onwards and upwards

☆ magpie-shaped teenage loser thing ꩜ ꩜ [they/she/star] ☆ 🃜🃚🃖🃁🂭🂺

[acedeucetreypips]

✮intro post✮

whats up.

[last edited: 10/7/6]

~✶⋆.˚⋆.˚✶~🃜🃚🃖🃁🂭🂺~✶⋆.˚⋆.˚✶~

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed.”

[-Richard Adams, from 'Watership down']

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✶ you can call me: nat, crumb, magpie, generally whatever you want. i like nicknames.

✶my blog is called ace deuce trey pips. like playing cards. yk. 1-2-3- number cards.

✶pronouns: they/she/star/it. also i am a painfully single sapphic (sighhhhh)

✶ i am a minor

✶ i can be really fucking awkward

✶there are lots of things wrong with me. i have Issues. i might drop out of existence for anywhere between 5 months to 20 hours. srry.

✶ previously called: @/vo1d-crump3tz, @/crumpetzzz, @/seven-of-diamonds

✶ i post political stuff quite alot. i won't apologise for that, but you have been warned if you dont wanna see it.

✶ i'm a goth!! somewhere between circus/cabaret goth and whimsigoth on any given day style-wise. real ones remember when my blog was purple and muuuuch more gothic themed :P (i wanted to do orange tho since it's my fave colour lol)

✶ in many many many fandoms. im literally on tumblr like this should be obvious. my main ones atm are iwtv, les mis, star wars, and evangelion

✶ a fan of: classical lit, interesting shoes, traditional art, fiddling with my headphones, editing and film making, eye motifs, gothic architecture, wes anderson films, lots of isms, old clocks, politics, the devonian period [extra interest in temperate coral reef ecosystems from then], maths [algebra specifically geometry can gtfo], britcoms, walking. maaany things

✶ please please ask me questions about those btw!! i love talking to cool people. yap at me in my asks, give me anons, wtvvvv. lmao

✶i will. post things. sometimes. maybe. you might spot: art, oc stuff, crazed ramblings, vagueposting, photography

✶chronic overuser of dude and bro and mate and man i fear

✶ i love stars and celestial imagery so so so so sosososo much RAHHHH!!!!!!!! IM LITERALLY A STARGIRL VRO

✶ fun fact. i do judo!! i have been doing it going on five or six years now and im a pretty high grade :p. sometimes i might talk judo lol

✶pfp is robert smith (of the cure)

✶tags:

magpie yaps - my posts in which i say things. idk man. was ‘dill yaps’ up until recently tho. i might forget and tag it as that by accident

ask nat - answering asks :D

ocs - pretty self explanatory.

my art- art tag :] also self explanatory but what even ever man

!my.problems - i talk about things that are wrong with me. potentially triggering stuff.

✶ pronouns page

Sorry to any donation asks, but I do not have the money nor am I able to give you money for them.

✶ DNI:✶

transphobes, homophobes, racists, nsfw/ porn blogs, TERFs/ radfems, radqueer, syscourse, assholes in general, standard dni also applies. I use the block button freely and [unless we're friends] without warning. I suggest you don't take it personally, coz it's not.

✮ userboxes below cut----- >✮

peace out =)

[armandyke]

I'm so deadass when I say can we as a nation put together some kind of fan project for Assad post season 3. Like idk what but I need him to know he's the best person alive or I'll start crying

[cloudabserk]

instant revenge

[bifauxnenarmand]

[effemimaniac]

add me to your discord server so I can do the online equivalent of arriving at a party saying hi to the people I know then standing awkwardly in the corner for the rest of the night

[kanjichris]

LOUMANDSTAT: yeah x10

[starlitsequins]

i dont mean to victim blame but why do these vampires keep talking to daniel molloy when they know he's daniel molloy

[my-platonic-chemical-romance]

They think they can outsmart him just because he’s a baby

[makiquas]

Its Butchtober. Bear with me for a second as I rant about children's cartoon ships, butchphobia, the conditional acceptance of butches in sapphic spaces on the basis of desirability, and feeling erased as a butch kid.

It's so funny that I realised early on as a 2000-2010s teen/kid how a lot of so called "sapphics" of social media are really, really anti butch4butch, only by interacting with certain subsets of Catradora and Appledash haters. It may be flippant to connect butchphobia with children's cartoons, but you cannot deny it is there. We finally had two canon butch4butch and masc4masc lesbian animated ships. And the fandoms decided that the best possible reaction to this is to violently hate on the ships for bullshit reasons and write up masterdocs about how the butch character actually looks better with a femme character instead (in both cases–Rarity and Glimmer, who is arguably feminine but not femme, but that's a conversation for another day, how the SPOP fandom waters down gender identities for aesthetics).

This is not just about two cartoon ships; this mindset of seeing two masc lesbians and immediately going "actually they act like bros; but this BUTCHFEMME couple has real chemistry" comes off sounding really, really bad in 2024 when you have no idea how butch identity operates, outside of depicting us as pants-wearing sexually aggressive muscular women. Butches ARE bros, even the ones who kiss each other. Camaraderie and tomboyish swagger *is* a part of their life. It's not our fault you are too fanfic trope-pilled to read these interactions are sexless friendship bantering.

