AppleNest

Currently having meltdowns over Mo Dao Zu Shi

[arcticapple99]

So I've been aroace as fuck my whole life. Never dated. I am at the age where i'm thinking of multiplying. According to my nurse friend, due to the state of low birthrates it's pretty easy even for single woman to go to clinic to get knocked up. After the baby is born should I start a religion?

[jimmysea]

Come for wound cleaning everyday.

4 MINUTES (2024) - Episode 2

[caparrucia]

Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.

Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.

And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"

But like.

If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.

So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.

There is no nuance to this.

A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.

That's it.

That's all.

"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.

"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.

"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.

"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.

"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.

But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.

"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.

[easterlingwanderer]

relevant everywhere tbh

[sharlockart]

Stuck with the idea of Touya's school life 💨

BONUS:

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

By 爱拍照的玉老师

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

By 爱拍照的玉老师

[hellyeahrihannafenty]

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

[dr0wnedperfectionist]

I’m literally zendaya reacting like he didn’t have to go that hard and yet..

[coppercorn-and-cauldron]

Must always reblog

[kimmycup]

Sometimes you just need to watch again. Instant serotonin.

[sif-the-tsunami]

I love that his only regret about this is him not having done the routine in heels.

[twicksterart-deactivated2022040]

I wonder if this is what sealed the deal for Zendaya. Cause I get it.

[mishkatelwarriorgoddess]

When I WATCHED this one on tv, y'all!!!!! I loved watching LL’s reaction! I don’t think ANYONE was prepared for it, cuz I know I wasn’t.

And the young man does ballet!!!

[sidepartskinnyjeans-deactivated]

The key thing is he NAILS the routine and does it seriously, it’s not a joke choice. He does it with passion.

[kelsey441]

Completely agree with the above comment. This is what makes it so much better than some of the other performances that people consider good. (I’m particularly thinking of Channing Tatum’s performance here.)

Tom Holland didn’t seem like he was dressing in women’s clothes and dancing like a woman as a lighthearted gag done for laughs. Even if that’s what he intended (I have no idea), once he was out there on that stage, he played it seriously. He went out there and delivered a serious performance. It was intense, and he injected his legitimate (not exaggerated for laughs) sex appeal into the performance.

[wolfsmom1]

He was brilliant.

[phinarei]

Literally every time I watch this I appreciate it more. More comments or more perspective or I just notice something else I didn’t before.

I will never not reblog this.

[lentilswitheverything]

imagine being the choreographer for the show

you’re used to dealing with people like chrissy teigan and serena williams, game for it sure but 0 dance training or experience and not really a performer (although i’ve still not figured out what it is chrissy teigan actually does so many I’m wrong about that? not important)

and then this guy comes up to you and says hey, i’m gonna be on the show. i went to stage school so i have literally no shame or performance anxiety, i’m a trained dancer in ballet tap and modern, i was billy elliot on the west end so you don’t have to worry about me not remembering the routine, and i’m in the best shape of my life because i’m spiderman right now, literally hit me with your absolutely worst i can take it

if i’d been them i’d have fucking burst into tears on the spot

[kinetikatrue]

https://www.insider.com/tom-holland-zendaya-lip-sync-battle-umbrella-oral-history-2021-5

An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance

The producers, choreographers, and dancers behind the "Umbrella" and "Singin' in the Rain" mashup explain how it came to be.

[midnight-sloth]

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

These wonderful people have a single braincell to share but unfortunately none of them are using it

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[decadentprincedream]

Rwblogging again.🤷🏽‍♀️

[thelastfunctioningbraincell]

Not taking any risks

[astrojoy]

Same here 😩

[crossroadssprite]

ugh fine, I’ll do this under protest! Something incredible better happen!

[somewhereinneptune]

I’m always skeptical about these posts but let’s test it out

[elqstiq]

let’s see, man

[planetsxmore-deactivated2022062]

let’s see if this works –

[astrobydalia]

Luck is always welcome 😂

[purplexhun-deactivated20220520]

Let’s try it 🤞🏻🍀

[someoneyoudontreallyknow]

pew

[helga-grinduil]

this one worked two times for me already

[shoucolate]

hope you’ll like it (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[arcticapple99]

Both are so pretty!

[arcticapple99]

It’s never not funny to remember that ALL of Original Shen Qingqiu’s bitchiness and ALL of Binghe’s murderous rage and spite. It all originates from Shang Qinghua’s brain. Like Shen Yuan, my man, every time you rant at him how much his book sucks that just increases the amount of torture porn that this man writes to cope with all the ANGER.

[rarepears]

Ever watched Inuyasha? Because Binghe x Sesshomaru has been living in my head rent-free for a whole week and it's refusing to be evicted.

Listen listen maybe baby Binghe ends up dying because of all the abuse and neglect in his sect and then Sesshomaru runs into him. Maybe he's in the fantasy china due to space sword fuckery, perhaps they live in the same universe and he's there just doing touristy stuff idk but he sees this dead kid and is like well this seems a bit familiar and casually brings Binghe back to life. Well, that's that moving on, or he tries but now there's an actual living half-demon kid clinging onto his leg and not letting go. Binghe has inherited all his tight hugging skills from Shang Qinghua. Good luck getting rid of him!

😂 Welcome to "parenthood" Sesshomaru... except later it turns out that you raised your own husband! Sesshomaru goes from being unable to walk properly because baby bun Binghe is clinging to his leg to not-long-tiny-in-any-way Binghe making sure to give Sesshomaru a very good work out in bed every night.

I approve of this pairing. 😂

[More in the #luo binghe x sesshomaru au]

[huffylemon]

[sigynpenniman]

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

[slowspinningredemption]

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

[hydrojinn]

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

[judygemstone]

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

[vimbry-moved]

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

[canislabutch]

Sunset from the blacktop of my old middle school, circa 2019

[transgender-rex]

Sunsets from my front yard, a collection 2021

[xspiderfanx]

sunrise over my backyard, 2021

[zap-of-gay-jock-love]

Sunset on my walk home from work (2022)

[anakinfruit]

Some Grocery Store Sunsets before and after I went shopping (2022)

[thebixo]

Sunset from my backyard, in the middle of nowhere at the end of the world (2022). Not pictured: the neighbor’s hens trespassing right below.

[arcticapple99]

Walking home from grocery store during sunset.

[arcticapple99]

Poor Touya

Can’t believe that after everything, Touya is still stuck as oldest out of four, under a powerful male authority figure that is trying to live vicariously through one of them while simultaneously regarding the rest of them as disposable pawns in his pursuit of greater goal.

Really couldn’t escape this dynamic. 

[mynqzo]

what’s a king to a god

[sharlockart]

" We have to first isolate Dabi... "

[story-kat]

Art by  mudubu00

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