Hi! You can call me El, Lib, Libby, some variation of my username, I really don’t care. Use whatever pronouns you want with me, get creative! I identify as asexual, aro-spec, sapphic, and queer. I’m also very much in favor of reclaiming slurs, so simply know that I am a faggot and a dyke :)
Minors, interact with caution. First of all, take your age out of your bio and don’t advertise the fact that you’re underage. That’s dumb. Also, if you try to follow me and I can tell that you’re a minor, I will be blocking you. That being said, I’m not your parent and I can’t control what you do. You can reblog my posts and engage with me about topics like music, politics, or sfw fandom things. Do not DM me if you’re a minor—I am absolutely not comfortable talking privately with you. Send it in an ask, please and thank you :)
I post very eclectically, and I’m not always great about tagging things. The few things you can expect from me are my one piece posting (under #one piece yapping, #libby watches one piece, and #libby reads one piece), various music things like compositions, practice videos, or just my thoughts (under #back on my music bullshit with practice videos under #practice log), political posts (under #politics or #us politics), and anything I find extremely funny (under #top tier posts). I’ve also been posting a bit more about The Summer Hikaru Died (光が死んだ夏) after the anime’s release, so those posts can be found under #hgsn posting. All of my original posts are tagged #libby shouts into the void, and I try to be consistent with tagging trigger warnings (formatted #tw [topic]). Anything I write will be tagged #libby writes things, though you can absolutely just follow my writing side blog if you want to see that stuff.
Other fandoms that I’m always down to talk about, regardless of how often I post about them, include The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと), bare: a pop opera, Batman/Batfamily/DC Comics, BBC Merlin, Bungou Stray Dogs (文豪ストレイドッグス), Check Please! (omgcp), Dan and Phil (the middle school hyperfixation turned up in the middle of the night and shot me dead), DanDaDan (ダンダダン), Danny Phantom, Dead Boy Detectives, Frieren (葬送のフリーレン), Haikyuu!! (ハイキュー‼︎), His Dark Materials, Miraculous Ladybug, My Hero Academia (僕のヒーローアカデミア), the Owl House, Percy Jackson, Pokémon, Precure, Princess Tutu, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sailor Moon, She-ra (and the Princesses of Power), Sasaki and Miyano/Hirano and Kagiura (ssmykghr), Skip and Loafer (スキップとローファー), Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, Winx Club, Witch Hat Atelier, and Wizard101 (I’ve played on and off for over a decade now). I’m always looking for more magical girl media, so please give me your recs!
Topics and/or hyperfixations (outside of the previously mentioned fandoms) include bra-sizing, soundtracks/compositions/leitmotifs, contemporary music, Japanese (which I’m learning), and poetry/writing (my very barren side blog is @elluminiswrites and you can find me on ao3 under elluminis).
Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.
shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3
Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely
forgot to mention this in the post for ep 23 since I was so focused on the Kurea and Luluka interactions
but what i’m looking forward to the most now for ep 25/26 is Kurea’s scrunchie transforming into Shushutan
for those who don’t know, the Japanese word for scrunchie is “シュシュ” (shushu) and Patisserie Chuchu even sounds similar to it
that and the scrunchie’s color is the same light blue as Shushutan
if Eclair’s fairy partner stuck to her this entire time while she had amnesia, in the form of a hair accessory no less (tanuki are shapeshifters in Japanese folklore), then that’d be the sweetest act of loyalty i’ve ever witnessed in Precure from a mascot
used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic
i’ve invented a new microwave its called microwave 2. it randomly makes your food colder 9% of the time. don’t worry i’ve already entered your home and replaced your old microwave with it. im very good at technology
The upside to the adhd forgetting that you made yourself a drink thing is thinking to yourself “man I could go for a drink right now” and looking to your right and seeing a drink has appeared there. Thank you, past me. I lost you somewhere but you have still provided.
choosing to play oppression olympics isnt just mean and inconsiderate. like I feel when you call ppl out for it theyre like "does it hurt your feelings that I said your privileged?" like no you are actually doing some serious damage to your own cause
like the recent estrogen legislation. estrogen should never be made a controlled substance. everyone should have easy access to gender affirming care, including DIY. but when people try to spread awareness for this serious issue by acting like trans men arent as affected by institutional transphobia, it just becomes an argument about disinformation, because testosterone is ALREADY a controlled substance. I want estrogen to remain an uncontrolled substance because I want to save trans women from the bullshit than trans men have been having to deal with for over 30 years. and then you have a bunch of people arguing about this bullshit with each other while the law just plods on thru the government and everyone loses.
recently I saw a person talking about the recent, tragic murder of Juniper Blessing. but instead of honoring her memory, this person said that trans men dont experience the same danger. and of course that caused people to bring up the also very recent murder of Luca Redbeard. Both these violent hate crimes and murders happened THIS MONTH and it makes me sick that the trans community cant even honor their memories properly because theyre too up their own asses arguing about who has privilege and social power over the other, instead of seeing that we are all living the same fucking nightmare
fun fact uncontacted peoples are not ignorant they are fully aware of the "outside world" and are CHOOSING not to have contact because they (rightly) feel it would add no value to their lives and place them in an exploited position. it's voluntary. they are isolated on purpose.
sentinelese people aren't like some ignorant noble savages, or actual savages who are all about warfare and killing (wildly racist take i see very often), they are literally regular ass fucking people who have seen the exploitation of their neighbors (other andamanese people) AND the massive disease outbreaks caused by contact, and decided they want no part in that. they are literally regular people choosing to survive. that's it.
For those in the notes arguing about whether "uncontacted" is the correct term; whether or not it seems the most accurate, it's the term that is being used. "Uncontacted" just means they reject contact with non-Indigenous society, not that they are isolated from all other people or don't know it exists or have never spoken to a white person before. From the link above:
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples reject contact with outsiders, as an active and ongoing choice. Survival International has calculated that there are 196 uncontacted groups worldwide; some of these are entire peoples who are uncontacted – such as the Sentinelese in India. Some uncontacted groups – such as the Ayoreo Totobiegosode in the Paraguayan Chaco or the Amahuaca in Peru – are sub-groups of bigger tribes with whom they share a language and often a territory. All are aware of the outside world, and reject it. They are self-sufficient and resilient. They live independently in forests, sometimes on islands. They resist intrusion, and thrive when their rights are respected.
Uncontacted peoples may encounter outsiders sporadically, or not at all. They are aware of neighboring Indigenous peoples, who may be closely or distantly related. The uncontacted Hongana Manyawa in Indonesia have family members who have left the forest, mostly under duress. The uncontacted Pirititi occasionally encounter their contacted Kinja neighbors in the Brazilian Amazon. The Massaco, also in Brazil, were for decades known only by traces in the forest, including booby traps sharpened with rodents' teeth and placed on their hunting trails to warn off outsiders.
Uncontacted peoples’ rejection of contact is often rooted in memories of devastating past contact and invasion, which brought violence, epidemics and death. Their denial of contact is a clear expression of their autonomy and self-determination.
At that link you can also check out "Voices from the Edge" which is a collection of interviews mostly with Indigenous people who have been forcibly contacted and whose relatives are still uncontacted.
