#you need your strength

[boykingpirate]

you have changed me, gently, unknowingly. you have changed me with your love

#one piece #op #monkey d. luffy #strawhats #strawhat pirates #nami #roronoa zoro #sanji #nico robin #franky #jinbei #brook one piece #tony tony chopper #You can put your strength down. I'm sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don't need to say anything. #You are sunlight through a window which I stand in warmed.

[uncanny-tranny]

Some advice for younger queer folk: please don't make your sense of isolation integral to your queer experience. It might feel cathartic, and it's certainly something I did for a time myself - there's no shame in admitting that you feel that isolation.

It's not a bad thing to notice that you feel isolated, but please don't isolate yourself because you think your only tie to your queerness is that you are alone in everything. There is a community and place for you, even when it doesn't seem feasible. Please hold hope out for that

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #it's sometimes just sad to see people almost... conflate their worth woth how alone they are #in that they see their isolation as a test of will or strength - something that they must fight through and prove themselves worthy... #...of having community. you do not need to earn your place in the world. your worth isn't tied to that

[collophora]

haha I'll never finish this

but hewwo new followers <3

#star wars #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch fanart #but the idea is cool so have this bleurg #today I broke a teeth and I don't know how #got an appointment but not before a week #it's annoying to eat 'cause the sensation is weird #maybe it will motivate me to lose weight tho #so I could finally pass this threshold of 2 pull ups in a row to 3 #and finally go to the gym without my emotional support elastic bands #do strength training with your own bodyweight they say #it will be cheap they said #yeah guess what it's hard when you're afab lol #in the meantime doing legs is easy but eeeh no one do squat competition in party #it's always “hey look how much pull ups I can do” #gnagnagna #hey people who read my tags comment which clone would win a pull up competition if you read this #ok I need to sleep #bye

[mishapen-dear]

tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

#qsmp neg #qsmp crit #discourse #<- for blacklists #im not grumping or anything im just musing on like. the mechanics of why everyone is so upset about the latest fight #and how it can be avoided while still keeping these fights genuinely difficult and intense #its hard because there's so many players and they all have wildly different strengths and weaknesses #so someone who could take on the code easy needs that enemy scaled differently than someone who isn't a big fighter #but it's hard to do that in a world where they interact w the same enemy #and you only have so much man-power to cater to a big server like this one #and then you bring in the big powerful items that the players can and can't access but which the admins have ultimate power over #and the fact that some of the admins themselves have lag issues or aren't super great at pvp so they accommodate that with better gear #and it starts getting messy #but for the fights themselves yeah regardless of what armour or gear or killing-methods they use there should Always be a win condition #and idk maybe there was one and we just didn't get to see it #but if that win condition is 'parents sit in the safe room with their babies while the others are overrun' #then i think there are ways to build better win conditions #anyway i love game design and player/dm interactions qsmp hire me now i want to know your behind the scenes #jk im too busy to apply #but man. i wanna nerd out so bad that sometimes i think about it

[essektheylyss]

Honestly, it is so funny remembering that Annabeth Chase's literal, stated, canonical fatal flaw is hubris.

Rick Riordan was like, "This clever, neurodivergent preteen girl believes that she is smarter than the gods, and she will get the chance to prove herself right," and he was correct. 😌

#pjo #honestly annabeth best character cuz in the end the gods straight up are like 'you're right. here's your dream come true' #like never once did mr. riordan say 'and she should stop being like that.' #honestly in general mega props to pjo for framing fatal flaws as a source of strength consistently #both percy and annabeth in the end get to be So Valid in their fatal flaws lmao #like it's so funny that in the end percy straight up is like 'I don't know shit but you all need to shut up and listen to annabeth' #and annabeth is like 'I might be an asshole but percy is the best most loyal person I know and we all need to be willing to die for him' #and they both are so correct for it. the NARRATIVE SAYS THEY ARE CORRECT ON BOTH COUNTS. #actually uwu cuz like #thinking about the fact that annabeth takes that dagger to protect percy and it's basically her last major act before the battle is won #and the fact that percy appeals to luke by saying 'annabeth was right listen to her' and that's how he finally wins #literally using each other's fatal flaws to win and live. ANYWAY I MADE MYSELF EMOTIONAL #as you can tell i will be a fucking wreck once the series comes out nobody touch me.

