Pink Clouds, Pink Thoughts

| Lee | 27 | she/it | 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🔞 18+ only, Minors: Do Not Interact 🔞 | angel | dog | doll | empty | 🜍 | pfp by こっぴお on picrew |

[bastardnoodle]

tenderness blooms even in the coldest corners of the universe

[maximumgraves]

what happens next

happy birthday 303

6 new panels of what happens next. as always, you can read next week's update early on patreon for as low as $3 a month.

[b0tster]

fuck america :)

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Isn’t it kind of fun how when your life sucks you just can’t talk about it with anyone

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

I’m serious though. When your life reaches a degree of suckage, you find yourself having to look elsewhere for anything at all to talk about. The things going on in your life are trauma dumping. Your past is probably also trauma dumping. So you have to get really weird about specific things or hope that others want to talk to you, because very quickly people are going to develop an aversion to you and the way your life sucks. Unless you just don’t talk about it

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

It’s socially isolating, which is dangerous—when you’re in this sort of situation, community is the difference between life and death, housing and homelessness.

I think the collective prioritization of comfort first is hurting people in a real and material sense

[transgender-dumpster-princess]

For me a big part of “sex work is work” is that sex work should be socially viewed as totally legitimate work. I should be able to put sex work on my resume. I should be able to lean on the skills and knowledge I gain in this field and have that experience be respected. Right now I have a gap in my resume. But I’m also consistently doing advertising, social media management, inventory, merchandising, customer service, upselling!!! I’m working self directed, I’m solely responsible for every aspect of my business. I deserve respect, fuck.

[alteredpanel]

dead wife jokes banned in the house due to current events

[juney-blues]

how to undoom yourself tutorial for girls

[amiyayuri]

You did an amazing job <3

@RIKIMARU

[goldcanillust]

[catherinekal]

@fayeastria

[empty-movement]

So, a thing that people who haven't been in the Utena fandom spaces forever might not know-- we owe a lot to Evanescence. They were, not even joking, the unofficial OSTs. I genuinely wish I could take y'all back to that time to see how pervasive Fallen and The Open Door were in the fandom back then. So, so many AMVs, so, so many songfics. It was like a common language in the fandom.

Even beyond that, like... it feels a little weird to admit this, but Evanescence was absolutely the dominating soundtrack to all the coding and image cleaning that Vanna (and to a lesser degree, I) did to continue to make Empty Movement into the horrible behemoth it is today. It's so massive that even we forget what's in it and where it is and all that... and let's be real, Vanna and I are still here near thirty years on, so it's not likely a change of music would have stopped us.

But Evanescence was the soundtrack to a huge, huge part of building that behemoth. Picture us in our headphones, shooting messages back and forth over whatever IM program, me stubbing a cigarette out in an overflowing ashtray (I vape now, don't come at me, I'm trying) and Vanna swigging out of a bottle of wine, and the two of us knowing we had to be up in the morning but loving the music and the time with each other and the knowledge that what we did would give others the chance to make even more cool shit.

Evanescence was a huge part of that, and they've got a new album out that has got some goddamn bangers. If you want overemotional lyrics, beautiful vocals, and metal af instrumentation, check it out here.

And as a memento of that time when it was a common fandom language, here's one of the AMVs I loved most, Roseate Nocturne.

WARNING-- SPOILERS!!

[cdigoddess]

[mirensiart]

the legend of yuri: twilight sapphic

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[christianstepmoms]

[christianstepmoms]

[sapphling]

no carceral sentiment or raised minimum sentence or punisher-logo-adjacent slogan or mob enacted justice could lower abuse rates 1% as well as just providing all people of all ages the financial and legal ability to separate themself from any living situation, regardless of familial or marital status, with ease and with the security of knowing they'll still be housed and fed

[maximumgraves]

what happens next

happy birthday 297

6 new panels of what happens next. as always, to see next week's update early, you can subscribe to my patreon for $3 or more at patreon.com/maximumgraves

[gooseworx]

What would happen if Kaufmo didn't interrupt Jax and Ribbit's talk?

Something dreadfully homosexual.