our love is young.

Kim or sometimes Indi, bi and maybe demi, she/her, in my mid-30s. pretentious, wordy, definitely too old for this shit. prone to text posts and distraction. I sometimes stan problematic things and I think this is fine. WWDITS (currently deep in Nandermo hell), Good Omens (Crowley/Aziraphale), IASIP (practically everything, Dennis is favorite monster), Arrested Development (GOB/Tony), cartoons. Recovering Glee fan/hate-watcher. Formerly singingtomysoul/indiwyn. singingtomysoul on ao3, @ladyindigo on Twitter.

[silima]

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

[silima]

turmeric kun update

[elodieunderglass]

Hmm hmm hmm. oxiclean loves her for who she is but turmeric cannot help but change her

[arnabfactory]

Fascinated by this phenomenon

[2023-yaoi-off]

Yaoi-Off 2025-2: Elegy of a Broken World

Round 1: Robotnik x Agent Stone (Sonic Movie) vs Dean x Castiel (Supernatural)

Robotnik x Agent Stone

Dean x Castiel

Voting ended onApr 7, 2025

[the-jovial-jester]

STOBOTNIK IS IN THE LEAD WE CAN WIN THIS BOYS!!!!!!

[ineffably-human]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64386001

(slams down on the table like I'm turning in an essay late)

Pairing: Agent Stone/Dr. Robotnik

Title: where we can write our own happy ending

Rating: T

Stobotnik Week 2025, Day 3: Alternate Universe: Fairytales

There was once a sorcerer who lived in a far-away kingdom, and there was none more brilliant or powerful than he.

Stone tells Sage a story before bedtime. There's a knight and a sorcerer, a love story, threefold dangers, a few embellishments, and of course...

[ineffably-human]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64327477

Pairing: Agent Stone/Dr. Robotnik

Title: i would hold the hand of the one who can lead me places

Rating: T

Stobotnik Week 2025, Day 1: Entertainment: Telenovela

Agent Stone doesn't understand the side of Robotnik that loves a terrible Mexican soap opera. But there's never been a side of Robotnik that he didn't love.

---

Guess who has two thumbs and repurposed a fanfic scene because it fit the prompt and could stand alone!

It's Stobotnik Week, I am cringe and I am free.

[delphinidin4]

[icemankazansky]

Omg y'all Y'ALL

[jellyfishdreamofstarlight]

3 years ago, I wonder if they have gone through all that rice yet…..

[theblehthatbloos]

Oh

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

There was a day in 2021 this post was on my dashboard three times a page

[ineffably-human]

I think the Barbie movie kind of fixed what's horrifying about Toy Story for me.

Toy Story's basic idea is a toy as a consumable object, designed to be loved and then used up, but never acknowledged by people as really real. But they are real, secretly, so they're always hoping the incomplete love they inspired is enough to keep them from being forgotten/destroyed/abandoned/replaced. And if that does happen, the toy maybe can have the support of its friends - but it's not made for its friends, it's made for the humans that will love an incomplete version of it and then leave it.

(So you're just left wondering why it took four movies for them to come up with the mobile therapist idea, basically.)

And in Barbie, a toy is a vessel for an idea, for the creativity that comes when you play with it. We influence the idea, and the idea influences us, so it continues to exist connected to our thoughts and feelings long after we stop physically touching it. It'll remind us of different things at different times, it'll be different things to different people. A damaged toy just means it's been well-loved and has new perspectives the others might not.

It's always possible the toy will change as the world changes, and in fact that's necessary and good because the way we play, the stories and fantasies we have, both reflect our world and influence who we become. And sometimes, ideas that are powerful enough become a kind of 'real' in their own right.

