superpowered

graphic designer, illustrator, graveshift gamer. i post all kinds of stuff while eating ice cream. ☆ COMMISSIONS ARE CLOSED.

[amaranthined]

hey y’all (◡‿◡✿) i’ve been posting on tumblr less and less over the years but i know i have a lot of old friends / followers / mutuals still here! with The Tumblr Purge™ approaching, here’s where you can find me outside of this hellsite:

twitter: amaranthined instagram: amaranthined ao3: vail discord: Dana#7894 (this is the easiest place to catch me!)

i’m not jumping ship immediately, but with 18k posts on my main alone and seeing as i’m not an art/graphics-only blog, i don’t have the time to manually sort through all my posts to appeal the filter and i wouldn’t be totally surprised to wake up deleted  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ mutuals, if you want to make sure we stay in touch, just pm me!

[rbthemad]

i don’t mean to sound fake deep but the reason 2018 felt so long was because we’re being fed what’s trending at such a rapid rate that we literally can’t remember half of the shit that even happened anymore. “Black Panther came out in February!” Marvel releases so many movies a year that we completely forget about the last movie as soon as a new one comes out and it repeats in a vicious cycle. “Tide Pods/Ugandan Knuckles was in January!” The life span of memes have been rapidly declining for years and it’s gotten to the point where the average lifespan of a meme is about 2 weeks and then the next thing gets popular and then that lasts for 2 weeks and it just keeps going. We’re literally losing our sense of time because of our rapid consumption of media and pop culture.

[superheroladies]

I’m gonna be real here for a sec, and I’m sorry for being the one to say it. Every single one of you who is advocating for shows that tried to be inclusive and had hiccups to be voted down and be punished by attempting to lower the ratings and sending messages to the higher ups are playing themselves. You all turned on SU, Korra, Voltron, and will turn on the Dragon Prince and She-Ra as well when those also turn out to be flawed shows and not peak respectability politics as well. There is no such thing as a perfect show, let alone the prefect rep. 

Do you really believe execs care about what you’re saying? All that they will see is that people hate shows with reps, and that shows with reps get the most hate and more so than shows that don’t even try, so the message to them is that we shouldn’t try since people will eventually turn on them. All you’re doing is making creators see what these shows go through and go you know what, it’s not worth it. Because the level of outright malice is vicious and horrifying. 

Execs don’t care what you’re saying all they see is that you hated the rep so to them it’s better to not have rep. If you think big corporations care about your plight then you are heavily misguided. Creators have to fight and fight to get scraps and there are many internal politics on what goes down and how. They aren’t kidding when they say they fight for it. Shows that try will always be held on a higher standard and when that isn’t met it’s punished for trying and those above the shows will go welp, better never include those nasty queers if they’re gonna hate it. Thats’ the bitter reality of it and it will never change so choose your words and actions carefully. 

[stelamaris]

in two years people will turn on dragon prince and she-ra it’s a given wank they will never ever care about you only creators will and future creators will see what their peers go through and back down on what they want as well because dreading backlash is now more on the rise than ever heck i’m just a fan and even i fear backlash imagine being a creator that everyone feels entitled to look i’m really sorry to put it out like this but it’s the bitter truth all of these shows are deeply flawed but they are trying

[moonshadow-memes]

netflix is literally losing money over regions that prohibit queer representation, you KNOW they will JUMP on the chance to cancel shows with rep to replace them with more hetero (mainstream) shows they can show in all regions! so please don’t be the reason they cancel these shows, and please remember that in the end, it is a cartoon aimed at children, there are a lot of restrictions on them already.

[you-oughtaa-know-deactivated201]

I just realized all the kids growing up with Spotify don’t have to spend money on specific music anymore, so they probably won’t have the memory of saving up money to buy their first CD and having it be something super cringy…like I think I saved up $15 for three weeks to buy the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack at Barnes & Noble when I was 9 and I was really proud of myself for that. Add your first CD you were way too proud of buying in the tags

[travellersfarfromhome]

He needed to learn.

Grown-ups work for things.

