Help! I'm stuck in my head! @quinintheclouds - Tumblr Blog

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

depsidase

valtsv

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

valtsv

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.

unspeakablearchives

(Source: Sen the donkey)

menlove-archive

I've never played a more perfect card in the 10 years I've been playing this game

cuuno-moved

its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me

technicalzombie

oh, have you been tricked into loving yourself?

cuuno-moved

oh my fucking god is that what just happened

#lmaooo me at my friends when they love a character that's basically them #they hate when i point it out cause they have to admit they like smth they see in themselves XD #GET LOVED DINGUSES

64mpg

i’m on onion rings right now

64mpg

get me my keys NOW

ivipl1

nastiest trick in the book is getting you genuinely deeply attached to a character whose name sounds fucking stupid in any other context. this WILL happen to you at some point in your life.

thirstkanaphan

decemberwinter

listen. I’m all for “writers deserving of having their boundaries respected” but this is so funny to me and like the funniest part is that I don’t think it’s even grounded in reality. like, how are you going to require proof that your readers are in your specific age range? why does it matter to you how old your readers are??? they are???? strangers???? why do you care? how does it affect you? 😭

but to be fair, this is some shit I did when I was 12 and thought I was edgy too. so I get it.

quinintheclouds

#ok#this is actually valid#I'm going to demand no one over 40 reads my fics#seriously#get a life#you should be writing your own fics at that age

Ok this is prooobably a joke, but in case anyone actually thinks like this -- what? Should 40+ year olds not consume any media by that metric, and should just make their own and not engage with anything else? Are adults not allowed to enjoy fandom stuff? You think you age out of fun? "Get a life" is so condescending, not just to the hypothetical 40 year olds, but to anyone who reads fic, cause apparently it's not a valid way to spend time? I'm so confused... y'all realize the people WRITING the media you base fic on are adults, right? "Grown-ups shouldn't read about minors kissing!" Who do you think WROTE those minor characters and put them in a relationship? Do you think every time minors kiss in shows or movies it's predatory and no adult can watch?

bog-priestess

This was, in fact, a joke. But the mere fact that it's not absurd enough to be confidently identified as one (as I assumed) tells me something depressing about the online landscape we live in

quinintheclouds

to be fair, I am autistic :P but there are people out there who would wholeheartedly say this these days, so I couldn't be sure XD

andhaveapleasanttomorrow

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

#fgnjgmkhgfd

baba-fett

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

paranormal-taters

specifically this kind of bonk.

humanityinahandbag

Reblonk

ur-favorite-fishgirl

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

#you think those fishies aint fuckin?

jofiah

a flat chest is a landing strip for another girl's much bigger boobs

jofiah

and, of course, her cock.

decemberwinter

listen. I’m all for “writers deserving of having their boundaries respected” but this is so funny to me and like the funniest part is that I don’t think it’s even grounded in reality. like, how are you going to require proof that your readers are in your specific age range? why does it matter to you how old your readers are??? they are???? strangers???? why do you care? how does it affect you? 😭

but to be fair, this is some shit I did when I was 12 and thought I was edgy too. so I get it.

quinintheclouds

#ok#this is actually valid#I'm going to demand no one over 40 reads my fics#seriously#get a life#you should be writing your own fics at that age

Ok this is prooobably a joke, but in case anyone actually thinks like this -- what? Should 40+ year olds not consume any media by that metric, and should just make their own and not engage with anything else? Are adults not allowed to enjoy fandom stuff? You think you age out of fun? "Get a life" is so condescending, not just to the hypothetical 40 year olds, but to anyone who reads fic, cause apparently it's not a valid way to spend time? I'm so confused... y'all realize the people WRITING the media you base fic on are adults, right? "Grown-ups shouldn't read about minors kissing!" Who do you think WROTE those minor characters and put them in a relationship? Do you think every time minors kiss in shows or movies it's predatory and no adult can watch?