#they're better than that i swear

[chipthekeeper]

"Everyone has their own rebellion." - Vel Sartha

@andorappreciation Week, Day 1: Favorite Characters/Character Dynamics -- Aldhani rebels

#do i wish these were gifs? absolutely #am i willing to take the time to learn how to do that? not a chance #mediocre photoshop it is #(although significantly better than my first pass at this) #but god dammit i love them #happy anniversary to them and their heist #in my head they're all still alive #working together #thriving #i'll write it someday i swear #andor #andor appreciation week #taramyn barcona #gorn #lieutenant gorn #karis nemik #arvel skeen #vel sartha #cinta kaz #my posts #andorappreciation2023

[the-not-so-dark-age]

I love it when villains do this thing:

Really scary

#imu does it better than everyone tho #i swear they're one of the creepiest characters ever oda really decided to take op on a darker level #op spoilers #jjk spoilers #csm #jjk 239 #imu #sukuna #kenjaku #makima

[uncanny-tranny]

I've been thinking about modesty from a specifically trans lense lately. I was taught that modesty indicates shame, that modesty means you're simultaneously ashamed of being human and having a human body, but also that you are "purer" because you adhere to a hegemonic idea of modesty. Frankly, I just don't agree with this, and it was very much steeped in the idea of specifically christian ideas of modesty.

Before I transitioned, I felt very unprotective of my body because it never felt like mine to begin with. I didn't really care what happened to it, and while I was modest by other people's standards, I certainly didn't feel it. Once I actually started transitioning (and especially on testosterone), I've found that I'm so much more "modest" because I've become protective of my body. There's this stereotype that trans people start "showing themselves off" after transitioning, but I honestly feel the opposite. I'm possessive over my body and exactly how it acts and appears because I actually like my body, and it finally feels like mine. I'm honestly kind of selfish about it, and I think I've earned the right to be.

I made this post because I think this is an interesting topic, and I think it's interesting the ways in which we internalize the influences that be. It's also a reminder that no matter how you feel about things like modesty, you should adhere to what makes the most sense to you and what you are most comfortable with. There are pressures to be modest in this way or that way, but what truly matters is what you decide with your body and yourself.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #modesty #like i was looking into swim pants to wear under my swim trunks because i don't want people to be able to see my legs for example #like... they're MY legs not yours. get your own legs dammit 😡 (joking) #and i found i have no shame about myself since being more 'modest' because i do it out of self-admiration #and personally i have no ties to the hegemonic christian sense of modesty and what i was taught living in a *heavily* christian area #that's not to say i have an issue with christians and what they feel is modest but it's more specifically the shame surrounding modesty #the idea that being modest indicates that you're a 'better person' than those who sin (wearing short shorts or swearing) #that's not inherent to the religion from what i understand but i don't agree with it personally #and i do not believe that modesty (or lack thereof) is an indication of ANYTHING about a person #it doesn't tell you anything about their personality or their interests or what they think #it only tells you how they feel most comfortable existing or behaving and even then you often won't know the complexities of that comfort #i have an issue with the ideas about modesty but i use the word because it is easily understood and it is the language i have available #if there's a better term or word for sure let me know but i haven't been made aware of it 👍 #ANYWAY. i just think it's interesting #and if you're experiences are different from mine i genuinely respect you for it and platonically love you #and i hope you feel beautiful/gorgeous/handsome/cool and i hope you are comfortable <3

[holocene-sims]

just a guy and his snowpal ⛄❄️

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 screenshots #simblr #it's missing my pixel son grant hours #actually i've seen a lot of him lately bc i've been working super hard on story posts - yippee yippeee!! #it's just going slow but i swear they're coming again *pinky promise* #btw if you are reading the tags and you do read the story - question?? #do y'all prefer waiting for me to finish a whole bunch so a cohesive arc is released over a short span all at once? #or do you prefer more frequent updates mini updates that just take longer to cover the arc overall? #if that makes sense #it's much easier for me to do the former bc i've styled my story that way but i notice a lot of people do mini but frequent updates instead #and i'm just kinda curious if one would work better than the other or if people have preferences as readers #i don't know that i would retool it bc i like the long drawn out scenes/arcs i do but i also do want to make more story #and the potential is maybeeee there that i could push things out faster as for the whole narrative if i don't wait until i have time to mas #produce the content #like rn because i'm doing a whole sprint to finish this one arc all at once but i had to wait forever until i had christmas break to do it #holocene.png #hlcn: story extras #hlcn: grant

[prapais]

LOVE IN THE AIR ⋮ SPECIAL EPISODE. you’d better stick to the rules. oh? did you just smile?

