Department of Soft Motherfuckers

Effing. She/her. Fun links are in the browser version. Icon by @jyosubii

[effingunicorns]

I keep meaning to mention it, but! I am on bluesky! if you follow me over here and want an invite, please don't hesitate to ask!

(I'm not handing invites out to any old person who finds this post because frankly I'm trying to avoid letting in fancops, radfems, and other baddies, and I don't have the spoons to go vetting every stranger who comes calling! thank you for understanding.)

[dragonsaltartales]

Illustration for Effing's fic, It's There My Homage's Due!

Made for @fairytalebang !

[fairytalebang]

It's There My Homage's Due

written by Effing & illustrated by @dragonsaltartales A Fullmetal Alchemist fic (Brotherhood/manga) inspired by Beauty and the Beast. Edward Elric/Roy Mustang

Roy finds his plans to save Amestris put on hold by a force not even the Fuhrer can deny: fairy tale logic. Will he succeed in helping Ed find a loophole in his curse, break it the old-fashioned way, or discover that there's a reason these things are played by the rules?

Read the fic on AO3

See the art on tumblr

[footsteps-on-the-dance-floor]

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

[procrasimnation]

Sorry to anyone this happened to (I would be fuming) but I am howling at EA incompetently creating cursed jewellery by mistake.

[pyreo]

I really need everyone to know that EA has quite quickly patched this issue, which is great. But.

They can't restore the appearance of your sims and need you to roll back to an earlier save.

These warped bratz girlies are PERMANENT

If you fell victim to this that's IT... there's no coming back

I can't get over this. Jewelery-obsessed sims turning into unfixable wizened wrecks. The Sims Four accidentally implimented GOLLUM SPEEDRUN SIMULATOR

[toboldlymuppet]

grim reaper

[dappermouth]

We're so back!! Tapestries are available once again, now at my print shop. Same quality and sizes as I had at Society6, only this time I'll be fairly paid! Gratitude to all the folk who continue to support artists <3

[moussofshroom]

matching moment

[gailynovelry]

Sometimes it's useful to look at your dialogue and ask yourself, "would a real human being talk like that?" But it's also good to ask the follow-up questions of "would the way a real human being talks sound good here" and "does this character actually talk like a real human being or are they weird about it."

[yeoldenews]

Another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

[modwyr]

some of you guys need to let the found family concept go. not every group of characters that hangs out is found family. friends is a perfectly acceptable term too

[parkayquarts]

everyone check out my new ya fantasy novel called a court of blood, bone, ash, roses, thorns, fire, ice, stone, ravens, enemies to lovers, fake dating, two number 9s, a number 5 large, and an extra large fries

[instantkrazy]

[gabisart]

𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶–𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳?

𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭–𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳?

𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶–𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳?

🙌

Pucci commission on ko-fi ☕️

[toadschooled]

A very powerful American toad creates ripples in water with his call. [Anaxyrus americanus] [x]

[bob-artist]

Bittern at the grocery store

[identitty-dickruption]

anyway this is what I mean when I say that certain disorders being made quirky and memeable does not help with destigmatisation. people can say “autistic cat girls make the world go round” and then turn around and say “[common autistic trait] makes you evil btw”. and don’t see anything bad about that. they’re totally not ableist! they said it right there! they find autism sexy! hell world

[identitty-dickruption]

this isn’t just about autism. any disability people think of as “destigmatised” is… not actually destigmatised once people see the realities of the disability. even something like lactose intolerance is fine to meme about, but the moment people have dietary requirements, they’re annoying and fussy. everyone’s happy to say that mobility aids are sexy and ADHD is fun and addicts are more interesting…. but the moment a disabled person actually acts disabled, it’s game over. you guys haven’t destigmatised disability, you’ve just turned a couple of them into memes and relatable text posts

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Lae'zel's character and her entire situation at the beginning of the game becomes so much more funny when you find out she's 22. It makes so much sense. Imagine you're 22 and you're exposed to this dangerous toxin or chemical or something - but not to worry, you learnt that this can be easily fixed, you just need to dial 911 real quick. Common knowledge. Everyone knows that. You learnt that in kindergarten, it's up there with fire alarm drills.

But the people you're stuck with have no concept of modern medicine and when you say "let's go to the hospital" they will say shit like "i think they kill people at the hospital" and "we should ask this swamp lady" or "this guy over there told me about this homoeopathic healer kind of guy but he got abducted" or "this random bard wants to help" and "I'm not going to dial 911 because I don't want the government to know my home address" or "maybe we should consider a deal with Satan". And then a bunch of them KEEP consuming the chemical because it makes them "stronger". One guy might explode for unrelated reasons. You have a few days before this situation is getting critical and suddenly they're solving crime and doing general charity for the community.

And FOR SOME REASON you still try to help these idiots and you STILL want to help them get the cure even though they all keep insisting the "doctors" at the "hospital" might try to "kill them" and they don't have insurance. And you keep telling them to just. go. to. the. hospital. before the time runs out and you all die very horribly of a very treatable condition.

And also you're 22 in a foreign country and you're responsible for shepherding this gaggle of idiots who are all ranging anywhere from 24 to 240 years old.

[bardnuts]

and then you get to the hospital and the doctors try to kill you