with arms unfolding

Hey and welcome! I'm just a big nerd tending to the memes on my little patch of tumblr. I love Latin, books, video games, ttrpgs, Shakespeare, and being a walking trans meme. If you need a name to call me, Violet works, and they/them pronouns are the way to go. This blog is almost entirely queued! And the queue is long. I just don't tag queue versus not. Stuck in my head: I guess this isn't quite the end. x

[greelin]

“must everything be homoerotic” no. but many things are, you will find

[greelin]

and if not, rest assured. I will find a way

[apolladay]

What category is your last name?

Son of some guy ("Johnson", "O'Brien", etc)

Job ("Smith", "Miller", etc)

Place/town ("Hill", "del Valle", etc)

Nickname/attribute ("Short", "Goodman", etc)

Hyphenated/multiple of the above

Other (describe in the tags!)

Unsure/results

Voting ended onJul 6

[prose-n-scripts]

sunday orphydice sketch dump yay

[16tinyfrogs]

hymn for a choking songbird

this is a fun one! it's about the hades and persephone that exist in hadestown, specifically in epic ii and chant 😁

[bigskycastle]

barn owl

[cripplecharacters]

Hello. Is there a list of anything that you want to see more in mute/non-speaking fictional characters? Are there any tropes/stereotypes that i need to be wary of? Thanks!

Hi!

We would love to see:

All sorts of AAC methods (high tech, low tech, and no tech)

Disabilities other than "functionally abled but magically just can't speak", like cerebral palsy, autism, intellectual disability, language processing disorders, situational mutism, apraxia, etc.

On that note, if your character can't speak because their tongue got cut out, which seems to be the major reason to have a nonspeaking character in fiction, that will affect their quality of life in a lot of ways other than being unable to speak. Commit to actually portraying that, please. Or just pick another reason they don't speak!

Fewer characters who are hearing and use sign language. Not that it never happens, but it makes up the vast majority of sign language representation in fiction and pop culture, despite being a very small percentage of actual signers in real life.

If you want a signing character, please consider making a Deaf character! (Think about how easy it is if you already have a character translating what your signing character is saying: just have them interpret spoken language too. You're now like 3/4 of the way to having solid Deaf representation.)

Nonverbal characters who are physically capable of making noise, like grunting, laughing, squealing, etc. even though they can't actually speak. These sounds can be communicative or non-communicative.

Or using echolalia, accidental mouth words, or other non-communicative speech in the case of autistic or intellectually disabled characters!

Mod Rock and mod Sasza

[vampire-loving-vampire]

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

[despair-tea]

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

[redstonedust]

i wanna see more stories with a time skip epilogue where at least one character has clearly transed their gender and it isnt really remarked upon. bonus if none of them were remotely hinted to be trans until that moment because i think it'd be funny to watch a fandom react to that. your blorbo's happily ever after involves being a woman. dont worry about it.

[watermelonmountaindew]

ok i’ll bite who’s percy jackson?

[antiquery]

#perseus.tufts.edu jackson you were named after the most useful website i ever knew (x)

[grimoiremanifest]

finding somebody who will laugh at your shitty jokes is joy-inducing but finding a motherfucker who can yes-and all the esoteric bullshit you put out is pure cocaine. this must be the shit all those racuous but good-natured scoundrels down at the tavern are on

[dimension20memes]

Please drink water 🚰

Textpost credit @fragile-things-archive

[projectiondepartment]

every time it rains i think of that raymond carver poem. poetry is like prayer to me methinks. or an incantation

[projectiondepartment]

this one btw

[variousqueerthings]

[Rain

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half the chance. Yes.]

Poem by Raymond Carver

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[felixbobelix]

✨️GODMOTHERS ✨️

@what-eats-owls

[what-eats-owls]

HAPPY PRIDE FROM YOUR LOCAL GODMOTHERS 🌈✨

[catasters]

[idratherhavefreedom]

[crabanarchy]

Are you now... or have you ever been.... the sleepious bug

[crabanarchy]

Not beating the sleepious bug allegations!

[samvaru]

been realllyyy slowly read the illiad and you know im legally forced to draw at least one Athena in my life. athena free me from uni HELL PLS PLSSSS