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[littlehappyrabbit]

old western doodles I forgot to post! Still working on the Cerobas, but heres something for in the mean time!

[soni-dragon]

i have cried so many times the past few days just because of this movie

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[haru-kuneko]

Reblogging this for the third time in celebration of African World Heritage Day ✨🌍🪘

[gumy-shark]

sometimes my Beloved Mutuals will rb a post about a certain character archetype and i will have to physically restrain myself from saying “yeah you would say that wouldn’t you”

[gumy-shark]

jasper you don’t get to get away with this that easily.

new ask game: what’s the character archetype that makes you go “of course you would say that” when i post about it?

[ryuumarsart]

Maybe a hot take but

Original:

[only-cat-memes]

[winterthebeau]

Ok that makes so much sense

[tj-crochets]

My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”  And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out” I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”

[tj-crochets]

Update: I gave it some thought and my estimate was wrong. Of the grandkids that are out, it’s 1/3, not ½

[tj-crochets]

I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”  So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess? *if you want an honorary grandma, that is

[tj-crochets]

Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone

[tj-crochets]

Happy almost pride month! Have my confused-but-supportive grandma!

[tj-crochets]

An update: my grandma just called me to ask if I knew it was pride month

[tj-crochets]

Happy pride month!!

[martletfan64]

He's transjinder...

[zondel]

Fuuuck there's a birdwatching yuri manga... goodbye productivity...

[zondel]

This is my shit I fear

[zondel]

tears in my eyes. Birds are so cool

[zondel]

I'm obsessed

[birds-in-posts]

Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis)

Grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

White wagtail (Motacilla alba lugens) black-backed

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[dakaakula]

My first ever Tenna fan art

[aro-ace-culture-is]

Aroace culture is punk. Seeing how society views relationships (as exploitable and a hierarchy) can make it easier to be aware of other weird/harmful aspects of mainstream culture.

I don't want romance or sex so I worry less about being physically attractive so I'm less susceptible to peer pressure and capitalistic marketing beauty campaigns. Which means I'm critical of things like the Ozempic craze and "clean girl aesthetic" and current (conservative style) fashion trends. Does everyone really want to wear all beige and be stick thin and waste time doing "no makeup makeup looks" ?? Or do they just think they need to do that to be loved/accepted/happy/marketable.

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[romans-empire]

Random Lucky Patch vs Cocoapowder thing I made back in September of 2024. Clearing out old stuff and found this so yeah

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

[lelif]

on survival

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[huskyingg]

Ive fallen to the sloop soup, its a witches brew i tell you

Anyway my payback is angst to make you guys suffer /silly