Toaster-San

They/them 19

[loafofyeast]

He a thicc boi

[kinktendo-shamecube-is-dead]

one of my favorite tropes is when a character is talking in the foreground and something happens in the background that directly contradicts what they’re saying

[kinktendo-shamecube-is-dead]

foreground: character is talking about how they pride themselves on being a good parent

background: character’s 3 year old son starts a car and speeds off

[cockyhorror]

[tomftholland]

also

[wadey-wilson]

[angel-starbeam]

This will never get old.

[whatwouldjessusdo]

Kinda works

[naramdil]

you have this idea in your head that the only time you’re worthy of being loved is when you’re at your best. you’re still worthy of being loved when you’re at your lowest. you’re still worthy of being loved when you don’t want to go on anymore. you are still worthy of being loved even when you don’t love yourself. you are a human and therefore always worthy of being loved and don’t you fool yourself into thinking otherwise. 

[mjalti]

me: I love being single & humble :)

me, 3 am:

[corporationkills]

god made a mistake when he made me a person instead of a friendly little cat on a midwestern apple orchard

[killer-snail-deactivated2019112]

You know what’s FUN

Never being able to make big life decisions because you’re never sure if your choice is just your mental illness controlling literally everything you do!!!!

[hxxligan]

Relationships don’t take your anxiety away Relationships don’t take your depression away Relationships don’t stop the bad thoughts Relationships don’t stop your mental illnesses

[drastic-mood-swings-blog]

I’m having such a low episode. I feel incredibly numb. I just want to feel that high again.

-owl

[so1987-deactivated20230102]

person: you’re acting really annoying are you off your meds?

me: you’re acting really annoying are you off your manners

[019736583910284]

The fact that mainstream mental health awareness largely centers around “normal” mental illnesses like anxiety and depression is annoying enough as it is, but the fact that people with these illnesses focus so hard on emphasizing the fact that they’re “not like those crazy people” and make such great efforts to distance themselves from people with schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder or even bipolar disorder that involves psychosis is so fucking ableist and disgusting it makes my blood boil

Movements to “destigmatize” mental illness mostly just makes people like myself who DO experience psychotic symptoms like delusions and hallucinations and voices in our heads feel even more stigmatized and rejected from society. Like, even the people who claim to be advocating for mental health think we’re freaks and are too embarrassed to talk about us.

If your version of mental illness advocacy exclusively focuses on “socially acceptable” conditions like anxiety or depression or ptsd, you can Fuck Right Off. Your advocacy does nothing for me and if anything your version of “destigmatizing” is causing people like me more harm than good.

[bravestghost-deactivated2019070]

shading colour tips

hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty

rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD. 

red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple

orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red

yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach

green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal

blue- shade with purple

purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)

pink- darker shade of red

white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??

black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol

grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)

brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

aaaaand thats all i got lol. let me know if there is anything i should add to this list!!

[valmoxium]

If you’re a visual learner…

I made some Balls of Colour to go with Art Mom™’s post:

[siij]

1. I just saw your beautiful wonderful gorgeous art of Connor from detroit become human... and it got me thinking about androids and sexual encounters and Connor's experiences specifically. I really hope you don't mind if I jump in here and rant a bit, if you do mind, just ignore these asks, but like... holy whoa do I have some ideas. especially for my sweet boy Connor and whatever future partner(s) he may have.

I hope you won’t mind me answering each part of your ask sequentially/specifically, because it’s wonderfully in-depth and your thoughts are super interesting to me. I never mind if someone shares their thoughts with me. I consider it a gift, not a burden - I mean, obviously. You took time out of your day to tell me something cool, and that’s really awesome.Also, I love that you specified ‘whatever future partner(s) he may have’. That’s very considerate of you, and I love to see that kind of respect toward other people and their respective preferences. Before we get into it, have a lil’ Connor as a thank you for being compassionate and respectful, and sharing your thoughts with me!

I’m going to put my responses under a cut, because they’re going to be looong.

Keep reading

[cosu-teeth]

Lance when his significant other walks into the room

[puzzled-zebra]

Back in my day...

Maybe it’s just because I’m in the “older nerd category”  (being barely in my 20s), but what’s with the shippers these days? When did it become a competition? When did it become warring sides of disgust?

