hi sorry if this is strange but i figured i should let you know that your writing on tardigrades in an instagram post about craterface ages ago, specifically the line “the truth then isn’t that tardigrades are indestructible, but simply more willing to put up with misfortune”, stuck with me so much and was so important to me that the first tattoo i ever got right after turning 18 was a tardigrade. his name is gunther! your art and storytelling continue to be an inspiration to me and i’ve loved following your new story here :) best of luck in your creations!
Omg this means so much... thank you for sharing. Tardigrades stay winning. Wee beasties that will be thrown into the pits of hell and shrug it off saying "It is what it is until it isn't". Love u Gunther.
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i wish less of the conversation around being a gifted kid/former gifted kid is about the pressure of academic achievement and success and more about the complete lack of resources for learning to manage every day life. because tbh after i left high school, the pressure to succeed in school pretty much went away because it didn't matter nearly as much what grades i was getting in college. what did matter was that i had absolutely no way to take care of myself or manage my life, because i had a disability that had been completely ignored for 18 years. i have autism and adhd--the problems i had once i graduated high school weren't feeling inadequate when i got a B on a paper. the problem was that i wasn't eating, showering, sleeping, brushing my teeth, showing up to classes on time, or talking to people for days and weeks on end, because my executive dysfunction, sensory processing issues, and social anxiety were getting in the way of my life.
personally, i think that's the real price of being a "gifted kid" (i'm talking about myself here--lots of neurodivergent ppl experience this even if they weren't gifted). it isn't just that i was expected to excel at everything and then shamed when i acted like a flawed human, it was that those expectations distracted everyone from actually trying to help me function in society. and now as an adult i have to contend with the fact that i suffered my whole life from a disability because people were just too ableist to accept that, despite having good grades, i still needed help. i needed to learn how to take care of myself and function in the world for fucks sake
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my hot take from hotd is that people getting mad that "the asoiaf prophecy wasn't fulfilled" and that the show writers are "throwing it in their face" are dumb actually
like i love me some targaryens as much as the next person they're incredibly interesting as characters but bruh they're not heroes and most of them aren't good people. they're not magically destined to save the whole world - the majority of targaryen kings historically sucked ass as tyrants and warmongers. they're incestuous creeps. i giggle and clap and kick my little feet reading about them and seeing them on screen but idk i feel like the idea aegon saw himself as this divine conqueror set to save the world with his inbred lineage is hubris not prophecy. typically when we get prophecies in the asoiaf books they are not fulfilled, or they are fulfilled in unexpected ways. we see people destroy their whole lives and cause ruin and pain to other people because of their obsession with being the prophecised heroes (rhaegar and stannis being the biggest examples).
targaryen restoration is not meant to be a good thing in asoiaf. the fact a grossly inbred family ruled for 300 years culminating in one of them trying to blow up his entire capital city in the midst of a civil war caused by him burning people alive is not a ringing endorsement for the targaryens no matter how good of a person dany is. i agree that the last 2 seasons of got were awful but it's not JUST because the targaryen restoration didn't happen (and I sincerely hope it doesn't if the books ever finish - whether dany goes mad queen or not for me it can honestly go either way and so long as the journey getting there is well written i'll take the ending given to her). there were a lot of factors that made the end to got bad but it did not hinge on the fact the targaryens didn't get a happy ending.
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also yes i headcanon that aaravi's nickname for miranda is "princess", partially as an insult/snide comment that grew more affectionate over time, and partially because she didn't actually learn miranda's name for an embarrassingly long time and just defaulted to calling her "the princess" in her head
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archie knuckles lore <3 microwaved knux, charmy's friend dying of lsd, his jesus arc and green knuckles my beloved
I used to think archie Knuckles lire was so cool and interesting and I look back on it now and am so .... repulsed LMAO
I still think enerjak is cool but both time Knuckles was enerjak he was written by Ian Flynn so of course it's not going going to be a shit show like the rest of knuckles' lore was 🤧🤧🤧🤧
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I'm a little late cuz time slipped away from me but happy birthday Hiiro (even though,,,,, uhhhh,,, I ended up drawing everyone in ur bday image?)
(Hiiro is overcome with love for his besties on his bday I put tears in his eyes I know he's not the type to cry a lot but I think it's not illegal if he cries on his bday bc he loves his fam)
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i'm intrigued about how old/young the kpop community is on tumblr so....
bonus if u tag which groups/artists/songs were the ones that got u into it lol!
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No hate toward soukoku fans whatsoever, but seeing that pairing become such a craze on tumblr is So Weird for me personally lol
I went through a brief but really intense bsd fan phase back in like roughly 2017, and I was just. Not at all into Chuuya lmao. He was fun and all, but I never really thought twice about him and his relationship with Dazai.
Now that I haven't touched the series in years, though, my dash is constantly full of soukoku because of the VnC fan overlap, and it's so odd. I feel like I experienced a very different series/fandom from y'all lmao
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