If silt striders have no fans, consider me dead

20+ y/o || Nonbinary, they/he || Aro Ace || This is the main blog so there is no theme and a lot of reblogs || Adorer of media you need a chart for || In the process of realising the weakness of my flesh, might start to crave the strength and certainty of steel || why is every female character so sexualised I'm tired of this || TAGS that you might wanna blacklist: #suomeksi for Finnish posts, #på svenska for Swedish posts, #food mention, #cw food or #tw food for food related posts, #spiders, #bugs and #bug type for bugs and bug Pokémon

[bobombun]

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[hugsohugs]

one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Your own person, all along

[sycamorality]

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

[bobombun]

Things I'm learning about myself as a roommate:

quiet and typically not seen often*

*unless I'm on a voice call with my noise cancelling headphones, which is when someone from two floors down sends a message to the building's group chat for me to please quiet down. sorry.

[pukicho]

Still rocking an NFT icon in this day and age is like seeing a confederate flag on the back of someone’s truck. You lost 100 years ago, fucker, it’s over.

[aquariiy00m]

my dnd kitty Yukrie!! theyre a wild magic sorcerer

[adventuresinlearningfinnish]

Lost in translation.

Looking for a hiking trail in the local area: Kirintövaara. I think the Google English translation makes it sound like a lovely day out.

[bobombun]

I think one of the funniest Tumblr-related things to happen to me was exchanging Tumblr handles with a classmate, checking out their blog, and then neither of us ever interacted with each other's blogs in any capacity ever

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

if you’re not ending your emails with “kill me! your slave and enemy,” then what are you doing with your life

[meliohy]

Don’t hide that in the tags @thevastness

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Eridian government representative: Greetings Rocky, Saviour of Erid, and Grace, Saviour from Beyond the Stars. We are pleased to welcome you home.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Rocky: GRACE STOP TALKING NOW NOW NOW I EXPLAIN LATER

[egberts]

they brought out an entire firetruck to save a mouse

[ceylonsilvergirl]

@sabertoothwalrus bringing in the feelings 🥹

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[kobonus]

Pokemon the anime Was just an extended horse movie metaphor

[kobonus]

If you replace pikachu with an unruly yet loving horse nothing changes

[kobonus]

“Well, I do have one left, the most unruly pokemon in my possession. He knows no master and can only kick things.”

And ash is just a horse girl with bad hair so he trains the horse even though it did rupture his spleen multiple times with its beautiful legs

[kobonus]

“Get me that pikachu with the beautiful legs, I need him for the Big Race.”

james voice: Yee  haw pardner

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[maightymai]

HEYY THE ZINE IS OUT NOWWW GO CHECK IT OUT NOOWWWW @chaosquillcollection https://chaosquillcollection.itch.io/future-with-you its FREE TO DOWNLOAD CEHKC IT OUTTT GOG GO GOGOG also check the podfics folder bc some amazing people VOICED this comic whwowoowowkoajojaspofja ok about the comic, er... well maybe ill come back wiht mroe thoughts later

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding