Chinchillita

follow for a variety of fandom reposts and shitty memes... profile pic by @huevyo

[yuumei-art]

Terrarium Life collection~

I painted these way back during the pandemic (hence the hoard of toilet paper and Switch that I wish I had, but they were all sold out) No pandemic now but the chimney smoke from all the neighbors have made the air unbreathable and I'm stuck inside again 😭 cuddling my dog, drinking tea

tending to my fish tank and my plants

[sonicguillotine-deactivated2025]

I really hate when people mystify intelligence as some innate or supernatural ability rather than the willingness to read books and consider different perspectives. Anyone with enough time, training, and preparation could become a professor. Stop seeing knowledge as arcane rather than as a skill anyone can develop.

[shencomix]

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[vamptits]

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

[hareofhrair]

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

[celestialowlryx]

Oh, Matthew…isn't it a beautiful morning? The trees look as if you could blow them away with a breath. Poof! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you? ↳ Anne with an E (2017-2019)

[chibird]

Sometimes people aren’t their best selves to you, and while it hurts, it doesn’t mean you did anything wrong. Their actions reflect on them, not you.

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[i-am-a-fish]

dude I kinda wanna feel the embrace of another

[royalcordelia]

I wrote a book — and it’s gay, cozy, & romantic! 

After many years of writing about Anne and Gilbert, I’ve finally graduated to books about my own characters. I’m so, so happy to announce Kit & Basie. 

Kit & Basie follows Basie Yeats, an immortal man who is ready to leave his hometown for good after the death of his mother. When a quiet outsider moves into the Yeats family house, Basie finds maybe he has a reason to stay, after all. It’s a short, cozy novel about love, belonging, and home. 

The book is set to release this year. Copies on my personal Etsy are planned to come will all sorts of cottage-y, bookish goodies, but the book will also be available as an ebook (and Kindle Unlimited!)

I wanted to tell my AWAE family first so that you all would have first dibs on ARC copies when they became available. If you’ve enjoyed my fics over the years, please consider supporting my writing journey by joining the newsletter and reblogging! Because I’m self-publishing, I’ll be relying on your kindness! 💛👒

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[scurviesdisneyblog]

Milo Thatch character designs for Atlantis: The Lost Empire by John Pomeroy

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Megara character designs for Hercules (1997) by Ken Duncan

[maezanilla]

Finding a new favorite fictional character is like, will you be temporary or will you become a permanent part of my personality for the next 10 years?

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[mommyhorror]

Creepiest monster thing alive: moves like that

this little girl: 😊☺️😄😄☺️😊🤩

[itspeanutlove]

This is so cute omg my heart is going vrooom vroroooooom

[arithmeticanimaniac]

[hamsternamedmarinette]

@buggachat OK THIS IS THE LAST ONE I PROMISE

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Medusa and her gargoyle gf

[bogleech]

Everyone’s assuming her petrifying gaze would have NO effect here and that’s clearly wrong. It would be a healing stat buff actually. She can regenerate and strengthen her girlfriend by looking at her.

[normal-horoscopes]

Just like girlfriends in real life

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Just like girlfriends in real life.

[trancytrixie]

Just like girlfriends in real life.

[left-reminders]

[hereliecicadas]

I really hate Lolita fashion. Why would you create a fashion style that supports a book about paedophilia?

Its not even cute. You look like a cheap cartoon character.

[mymahoushoujo]

If you’re talking about Japanese Lolita fashion it has nothing to do with the book. It was inspired by European Victorian and Rococo fashions. Lolita fashion doesn’t even look like the popular image of Lolita the book character:

Rococo Fashion ^^

Victorian fashion^^

Japanese lolita fashion^^

The popular depiction of Lolita the book character^^

In fact if you actually looked into the fashion it started as a way to deter the male gaze and empower young women. Not only is it very modest but the hyper femininity was a turn off within the cultural context of Japan. At the time the culture was very focused on young women getting married early ad giving up their lives/careers in order to take care of their families. Presenting themselves in a way men found repelling allowed women to put off marriage and focus on themselves/their careers. 

The only thing Japanese Lolita fashion has in common with the book (which isn’t celebrating a pedophile, it was written to show that anyone can be a “good guy” if the story is told from their perspective) is the name; which is  most commonly thought of as an example of wasei-eigo, meaning it’s a word borrowed from another language with a completely different meaning. Basically th  word lolita sounds cute, the fashion is cute, so they took a cute sounding word to describe a cute looking fashion.

This being said lolita is technically a loan word for English speakers to begin with! The name Lolita is Spanish and is a shorten/diminutive form of the name Dolores which is a biblical name for “Our mother of infinite sorrows” (or something like that) which is Mary; kinda like how in English Dick can be short for Richard. It’s also been used as a slang term for “cute young girl” before the book was even written (NON-SEXUAL). Adding “ita” is a common way of making things cute in Spanish (Senora vs. Senorita; Bruja vs. Brujita).

You don’t have to like the fashion- to each their own!- but insisting that it must be sexual in nature or celebrating pedophilia is not only horribly wrong but horribly disrespectful to the people who wear it, the culture it came from, and the culture the word came from.

If you were not talking about Japanese lolita fashion, disregard. If you feel the need to fact check everything I’ve said, please be my guest. I encourage you to do some actual research on this subject.

[k-eke]

Happy holidays!