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Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.
I think early seasons Cas would be very annoyed by sexual attraction and later seasons Cas would indulge in it like a hot bath
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Dean is concentrating on cleaning his guns with his little tongue poking out between his teeth while Cas is trying to talk strategy with him but he's getting increasingly stilted and tense, and then suddenly Cas is right in his face like "Stop. Doing. That. We need to focus on the mission." And Dean is like "???Gun maintenance??? Some of us don't have a fancy soul knife, dude. When's the last time you sharpened your blade, huh? Don't come for me just because you let your little weapon get rusty. Back off!" Not knowing that 'sharpening your blade' and 'weapon' are soldier angel euphemisms and he basically just called Cas worked up and small and Cas is literally shaking with barely repressed horny rage and then Dean smirks at him and is like "What? You don't know how? Need some help?" and a lightbulb pops above them and Dean is like "Dude??? Wtf?" but Cas is already whooshing away in a panic because holy shit he Should Not be losing composure like that, Dean's tongue is So Pink, there's something Wrong With Him.... What if Dean actually held his angel blade? No! Focus on the fucking mission...
early seasons cas uses a Big Hammer 🔨 to hit himself in the penis when it gets hard. this makes the erection go away and then he heals any damage
this is how new yorkers @ mamdani
the bad thing about having unhealthy habits due to mental illness, is when you DO do something healthy style you can't brag about about it because then people will then know you've been doing it yucky style all along. Like you can't brag you changed your sheets or brushed your teeth because then ppl will be like oh did you not brush your teeth regularly before? Thats yucky disgusting! So you just gotta keep it to yourself. And be proud alone, I suppose.
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.
"Les Jardins de Nuit" (censored version) - Mixed media: colored pencils, pastels, ink, and gold leaf on paper. I created this artwork in 2020 for my book Forgotten Gods.
i know things are hella grim in the nsfw/kink art circles especially in the last year --
but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)
additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.
on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.
there are friends and allies out there helping to build a working parallel infrastructure. keep being vocal, keep supporting these initiatives when it's possible, and keep supporting your nsfw/kink artists. ♥
figuring out how to draw the witch hat babies!
really can't stop thinking about the moment of bolaire snapping tyranny's bra strap, and I'm curious about your feelings on it- obviously there's the time period anachronism, but it also didn't make sense to me as a character moment. were you able to parse what taliesin was going for there? was there something else he could've done/said to express the same... sentiment?
So I'm going to be very honest about a couple of things:
First: I do not care about the anachronism. like I joked about it in some tags but that's not the important part of it. Pizza is also possibly anachronistic. I feel that it being anachronistic is getting a lot of focus in part because it's such an egregiously out-of-place moment in every respect, but like, that's not important to me.
Second: I think that a lot of people who have mentioned it, myself included, would probably have rolled our eyes and given it a pass if it weren't part of weird pattern. Like, the bra strap moment in isolation is an eh, I don't like it but whatever thing for me. It's when you take it in context with the weird "a moment on the lips forever on the hips" line, calling Tyranny pure chaos for having a very reasonable and measured response last episode that just didn't give Bolaire the answer he wanted, and the "clingy ex-girlfriend" and "personality disorder" lines about Termina on Tale Gate that it becomes item number four or five in an ongoing pattern of 1990s-2000s-era casual misogyny. I think it was the tipping point for a number of people whereas again, on its own, it's just a "huh?" moment.
Anyway: I don't know what he's going for with this moment, because I straight up do not know what he's going for with the character overall, and that's what I find frustrating. I can point to every other character and tell you what's being set up for them plot-wise and some degree of their motivations, and why they do what they do. I even can tell you what I'd make Bolaire about if this were a TV show being written and someone had come to me saying "hey, people are not liking this Bolaire character! how do we course-correct?" But in terms of what Taliesin was trying to achieve in that moment, or with Bolaire overall? literally no idea.
I know people specifically got upset when a number of people mentioned the focus on one-liners but unlike the anachronism, that actually does feel relevant to me, because with every scene Bolaire is in, it feels like his only motivation is trying to be the wittiest guy in the room. Which again, would be fine in isolation, but it becomes deeply frustrating when he is consistently failing to follow the obvious plot threads that are actually for him and about him. Like, it feels wild that after Olgud popped open the Coffin of Olbalad and Lady Cormoray didn't emerge and Knife & Palette was incredibly vital to determining the next steps of the story and Murray and Hal were otherwise occupied, Bolaire was like the most important thing for me to do is clearly to inspect Occtis and the Stone of Nightsong, right now.
I suppose generously I could say that perhaps Taliesin is having difficulty with the structure of the campaign; a lot of this kind of feels like FOMO and he is at the table where a lot of what you do is very much on your own separate from everyone else. But even if it's a case of difficulty adjusting, that still doesn't make me feel like anything is going on with the character narratively nor in terms of building an arc, and the growing list of misogynistic non-sequiturs are really not helping.
Also. Since I just posted about Travis and have this sort of criticism of fandom at the forefront of my mind, I may as well just say this outright: Just as I think Travis has often gotten the short end of the fandom stick on Tumblr because of backlash about the chuds liking him, I think Taliesin has been granted degrees of generosity none of the rest of the cast get from the fandom, in that he escapes the misogyny directed at the women, but isn't held to the same standards as the other men. Or put it bluntly, I think if one of the other men in the cast did a single item off that list of weird misogynistic moments? A number of the people currently up in arms about how mean we're being Bolaire right now would be calling for their head. Hell, I'm confident they would, because they've done so to Liam and Travis and Sam, repeatedly.
If you like the character, great, but at this time, he's not working on like, literally any level for me. He's fine scene to scene, and I'm certainly not skipping past or fast forwarding the scenes he's in - I've even liked a bunch of them, like the moment in his apartment with Demodus. It's fine when he's onscreen. But really, until there's some notable movement towards a clear arc or plot hook, I have just granted myself permission to stop trying to come up with a reason as to why he'd do something like snap Tyranny's bra and just be like well I think the character isn't well-realized.
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...
so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts
posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig
curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape
(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)
I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.
@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.
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a couple of challengers emerge
You are all fucking madmen