#consumptive sphinx

[ciaran2020]

@macavitykitsune​ replied to your post “i will be wrong but by god i will not put em dashes outside the...”

who DOES that that's WEIRD

@consumptive-sphinx replied to your post “i will be wrong but by god i will not put em dashes outside the...”

it's a TONE SIGNIFIER it goes IN THE QUOTES it is PART OF THE DIALOGUE

THANK U. i am not wrong and i will NOT take constructive criticism but @ editors please accept this one piece of advice. stop making things look ugly  is aesthetics A Joke to you

[tenderwiki]

@consumptive-sphinx

kids these days are on tiktok which bans pro-lgbt content while my generation wrote Very Woke hamilton slashfic on ao3 and it was literally just as embarrassing but at least the chinese government wasn't involved, and what I'm saying here is that I'm worried about the kids these days

(for some reason tumblr notifications won’t show me any recent things so rip me i fucking guess)

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not but I’d note that you’re 19? or 20? you are a kids these days. and val has tiktok and they’re older than both of us.

the thing about the Chinese government is like, a critique of the government, and authoritarianism, and the fact the most social media is owned by giant corporations who don’t give a fuck about art or culture or maintaining truth. there’s no part of that criticism it does good to direct at teenagers, who by far have the least power to do something about that state of affairs.

also I don’t think teenagers should be blamed for engaging with the platforms available to them. not only was twitter launched in 2006, it was conceived of by people who are largely millenials - or depending on how you draw the lines, gen x - so this reeks of the exact same “blaming kids for living in the world adults created” 

bashing teens is, as far as praxis goes, scraping the bottom of the barrel 

- not to mention the fact that the userbases of tiktok and ao3 are in no way comparable - the average teenager could reasonably be expected to have a tiktok, but the average teenager does not know what ao3 is. 

/end rant

[radiqueer]

I'm an omnivore but factory farming is *really really horrifying* and "factory farming is horrifying, what can we do about this, how about we do our best to make going vegetarian more appealing to people" is not... an unsympathetic thought process actually

like, yes, the ones who shove posters in your faces are obnoxious, but "I am trying to make it easier and more appealing for other people to help me end this horrifying thing" is something I would like to encourage

where I'm coming from its sorta also about like, cultural vegetarianism? of the kind I practice? which has been doing Being Vegetarian for GENERATIONS, and is hence pretty good at making vegetarian food taste really good.

not to be a purist about this but if your entire approach to vegetarian food is ‘how can I make this resemble meat’ that's fucking exhausting?

(not to go into all the ways in which vegans devalue non-vegan vegetarian food as not humane enough, like this is an either-or and not a sliding scale)

I think the point I'm getting to here is that the entire vegan relationship to food seems to be about 1. converting others 2. being the most ethical, and very rarely about deriving actual enjoyment from food that isn't about how woke you're being consuming it. it's so sanctimonious it's weird.

and also the other point I'm getting at here is Maybe You'd Have Better Luck Converting People If You Made Food That Not Only Tasted Good But Also Offered Something Unique In Terms Of Texture And Flavor, Which Your Food Currently Does A Shit Job Of.

(I'm sorry if this is incoherent, I just woke up)

[anghraine]

1, 5, and 6 for the fanfic end-of-year asks?

1) Favourite fic you wrote this year

The script AU generally, but particularly part of the past, but now you’re the future. It’s the one that really pins down how I see Cassian’s and Jyn’s essentials as individuals and as a couple, and it’s very much a love letter to that. It took a long time to get everything the way I wanted, too, but probably the one that most came out how I wanted it to.

5) Most popular fic this year

Ad astra, no question, with *squints* 900 kudos and 188 bookmarks. That’s just short of my most popular fic’s 1047 kudos, and that one had two and a half years to accumulate them. And it’s easily the most bookmarked.

6) Least popular fic this year

The sea that divides us, the Baze POV on Jyn and f!Cassia’s fight on Eadu. Not much of a surprise there (but there’s a reason I’m so pleased when people like it!).

[swan-archive]

i would just like to say that the style you write our tags in has started bleeding over into my speech patterns, and the term "fuckening" has bled into my speech so much that's it's starting to bleed into all of my friends' speech patterns. thank you so much.

!!!!!!!!!!!! this is HUGE NEWS

thank you for letting me know what an influence i have been in turning your speech patterns into an unintelligible, meme-laden slurry, and in turn i will be sure to let you know the SECOND i’ve figured out a tenable way of pronouncing “fhseiufkashdalfje” or “;;;;;;;;;;;;;” so you can go on ahead and add those two extremely useful phrases to your lexicon

[radiqueer]

hot take: having followers is not consent to randomly be asked intrusive questions about your sex life and/or attraction, nobody would do this to someone who wasn't bi, and anon can fuck off

hi sorry you probably didn’t want me to use your ask as a jump-off to talk about this but it really bothers me so here we go. tumblr’s stupid age in bio culture contributed pretty much directly to people demanding to know about my crushes. anyone who’s followed me for over a year knows that I refused to give out my age for a large chunk of this blog’s existence. during that time, I received precisely (0) creepy messages from people demanding details about my life I wanted to keep private. like, literally nothing. I have a pretty good memory, and I would remember if someone was a creep to me. 

but you know what did happen? on my fandom blog, an anon decided that since I was a minor talking about age gaps and meta and being critical of a fairly popular webcomic, they were “no longer comfortable interacting with me”. this is fine! but I will remind you that this person was on anon and never ever went off of it, and went out of their way to inform me that they weren’t comfortable interacting with a minor (still on anon) and somehow, miraculously, ALSO implied that the reason they weren’t comfortable interacting with me was because I might someday attempt to come onto them. 

in my time having my age in my bio, I’ve gotten more randos being messy and creepy and invasive than I ever do on any blog where I go out of my way to hide my age. so what gives, tumblreirdos? what gives?

[tenderwiki]

@consumptive-sphinx replied to your post “negative writing memes make a real bitch out of me every time i see...”

oh relatable. except for me it's bad discourse about how it's Wrong to write [thing i'm in the middle of writing]

u are SO valid and i love your spitewriting so much <3 i think for me it’s a function of the fact that i genuinely enjoy writing and feel worse when i can’t do it and everyone who shares my hobby constantly speaks negatively of their relationship to it and it’s so! annoying!

[anghraine]

🔥 Aragorn

Haha, you all know most of them! 

I think Aragorn is calculating, slippery, and ambitious, in a Slytherdor sort of way—not rather than heroic, courageous, and principled, but in addition to. And I definitely think that combination of personal qualities has a LOT more to do with his accession to the throne than his disputable ancestral claim.