#the boy cannot see

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[puppetmaster13u]

Who wants a prompt entirely in memes.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #danny fenton #klarion the witch boy #billy batson #would they be called chaos trio or feral trio lol #they're all realm denizens #lil baby godlings of chaos space and magic respectively #Danny and Billy are halfas but Klarion is a Neverborn #Fawcett just shrugs whenever they see Billy run around #He's that feral child they've seen ride a tiger before #Though it's nice he's got a friend even if they're all riding tigers now #Oh well #Danny: Why am I the youngest >:/ #Billy: Because you're tinier than us #Danny: Having an adult form is cheating #Klarion: You're baby tho #Klarion: Omg we should go play with the justice league babies! #Danny: Omg friends yes! #Billy with the gods chanting Do It in his ears: This surely cannot go wrong #Billy: Let's bring them all kitties too so they have friends to snuggle with after playing #They might have run into Jason on the way and omg it's another undead bby who is older than them #Which isn't fair but also omg he should join them in their playing #Jason seeing glowing eyes in the shadows after reading several horror stories: NopeNopeNopeNopeNope #memes #meme

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

#she's such a fucking icon I'm obsessed with her #blue eye samurai #mine #mizu #bes mizu #blue eye samurai mizu #also I haven't finished the season yet i've still got 3 eps to go but I kinda ship her and Taigen which i DID NOT EXPECT #i DID NOT SEE IT COMING #but they kinda braime coded lbr #fucking baller ass women with swords who're doing their own thing #with cringefail loser hot boys with hidden honourable qualities who think they're cooler than they actually are #chasing after them?? honestly my type of pairing i cannot deny

[prudentseer]

Mythical Sausage when I catch you...WHEN I CATCH YOU

#smalletho #boat boys #Glad to see his 10 page fanfic that he “just started” is going well #All the others are one page this one has FIVE (probably empty but it's Sausage I cannot predict him) #mythicalsausage #No one is doing it like him folks #AND HE WANTS JOEL TO READ AND SIGN IT? #GARFIELD ARE YOU /SRS OR /J?!?! #IS THIS SHIPPING? IS THIS JUST TEASING? I DON'T KNOW BUT ITS MYTHICAL J. SAUSAGE #smallishbeans #ethoslab

[weaselmcdiesel]

":33< kk look!! build-a-cholerbear!!!"

#my art #homestuck #karkat #nepeta #katnep #karnep #karkat vantas #nepeta leijon #au where alternia is cool and fashionable and kk leaves his house #i hope it reads that she's handing the drink to him. he's not sneaking a sip she's givin it to him #i also hope it looks like a mall it's meant to be a mall #your boy cannot draw lol #dailykatnep if you see this I started drawin this before I knew you were doin a countdown thing #hope I don’t steal your Thunder OTL

[monakisu]

L is less of a blanket and more of an iron maiden. squeezing light half to death is the only way his insomnia-challenged ass can fall asleep

gift 1/3 for my DN secret santa @llawlieta ! for ur prompt of light and L sleeping and being vulnerable and fluffy with each other… thank u so much to the @dnsecretsanta mod for their hard work in setting up this whole lovely shebang!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS ∩(´∀`∩)🧡🌀💤

#i specifically referenced charlie brown screaming AAUGH! for that last panel #i think if light and snoopy ever met one would end up throttling the other to death and it wouldn’t be the human boy walking away alive #if u see this comic as a continuation of my last one then it looks like lawlight are a dysfunctional couple who genuinely love each other #but biologically cannot resist going bananas if one of them breathes wrong #rule of lawlight: L always finds a way to piss off light & light always finds a way to get pissed off at L #美迪 archive #💡princess posting⋆˚✿˖° #lawlight #light yagami #l lawliet #death note #dnsecretsanta23

[stbot]

I've been thinking lately... maybe I should stop worrying so much about why I feel something and just feel it.

#grease rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #cynthia zdunowski #grease spoilers #cynthia rotpl #shy guy rotpl #short king ‘wait does this mean i’m a thespian?’ cynthia #shy guy 'i'm jewish though?' edward #baby boy shy guy!!!! my son my child!! #queer solidarity love to see it! #i think i need a gif tag #not to prev tags myself but uh: #cynthia and shy guy are like Peak high school gays trying to date each other bc they can't accept they're gay but know the other is Safe #like i really didn't expect for this to be where his v obvious crush was going but i'm here for it! #love them love this #love to see cyn getting their shit together to apologize #cannot wait for next week!

[egophiliac]

I was really in the mood to do some masquerade fanart, but I didn’t feel like coming up with anything original, so here’s some of my favorite (...slightly paraphrased) bits from the first part. I don’t know where it’s going, but it’s pretty fun so far!

also one that isn’t canon except in my heart:

(disclaimer that this is a Joke)

(he is a horrible little rat man, but to be fair, so is everyone else)

(if you don’t like horrible little rat men why are you even playing this game)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #glorious masquerade #hey rolly is your big secret plan to give malleus the best day ever because so far it's working #he got INVITED to go on a TRIP and his favorite humans are there and there's GARGOYLES #not to mention his special little fancy boy outfit with a special little fancy boy hat that has room for his horns! #round it out with an ice cream social to put a nice button on it #the only downside is that the building is too nice. mal likes his buildings REAL shitty. #he WILL say this to your face. #(this is why he never gets invited anywhere.) #anyway cannot overstate how delightful it is to see jade be like 'i would also like to destroy something' #go for it! indulge that id! #azul doesn't care as long as you keep it to things he's not personally responsible for! #not included but also appreciated: trein spending twenty minutes discussing the care arrangements he made for his cat #then having a tearful goodbye with said cat #(the care arrangements boil down to 'i asked my coworker to feed him') #(crewel is a friend to all animals apparently and that's the most surprising twist so far)

[kittykatninja321]

One thing that is not nearly discussed enough is the way that 16 year old catatonic Jason imprinted on Talia like a baby duck. Like can you imagine the image of Talia walking around the league base being followed by a mute dazed looking teenager and nobody’s allowed to say shit about it?

#League assassin 1: who the hell is that? League assassin 2: oh that’s just Lady Talia’s pet zombie boy don’t worry about it #Jason Todd #dc #See what annoys me the most about the ‘Talia is a cold hearted manipulator who is just using Jason’ trope in fic is that #even the least charitable reading of Jason and Talia’s lost days dynamic cannot change the fact that he was her poor little meow meow #and that there is genuine fondness there. From BOTH of them

[vaguely-concerned]

there are a lot of daddy issues to go around on DS9 in general, but odo, bashir and garak are really in their own special little fucked up 'what am I but wrought in my father's image' club

#star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #odo #julian bashir #elim garak #(I personally think we should put their dads in a cage match and let them kill each other. tain would probably win #but we could just shoot him after he claimed that victory. I Would Like To See It) #the triumvirate of bad dads to karmically oppose the sheer power of good dad vibes benjamin sisko has #specifically dads who Cannot and Will Not allow the healthy individuation of their sons into whole separate people #apart from what their father's hands have shaped them into #where that is one of the first things sisko accepts and realizes he must allow jake to do right at the early seasons #the bad dad club boys seem more specifically forcibly held in place to serve as mirrors for their fathers #and have to find ways to break away from that in more or less graceful ways; breaking off more or less important parts of themselves #to do so #dr mora seems to have a 'oh fuck.' moment where he sort of realizes what he's done #but the sympathy that gains him from me is hm. neglible lmao at least tain is basically fully just a monster #what's your excuse mora #I haven't met bashir's dad properly yet but I've seen enough to suspect I'm not going to be very charitably inclined towards him either

[snailtaco]

You’d think I woulda drawn the grumpy bunny much earlier with my favoritism toward angry expressions, huh? I’m also surprised.

#lil grumpus man rabbit boy #I still cannot draw animals to save my life #don’t quote any of the anatomy you see on this rabbit #it’s a bold choice #the day I draw both Wolfie and bunny Legend is the day the world ends #loz #legend of zelda #lu legend #linked universe #hero of legend #I was not gonna quote his games #bunny legend #art #my art

[suchawrathfullamb]

my "hot" take on the show is that while it tried to dehumanize hannibal and make him seem like a god/devil, with no feelings, and apparently most of you do see him like that, I'm over here like "my bbg he has biiiig big feelings leave him alone" and "I trust no words that come out of Will Graham's mouth". I don't know what happened along the way but I ended up perceiving everything upside down from what they tried to depict lol

