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this land has been defiled, draped in shadow and seeded with evil! mr monsters was my father - please, call me ginger. she/her, 23. keep licking queen! i believe in you :D

[gingerbreadmonsters]

lowdown

or: if you broke the mechanism, i'm sacrificing you to the creepy doll.

hi there! it's a pleasure to meet you 💕 my name is ginger, my pronouns are she/her, and my timezone is gmt. i am not a minor! please be aware that there will be mature themes (including but not limited to: violence, blood, gore, explicit nsfw, and frequent strong language).

my masterlist is here - please let me know if the link is broken!

we're back, baby! the askbox is open for you to come and tell me all your lovely things 💕💕💕

update 28.02.22: following the unexpected start of my horror arc, i'd like to update my blog guidelines!

some of my writing does contain content that is more graphic, nsfw, and/or potentially unsettling/disturbing - please block the tag "ginger after dark" if you do not want to see this content! this blog does contain explicit 18+ content, and for this reason, minors must block this tag. please consider yourself warned.

rules for requests: you’re more than welcome to send in requests and suggestions, but please be aware that there’s no guarantee that they’ll be fulfilled immediately, if at all! also, please be nice in my askbox - mean asks get the chop.

i love to chat with you but for once i’ll keep it short - check under the cut for my tag directory!

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i find it really inconvenient when blogs have really generic tags like “anon” or “asks”, so i try to make mine a bit different - it’s a bit easier to block the ones you don’t want to see without interfering with other people’s content!

“ginger speaks the truth” or “ginger rambles” - the various chatter that falls out of my mouth

"ginger after dark" - MINORS BLOCK THIS TAG! for content that pushes the line a bit (e.g. heavily suggestive, disturbing or uncomfortable, graphic horror, etc)

“ginger speaks to lovely blogs” - replies to general asks

“ginger speaks to anons” - replies to anon asks

“ginger reblogs art” - take a wild guess

"ginger writes" - again, does what it says on the tin

“ginger celebrates” - milestone events! so far there have been two (50 and 300)

“ooh a game!” - tag games, ask games, all of that stuff goes under here

i should’ve known. that one day, you would be haunting me as well.

[dominimoonbeam]

that book i wrote. <3

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[micamicster]

They should invent a glasses that you can lay on your side in bed wearing

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[nyabbycat]

personal favorite theme decor from the aquarium today

[kaylmao]

just molted for the first time ama

[evil-sludge]

U feelin' mushy? Easily susceptible to predation..?

[kaylmao]

ok no more questions

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[geniusoflove]

its been 12 years

[shivshivshivvyyy]

13 years

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

14 years

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

15 years

[dammmithardison]

16 years

[fruitsfag]

17 years

[airinyourtires]

loss is an adult today. happy birthday loss.

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[datasnake]

Other examples of “blamed for things their copycats did” include Watchmen (blamed for the gritty antihero comics of the 90s) and Madoka Magica (blamed for excessively edgy and grimdark magical girl shows).

[fictionadventurer]

Four years on, and I think you might be the first person to add this type of comment to this post. After receiving so many comments that are like “THG is nowhere near on the level of LotR” or “THG didn’t invent YA dystopia”, it’s so refreshing to see someone understand exactly what I meant by framing THG as “a work blamed for its copycats”, and expand on it with examples that I didn’t know about.

It’s so rare to get an original comment on this post. Thank you so much.

[flightfoot]

Oh yeah, it gets really annoying with Madoka. The original Madoka Magica had PURPOSE to its darkness, it wasn’t just being “edgy”. It was asking questions that other magical girl series took for granted.

Like, why are girls between the ages of 9-17 targeted? Because those are some of the most emotionally vulnerable people who can produce some of the greatest emotional extremes.

What are the monsters that the girls have to fight? They’re corrupted forms of the girls themselves, once the hope that powers them is extinguished.

Why does the cute mascot creature have special powers that perfectly work with taking down these monsters? (In this case, taking in grief seeds for disposal). Because they were the ones who started this whole thing and it’s basically a giant energy-harvesting scheme.

