[lakefama]

boyfriend on the brain 🥰💭

[pangur-and-grim]

this is huge… a three chair event

[pangur-and-grim]

[lussterpurge]

Lets converge my niches im assigning pokemon teams to villains characters (except it’s My Big Three I might do more later. Testing the waters)

Victor

- I like to believe that due to his power he could specialize in electric types.

- Luxray is mostly here because I think he should get an auraful Pokémon. Not to mention Luxray being a natural hunter and utilizing its eyesight to catch prey effectively.

- Hisuian Zoroark is also auraful idgaf he deserves to have a cunty team. But also.

Oh you know. Scarring yourself with your own resentment I said Oh I’m Sure.

- Rotom is here due to its electric typing too, but also because of its partial ghost-typing and its ability to enter appliances and break them. Similar to how Victor’s outbursts in Vengeful often mess with the power.

- Mega Houndoom is Dol ^_^! Despite it being a mega evolution I think it barely even hangs around him. Sydney’s pet dog and all.

Eli

- I think it would be funny if he specialized in normal types.

- Silvally… oh of course… a scientific experiment (by the Aether Foundation in the Pokémon World) created to capture Ultra Beasts (Creatures from another world; Monsters) meant to resemble Arceus (basically the Pokémon equivalent of God) I SAID OH I’M SURE.

- Mega Gallade. Mostly because of its knightly motifs. I think Eli should have “heroic” Pokémon despite not even being a hero himself. Lol.

- Eevee is just here for image purposes. Default cute normal type Pokémon. It’s kinda dog-like and moe and that’s why it reminds me of him (?)

- Aegislash! Despite knowing Eli’s motifs are more like religion than royalty, I think its pokedex entry speaks for itself

And lastly Marcella ^_^

- I wanted her to have a full team mostly because of her whole craving for power. That is also why she has a legendary. I’ll elaborate more.

- Fire type specialty! Gee I wonder why.

- Female Pyroar. A lionness. Lions are a symbol of power and royalty. Also it’s cunty as hell.

- Salazzle is a fire/poison type ^_^! Again, mostly because of its design but also important detail that only female salandit evolve into salazzle. And said salazzles make male salandits work for them. Her and her mob subordinates!

- Mega Chandelure is a chandelier. Somewhat like a candelabra. Need I say more?

- I don’t have much to say on shiny ninetales. It’s aura.

- Ceruledge evolves from a charcadet that has been exposed to malicious armor that has been steeped with grudges. Ceruledge is a resentful Pokémon. Its arms are blades and cut and burn through anything they touch. Gesturing Vaguely

- Galarian moltres is a Pokemon she took from Marcus after murdering him. A legendary! So powerful aww! Motifs wise well.

That’s my explanation.

Anyway Idont know how niche this is like my two biggest fixations at the moment it’s fine.

[kdotlover]

i dont think there's something that can be described as "appropriating (transfem) culture" on behalf of other trans people sorry. i dont think some guy enjoying blahajs is as impactful as a white person (opressor) appropriating poc culture (opressed) because trans people aren't opressors of eachother. we are the whole group. quit looking for stupid reasons to divide the community and create infighting

[thepplprty]

We share a 'culture'. While I find comfort in the blahaj as a transfemme icon, who the FUCK cares if a trans man enjoys it too? If it brings them joy, 1 billion blahajs be upon them!

Some people really just hate seeing anyone who isn't them happy.

[thepplprty]

Part of the reason why I'm so passionate about being against the whole 'kill all men' mindset is because it does affect me directly as a trans woman.

If you're the type of person who automatically assumes men are bad people, then I have news for you. That assumption isn't going to wait until I tell you I'm trans. You're going to—whether subconsciously or consciously—assume I am just a man, and even after I tell you I am a trans woman your perception of me will still be permanently altered.

Discriminatatory beliefs aren't going to wait for me to tell you my pronouns.

I grew up in Florida, where at the age of twelve I was a victim of terror campaigns telling adults that I was going to sexually assault their children in the bathrooms, specifically because of the reason that 'men are all evil.'

I went through way too much at the hands of those people to see practically every ""leftist"" online continuing to push that ideology. Unlearn it. Please. It directly affects us trans women, too.

I still, to this day, have internalized this ideology, and I cannot look at myself in the fucking mirror because I think to myself people see me as a threat, no one feels safe around me. As a direct result of 'all men are evil.'

It doesn't matter whether or not transfemmes are your intended target. You are hurting us just as much as you're hurting everyone else.

[genderkoolaid]

a lot of people really do use afab / amab in a way that is indistinguishable from female / male. but that's not really surprising since changing the terms we use is easier to do than, and often a distraction from, changing the frameworks we are actually using to make sense of things that those terms just act as symbols for. ultimately the euphemism treadmill will just keep running unless we actually deal with the intersexism, exorsexism, and transphobia at the source.

changing terminology should be a gateway to, and a symbol of, challenging and changing our frameworks. but changing terminology is not synonymous with changing our frameworks and when it becomes our main focus and goal, the new terms will always just end up becoming a smokescreen for the same old problems.

[frommylimitedtravels]

Post-storm at Ruby Beach

[mismedleym]

bunch of pet comms from march

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[selfcarereminder]

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second

[pangur-and-grim]

I swear to GOD I’m not vagueing my situation, but I made a post recently about books I was planning to read this year, and I find it very….. interesting that multiple people came into my inbox afterward to tell me that all the queer authors in the bunch had sinned. like maybe they had, I dunno. it wouldn’t stop me reading (I love Interview with the Vampire, I have Thoughts about Anne Rice, etc). but it is interesting that none of the non-queer authors merited this whisper campaign, despite some of them honestly deserving it. not saying anything outright here, just making an observation. listening and learning. you know

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm still thinking about the time that someone came into my dms to tell me that Gideon the Ninth's author had written problematic fanfiction.

maybe it's because I don't read or write fanfiction, so all related discourse has always been an iceberg sailing past me, but I just can't imagine who would give a shit. like oh, they wrote about a taboo topic? is it well written? should I read it?

and also, I'm reading work by wife abusers, religious fanatics, old timey racists, antisemites, misogynists, fascists, murderers...... knowing how these people conducted themselves in life gives context to better understand their writing, but that's about it. the only authors I'm actively boycotting for moral reasons are Neil Gaiman and J. K. Rowling, because they're using the money from their book sales in present day to harm people.

[animatedtext]

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[platonbatonn]

we've successfully reached liveposting guys, here's something im currently working on

[nourishingbroth]

torngat mountains | unknown photographer

[tigerdrop]

if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”

[sinsbymanka]

It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough

[thevikingwoman]

I agree with OP and Manka so very much.

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

the words used by OP is decouple, and this is important. Nothing wrong wanting engagement. But it cannot be tightly coupled with the drive to create.