[barbthebuilder]

Dear mutuals, followers, and random strangers: I have something to ask from you

18th to 25th February 2024 there will be a global strike for Palestine.

I understand things have been extremly depressing and you feel hopeless and so do I. But we cannot stop. I will not be silent and neither should you. Please, fight. Fight for our fellow human beings in need.

How do you support the stirke?

1. No purchasing of any kind. Online, irl, local shops, supermarkets - nothing. Make sure to gather necessities before the strike like food or higene products.

2. Don't go to work/school.

3. Speak up about Palestine and for the following week talk ONLY about it. Use your voice to support palestine people, artists, journalists etc. Don't engage in any other content and use social media only to talk about Palestine.

4. Educate yourself on palestine culture, make food and art related to palestine and post it online. Don't let Palestine die.

5. Donate. This is incredibly important.

6. Call/send letters/email your representatives about the Palestine.

7. Educate others. Organise meeting in your local library or school to talk about palestine culture.

8. Put up flyers that will inform others about situation in Palestine and encourage others to fight.

9. Go to a protest (make sure to read throughly how to do it proprly)

10. Stay safe. Don't do anything that will put you in a dangerous situation. You are important too. Take care of yourself.

11. Reblog this post. The more people know, the more can help.

There are probably more I am missing. You can do something. Please consider joining us.

#global strike #strike #gaza #free gaza #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #activism #reblog #important #we need your help #lgbt community #i could always count on you #genderfluid community #don't let me down #disabled community #we have the strength too #mental health community #we are stronger than anyone can imagine

[ekat-fandom-blog]

In a world where only soulmates can cause each other physical harm, Phantom just broke Bruce Wayne's arm.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp prompt #spirit halloween #spirit halloween ship #there's no need to control your strength when handling people if you can't hurt anyone #and then you accidentally break someone's arm because of it #doesn't have to be danny x bruce btw #this prompt works with almost any ship #even if you need to change “breaks so-and-so's arm” to “gives them a papercut while waving around a piece of paper”

[francesderwent]

so I heard you wanna talk religion in ttpd! let’s talk I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can).

“they shake their heads saying ‘God help her’ when I tell ‘em he’s my man.” this isn’t the outright controlling judgment of the saboteurs in But Daddy I Love Him. nobody is trying to tell her what to do or force her to break up. this is a simple admission that the situation she’s in is difficult, that she’s chosen a hard path and needs help. and what is her response? “your good Lord doesn’t need to lift a finger, I can fix him, no really I can.” she admits salvation is needed. but Taylor is casting herself as the savior. she doesn’t need any help, any grace, any divine assistance. in fact, she doubles down: “only I can”. she and she alone has the power to reform this man, because of the love between them. it’s reminiscent of False God, except now the idol isn’t their love, it’s just her. she’s going to save him.

what’s interesting to me is we don’t know how the themes of salvation would have been recapitulated in light of the reversal at the end of the song, “whoa maybe I can’t”, because the song ends there. maybe she can’t fix him because he is ultimately unfixable, irredeemable, worthless. or maybe she can’t fix him because she’s not God. and honestly, I think the song is meant to leave us wondering. she’s waking up to reality, but is the reality his smallness of soul or her power trip?

so what is the blatant Christian language in this song for? is it telling us that Christianity is evil for implanting the idea of redemption into our minds when it doesn’t really exist? or is it a hint that trying to become our own gods, even with the best of intentions, is a pathway that leads only to death?

