Fern, like the plant

just a silly little creature who worries too much. call me felix or fern. i like games and art and such he/they/it (20)

[fern--theplant]

hi im fern/felix!!!!

asks and dms are very much open please tell me random things, send me requests of silly things i should doodle, send me memes to (currently) danganronpa-fy, anything you can think of!

cough i retain no liability dont get mad at me if i dont want to do it, dont send weird or very specific shit one day ill open commissions for that

yeajh. hi i like things a lot and im very awkward. im here to make friends im just Bad At It help me practice? ;) ;) ;;.,

interests:

☆ things that give me brain worms and you can expect to see regularly: mainly danganronpa right now, dungeon meshi, pokemon, undertale/deltarune, uhh i play balatro, miku/vocaloid, night in the woods

☆ things youll probably see pop up once in a while because i like them lots: needy streamer overload, omori, stardew valley, mouthwashing, chainsaw man, genshin (retired), owl house, steven universe (retired), gravity falls, dan and phil (the youtubers), persona 5 (i still havent finished the game), mystic messenger (veteran), house (the tv show, i just started), and a lot of other random things ill probably remember ive liked once i finish writing this.

☆ i draw, i sew, i cosplay occasionally, i collect figurines and all sorts of knickknacks and other things like CDs, i like dressing up, i like all things that glow in the dark (yummy radiation poisoning) and i have way too many plushies

i am trans/nonbinary and on the aromantic spectrum. im also a casual furry and will probably reblog furry art. dont follow me if you dont like me existing as a concept. we wont get along and wheres the fun in that? im also a big advocate for just letting people like and do whatever they want as long as it doesnt harm anybody. if you dont like that you know what to do :) if you make me uncomfortable, ill block you but i doubt that will happen often

tags!

ill try my best to keep up with this but i am very forgetful, i generally dont tag reblogs this counts mainly for my own posts but i should probably start at some point

#fern squeaks will be for silly chat posts or just my general thoughts

#fern can draw sometimes is for my drawings!

#asks is for answered asks :)

i dont post full on nsfw on this blog (i have a sneaky sideblog for that) but there might be the occasional suggestive thing. i am an adult. if i notice it becomes more frequent ill make a tag! more likely to just like nsfw stuff so if that shows up on your feed because of me whoops

heres my cat pixel

[urie]

americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those

[radnormal]

poster made by me — reblogs appreciated

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[xalphafox]

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

[headspace-hotel]

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

[bigtabart]

[microposting]

people went to war over this show

[sanrio-stud]

who suffered more?

Pearl

jesus christ

Voting ended onApr 10

[microposting]

people went to war over this show

[sanrio-stud]

who suffered more?

Pearl

jesus christ

Voting ended onApr 10

[berlynn-wohl]

Me in 2006: I’m still bitter about that

Me in 2016: I’m still salty about that

Me in 2026, probably: I’m still umami about that

[allaark]

Well, are you?. We’re waiting.

[berlynn-wohl]

There’s a lot to be umami about these days.

[fern--theplant]

oh fuck i forgot to post any of my zine work oops

[hylosylphide]

So, about the sexyman polls...

[realpokemon]

it is not "punk" to shiny hunt. it is not "punk" to level your pokémon through the daycare. it is not "punk" to EV train on low-level mon. the only thing it is """PUNK""" to do is hang out with dark types and poison types in abandoned hotels

[ilovedthestars]

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

[395nm]

道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。

[pipshinwhatever]

postcanon hajime and komaeda starting to date is like the biggest fucking news on the island and everyone has something to say about it but when they break up it's even BIGGER news everyone's like kinda scared komaeda is gonna start killing but when someone talks to him and gently brings up the breakup he's like "oh are you worried i'm angry with hinata-kun ^_^ of course not actually i am quite relieved that now our dutiful leader can focus on what's important instead of wasting time with someone like me. also he sweats a lot and it's kind of gross" and two weeks later they get back together anyways and everyone realizes Oh They're Just That Kind Of Annoying Couple Huh

[pipshinwhatever]

three breakups and a dozen breaks in and they just stop bothering with pretense half the time. hajime's like "komaeda i told you i don't want to see you" and komaeda's like "oh did you hm i must have forgotten perhaps my memory is acting up again. anyways i just finished a very fascinating book i think you'd like it"

