flowers at dawn

lex || 20s || she/her || a queer disaster || little pile of mostly fandom stuff

[miamaimania]

“Cycles” (2020) ⟲ Sean Mundy

[ivy-michaels]

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

[ivy-michaels]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

[absolxguardian]

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

[redstonedust]

i need crossword puzzles to stop giving me sports clues. dont ask me about football stars and nba championships and baseball team names. im the kind of nerd who chooses to do crossword puzzles why would you expect this of me. cruel and unusual.

[getblobbedcomics]

Something something Erid is a high-pressure, no light planet with liquid water and bioluminescent, lure-based, energy efficient ocean creatures could develop; something something Eridians have close to no spatial memory and therefore worse scale? memory; something something Eridians are the apex land predator specifically.

(All that, and I forgot the suit. Ah well. Point is, they deserve a buddy comedy ending.)

[vetyr]

A wall cleared of nails for the ghosts to walk through

Prints here. Another personal piece in the middle of commissions.

[vetyr]

For commission inquiries, email [email protected] <3

[deftlydemonic]

Sunlight & a Key | Neil Josten

[figofswords]

i miss my beautiful wife joann fabrics it feels as if eons have passed since i last saw her. this guy michael keeps waving her visage in front of me and saying she’s living in his house but he is lying to me. i know this because i went into his house and found only fragments and memories of my beautiful wife joann and pictures of her shadowed face labeled “online only”. michael won’t even let me order swatches from him

[redlipstickresurrected]

Wang Yunpeng (Chinese, b. 1955, Shulan County, Jilin Province, China) - Wandering Picasso’s Pigeon, 1995, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace tries really hard to not play favorites with his eridian students (obviously) but one day he lets it slip that "teacher's pet" is a thing on earth but he's like haha i dont do that, i dont have favorites :) and the students are like okay. bet. we will Make You Pick One. and the next day 30+ baby eridians all show up with elaborate gifts trying to win his favoritism and all of them are so beautiful that grace gets so overwhelmed he just starts crying on the spot

[homunculus-argument]

Feeling physical exhaustion as a psychosomatic reaction to things that feel daunting or intimidating is such a ridiculously counterproductive thing to do. Like there's a situation that requires you to be alert and mentally present and paying attention, and your brain just goes "hey I don't wanna. I don't wanna be here. How about going unconscious instead. No fuck you we're warping out. Night night."

[homunculus-argument]

Like I would appreciate more information than just "hey there was something but no worry I already pulled the alarm. wdym you need to know what it was. no we don't. we don't have to deal with that, I already pulled a full emergency shutdown." Like bitch yes we fucking do. The fuck did you do that for.

[amanite-s]

EVERYONE GO WATCH ROCKY SLEEP NOW !!!

[lordeboy]

<3 is so powerful

[theartofangirling]

everyone say thank you to that one anne hathaway twelfth night promo image for all it's done for fandom

[jellyeliart]

Thank you Anne Hathaway Twelfth Night promo image! I love you Anne Hathaway Twelfth Night promo image!

[schnuspi]

WIP

[scalemodelarbysreplica]

first contact

[humandisastersquad]

#anyways im so normal about this scene#like. your best friend is an alien who you can never truly touch because their atmosphere would kill you#and the one and only time you ever touch is under life or death circumstances#and the mark left behind is evidence of both the care you have for each other and the time you almost lost each other forever#something something platonic soulmarks something something drag path (tags by OP)

[fanfic-chan]

Y'all ever think of what the person responsible for Rocky's voice bank must've felt when those videos finally got to earth? Imagine doing a voice acting gig for a bank voice on a computer or whatever that you eventually completely forget about, only for it to one day come back to you when the FIRST intellectual alien lifeform that a human being has ever met decides to use it as their chosen voice. The mild horror. The exhilaration. The emotional punch. This is it. This is your magnum opus. You have given a human voice to a sentient rock and it will NEVER get better than this. Also, they picked you over MERYL STREEP?!?!

[jiiin22]

the bravest human