bungle me scrungles 😎

f. 29. they/them. lost. Full of shit

[kingofemo]

Ok I’m archiving this but I’m moving to a new URL, kingofweenie

[kingofemo]

long time no tumblr

[kingofemo]

it looks like half of my followers have deleted/have been purged and half if not MORE than half of them remaining are just not around anymore. kind of like a dead place where i should remake but… you know?

Keep reading

[kingofemo]

yeah no i just looked on like the first pages of my musings tag anD WHO THE FUCK IS SHEEEEEEE

[kingofemo]

long time no tumblr

[kingofemo]

it looks like half of my followers have deleted/have been purged and half if not MORE than half of them remaining are just not around anymore. kind of like a dead place where i should remake but... you know?

i haven’t talked to anyone on tumblr in literal years i think? but it still holds such a place in my heart. it’s where i first met some of my best friends including my roommate of now three years, and my best friend of going on... god, at least eleven years.

and in the more recent years, it is where i found komi (or, komi found me? whichever way that went LOL) so it stays close to me. i don’t go on here in fear i’m not really creating something everyone wants but i might as well zip over here now that other various places i’ve poked my face in have been shutting down/aren’t really what i’m looking for

I don’t really create content anyway and prefer to keep my friend groups smaller. even when discord servers i like hit that 200 person mark it makes me feel like i’ve got to shut my mouth or get out of there.

i think i’m going to keep myself on this same blog even if new friends can look through (if they were to want to i guess?) and see how cringey i was in 2011. i can keep the stupid poetry and the drama up. it’s sad to look back on all of the years and see i was an entirely different person, but it’s kind of cool at the same time to flip through your old diary.

[kingofemo]

long time no tumblr

[yarrayora-deactivated20230104]

a queer story doesn’t suddenly stop being a queer story just because it has no romance in it

[yarrayora-deactivated20230104]

while we are at it, stories about queer romance doesn’t stop being a queer romance just because the characters aren’t kissing each other

you don’t demand gay people to kiss to prove they’re gay, do you? the same logic can be applied to fiction

[yarrayora-deactivated20230104]

even if you’re not aspec do you REALLY want your identity to be defined by your relationship status and the courage to do PDA?

are you suddenly no longer gay because you’re single? do you have to be in a relationship to be trans?

is the comfort you found talking to other queer people suddenly a straight people moment because you don’t want to grind your crotch against each other’s?

would you ask your mom and dad if they’re REALLY married since you have never seen them making out sloppy style in front of you?

the way people treat fiction isn’t always a 1:1 comparison with how they treat people in real life, but it can clue in on the biases we might have

[just-shower-thoughts]

Sometimes just being alive is success

[cargifs]

[loveamongthesailors]

legit excited to see this come around again

[netheritenugget]

Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

[gredta]

[breadbank-deactivated20240125]

[princess-okkotsu-deactivated202]

I needed that second pic

[noelle-ism]

My two beautiful sons playing in mariokart (its their birthday)

[jame7t]

[netriax]

[kingofemo]

I Need to clean this up, don’t I…

[little-light-bulb]

[clubpenguinkiller]

[gaysquaredwrites]

p0rn w/ feelings is so funny it’s like I’ve tricked you into reading this fic by offering you smut but as soon as you get there I pull out a chair, sit backwards on it, and say “hey, pal. you wanna talk about abandonment issues?” and then you have no choice but to listen

[gaysquaredwrites]

[gaysquaredwrites]

The original post blew up but the version w this reblog is so much funnier to me so here it is again

[largishcat]

fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person

[disassociationstations]

Some one explain this to me like I’m five

[queeranarchism]

I’ll try:

The way we talk about characters in stories would be better if we really understood that characters are just tools that writers use to tell a story.

Once we understand that, we can start talking about how the character is used to tell the story, about whether we think it’s an interested story, and about what makes something an interesting story to us.

Which are all really fun and interesting things to talk about.

But we can not do that unless we accept that characters are not people. They do not have thoughts. They do not have opinions. They do not make decisions. They only exist as tools to tell the story.

Other tools in a story are things like a chair in a story where people sit, or a palace in a fairy tale, or the sun in a story about a hot dessert. A character is like that chair, that palace and that sun: only a tool to tell the story.

A character is not like a real person. A real person can be ‘good’ or bad’ (or both) because they do good or bad things (or both), a character can only be a useful tool or a not useful tool to tell a story.

So when we hear something like “I like this character”, what we should hear is “I like this tool because it is an interesting tool to tell an interesting story”, we should not hear “I like this person and approve of their actions and would do similar actions”.

[elliegrine]

I’ll expand on that as people in the notes are going “well I like thinking of them as people” and while you’re reading the thing itself then yes, you’re supposed to! It’s called suspension of disbelief.

But when you critique the story you need to stop suspending that disbelief and look at the story through another lens, just like @queeranarchism says.

The same is true for writing. While the phenomenon of your characters basically “having their own life” in the writers head is pretty common, they are still only figments of your imagination. They are just as fictional as the chair they sit on and so are any of their actions. Your fantasy supervillains only do fictional crimes, hurt fictional characters and don’t necessarily reflect you in any direct sense. Their “actions” do not matter outside of the function they fill in the story.

[queeranarchism]

YES!

And you can be critical of stories. They are reflective of the values of the author. But you can only see those values clearly when you look at the story as a story.

Example: J.K. Rowling really shows her fatphobia in the Harry Potter books by portraying a lot of unlikable characters as fat, and emphasizing their fatness at the exact moments when she wants you to dislike them. Aunt Marge is the obvious example. Aunt Marge ‘sausage fingers’ get described as she is abusing Harry in order to amplify the sense of disgust that you have for her. It’s clear that J.K. Rowling is using ‘fat’ as a stand in for ‘bad’. Fuck JKR.

That’s a valid critique of a story.

When you do not suspend disbelief, what you get is discourse between people who go “Harry Potter is a fatphobe because he is clearly judging Aunt Marge for her fat. Everyone who defends Harry Potter is wrong. Fuck you fatphobes!” and people who go “Harry Potter did nothing wrong! Aunt Marge is clearly an abuser. Anyone who brings up fatphobia here is protecting an abuser! Fuck you abuse apologists!”

Which doesn’t go anywhere and just ends up being a way to be angry to each other over things that are not real.

[batboyblog]

one thing I like about Tumblr is, in 2019 I reblogged a piece of art from 2017 of a book written in 2015 and Yesterday in 2022 someone liked it, and this is how this website is supposed to work, I have art made this week in my queue next to stuff from 2014, 2013, 2012, hell even 2011, sometimes I post 10-11 year old fan art from accounts that haven't been active since before One Direction broke up. Nothing is ever truly dead and gone on here, you can always dust off an old treasure and say "hey gang look at this!" other social media isn't set up like that, if you wonder why it feels like The Batman was released 100 years ago, its because corporate media wants you to move on! go to the NEW THING! BUY! etc but hey guess what I have fan art of Battinson being emo in my queue. So if you're a fan artist, writer, gif maker, or just fan who wants to gush, guess what, here, here we're still spreading around old art, gif sets and someone will be happy you made something new in the tag

[conarcoin]

GIVE IT UP FOR ROUND 3!

[vero-chan]