Vantastic

Van || nonbinary || 30+ || July 30th || leo || German she or they pronouns Former names: kaichovan, mitsunaris-legs and vanamiya.

[lexirosewrites]

what they don’t tell you about being a writer is that returning to a long fic you haven’t touched in a while means rereading 50k words first because you don’t actually remember your own fics that well

[creaturesculptures]

Unicorn Statue - Mirabellgarten, Salzburg [x]

[coelasquid]

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

[vanoodle]

I've never really felt the description "feeling broken" in regards to myself.

It was more like... Feeling like an outsider looking in. Not really belonging. There is nothing wrong with me, inherently, but I'm also just watching everyone around me through a closed window.

[samuelroukin]

one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it's a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real

[samuelroukin]

why won't you let your words frot.

[plecotusauritus]

There is always a fandom discourse about how fandom is too much about shipping and romantic love, but my beef is actually with people being too fond of the idea of a family as the purest form of love and the strongest unit.

Starting from pople tending to turn every story about siblings who are not besties into this huge tragedy instead of awknowledging that maybe, sometimes, people are not close with their siblings. Or that people are so weird about mothers.

But what irks me even more is the tendency to decide that two people who are close in canon have a "sibling coded relationship" which suddenly also means that shipping them together is wrong. Or if a character has an older person in their life whom they look up to - well that is their parent now!!!! They can't fuck their parent!!!!

There is this underlying idea that elevating characters into a familial bond is above such concepts as romantic love or sex. Which sucks because that is not what the concept found family means - it was meant to describe the queer experience of finding your people and community from outside of your blood relatives, and it was never meant to say that there can't also be romantic relationships within that community.

And it is not even always about the fact that I want to ship my blorbo with everyone who comes near him (although I absolutely do), but I think that sometimes there can be meaningful dynamics that are not about family. I want my blorbo to have friends, lovers, partners, mentors, neighbours, a trusted older person who they can call to but is not their parent.

Maybe some of this rises from the fact that family for me is something complicated and sore and not as important as my friends and community. But also the idea of a nuclear family as the pillar of society is such a conservative talking point and it is weird that people keep throwing a fit about romance and dating as societal standard but don't seem to notice this one.

[l-heure-du-the]

@hollowedskin re: the conversation we were having earlier

[hollowedskin]

I was literally just reading this going "I have GOT to send this to Sugar".

Hhhhhh the idea of the nuclear family as the platonic ideal of all relationships that all types of relationships must mimic is killing me I hate it so much...

Sibling-coded.. sorry please tell me how you replicate growing up right beside someone who you both love and loathe and can never escape and your entire relationship as an adult haunted by your childhood.

How exactly do you get that with Chris from work?

[vanoodle]

23 for the ask game >:D

The coolest place I've visited... Choosing one is quite a difficult task! But I'd say Tokyo! It's already been over ten years since I've been there but it really was amazing there! 😊 Visiting the famous districts, going to a konbini at 3 am, going 300% nerd mode with the merch, drinking melon soda for the first time.

It was definitely magical.

[luckyladylily]

So the thing is boobs really do be jiggling. If having breasts has taught me anything it is that the ladies frolic. I don't even have that large of boobs but every time I go down some stairs all I can think about is that stupid quote about boobing breastily down the stairs or whatever it is because God Damn.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

What we really need is some pervert to compile the ultimate visual guide to boob bouncing physics that's just like 500 hours of meticulously organized videos of breasts of different size and shape and under different fabrics bouncing around from a wide variety of physical movements so horny game devs can finally get it right and I don't have to be creeped out by women who appear to have surgically implanted softballs in their chest under skin made of rubber bands.

[blackboard-monitor]

ask game for aging tumblr population

what's your favourite kitchen appliance?

do you have a collection of anything?

what's the best job you've ever had?

what's the worst job you've ever had?

what's your favourite piece of furniture and where did you get it?

what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?

are you married or do you intend to get married?

do you have kids? do you want them?

are you on good terms with your parents?

do you have siblings? do you hang out with them?

do you vote?

what's the biggest purchase you've ever made?

what are your hobbies?

what's a hobby you'd like to get into?

do you collect anything?

how long have you known your oldest friend?

are you a member of any clubs or associations?

have you ever changed fields in your career or education?

how many wisdom teeth do you have and have you had any removed?

what's your favourite beverage?

do you have any living grandparents?

do you have nieces/nephews/godchildren/other kids in your life that aren't yours?

what's the coolest place you've visited?

what's your most recent degree and has it been useful to you?

would you rather own a dishwasher or a laundry machine if you could only have one or the other?

do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?

what's your favourite household chore?

what chore do you hate the most?

do you have houseplants and how are you at keeping them alive?

what's your living arrangement? (who do you live with, in what kind of building, do you own or rent or other?)

[thaidoodles]

BSD Witch Hat Atelier AU ✨️

[murkymarco]

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

[lypsys]

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[tatwaffel]

ich und die scheiss drecks kack piss hurensohn arschloch mücke neben meinem ohr

[cheaphalloweencostume]

do any of you even enjoy reading or watching fiction at all? if i wanted the plot with virtually nothing else i would read the wikipedia page

[vanoodle]

There's a group of people that, because they are so tired of the whole fandom and shipping culture, do this thing where they blame everything negative associated with it on the fact that it exists.

"Fandom and shipping destroy the ability to view a work through any other lens than the shipping lens and you can no longer see or interpret any of the bigger themes. Therefore, people need to stop doing it."

And it's like... I get it, these people are tired of something they don't wanna see but I don't think it's in any way helpful to make out fandom and shipping as the devil that rots your brain completely and prevents you from doing literary analysis.

Like yes, the ARE problems with fandom and shipping and I'm not gonna pretend these don't exist. But as with every other thing ever in this world, there is nuance. You can't just blame it all on shipping and then pat yourself on the back because you're above such a brainrotting base pasttimes.

Plus there are many many people who can in fact view a work from different angles. Is it helpful to consume media without immediately putting on shipping glasses? Surely. But by making smug posts about it you won't actually get anyone to be like "oh shit you're right, I have to stop shipping immediately", instead you'll just get other asshats who agree with this sentiment and feel just as smug about calling shipping the devil, and lots of people pushing against it because they want to enjoy their hobbies, thank you very much.

[boybeetles]

I think this is the funniest 404 error page I’ve seen

“I hope you’re hungry… for nothing!” Give me my stuffed marshmallows you freak