#asiandramanet #asianlgbtqdramas #asianlgbtqdrama #love in the air #prapaisky #prapai x sky #fortpeat #lita #mygifs #they're both so stupidly smitten with each other like pls some of us are single!!!!! literally 0 respect </3 #prapai is older than sky but mentally he's 5 years old fbsdhfbsdjfhs #also not to be THAT person but the way pai looks at sky in the first gif is like he's never seen anything better like sky is his everything #im in pieces over them i swear

[deardarlingdevil]

Femmes and mlms: *simps over Raphael*

Some fuck: "B-but Raphael is bad at sex according to the literal sex demon in his house"

So are most men IRL, but at least with Raphael we get a handsome man with charisma. And he probably washes his ass.

#bg3 #raphael #bg3 fandom #i swear to god these chuds need a better hobby #they're so upset women like a fictional devil who's bad at sex more than they like “nice guys”

[blorb-el]

finally got around to watching the 2018/19 death of superman and reign of the supermen movies and i did laugh out loud at this one moment

#my cringe fabio boy tragically contemplating his complete and utter failure to grow a beard #i swear to god there were leaves blowing in the wind. WHERED THE LEAVES COME FROM THEY'RE ON A SATELLITE? #overall it was like. ok. death was better than reign but i regret to say i still am more bizarrely fond of Horrible Cheekbones Version #clark kent

[cinnamon-phrog]

I feel too sick to sleep right now, everything's' too cold or too hot and I can't even breathe without thinking I'm gonna throw up

#it's because i've been drinking diluted juice #i swear the shit they put in that makes me delirious with fever #ughhhh so sick wish a nice big strong mechanoid could help me rn :( real shame #gonna drink water till the middle of the night. there goes my plans for a better nights' sleep :< #i do genuinely feel awful and i have been feeling so for a while and it's all my own doing. not eating healthy. stressing out and barely- #-sleeping. i have stretch marks from losing weight and circles under my eyes. everything's fuzzy. i keep forgetting basic things. #i'm worried about my future. i'm too disabled to function with a job but not disabled 'enough' just because i can speak 'clearly' #i've got no irl friends or family to fall back on. i can only travel so far and i get meltdowns far easier now #months ago i was treated like a pet. now i'm an adult before i ever got to be a child. #i want to be held. be loved without even having to say a word to each other. not even by an f//o but by someone who'll be willing to love m #but all i am now is sick and hungry and hot and cold and tired and awake. #i can't imagine how much worse it is for other people though. i've seen awful images and they're not even a taste of how terrible it is #i worry i won't be able to afford food in the future. or have a stable flat or apartment. that social services will let me down again #this year was meant to be a break but i'm constantly worrying about the time i become 18. my autism and lack of any social life- #will impact me and i'll be fucked over easier than ever. and that happens often #college brought me panic attacks where i'd physically harm myself till i got migraines in front of people and they didn't bat an eye #i could be kicking and screaming and begging for help but they'll just ignore me or infantilise me

[everysongineverykey]

and for my next trick i present... my Grand Tv People Freakout Extravaganza!!! *falls to the floor weeping violently*

#the owl house #toh raeda #raine whispers #eda clawthorne #i swear to god they're going to kill me. they're going to kill me. falls onfloor #you do everything you can to keep your beloved from finding out your secret thinking they will surely hate you but they end up leaving you #for doing just that #and then thirty years later they lie to you about being brainwashed and pretend not to recognize you #to keep you safe so they say #but you look into their eyes and all you see is that younger you staring back at you!!! #the one who loved them so much she forced the feathers and claws back down into her skin to keep them with her and didn't even succeed! #and you think: i thought we were past this. i thought you said i should have known better. #but when it comes down to it you both just want to keep the other safe more than anything. because maybe you still love each other #underneath the years of loneliness and bitterness. and maybe the thought of looking them in the eyes #and just saying 'i'm sorry. i was wrong. i miss you. i love you. can we try again?' #is too frightening for that prideful earnest loving yet cowardly and broken girl inside you. #and the thought of admitting you have made them change their mind is too painful for your beloved #who has resigned themself to always standing there and watching as you go and destroy yourself while cracking a joke. #anyway. heehoo funny owl show

