if my feelings for you were ribbons

i would wrap you a thousand presents

[bethuselah]

my mom died suddenly this week. i feel so numb.

[neomoshi]

If you liked Fakir from princess tutu, you probably liked Keith from Voltron

[mangakachan]

I’ve wanted to do a mini ballet inspired Princess Tutu fanart series, but this got put on hiatus when my dad got sick last year. I’m now finally getting around to it, and first up is none other than “Romeo and Juliet”, or to use its Italian title (the play does take place in Verona, Italy), “Romeo e Giulietta”.

The background silhouette is inspired by the art of Junichi Nakamura, who in turn inspired the use of silhouettes in shoujo anime such as Utena. The scene depicted in the background is the famous balcony scene, while the foreground is one familiar to PT fans: The Last Farewell. I tried to make the mood reminiscent of the lovers sharing one last late night pas de deux before they must part ways. Hopefully I managed to capture the angst in that scene 🤧

EDIT: added a close up cus I realized their faces are really small in the full size image and it’s hard to see the angst unless you zoom in 😂

[bethuselah]

I finally watched Princess Tutu with my wife for the first time and they loved it and now I am looking for fic to recommend them and I stumbled across the teacher/student fakiru au and my god,,, my god, what good times we had. what food we ate.

[april]

i must not stir the pot. stirring the pot is the notifications-killer. participation in the discourse is the little-death that brings total activity obliteration. i will face the bad opinions on the internet. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, i will turn the block button onto their source. where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. only i will remain.

[april]

[nachtfaust]

[ratedc-deactivated20240501]

and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing

[bethuselah]

have i been shadowbanned

[bethuselah]

recommend me characters based on my blorbos

[pixiu-pix]

[everythingfox]

Cat loves playing until he hears the automatic feeder

[musicalhell]

THE VOID HUNGERS

[previoustags]

This is honest to god the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life

[karma-crystal]

This 1️⃣ goes out to all the horny 💏 couples out there who are thinking 🤔 of getting rowdy 🔞 this 💌Valentines💮 day evening: 👍 👎DO ❌️ NOT👍 👎 If you do your child 🧒 will be born 👏 a ♏SCORPIO♏ Now, why ❓️ don’t ❌️ we like Scorpio's♏? For starters, “Scorpio” has 7️⃣ letters 🔠. 7️⃣ letters 🔠: 7️⃣ deadly ☠️ sins ✝️ 🙅‍♀ Now, what are the 7️⃣ deadly ☠️ sins? Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy 👏👏 Envy is associated with the color GREEN 💚 What else is green 💚? Marijuana. Just 1️⃣ more pothead in the world 🗺️. LAME. Now where is pot 🍲 legal? Canada 🇨🇦, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, airplane ✈️ bathrooms if the pilot’s 👨‍✈️ chill. And where can 🥫 planes ✈️ take you? California 🕶. And what’s on California’s state flag 🚩? A BEAR 🐻. Your child 🧒. Is gay 👨‍❤️‍👨.

[quietdoppelganger]

The execution is like slam poetry but the content is clearly a shitpost and that’s def the most powerful combination I’ve encountered in a while

[bethuselah]

my wife grew up super sheltered in a fundamentalist cult and so one of my big goals in our marriage is to give them all kinds of experiences they missed out on in childhood, for example i plan to organize a surprise birthday party at a laser tag place this year (they have given their approval for surprise parties and i overheard them talking to friends about how badly they want to try laser tag)

but it was funny bc yesterday they mentioned that they never got to participate in valentine’s day at school and i just sat there silently and they were like “i can see the wheels turning in your head and no, i don’t need to experience cheesy cards with candy being dropped inside a decorated shoebox” 😂

[bisexualsafespace]

We don’t owe you simplicity.

Good.

[bethuselah]

i’ve identified as butch for many years but lately i’ve been getting into fun colored lipsticks. so am i a butch or a lipstick lesbian?

[weaver-z]

Every time I close my eyes I see this one cat that won second place in the Cat Fancier's Association kitten category

[weaver-z]

Good Lird.....

[blackheartbiohazards]

You know, one time I read a fanfic and it triggered my psychosis, sent me into a month long episode THEN a whole year later I was on ao3 just mindlessly scrolling, I came across the fanfic title and it gave me a panic attack, but something compelled me to click it, i didn't read it but i did scroll through it, why? mental illness.

So like... ya

This is me responding to your old(?) post about someone else's fiction not being able to hurt you, this is probably just a me thing but mental illness makes you do things and react to things in insane ways that sometimes you cant control. I knew while reading that it was affecting me in some way, but I kept reading because well, I'm mentally ill, and then a month of my life dissapeared lol

I think I'm trying to make a point about something but I'm not sure

I did after the fact comment to the author and just kinda, told them about what happened, but I didn't harrassed them or something, -

-but when something does what this fanfiction did to me then you're basically obligated to let the creator know I think(they are a really good writer), I'm an adult and the fanfic was in the ballpark of something I would read and if like, 59% of it was taken out and it had a happy ending I would be fine but oh well

Oh boy, I'm starting to have a panic attack just typing this out holy hell anyways uh, I'm not disagreeing with you(?) but I am saying, don't be too quick to dismiss someone who says a piece of fiction fucked with them? idk sorry, have a good one

My friend, the fiction didn't harm you.

Your mental illness harmed you.

Random writers on the internet are not responsible for managing your mental illness for you.

You are responsible for managing your mental illness.

I knew while reading that it was affecting me in some way, but I kept reading because well, I'm mentally ill

This is self harm. You were engaging in self-harming behavior by continuing to read a fanfiction that you knew was triggering to you.

👉 You are responsible for managing your mental illness.

👉 Writers are not responsible for managing your mental illness for you.

And I hate to tell you this but messaging the author about it was absolutely harassing the author.

[1riginal]

This is so real. If the Author is someone I know who personally sent me this, there would be grounds to say "Hey. This triggered me. Please be more considerate of how these things could affect me." But even then, you don't really have the ability to police what they write. Just what they send you.

Ao3 has so many works. If they didn't Tag something that you specifically knew would hurt you, then you could tell them to please tag those things. If they chose/choose not to tag it, for any reason/lack thereof, you don't have authority to do anything else.

Otherwise sending them an awareness(?) comment is nothing but a guilt trip. They did not write the content to hurt you. They wrote the content for whatever reason they had and probably a little passion and chose to share it hoping that it would vibe with some people or something. You are not a part of those people if it hurt you, because they aren't writing with malice.

If someone told me that my writing gave them psychosis, it wouldn't stop me from being interested in the things I write. It would make me feel like a terrible cruel horrible person and maybe kill my passion for writing. If that's what you're going for, then that makes you the bad person. It is never okay to imply that someone should stop doing something they enjoy.

Obviously mental health is difficult and knowing something is affecting you ≠ processing that 'this is hurting me and I need to stop'

But in no way is that the author's fault? It's a lack of recognition on your part, which doesn't even really sound like your fault either. It's an issue that you should try to consider moving forward but that isn't something anyone would blame you for. But, saying 'I did it because I'm mentally ill, which is something that i cant control' doesn't justify telling a stranger something that could make their own life go downhill if they take it personally.

Nobody is obligated to cater to your needs, but you have the ability to excersize restraint on what/who you indulge in.

[bethuselah]

if anyone like anon ever sends me this guilt trippy shit i’ll just say that sounds like a you problem