Jack | Aries/Ram | He/They | 1991

Art, writing, and musings. Lots of random shit here, so please ask to tag anything that could bother you - I do my best to tag everything. I'm not sure how the tags drop-down works just yet so uh... ignore that. 18+ please. Do not repost my art. [dystopicxiv = ffxiv rp blog]

[dystopicrhythm]

Anon, if you can see this

then I now know that you’re a follower of this account in some way, or at least I assume so, since this blog is now hidden.

If you were a friend or mutual at any point, I’m severely disappointed in ever having associated with you.

You’re only winning insofar as me reacting by making a post. I’m not going to do what you seem so keen on demanding I do, and you can shove it up your ass with your transphobia. May you fester on this cesspool of a hellsite.

This blog is no longer in use.

[dystopicrhythm]

i won’t lie i’m struggling with having the will to be alive right now

i’m not gonna do anything stupid don’t worry

i’m gonna try to call our insurance and ask about finding a therapist in the morning

i can’t keep going like this

[dystopicrhythm]

i really need this funk to go away

i feel so listless and uninspired

and that i’m a bother to pretty much anyone who socializes with me

motivation for most anything is weak and i just want to sleep all the time

i really hate myself

[dystopicrhythm]

if i’ve been really quiet lately it’s because i’m feeling the overwhelming need to fuck off

sorry 

[dystopicrhythm]

i hate being too scared of upsetting others to stand up for myself

[232514-deactivated20191117]

please know that australia is on fire. we’ve lost 10 times the amount of land the amazon rainforest lost. we are in drought. no one is talking about it. our government is ignoring climate change. the firefighters are now paying for fuel for their trucks out of their own pockets. our prime minister refuses international help. people are dying. wildlife are dying. the fires are catastrophic and spreading so fast. please hear us. my home is burning. it is spring.

[dystopicrhythm]

idk why i even try anymore

[liho907lilo]

Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:

The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.

The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.

Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.

Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business. 

[gothtigger92-deactivated2021052]

This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.

Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday

[jedi-giraffe]

ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday

[cincosechzehn-deactivated201901]

LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY

[celestialspiritqueen]

Target is open until 1 am on thanksgiving to open 6 am Friday at the one I work at with people who will stock all throughout the night. Please be aware of this and don’t be crazy or rude

[nidstiniens]

[somechick-somewhere]

[dystopicrhythm]

((OOC:

I really want to come back to RPing and responding to you guys, but unfortunately I haven’t been feeling to great mentally or emotionally. I don’t wanna get into it in a public measure, but just know that I miss you guys and I look forward to coming back ASAP.))

[shadowthephoenix-deactivated201]

every time I see a post that’s addressing lesbians who have little to no experience with women, it’s always like, ‘it’s okay to have not kissed a girl at 16 or 18 or even 21!!!!’ and I know tumblr skews toward younger people, but it still feels like a harsh reminder that I’m years behind, even by other lesbians’ standards.

it’s totally normal and okay to not have experience with women at any age. it’s okay if you have never been with a woman and you’re 30 or 50 or 70 or even older. it’s okay if you didn’t come out until after you married a man or had children with him. it’s okay if you didn’t even realize you were gay until 25 or 45 or older.

you’re still a ‘real’ lesbian if you didn’t realize you were gay, or if you have a long history of dating men, or if you’ve never slept with a woman. 

and no matter how old you are, you still have time. you have time to find a girlfriend or wife. you have time to make memories with a woman. you have time to fall in love.

[lynndjung]

how not to write an east asian character

• ‘golden skin’ • ‘almond-shaped/tilted/slanted/ch*nky eyes’  • a strong accent despite being born in or growing up in an English-speaking country • helicopter parents/a tiger mom • scrawny, short genius stereotype • for Chinese characters: (especially older ones) loud in public stereotype • cheap for no reason • research your food… we don’t live off of noodles and dumplings • girls who are quiet and submissive • also east asian kids/teens who have a chunk of dyed hair and rebel against their family for no reason • ABGs are people too, your one dimensional caricatures of girls who like makeup and clothes ain’t cute • stop fetishizing east asian women and making them prostitutes in fantasy • e asians playing lackey/sidekick to the All Powerful Whitey is ugly • Asian Americans grow up with a weird blend of their family’s traditional values and the values of America (or whatever country they grew up in. I know Koreans who grew up in Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, Thailand, Greenland, the Netherlands, France, China, and more). That cultural and personal dichotomy is really interesting to me, but I rarely see it discussed in any media because y’all are too hellbent on sweeping us under one big stereotypical rug… Cool I guess • also forget that Asia is a massive continent containing nearly 50 countries!! There are so many cultural differences between China, Taiwan, and Singapore ALONE, Japan and Korea should never be conflated because there’s bad juju there, the fucking L/unar C/hronicles were such a mESS, I could go on but it’s lunch time. 

thanks for coming to my ted talk, note that these aren’t necessarily automatic do alls/end alls, but they are really really gross, and if ‘short, nerdy and awkward’ is the only characterization you can come up with for your east asian characters, if any at all, maybe try again. Representation matters.

[kaiswriting]

i’m currently planning a fantasy novel that takes place in a fictional world, so the characters arent technically east asians, but they do look like them. can someone give me some tips on how to describe their appearance in ways that isnt stereotypical or offensive?

thank you in advance

[snowflavored]

“aren’t technically e. asian” 

well…. yes, yes they are. real ppl who exist outside of your novel’s universe will be interacting with your book, even if those specific racial/ethnic dynamics don’t exist in your writing.

 you can’t just say “they’re not e. asian but they look like them” and expect e. asians to not be annoyed. that contributes to the shitty rhetoric of “oh, they’re not e. asian, those kinds of ppl don’t exist in fantasy, they just have the ~*aesthetic*~”, which i personally hope you’re not going for. 

obvs you’re not intending yellowface since you’re trying to describe them as e. asian without being offensive, but like… if you’re ASKING how to describe e. asian features, its time to stop beating around the bush. don’t say “technically they’re NOT lol”... don’t deny it. 

white users who deny e. asian-characters specifically being coded as such, are  racist. before answering any questions let’s get that clear. if you cannot reconcile with this, do not pass go. 

[everythingfox]

[adkiragh-deactivated20200628]

no talk me i’m angy

[gildedandgolden-deactivated2020]

@desimirffxiv

[kr--o]

graphic design is my passion

But AY. I’ve been developing a closed species for a while now and they’re up and running over on dA!

I really wanna get them out there so RBs are very much appreciated! This event has slot sales and raffles for free slots (including a raffle for one full render slot)!

[river-so-black]

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