[zukkaoru]

the disparity in kudos between a skk fic and a fic for literally any other bsd characters/ship :/

#like okay i get it skk is the most popular bsd ship by a longshot #but it does kinda suck that my skk fics will always end up being more popular than literally anything else i write for bsd #when i have way better fics tbh #okay i'm unleashing this from my drafts lol #like i get it kudos/hits/bookmarks counts aren't telling of how good a fic is #but out of my last five fics. my skk one has ONE HUNDRED kudos more than the next most kudos #and idk it also sucks that i know my skk is better than 90% of the fandom but. even my skk fics get significantly less kudos/etc #than big writers in the fandom who AREN'T EVEN GOOD #or are like. mid at best #i know in theory that the bsd fandom doesn't care about characterization but like. not only do they encourage bad characterization #it feels like sometimes they're actively against good characterization #even in j.jk and a.tla where there are major issues with bad characterization #more people seem to at least appreciate the good characterization. (even if they aren't good at it themselves.) #but i swear to god no one in the bsd fandom cares about anything besides whether dazai and chuuya are kissing. it begins and ends there. #it never ceases to amaze me (derogatory) how a fandom where the source media draws So Much inspiration from classic literature #can somehow have NEGATIVE media literacy skills #why don't you guys take a break from your edgy dazai x softboy chuuya fics and you fems.kk with dazai in skimpy clothes and your #beast chuuya sobbing and killing himself over dazai's death #and go read some of the books by the actual authors. and then write me an essay about the themes that has nothing to do with shipping. #and THEN you can come back to the fandom. #listen i love skk but oh my god sometimes the fandom makes me hate them. #anyway one of these days i'm going to get anon hate for complaining about the bsd fandom so much but that's fine #at least i know there are characters in the show besides dazai and chuuya. and when i do write skk AT LEAST I DO IT RIGHT. #hello grace here

[lepusrufus]

This is for all the fic writers/ younger writers who think their works aren't good enough to be taken seriously or to be published someday.

The number of boomers who have nothing better to do at 70 or 80 and think they're The Shit and decide to publish autobiographies, walk around with their elementary school grammar thinking they're some writing gurus, can't properly space out paragraphs, form sentences like they swallowed a fistful of commas and spat them all over the document, abuse of the bold and italics like their lives depend on it, have zero understanding of properly putting spaces after punctuation marks, is absurd.

So please make yourself some tea and give yourself a pat on the back for honesty being a better writer than the vast majority of boomers with an ego the size of Jupiter who publish their bullshit.

#I'm not even exaggerating when i say most fics I read by people writing for shits and giggles #are a billion times better formatted than 99% of the books I edit #what are paragraphs? #what is putting a space after a comma or period? #what is not abusing of quotation marks? #they have no fucking clue #i swear fic writers need so much more credit than they're given for being so careful about proper formatting #yes I'm totally writing this after having to deal with one too many shitbags at work

[closet-of-bones]

UHm-

This some SUPER old art now but I ✨️forgot✨️ to post it 'cause I didn't like it but now I kinda like it???

Idk I hope someone else likes it too 👀👉👈

#utmv #ut au #killer sans #dust sans #old art lmao #don't look at it #but do #not too closely tho #I swear I'm better than this now #dusttale #killertale #they're such good friends #Killer definitely saying the dumbest shit rn #Dust is such a mood

[gu6chan]

thinking about what rubs me so wrong about the writing of furiae really felt like "woman who really only has control over her own mind and fantasies, hardly unable to do anything than what's expected as her both as a goddess and a woman" and how the way the staff viewed the writing of furiae as "woman who can't do anything"