[tinylostrobot]

Toy Story is only as scary as being human

like the toys, we are also always at risk of being abandoned or mistreated by attachment figures who will never completely see or appreciate us for who we are - you will never know the real me and vice versa, we will only know each other's doppelgangers in our respective emotional and ideological versions of reality

like Lotso Huggin Bear we can be replaced - because, like Buzz Lightyear, in the modern world we have to confront the fact that we are to some extent mass-produced, repleaceable, there are millions like us all vying to be treated as if we are special

also, like Woody considering the possibility of going to the Japanese toy museum, there are opportunities for us to shield ourselves from the vulnerability of human connection by, for instance, living on 4chan and never leaving the house

so, what makes Toy Story and life in general interesting is that it's only horrifying if you look too closely. some people are able to just go with the flow and life is a funny movie about a tiny space man, but if you get out of the flow and out of the loop, you clip out of bounds of polite society, things start glitching, and it feels like you can never go back (but actually, like in the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven, you can)

[ineffably-human]

I mean, it's VERY different, not least because we can actually communicate with the people whose love we depend on, and advocate for our own fair treatment.

In the real world we're talking to other people just like us who have very similar needs to us, not giants who think the only sentience we have is what they imagine for us.

And we're able to derive meaning from many things, not just one singular thing where any other version of it is seen as insufficient.

And we can only be 'replaced' by other people holding the same space in our loved ones' lives, not by a literal doppleganger with the one we care about never the wiser. (Remember, neither Lotso nor replacement Lotso are allowed to speak or move in front of their child so functionally they're the EXACT SAME.)

So good try at depth but...no. Toy Story, specifically, remains terrifying.

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

if he was still alive I know in my heart that Terry Pratchett would have done a bit about Igors and Igorinas doing gender confirmation surgery by now. going into a lab full of bubbling vials and picking out a penis from a tank the way you pick a lobster. that one, please. you gotta be careful though because they'll really try to upsell you into getting two or three installed. people going to the clinic as pairs and just having parts swapped out for a discounted rate. maybe you actually just trade brains, that's even easier. Igorth have already been doing that thurgery for thenturieth.

[heallbeecat]

#one day an igor forgets the lock the cage and a pack of penises escapes into ankh-morpork#the watch spends the next three weeks rounding them up

how DARE you leave this in the tags (affectionate)

[pycnanthemum]

Everyone knew it was best not to look too closely at Igor's jars.

Vimes was beginning to wish he had looked more closely at the most recent additions before Igor came lurching up the stairs to inform him:

"They have ethcaped, thir."

"Escaped. What has escaped, Igor."

"Thome of my.. appendageth, thir."

"Appendages."

"Yeth, thir. Of the... intimate variety."

"Of the intimate..." Vimes trailed off as the dawning horror overwhelmed his vocal cords.

He rallied. "Igor. HOW have they escaped? They are not known for their... perambulatory abilities."

"Really, thir? I've alwayth found them to have a mind of their own at timeth."

Vimes was staying calm. Yes. That was it. He was staying very calm. Definitely NOT thinking AT ALL about how Vetinari and... Good lord, The Times, would react to marauding pack of penises. Would it be a pack? Or would they go off on their own?

"I wath exthperimenting with cuthtom grown oneth, you know. For thothe who cannot grow their own."

"Err... what? Of course you were. I mean. Very good."

[jewishpangolin]

Pictured: An Igor harvesting appendages

[carpe-mamilia]

#[a loud crash is heard from the lab] #[another igor runs past with a giant butterfly net. stopping briefly at the door to shriek 'THE VULVATHS''] (via @the-wave-finally-broke)

[the-tao-of-fandom]

It turns out to be a brilliant feat of advertisement, as the people too shy or uncertain to go visit Igor rightaway effectively get a chance to discretely window-shop in public.

