Once, I thought I was alone

She / they | late 20s | RWBY, star wars (fuck disney) various other hyperfixations | fic | cute posts | I don’t tag very much if at all

[supertaliart]

Happy May the Fourth! I added a second page to this comic from last year!

[i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated]

Tip: if boiling oil hisses at you, hiss back! this helps assert your dominance over it.

[planeposting]

Stabilize our trajectory please

Pitch up

Pitch down

Left rudder

Right rudder

Left roll

Right roll

No1 engine thrust

No2 engine thrust

Flap angle

Altitude

Voting ended onMay 10

I just wanna see how we crash this plane

# of likes = # of passengers on board

# of reblogs = # of flight hours the pilots have

Good luck soldiers

[theglitchywriterboi]

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

[stevviefox]

Passing along for all the writers out there!

[abluescarfonwaston]

Spy x Family is fundamentally an adoption story.

Obviously Anya is adopted. We all know this. She knows this. She loves her family but knows it is incredibly fragile.

But unlike most adoption stories (say Natsume Yuujinchou) Anya is not adopted into a loving functional family who's main goal is to support and love her until she heals from all the hurt she has been through.

Because Everyone in their family is adopted.

Yor enters thinking she is entering an existing family dynamic of a man and his daughter. She is the step mother, eagerly wanted but a definite outsider. She does not know about how they lost Loid's first wife. They both Never mention her but Anya clearly has Huge feelings about her Mommy that she cannot touch. Because Loid refuses to acknowledge her. Which means she's not allowed to.

She's a wife brought in to solve a problem. The fact she adores Anya and loves Loid (eventually) doesn't make her any less of an outsider from her perspective. To Yor she's the adopted family member.

Meanwhile Loid, the one who brought them all together almost instantly finds himself on the outside of the family. He works too much and doesn't make it home for dinner frequently. He struggles to connect with his 'daughter' and wife. Can't understand either of them despite constant efforts. Something incredibly distressing for him.

Yor instantly connects with this child when he struggled to hold her hand in public. In his eyes Yor and Anya are a family and he is the outsider only there for the mission. The man who is destined to Not be there. He too often fills the role of the outside child brought into a happy family. One he constantly feels he is fumbling or failing. (If I'm not good, if i'm not perfect- my family will leave me. So I have to be. I have to figure out how to be better)

They are a family of adopted members all holding so tightly to each other. Each one of them chooses the others over and over again. Struggles against their own limitations and fears to be a part of a family they're all terrified to really call their own.

But it is that choice that makes them a family. Not blood or marriage or any certificate. That they all keep trying to be a family to the others. I'll be a good girl and study hard Papa. I'll be a good wife, I'll play my role well so don't abandon me. I'll be a good father and husband, I will try to be a good husband and father if you both will just stay with me. Please. I will figure out how.

Spy x Family is an adoption story.

[clarissecagliostro]

not found family! adoption! --an adoptee

edit: stop liking this and reblog. the romanticism of adoption and calling it found family and reducing to a simple trope is disgusting. if you care about the topic, reblog to get the word out.

[the-sacred-now]

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

[the-sacred-now]

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

[the-sacred-now]

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

[the-sacred-now]

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

[dizzy-canary]

Let it be known that I am reblogging this. For your funny wife.

[userfish]

how many items are in your queue

zero

1-50

51-100

101-150

151-200

201-250

251-300

Voting ended onMay 2

and reblog with the number if you want, im genuinely curious

[userfish]

wait it’s been awhile does the queue hold more than 300 items now?????????

[userfish]

I’ve been informed it’s 1000 so now

how many posts are in your queue

Zero

1-100

101-200

201-300

301-400

401-500

501-600

601-700

701-800

801-900

900-1000

Voting ended onMay 3

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[yokowan]

okay I'll bite

[yokowan]

hawm

[aropride]

could an average, able-bodied person reasonably walk from where you live to a library, in good weather?

yes, because i live at a school/college etc with a library

yes, very easily

yes, there's a library in a reasonable walking distance

yes, but it'd take a while / terrain would suck to navigate

yes, but it'd take so long / be difficult enough to do that nobody would

no, there's no library in a reasonable walking distance

Voting ended onApr 23

[aropride]

could an average, able-bodied person reasonably walk from where you live to a library, in good weather?

yes, because i live at a school/college etc with a library

yes, very easily

yes, there's a library in a reasonable walking distance

yes, but it'd take a while / terrain would suck to navigate

yes, but it'd take so long / be difficult enough to do that nobody would

no, there's no library in a reasonable walking distance

Voting ended onApr 23

[the-polyhedron]

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

[iridescent-birds]

ok I wanna make a poll now

What was your most beloved plushie as a child?

Bear

Dog

(Domestic) cat

Big cat

Equine (horse/zebra/donkey)

Rabbit/bunny

Sheep/lamb

Sea creature

Other domesticated animal

Other wild animal

Fantasy creature

Not an animal

Voting ended onApr 15

(I know this isn't the most even way to represent animal groups but I tried to go off of what I saw mentioned most in the notes)

Reblogs for sample size appreciated!

[thickness-protection-program]

Alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win today

[thickness-protection-program]

I mean alright girlies we can't let the executive dysfunction win tomorrow

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[quadriviummuse]

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[bookcub]

for audiobook listeners, what speed do you listen to your books at on average?

0.5-0.9

1.0

1.1-1.5

1.6-2.0

2.1-2.5

2.6-3.0

3.1+

Voting ended onApr 19

i default to 1.0 but if i am eager to reach the end or not feeling the book and reading it for an assignment i speed up to 1.6-2.0. would love to hear others experiences!

[loveridden1999]

i genuinely want to know what are the conditions for impeachment of a president for america because apparently your president can fund & commit genocides, kidnap world leaders, be a felon, a sexual assaulter, openly threaten journalists, commit electoral fraud, fund mass deportations, killings & harrasment of civilians, wage wars on whim, & now is tweeting that "a whole civilization will die tonight" without any repercussions. like where do you draw the line genuinely and why do we southeast asians & swana countries have to suffer because of it???

[alexkablob]

Putting out a general ask: does anyone know a program/tool/whatever I can use to easily design a spaceship deck plan? It can be very basic, I just need a general idea of the layout I can reference for a thing I'm writing or I'll go crazy trying to keep track of it.