAL HIM!!!!! MY SON!!!' #and you never end up dead somehow because dispenser #and when you do die it's like torture looking at the spectating cam and seeing your sentry get shot at and not being there to help it #it's like ''nooo... my son.... please i need to heal my son..... i can't bare to watch'' #i should invest in a wrangler.... hmmmm...... #anyway this post is... so autism! it's great we love to see it! #autism #i'm very tired yet feel very energised.... i'm having a neurodivergent moment hang on #spy sappin my executive functioning #my brain is literally just 3 scouts and 2 engineers doing do si do with 'erectin a river' blasting really loud at the moment #YIPPEEKIYAHIYAAAAAHYKIYO - my brain when special interest