It's also quite concerning, given how there are only a handful of butch4butch books in the market, and almost all of them talk about the stigmatizing of relationships between two butches/studs/masc lesbians. There are many butch lesbians who themselves face internalized butchphobia because of societal standards and expectations of being turned into the "gallant" provider of femmes. Butch and femme are not always inherently complementary, butches can be attracted to other butches, there is no "natural order" model of lesbian/sapphic attraction and your thinly veiled butchphobia is really off-putting, given you guys don't seem to extend that same rhetoric to mascfemme ships like Korrasami or Caitvi, or femme-femme ships like Harlivy.

Here, I must mention relationships like Rei and Kaoru from Oniisama E, or Jess and Lupe from A League of Their Own, who have bucket loads of chemistry but still have some vehement antis only because both the lesbians are masculine. (What's funny is the new wave of lesbian Oniisama E fans are almost all Rei/Kaoru shippers despite the show putting them into two butchfemme pairings.) Something something to be butch4butch is to be failing the tests of palatability and desirability according to conventional models of societal norms. Forever.

Again, one may have valid reasons for disliking these fictional ships (what, I genuinely don't know). But it *is* weird that you guys can watch fifty white fem4fem sapphic shows in a year and read 100+ GL with the same feminine girlish blonde and brunette/pink haired archetype and not bat an eyelid, but conjure a world of made-up "platonic" dynamics just because you read every butch4butch interaction as fundamentally platonic.

A lot of you love to throw around Stone Butch Blues as a catchphrase to educate strangers on the internet about 1950s-70s blue-collar bar culture and USA butch femme history, but how many of you actually know that within the book itself, the lead character acts prejudiced and hates on another butch for being butch4butch? How many of you know that she apologizes to her friend at the end for her hateful remarks? Fun fact: when you ostracize a butch for not fitting into your butch-femme subculture aesthetic, you're no better than lesbiphobic bigots actually.

Anyway, here are some butch4butch resources if you are a baby butch4butch and feel alienated by these kinds of weird rhetoric in online and fandom queer spaces too:

Butch4Butch romance books

My Butch4Butch books masterdoc (**being updated regularly**)

Leo Wilder's Butch4Butch writing (18+)

Butch4Butch photography archive (insta)

Boyish² Butch4Butch yuri anthology (insta)

@milsae Butch4Butch artist (tumblr/insta)

This post is made by a trans masc butch of color. Terfs, racists, biphobes and radfems kindly do not derail or interact.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

4 Strategies to Avoid Wordiness

Wordiness is when a sentence contains words that, if removed (or replaced with a shorter alternative), convey the same message and remain grammatically correct. It may happen when you use more words than necessary within a sentence, especially short, vague words that do not add much meaning.

Omit unnecessary words by using a "who does what" construction (Take out: it is, there is, there are, which, that, this, and self-references such as in my opinion, I think, it seems to me.)

Wordy: It was a night that was dark and freezing when the ship Titanic was struck by an iceberg.

Better: An iceberg struck the Titanic on a dark and freezing night.

Avoid too many abstract and difficult words

Wordy: “Conservatism is the paradigm of essences toward which the phenomenology of the world is in continuing approximation” (William Buckley, Jr.).

Better: Conservativism is the belief in absolute values whose expression change with the times.

Shorten sentences by rearranging ideas

Wordy: The president of the school board that presides over Dade County schools is accepting of the participation of students in alternative classes of their choice.

Better: The Dade County School Board president allows student to choose electives.

Omit repetitious words and ideas

Wordy: The cookies are baking in the oven. The cookies are chocolate chip.

Concise: The chocolate chip cookies are baking in the oven.

Notice how the wordy phrases below can be reduced to one or two words:

along the lines of = like

as a matter of fact = in fact

at all times = always

at the present time = now, currently

at this point in time = now, currently

because of the fact that = because

by means of = by

due to the fact that = because

for the purpose of = for

for the reason that = because

have the ability to = be able to

in the nature of = like

in order to = to

in spite of the fact that = although, though

in the event that = if

in the final analysis = finally

in the neighborhood of = about

until such time as = until

More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[nyxemisa]

[calellon]

All you do is whine

untrue i also suffer, rot, wail, wallow, haunt, mourn and rage

[troublepunk-ldn]

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

[acedeucetreypips]

ITS COMING HOME!!!!! ITS COMING HOMEEEEE!!!! FOOTBALL’S COMING HOME!!!!

[filmnoirsbian]

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

[filmnoirsbian]

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

[filmnoirsbian]

I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

gshsjb

[i-hate-gcse-english-lit-offical]

Fuck, Marry, Kill

Count Binface, Nige, Keir

Fuck

Binface

Nige

Kier

Voting ended onJul 14

(Marry and Kill polls in the reblogs)

[damsel-understresss]

i actually swing all ways because girls aren't contained in one specific location

[lacyblackpaiir]

if something aggressively lesbian doesn't happen to me this summer i'm gonna do something drastic.