Days of castles and dreams

Italy - 32 - Animation lover - Rare crossovers fan - Writer - Multishipper - Sailor Moon (Classic and Crystal) - My Hero Academia - HxH - Disney and Dreamworks - Fashion - Photography (even if I know little about it) - Currently obsessed with TTEOTM - Still fond of Once Upon a Time and Ace Attorney - Used to love MCU, now I let it go --- Mostly queued posts ---

[silverloreley]

Hi!!! I know I've been basically MIA for a long time and some words about it are long overdue so I'll try to keep it short even if it's been a very complex and hard time.

My mom's health has been bad for over a year and, while my dad tries to help, he also works and he's out from 5 am to 6pm so I had to manage most of the house chores and stuff for the best part of last year and all of the current one.

Last month things got worse, apparently this was all because of a virus and she had to be hospitalised in the city an hour away from ours so I had to do lots of back and forth to bring her stuff and try to keep her positive but I suspect she had also been depressed for a long time so it was hard.

She's back home now but far from healed, she has weakness and lots of pills and I think her depression is getting stronger the worst she feels and my own isn't much better so, that is.

It's a very very hard moment for my family and I had to stop studying and writing and I only manage to cut bits of time to work on chunks of easy cosplays to work with the association I belong to, which gets me some escape and sometimes a bit of money, but I haven't been able to do much and I'm very sad and fatigued and all.

And that's the situation. I'm not asking for anything, I appreciate some well wishes if you feel like it and know I love all my friends from here on Tumblr as I always had and I hope you're all alright and all.

To the people who read my stories, my apologies for being unable to update any of them, I sincerely wished I could come back sooner but things got worse instead of better, I'm sorry and thank you for your support and patience.

[luna-azzurra]

Some writing advice I will never give up:

Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.

It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.

[silentturtle]

This.

[littlefreya]

I will forever reblog this every time it’s on my dash because it should be this loud and simple. 💖

[dolphincliffs]

💜

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[radfemyjasdottir]

telling young girls that they shouldn’t be dressing revealing is not “sexualizing children”. It’s protecting them from the predators.

Like sorry, no, teen girls shouldn’t be wearing booty shorts, club dresses, corsets as tops, mini skirts with thigh high socks, and ya know what? Even bikinis.

I’m tired of seeing middle school girls wearing micro shorts. They’re doing it for male validation and it makes me depressed. And it doesn’t mean I’m sexualizing children — I want better for these girls than believing that male validation makes them worth something.

[atwoodsfemalefantasy]

saying "these children are dressed too sexually" is not calling the children sexy and sexual, it's calling the fashion and makeup industry pedophilic and misogynistic. we're not criticizing the GIRLS we're criticizing the culture that influences them to dress like that and the industries that offer those products to young girls

[greater-than-the-sword]

Honestly, people can call adults "minor coded" but can't recognize that certain clothes being given to children are "sexy coded"?

[love-notes-to-survivors]

I promise you haven't fucked up as badly as you think you have.

[crazycatsiren]

A wise mentor once said to me while I was student teaching: "Did you actually fuck it up, or did it just not go how you expected it to go?"

Life changing words.

[noblehunter]

More cynical version of this: “Did you actually fuck it up or does someone have a vested interest in making it seem like you did?”

[grungekitty-77]

It's happening again, so just to remind everyone:

TUMBLR ADS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO AUTO-PLAY AUDIO! THAT IS A BUG AND YOU SHOULD REPORT IT!

"This ad is auto-playing audio" is literally on the drop down menu for reporting an ad. Tumblr isn't trying to implement this! Don't protest this "new policy", cause it's not one.

Report the broken ads.

Thank you.

[jackson-imbecille]

They are not supposed to automatically redirect you without you clicking them, they are not supposed to cause a pop-up, they are not supposed to freeze your screen.

This is all bugs or malicious advertising which is also against tumblers ad policy. You should report all ads which do this.

Let’s get rid of those horrible monopoly ads, together.

[animentality]

[anexperimentallife]

[melmili]

just wanna say i am a big fan of this trope specifically

[tatsumi-rin]

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[delphinidin4]

[muzzlemouths]

"the fandom is dying" no it's not. i'm here

[muzzlemouths]

in all seriousness though a fandom doesn't die when there's no new episodes or games or "content" to play with and it doesn't die because people aren't as loud as the day it first came out either. if you're still creating then the fandom is alive. if your mutual who has since moved on still reblogs a post about it every four months then the fandom is alive. if there is even one person out there still engaging in, creating for, or just enjoying that show or that game or those characters, then the fandom is alive.

"fresh content" isn't the soul of a fandom. you are.

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[molabuddy]

does anyone else think about how the sky can literally rock any colour it wants to

[molabuddy]

red, orange, yellow? sunset/sunrise

green? the rarest and not one ive seen personally but it can happen

blue? classics of sky

indigo? violet? twilight babyyy

pink? also shows up at sunrise/sets

black? night. get goth with it

white? grey? her clouds

[molabuddy]

do you love the Fucking colour of the sky. bitch

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

Green and pink sky from when the auroras went nuts a few months ago!!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! The sky is joyful and whimsical!

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[slewfootwitch]

The thing about radical kindness (or any kindness, for that matter) is that there are going to be times when someone or something makes you regret it. There are going to be times when you show someone empathy and grace that they don't "deserve". There are going to be times when someone takes that kindness and uses it against you. The world doesn't magically transform into a perfect place when you decide to choose kindness and people will take advantage of it. People will continue to be shitty.

But the thing is...that's not a flaw of kindness. That's not a you problem. That's a them problem. People who are happy with themselves and their lives don't go out of their way to misuse someone's kindness or grace. The "normal" response to kindness or empathy is not to find a way to exploit it. People who are happy with themselves don't look for ways to hurt people for no reason. Kindness will never be the problem. No matter what some shitty person decides to do with it. It should go without saying not to be a doormat, yes. Don't allow people to treat you badly just for the sake of being kind. But also don't let shitty people make you bitter because of how they treated you when you were kind.

[dustdotorg]

sometimes you will see a joke circulate within a fandom and at first it's all fun and games but then the slow and terrible realization starts to seep in that this will become in fact a widely-accepted way to read a specific situation between characters that were subject of said joke and there is nothing you can do about it but to watch the horrors unfold in real time