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I finally got to post the first chapter of my WIP! It's a Hanahaki AU where Near starts coughing petals a few weeks after Mello leaves Wammy's house. Hope people like it cause this fic has been consuming my all thoughts for weeks now.

#Finally GOD the first chapter is here #this is gonna be a long ass fic guys I'm not gonna lie #death note #meronia #nate river #near #mello #mello x near #mihael keehl #near x mello #death note fanfiction #meronia fanfiction

sunsetoverdose

Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong.

n7cloacadestroyer

oh this fucking rules

beastalchemistva

My first ever comic dub having to do with Mass Effect! Thank you to @championsandheroes for letting me dub this!

molvrae

Shepard presenting her findings to the Council

malotte00

theartofmadeline

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

preservedcucumbers

jesus Shepard slow down

preservedcucumbers

Playing ME2 again so this is relevant

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

critter-of-habit

They're just silly

inkskinned

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.