May the fresh scent of flowers protect you always

Would die for all my favorite characters Header by rgboys 28, queer, They/Them

[twizzlerstriders]

The best Simon I’ve doodled yet I think wowza

[pinkinink]

Simon doodle ouh

[pinkinink]

Morning on Erid

GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[orcboxer]

kinda bullshit the English language doesn't have a discrete word for an unlit campfire. you light a campfire, but what is it before you light it? also a campfire, I guess. I need to invent a word that can be intuitively understood as "the arrangement of wood that is intended to become a campfire"

[dorian-they]

well "an arrangement of wood that is intended to become a campfire" sounds like it's just a bundle of sticks and I think there is a collective word for that maybe

[orcboxer]

[inkskinned]

y'okay can we stop pretending yet. like can we all acknowledge that eating disorders are chic again, and it's going to kill someone.

and like. do we have to keep gently phrasing things to protect naturally-thin people's feelings. in my life it has never been fashionable to be fat. "fat" is still a bad word. there has never been institutional power pushing people to gain weight; no trillion-dollar industry to "fix" skinny people. a larger body type has never been over-represented in models, influencers, celebrities. sure, people might say "i'm worried for your health," but they do it with respect and gentleness, like they're talking to a scared deer.

every single fucking time i talk about this, i have to be so careful with what i say, in case i offend even one skinny person. it is just true that skinny people have social capital across many cultures. there is a reason you almost never hear someone say "i wish i was fat," but you will constantly see people say "I wish i was thin." and yet inevitably some skinny person will tell me: i thought you wanted body positivity. it is the same fucking attitude as when a cis man says "when you say men have power, well, i've been bullied for being a man. i thought you believe in mental health awareness. don't you know men have a higher suicide rate?"

two things can be true at once: your experience being bullied for being thin was terrible. and people with larger bodies probably have it worse.

i have been big and small. i know many other people who have been big and small. trust what i'm about to tell you: being small is much easier. the world is kinder to you. people treat you better. honestly, this pattern occurs pretty much regardless of gender - my guy friends have confided that they'd rather be bullied for being thin than be bullied for being fat. if you're skinny, the pressure might be to gain weight, sure, but it's often to do so in a way that keeps you skinny - to gain muscle, specifically.

thinness is seen as innate and natural, genetic. whereas carrying any fat - that is a moral failing. it is assumed to be related to your character, your personality. i have seen people equate it to discipline, to hygiene. that bias is why we need to talk about this.

of course i want nobody to make a comment about anyone's bodies. and i think that hyper-thinness and an obsession with weight loss and a recession and a rise of conservative values... all of this is very fucking concerning. we are watching a return of "pro-ana" content, reframed as choice feminism, "health-conscious" behavior, "looksmaxxing". it's fucking terrifying.

[gdfgdfgggg-deactivated20160311]

[murkymarco]

Caught myself spiraling and then remembered it's just my body not wanting to exist in these temperatures

[jacky-killian]

I don't do "art studies," i draw "wrong" until I get an epiphany from god

[achillesinhighheels]

sorry i can’t go out tonight i’m at home sitting down

[hbmmaster]

calling things "cutes" is so uh. what's a good word for when something is cute but slightly more cute

[hbmmaster]

the word cutes is autological

[lora-mathis]

[sillylittlestoryteller]

Dear Bloodymary fans!

(re-doing this community post on my own blog to make sure we have a rebloggable version)

Little fandom-etiquette PSA:

Kind reminder to tag your bloodymary post with just #bloodymary, and NOT with #iron lung and #project hail mary

We've grown big enough to clog the main movie (non-crossover) tags, so let's be nice to all the non-crossover people :)

(censored to protect OP from possible backlash)

When a crossover tag is brand new, of course you tag the main source material!

But when a crossover gets so big that we are pushing the main movie content out of the search results, then it is good fandom courtesy to stop adding the main movie tags to your crossover posts.

We even started cooking up some alternative character tags in the comments of the original posts:

Lets spread it like wildfire!

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[zaziki1412]

Reblog cause FACTS

[empire-of-light]

Ryland Grace teaching his human students about sound and his eridian students about light

[aomaoe]

this one is more recent, because of a recent trend on twitter of folks wanting more art of simon smiling...!!!! so here's a soft one for u all

[aomaoe]

guys i forgot to post monster!simon here.. but like. hello. my freaky little guy... im slowly working on a ref for him, just for funsies. i have no plans for fic or comics or anything but i like having my own design :]

you're always welcome to reference or use the visual for your own stuff if you'd like! I just ask you show it to me 💗