As long as I am alive, I have infinite chances

angie. 32. he/they. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ trying to enjoy a little corner on the internet.

[jay-rayart]

FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[peelingmandarins]

[the-vegan-muser]

me when I see a cat if I’m being honest

[bleedthebeat]

“supporting neil gaiman isn’t as bad as supporting jk rowling because he isn’t using his money to hurt trans people and he doesn’t seem bigoted!” is a real take i’ve seen and i am going to blow a gasket. “he doesn’t seem bigoted” He raped and trafficked women. Paying for his works and engaging in fandom for them is giving him money and good publicity that he uses to curry good favor with the masses and silence his victims in ongoing legal battles. You are enabling a rapist and abuser.

[bleedthebeat]

just because he is not funding legislature to harm victims of sexual assault and trafficking en masse does not mean that there is no one harmed by him gaining publicity and money. show some compassion to the women he has hurt and disengage with his works. “just pirating” and “just writing/reading fanfic” is still engaging, especially if you are posting publicly about them. move on.

[linusmir]

Ok, I'll bite.

This whole "engagement is a bad as monetary support" thing never made any sense to me. Maybe it's different on Tiktok or whatever, but I avoid any site with an algorithm. I just read fic on AO3, I don't really post that much about it here.

My personal line is, I try not to give money to people like JKR or Gaiman. I just really don't get it when people try to say that participating in fandom, writing fic, or pirating media (really?? How does THAT harm anyone??) is as bad as giving those people money.

[bleedthebeat]

engaging in fandom is putting eyes on their work. one person blogging about good omens could get others interested, which encourages more consumption of their media and likely money spent on it. you can pirate and watch quietly i guess, but when it comes to opening up avenues for their work to gain more traction and popularity, that’s a hard line for me and a lot of people. it shows that you care more about your own entertainment than the wellbeing of gaiman’s victims and the trans people hurt by jkr.

it’s also important to note that several of gaiman’s victims were fans who were drawn in by his celebrity. fandom around his works is what led to them being raped and abused. do you want to continue encouraging that? do you want to signal to him that what he did doesn’t matter, and enable him to keep doing it?

even if you say you don’t agree with him, posting about his work and engaging with fanfic and fanart is more eyes on it, which is ultimately more positive publicity. same goes for jkr. you can’t “reclaim” harry potter when she actively makes money off of the ip. how you feel about these people is meaningless when you engage with, and encourage others to engage with, their work. a fan who claims to disavow the creators still talks about the show/books/movies in a positive light, and that’s all that matters. it might not be monetary support, but it’s good publicity, which leads to a rehabilitation of their image whether you want that or not.

[croco-boy]

People leave Laboon. But sometimes, you end up somewhere you never thought you would. And you meet people who stay.

[bougiebutchbinch]

Doylist answer: buggy and shanks look way younger in Oden's flashbacks, because this is an age retcon. Their own flashbacks were relatively early in the course of the manga and Oda had not fully decided when their 'cabin boy' period fell in their lives.

Watsonian answer: Shanks and Buggy perceived themselves in their flashbacks as far, far older than they actually were, as a result of being raised amidst a pirate war. Oden's recollection of them (as YOUNG children) is a jarring contrast to how Shanks and Buggy thought of themselves (as young ADULTS).

[manuciruja]

we're at a point where the united states illegally invaded venezuela, kidnapped its president and established their own leader, freely talks about how they want to invade cuba, and now new audio files have been leaked where they openly discuss organizing and funding a mass misinformation campaign to get their candidates in power in mexico and colombia AND NO ONE FUCKING BATS AN EYE I FEEL LIKE IM GOING CRAZY

[detectivehole]

to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

[forthegothicheroine]

#also try as you might ‘bad people can’t make good art’ accustoms you to a way of thinking that’s risky#‘i know x’s art is good therefore x cannot be bad’ is a line of reasoning it’s easy to back into without meaning to

via @titleleaf

[ahotknife]

YOU don’t have to be perfect to be loved. but I do

[tredekim]

[whyvern-art]

a brilliant exchange

[gayz0mb]

wickkkk kattigan's stealing your mannnnn

+ various reactions from the group

[sisterofsylandri]

Vaelus. I believe I would trail behind, watching, keeping an eye on Occtis. Because I don't know what's going to happen if I'm not close to him with the stone.

Campaign 4, Episode 27 - Complicated Questions

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there are people in your life who will never see any effort you make as good enough and you have to realize this and direct your efforts to people who value you instead. so many people have this problem with family members--endlessly trying to justify their existence to a parent, grandparent, cousin, whoever--but you will literally never win, because a person constantly putting you down and dismissing you has their own unresolved issues and that's not your responsibility to fix

[runasulienadanika]

come on😀mention my favourite character😀i am well adjusted😀and will act very normal😀i assure you😀

[beif0ngs]

The voice telling me, “Well done!” illuminated the future I wanted to be praised for the days I lived through The faucet of tears won’t stop falling Oh, no one was meant to be alone in this world

[omgellendean]

Journalists in the West are feeling too safe to say things like this

[seracadash]

Encountering many people in this site that think "Good Character Design = I Wanna Fuck Them" and "I Don't Want To Fuck Them = Bad Character Design" and is not about what the design tells about the character and the story

[every-sanji]