#this is why we need visibility

[georgiaatwarr]

Ever came out to a friend and upon explaining your feelings gotten the reaction “isn’t that how everyone feels?”

Whelp guess we’re on this journey together now. Must be another reason we became friends hahaha.

#aroace representation #asexual #aromantic #I gave her loveless bc I hoped she’d understand me better but then she said wow this book is too relatable #it’s contagious #this is why we need visibility

[myrkulitescourge]

the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me

just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.

like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.

in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.

how am i supposed to act normal about this.

#i need to lay down #just drop this in there right at the beginning why not! #that’s INTENSE. and completely sincere considering his demeanor at the party. god #he’s so… nice. in the romanced epilogue. i expected him to be a little smug and jokey #if tav told him the others weren’t doing so hot without the two of them around #but he takes it so genuinely and with visible disappointment?? literally shocked me #i thought he would say oh of course their lives have taken a turn without our impressive leadership lol! #and then redirect into something a little less flippant #but man. he just gets sad. astarion six months into a loving relationship is like a stray cat that instantly gets cuddly when you adopt it #dude went cotton candy marshmallow saccharine sweet in a HEARTBEAT #bless the others with your presence he says. i’ll always be here he says. we have forever after all he says. #head in my hands. how could they do this to me #astarion ancunin #astarion bg3 #astarion #bg3 epilogue spoilers #bg3 spoilers #baldur’s gate 3 spoilers #bg3

[juricore]

ok to be fair when i watched utena for the first time at 16 i definitely didn't fully Get It. like i still walked away like Woah that was life changing but i missed some very big themes/points and that's why i think rgu really really improves upon and deserves multiple rewatches. and i also think that watching the apocalypse arc for the first time becomes very personal, you take away what you need to take away from the show (or at least i did at 16). so i WANT to give grace to people who may have misinterpreted rgu because it's a complicated show but if people are writing blogs or videos or putting out long form media called stuff like UTENA EXPLAINED 😱 and still fucking miss the point um lol actually

#utena #this is not about somerton specifically but i remember being on the Road Trip From Hell #my first ever 9 hour drive in the middle of a blizzard. and jules was there trying to keep me not insane so we listened to a podcast ep #rgu #like an utena explained one and it pissed us off so much that it did actually distract me from the zero visibility fuck god why are #snow chains illegal in my state when we NEED THEM....... #ANYWAY whatever

[thehealingsystem]

hey if your response to lesbian visibility week is to add on saying how much you hate "xyz" lesbians then you are a lesbophobe. plain and simple. you hate lesbians who don't meet your ideal criteria for what a "real lesbian" is (ever changing and impossible to meet if you actually care about pleasing strangers). and if you're a non-lesbian you should just not make a post at all if that's how you're gonna act. we're tired of this shit

#why it is always lesbians why do you people LOVE policing lesbians so much #trans lesbians ace/aro lesbians he/him lesbians nonbinary lesbians butch lesbians mspec lesbians multigender lesbians the list goes on #every single time we get the most shit #and you bother our gay counterparts the least #I mean I know why #but it's infuriating to keep on watching you people cycle through to hating yet another group of lesbians #there are no invaders and there is no sanctity of lesbianism that needs protecting you guys are just lesbophobic #lesbian #lesbian visibility week #lesbophobia #queer #nonbinary #nonbinary lesbian #he/him lesbian #mspec lesbian #lesboy

[kottkrig]

Playing WoW has been uncool among gamers for like years now and we're all getting old and some of us have been stuck here for over a decade and are still going

I remember being 13 and ppl talked openly about WoW at school (which is what got me sucked in) and it was popular in mainstream media to talk about what a huge phenomenon it was at the time, and the game is still truckin' on the same old engine that they're just building upon and trying to improve without making the entire thing crash due to meddling with deeply embedded systems

#i feel this is part of why we still can't have hats with visible hair at the same time even if it clips #(for what it's worth we don't care if it clips we just need a 2nd headslot behind the scenes for cosmetic reasons I suppose) #kott talks

[uncanny-tranny]

One of the hardest things to actually accept, in my experience, is that you eventually have to forgive yourself for the harm you did to yourself. A good way to move on from that is just being able to let your past self rest in peace. Don't stomp on their resting spot, they need to be at peace. They deserve to be at peace, and so do you.

#mental health #mental health recovery #self harm tw #sh tw #self harm mention tw #(just for the implication) #i'm trying to accept the things i did when i was young to harm myself #and i'm scared to think of the ramifications my self-destructive habits and bahavioural patterns will have on my future self (if any) #(this is part of why i think we NEED to destigmatize scars. i looked at the way people with visible self-harm scars were treated... #...and so i harmed myself in ways that didn't leave scars which were MORE dangerous in the end i think) #if you have visible scars from *anything* i truly love that you're here and you're reading this (maybe) #unreality tw #(just in case? i think this post can count) #i just like the visualization of separating my present with my past #because i can treat him with the respect that i'd give to somebody else in his situation #is it healthy? who knows but it helps me remember to be compassionate so i don't particularly care

