Valentine

Be compassionate not complacent

[valmathog]

My name is Valentine, I like to draw and sew. I go by all pronouns and don't particullary identify with any one gender.I might mention non-identifying irl details about myself, be warned because I'm not putting my medical history in my bio for just about anyone to find.

My art -> #Val Draws

Bookmarking things for myself (barely used) ->#4 later

Pigeon related reblogs -> #pigeon blogging

[lilietsblog]

Stardew Valley Fashion Sense basics mod list

Let's go:

Vanilla accessories;

Vanilla pants and skirts;

Vanilla shirts;

Backpacks and Baubles;

Cozy Mittens;

Cozy Scarves;

Hoods and hoodies;

Player height variety;

Oversized sleeves;

Coats and jackets;

Gloves and sleeves;

Traveler's attire;

Kisekae's skirts;

Crocs;

Cute shoes;

Animated hairstyles;

More accessories and stuff (hats!!!)

Vanilla hats extended

When you first install Fashion Sense and open the mirror menu, it's likely to strike you as both confusing and completely empty. It offers sleeves? Where are the sleeves? What does it mean by sleeves?

This is the list of mods after which your Fashion Sense will be all geared up with basics and ready to roar - hats, shirts, pants, skirts, accessories, everything you had in vanilla and then also a bit of everything Fashion Sense can offer that vanilla cannot.

After installing this, you can and absolutely should go look for more stuff you specifically want - elf ears, witch hats, fox tails, angel wings, luxurious dresses, digimon survive outfits, whatever floats your boat. And you will add it to these and be happy that you can choose from a variety of shoes to go with that one cute dress you found.

P.S. More tentative recommendations for people who want A LOT of shirt options and don't mind their menu being swamped by an absolutely surreal amount of variations:

Ani's Color Collection

Missy's Shirts

[deadletterpoems]

The worst thing about loving you was knowing  that no one would love you the same as I did.  No one would see you the way I did  No one would touch you the way I did  If I could  I would’ve brought you the moon and the stars on a silver platter  -me

[yesornopolls]

Does it hurt when you yawn?

Does it hurt when you yawn?

Yes

No

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

[noodle-the-queen]

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

[teddygrahamxx]

Femme lesbians have more in common with drag queens than they do cis women. In this essay I—

[genderqueerdykes]

I think a lot of people on this website would benefit from hearing that back in 2011 when I was a part of my college's pride group, I was friends with a gay cis male drag queen whose roommate was a lesbian. They had sex with each other often, but it didn't stop my friend from identifying as a gay guy, nor did it stop their roommate from being a lesbian. Neither of them identified as bisexual. This kind of stuff happens between queer people of "conflicting" identities all the time, it's nothing new. There aren't any rules

[aqueousstar]

first thing to know about sewing machines is that they can smell fear

[valmathog]

Have work tomorrow, don't wanna I'm so fucking tired

[wheelie-sick]

having bipolar disorder is a lot like being run over with a steamroller over and over again. you get run over the first time and you survive, somehow, and stand back up again only for another steamroller to hit you.

you keep surviving, you keep getting back up but you start to accumulate broken bones and crushed teeth. you're bleeding everywhere because your organs have been smushed for the 50th time. it continues to be survivable, somehow, but the fatigue continues to grow.

how many more times will you be run over by a steamroller? you know it will happen again. you know that the steamroller will chase you down and crush you no matter where you run. so why? why would you bother? why would you stand back up knowing that you are just going to be run over again? when you try to express this to your friends, that you are tired, no, exhausted from being crushed by steamrollers, they give you empty statements like "I hear it gets easier with time." that's easy to say when you're not being crushed by steamrollers.

so you stop standing up. it is the 500th steamroller and you are so tired. every movement is agonizing as your body can't keep up with recovery from all the steamrollers. you continue to try kneeling, anything to get yourself even a little off the ground, then after a while you're just sitting, and soon you're not getting up at all. you're just laying there, arms outstretched, letting every steamroller hit you. the steamrollers crush you into the ground, one by one, until you join the worms in the soil. the whole time the people around you telling you "it gets easier, just give it time"

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[dumbpuppyfag]

discussion about right wing radicalisation focuses near-exclusively on men becoming white nationalists but i wonder how it might manifest elsewhere. like, imagine a heavily online subculture of mostly women and they're dedicated to rooting out degeneracy, maintaining a rigid social order, refusing to acknowledge scientific consensus, being violently paranoid of a dehumanised other, adhering to exclusively eurocentric standards of beauty and politically dedicated to exterminating a minority group (possibly one that was already historically targeted for genocide). that'd be fuckin crazy lol

[ot3]

'you are not immune to propaganda' is true but sometimes the way people deploy this particular soundbite reveals a complete unwillingness to attribute any agency or ideology to people who espouse some pretty heinous bigotry.

like there was a post going around recently talking about people whose parents became increasingly radicalized by fox news and it had one of those tumblr style comments on it along the lines of "REMEMBER! THIS COULD BE YOU! You are not immune to propaganda either. STAY VIGILANT" and the implication here is always that right wing radicalization is something that somehow happens to otherwise pleasant people without their consent or knowledge. But perhaps some of you guys just need to grapple with the fact that your parents might be more bigoted and reactionary than you want to believe.

nobody is immune to bad information ecosystems or groupthink or poor science or anything else that makes radicalization possible, but i do think the idea that anyone is just a bad news pipeline away from supporting white supremacy does a lot to let white supremacists off the hook. it's the same kind of line of thought that gets people to talk about how bad things in fiction shouldn't be 'romanticized'. its a kind of worldview that operates under the implicit belief that a human being is a vessel being uncritically filled with whatever you pour into it and does nothing to grapple with what the actual appeal of these far right talking points is to the sort of otherwise ""normal"" seeming people that can be sold on them.

