SirSamSpade

Been here too long, too used to you weirdos to find somewhere else to hang out 30, Queer, autistic, they/them

[fairycosmos]

big tip for all neurodivergents you’re supposed to let everyone make you uncomfortable all the time but if youre weird in any way youll be shot at point blank range and itll be your fault

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#Shit I say this stuff all the time#Default is not male#Women are not a different species from men#It’s a toaster it’s make believe it can be whatever you fucking want it to be#Also voice actors get cast in the ‘wrong’ gender roles all the time#Do you know how many little boy characters are played by women#Do you know how many little boy characters are played by *Tara Strong*???#I did not watch an anime in which an adult man is played by a woman VA for 90 fucking episodes in the 90s#To have to suffer the stringent gender opinions of men who feel too threatened by the idea that a woman could be their equal

[sirsamspade]

The Lego movie specifically has always annoyed me Because it's about an incredibly average man becoming the "Chosen One" over a woman who has been training her Whole Life for that purpose. Too close to home and we're supposed to root for the average man. 🙄

[peppermoths]

does anyone want to see a really good picture of my kitty cat

[peppermoths]

[cheddar-baby]

not a cat, first off

[cheddar-baby]

snale

[sirsamspade]

Snat

[buggachat]

🎉🎊 HAPPY BIRTHDAY @mari-monsta / @mari-cherri !!!!!! 🎊🎉

AND ALSO HAPPY PRIDE!!!!! TRANSFEM ADRIEN UPON YE

[snailworldonline]

snail bubbler from canna style (currently sold out)

[sirsamspade]

Snong

[nyctosaurid]

if you don’t know the difference between a hare and a rabbit you’ve never gazed into the cold wild eyes of a hare and known that if it could speak it would speak backwards

[gallusrostromegalus]

Jack Rabbits are North American Hares and they’re the WORST to encounter at night becuase:

You all know how big a rabbit is.  Jack Rabbits and hares are much bigger. they’re the size of large cats or small dogs or just-walking-age children.

They also like to hang out in gangs of a hlf dozen to over 30.

and in the middle of backcountry dirt roads.

perhaps they’re dustbathing

or blood sacrifce

I don’t know because when you come up the road at night because your dog has a tiny bladder and needs to go out at midnight and you have no yard so you’re walking him on the dirt road around your neighborhod because you might aw well get some stargazing in, and you come just over the ridge to see a coven of twenty jackrabbits in the middle of the road

and

they

all

stand

up

not just onto all fours like a proper prey animal

No they get up on thier hind legs and don’t just sit but STAND like tiny rabbit-skinned toddlers, wobbing slightly as they stare directly at you eyes shining in your flashlight’s glow

…Blood Red.

And a chill goes through you on that warm july night because while they’re a puntable size and allegedly herbivores they’re standing and watching you just like people and you are vastly outnumbered.

everyone freezes

you’re considering your odds aganst roughly 200lbs of Suspiciously Humanoid Hare

and they’re considering their odds against you

the only sound in the never-ending high desert wind 

somewhere in your peripheral vision you can see the streetlights but they seem awfully far away

The nearest Jack Rabbit

Blinks

and takes a single shuffling step

forward

You area an overdevloped monkey and your prefrontal cortex is capable of some amazing feats but it runs very slowly compared to the reflexes of a rabbit and you’re frozen as you desperately scramble for the appropriate course of action, hands feeling thick and useless, mouth dry and feet imeasurably heavy there’s no way you’d outrun THESE, god there’s a rabies outbreak going around that shit’s not curable-

The Dog

L U N G E S

It’s only the briefest of movements but the animal you’d picked out for his gangly legs and floppy ears and goofy smile is suddenly a dark shape of muscle and teeth and had flung himself at the horrible goblin rabbits faster than mere physics should dictate, appearing in the circle of the flashlight for only the briefest of moments before the jolt from the leash makes you stumble and the light falters

The Jack Rabbits

Scatter

Vanishing into the faintly starlit sagebrush in as so many faint gray shapes that might be mistaken for the dustclouds they kick up

Later, you sit on the couch disquieted

and you wonder

If the sight of the Jack Rabbits standing and studying you was frightening enough to make you yearn for the safety of the yellowed streetlights

what must it be like from thier end?

what terrifying creature 

deliberately ties itself

to something so horrible

As a Dog?

[biomechanical-magitech]

@gallusrostromegalus that last bit gave me such a strong mental image I absolutely had to draw it

[gallusrostromegalus]

WELL HOLY SHIT.

CONGRATULATE, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING FOR.

is it ok if I print it out and stick it on the fridge?

