[lukasadss]

Slow mornings

[RB]

[honeysucklesoda]

warm zutara

[arctik-fox]

[demaparbat-hp]

Katara has many regrets in life but giving her boy the Jinshi Haircut is not one of them.

[storynightlight]

Regarding the discourse about Br*ke taking jabs at Zutara I just have to say:

Never forget that 20 years ago these two grown men were actually beefing with teenagers over a ship to the point of mocking them at live event.

Grown men. Over a SHIP.

[dahlia-molinas]

when you think about it teenagers of the next generation will never get to experience a cw show with 7+ seasons and 22 episodes per season. they will never know what it's like to be insanely obsessed with a mediocre show with mediocre writing and mediocre acting (with one really good actor carrying the show on their backs). they will never know the feeling of fighting weekly in the trenches for your ship only for the writers to screw you over. they will never be so increasingly disappointed by the worsening writing choices as the seasons progress and they will never know what it's like to watch the worst series finale after investing years into a show. and that is the biggest tragedy.

[marinersubmariner]

The Force is the blade of the heart.

[dead-dove-ble]

Actually you SHOULD make problematic content. You SHOULD explore dark or taboo topics. You SHOULD have a space where you can cope with your traumas or explore sensitive topics in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.

[moethh]

"cold showers are better for you" WRONG! SCALDING HOT SHOWERS FOREVER!!!!!!!! 🚿🚿🚿🚿♨️♨️♨️🚿💧💧💧💧💦🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚿💧💧💦💦💦🔥🔥🔥🔥🚿🚿🚿🔥♨️♨️🚿🚿🚿♨️♨️♨️🚿🚿🚿♨️♨️♨️🔥🔥🔥🚿💧💧💦💦💦🔥🔥🔥🔥🚿🚿💧💧💦💦🚿🔥♨️♨️🚿♨️♨️💧💦💦♨️🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🚿🔥🔥🔥🔥🚿♨️♨️🔥🔥🔥!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coolnormalgirl]

just a little reminder on where i stand

[stewdoesthings]

Fanfiction exists for TWO reasons:

Dealing with complex thoughts and emotions I can't work through in therapy, like grief, despair, a complicated relationship with pain and addiction

Seeing the same characters fuck over amd over again

[evilwriter37]

And they can be both at the same time if you want!

[adancerofsymphonia]

I love stories that flirt with the ideas of danger and death getting entangled with love, of desire dancing with mutually assured destruction, of hatred blending with ecstasy and of pain and pleasure becoming indistinguishable from one another. For where else are such extremes possible if not in stories and art which exist on a plane different from reality? Only in art can love be lethal. Only in stories can death be erotic. Fiction alone lets contradictions breathe under one roof which is it must not be shackled in any way whatsoever.

[easyvirgin-deactivated20160413]

happy Thursday the 20th

[askjennaflorida]

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

[mx-mythical-deactivated20260319]

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

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September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

[theoneandonlyredrobin]

It’s tomorrow. For me it’s only 10:43 so I’ll leave this here

[heir-of-the-founders]

Guys its the end of the list D:

[romolite]

The last Thursday the 20th

[raimi]

Here are the next 6 years!

May 2021

January 2022

October 2022

April 2023

July 2023

June 2024

February 2025

March 2025

November 2025

August 2026

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[anxious-alto]

With the lack of SNAP benefits in the US hitting in a few days, welcome to No Snitch November. If you see somebody taking food? No you didn't. Taking formula? No you didn't. Taking diapers? No you didn't. When the government turns their back on our neighbors, it's our job to protect them.

[greeniery]

[mermaids-ate-my-dinner]

[sasuke-thoughts]

i actually fucking hate this website lmao

[adancerofsymphonia]

It's often claimed that villain x heroine shippers ship them only bcs they project onto the female half of the ship and want to live out their fantasies for the male half through her. Most of the times, such claims have a patronizing tone and are meant to undermine the shippers' interpretation of the characters as if people who just enjoy the dynamics that two particular characters share don't exist and as if those who project are any less.

But existing alongside it is another prominent fantasy that is rarely subjected to an unfair level of scrutiny simply because it is more socially acceptable: the fantasy of an unproblematic and good guy - the eternally green flag - who won't give you any drama or trouble and who is non threatening, who offers stability and, most importantly, represents security and safety. And honestly, this is understandable because many women are conditioned since an early age that they are to avoid danger and risks at all costs. Protecting them, at times unintentionally, becomes an excuse to keep them confined within the walls of their household. The promise of safety becomes the cage and comfort its furnishings. Yet, even that cage doesn't make women less vulnerable to harm.

This is why fiction matters because it is one realm where there is room for every kind of fantasy. Here, women can be safe and protected till the end of their days. Simultaneously, they can also partake in dangerous relationships and situations and end up victorious. Yet, it is the latter that gets subjected to derision, judgment and policing while the former is not only left unchecked but is arbitrarily imposed on every story.

There is an expectation placed on fictional female characters across genres, and irrespective of background and personality, to stick to safe and 'vetted' relationships, if they are to have a romance at all. In a dark and messed up dynamic with a male character, their only identity can be that of a victim and everything else must cease to exist. It is also expected from creators and audience to not 'romanticize' the said dynamic. It shackles these characters and strips them off their individuality. It turns them into one homogenous symbol and restricts their potential for complexity. Worse is when real women who write and enjoy such stories are punished in a bid to 'protect' the fictional woman who doesn't need their protection in the first place. It is tiresome.

You cannot protect women by caging their imagination, dictating what kind of stories they can enjoy and shackling the ways they prefer to interpret the said stories.