#idk I just see so much humanity in hannibal and soooo many feelings like too many that he just cannot deal so he created a person suit #but he's passionate and impulsive and so in love and he gets emotional over opera like hello #I see the truth in EVERY lie he told #and I don't see him as supernatural or godly #but Will on the other hand?? WILL GRAHAM IS AN ALIEN TO ME #that man scares me so much #I trust nothing that he does or says he has such cunning vibes #I swear that man is an alien disguised as a pretty boy and I do not trust him he looks like a coiled snake #besides he fooled everyone EVERYONE on that show #hannigram #nbc hannibal #hannibal #will graham #murder husbands #hannibal lecter #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #meta #analysis

[johnslittlespoon]

MOTA FINALE SPOILERS

posting this scene in full here because i think it's necessary and i'm not sure how any of us are ever going to recover. i feel insane

#these mfers just wanted to see how hard they could make me cry #and boy did it fuckin' work #i cannot stop #buckbucky #buck x bucky #mota spoilers #masters of the air spoilers

[ryllen]

sebek is literally the PERFECT character for a slow burn, many misunderstanding, romance. Not in a "I can fix you" way but in a "there is so much more to you that you don't see and you will soon love to learn about yourself" way am I making sense? Idk if I'm wording that right

let the people who read this to understand it by their own term

#literally the whole diasomnia boys are slow burn to me because i really had the least interest in them #tho i guess it's bcs the japanese twitter fandom itself cannot fed me with too much art of them anyway bcs their story had not dropped yet #mod posting #i do want sebek to see more of himself than malleus for great seven sake #don't make malleus ur personality! i want to see YOUR personality!!

[luck-of-the-drawings]

so REVENGE, HUH? or justice, if that makes you feel better. it tastes the same when cooked just right. 'I REALLY WANTED A BROTHER.' such a shame to burn a bridge you so desperately wanted to keep, especially when it wasnt even you who started the fire. especially when you hope that not a single fragment of that bridge ever washes ashore.[MAY IT ROT FAR FROM MY SIGHTS] an unfortunate loss! atleast he has his friends.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi prime defenders spoilers #jrwi pd spoilers #jrwi pd #william wisp #vyncent sol #THIS ONE IS FUUUUCKIN OOOOOLLDD RAAAHHHHH i made it like. a year ago. but didnt finish it for so so long bc i just wasnt happy w it. #BUT LIKE A CENTURY EGG the decades of being encased in salt n lime n ash have done WELL to bring out the flavores of this piece #i sorta recently cleaned it up and posted it onto twitty. didnt tag it bc it was SO OLD AND SCUFFED(i see so many MISTAKES NOW) #that i didnt want to expose it to the open air just like that #if i show smth to my small circles then it shall only be understood in those small circles. #open air and open interpretation from minds i cannot predict are NOT something i enjoy the thought of. usually. i am brave tho #BUT EVERYONE ON TWITTY WAS SO NICEEE i was like damn... i guess it IS good enough to be enjoyed by the masses... #lets work on being nicer to our art together. THAT BEING SAID. i really love my colors here HELL YEAHHHH #FIRST TIME IN A WHILE COLORIN THESE BOYS.... i dont use proper color enough..I ALSO RLY LIKE MY BACKGROUNDS HERE #i LOVE when the bg is hyperrealistic (i frankestiened stock photos) and when the subjects are all flat colored n cartoony #recently rewatched Making Fiends and they do that similar thing!! soft shading! lotsa details! almost painted? ill paint one day #ive already rambled so much abt the art im runnin out of ROOm to ramble about WWWIILLIAM GODDAMN WWIIIISP. its been a minute since i saw- #-this episode..but i DO remember the funny smoke trick that will did to his funny brother. EVERYTIME U GIVE AN ORDER. THAT BRINGS HARM- #-INDIRECTLY OR NOT. YOU WILL HEAR THOSE SCREAMS. YOU WILL FEEL THAT PAIN. OHHH WHAT A COOL PUNISHMENT THAT IS #its still an olive branch in a sense! a final chance for big bro bell to show that hes NOT an irrideemable piece o shit. and if not #well. to the wolves of psychosis with him!!! i really think william did the best he could here. if i was in his shoes i have no doubt i- #-woulda done the same. IM ALSO GLAD THAT VYN DECIDED TO STICK AROUND N SUPPORT HIM! thas character development baybe!! #i loooove prime defenders.. its been so long since i watched any eps of it but i KNOW it still has such a grip on my heart..GOTTA rewatch i

[captainsweet]

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