[endreal]

Do you think I (OP) am mysterious?

yes

no

nuance (explanation in tags)

Voting ended onJun 6

[rabbitrah]

USAmericans: This pride month, talk to the queer people who actually live in all those bad evil icky red states and find out what it's actually like, how we actually feel about it, and who here is actively fighting against it. No more telling us to "just leave" or reducing us to innocent victims who are "trapped" here. There are so many of us and we live here for so many reasons, none of which should be justified. We are resilient, we are powerful, and we are fighting against the fascist laws working to eradicate us or scare us away. Being trans in a red state right now is in and of itself an act of resistance. That being said, pay attention to the brave souls on the front lines, pushing against the laws, making good trouble, and refusing to be silenced.

I won't let myself be talked about like I'm stupid to live here.

I won't let myself be talked about like I'm a helpless victim who's trapped here.

If you can't join the fight by standing beside us, then the least you can do is empower us, amplify our voices, and pay more attention to the ones who are FIGHTING AGAINST THESE LAWS than you are to the chucklefucks trying to pass them.

[rabbitrah]

fellow appalachian, I am holding your hand

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[calastarling]

someone somewhere has definitely already said this, but when (and if 🙄) the reveal happens, marinette better not pull some "Oh, how was I so blind? It was so obvious that Adrien is Chat Noir! I'm going to kiss him while tears stream down my cheeks!" bs.

like, NO. that girl would run away after a moment of shock and would be in denial for a WHILE. there would be multiple phases post-reveal:

avoidance of the topic; i.e. chat noir is strictly chat noir, her partner, and adrien is strictly adrien, her boyfriend (marinette's brain would ABSOLUTELY short-circuit and NOT want to believe she fell in love with this guy MULTIPLE TIMES)

more avoidance, specifically in the love department (avoiding flirting as superheroes, and increasing flirtatious behavior as civilians)

marinette piecing together times where the similarities were obvious

making more photo collages and evidence boards to wrap her head around the fact that adrien IS chat noir and she very much knows this information and is definitely not going insane over it

going insane over evidence boards

hopefully coming to terms with the fact that her boyfriend is her superhero partner and has been since forever

like, i want the reveal to be as emotional and beautiful as the next person. BUT we've gotta remember who marinette is as a character.

and honestly, think about it! marinette would go through all this denial and hardship over the fact, but then meet chat one day for patrol or something and be like "I'm sorry for running away. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that, who I though were two people--one my best friend and one my boyfriend... were really the same person. It's incredible." and then we get a ladynoir kiss.

BAM, we can still have an emotional reveal, folks. we just gotta wait for mari to come to her senses. and knowing adrien as a character, especially after he knows it's marinette behind the mask, he'd be willing to wait too.

[jigglypuff1994]

A balcony scene with Lady Noire and Adrien - I can feel the tension from here🔥🔥 This commissioned artwork is everything and more. I'm in love. 😍❤️ Thank you so so so much, Seola! Give the artist a follow on Instagram - she creates gorgeous artwork! *** This scene will be featured in my Kwami Swap AU fic. The first eight chapters of the fic are posted, and I am slowly but surely updating. First chapter linked below! Summary:

Sleeping with her partner is taboo. A teenage fantasy long gone, so dead it has been doused in lighter fluid, lit, incinerated to ash, never to rise from its cremated grave. So, in Lady Noire’s defense, it catches her completely by surprise when Mister Bug and she start hooking up …after she asks him to.

Well, she, for one, is at a loss. It’s an accident; she’s innocent, she swears!

Now the cat’s out of the bag, and the bug is in her bed, and she hasn’t the faintest idea where she is going from here.

Or, AU where our totally-not-in-denial Mister Bug and Lady Noire get down and dirty with each other… and for some added flavoring, minor plot

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[sirsamspade]

The first thing that you have to start believing is that you're going to live to see tomorrow, and the next day, and 30 years from now. Living in doom isn't giving you joy and it's taking away your ability to plan anything. Tomorrow will come and you'll be here for it, plan accordingly. 

The second thing you have to start believing is that you deserve to have good things. You deserve friendships, you deserve care, you deserve to be valued and understood. 

You also need to stop wishing for a past that's gone, you are NOT who you were 4 years ago, or even 10 months ago. You are so fundementally different for going through what you have and you will continue to be. So stop wishing you could live in the past forever and start believing that your future will be bright. Because it will. It'll be hard work, and it'll have sad experiences and tough emotions. But it will also be filled with love and joy and hope. Because you will make it so. You'll believe that good things will come and by the gods they will come. Your future isn't over and your present is worth living in. You will be loved and understood because you will love and understand yourself. If other people chose to do so as well, that's their gift. You are Laughter and Sorrow, Joy and Pain, Beauty and Destruction and you are worth living for and worth loving. It's a miracle that you exist, live it starfire ♥️

[purrincess-chat]

Since some of yall stay pissing me off, the only reason that a Chloe redemption is even a conversation is because back in between s1 and s2, they released promo images of her as the bee miraculous holder, so naturally we assumed that if she was going to become a part of the hero team, then she was going to get a redemption. And fandom ran wild with that. An assumption. Based off an image. Meanwhile, the creator never cared for her and the only reason they made her a superhero in s2 was because the producer liked her and wanted to sell dolls. And after a lot of in fighting, the writers were eventually allowed to do what they originally wanted and leave her as the mean schoolyard bully. But because her standom are so loud and persistent and whiny, they eventually made her leave, probably hoping yall would shut the hell up, but you don't.

