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Mana's messy and disorganized repository.

[sarahseeandersen]

[kyzrael-reita]

Screens. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

[mactiir]

i don't think we talk enough about how childhood bullying really just. fucks up your ability to make friends long-term.

I'm not talking about self-image or even like attachment styles, although peer emotional abuse affects that too. I'm talking about how it legitimately stunts your understanding of how positive platonic relationships even work.

Like, a few years back (pre pandemic) a classmate point-blank told me, "hey, you're pretty cool, do you wanna come out for drinks and trivia with us Thursday night?" and my first internal reaction wasn't "oh cool, a friend!" or even "I'm not really interested" but: "where is the trap?" My kneejerk response to an earnest overture of friendship from this guy was trying to figure out how he was trying to back me into a corner, trick me into something, or make fun of me. We were in goddamm GRADUATE SCHOOL.

Of course I did end up going to drinks and it was a lovely time, but sometimes I think about the sheer number of potential friendships I've missed out on because I read their intentions as potentially hostile, *even when their intent is clearly not hostile*. Getting asked out for drinks is SUPER NORMAL. Being invited to parties is normal. Meeting for coffee is normal. in fact it's a primary way of forging adult friendships. But i am immediately wary of it, because the years in which I was developing most of my crucial social skills were spent dodging cruel pranks, getting invited to fake parties or uninvited from real ones, getting asked out "as a joke", being given compliments that were actually somehow insults, and so forth.

I don't have problems making friends-- I talk to people for a living, I am overall extremely charismatic and get invited out a lot, but I struggle to forge new connections because my trained response is to be immediately suspicious of people who appear friendly, welcoming and well-intentioned -- even fifteen years later. This is why I don't get the "you should have been bullied more" crowd. Like somehow bullying makes you more "normal". It definitely doesn't, even if "normal" was a real thing. I am definitely a more antisocial weirdo as a result of prolonged peer-to-peer emotional abuse than I would have been otherwise.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[best-blurst-of-times]

[ironbite4]

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

[thedarkbutbeige]

[spaceshipoftheseus]

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

[randomslasher]

[mayfriend-archive]

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

[mayfriend-archive]

[antique-scarecrow]

ok WOW definitely consider reading the article, these boys–Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke and Mano–showed tremendous cooperation as well as the ability to share and farm scarce resources, and to care for each other in times of sickness and injury. Not only that, by the time they were finally rescued, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.”

They were all between the ages of 13 and 16 at the time of the shipwreck. And from the very beginning they recognized the importance of co-operation and resource-sharing–starting with sharing rainwater equally while they were adrift for 8 days without food or fresh water.

And here is an interview with one of the survivors (Sione Totau, now in his 70s)

[torigatonda]

お魚ーーー！

[spaceboxingpsycho]

mood

[vincentvangogh-art]

Blossoming Acacia Branches, 1890 Vincent van Gogh

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[pk-freezer-burnt]

Inktober 2016 Day 7 - I always had this headcanon… Red signs and so does Gold 😎

[meteor-falls]

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[klancephobe]

There's nothing wrong with a straight/bi girl shipping an mlm ship, but when it's a ship like Jack Frost from the guardians x Hiccup from how to train your dragon (who obviously have no chemistry because they're from two completely different franchises) it gets a little less about "I like these characters' dynamic" and more "these two hot boys can be hot together for my sexual pleasure". Same with spideypool or other things like that

yeah, there’s a very big difference between liking an m/m ship because you think they make a good couple and liking it because you just want two boys to kiss

[hai-hai-sictir-deactivated20170]

For God’s sake…

There are times on here where I wonder if I just, you know, hallucinated the last twenty years of fandom, because you get posts with people talking about things that were and are immensely familiar to me in a way that makes it clear they have absolutely no idea what they’re going on about and are (as is the case with the asker) just peddling purity wank that Tumblr’s elevated to the level of Serious Discourse. 

CRACKSHIPPING. It was a common thing in fandom. Still is, in the corners I frequent. It involved taking two characters who had never met in their canons or who came from different canons altogether and putting them together, for various reasons. 

‘I wonder how these two would bounce off each other if they even ran into one another’ was one of the reasons and it was valid

‘I got dared to find some halfway plausible method of getting these two highly unlikely people together’ was also a reason, also valid

‘I was in the mood to write the crackiest, most nonsensical, most out-there ship in history and I did it or I dared someone else to do it instead’, also a reason, also valid (I’m responsible for daring one of the best fic writers in one of my fandoms to writ a fic that was basically main character x his towel that somehow achieved sentience through hand-wavy bullshit, around a decade ago!)