#I think a lot of women do have resentment toward their Christian upbringing precisely because they absorbed this idea of saving a fallen man #but what we have to recognize is #Christianity does not teach that women are supposed to save men!! #Christianity teaches that we are all saved by Christ!! #and so the answer is actually to go deeper into Christianity not to flee from it #and it’s interesting to me that this song doesn’t outright contradict that!! #the song is not about the psychology of trying to fix someone #it’s about the theology of it #Taylor explicitly paints herself as Savior and not psychiatrist #she would have died for his sins!!!!! #and so we can talk all day long about the foolishness of trying to fix someone #but Taylor paints a picture of an even more hubristic foolishness #and the answer could be either ‘he wasn’t worth fixing in the first place. you shouldn’t have tried.’ #OR it could be ‘you should’ve had some humility. you should’ve relied on the Lord and not your own strength’ #this is me admitting I need a music tag #is it a little dickish of me to post this? yes. I am an imperfect person

[theshadowrealmitself]

At all times I am shaking with the need to see Vulcan plants, like, in order to sustain a vegetarian diet for every member of their species the plants have to be bountiful, but also, pretty much all of Vulcan is a desert, right? so it’s desert plants, and I just want to see some funky alien desert plants please please please please please pl-

#Vulcans #Star Trek #can we PLEASE talk about the fact #that Vulcans are incredibly intelligent and strong #just so wild to think about #WHY would you need to evolve intelligence and strength for that? #the intelligence part makes sense their agriculture must be wild and impressive #but where does the strength factor into this??? #what are the plants like??? #if stuff evolves elsewhere like it does on earth #then mainly you’d evolve to love long enough to have offspring to ensure your species survival #so evolution to survive against predators get a mate and nurture young if you’re a species that cares for their young #and yeah they got sehlats but it seems commonplace to domesticate them if I remember correctly? #surely that’s not the predator that caused the need to evolve that much strength right? #WHAT IS ON YOUR PLANET #I’m shaking I wanna know so badly #I wanna see the plants and I wanna know all of *why* they need to be like that #I Need Answers

[adoriels-tears-if]

Sleep stretches out its arms, comforting but before it does you feel a kiss on your forehead, a caress on your hair and you finally welcome slumber like a friend, hoping it will take you away to a dreamless void.

👀

#Sleep Mc baby #You deserve it. #You'll need all your strength for whatever comes next.

[onionninjasstuff]

Archie! :D Join me in being sleepy and deranged?

Hope life is treating you ok uvu sending sm coffee (or warm drink of choice) and chill vibes ur way

side note: No idea what onesie you/ your sona would wear if given the chance but im putting my bet on human. just. just a guy. Like ah yes, I love my Onesie. Greg.

aarhrghh responsibilities. uni. assignments. job. PLEASE let me out i just wanna draw my silliez all day i just wanna have the energy to do stuff!!! life is so stressful rn istg-

#TRIONA THANK YOUUU you always make my day brighter #haha get sleepy pills snuck into ur coffee idiot /aff #sending all the strength and energy and good vibes you need your way rn <3

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF SHENKO 1/?