[pipshinwhatever]

hajime complains about their latest argument and he's like "oh my god he seriously knows exactly the right thing to say to piss me off most in any given situation i'm seriously sick of him" and fuyuhiko's like "fucking christ you said that last time seriously just stop talking to the guy" and hajime says that isn't an option bc nobody else is really close to komaeda and he can't just "ignore someone's social needs". when he's getting dinner with his ex and talking with him one on one for hours he's actually just being a good leader shut UP nothing is gonna happen this time (it does in fact happen again)

[caruliaa]

truly so funny how dans seen as all edge and darkness and phils reputation is the sweet innocent cute one when in reality dan howell is a deeply earnest theatre kid who loved winnie the pooh as a child and phill lester lies for fun and used to wish death on other children

[so1987-deactivated20230102]

who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

[so1987-deactivated20230102]

okay

these are the executive functions. impairment of these functions is executive dysfunction

[dailypattondoodles]

Oh.

OH

[lurlur]

Girl, help. None of my executives are functioning

[puthy]

how you can tell the post is really bad

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

tumblr version of "you sir have won the internet. have an updoot"

[barbeloth]

man come on

[maykitz]

the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad's hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he's in weird ambidexterity situation where he's not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf

[seeingteacupsindragons]

It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just...went away. As you note, it...hasn't in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.

But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.

If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can't. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.

It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don't even make them. And it's not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.

All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.

I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren't enough lefty desks--and there never were. Some classrooms didn't even have a single one.

I could go on.

But the point is, bigotry isn't just a mindset shift. People can't just decide they're not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything's fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they're never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.

[kkelenca]

When kiddo was learning to write, their teacher—who was a beautifully kind, caring, compassionate person who even thanked me for making them aware of certain kinds of left/handed supplies, because their new toddler was a lefty and they’d never even thought about it—was teaching the kids a method for word spacing that involved placing their free index finger down at the end of each word and then writing the next one.

Pause for a moment, especially if you’re right-handed—and I’m being serious here, physically do this if you have two functioning arms and hands—and grab a writing tool in your left hand. Now place your right index finger down and try to start writing a word next to it.

Yeah. Great technique, huh? Really convenient and comfortable and easy. 🙃

I sent in a small baggie of small popsicle sticks I’d custom painted for them and labeled with their name for kiddo to use instead, but ultimately they stopped because it wasn’t as convenient when nobody else had to get something out.

Writing in English is difficult enough when you’re left-handed (most of our letters are designed with pull motions, but lefties must push), but even other foundational basics are made more difficult than they have to be, because their needs aren’t considered, even in situations where overt hostility isn’t intended.

Even now, in an older grade, they’re now all sharing a lot of the supplies, but my kiddo has their own pair of labeled lefty scissors they keep in their personal cubby. Teacher was 100% chill with me sending them in, but didn’t even consider to take the step further when I’d asked about whether or not they had them to just… get some for all the lefties. I know there are other kids, know some of them personally. (I made a set of writing spacing sticks for the single one that I knew of back in 1st grade.)

Regarding computer mice? Kiddo had standardized testing last year. They do it on chromebooks now at their school. They did their entire first day with the track pad instead of the mouse, because none of the teachers proctoring or assisting even knew you COULD switch the sides/toggle a setting to switch which button was the dominant select. We happened to have one at home thanks to remote learning during Covid’s early days, so that night we sat down together and found the setting ourselves so they could fix it the following day. But on a student account at school, they couldn’t change that setting. And? None of those teachers knew enough about technology to be able to override it. So even when I went above and beyond and personally sought out the skills and tools to help my child level the playing field on their own, the teaching staff was so unaccustomed to even considering this as a need or problem, that they weren’t able to remove the incredibly basic barriers to a fair schooling experience.

And this is honestly a good school, with staff that care and work hard and take 99% of bigotry concepts very seriously, teach about truth and compassion and how to recognize at this kid level a lot of the basic seeds that can grow into hate and hurt and also healing and helping. But the fact that left-handed needs are different? It is so ingrained to default to right-handed layouts that even left-handed staff don’t conceptualize these problems, because they were taught the exact same way.