#rambelings

[peppermint-jade]

Aroace Ryland Grace means the world to me

like... I've read/interacted with other aroace spec characters over the years, but none I really truly connected with. Most have seemed distant or had experiences I didn't relate to. None had the distinct flavor of aroace I am.

like teens (I read a lot of ya) telling ppl they're demi or ace and then never bringing it up again is all well and good and I'm happy for any rep, but like man. I did not have that stuff figured out. It didn't even to begin to occur to me until halfway through high school.

And like yeah I'm always happy to see aroace spec characters but none ever felt like me. And then (especially in the book) there was Ryland Grace. A guy, who by my read (and I may be projecting) never even considers anything romantic or sexual. Ryland "aren't these ppl supposed to be professionals" Grace. I felt so seen when Grace is confused at the idea of him and Stratt being a couple. Like.. the idea never even occurred to him.

and like. man. that's just like me fr. That's my aroace experience. It just fills up my heart seeing all the fics, art, headcannons, etc of Grace realizing he's aroace. How he's not depicted as cold or uncaring, but kind and so full of love- just not that particular type. How he loves earth, his kids, his friends so, so much.

It's so nice to be seen

[daydreamsia]

Seeing the water nymphs in season one makes me a little mad about the cutesy design of the selkies.

I mean, just look at them -

they looked ethereal and other-worldly.

meanwhile they aren't even cute.

What a shame.

[theprincetaren]

Art in any form is so beautiful to me. I truly believe it is one of the closest things to magic we will ever have in this life. You can control peoples emotions with your art; how cool is that?

People are able to create whole other worlds in their minds and share it and then those people want to live in said worlds isn't that wonderful? Isn't it so beautiful that we can take inspiration from someone's creativeness and make it our own?

I don't think I could count the amount of times I've wanted to write stories about songs that I've heard or of art I've seen or another book I've read. Our work is just a mosaic of the art we have seen around us. The art we took inspiration from also took inspiration from something else and it forms this interconnected web that's so (ik I'm being repetitive) beautiful.

You know how people say that the art reflects the artists. How amazing is that?? That we can look at someone's innermost thoughts. We can see their dreams through their characters. This is especially true when an author says that a character is a self insert because it reveals so much about them even though we probably will never meet them in person.

Art is the rawest form of expressing human emotion. There is nothing that can truly recreate the passion we have for our art. There is nothing that can ever replace true human creativity, so keep doing what you're doing you wonderful beings. Fill this world with more of your art and carry your creativity like a badge of honour.

[fern-illustrations]

Yes, I still love Dark Percy Tartarus Fanfics. 

Random Dark!Percy Redemption AU

Percy is left in Tartarus, barely surviving and on the brink of death he strikes a deal with a mysterious being who asks for his most valued possession. With nothing on hand, Percy gives up his Humanity. This leads to him not only surviving but becoming the most feared and ruthless fighter in the underworld. Years later becoming the successor of Tartarus and ruling for 300 years and being breaking the bargain, his humanity returns. Perseus leaves, returning to camp where only 3 years have passed and pretending to have been tortured in Tartarus and escaped. Percy is now stuck dealing with his guilt and unable to tell anyone the truth in fear the camp would reject him. Battling with his literal demons and seeking redemption, how long can he take it. 

[kreature-ofthenight]

okay tumblr let me take you into this staggeringly bizarre thing my life is right now as I am blessed with a scenario on my hands I will call “The Mysterious Stick note person!”

Okay so first things first I live in a collage dorm but we all have our own tiny apartments here right? And because I am kind of a pagan and also very queer  I decorated my door/name plate with

A sigil of protection

 A pride flag

And all is well and dandy, most people in the dorms keep to themself (especially since the pandemic) till one day...there is a stick note on my door...asking me about the symbol on my door (the sigil) with like a small space left for me to write an answer...and because there is no harm in that I do and its actually quite fun exchanging like two or three notes over the better part of a week where I explain it and we make a few jokes

I still have NO IDEA who this person is, but it dosnt seem to matter because the conversation comes to an end after a while

Cut to the day before june (aka pride month) because some dick ???? STOLE MY PRIDE FLAG, and I pretty much know its because of pride month and also because the thieve is an asshole

but luckily, I have another, much bigger flag I used as a room divider before but because Im petty I hang it on my door now right, and Im kind of expecting it to get defaced or stolen or something already

but instead !!! I get a stick note, on the same green paper as the last ones! COMPLIMENTING MY FLAG and asking if its for pride month, I fucking high of excitement right now so I gladly write back explain what happened and joke a bit about it, because it feels good to have someone on my side even if I dont know who they are.

And they get really defensive like “How dare they steal the Flag?!?!” I laugh it of at this point like the big flag has remained untouched and I will likely never find out who took it anyways, so I tell them to not let those guys get them down and wish them a happy pride

And I thought that was it, as there have been no more notes for two days, Expect!!! Today there was the slightest ring on my bell but when I got there no one was there...but there was a note...asking me to check my mail

YOU GUYS MYSTERY STICKY NOTE PERSON SEND ME A NEW RAINBOWFLAG!!! I dont know who they are and most importantly they dont know me besides a few sticky notes and that my flag was stolen and they decided they wanted to help out.

Thats an amazingly kind person who really touched me alright, this is just pure unsolicited kindness and I have basically no way of thanking them expect stick notes because...I dont even know what they look like, there are like 600 people living in this building

But I hope they know how great they are, because they really restored my faith in people today

Happy Pride

[extra-lost]

Honestly the thing i find the most, idk.. puzzeling, about the whole cody/kote fanon thing is why is he the only one who has a Secret Mandalorian Version Of His Name? Its just... Not that realistic? That no other clone has something similar going on. Like why's he so special? Don't get me wrong i like the character, but as a new fan figuring out the whole thing was actually just popular fanon was quite a bit jarring lmao. I mean people are free to do what they want, but sometimes he feels more like an oc than the actual character in the fandom (which like yeah i realize he has precious little characterization, but whats there seems to run a bit different from what i first thought his character was when i first stumbled onto tcw fic)

Also cody's just a cuter name

[brawn-gp]

people are rebloging the sebson series... maybe i should just upload the part 4 (that i completely forgot to do lmao)

[mmd-ask-italy]

// you guys wanna know what one of my favorite .. I guess..romantic? tropes are. That person A was able to protect person B, from an attack, A standing like in front of B who is like on the ground. Then A asking if the other is hurt. B nervously shaking their head a No..Then A just collapsing and loosing all cool while gathering the other into a hug. 

I just love this, for some reason.  But I never have a good reason to write it into a story be it romantic or platonic..I hope I get to someday. 

Also, guess who is writing like 3 different stories at the same time..yeah I am not smart