The end of the world has a way of reminding you of all the things you forgot to say do. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #kaidan alenko #sophie shepard #EDI #shenko #fshenko #mass effect #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #OTP: you're real enough for me #i learned i am physically incapable of creating less than like 20 gifs at a time #but shenko stonks are up right now!! #gif’ing my favorite bisexuals gives me joy 🥹 #even though ME2 is dry as shit for shenko content like it’s literally the sahara desert #like a whole ass 10 minutes max of cutscenes between shep and kaidan like come on #like 2 minutes in the prologue and like 8 minutes of cutscenes on horizon #and then an email and looking at the picture in your cabin before the suicide mission #i'm so sorry y'all ME2 shenko canon is absolute shit (besides kaidan being rightfully angry on horizon) which is why we ✨ignore it✨ 🥰 #but i rant about ME2 VS treatment too much so i will not write another essay about it in the tags #i will say the EDI line isn't the exact quote from the game but i think about it a lot tbf #same with the quote i borrowed from anderson too lmao (which is also a tiny bit paraphrased) #i just love EDI asking shep for relationship advice when you get to follow shep and kaidan's relationship/struggles across 3 games #and anderson's quote about all the things you forgot to do in relation kahlee to is just *chef's kiss* when you think about shenko #like whether it starts in ME1 or ME3 shenko has some really fantastic moments across the series #two characters with strong morals who realize that they're falling in love and literally start to become each other's strength?? #their soft place to land?? their support when they need it?? shenko will always have my heart #also the shenko quotes you get are the most fire thing in the world #you're real enough for me?? you make me feel human?? i want to be your strength- your soft place to land?? shenko you will always be famous #I FORGOT IM GONNA FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE CHANCE TO HOLD YOU AGAIN TOO LIKE?? #but i’ll stop ranting now bc i do that wayyy to much in my tags lol. have a good day wherever you are! <3

[cosmereplay]

Poll for current, former, or future Stormlight fanartists!

It seems that many fanartists (and even artists who make canon Stormlight art) go through a period where they've assumed that the characters are basically Fantasy White, and then there's a period of relearning what the characters look like from WoBs or other sources, and maybe even having to learn how to draw epicanthic folds and different skin tones. Judging by the stormlight tag, it's a big learning curve for a lot of people, and I'm curious what that curve is like for artists!

Since tumblr polls are anonymous, please be honest what it's been like for you as a current, former, or future Stormlight fanartist:

If none of these apply, hit reblog, then stick another copy in your drafts to see the results next week!

Please note this isn't the place to complain about whitewashed fanart (though Ash knows we also need that, just elsewhere, not here). This is specifically about the experiences of artists, and at the same time raising awareness of the features of these canonical fantasy ethnicities.

If you're an artist and you'd like to share about your own learning curve in the replies, notes, or privately via DM, go ahead!

And if this doesn't end up with at least 50% in the yeses then I'm throwing it out for self-selection bias😂😂😂

#I promise these polls are anonymous #feel free to lie in the tags if you need to #Ideally I'd like to reduce the shame of having whitewashed characters #while at the same time encouraging more people to speak out about whitewashed art #I might do another poll about experiences calling out/in about whitewashing too if I remember #a healthy fandom can hold both and give space for learning #I know I've made mistakes both in art and in calling out/in ugh #AND #life before death (keep drawing) #strength before weakness (draw when you can hold a growth mindset) #journey before destination (keep pushing your growing edges!)

[not-poignant]

Hello Pia how are you? Not really an ask but more sending thanks and love for all of your writing. I've been a reader for over a year now and am still in awe of your skill (and speed!). I've been getting back into writing and struggling with feeling inadequate or like my stuff reads childishly, as a result I can barely get out 5k aha, but I'm working viewing it as a lifelong dedication to improvement. (On a side note: your work got my teenaged self to snap out of purity wank, forever grateful!)

Hi anon,

It is so awesome that you're getting back into writing!

Honestly, it is a sign of a kind of growth to notice the things you don't like in your writing, because if you feel it reads childishly (and I bet it doesn't all read like that, or most of it doesn't), that means you have skillsets already to aim towards. You can see how you want to get better. This is a skill!!! It's a more painful skill, and it's not a good one to listen to all the time, but it's a good skill to have.

When it feels dispiriting you can balance it out by intentionally looking for and writing down your strengths as well, and writing more of those. It might be only a few lines, or it might be all of the dialogue, or it might be the descriptions, but there will be strengths too!

