No Thoughts, Only Dragons, Drawings, And Anime

Professional actress and artist for fun, also I write fanfic Art tag: eclipse drew a thing She/her, 23, and I go by Eclipse online! Into many things but the gay lawyer games have taken over my brain You can read the old version of my webcomic at sparksflydragons.thecomicseries.com!!

[eclipsedrawsthings]

So I’ve now set up a couple of sideblogs to make some things easier to find!

@eclipsedrawsthings-gallery is my new art blog! All my art will be posted here first, then reblogged there—there’ll be nothing else reblogged there, so if you wanna just scroll through my art that’s where you go! Give it a follow for double the chance of seeing my art on your dash •w•

@sparksfly-official is where everything related to my comic, Sparks Fly, can be found! You can also find Sparks Fly art on the other blog, but this one is nothing but Sparks Fly. Follow for gay dragons •w•

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[quietwingsinthesky]

you can’t call something a crackship if they have multiple scenes together and insane sexual tension. not even if only a few people ship them. that’s just a rarepair. the line must be drawn here.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“crackship” is for when he-man cheats on skeletor with sans at the skeleton family reunion

[ponkothepenguin]

I just know this book is gonna be good

[polarheritageposts]

Polar Heritage Post

[hachinana87]

📸

[beardaxemcbreadhobnob]

big fan of the way moles sit in dirt with their arms out like they’re in a hot tub

[beardaxemcbreadhobnob]

decadence….

[cowboyfirestar]

Baby Tawnykit growing up in Shadowclan/Tigerclan

[straightpeoplereceipts]

queer housing groups are a great place to meet people you would never, under any circumstances, want to live with.

[straightpeoplereceipts]

queer housing groups are like:

“hi manhattan folx. we are both fresh out of school and looking to split rent 3/4s* with one (1) quiet femme roommate. wed prefer to live with someone who is not greek, cannot practice martial arts and was recently fired from their job.

we are looking for a quiet person because it is a MUST that you do not ever speak to my partner due to his inability to behave normally. if you need trouble him, you will pass messages beneath our bedroom door at precisely 3am on sundays only.

you mightve heard about us from our previous roommate, moon. she will be posting in various local groups saying we sold her ferret on craigslist. please PM me for more details.

we are looking for some who

is not mentally ill

is not disabled

will not be seen or heard

does not have friends

will wash dishes for us

you would be living in a cardboard box in our living room. we have a washing machine and dryer but ask that you do not use it, instead going to the laundromat down the street and matching whatever you paid them to pay us as well.

we are both lawyers but one of us roams the streets at night wearing a mask with horns and performing vigilante justice. you must be able to perform first aid at all hours. (and of course comfy doing this xo.)

people with leopard geckos and capricorns need not apply.

*as in you pay ¾ of the rent.”

I saw a post in a queer housing group and they specified that they talk about sex openly in their house and all of the comments were warnings telling people not to move in there because the reason why they want people to speak about sex openly is because they’re trying to indoctrinate you into their sex cult.

[eaglesucks]

I joined a queer housing group in Portland and left pretty quickly because of posts like this:

[kovaceviches]

[gatheredbugs]

[maryfitzroy]

[mephistopheles]

i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like

[mephistopheles]

what this post does NOT mean

go out and fuck someone you aren’t attracted to because a stranger on tumblr said to

go out and date someone you aren’t attracted to because a stranger on tumblr said to

You’re Not Allowed To Be Gay Anymore

what this post DOES mean

if you just ‘prefer’ to avoid majority black areas of your city

if you just ‘prefer’ to read, write, think, and talk about men

if you just ‘prefer’ to socialize with people you (perceive as) your assigned birth sex

if you just ‘prefer’ to exclusively watch white-directed movies, read white-written books, listen to white-authored music

if you just unconsciously perceive men as more authoritative/competent and ‘prefer’ to be spoken to by them

this is a post about acknowledging unconscious bias. it is not a post about dating. please stop coming into my inbox and accusing me of rape apologism and telling me to kill myself. thank you

[pangur-and-grim]

this is huge… a three chair event

[pangur-and-grim]

[what-even-is-thiss]

When I was a teenager I had a phase where I called soccer football because the rest of the world called it that but eventually my dad told me “You know, there’s a point where acting smart doesn’t make you smart and just makes you annoying. Refusing to use the word that everyone else around you uses doesn’t make you smarter than them.”

