i just have a lot of feelings

If I had a wife, she'd love it! Kitty (or Kiki) officially 30, bi, she/her pronouns. bsky: gemsofthegalaxy Ao3: GemstoneKitten ko-fi: gemsofthegalaxy PS- i like engaging with people on my posts, but i will absolutely delete replies if i dont like the vibe they're bringing, if i find they're rude/bad faith, etc! xoxo

[gemsofthegalaxy]

*~including trans girls~*

[adiabat]

you’ll be a teenager in the early 2010s watching with fascinated horror the rise of gamergate and r/mensrights and be like “wow this is fucked up, good thing it’s just online” and then it will turn into the entirety of mainstream politics for the rest of your life

[mierac]

This is real, btw. Steve Bannon observed gamergate and realized there was an audience of young men who could be radicalized via internet meme culture. MAGA intentionally targeted younger men for recruiting.

[krasnoarmeyets]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

oh wait just realized i can edit my own posts.

like you can't edit reblogs anymore but you can still edit your own post even after it has a thousand notes or whatever.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

[qqchurch]

[lesbianboyfriend]

[ID: tweet reading “that’s a great idea for a story. But have you considered they should all be girls?” /end ID]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[weterpete]

Um no I'm pretty sure those are both switches

[spookyscarysnails]

[i-said-im-a-fucking-star]

puts my uncomfortably wet hand on your shoulder. see here, gay boy- can i call you gay boy?

[abortedansha]

Sorry I will never be one of those "this isn't even the character anymore, just make an oc at that point" people. Nuh uh.

There is a huuuge difference between sanding off a characters unique parts to fit them into bland fanfiction tropes, which is awful and boring and disrespectful, and then someone loving a character so deeply that yes they arguably are fairly removed from the canon representation but are absolutely filled to the brim with love and have an extremely distinct feeling to them augh why am I trying to describe this when my brain can't articulate shit rn. Do you know what I mean?? It is SO charming to me when I see a character be so thoroughly loved by someone that they are changed. To me it is no different from an old and well-worn teddy bear that you've hugged every day for years

[abortedansha]

Bringing this back up again bc . The strict adherence to canon to the point it almost feels like a competition, or fans who seem to feel hierarchical about who can be the closest to canon, annoy the everloving piss out of me. This all comes back to me hating trying to police how others engage in art and creativity, to me that doesn't stop at kinks and dark themes.

Again, to reiterate, there's a huge difference between loving a character so deeply that they seem to take on a life of their own, and then bastardizing a character down to simplistic fandom tropes. I feel the need to make that as clear as possible but still I'm sure there will be someone who willfully misinterprets what I'm trying to say

To me, canon is a springboard for creativity and imagination, not a bible or rule book

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[dommingateez]

the comfort in a freak4freak friendship is knowing that you won't be judged for being a freak

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[herssian]

you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want

[thesweetiepienovels]

Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[strongermonster]

i'm helping out at a creative writing workshop for uhhh i think 10-12s? 10-14s? idk. but that age range. and anyways

a) i forgot how fun this is

b) it's really hard not to like, re-write for them and stick to just "hey add descriptions here, change this grammar, really cool ideas!" bc i'm an adult and not trying to talk over/railroad these kids, but i'm just so excited for their ideas!!!

c) little boys write cool stuff like "what if we went to mars but it sucked so we left, but left behind all our technology and the technology rose up and created its own society and then went to war with us for abandoning them? what if transformers had 100x the war crimes? what if the earth blew up. what if we were the robots all along?"

d) little girls out here writing like "aunt melanie's skin was sloughing off the bones as her beloved dogs tore her apart, turning on her in blind animal instinct. the second she stopped providing food, she became food." and a lot of body horror and dark themes about group pacts and betrayals and ritualistic murder/sacrifices. like a lot

[strongermonster]

me, turning to the teacher who is also doing this: hey so, i'm personally really cool with the tone and direction these girls take, but is any of this? how you say... a red flag?

teacher: little girls have really rich inner lives to combat the way they're puppeted by society in real life. they'll learn to censor it out in a couple years, but it doesn't go away.

me, who was also a weird little girl who phased in and out of weirdness depending on social settings: nice.

[toskarin]

one of my favourite human songs-and-dances is when someone notices someone else is lying and, for no particular reason besides love of the game, helps them get away with the lie without ever explicitly acknowledging they noticed. nightmare social animals.