Also 5k is impressive! Everyone writes differently. It took Mark Z Danielewski 10 years to write House of Leaves, and I love that book a very great deal. Quantity =/= quality, and you also have to remember I've been doing this in a pretty focused way for 10 years! Trust me, if you did this in a focused way for 10 years, you'd be in a different place with your output (which isn't obligation to do this for that long, just that...things take time <3 )

I'm glad you were able to snap out of the purity wank mindset anon, it's a tough one to be in, because it makes you feel like you're not safe in your own mind, and after a while it shuts down curiosity because it feels like everything you're interested in has to be examined just in case it's a moral trap or says something 'terrible' about you if you show interest in it. And that's really hard! It makes sense to me why so many antis kind of really lock into what they think and believe, because they've gotten so used to treating themselves with paranoia, how can they not treat others that way?

And that's a miserable way to live. It's the opposite of benefit of the doubt.

So being able to separate from that is incredible! And that's a tribute to your own curiosity in the world, and interest in exploring different ways of doing things, and I think that's really cool. :D

#asks and answers #personal #why are people so nice #you're doing awesome anon #i used to be part of a writer's group called Write Club #(we even had Fight Club style badges) #(i'm still technically a part of it i just haven't been able to go to the meets in ages) #and our leader used to say: #'all words is good words' #and while it was kind of sarcastic/ironic given the phrasing #in the end it became very positive and uplifting because YEAH #even with the grammar mistakes and the typos #all words is good words anon #you're doing incredibly #remember to focus on your strengths if you're already good at focusing on your weaknesses! #strengths keep the building up while you shore up the pillars that need some work #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

[maegalkarven]

Also the fact what I'm going to talk Astarion out of ascension while playing as Gale who WILL grab the crown of Karsus for himself-

Like ok, hypocrite.

But also 7000 spawns over there and I am attached to every single one of them, so NO.

#a family can be you your tressum your vampire spawn boyfriend and his 7000 siblings #I'm sure mama dekarios will understand #tara: mr dekarios you need to find a mate! #tara when she sees WHO Gale fell for: ...I take my words back. surely you're not going to introduce him to missis Dekarios? #gale: of course I will introduce the man I want to marry to my mother! #tara: ...gods give me patience. but not strength bc I'll KILL that idiot #tara: mr dekarios this spawn is manipulating him #gale: i know! but it's ok cause I love him #tara:... not this again #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #astarion #gale x astarion #bloodweave #bg3 spoilers #bg3

[rawliverandgoronspice]

so of course I then thought about Impa some more, and about how the way I write impa is: everybody around her is like this all of the time

#thoughts #impa #shitpost #impa oot #thralls of power #litany of betrayal #descant of greatness #(maybe I need a unifying name for my AU/retelling btw) #Hyrule's Most Tired Babysitter #even ganondorf is kind of like the horrible kid that wants to burn you with cigarettes and *will* throw a full chair at your face #and you gotta be sooooo patient and remind yourself that the poor kid's home life must be a little rough #even though he *definitively* is hiding a knife behind his back and *will* stab you if you give him the chance #it's kind of funny because the way I write her is #everybody kind of treats her like garbage? #they don't mean to like I don't think they realize this #but they all fully take her for granted and expect her to be a pillar of strength always which in the context of the story #is COMPLETELY unreasonable to expect from someone who has basically been holding on by a thread for the best part of a decade #but she has been groomed on all sides to accept this as her lot and a reasonable expectation to uphold #BUT #at the same time #she might be the most morally gray character out of every single one of them #her semi-subjugation kind of eclipses this fact about her #but I think that on many regards she's harder to forgive than ganondorf #ganondorf is a bitch and delights in his own violence far more than she does #but at least he's consistent in who tends to get hurt and what for --and the cause itself can be argued as meaningful #meanwhile impa wronged SO many people for BAD reasons #I don't *blame* her all of the situations were shitty and almost none of them were actively her own fault #but she still participated at every turn and kind of hid behind the system partially by pretending she didn't have agency #which is... it's not *not* true but she still facilitated or participated in the murder/oppression of many people #and had agency in not seizing it for herself if that makes sense