just add compassion

• 32 y/o cautiously optimistic dork from the Norwegian countryside • I have a fat liberation sideblog, sitronsangbody

[sitronsang]

Summer is here 🖤

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[haru-kuneko]

Reblogging this for the third time in celebration of African World Heritage Day ✨🌍🪘

[velvetys]

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[nudityandnerdery]

[itreallyatemyhand]

[hotgirlmeg]

imagine you have a movie with oscar isaac and john boyega and people fixate on adam driver instead. this actually happened

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[hometownrockstar]

its kinda insane that hyperstylization of skinniness is seen as artistically neutral but hyperstylization of fatness immediately denotes it as "fetish material". this isnt even to say it can't be fetish-based, but that it isnt allowed to be neutral unlike skinniness where super exaggeration is just an artistic choice, a style, not a representative of reality and presumed to just be another way to depict skinniness in a recognizable way for the artist's style. but if you place emphasis on a fat character's body features in a specific way, it can only be a fetishistic caricature? not a way to explore the shapes of a body or to experiment with perspective or whatever else you might say about a skinny character?

[transmechanicus]

‘You should only send hearts to ppl you’re romantically involved with’

WRONG! BOUNDLESS PLATONIC LOVE, WARMTH, AND ENTHUSIASM BE UPON YE!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[netscapenavigator-official]

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

[catsoverloaded]

Poor girl broke her favorite sitting basket.

[kitten-cab00dle]

I’m sorry but this is the funniest thing I have ever seen ever in my fucking life her PEETS are STICKING OUT

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[lastoneout]

I won't ever tell anyone how they're allowed to feel about their disabilities, but the attitude behind eugenics where people think being disabled is an endless suffer-fest of perpetual agony is part of the reason that the next person who treats my disabilities like tragedies in front of me is going to end up in the hospital.

Like I recall back when my disabilities got bad enough I had bought my first mobility aid, a rollator, and I went out with friends after to a family thing, and one of their parents just...god. He just would not stop asking me questions about my health and then going "wow that's such a shame, just a real tragedy, it sucks so much that this has happened you must be miserable" and I knew at that moment I was never ever going to let myself think of my disabilities like that because I have never felt so dehumanized in my life. Same guy made fun of me in a room full of people a few days later so bad it made me cry so that was really fun. My pride in my disability was forged in the fires of my rage at people for treating me like that.

A tragedy? Buddy the tragedy is what's about to happen to your fucking kneecaps if you talk about me like that ever again. I get to go all the same places you do but sitting down, bitch, you WISH you were me. My wheelchair is red and I plan to one day run a marathon in it. In which I will be faster than the human runners because again, I'm better than you. Asshole.

[lastoneout]

I also just want to drive home, I was SO happy to have my rollator. I was STOKED that I could go to this event and not have to worry about hurting myself or having to leave early. I loved it, it was red and it was FREEDOM and I wanted to brag about it, and yet the first fucking thing that happened to me when I got there was being surrounded by a group of abled adults while no one even tried to push back on the one guy who would not shut the fuck up about sad my LIFE was.

I am so fucking pushy about how much I love my wheelchair because it makes me so happy and it really actually hurts to know that barely anyone who sees me in it sees it for the gift it is. For how proud and happy I am in it.

My disabilities actually make me happy sometimes. I don't get why that's so hard for some people to understand.

[lastoneout]

Honestly if there's ONE thing I could suggest abled people do when they meet someone who just got their mobility aid, don't assume they want condolences. If they seem happy let them be happy and brag and if they seem neutral just don't talk about it unless they do and match tone.

Nothing is universal ofc, but 99% of the disabled people I know LOVE showing off new mobility aids, my mom and I spent like an hour gushing over her new power chair, and I love my wheelchair, I literally feel like it's part of my body, and I love the rest of my body. Why would my chair be any different <3

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.

[ineffectualdemon]

Getting to the end of a story and going "THE CLUES WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME!" is always joyous for me whether or not I picked up on the clues leading up

If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!

If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience

If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.

Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"

A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story

A story that just gives me a "shock" but no pay off is telling me not to engage or get attached or care. So why would I watch?

[s-n-arly]

OMG! THIS!

Random plot twists that don't connect to anything in the story are not clever. If we don't see it coming because the writer didn't provide any clues, they aren't clever and it's totally unsatisfying (and I will NEVER read this writer again). These clues need not be lit up in neon with a parade of elephants and showgirls. But they need to be present

I'm a writer and am rarely surprised. Often, if I am surprised it's because the writer was a dumbass and included a "twist" that makes no sense (and therefore isn't really a twist, it's just random bullshit). If a writer genuinely surprises me, without being an absolute dumbass, I am FUCKING DELIGHTED! I will tell everyone I know to read the book/see the movie/watch the show.

[ardentmystacina]

Foreshadowing is the reward for paying attention. It's the story letting you in on the secret like a co-conspirator because you're the clever little audience member who has been picking up on the clues the writer has been setting up.

It even makes watching/reading again more worthwhile because if you didn't notice the foreshadowing the first time you have the joy of being able to notice the things you missed!

[phoenix]

Time to bring up the creator of Babylon 5, and sometime writer on Murder She Wrote, responding to people saying "We already figured this out", once again. Paraphrasing with a bit of quoting;

If no one figures it out, you're doing your job wrong.

If everyone figures it out, you're doing your job wrong.

Of COURSE some people figure it out, they're paying attention.

If you're doing your job right, and laying out the clues, a certain number of people HAVE to figure it out.

"The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve. Some don't have a clue what's coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority have a kind of vague sense where it's going, but there are still surprises along the way. If the bell-curve shifts one direction or the other, then you're in trouble."

[catsofyore]

Vintage dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.

[yesterdaysprint]

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

[hummingbirdsaltimolockia]

do it scared do it stupid do it alone etc etc but don’t do it hungry. eat a snack first