Musings of a Changeling

I'm a queer adult (20th century baby) who is autistic and non-binary (they/she) with a multi-fandom blog with my current obsession being Alien: Earth (specifically Kirsh). I enjoy writing and just got back into drawing after a ten year hiatus. Icon by my friend, Sluggy. MDNI 🚫

[changeling-fae]

I commed @pauvre-lola for this piece of Nym and Astarion and I’m just blown away and overwhelmed by the result. This is stunningly beautiful and I’m in love.

[luxiomahariel]

everyone with heat intolerance deserves 100 million dollars directly out of a billionaires bank account

[theashenphoenix]

三船敏郎 // MIFUNE TOSHIRO 醉いどれ天使 // Drunken Angel (1948)

[morganitism]

BMI is so fucking horrifically evil I cant stand it. You can't get healthcare because of an arbitary number defined by fuck all. I hate it

[freshlytoastedmarshy]

My favorite thing about fandoms is that there is always an mlp fan somewhere that can and will turn everyone into a pony, doesnt matter what genre the thing is or if its not super popular, it will be pony-fied

[parkchanwoohoo]

I saw a post on a terf blog before I blocked it from someone being like "Ummm is anybody else really concerned about the rise of antisocial kinks like pissing" and it made me laugh so hard I almost did a little antisocial kink myself

[kitty-c4t]

[budugu]

[agnosticblowjob]

[foolhearteyes]

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

[jkthinkythoughts]

I swear this is how I feel every time I see a Tumblr screenshot out in the wild

[lizlemondyke]

it’s funny cuz it’s true

[millenianthemums]

i think “this character has suffered their whole life, so their happy ending is dying and going to heaven 😌” is my least favorite trope right now. stop portraying death as a liberation from suffering, STOP being so fucking christian. being alive is awesome. the bad parts give way to joy and that joy is worth everything. fight for the next bit of joy and then the next and the next, and one day i promise the pain will be behind you for good. you don’t have to die

[mousidy]

very strange cottage industry on youtube of giving exhaustive "critiques" of harry potter that amount to things like "the magic school is dangerous and that's bad!!!" and treating that with equal severity as the fatphobia or the slavery apologia, then patting themselves on the back as if this amounts to some kind of praxis

cinemasins is not praxis lol. how about materially supporting and protecting trans people from joanne and forgetting about her wizard books

[mousidy]

I loved harry potter growing up. it made me feel seen as an abused and closeted kid. I idolized and looked up to joanne, wanting to become an author like her

then she started funnelling all her wizard book money into destroying the rights of my people and I resolved not to give her any more of my money

I didn't have to reevaluate the quality of her writing to do this. whether she's good at keeping her worldbuilding consistent or whatever has nothing to do with my decision to boycott her work. who cares how good or bad her writing is. she's killing trans people

[jayalaw]

OP, you get it. This is exactly the problem.

[d-7th]

"Algospeak is just superstition / not real / blah blah blah" I get that you probably don't respect anyone whose income depends on YouTube enough to speak to them, but if you would, you'd figure out that there are in fact words you can't say on the platform without risking a video not just being demonetized, but even search banned or deleted entirely.

"Transgender" literally used to be one of the context-sensitive banned words on YouTube. I'm the reason that got fixed 5 years ago. My video was the one that got deleted citing a "child safety" policy because I said "transgender" in a video about Super Mario Galaxy and you used to LITERALLY not be allowed to mention trans people in anything that could be assumed to be "kid friendly" (like Mario.)

As tempting as it is to say that there's no excuse on Tik Tok bc you shouldn't be doing Tik Tok for a living, videos there absolutely will be suppressed if the topic you're speaking about isn't entirely positive and social media is supposed to be for conversation. If you can't have conversations about certain topics without your video being hidden from people, that's censorship!

Instagram's captioning tool straight up bleeps out swearing FOR you if you don't do it, too.

The platforms ARE censoring people, each to varying levels of severity, and y'all are fucking up the conversation about this by pretending they don't.

[fraught-with-peril]

To give you an idea of how oddly easy it is to get a search ban on YouTube, this video briefly had a search ban for no clear reason

actually it's probably because of the word "sex"

[milf--adjacent]

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

[tramontane-fire]

Reblog if you are Bad Queer Representation.

[do-not-u-dare]

Im always scared to call someone my friend because what if they dont consider me a friend and hate me because of that

[sugar-for-ashes]

[bitt-better]

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits

[moral-autism]

vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.

[aksemmi]

vampire who is a woke predation abolitionist and so exclusively hunts predators, leaving primarily herbivorous and scavenging animals alone

[yaldabaothadeez]

"For miles around the foul creature's lair is nothing but barren wastes"

"because of The Curse?"

"Because of the deer and rabbits, fucking thing ate all the wolves"