travis, any pronouns, white. i love my friend vinny's oc shun more than my hypothetical firstborn. header by kuzuyami!
icon ID: The Pokemon Sylveon, placed over the bigender flag. | header ID: A gif taken from the movie Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop. Both main characters are depicted walking to the left, the screen split down the middle to show the difference between their lives.
hi, i'm travis "travvy" officialgleamstar, and i'm weird about jodie foster (no, not that one)
i'm an adult (20s), use any pronouns, and i do not have a dni. i love to ramble so there's more below the cut, but that's all you need to know about me <3
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neocities: travvymybeloved
art account: slightlyhopefulromantic
archive of our own: travvymybeloved
mcyt blog: geminitaymybeloved
tag directory for this blog here
(blinkies from glittergroovy or my own)
my ex-boyfriend once described me as "somehow both aloof and cold but also super cutesy at the same time" and to this day, it's still my favorite description of myself. take this to heart. i'm a friendly guy but holding a conversation is the bane of my existence. i'm an ace lesbian, polyamorous, nonbinary (bigender/genderfluid), and i love neopronouns (especially kit/kits). i'm also white and live in the united states
for tagging spoilers - for weekly/episodic shows/podcasts/etc, i only tag spoilers for the most recent episode. if its a big plot event, like a character death, i give it an extra episode or two afterwards with spoiler tags. for books, i generally dont tag spoilers, and for movies, i tag spoilers for about a month after it comes out. i always tag with the format of "[x] spoilers", and usually will shorten the media title down to an acronym (i.e., fantasy high: junior year spoilers = "fhjy spoilers")
as stated, i do not have a dni, and anyone can follow me. this account is generally sfw, but i do reblog/post suggestive content or sexually intended art from time to time. if anything feels too borderline for me, i will tag it as "nsfw", and i request that minors don't interact with those posts. i try to tag nudity as well as common triggers, but i don't have great memory, so things slip through the cracks
i'm fine with being teased, flirted with, etc, and i tend to hit on a variety of my mutuals around my age. if i fall under your dni but you interact with me first, i will interact back, please be aware of this! i try to respond to everything in good faith, but if i get an ask that is blatantly just hate mail or bait, i will just pretend that you are asking for rap music recommendations and proceed accordingly. because i like excuses to talk about rap. also stop asking me if i'm a pro-shipper or an anti-shipper, i write real person fiction, do you think i really care LOL assume i am whatever will piss you off worse
current interests: oxventure, doctor who (especially 5 and 11 my pookies), brockhampton/kevin abstract, party crashers, hermitcraft
forever/long term interests: my little pony, pokémon, warrior cats, all for the game, mcyt (esp 2010s mcyt)
it is a little funny the way people hating on polyamory consistently try to depict it as some made-up concept for so-called chronically online losers that doesn't exist or succeed in real life. yet whenever they dog-pile on some unsuspecting poly couple (who are usually also fat & disabled) for being "cringe" (making a benevolent video together) it's like. well...they're in love and in a room together. and you're alone in your room making a video to laugh at them. so it would seem based on the data at hand that poly people are going outside and meeting each other and hooking up and falling in love, meanwhile you're the one participating in a hateful online echo chamber. and you think you're the normal person in this whole scenario.
I have a limited number of fancy beads to do stuff like this with, most of my supply is pony beads and seed beads, but I wanted to try my hand at making a bracelet for each album :)
Barbarians (Prayers for the Blessed) • We Will Not Go Quietly • Wolf At Your Door • Maybe It's Time • The Devil's Coming • Catacombs • That's Gonna Leave a Scar • Without You • Suffocate • Riot In My Head • Helicopters
Have you listened to Prayers for the Blessed by Sixx: A.M. (2016)?
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.
it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.
i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.
so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”
And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”
I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”
And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware
One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!
The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….
i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”
i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed
I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.
my sister and her husband go see new movies a lot and a place near the theater they go to does $5 margaritas on monday so they’ve started doing marg movie mondays where they go see a movie and get a marg but they call the margaritas different things based on what they’re seeing. as far as naming goes “wuthering margs” was a little bit of a miss for me but it was preceded by “margipliers” when we saw iron lung so thats kind of a lot to live up to