[heterophobiclanwangji]

hey if the only real difference between pidw and scum villain before shen yuan’s transmigration is shen jiu possibly dying of a qi deviation, then does that mean shang qinghua accidentally murdered shen jiu

#scum villain #svss #shang qinghua #??? #i mostly mean this as a joke but like imagine #murderous coward sqh (affectionate) just deciding he doesn't want to deal with cannon - #and he doesn't have the therapy license these characters need so he just assassinates sj #like well i've already done this much treason why stop now #then his visible discomfort with sy!sqq has less to do with sy's ooc behavior and more to do with like #sqh's contained panic at trying and failing to kill sj and expecting the other shoe to drop at any moment #because no matter how you feel about sj i thnk we all know: that bitch can hold a grudge #not really in line with cannon but it could be fun! #the other answer is that there are more changes but they're all granular politics from the northern demon realm #and thus sy wouldn't know/care #the other other answer is that sj didn't die on his own - #maybe the system decided sqh wasn't doing enough and offed sj to make room for sy #which would still make it related to sqh #just not in a 'sqh's presence is subtly offputting and digging into sj's insecurities - #which then destabilizes his cultivation base until he qi deviates and dies' sort of way #i'm sorry i just like to imagine sqh having a huge body count despite shying away from nearly all physical confrontations #it's good and funny every time #my posts

[thyandrawrites]

Free matsuhana fic concept: the team places mistletoe everywhere in a sweet but misguided effort to get them together, not knowing that they've already been dating for months. They still go along with it, wondering how many heated make out sessions it will take for them to catch on, since the double dates with iwaoi (who actually aren't together yet) haven't been evidence enough

#Matsuhana #Hanamatsu #hanamaki takahiro #Matsukawa issei #Haikyuu #Just posting this here instead of my sideblog for max visibility. Don't mind me #I haven't thought about them in AGES yet this was the first thing on my mind upon waking up this morning #Why a mistletoe fic? In the middle of june? I have no fucking clue #Maybe my subconscious is already craving the cold idk #Anyway this is up for grabs #I've never written hq fics and it's been years since I last read hq ff so I wouldn't know where to begin #But this has chaotic potential and it would be a shame not to let it roam free in the fandom. Hopefully someone can make this justice #Bonus: it's Kyoutani who figures it out the one time he actually shows up to practice #Despite not having seen the senpai in months #Because we all know kyoutani would never go along with the team's bs #Ok that last one is optional. No need to include it. But it made me laugh #Gosh I miss my seijoh children

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

'yandere sebastian' 'yandere abigail' 'yandere wizard' give me yandere clint 🖐✊🖐✊

#random thoughts #stardew valley #love the idea of a clint who slowly loses interest in emily and starts fixating on the farmer #it wouldn't get violent so not REALLY a yandere he just gets kinda stalker-y and really passive-aggressive #about you talking to and romancing other people #i just wish more stardew mods kept the original kind of asshole-y personalities of the nonromancable characters #don't make morris a sympathetic guy whose dad died and he's 'just following orders' give me reasons WHY he thinks pelican town sucks #and make me be able to kiss him anyway #a character doesn't need to be morally good for me to understand their motivations!!! #GIVE ME ASSHOLE WIZARD!!! #actually you know what i love the idea of clint killing someone and immediately regretting it #like in a heat of the moment 'my crush's spouse is arguing with me while im forging and well.' #'i got mad and i had a hammer' #immediately freaks out but OBVIOUSLY he can't go to harvey about this!!! #so he takes the body (were they still breathing? he was so freaked out he can't remember anymore and he hates it) #and buries it in the grove of trees behind his house where you get that one statue #goes inside and cries himself to sleep or smth #gets all jumpy for a while until you trigger his next heart event #when you go to his shop while he's visibly upset and he's like #'would you still like me even if i did something really wrong? would we still be friends?' #and depending on how you answer he either gets moderately back to normal or kills himself #the ghost of your spouse starts haunting him btw. visible only to him #you can see inside his house before you enter during the cutscene and you (the player) can see the ghost #but when you go inside it's gone #if he kills himself you find a note saying to check out back to see what he did #my guilty pleasure is really fucking edgy character mods can you tell #anyway if you get married and have a kid after this the kid has your deceased spouse's name by default <3

[nostalgia-tblr]

by the time they get to that lake on Lamentis Sylvie's lost the bulky identity-hiding cloak and Loki's lost the jacket with 'VARIANT' stamped across the back in massive letters because now they're at the point of seeing each other as actual people with their own identities instead of as merely inferior knock-off versions of themselves, and even as someone who's massively into the selfcest angle i think that's quite lovely

#sylki #do we still call this meta? #i was wondering why they just ditch their outer layers in ep3 #but yeah if you're gonna have 'the first time someone sees YOU' then they need to like #lose the visible signals of hiding and of sameness #it's the visual version of correcting mobius - she's not just 'the other variant' any more she is *sylvie* #and that annoying other loki is a real person too once you get a good look at him not just a brightly-signposted VARIANT of you #And Then They Done Sex #(okay they didn't done sex stop nitpicking my facts) #loki series

[mosasaura]

Hi ive been trying to find the post you mentioned saying February 18th - 24th is supposed to be a march week, do you have a link by any chance (my search engine is failing me)

i do, yes! it was posted on Bisan's instagram 3 days ago (as of Feb 18 2024, when i answered this)

#palestine #i want to clarify i'm all for strikes for palestine and im not against this one i just have doubts that it's actually going to do very much #there was the whole world pushing bisan's is why that one worked the way it did #it's my genuine belief that you could do more good by attending a march like she's asking. add visible numbers to the streets #rather than just empty booths in businesses #striking only works for so long. when government doesnt listen either way we need to actually be hands on #edit: i thought the date & caption would be worthwhile to add

[rumplestiltrin]

must it take white people to report to you that what we say about our own queer experiences is correct? or will you get your head out of your ass and listen to what poc have to say about their own god damn experiences.

