as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

marcel ⚧️⚣ they/them 👁️ 20 👁️ ♡

[apathyfairy]

me being raised on 90s internet rules where telling someone online your favorite color was giving out too much personal information watching gen z youtubers give out their real first and last names and telling everyone the exact city and apartment complex where they live

[pharaoh-ink-deactivated20240331]

Please stop making caards listing out all your mental illnesses, race, age, gender, sexuality, full name, location, school, job history, specific special interests and hyperfixations to the point where someone can easily stalk you through the information you are posting. No one is entitled to know any of this for any reason. You don’t need to prove anything to anyone.

[nepofledgling]

truly the best description i’ve ever seen of semi-canon cablepool

[nepofledgling]

nate, telepath who can’t read wade’s mind but can pick up some vague vibes: well. it’s probably him or me. definitely one of us.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada's Quinn to become 1st openly transgender, non-binary athlete to win Olympic medal

Midfielder part of women's soccer team playing for gold against Sweden later this week

Canada’s appearance in the gold-medal match in Japan won’t be the only first for the women’s soccer team when it takes to the pitch Friday (10 p.m. ET on Thursday in Canada).

Quinn, a 25-year-old midfielder from Toronto, will also become the first openly transgender and non-binary athlete to win an Olympic medal, as the team is assured of a gold or silver.

Quinn came out publicly as transgender in a social media post last fall, changed their pronouns to they/them and now goes by one name.

Since Canada’s 1-0 semifinal victory over the United States on Monday at Kashima Stadium, setting up the final against Sweden, Quinn said they’ve been “getting messages from young people saying they’ve never seen a trans person in sports before.”

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Update!

[fuck-usag]

GOOD FOR THEM

[limematcha-deactivated20250803]

*puts you in my heart-shaped locket*

[corsolanite]

Vaporeon - New Pokémon Snap (2021)

[lionofchaeronea]

The Feast of St. John, Jules Breton, 1875

[familyhorror]

LOVE AS ABSORPTION, A LOVER AS HOME

fineshrine by purity ring / collage of yoke lore and aleksandra / rune lazoli/ angelica alzona / becks / nicola samori / gemma troy / miles johnston / you are the coffin by flatsound

[comradekatara]

it’s so funny how there are multiple episodes of atla wherein katara becomes infatuated with a cult leader and refuses to listen to sokka when he is like “katara this person is clearly a cult leader” until everyone in a town is nearly killed by said cult leader’s actions. katara i love u so much honey but what’s not clicking

[rotationalsymmetry]

It’s lovely characterization. Katara’s optimism and idealism are mostly presented as good things. And sometimes they have great effects, like when she inspires a bunch of earth bender prisoners to revolt. Sokka’s skepticism is less obviously a good thing. How many stories are about the power of cynicism, right? But Sokka’s tendency to look for what might go wrong rather than just trust is what protects people in those episodes, while Katara’s tendency to trust that people are good and things will work out endangers them.

It’s not that one of them has figured out the one best way to be and the other is wrong. Both of their personalities have good sides and bad sides, in complementary ways.

Which is a major theme in Avatar: there’s no single right way to be. In fact the central conflict is the Fire Nation trying to impose their one way of being on the rest of the world. The good outcome isn’t “I hope some day you’ll join us, and the world will be as one”, it’s “the four nations live in harmony.” Likewise individual personal growth isn’t towards one single way of being; every person has different strengths and weaknesses, and that’s ok.

[comradekatara]

yes, quite right! katara and sokka face the world with very different approaches. katara is an optimist, an idealist who sees the best in people, whereas sokka is cynical, jaded, and assumes the worst at every turn. katara is brave and headstrong where sokka is cautious and methodical. katara’s instinct is to run headlong into potentially/often dangerous situations, and in turn, sokka’s instinct is to protect her from the trouble she has gotten herself into by being too daring and/or too trusting.

katara connects with people on an individual level, and cares deeply about everyone, whereas sokka sees the big picture, and tends to prioritize the needs of the many over the needs of the few, including (and particularly) himself—though, crucially, he will always put katara first no matter what. katara acts on emotion, compassion, and empathy, whereas sokka always tries to conduct himself based on the most logical and practical course of action he can discern with the resources he is given. (this isn’t to say that sokka hasn’t been known to make emotion-driven decisions, or that katara can’t be reasonable; sokka is obviously, well, human, and katara is often very practical, focused, and grounded.)

neither katara nor sokka is wrong or right 100% of the time, which is obviously a good thing, because they wouldn’t be realistic characters if they were, and furthermore, they perfectly complement each other in their differing approaches and worldviews. between the two of them, at least one of them always knows the right thing to do (and oftentimes there is no “right” answer anyway). each sibling brings balance to the other, which is why their dynamic works so perfectly.

[kendincekomikbiri-deactivated20]

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

pre–amphibian, margaret atwood

[oedicomplex]

poetry of the unfinished portrait

[danielwaldorf]

maybe this is bc i’m from the south and not fuckin uhhhh new york or wherever the hell but like. it is still not really normalized for a man to wear makeup or nail polish. women with short hair still get offensive comments about their appearances. like even small acts of gender nonconformity can still be scary and dangerous in 2021 and i feel like so many people just live in this progressive bubble where they think that all dudes being Remotely “feminine” in some way are like homophobic tiktok e-boys doing it for clout or whatever and that’s uh. fucking stupid. like i can PROMISE you that the vast majority of gender nonconforming people are not trying to do something that’s never been done before, nor are they claiming to do so, they’re just trying to live their lives and look the way they want to look. you aren’t helping anybody by trying to police who has the right to be wearing skirts or painting their nails or doing their hair a certain way.

anyway this is ur daily reminder that gender nonconformity is not a trend and it’s gross to attack people for being gender nonconforming in a way that you think “has been done before” or “isn’t that special” or whatever the fuck. like i’m sorry but it’s just cruel and hateful! being gender nonconforming still takes bravery and courage. people still face discrimination and harassment. whose cause do you think you’re helping by attempting to be the gatekeeper of nontraditional gender expression? genuinely, who do you think benefits when you attack people for stepping outside of the bounds of traditional gender expression? who? because it certainly fucking isn’t gnc people.

[abandonrun]

*preparing to go outside* i'm normal. i know how to cross the street. i avoid eye contact in an organic non weird way, as if i simply do not notice fellow pedestrians.

[queerasbuck]

guilty pleasure this guilty pleasure that, I don't feel guilty abt pleasure, I'm not catholic

[sofyasemyonovna]

i used to have social anxiety but then i was like. faggot behavior. it’s that easy.

[aemondtragaryen-archived]

BUCKY BARNES AND ALPINE

Winter Soldier (2018) #3

[handsmotif]

the novelty of having a pet will never wear off on me i’ve had animals my entire life for 23 entire years and i still sometimes stop and go holy fuck there is just a little guy in my house