[uchidachi]

The one major issue with the Magi origin is that, because the player is dropped into the middle of a brand new world that the character has inhabited all their life, Amell or Surana will spend the entire time wandering around like “new brain who dis?”  I like to headcanon that temporary memory loss and disorientation is a well-known side effect of the lyrium taken at their Harrowing. This is why you don’t immediately know the name and backstory of the hundred or so people you’ve been locked in a tower with for at least a decade. All those templars are just rolling their eyes behind their helmets at you as you get lost trying to get to Irving’s office. They’re like oh, no, here we go again, “You can’t leave the tower, remember? You have to stay here because you’re a mage, okay? You do magic. Your name is Amell. Aaa-melll.” 

This also accounts for some of the more awkward conversations you can have with tower residents:

“Why hello, my dearest and oldest friend who I have known since we were both wee magelings, how are you today?”

“Are we fucking?”

“No. Just… No.”

[m0onbean]

tag yourself!

lip gloss- good at arguing, sings a lot when alone, likes attention, gets tired easily, provides good hugs, midnight conversations, really supportive & accepting

eyeliner- chill but gets stressed often, likes writing & drawing, makes a lot of small but dumb mistakes, wants to travel around the world, has underrated humor

blush- spends a lot of money, loves empty cafés, talks too much, cute earrings and pink aesthetics, the psychologist friend, confident but insecure at the same time

chapstick- uses emojis ironically, hella social anxiety, says they’re bad at art but they’re probably not, peach soft drinks, the reasonable friend

mascara- bullet journaling, gets injured a lot, intimidating but is actually soft ™, strawberry milk, screwed up sleep schedule, odd humor

[justaprettycoolkeychain]

I hate people who call me. I don’t have a phone so you can reach me, I have a phone so I can read fanfic on the bus.

[halloawhatisthis]

Watson! I have returned!

[zombeesknees]

#he still doesn’t hug! but he knows! that she hugs!  #so he presents himself to be hugged in welcome on his return  #A DELIGHT

[phemiec]

Dragon Age “Favorite Game” Alignments:

Lawful Origins -knows everything about the DA universe -reads all the codex entries -actually knows things about story structure -nerd

Neutral Origins -romances alistair every time -can never bring themselves to make evil choices -loves the music -cries a lot

Chaotic Origins -“FINE DWARVEN CRAFTS DIRECT FROM ORZAMMAR” -just replays all the different prologues over and over -restarts when they get to ostagar

Lawful 2 -thinks DA2 was unfairly judged in comparison to origins -has Strong Opinions ™ about anders -thinkpieces and meta -secretly bitter

Neutral 2 -really just loves all the DA2 characters -like, REALLY loves them -a lot -fix-it fic and coffee shop AUs -probably bisexual

Chaotic 2 -has only played 2 -“wtf is a darkspawn lol” -purple dialogue options -probably a blood mage

Lawful Inquisition -enjoys fetch quests -takes time to craft new weapons and armour at regular intervals -talks to every companion between every single mission -looks up walkthroughs and quickloads whenever a companion disapproves

Neutral Inquisition -Inquisition was their first DA game -avoids fandom drama -just genuinely enjoys all the games -the most chill

Chaotic Inquisition -“HOLY SHIT YOU CAN JUMP” -spends 90% of their time falling off of roofs in skyhold -runs into dragon battles 20 levels too soon and gets destroyed -tries to glitch on purpose

[mikkeneko]

Neutral 2, Anders Was Right

[renebriller]

cant believe a bunch of english kids go through a fuckin cupboard and find a magical kingdom full of wonder and they go “yeah we’re the royal family now”

typical english behaviour

[adventures-in-asexuality]

I think what’s more creepily imperialistic is the reaction of everyone in Narnia to the Pevensies.

Like, the Pevensies end up the royal family in large part because everyone’s like ‘it has been prophesied that you will come and rule us and everything will be great!’ and, well, in-universe I can’t really fault them on that; if I were a young teen or pre-teen in a completely foreign country, I too would probably just go along with whatever seem to make people friendly to me.

But the reaction of the Narnians, in almost ubiquitously welcoming these foreigners as obviously destined to rule them even though they know nothing of the country and the culture… now that is some creepily imperialist writing.

[renebriller]

This is the only good reblog of this post in it’s entire 3 year hellscape existence

[roachpatrol]

if four foreign kids popped out of a magic box and deposed trump by the express wishes of god’s fursona, i’d crown ‘em. this winter already fuckin feels like it’s lasted 100 years. 

[alivannarose]

Well, fuck, there is that.

[frostyemma]

mood

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“By the express wishes of god’s fursona” is both the most amazing but also the most Deeply Cursed thing I have read all year

[elaenathedefiant]

countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that

[patrexes]

speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.