[elodieunderglass]

An unfortunate side effect being that a small girl, denied of her rightful need to be a Horse Girl by the limitations of being a native Ankh-Morpork child[1], would have adopted one of the larger Appendages of the pack and named it Free Willy. Her insistence that she could understand her pet through a bond of mutual sympathy was both touching and troubling, as was her announcement that Free Willy did not want to be attached to a governing body and forced into service, saddled with clothing, or made to perform tricks for audiences. With no Igor having the heart [2] to take it from her, the child was allowed to keep Free Willy, who lived for five healthy years in her family’s pigeon loft and eventually passed away from natural causes after a battle with another fighting cock. The child went on to write a well-acclaimed children’s book, The Willy that Would Be Free, which was, necessarily, a pop-up book.

[1] where an ordinary working class child CAN form a magical bond with a horse, in the form of a pie, labeled as beef.

[2] ha

[prettysurethisworks]

Look, it got longer.

[elodieunderglass]

So did Free Willy.

[wizardysseus]

the writer’s urge to ask your friends “do you wanna see a little somethin’ i’ve been working on?” when the little somethin’ you’ve been working on is 800 words and ends in the middle of a sentence

[queersintherain]

Okay another post made me think of this but

Tumblr I wanna know, what is your favourite part of the cat?

Ears

Toe beans

Top of the paw

Tiny nose

Tail

Eyes

Between the ears

Chin chin

Forbidden tum tum

Something else physical (noises and smell are VERY IMPORTANT but diff category)

Voting ended onMar 23, 2025

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[spellscarred]

Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).

This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

[blackheartbiohazards]

"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"

and

"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"

are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.

If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.

[averageidiotenby]

DUDE IT’S PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEY’RE NASTY

[blackheartbiohazards]

Let me explain this to you in simple terms.

Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.

If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.

This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.

[kawaii-pigeon]

I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."

And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.

[plague-of-insomnia]

The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.

Either you’re for it or you aren’t.

The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.

Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?

When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.

Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?

When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.

Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.

Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.

Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??

The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.

The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.

This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.

Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.

[scientia-rex]

And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.

It’s not that there isn’t widespread societal agreement on this. It’s that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.

[ruffboi-mags]

Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.

In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."

Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".

Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.

[nyxelestia]

Going to add that fiction which had sexual abuse and communities which played around with it as a writing topic are the very things that protected me from irl sexual abuse when I was a teenager. I was in a dicey situation, and realized that while my situation did not match up to any of the superficial or textbook cases mentioned in passing (if at all) through school, it matched up a LOT to what I'd learned about irl sexual abuse through works of fiction and the rhetoric of my communities. I got out of that situation and dodged what was, in retrospect, one hell of a nasty bullet. If it hadn't been for that "nasty" fiction and those "nasty" communities, I would very likely have been abused, and subject to further violence spiraling out from that abuse.

[benjis-house-boat]

you can’t have *some* censorship.

[fourcornersofcreation]

Censorship is authoritarian.

[wifegideonnav]

the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable

[wifegideonnav]

the funniest part of this post to me is that the reblog:like ratio is nearly 1:1. nobody’s just liking everyone who sees this video goes yeah i gotta inflict it on as many people as possible

[hannibal-the-bimbo-cannibal]

Some people don’t realize how embarrassing it is to be queerbaited by fucking eggman

[bass-pro-ship]

ok this dni has me sobbing

proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list

this person doesn’t know what they are

[zooophagous]

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

An emergency arbitrator ruled that former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting memoir of her tenure at the social m

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

[splend-42]

She's not allowed to promote it?

Well then, I guess we'll have to do it for her.

Careless People ebook by Sarah Wynn-Williams - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Careless People A story of where I used to work" by Sarah Wynn-Williams available from Rakuten Kobo. **'Devastating . . . funny . . .

[elfspectations]

It's available from bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. It's on the front page of the B&N website and they're advertising $5 off currently.

Also request it at your local library if they don't already have a copy!

[plushcorp]

yoy all just hate me because I'm cold and distant and don't put effort into any relationships and off putting and frustrating to try to help or make plans with and I don't text and I don't call and I don't like doing much and I constantly make excuses for it all

[ur-daily-inspiration]