‘The thought of these two together / seeing them written together gives me pleasure, whether that pleasure be aesthetic, emotional or erotic in nature’ was also a reason, also valid.  

The fact that it’s gotten to the point where the last part gets consistently demonized on here is, honestly, unbelievable to me and a testimony to how anti nonsense and purity wank (often they’re the same thing) have spread. It’s almost surreal to see people constantly having to twist themselves into knots and lie through their teeth about ‘character dynamics’, instead of just being able to admit ‘erotic fiction of character X and character Y is how I prefer to get off’, for example.without fear that they’ll get attacked or smeared. 

It’s something I’ve talked about before, this dangerous, fundamentalist train of thought on here that’s perilously close to shit like ‘if your gender and your sexual orientation doesn’t EXACTLY MATCH that of these characters, then you getting a sexual thrill out of their interactions is a Bad Thing’. It feels, in many ways, as if people got an extremely shallow understanding of the opposition toward lesbian porn aimed at straight men and interpreted it as being justified by ‘straight men mustn’t ever be aroused by same-sex content with women’ when the actual goddamn issue is that the porn in question dehumanizes and decontextualizes the acts and the performers. The people involved are no longer people – they’re empty receptacles for the viewer’s desire, with nary a hint of personality or inner lives of their own or being oriented toward their own pleasure, their own enjoyment. Between that and, for example, fanart or fanfic of two men tenderly looking into each other’s eyes, whispering their feelings for each other or standing locked in a moment of intimate passion, no attention given to the viewer, is a giant difference and the fact that people still try and draw equivalence should be a sign of blatant disingenuousness. 

[dragonmadeofcookies]

^Amen to all of the above but to add a minor thing. Spideypool? Two characters who inhabit the same universe, the same franchise with so much chemistry to the point that Marvel gave them an entire series of annuals dedicated to their relationship?????? That’s somehow reaching??? WHAT???

I knew they were coming for Spideypool. I fucking knew it.

[hai-hai-sictir-deactivated20170]

Yeah, that jumped out to me after I read the post. It’s just… how have people not heard of crackshipping? Also, how is it not understood that chemistry between characters is all up in the hands of the writer, not dependent on the characters being or not being from the same canon? A mediocre writer can take a canon couple with the most stunning chemistry in the world and write them so poorly, in such an insipid way, that nothing of that chemistry would ever be left. In the same way, a very skilled writer can take a ‘LOL I just wanted to smash these two characters from unrelated canons together and see sparks fly’ scenario and work it so well that the chemistry and compatibility between the characters in question just leaps off the page.  

[olderthannetfic]

They understand it fine. Their actual argument is: fandom has too many women.

[taste-is-sweet-deactivated20220]

I can’t say any of this better than what’s already there. But I just want to add: when the hell did fandom stop being about sharing things that make you happy? 

There’s a fanfiction challenge on Live Journal called IntoABar, where every year you can sign up to specifically be assigned a character at random from a fandom of your choice to meet another character (also your choice) from a different fandom entirely. It is the greatest freaking thing ever. (And while sex isn’t at all required, it’s happily accepted.)

Fandom is all about the joy. And if your joy is Jack Frost getting it on with Hiccup? More power to you. Have fun. :D

[victimofaseriesofaccidents]

The thing I love most about fandom is the endless imagination and creativity of its inhabitants. If that means mashing up characters who are from different source material then bring it the fuck on.  

Fandom is where anything is possible. Even crossovers that would never happen in canon because of different corporations holding the copyright. 

That’s what makes it fucking awesome: People telling stories for no other reason than they want to tell stories and share them with other people who might enjoy them. 

[medie]

Kids it’s like this: nobody gets to tell you what to ship, what not to ship, or how to do fandom.

They can suggest things, they can advise things (like my personal rule of thumb is tag everything. They can’t say they weren’t warned so if they proceed? their own fault) but they cannot decide for you.

Do what you will, tag all, harm none and if they come for you? Block their asses into oblivion.

[strixmoonwing]

Finally some appreciate for the beautiful art of crackshipping.

