From @westlythebestly - Tumblr Blog

About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"

This makes people very angry and panicky.

My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.

It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure

anarchistmemedistro

lustcannibalism

I hate when I go to copy a picture and it doesn’t paste. Do not disobey me.

rosegardenofeden

Deltarune fandom really showing its ass with its constant obsession with fan characters that don't even exist (gaster) and theorizing about their existence while not sparing a second thought to character(s) who are actually hidden, implied to exist, and have a tremendous impact on the story: whoever raised Susie.

rosegardenofeden

Like maybe I'm going crazy here but the constant conspicuous absence of any adults in Susie's life is, like, obviously pointed to. She iirc mentions moving a lot, living in different places when she was young. Doesn't call her parents when she's staying over. Food insecure from *waves hands* everything. Like whether she's in the foster system, fully homeless, or just has very neglectful family is up in the air, both stated and unstated. And yeah that doesn't have the same metanarrative speculation element as "guy who basically doesnt exist" but it's just one more little point of how the fandom doesn't really give a shit about the racialized girl main character in favor of men.

rosegardenofeden

Same thing with like, everything regarding the Knight! This mysterious figure of immense power and unknown origin, who at the same time is just. Like absolutely signaled to be Dess in some form or another. The visual design, the bat & ball motifs, the stange relationship to Kris. And people kept saying that it was definitely, for sure, one of the men. It's Asgore. It's Rudy. As if Toby is somehow interested in trying to trick people or juke them out when that isn't a thing that the story has like. Ever done?

People just seem to not get that Deltarune is, at its core, a story about four teenagers, none of whom are men, and their relationships to one another and their lives in a small, suffocating town. Because that story is actually, if you look closely, just very good and well-told.

sometiktoksarevalid

betagrove

Jeff the Kisser 💋

Tender Man 🫂

BEN Clowned 🤡

Smile Dog 😁

Married Alive 💍

lemonsweet-moved

Jevil: COME INTO MY VOID PRISON AND WE CAN PLAY A FUN LITTLE GAME HOOOHOOOHOFGJFB

Kris: *looks in jevils cell door and sees this*

Kris: We should absolutely go in there we need to go in there no matter what we have to

catball

all my haters become cicaders when i enter the summer of success

archivecloth

Attack for @t34-mt

littlestpetsematary

honestly it’s kind of upsetting how much of the autism experience is just being shamed out expressing yourself in any way that’s normal for you and learning to keep everything to yourself so you’re not shamed for being weird and then being shamed for being so quiet because it’s also weird to be quiet but if you tell this to anyone else they’ll say “why do you care so much what people think” and that’s when the ancient ape part of your brain gets ready to beat them to death

crabussy

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

devotedgossamerreader

hey there just out of curiosity are you not human, too?

crabussy

hilariously enough, I am probably the most human out of anyone on this entire site. earlier today I was posting about getting "species euphoria" from doing human activities like ecosystem management. I'm the worlds first therian to have a kintype that aligns with his biological species. shirt that says "I ❤️ being a sapient omnivorous primate & bipedal persistence predator" on the front and booty shorts that say "largest gluteal muscles to body size ratio on the planet"