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don't think i would actually ship my character with their sire. like genuine question is there not a huge power imbalance in that? are sires not the people who create you in a way (when they embrace your character)

that's the point diva

toskarin

Would you mind elaborating on the cynicism of hopepunk? It's an impression I've had for a while but haven't been able to really articulate.

the issue with hopepunk and similar trends is that they try to address perceived issues of moral fibre by creating settings where the author's act of creating is itself a vindicating act (in implicit contrast to immoral creation)

there's nothing wrong at all with uncomplicatedly "nice" things, but when you create something with the implication that it is more thoughtful and morally just than its contemporaries, you are implying they are less thoughtful and more morally corrupt

it's kind of like the difference between saying you enjoy watching media meant for children (nothing wrong with that) and saying that nothing besides children's media is worth watching, because it's all immoral

silima

it's always funny to me when ppl act like it's somehow incestuous for characters who consider each other found family/chosen family/whatever u wanna call the trope to date each other, and it's funny for many reasons, but most specifically it's funny because irl when you meet a person and get really attached and decide that you want to be family with them, there's a very popular legally recognized way of doing that & it's called marriage

ratbastarddotfuck

in my post abt tumblr's porn ads I said something like "I don't care much about the fact that I'm seeing porn rather than that we as users can't post it but advertisers can". and a few people have reblogged with tags like "I DO care about seeing porn/I don't want to see it and I shouldn't have to/I also don't care but would love not to flashbang people" all of which are true and fair. but friends, colleagues. I put that line in there to keep swerfs away from the post. it is all too easy for anything which is ostensibly complaining about porn to be dragged into that sphere and lauded as proof that the world is porn addicted and degenerate.

I am a porn creator who considers porn & sex a significant part of my artistic expression. when I say I'm not bothered by seeing porn on dash, I mean ideally I would be seeing much more of it from real people. but even if this wasn't the case, I consider the naked body a neutral object to look at - it doesn't disturb me and I am concerned at the amount of people who seem disturbed at seeing any amount of nudity on their screen.

so let me be more explicit. the problem with the porn ads is not the porn, it's the ads. it's the fact that advertisers can post things that users can't. it's the inability to filter out the content because it is an ad and is not beholden to the same TOS or labelling rules as users are. it's the fact that many of the ads are for AI services, showing AI generated skinny white women (further pushing the needle on the extreme fascistic, white supremacist body image issues people are developing) in lieu of paying real life sex workers.

it's cool and fine that you would prefer not to see explicit porn in your day-to-day life. but you need to know that repeatedly, compulsively reinforcing this desire when I'm trying to talk about a problem of capitalism and censorship of expression does in fact position you nearer to the censors than it does to me and other sex workers.

is-a-vampire

"Pain and duty... go hand in hand."

#abelard werserian #rogue trader fanart #is-a-vampire art #day bump

rikke-reid-art

The work took a little longer than I expected...(⇀‸↼‶)

"Pain and duty... go hand in hand."

#abelard werserian #rogue trader fanart #is-a-vampire art

mero7t

man you know female characters can have important platonic relationships and care about people without being a mom or sister or wine aunt right

spicycheeser

"A marriage ending isn't a failure at all. I spent eleven years with her. We were so in love that we couldn't image life apart from each other. We got our own place, adopted a dog, and supported each other through school. I thought if tow people loved each other enough the rest would fall into place, except... love isn't everything.

And I didn't want to believe that, but we were sitting in counseling one day, talking about our future and I realized we were describing two completely different lives. Where we'd live, what kind of life we wanted, what made us happy. And it hit me that- I love this woman and this woman loved me. And after eleven years of loss, grief, career changes, we were so deeply in love... but we weren't aligned. And I kept thinking 'We just need to try harder. We can find some compromise to make this work,' because that's what you're supposed to do when you love someone, right?

But the reality was, we had just become different people. Her trade school took her in one direction, my graduate degree in another and trying to force us back into who we were five years ago wasn't coming from a place of love. It was coming from a place of fear. Fear that, if this ended, it meant we wasted eleven years. But sitting there across from her, I realized: That's not how love works.

Those eleven years happened. They were real. The dog, our home, showing up for each other through grad school and trade school. I wouldn't change a single thing because loving someone doesn't mean you're meant to stay with them forever. And letting go doesn't erase what you had. We measure marriage by whether it lasts forever or not, but what if we measured it by whether it mattered?

What if we measured it by the love we gave, the life we built, and the people we became? Because love's job isn't to last forever, it's to help you become fully completely yourself, and sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give each other permission to be yourselves, separately. But the dog doesn't know were' divorced. He just gets two Christmases now."

Pulled this from this guy Preston Rakovsky's Instagram (@prestonrack) because it is a beautiful perspective on love, marriage, and relationships in general.

is-a-vampire

Okay look I don't care if you steal from the store i work at or whatever but come up with a better scam than "i called corporate and they said i could return multiple bags of obviously stolen merchandise without a reciept or rewards account or the card i paid with for cash money and not store credit."

like... in order to do cash tender on a no reciept return we literally need a manager to key in their information... and the managers are not gonna fall for that

is-a-vampire

If you're stealing to make money and not for the item itself you gotta like. put a little more effort in for it to work

Okay look I don't care if you steal from the store i work at or whatever but come up with a better scam than "i called corporate and they said i could return multiple bags of obviously stolen merchandise without a reciept or rewards account or the card i paid with for cash money and not store credit."

like... in order to do cash tender on a no reciept return we literally need a manager to key in their information... and the managers are not gonna fall for that

starqueensterlexa

In all seriousness, I am happy that I'm a trans women. There's a lot of external pressure that makes life as a trans woman hard, don't get me wrong, but the world is so much more colorful now. I feel real, i feel happy, I love so much deeper than I ever did before. I am glad I am a trans woman, and nothing can take that away from me

grootficguy

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

grootficguy

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

vil-gereon

@lindenmori

#Krookodile!!!!#Krookodile

ladyothelakes

The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.

I liked the idea of immortality leading to a reverence for life and the world around it, rather than nihilism and wanton destruction. It was also a comforting thought that if immortal beings walked among us, they could see the future of our hope become a reality someday… so it felt relevant again.