[mechaspiders]

[ponies-n-things]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[kiyuukins]

I know we all love Edna because she’s super fierce and determined and an awesome role model and shit but

do you ever think that she feels intensely guilty over this, having made this suit that lead to the death of this amazing young girl

[professorprof]

Maybe there’s a reason she never looks back.

[jhameia]

Repeated for emphasis:

Maybe there’s a reason she never looks back.

[rosewednesday-blog]

Edna at the funeral, veiled from head to toe, slowly ripping pages out of her pocket sketchbook and mouthing the words “no capes”

[boxingcleverrr]

you people are monsters

[skullygolightly-deactivated2018]

What the actual fuck oh my god

[gehayi]

Think about how appalled Edna must have been. How traumatized. How guilty she must have felt over the death of this young girl.

Then realize that Edna anticipated practically every threat that the Incredibles would run into from Syndrome and built help into their suits. The only logical conclusion is that he contacted her–possibly scores of times. Syndrome was a stalkery fanboy before he turned supervillain. And Edna is THE suit maker for supers, as well as Mr. Incredible. Of course Syndrome would go to her. Edna is the best, and Syndrome would want the best designer for his costume.

Think about all that. Think about the woman who was so horrified and grief-stricken by Stratogate’s death being asked by a supervillain–one who was a genuine threat to supers she cared about–to design his costume.

And then realize that, despite her horror and guilt and rage at the gruesome deaths of Stratogate and other supers, despite her vehement conviction that such deaths should never happen again…

…she gave Syndrome a cape.

[guid0mista-deactivated20180528]

Service Pokemon

Nonverbal pokemon trainers with psychic type pokemon that help them communicate.

Blind or visually impaired pokemon trainers with psychic or dog-like pokemon that act as a guide.

d/D/HoH pokemon trainers with psychic type pokemon that translate the sounds around them into the trainer’s mind.

Dissociative pokemon trainers with small fluffy pokemon that make soft repetitive sounds to help ground them.

Autistic pokemon trainers with pokemon of a variety of different textures for stimming purposes or a familiar texture to reset when overstimulated.

Pokemon trainers with memory problems with pokemon that have the pickup ability that help them to not forget their keys or phone anywhere.

Pokemon trainers with violent impulses with fighting type pokemon that enjoy helping their trainers act on those impulses in a safe manner.

Pokemon trainers with mood disorders and/or anxiety with chanseys, blisseys, audinos, togepis, togetics, togekisses, and meganiums to help them feel better when they are feeling down.

Paranoid pokemon trainers with absols so that they can count on being warned before anything bad can happen.

Autistic pokemon trainers with lucarios to help them pick up on social cues by reading others’ auras.

Chronically ill pokemon trainers with pokemon that know sweet scent so that they don’t feel as self conscious when they are unable to shower very often.

Pokemon trainers with insomnia with altarias, poliwhirls, munnas, and musharnas to help them get to sleep at night without forcing them.

Pokemon trainers with hypersomnia or narcolepsy with pokemon that help them to stay awake during the day.

Pokemon trainers with misophonia with pokemon that have the soundproof ability to protect them from loud noises. 

Trauma survivor pokemon trainers with pokemon that know dream eater to stop them from having nightmares.

Autistic pokemon trainers with chatots for echolalia. 

Pokemon helping mentally ill, otherwise neurodivergent, and physically disabled pokemon trainers to feel safe and to be able to do things that society says that they cannot do due to their disabilities.

(Please add more if you think of anything! ^_^)

[fedorasaurus]

These are awesome ideas! 

I’d love to see future Pokemon games showing a bit more of the domestic/service side of the pokemon world as opposed to the primary focus of monsters trained for combat purposes.

[zandraart]

seasons

[herzspalter]

I wonder why, JoJo, I wonder why.

I don’t think I’ve posted this here yet, it’s another late night scribble from a couple months back! It was supposed to just be an excuse to draw silly faces :D

[luvtonique]

You killed my baby.. You’re gonna make me a new one.

A mother dragon to our poor Elf Ranger, who is currently banging a dragon. (via lil-mizz-jay)

Poor? Seems like a sweet deal to me.

(via curiooftheheart)

[peppermint-shamrock]

If you ever think your fanfic idea is too ridiculous to write, just remember that someone once rewrote a 15th century English war of succession using Yu-Gi-Oh characters in the place of real historical people and that this is an actual official video game for the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise.

[smis-happens]

citation please

[curiooftheheart]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Duelists_of_the_Roses