[xenoqueer]

This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.

It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.

[61below]

In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.

What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.

[ineffectualdemon]

How to determine if a kids injury is serious or not

offer them “medicinal chocolate” if they stop crying it’s fine if they carry on crying/refuse the chocolate then it’s serious

[nonbinaryparent]

From age two apparently^^

[shirleycarlton]

Oh wow I never heard this one.

[official-90er-kind]

German edition: offer the kid to blow away the pain. If it’s better afterwards it’s okay, if they refuse or still screaming it’s serious

[having-conniptions]

Also a lot healthier than giving your kid chocolate everytime they cry tbh

[ineffectualdemon]

It’s not everytime they cry it’s only if they get injured and you’re unsure if it’s serious because they are screaming but you can’t tell if they are overreacting or not

For things that are clearly a minor bump we give kisses instead

[ineffectualdemon]

And before anyone thinks if a kid is screaming it’s not an over reaction

My kid fell off their bike and skinned their knee. Just skinned it that’s all and they went into full on scream/crying hysterical because it was bleeding and they hadn’t had an injury where they bled within their memory

It wasn’t so much the pain as the blood that made them hysterical.

In that case we could see it wasn’t serious but the chocolate helped them calm down and then I got them to tell me about Terraria until they were calm and their wound was dressed

It was absolutely an overreaction to a skinned knee but it was also an understandable one

Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do and sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s something that requires a trip to the hospital or not

[lickmetilllicecreammmm]

Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do

This is important….we’ve had 20+ years of injuries and can compare some pain to other pains and be like this doesn’t hurt nearly as much as this other thing that happened. Pain is an experience that’s new to kids, especially little ones. Some overreactions are to be expected

[jessica-problems]

There is a good chance that whatever just happened is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them

[amaranthined]

It’s not even just for injuries - when I was a kid I started getting chronic headaches/migraines and I didn’t know how to explain the pain. It was overwhelming and scary and I didn’t understand what was happening - I never cried over bruises, scraped knees, shots, etc, but I would just bawl incoherently when a migraine hit because everything hurt for apparently no visible reason, and then throw myself into my parent’s bed.

It would happen multiple times a week and at first my parents thought I was just throwing tantrums or something but eventually realized they couldn’t even bribe me to get out of bed with sweets or promises to go places I wanted, so they took me to a doctor who eventually diagnosed me. 

[chuuzus]

welcome to the age of female superheroes

[lesbiansassemble]

this video is my sexuality

[zimmermanns]

the only show that’s never let me down is leverage, that 0% quality drop, that obliquely canon ot3, the only Morally Complex TM white man i’ve ever found remotely compelling bc the narrative chooses not to glorify him but rather to paint him in a relatively negative light and at odds with his band of criminals w hearts of gold, my beautiful genius son alec hardison, i could literally go thru every character and list them they’re all so beautiful, the anti-wall street anti-capitalist message created in a 2008 post-collapse real world context, the campy heist genre filled with developed interesting and highly complex characters with strong relationships, the found family dynamic…………………..never another like this my guy

[nashira]

hello ladies!! I’m Nashira *big inhale* and I’m an Afro-Caribbean/Southeast Asian/Polynesian nonbinary lesbian (a mouthful, I know ^-^) — I’m an aspiring poetess and I write about feminism, diaspora, gender & sexuality relative to my culture, chronic illness, and astrology. I post art + poetry to my Instagram and micropoems to my Twitter — [both are @nashxra]

I would love for more LGBTPoC, esp. Black/Asian/Pacific Islander WLW to engage with my work !! I know this looks rly clout-y, but everything I write, it is in the context of my identity as a Black/brown woman, a WLW, an immigrant/ESL, etc. & so a lot of meaning is lost to those outside of these identities. there isn’t a lot of accessible media exploring these intersections, so I’m hoping you all will help me foster this space. Thank you🇯🇲🇯🇲! Salamat🇵🇭🇵🇭! Faafetai🇹🇻🇹🇻!

[ithinkiamfinallyclean]

“they’re burning all the witches” 

ARTIST CREDIT

[imnotafan-art]

And there it is

[imnotafan-deactivated20171120]

Wow

[fozmeadows]

And meanwhile, assholes with no sense of irony or history refer to the naming of sexual predators as a witch hunt.