I feel like Tadashi really summed it up good in this passage here

#gu6chan's musings #drakengard #furiae Drakengard #hot take i suppose but it makes so much sense looking at woman later in the series that their writing isn't based in anything actually HUMAN #so much as 'subversive of ORDINARY woman' without consideration of where any of that is routed #kainé; A2; Zero; etc. CLAIM to be subversive - 'what other jrpg woman has masculine-like violence and swears a lot' #but they're all surmountably treated as jackoff material at the end of the day; regardless of how 'progressive' their narrative treats them #that women's 'worth' by the series creators is really only seen in how 'subversive' they can be while still being comfortably appealing #and the only one whose main point of terror and tragedy LIES in the terror of being forced into submission; objectified and being unable to #do anything for herself because of that is viewed as 'plain' and 'annoying' and 'boring' makes a lot of sense and it's so..... #the moment it comes to that being treated as a subject of terror and discomfort on the behalf of the people DOING it it becomes an issue #otherwise they just slap a 'oh she's INDEPENDENT and sticks up for herself which is better than a LOT of women but that's all in a way that' #'she looks and acts in a baddy way where *I* can still feel comfortable objectifying and jacking off to her at the end of the day' #anyways many thoughts I'm taking a shower #maybe ill ramble about how they got seere wrong next too lmao

[cyanidefilleddynamite]

mii having a good day until i remember that mpreg fanart of my webcomic (in progress) characters exist

matias my poor boy i'm so sorry

anywho I haven't really introduced him here yet so here's a little doodle I made of him and his boyfriend on an aggie today!! I love old man yaoi!!!

Green one is Mammon, blue is Matias. I'll post refs for them when I get to it :3

#old man yaoi #i love gay people #they're so silly #i can draw better than this i swear

[beanghostprincess]

He's sending kisses to both Usopp and Nami!! 🧡💛💙

#source: just trust me #i swear i know them better than oda #they're dating fr fr #he just loves them too much #one piece #black leg sanji #usopp #cat burglar nami #sanuso #sanami #sanusona

[araneitela]

Me: Talks about the significance and intimacy (not automatically romantic, folks, but also there's an inherent romanticism) of hands, and touch and who you let into that space of comfort. Pinterest: Did you say hands? Here, we've adjusted your home feed you so that you. cannot. possibly. escape. them. you're. welcome. Me: I just wanted— what did I want, again?

... Did I end up rambling about anything but hands in my tags? Yes. Welcome to me, this is what you sign up for. Not my portrayal, not my writing, my tag rambles.

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. #[ i literally don't remember what i went on here for. ] #[ i thought it was an icon but it was not. ] #[ instead i'm now thinking of the importance of her gloves. ] #[ and how they're a barrier between her and humanity. or everything inherently human; more so. ] #[ they're an aesthetic. yes. of course-- but it's more than that. in characters made by hoyo? everything always has 5 more layers. ] #[ at the very least. ] #[ ugh. i wish i could organize my thoughts and talk about the 'versions' of rather-- layers of kafka herself. ] #[ without it being 24 paragraphs long. ] #[ it's just gotten so complicated because you see her presenting herself in such way for so long. ] #[ voice. attitude. indifference. playfulness. and all of those remain except they falter more when she's around two individuals. ] #[ i can't even include sw and elio in this yet. because while kafka seemed to lean a little towards her more normal voice... ] #[ in the pier point dialogue with sw; it was only sometimes. it was so inconsistent. ] #[ same with sam. granted there's only one exchange between them so far. ] #[ but i digress-- then i get her story quest and in it she softens not even a little. but decently enough. ] #[ is /that/ the pretense? no you don't fake that. you don't fake how she says '...you're not leaving?' that delivery is vocal perfection. ] #[ but /that/ plays so well into all these other very human elements that she has. ] #[ i swear-- part of me truly believes she's already /on/ the path of 'learning' to feel a semblance of what fear is. or better yet... ] #[ what it /stems/ from. ] #[ because we say 'she has no concept of fear' but what does that MEAN. does that mean across the board? ] #[ concern stems from fear. you need /care/ and investment to feel fear. she /shows/ concern actively. she risks a lot to-- ] #[ be concerned about blade. and yes; she lacks the fear of them getting caught. but she's concerned for him. ] #[ and she's also practical and analytical; she knows if they get caught-- blade worsens. ] #[ and while it also endangers the 'future' a bit; she harps on blade. she also confides in the MC about her concern. ] #[ i just. ] #[ this is so much more complicated than i thought it'd be. ] #[ and also this whole concept of what humans fall into when they lack fear. how they become metaphorical 'demons'... ] #[ that pursue pleasure and thrill. but she became a /hunter/ of them. and yet she shows a lesser shade of it herself. ] #[ i just. think she's so inherently and stupidly interesting. HI GUYS. HANDS. i totally went on a tangent. ] #[ ... not about hands. ]