[dyke-okapi]

Heard an interview on NPR of a 'small mother-daughter hair accessories company, working from the dining room table at home...' thats business will be affected by the tariffs because 'we manufacture in China!'!!! And if one good thing comes of these horrible stupid tariffs I hope it stops all these American 'small business owners 🥺' from obfuscating their participation in imperial exploration. And I hope everyone finally processes that all the fanart acrylic keychains and plushies of niche microcelebrities ocs that are just 'supporting small artists!!' are manufactured in the same way everything else is thats consumed by this ugly country is.

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

I think people often fail to understand that all production within the core--of any kind and for any purpose--is only able to exist as it does because such endeavors are the beneficiaries of systems of exploitation and unequal exchange.

For example: I am an independent craftsman in the US. I have no employees and I make everything I sell by hand, 'by myself.' But without Mexican workers raising cattle and tanning their hides, I would have no leather to work with. Without Chinese workers manufacturing the hardware and without the miners who mined the iron, nickel, copper, zinc, etc, I would have no rivets or dee rings or square snaps. I do not steal the surplus value of those under my employ because I have no one under my employ, and yet without the exploitation of hundreds or thousands of people, I can produce nothing at all. And this is true whether I am producing for the purposes of making money or for the joy of creating or for any other reason.

Nothing can be produced here without plunder.

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

Getting whiplash from parts 1 and 2 of this and I want to be clear that they're talking about different things

Dropshipping businesses (buy goods, sell with no modification at a higher price), artists who have clothing or goods manufactured with their design printed on it (like an artist using a t shirt printing company to sell shirts with their art on it, Redbubble is broad example), and crafters who rely on purchased supplies and tools (previous commenter) are three different categories with varying levels of reliance on foreign manufacturing in their processes. ALL OF THEM will see price hikes from tariffs. I can see hating on dropshippers, but you need to understand and be sympathetic to the fact that the other two are artists who are legitimately trying to make a business selling goods created from their skills.

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

No, I am also a fucking bastard who relies on exploitation just as much as a drop shipper or redbubble-type digi artist. The fact that I put my own labor into the physical materials to turn it into an end product does not transmute the end product into being something that was produced without exploitation. The point is that there literally isn't a way for citizens of the core to personally, individually absolve ourselves of the crimes of empire.

You spin your own yarn from fibers you gathered yourself? Okay, where do the crochet needles come from? You whittled your own needles? Where is the knife from? You forged your own goddamn whittling knife? Where's the steel from? Where's the hammer from? Wheres the sharpening stone from?

You write or draw? Where's the cobalt and lithium from your computer from? Okay, you only do it on paper, where's the paper from? Where's the wood, graphite, glue, and paint from the pencil from? You need food to fuel your body, where's that from? Where is the chair you sit on from?

You can't bootstraps your way out of being a beneficiary of imperialism. It's not a matter of personal ethics and I don't even think it's a personal indictment. It is plain fact: on a global scale, even the most downtrodden working people in the core are labor aristocrats. If youre a Yank like me, being against the exploitation of the third world is being against our own immediate interests. It means our lives get materially worse. If the downfall of imperialism means I can't afford to make my leather goods anymore, y'know, I think that's a hit I'm willing to take.

[best-bird-tournament]

If you can't handle me at my common wood pigeon, you don't deserve me at my magnificent bird of paradise

[polyamorouspunk]

Hmm. How do I say this?

Not everything has to be punk. Okay? Not everything has to be punk.

I mean that’s nothing new that I’m saying here, a lot of other people have been saying it. Like “you can have a jacket with patches without it being a punk jacket” this is true! Not everything has to be punk.

Some things can just be an act of resistance, or kindness.

Picture this, if you will:

A group of stereotypical punk kids walk into a Walmart, covertly steal things like toiletries, clothing, stuffed animals, pet supplies, blankets, etc. They then drive to the local shelter and donate those things to people in need while sticking it to the large corporations.

That’s pretty punk, right?

Now imagine someone in clothes from Forever 21 (RIP) going around and shoplifting things they want.

Is that punk?

Imagine putting together a show of local punk bands who are volunteering to play because it’s going to be a charity show, and they’re taking the proceeds from ticket sales, button sales, sticker sales, and patch sales and they’re going to donate it to an organization.

Pretty punk, don’t you think?

Now, a church organizes a bake sale and the proceeds go to that same organization.

You see where I’m going here?

What’s the difference between these things? Is it the aesthetic? The intention? Who is really to say.

In my opinion, which, might I remind you, really isn’t worth all that much, we put too many things that can just be called “an act of kindness” or “an act of resistance” into the “man this is so punk!” pile. It doesn’t need to be there.

On that note, not EVERYTHING you do has to be punk. You can set up a bake sale or steal shit you want without it being “punk”. You’re allowed to be multifaceted. And I don’t think there’s some specific quota on “how much punk stuff you do” to call yourself punk. I sure as hell don’t think I’m making MY quota if that’s the case.

You can just do things to do things without it being part of an aesthetic or idealism or whatever. It’s okay. I promise.

[endykelopaedia]

some of yall will be like "be gay do crime!!!" but then torrenting is too scary n diy hrt/medication is too dangerous and shoplifting is too risky and i think the only crime u guys r comfortable committing is "being" illegal in a country you'll never visit who's people you've never had to recognise as actual human beings