princess of slumber and dorkery

NB Demi-Girl, She/Her  Hey, I love Shiba Inus, dogs in general, and basically all things dorky. Expect cute pictures of dogs (and other animals), and ALSO tons of comics because i'm dc trash. There's some wrestling thrown in there too.  You can find me on AO3! http://archiveofourown.org/users/ShibaScarf If you ever need me to tag something for you, let me know.

[shibascarf]

actual footage of me writing no strings: the b sides

[shibascarf]

Part 2 of the funeral arc is now up!

Unfortunately there’s some irl stuff going on that means I haven’t had my ADHD meds for a few weeks and likely won’t have them for a few more.  I’m still doing my best to keep writing, but may end up needing a week off of posting after next chapter?  We’ll see, fingers crossed that things get resolved.

Happy Pride month!

[shibascarf]

Part 2 of the funeral arc is now up!

Unfortunately there’s some irl stuff going on that means I haven’t had my ADHD meds for a few weeks and likely won’t have them for a few more.  I’m still doing my best to keep writing, but may end up needing a week off of posting after next chapter?  We’ll see, fingers crossed that things get resolved.

Happy Pride month!

[shanerozanov]

heated rivalry + text posts // part seven.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[theweeklydiscourse]

Shippers get a lot of lashings for being annoying and “forcing romance” but not enough is being said about people who force the nuclear family structure on everything. Nothing against found families, but the amount of people who seem to cram every dynamic into a cookie cutter nuclear family mold is driving me insane. It’s another lowkey reductive way of engaging with characters that pretends to less reductive than the shippers they constantly complain about. Not every relationship can be categorized as “sibling coded” or “father-daughter” because most relationships are more complicated than that. Don’t even get me started on the way these people use “coding” *cough* their headcanons *cough* to shut down ships they dislike.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[casscainmainly]

Two girls & the inability of love to save them Robin (1993) #181 // Batgirl (2000) #37

[kiragecko]

The guy with Cass is David Sullivan, a thief who "kidnapped" his daughter Jill from her mom, because her mom is profiting off the kid's art skills while neglecting her.

It's a fascinating case, because both parents echo David Cain in different ways, but Cass can't really see the mom's abuse. Sullivan is a criminal, therefor he is bad. Sullivan loves his daughter, and that makes it worse, not better. The mom's neglect and exploitation of her daughter, on the other hand, is normal.

And this is being contrasted with David Cain getting out of jail to give Cass a birthday gift, while Batman insists that Cain is manipulating her and doesn't love her. While Batman is ordering her around during cases, and never showing he cares at the right times.

The way this series frames parental love is SO SO INTERESTING. Cain, Babs, and Batman all love Cass, and they all consistently hurt her with that love. Cain is openly loving, but abused her during her entire childhood, and is obviously proud of who he made her into. Batman is living vicariously through her, has to lie to himself about what she's done so he can keep loving her, and ignores all the harder aspects of love, like boundaries. Babs loves her enough to set healthy boundaries, and tries to meet with Cass where she's at, but has ableist ideas about what Cass needs, and says awful things when stressed.

All the relationships are so much more nuanced then we normally see! And this BATMAN! All of the questionable parenting of the previous 20 years of comics has been synthesized, and he's written with deliberate flaws in a way I've never seen for him anywhere else. He's a bad parent to Cass. Not because he isn't trying, but because he refuses to work through his own PTSD. He can't heal and mature enough to get past childish black and white thinking. And yet he's still Bruce Batman, still likeable, still a character the reader can respect ...

This is a comic where Batman is being dramatically linked to an awful woman who treats her daughter like a art producing machine. This is a comic that empathizes with David Cain, who used to shoot his toddler regularly. This is a comic that lets the heroes make the wrong choice, and a little girl suffer. Not to be edgy, but because the main character doesn't understand yet.

[shibascarf]

how to explain to my neurotypical husband what it feels like to be off my adhd meds bc they’ve been on backorder for two weeks and will probably be at least two more weeks

:(

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[magnhild]

it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

[lierdumoa]

Every time an author reassures readers that the smut is skippable I sigh a disappointed sigh. This is not a reassurance. Why would anybody who likes smut want to read smut that was only included as an afterthought and has no impact on the narrative? Insulting. Just don't write it at all if you're not going to make it matter.

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[zanthiakhalaplace]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been despairing as it is so hard now to find references and photos of succulents and other things for my designs!! T_T

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[lengthy-artery]

tshirt concept

[headphonesmae]

[eyestumblin]

I think this is a great demonstration not just of Kui's skill as an artist, but why her writing is equally special and captivating. She is so sincerely thoughtful of how every character is a full person whose world is different from everyone around them. Dungeon Meshi is built on the understanding that we occupy one world together, but our individual perspectives filter it into millions of slightly different worlds. I love her work so much.