Thomas was very upfront even in s2 days that her redemption was not guaranteed, that was just an assumption the fandom made. And admittedly, some of the s2 episodes did make it seem like she had potential, but personally, her true colors were shown the moment she got a Miraculous. She caused a problem just so that she could be praised for fixing it (never seen anyone in power do that before *cough*), she immediately announced her identity to the world because she only wanted to be a superhero for the attention and glory, not because she had any interest in doing good. And the moment that Ladybug clocked that and decided that her having a Miraculous was a liability and refused to give it back to her (aka the moment she didn't get her way), Chloe switched up real fast and had a meltdown. Because again, she had no interest in actually doing the right thing and putting in the work to be better. She just wanted to be praised and adored. The question at hand was always will she or won't she become better? And the answer for the last 3 seasons is that she won't. She likes having power. She likes exerting that power over other people.

"bUt sHe wAs aBuSe-" Even if you truly believe that, it's an explanation, not an excuse, and it doesn't erase all of the harm she caused. She still likes hurting people. That is the core of who she is. I don't get why that is hard to comprehend. Having the spoiled rich white girl stay spoiled and rich is more realistic than her having some epiphany and seeing the error of her ways magically and everyone she ever abused just forgiving her.

"bUt tHiNk oF tHe cHiLdReN" You don't see anything wrong with teaching children that if they're just nice to the kids who bully them that eventually the bullies will see the error of their ways and they can all hold hands into the sunset? That if children of color are just nice to the rich white racists who bully them that eventually the rich white racists will eventually see them as people? Or do you maybe think a better lesson is that people like that often don't change because they have no reason to because society props them up and they never face consequences, so distancing yourself from them because you aren't responsible for fixing them and protecting yourself and healing is more important? Because the truth of the matter is people like Chloe in real life grow up to be just like their parents. Rich, entitled, out of touch, and mean. Her characterization is realistic. And the show has plenty of other lessons showing that people deserve forgiveness when they want to change and try to make amends. Sabrina is evidence of that very concept. Chloe's problem is that she has no interest in making amends because she genuinely does not see her own actions as wrong. Or she feels that even if they are wrong, she doesn't care. Because why should she?

Again. Just because you personally like her and created a version of her in your mind that is worth redeeming does not mean that the Chloe in canon is redeemable. Also, just because canon!Chloe wasn't redeemed, doesn't mean you can't write fic or create art or whatever the fuck you want where she is redeemed. I've written many a Chloe redemption arc. I've also left her mean in some fics. I also reserve the right to write her however the fuck I want in the future be it as redeemable or not. But regardless of how I or anyone else choose to portray her in my personal fan works, the reality is that canon!Chloe was not and will not be redeemed. And I fully accept that. Her potentially being abused doesn't magically mean she is capable of being better. Plenty of abused people grow up to be abusers and continue perpetuating that cycle. It's not the argument you think it is, especially given what we have seen of her as of late. And it's not automatically bad writing for them to have arrived at the conclusion that she isn't redeemable after testing the waters. I don't defend every writing decision that this show makes (especially not from earlier seasons), but Chloe not being redeemed isn't an example of bad writing. You just don't personally like it and can't tell the difference.

Again, Chloe is not the unsung tragic hero of this story. SHE NEVER WAS. SHE NEVER WILL BE. Get over it.

[sirsamspade]

You said exactly what I've been thinking

[ihni]

Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

[ihni]

I beg of everyone to read the tags to this post, as they are all random and hilarious and read kind of like a poem, if the poem was written by someone who was on a lot of drugs.

[ihni]

Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

[ihni]

I beg of everyone to read the tags to this post, as they are all random and hilarious and read kind of like a poem, if the poem was written by someone who was on a lot of drugs.

[hyyl18]

TAG GAME GUYS

TAG YOUR MOOTS AND MAKE THEM EXPLAIN THEIR USERNAMES LORE

Starting with me:

Hyyl18 because when i was youngest i had a group in a random app with some friends and i didnt knew qhat username to use so i decided to create one with things i used to read since we were talking abt fanfic in this group so: Hot Yaoi Yuri Lemon +18 stuff (i was in my dirty era dont dare to judge me). Hyyl18 thats it. Now i use it everywhere yay

@patroclus-is-the-bigger-person @b4rty-r0s13r-w1ll-fck-y0ur-m0m @cuntyteardrop @glassesgirlies @leninthestarlight @bardorsomethinglikethat anyone else who wanna join tbh yay

[sirsamspade]

Thanks for tagging @lady-de-mon-coeur

When I was growing up we had this purebred mini poodle. And because he was purebred my Mama had to have a fancy purebred name for him. For some reason she chose Sir Sam Spade. And any time he was in trouble (which was often, he was a beautiful menace) she would call out [Our Last Name] Sir Sam Spade.

I always thought the name was super cool and when I wanted to stop being a bunch of stupid memes in a trenchcoat (meepbacon) and also let my online ID be a little more gender fucky I stole our dogs name for myself.

Later I learned that the Sam Spade part was actually the name of a very famous American detective from novels including The Maltese Falcon. Which is hilarious because I had already seen The Maltese Falcon ages before I connected those dots.

I tag @endreal @stabbyhobbit @punk-rocking-rose @dariluzzy21 @chronicyawn and @jigglypuff1994 no obligations. But I kind of enjoyed my weird info dump. Just don't try and trace it back to me IRL, lol.

[punk-rocking-rose]

my name is pretty straightforward: im a punk (hence punk-rocking) and my name is rose (hence rose)

[sirsamspade]

Love it. And you are definitely punk as fuck 😁

[hyyl18]

TAG GAME GUYS

TAG YOUR MOOTS AND MAKE THEM EXPLAIN THEIR USERNAMES LORE

Starting with me:

Hyyl18 because when i was youngest i had a group in a random app with some friends and i didnt knew qhat username to use so i decided to create one with things i used to read since we were talking abt fanfic in this group so: Hot Yaoi Yuri Lemon +18 stuff (i was in my dirty era dont dare to judge me). Hyyl18 thats it. Now i use it everywhere yay

@patroclus-is-the-bigger-person @b4rty-r0s13r-w1ll-fck-y0ur-m0m @cuntyteardrop @glassesgirlies @leninthestarlight @bardorsomethinglikethat anyone else who wanna join tbh yay

[dariluzzy21]

Thank you for the tag @sirsamspade

My username is a unification of two of my nicknames! When I first got a Roblox account I decided to unite three nicknames of mine. Since then there’s not many people who call me by my third so now I just use the two that are derived from my actual names. Ex. Luzzy comes from my name Luce

The 21 is because I had a kdrama obsession phase and my favorite show was 2521

So when I made any accounts in anything at all I would stick the numbers to the username, until I went making my usernames shorter (chopping off my third nickname) and 21 became my favorite number

I hope I made sense

I tag @imhavingdiarrhea @yippeemee @artnijna-nonartdash

[sirsamspade]

So fun! I love hearing how everyone combined parts of their lives to make their unique identities!

[hyyl18]

TAG GAME GUYS

TAG YOUR MOOTS AND MAKE THEM EXPLAIN THEIR USERNAMES LORE

Starting with me:

Hyyl18 because when i was youngest i had a group in a random app with some friends and i didnt knew qhat username to use so i decided to create one with things i used to read since we were talking abt fanfic in this group so: Hot Yaoi Yuri Lemon +18 stuff (i was in my dirty era dont dare to judge me). Hyyl18 thats it. Now i use it everywhere yay

@patroclus-is-the-bigger-person @b4rty-r0s13r-w1ll-fck-y0ur-m0m @cuntyteardrop @glassesgirlies @leninthestarlight @bardorsomethinglikethat anyone else who wanna join tbh yay

[sirsamspade]

Thanks for tagging @lady-de-mon-coeur

When I was growing up we had this purebred mini poodle. And because he was purebred my Mama had to have a fancy purebred name for him. For some reason she chose Sir Sam Spade. And any time he was in trouble (which was often, he was a beautiful menace) she would call out [Our Last Name] Sir Sam Spade.

I always thought the name was super cool and when I wanted to stop being a bunch of stupid memes in a trenchcoat (meepbacon) and also let my online ID be a little more gender fucky I stole our dogs name for myself.

Later I learned that the Sam Spade part was actually the name of a very famous American detective from novels including The Maltese Falcon. Which is hilarious because I had already seen The Maltese Falcon ages before I connected those dots.

I tag @endreal @stabbyhobbit @punk-rocking-rose @dariluzzy21 @chronicyawn and @jigglypuff1994 no obligations. But I kind of enjoyed my weird info dump. Just don't try and trace it back to me IRL, lol.

[endreal]

you know who else named themselves after the dog? Henry Jones, Jr, aka Indiana!

my URL Endreal is, uh, well it's my name 😅

I don't think I'm going to tag anyone specific (too early to remember everyone I know) but please feel free to play along if you want to tell a story!

[sirsamspade]

OMG Indy! I can't believe I pulled an Indiana Jones and didn't even realize it. Thanks for playing along.