So anyways I call it soccer now.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Anyways as a teenager I think I was trying to find small ways to make myself feel like I was smarter than other people but tbh my dad was right, even though I didn’t wanna admit it at the time.

At a certain point performatively doing stuff to make you sound more cultured and educated than other people just kinda makes you annoying and also shows off that you’re not willing to adjust to the most common practices where you are. You’re just creating friction for the sake of it and not really accomplishing anything.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I feel like the actual message here is going over a lot of y’all’s heads

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Let people talk however they want”

Yeah okay. You can talk however you want. You can choose to make communication more difficult with those around you on purpose just to make yourself feel smarter. It’s a free country.

“That’s a mean thing to say to a child”

I was fifteen and needed someone to sit my ass down and tell me how I was coming across to other people. Sometimes parenting does in fact involve telling your kid when they’re being a bit of an ass.

“Only Americans call it soccer”

Untrue but even if it was true I live in the US and calling it football only causes confusion in my everyday life. Your worldview is Eurocentric and your point is irrelevant to my life and this post isn’t about soccer anyways

[depsidase]

[aw-dag]

You know every show that the premise is like “people find out ghosts/monsters/demons are real and are charged with stopping them” appeal to me way more now as a post-graduate not because I believe in ghosts more or whatever but because can you IMAGINE just being handed a job that you don’t even need to apply for? Like just being told “basically there’s this bad thing and all you do is make sure it doesn’t do what it wants” that’s just customer service baby and I worked that for 6 goddamn years! Just TRY getting past “I have a job to offer you” before I can jump down your throat agreeing.

[aw-dag]

some idiot with a dumb ghost-hunting name who joined the Cause because they love the paranormal: oh fuck oh shit this is really scary guys I’m having second thoughts

me, who knows that if we run away I have to apply to like, a real actual Jobbe again: wakey wakey demons it’s this or retail so guess who’s got nothing to lose

[meret118]

[vamprule]

Langa “I will pepper in the fact that I am gay” Hasegawa 🩵🌈✨

Just a little something I drew based on John Mulaney’s “New In Town” bit. Langa didn’t make much of an introduction in the show, but if he did, maybe it’d sound something like this 😅

[famespiral]

[ryan-sometimes]

I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

[mankillercalledbunny]

Not to bring the serious to a very fun post, but this reaction is exactly what Mamdani is working for with his image, because in a very real way the most effective way for him to be The Mayor is if he looks like The Mayor.

This is a man who is VIOLENTLY aware that when it comes to conservatives, he is a Muslim first, a Brown Man second, an Immigrant third, a Socialist fourth, and a human a very distant fifth, if considered at all. He was also a young adult during the Obama Years and will have seen Republicans rip Obama to shreds for wearing a tan suit instead of a dark one and use literally ANY excuse they could to try and degrade his image.

Despite the fact that a mayor who wears a T-shirt and jeans might "seem more approachable" in the eyes of the average American, Zohran Mamdani knows that someone with his profile fundamentally cannot get away with that the way his White colleagues can. He has instead put in the effort to look professional and BE approachable, because not only does it make it easier for him to reach and represent his constituents, it forces everyone, including both his opponents and establishment Democrats, to engage with the work he is doing instead of judging his image. The fact that he is always seen in a suit and is recognisably The Mayor is, while also something he has fun with, a deliberate choice to ensure he is as inarguably A Professional Politician To Be Taken Seriously. The added humour of e.g. the hi-vis is a bonus, only achievable because he works so hard to Look Like The Mayor.

[mankillercalledbunny]

Adding these tags from @haunted-stranger-garden bc they illustrate this brilliantly

[animentality]