Back in middle school, kids just shipped without throwing more than a “I don’t ship it” or notp. You liked NaruHina more than SasuNaru? No one cared. You liked Zutara more than Kataang? The other side could understand why you would have that preference! It wasn’t all perfect, a lot of people weren’t exactly pro-SasuSaku and might voice that opinion, but it was never this bad! I never heard of death threats or mass inbox discourse!

I first remember discourse being a thing with the Free! fandom, mostly MakoHaru vs RinHaru, but I never thought the fandom was actually serious about it. I liked both! Though I had more of a preference towards one versus the other, and a friend of mine preferred the other, but we playfully bantered about it and saw why we each had our preferences. I guess I was blind to the shipping mentality shift in the fandom scene though.

First I saw it be things like long explanations why “X ship being better than Y ship”, then it started turning into why “Y ship was worse than X ship”- and, yes, there is a difference between bringing up your own ship versus tearing down a the other ship-, and then it spiraled into entire posts ranting about why “Y ship is wrong.” and  “Y ship is toxic”.

Now we have fans threatening, harassing, and overall just being utter scum to each other over ships. Fictional fantasy relationships. Now we have fandoms fight over ships becoming canon! Canon! Canon, never, mattered before! But now it’s become bragging rights! Now it has become a prize for a shipper side! Now it has become something to argue, threaten, and blackmail the series creators over and that IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE OKAY.

Its something straight out of a psychological horror ! Actually, there is a movie about this kind of madness titled Misery! People in real life are actually mirroring the behavior of a psychopath in a horror movie and are proud of it. Let that sink in.

If you are a person who participates in any of this anti-ship kind of behavior, please take a moment to self-reflect. Please think about your actions. Think about how none of this ship stuff matters in life. A ship won’t make your life fulfilling. A ship won’t get you your degree. A ship won’t get you a happy, healthy group of supportive friends. A ship won’t get you a job, promotion, or pay raise. A ship won’t get you a wonderful life partner. A ship won’t make whatever is or was hurting you any better. A ship won’t make you actually happy.

Its a fun little fantasy, yes. It might be a hobby to relieve stress. A breath of fresh air in a hellscape of a living situation. But its not worth bringing other people down. Its not worth taking time out of your day to dedicate post after post, ask after ask, that shames, insults, or depreciates a “rivalling” ship or character in the fandom. It’s not. It’s really not. Its time you could have spent just happily enjoying your ship! Its time you wasted that you could have spent making fanart or fanfics of your ship! You are wasting precious time in your life to antagonizing other, real people, who just want to enjoy their ship just like you do yours, over a fictional relationship! Let that sink in.

Its never too late to apologize or change your behavior. Own up to the mistakes of the past and move on to better yourself. You aren’t forced to act like that. You aren’t stuck in this negativity spreading against your will. If you see someone else on “your side” or “their side” acting this way, block them. If it hurts too much seeing their behavior to stay totally silent, leave a kindly worded ask reminding them that its all just fantasy and fun that isn’t worth acting ugly for. Don’t make hate posts to “get back at them”, don’t leave hate asks, don’t fight with them. Spread some love, complement their art or writing, maybe kind words of warning, but never hate and discourse.

Spread the love, end the ship wars.

[likeimnotmyself]

I’ve been shipping Shance for so long now that they look natural together. Like I don’t even give second thought about what’s making me ship these two characters anymore, I just know that I do and that’s how it’s been. It’s probably so strange for non-shippers too because the characters are very different and don’t interact much but they just. Look right.

[pratktcven]

Lance has never been in a long-term relationship. There have been crushes and other small things—like hand-holding and dates on the wharf—but it was never… love. True love. That love he would die for, or kill for. That inevitable love that he would wait for. That selfless love he would let go of.

That love he knows.

That love he sees.

That love in Shiro’s hopeful eyes and tremulous mouth, that love in Shiro’s hesitant step forward, that love in his upturned palms, that love in his voice when he whispers, “Adam?”

A man in warm Garrison gray throws himself into Shiro’s embrace and hides his face against the side of Shiro’s neck. One hand buries itself into Shiro’s white hair and the other cradles the base of Shiro’s skull. Shiro wraps his arm tightly around the man’s waist. They sway, their balance shifting, and Lance catches Shiro’s expression.

Soft. Warm. Vulnerable.

’Oh,’ Lance thinks as the other man—Adam—chokes on a laugh, a sound of relief strangled by bitter happiness. ’Oh.’

Lance has never been in a long-term relationship. But he has known love—and now, its loss.

[noiteases]

So.. I misread that Hammond ask earlier and all I could think of was this