Retroactive Anxiety

Hi! I'm Alina (she/her) This is mostly randomness and anything that catches my eye. You can find me on AO3 at Upsidedown10

[melonnabar]

X-men art dump!

[ribs02]

twitter request

[may12324]

Books and comics with Butch/Masc protagonists or Love interests 🧡

I asked on IG for book recs, and these are the ones I got! Well, including a lil promo of my comic. In any case, I figured I would make a graphic for them. I love seeing recs laid out all nice.

[magic-gps]

image description time! wahoo! first slide: (title slide) Books and Comics with Butch/Masc protagonists or Love Interests. subtitles: as recommended by you! layout by AnnaliseJensen

second slide: Contemporary and Historical One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao Burning Butch by R.B. Mertz Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters They Ain't Proper by M.B Guel Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Bloom Town: Genesis by Ally North

third slide: Science Fiction and Horror Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Luminous Dead by Caitlyn Starling Our Starring Saints by Caitlyn Starling Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta Heavy Metal Lover by Isa Agajanian Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh Metal from Heaven by August Clarke

fourth slide: Fantasy (part 1) A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger Born of Blood and Magic by M.C. Hutson Contract Bound by Elle Mae Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke A Ballad for Slayers and Monsters by Rita A. Rubin Godkiller by Hannah Kaner Kill the Beast by Serra Swift The Unbroken by C.L. Clark This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair

fifth slide: Fantasy (part 2) A Master of Djinn by P Djéli Clark When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee She who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan Fate's Bane by C.L. Clark The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis Spear by Nicola Griffith The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

sixth slide: Comics + Webcomics Forgive Me Not by Mari Costa The Shepherd's Sword by Ren Strapp The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All by Sumiko Arai The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz Tiger Tiger by Petra Erika Nordlund Heartstrings by spiceparfait Road Queen: Eternal Roadtrip to Love by Mira Ong Chua Fairydoll by AnnaliseJensen <- my comic

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[lucabyte]

happy pride . and shes the one with the company login

[spring-spite]

i love olruggio witchhat so much. he’s a sun-coded black cat. he’s a lethally chronic procrastinator. he’s a girl dad. he lies to the police. his magic is warm. his kids bully him and they’re right. he’s in a decade-long magically induced situationship, but he doesn’t know it’s cursed and he’s in it for love of the game. he’s lowkey a celebrity but chooses to live in a cottage on the countryside with said situationship and their four children. he sleeps on the couch. he was a crazy child. he’s a bit of a picky eater. he has chronic anemia and is two minutes away from passing out at all times. he hates hurting things so much that he struggles to kill a disgusting giant leech. he’s a burnt out gifted kid. he is begrudgingly excellent at one of his jobs and on-purposely atrocious at the other one. he has a baby face and is nearly unrecognizable without his beard. he carries an enormous, inexplicable guilt. he’s the sky’s kindest, most radiant star. he’s the perfect man

[gaymothperson]

Forget twink death let's talk about butch death. Look at what comics are doing to these girls. All their swag gone.

[textlessposter]

X-Men '97: Season Two | Variant Cover Art by Mingyi Gan | 10K UHD Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/159796737?pr=true

[samglyph]

This is true of the manga, but I love how the anime accentuates the absolute physical trust the apprentices have with Qifrey. Specifically with Agott, the way she is so ready when Qifrey says “hang on tight, I need my hands free” to cling to him a mile into the sky, and then in the latest episode, how, as soon as she impacts Qifrey while flying to him, she makes no move to save herself, she just curls into him and trusts that he will keep them from falling.

And I think it works as a signal to the audience, to subtly go “hey, I know we don’t trust Qifrey right now, he’s being shady, but we can always trust him to protect the physical wellbeing of his kids. Remember that.” Idk man maybe I’m getting too attached to a teeny detail but aaaaaaghhhh that’s her dad.

[thelightfluxtastic]

stealing your tags

#anyways i think it's particularly notable that fiercely independent always-has-something-to-prove Agott is like this with him#and that none of the apprentices really hide how they're feeling around him even when that feeling is negative#Agott and Richeh make it known when they're unhappy with Qifrey#and they (two abused kids) just flat out wouldn't do this if he wasn't a safe person to be unhappy at

[galsan12]

OPTIC BLAST!!!

[habken]

besties

[isaac--r]

Some Hornet doodles, because I love her :)

[echobutgirlypop]

I just realized that Cyclops might be the least educated out of the o5… which seems crazy considering everyone thinks he’s a smartass, but it might be true. I assume he had some form of schooling at the orphanage, but I doubt it was at the level of the others’ schools, considering the orphanage was in the middle of Nowhere, Nebraska. And I doubt Sinister wanted Scott to be smart, considering the mental blocks he placed in his mind.

Bobby went to a school on Long Island, Jean was taught by Xavier and presumably more, Warren went to a fancy religious school, Hank is Hank. Scott grew up in an orphanage and then lived with Jack Winters when he was maybe 15-16 before meeting Xavier. (this is making me sad oh no)

Yes, he educated himself at the orphanage and all, but that’s certainly different from the things the others experienced. His awkwardness with the team and later social/relationship struggles make perfect sense considering he hadn’t gone to a proper school, literally had no long-term positive relationships in his life, and his general “unique personality” (autism).

Anyways, this came up cause I saw a fic of Scott tutoring Warren in the early days and realized that he didn’t have the qualifications to do that. I feel like he knows some history, a lot of geometry, and middle school basics for everything else. Idk it just got me thinking about the disconnect between his background and the others and how that affects how they interact.

[yakysanny]

gay ass reaction

[burts-baked-bees]

[flamesoffear]

[movalise]

[danzigmcfly]

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!