#i am not palestinian #however i am brown and was visibly muslim for a while #islamaphobia is an ugly thing because it varies from outright hostility #to “well meaning” racist liberals that think i need saving #why do you think we need saving? why do you think we are “trapped” under an archaic belief system? #do you not realise that culturally we aren't dissimilar at all? #or do you want to believe that islam is a scary barbaric religion so you sleep better at night that they are being killed in a genocide? #never mind the fact that palestinian jews and christians are being killed too #never mind that muslims themselves deserve the same rights to live as any other fucking human being #im so tired.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#love that when ur stressed and having a bad time it makes ur menstrual pain worse so you feel even more awful #like. yes. id love to get things done but unfortunately i need to go home immediately at 2pm bc i feel physically ill. vibes wretched. #im considering sleep here at 6pm but 2 b fair i think i only slept 4hrs last night. woof. tomorrow is gonna b interesting #i think the allergic reacting is abt over now tho. like im not really itchy anymore. the rash is still visible but i think its just dry now #bc of the cold. so was i ever reacting to the tatto0? or was it all the medication? im so interesting in what happened #would i not have had a reaction if i hadn't got a bunch of holes poked in my skin? or was it just a coincidence #that the rash started on that arm? ugh. so frustrating. and i think the psychiatrist forgot to actually book my appointment from when we #last talked so idk. maybe if i watch t4skmaster over and over it will heal my soul #ay. its all very frustrating. and i still dont have fucking autoclave access. fuck off. just give me the fucking key code #i just wanna pour plates 🫗 lol that actually looks a lot like pouring solid media. i dont wanna have to steal someone else's card to open #the door. who even locks up an autoclave??? they didnt at my old school and u could wheel a body into that thing. im pretty sure it was #bigger than this one. also there's another unlocked on on campus. why?! i ask ppl and fucking no one knows. that's just how it is #ugh. i should go to sleep. my tummy hurt #unrelated

[politischerbloedsinn]

Those zoom in make-up mirrors are evil actually because you see all your pores and little pimples or scars much more clearly than normal and it makes you think something's wrong with you

Instagram filters that give you makeup or slightly change your face shape or smooth your skin are obviously evil too because it makes you think that's what people look like and then when you see yourself in the mirror you think something's wrong with you

I especially abhor filters that also change other things (like, normal colour filter, fun colourful makeup, stars or fireworks on screen), but then also subtly change your face shape. You might not even notice it when you use the filter for fun. But it's there and it's going to be in your subconscious memory of what a human face should be if you look at it for too long.

#sorry I'm having Thoughts but the roommate has one of these mirrors and it took me five minutes to tear myself away from it and stop poking #at my nose and my chin and the barely there pimples on my cheek that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise (so like noone else probably noticed #either!! i don't need them to go away!!! they're just tiny irregularities that get visible under that damn magnifying glass of a mirror) #and it reminded me of how the insta filters fuck with self perception too #x #instagram filters #makeup culture #make-up culture #why we need feminism #feminism #anti make-up #anti filters #body positivity

[isa-ah]

im probably going to make a new post to pin about our immigration soon im still so embarrassed that every bit of progress we've made has been like trying to hold fistfuls of sand. god. but I'll make it more succinct or whatever and maybe delve into where we're going finally and shit. idk

#weve had to go back 3 different times to the cop house to get his ID complications worked out #and then a cop fucking confiscated MINE for being trans so now i have to go back and start #the qhole waiting game AGAIN to get my stupid fucking female ID in the mail instead #and then we have to drive HOURS to go get our marriage license anywhere that isnt HERE!!!!!! #AND THEN!!!!!!! well finally have the fucking PRIVILEGE of paying hundreds of dollars for our passports GREAT #i want to rip my HAIR OUT that there have been so many issues bc ALL of them have been bc of the fucking state troopers office #they have the wrong information on their website theyre mean theyre stupid they delight in shit going wrong #and that sounds like hyperbole but weve both been LAUGHED AT and the cop who told lo he cant have an M ID #like theyre nasty and unhelpful and thats why its taken this long bc lo needed help w smtn they just. wouldn't. help with. #and maryland just. wouldnt. help with. #and its like so what are we supposed to fuckjng do? exactly? #raagahsgsgshgghgg im just so. mad and irritated and annoyed #you wont work with us bc were visibly queer but we only need this shit to LEAVE so GET OVER IT AND HELP!