there’s glowing moss everywhere

call me bog or call me kampilan | here to chill | asexual and genderfluid | any pronouns, i have no clue, gender is weird | trying very hard to write and draw

[ndnbutch]

like yeah in theory there’s nothing inherently wrong with liking and sympathizing with the villain of a story and even projecting onto them a little bit. it’s fine. we all do it. villains are interesting, they’re meant to be. but when the villain in question IS textually sort of emblematic of racism and assimilation and is shown to actively and knowingly work with klan members, like… idk! i don’t think the problem there is that I’M to squeamish to, like, engage with a character that has “dark themes”. i think they set up a character to functionally be a personification of white supremacy and for some reason you saw yourself in that! let’s sit with that!

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[sxsg-moved]

[sailatina3]

[naderalanqar2007]

when did you join tumblr? (don't vote without reblogging)

before 2010

2010-2013

2013-2016

2016-2019

after 2020

Voting ended onJul 29

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[closet-keys]

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[naderalanqar2007]

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[sillysymbol]

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[treecitysessions]

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[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

[chuunifox]

Autism Representation written by an allistic: My name is John Autism and I like the designated autistic interests

unintentionally autistic character written by the creator who hasn't really thought about whether or not theyre autistic: I wish I could be human like the way everyone else is but I know they can tell I'm not. And I know they're right

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i really appreciate seeing all the posts on my dash recently to the effect of "shutting down conversations about race/gender/minorities in fandom spaces because 'fandom is meant to be fun' is just an excuse to not think critically about the bigoted behaviors you are exhibiting". i hope that this energy carries over into the gaming sphere next pleaaseee

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

pokemon is a series about building Your own team and going on Your own adventure with creatures that You collect and befriend, and is designed from the ground up to be personal and immersive. i have never been able to look like myself in a pokemon game. if i bought pokemon z a today and booted it up and tried to customize myself, i would not be able to look like myself. just fuck me i guess.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

ok yay

[msbidoof]

I love playing Final Fantasy XIV but their refusal to have any sort of curly hair due to "technical limitations" is getting more and more frustrating and pissing me off ngl. look at this hairstyle contest winner vs how it's implemented in game.

this is as curly as the game lets you be. but don't worry, we've got 50,000 different ways to have straight hair.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

hey i need you to know i check the notes for this post every now and then and what you just said is likely the scariest example of anything i've heard mentioned so far HELLO????

[lollytea]

My cow had a baby IF YOU CARE!!!!

[lollytea]

Lets glare at the intruder with Mama

[wovi]

[dizzyghoast]

every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.

[dizzyghoast]

you can have friends on the other side of the planet! neither of you even has to travel!!!!! you can just talk to them whenever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[smile-files]

i love organization i love diagrams i love clearly defined hierarchical relationships i love structured systems that we can understand precisely because they're structured systems (lepidoptera taxonomy whizzes by) GUH. WHAT WAS THAT

[polarbearqueer3527]

if you love these things, taxonomy is not for you. taxonomy is for if you love arguing about these things.

[important-cat-pics]

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[bauliya]

riza hawkeye is the smartest fucking character in fma because she looked at herself, a shy sheltered daughter of landed gentry, and she looked at roy, an arsehole with a heart of gold desperately in need of a tragic backstory, and she saw the genre they were in, shōnen anime, and then CLAWED her way out of fridged wife-hood thru sheer grit and long-distance murder and we salute

[bauliya]

meanwhile

roy: so if I'm the one who actually conspires to take down the main villain and successfully coups the government and who is in charge of the country afterwards

scar: and if i'm the one trying to avenge my people and who pieces together my brother's plans and gets revenge

al: and if I'm the one who actually lost the most from human transformation with a likable personality and a unique design

all of them: why are YOU the protagonist

Edward, cackling like a Disney villain: BECAUSE I DRESS LIKE ONE! *high fives riza*

[iphijaania]

wow

[bauliya]

I SAID WHAT I SAID

[bauliya]

since ppl are reblogging this version here are the original tags w/o which this doesn't make much sense

[fireflysummers]

I'm apparently so consistently aroace that a friend of mine uses me as a measurement for whether or not something counts as "romantic," based on when I stop understanding what he's talking about.

[fireflysummers]

@loraxofygg Stop being funnier than me on my own post (/j).

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood