[zoruble]

nanabready —> zoruble

changing things up a bit, this is now my main blog and im gonna be posting my art on a sideblog!!

[identitty-dickruption]

every time I see someone from outside australia (or inside australia tbh) say “everything in australia wants to kill you lol” I want to scream. you are buying into colonial narratives! you are reinforcing the construction of the “aussie battler”! you are ignoring the way first nations people have lived with the land for centuries! you are participating in the homogenisation of australia in your belief that this is a land that needs to be tamed! shut up shut up shut up

[clonerightsagenda]

Literary criticism terms I use on this blog despite making them up myself, much to the chagrin of anyone who does not have my back catalog memorized:

are we the baddies: SFF subgenre focused on agents of an imperial power realizing that and grappling with what to do next, in contrast to stories focusing on the scrappy rebels resisting said imperial power

I could fix him (the empire): SFF subgenre where the colonized subject being nice and/or sexy enough Ends Colonialism, frequently tied to the John President of Racism problem

librarian bait: books centered on the transformative life-changing power of books and libraries, cousin to books focused on the transformative life-changing power of storytelling and narrative in general

college brochure fiction: stories where the protagonist has an artfully arranged group of diverse friends who are as flat as paper and whose cultural backgrounds never come up meaningfully

the Dave Strider: character the fandom fixates on to the detriment of everything else, until the weight of that attention warps fanon and sometimes even canon around them. almost always male. it's happening to Gurathin from Murderbot right now

[clonerightsagenda]

#OP tell us more about the John President of Racism problem!

It hails from an immortal tumblr post by penultimate-step, except not immortal apparently because I get 'not found' when I try to go back to the original. So here's the text:

It's always disappointing when a series makes a big deal about societal and structural problems in it's setting, making readers think it has interesting things to say about the subject, only to then resolve the problems by fighting The CEO of Racism, John Racist, so that all of society's problems would then get better because they promoted a new CEO.

[curioscurio]

gandalf big naturals stimboard

[curioscurio]

Happy Pride to Gandalf Big Naturals

[skittypilled]

so i put my hands up theyre playing my song the evil skull flies away

[sailermoon]

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[hustlerose]

Out of Touch Thursday

[arbyscurlyfries666-deactivated2]

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[snuv]

but im out of my head when you’re not around…

[rockmilkshake]

happy birthday.

[saltwatersweets]

this is the only out of touch thursday you can reblog this

[stellacosmickat]

[summer-oil-inactive]

forced caretaking as a trope i think is like cocaine to people who know they need to be taken care of but have mental blocks in the way like yeah please do gently force me into a state of vulnerability so my body learns it is a safe thing to feel around you

[fluffiest-fox-kira]

This has gotta be a hit with the girlies who have always wanted something terrible to happen to them just so people realize they're in more misery than their outward appearance lets on

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[allegedly-human]

Mewgenics is fun gameplay wise but also you can tell the creator probably got really mad at a tumblr user circa 2013 for their opinions on cishet white men and this has shaped their personality and sense of humor to this day

[allegedly-human]

I hadn't seen the angry female activist that use stupid words like "doesntexistphobia" or "minoriticist" since the 2010's. It is a VERY prominent feature of any satire of the era because white guys' funniest joke was the woman being angry at things they didn't understand and kind blurs into one every possible causes she could focus one with one big blur because she's woke about everything. Her character is more often than not linked with the idea of canceling people, because cancel culture is pretty much the only argument you can use to turn this annoying but ultimately harmless hysterical bitch into someone that'll take what you say out of context to try and ruin your life, but I doubt it'll happen here so I suppose she's slightly better than other crazy female activist character.

This is how women that protest something he likes look like. This is what people with xenogenders or neopronouns and those that defend them and say that it hurts no one to have "dragonself" in your bios look to him. And tbh it's just sad to see because I don't think the devs are like fascists but they present me with characters clearly met to be edgy and provoke people via caricature but it's ten years late. The animal rights angry white SJW was already not very funny but a decade after it lost relevance I don't feel offended or "triggered" as some people would say, I just kinda cringe at a grandpa showing me pictures of trollfaces and Pepes, but that's not my grandpa that's an indie game darling that somehow couldn't see trends change and the world move on while he was making his newgrounds game

[contemptible-scoundrel]

"impenetrably armored" knights when you pull out the boiling oil

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[tmcb]

Visit Original Link

[davidgahan]

Little Dragons in Medieval Marginalia💚💙❤️💜 so tiny and monstrous🖤

[grootficguy]

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

[grootficguy]

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

[syn4k]