#apawture

[mysticchaiphotography]

September, Catamara and Scraps Shot on Canon Rebel T7i with Sigma Art 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM

[aquato-family-circus]

psitanium is like. blue-raspberry-but-mostly-raspberry flavored and its also full of wiggles. idk how to explain it but it vibrates your essence when you eat it and dont ask me how i know any of this

symptoms of wiggles:

jiggles

[bramblepaws]

Im about to clock in 4 work so this will be quick and not thought out at all but. God mike is still just a kid! Yeah hes fucked up BAD and hurt his friends and needs to start growing, but it feels like most people just want him to suffer. Its the sort of attitude id expect to see from... well, a teenager. "This person fucked up so they deserve to suffer" like.... i wanna put my thoughts into better words later but tldr mike DID wrong but he isnt irredeemable and its worrying so many people convinced themselves of that

yes exactly!!! it’s so weird!!!! 

im going to be wild for a second but. it feels very much like the worst elements of tumblr mentality. like people are trying to find ways to peg Mike as abusive or manipulative so he can be Cancelled in a way that like... leaves the people who hate him on a morally superior front? like “of course i hate him and want him to suffer, Look At Him he’s morally repugnant doing x y and z”

and there’s just! more nuance to all of it IMO!! he’s a kid fuckin’ up! and eventually, he’s probably going to be an adult fucking up!!!! but i swear there is not a malicious bone in his body -- he’s JUST trying to figure out the right way to behave. all he wants is to have friendships that feel fulfilling and healthy, he just has NO idea how to go about getting those. and no one does as a teenager!!!! i barely do as a young adult!!!! so much of it is trying one thing and going “oh shit THAT wasn’t right” and then desperately trying to do what you can to fix it. and sometimes the ways that you try to fix it are ways that actually fuck it up worse. it happens. 

also, the people who are calling Mike manipulative specifically are so wild to me, because..... like.... who didn’t come across as manipulative as a teenager. like i got called manipulative by my parents ALL THE TIME because i was (am) an easy crier, and very emotional, and they interpreted it as me bringing out the waterworks to get my way. but i was just emotional and didn’t know how to handle it! and so is Mike! he lashes out when he’s emotional, which is OBVIOUSLY not good -- to us. but he doesn’t know! he grew up with friends that pushed and punched all the time! and he knows that an EXCESSIVE amount of pushing and punching is bad, because Sandy told him that it was. he didn’t even come to the conclusion by himself. but he doesn’t know how much, or if all of it is bad. he just knows that what Lucy was doing was bad, again, MOSTLY from an outside source. he’s fumbling his way through all of this in the best way that he can. 

and is he hurting people? yes. but so did Paulo when he slept around and was weird and creepy. so did Lucy when she was hitting Mike all the time. so did Abbey when he treated Paulo as a threat rather than another teenage boy. 

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

They what

on the family tree they’re mates and have kits together (both of which died as kits)

[bramblepaws]

i love lucy/augustus as a ship but only as a concept / as something that happens slowly when they get older, NOT like this lmao

SAME!!!!! LUCY BABYGIRL WHAT ARE YOU DOING

[bramblepaws]

trans paulo? yes go on im listening

listen 90% of this is me projecting but paulo getting older and realizing that a lot of the ways that he would adhere to toxic masculinity were due to him trying Way Too Hard to fit into a gender that he felt alienated from, and so he starts experimenting with just like playing as a girl in video games and he instantly feels 100% more relaxed about interactions and also gains more insight into why he was so weird about girls all the time. he starts actually noticing all the ways that he’s been trying too hard and accepting that what he actually wants is to be feminine more often than not, cuz he starts out by just being like “okay i’ll be a dude, just, less toxic” but it Doesnt Feel Like Enough. he catches himself being jealous of Daisy and Lucy just in general. 

he talks to Mike about it the most because Mike has ALSO been feeling out some gender stuff as they both get exposed to more queer people -- Mike is leaning more into the genderfluid/nonbinary direction though and Paulo is kind of feeling out more of Wanting To Be Girl. they both talk about it a lot. just trying to figure things out. 

eventually Paulo goes on HRT and changes his name and starts going by she/her exclusively towards the end of college, and Mike starts going by he/they/she. and they are best friends.

[bramblepaws]

bramblepaws.... pls give me the strength + courage to post a doodle i made during work of transmasc lucy....... i made it to cope with dysphoria kicking my ass and i actually rly like the drawing for once in my life..........

BROOOO yes... Hell Yes. i would like to see it 👀

[bramblepaws]

i use he/him and they/them and i used a duplication glitch so now i got extras, u can have the extras if u want *hands u pronouns*

oh shit thank u!!!