AJ

💕 Your new best friend 💕

[sairenji]

[royed-mustard]

Hey! I had seen a not-so-cute work pop up on the tag in Ao3

Just as reminder that you can block some users or keywords with this!

Keep enjoying your time on the fandom✨

[thepigeongazette]

one screw to make, one screw up to take

[hhjjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhksl]

[themaidontheshore-deactivated20]

03 & Brotherhood: Edward Elric, age 18.

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

making friends (especially after you’ve lost a couple or several ones) can be hard and incredibly isolating. finding people we can connect and be vulnerable with is no easy task, so often we feel like it’s a moral failure when things don’t work out between us and someone else. just know there are so many people in this world you have yet to meet who will love you and it’s okay to drop all this heavy relationship baggage now. you’re not defined by the people you’ve lost.

[roymustangsucks]

yo my commissions are open send me a message if interested 💖

[daylighteclipsed]

why does Edward give off such strong cat energy

[daylighteclipsed]

[sparrowhawkandco]

#broke: al never gets a cat#woke: edward is the cat (daylighteclipsed)

[daylighteclipsed]

#the reason Al likes cats so much is they remind him of Ed

op your mind

[boyga-king]

[skys-royed-sideblog]

from my royed fic….. 

[skys-royed-sideblog]

secret version of the cos redraw :)

[cadriox]

Heart shape cuddling

[cadriox]

dumies in love

[uc33bg]

when your hot vampire bf is too much of a gentleman to bite you, so you need to improvise

(late halloween fan art, I know)

[reeeepa]

Ed: Look who’s lighter here!😙

Roy: what you doing?? Put me down!😂

Ed: Noooooo I got you first you’re mine now 😆

[actuallyblind]

When writing a blind character, what are some things to avoid?

Ah! So this is definitely a bit of a broad question, but I can give a few basics:

Blind people don’t actually give a shit about touching faces, so please, please stear clear of that. The only exceptions may be the same way sighted lovers may caress each other’s faces and parents may hold a child’s face in an emotional moment, but it’s just like a sighted lover or parent would, nothing more.

Please avoid giving your character a cure. One of the most crushing things as a disabled reader is to finally have a disabled character, but for them to end up with a fantastic magic cure half-way through. It rarely makes for a good story, and often a much better story is that person’s journey in understanding themselves as equal and learning that they aren’t broken and useless and can do whatever they want, overcoming internalized ableism rather than “overcoming the disability.”

Few blind people actually wear sunglasses or eye coverings, so your character probably won’t either if the likelyhood says anything. Chances are they will not be part of that minority, so probably better not to do that.

Something similar can be said for characters with white or cloudy eyes. The vast majority of blind people will not have very abnormal-looking eyes, so chances are your character will not be part of that minority.

Another very similar thing should be noted about the level of vision they will have. Somewhere between 80 and 90% of blind people have some level of remaining vision, weather it be little more than light perception or enough that they were forced to use their eyes a lot growing up and weren’t taught braille or to use a cane because they could get by well enough not to die most of the time.

So these are just the first several things I can think of at the moment, but definitely feel free to ask about more things!

[harleylemons]

A few more things:

-Blind people watch TV -Blind people usually like to know what colors things are if they ask you to describe something. A lot of people either had vision at one point or even if they were never able to see, they often associate colors with concepts -Blind people don’t use Braille for everything. Audio books exist (and every blind kid could get a free tape player and audio books sent to them up until about 2010- they never moved to CDs, but now anyone can buy them online or whatever even if you aren’t blind) and now everything is scanned/digital. In fact, you only really need to know how to read signs/basic alphabet and signs nowadays. Well, unless you’re in school. -For the love of god, know what tech your blind character will be using according to the year.

[platinumgalaxy-deactivated20211]

Another tidbit: blind people often walk around familiar areas without using a cane or guide dog. You learn the layout of that area and don’t really need the mobility aid.

[abessinier]

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

[vesperlionheart]

6. Content creators are not your parents and owe you nothing, not even a breakdown on why their content isn’t problematic. You don’t get to demand a dissertation denouncing any and everything unhealthy in a piece you don’t like. Move on.

[summerpipedream]

7. Tagging is a nicety but not an obligation. You can message people, politely, and ask them to tag things, and many people will, but understand that it’s their blog and they aren’t obliged to say yes. Unfollow and block when you need to. Circling back to number 1, you are responsible for curating your own experience.

8. Don’t be a jerk. Remember at the end of the day, there are actual living, breathing people behind each screen name. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face in real life. 

[pixie-mage]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this.

[writeouswriter]

[creeket]

When you enjoy dialogue so much that you end up completely avoiding describing the places properly

[writeouswriter]

This addition is actually more accurate to me than the original 🤣