And the wishes! The magical girls are shaped by the wishes they receive in exchange for their service. Notably, while a lot of wishes go wrong, Kyubey is NOT a jerkass genie. I don’t even think he really gets to choose when and how the wishes get granted, exactly. They seem to be granted more or less in the way that the girl envisioned, so if things go wrong, it’s because the girl didn’t think the wish’s consequences through. I really like that.

How are these girls suddenly able to withstand way more punishment and pain than they ever could before, and why is the transformation item so important? Because their true bodies are now their transformation items, which are way easier to protect, and it lets them heal their old bodies even when they sustain lethal damage.

Madoka also acknowledges the horror of fighting monsters and how dangerous it is, which traditional magical girl shows often gloss over.

And in the end, it rebuilds some of this stuff. Yes, all this is horrifying, but Madoka perseveres and uses her emotions, her will, to reshape the world to be fairer than it is now, to give magical girls a happier ending! Hope is not useless, and love wins out in the end, even if it’s bittersweet.

Unfortunately, most of its imitators just go “Magical girls, but now they kill each other and die horribly!” and didn’t really have a ton to say beyond that, at least not using the unique strengths of the magical girl genre.

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

@namelessennes

[avidreaderffn]

@sandstonesunspear

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Jesus Tapdancing Christ... THIS is a good welt pocket and the people who designed Simplicity 2895 ought to be blasted well ASHAMED of themselves for the crap way THEY wanted a welt pocket made. *SNARLS*

[makereadgrow]

This is how I learned to do it and a good example of what you want to see in a short form tutorial: pinning, pressing, seam finishing, good fabric handling.

I would mention that you can make the pocket facing with a small panel of your matching fabric that is visible and the rest in a lighter fabric to reduce bulk. That's a lot of denim layers for comfort.

[teaboot]

HOT DAMN

[cheaphalloweencostume]

horrible fucking partner just said apropos of nothing “and i’ll SUCK, and i’ll FUCK, and i’ll BLOW YOUR BACK OUT” like the big bad wolf.

[garashir]

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

[lesbiansforboromir]

Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it

[alexanderwales]

I started on 007 First Light's "TacSim" stuff, which are "virtual reality training levels", AKA an excuse to reuse a bunch of assets with more gameplay and challenges. They're fun, because the core gameplay is fun, but they really do make me think about how this conversation would have went down at MI6.

"Bond, it seems here that you used the Tactical Simulator to see whether you could throw ten men off the edge of a platform without going more than thirty seconds between each of them?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"And you spent almost an hour on this."

"Yes, ma'am. It was for training, ma'am."

"Do you anticipate that you'll need to throw men from ledges often?"

"Not just throw them, ma'am, but also activate convenient fans to blow them off. Yes, ma'am. And to practice the one-liners. 'Didn't seem he was a fan of that' or 'that really blew him away'. It's important to get the reps in."

"Ah, well, if it's for the one-liners, carry on."

[they-hermes]

black comic readers will say "buying black lead comics or black characters comics from dc doesn't stop them from getting axed and it's been literally 1200 days since dc has had a black ongoing so we're calling for a boycott to put pressure on dc by not buying comics and instead directly supporting black creatives" and here come the dumbest white people on the earth going "but dc is releasing pride month comics, do you hate queer people? but dc has female creators releasing comics, do you hate women? this boycott is so disorganised. i can't believe you hate queer people"

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[wheelie-sick]

when people tag posts "unreality" it's a signal to people who struggle with discerning reality that a (likely scary if believed to be true) post is not real even though it's written as if it was. it's also a filter tag so those people can opt out of seeing posts like that entirely. many people who rely on the unreality tag are psychotic and struggle with paranoia alongside (or because of) the struggles discerning what's real. posts that these people interpret to be real can lead to incredible distress and compulsions.

when someone tags your post "#unreality" and you screenshot the tags and say "what are you talking about? this is real" because you consider the post easy to discern as not real and find this joke funny you're actually just causing paranoia for people who now feel like they can't trust the unreality tag. not everyone has the same reality discernment skills as you. what's "obviously" a fictional story to you may not be obvious to other people.

I don't think most people make this joke maliciously. I think most people making this joke don't even realize why the unreality tag exists. anyways, if you've made this joke or have the urge to make this joke then consider not doing that.