Tumgik
Text
Tumblr media
Tomorrow 7pm (GMT +2), my shop will be restocked !
It will happen here : https://bisonrimant.fr
109 notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 2 days
Text
Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?
36K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 2 days
Text
kabru is so fucking funny. he’s out here playing 15 dimensional manipulation mind chess with a guy whose hobby is barking like a dog
6K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 2 days
Text
i'm such a big fan of laios using being well fed as proof that he's serious. like there's so many techbros & etc who will use not eating breakfast as proof that they're productive & just in general, the idea of being "too busy to eat" is getting more common (which is exactly what toshiro is doing here!) but laios is like. no. i'm so serious about this i'm thinking about what comes next. i'm so serious about this i'm making sure my body can do everything it can when i need it.
the fact that everyone in the party took care of themselves & carefully planned out their route & when they'd take breaks is what made them so successful. they always made sure to understand their limits
9K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 3 days
Text
8K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 3 days
Text
When I was a kid, maybe 14 or so (which is, you know, 20+ years ago), I belonged to a Yahoo! mailing list for an anime called Gundam Wing. It was mostly populated by other teens, of varying ages, as it was started by a teen and her friends. Eventually it migrated, when Yahoo! groups started as forums, and even branched off into non-GW related stuff in a second forum.
One of the things I remember the most clearly is the oldest person in the group. Her name was Steelsong. She was a 40-something Dom with a sub whose name we knew even though we knew nothing else. She ran her own fanfic archive because the web was still handmade HTML and navigated in webrings and I’m pretty sure Google didn’t exist or was only barely, barely launched and not well known. She was kind and patient and we loved her. She treated everyone on the group with the respect given any adult, even though most of the rest of the world was still treating us like we were children. Not teenagers even, but children. She never once condescended to any of us, never made our youth a barrier to her respect, never treated us like we were incapable of being full people or like we were less than her because we were young.
I remember that she hosted our fanfiction, as absolutely terrible as it was (and I still have some of it, I am WELL aware of how cringingly terrible it is, just absolute nonsense garbage), right there alongside of other fic that was soul-achingly beautiful. Not a separate section for her friends or for kids, just right there like we were good enough to feature alongside other authors. I never once received crit from her that I didn’t ask for, only support. Only love. I am still writing today partly because Steel was so kind about our fic, fanfic and original.
I remember that when I started doing clay sculpture, she commissioned a tiny pair of dragons from me, to support me doing artwork. She sent a check my mom cashed for me, and my mom helped me mail it when it was finished. It broke in transit, and Steel assured me that she mended it and that it was still beautiful. It was a small gold dragon curled up with a small silver dragon.
I remember that her patience knew no bounds. I remember that she was there for us, regardless of reason. When we wanted to know silly things like what to do with a single AA battery, she answered. When we had serious questions about sex, she answered.  When we had questions about writing, she taught us. When one of our group members, a young gay teen in Australia, ended up in the hospital and then stopped making posts, and we all knew what had happened, she let us talk to her about it because we couldn’t go to our own parents, even though we had just lost a friend.
She was not a replacement to my parents, but she was an extra parent, in some ways. A friend, certainly, but someone that had been through more life than we had and was willing to pass on knowledge if we asked for it. Someone older that we trusted with things that were too uncomfortable to go to our parents or teachers or whatever about, because we already knew she wasn’t going to judge us or something, and that we would get an honest answer.
I don’t know why I’m remembering this so hard tonight, and I’m not sure if there’s a point to sharing this, except that I know she’s gone now. She was ill the last time we spoke, and her site went down a long time ago, and I miss her. She was a huge influence on my life, then and now. She was hope, for me, that life as an adult didn’t have to be boring, it wouldn’t have to mean giving up the things I loved and Becoming Only Responsible With No Fun. Her presence meant I had hope I could still write and play with friends even when I wasn’t ‘a kid’ anymore. And she’s gone, and I miss her, and I wanted to share her from the perspective of youth, and the perspective over twenty years later has provided me.
And I think of her, when people go off about older folks being in fandom with younger folks. I’m an older folks now, or at least middle aged folks because there are certainly folks older than me still, but I wasn’t always. I’ve been here since i was a younger folks, and I know how much Steel’s presence and support meant to me, how much she helped not just me but everyone on that group. And I think of the people saying older folks don’t belong in fandom, and that they shouldn’t interact with younger folks at all, and I just think… I can’t agree. I needed that kind of solid presence in my life back then and even at the age I am now, I need the folks older than me to stay. I want them here.
So I guess, like, if you’re here and you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or whatever, I want you here in fandom with me, still. Your presence here is a comfort. It is hope. It is a reminder that life will continue to be fun, even as I get older, myself. And if you’re younger and you have this sort of elder in your groups, I hope that they are like Steel. I hope they are kind and patient and supportive, and that knowing them gives you hope for your own future. I hope in twenty years you look back and remember them fondly.
49K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 3 days
Photo
Tumblr media
3K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 3 days
Text
A music box cover of Saye / Run Wild (撒野) by 凱瑟喵, theme song of the novel of the same name
62 notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 4 days
Text
anyone wanna doodle some capybaras?
https://r7.whiteboardfox.com/74423186-0727-5028
103 notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 4 days
Text
to all my demotivated girls
89K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 4 days
Text
Discovering the wonderful world of youtube channels with full movies in HD
300 notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 4 days
Text
3 seconds into dungeon meshi and they’re already living my dream. i love eating things I ought not in unfamiliar ecosystems
15K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 6 days
Text
gonna start formatting my posts like fics on ff.net circa 2008
_________________________
A/N: This is a post about my day!!!! If you don’t like it, don’t read it! Flames will be used to boil water for my tea, LOL! ^^”
~*~*~*~* CHAPTER ONE *~*~*~*~
I tried so hard, and got so far But, in the end, it doesn’t even matter I had to fall, to lose it all
(A/N: I don’t own the rights to Linkin Park!!!)
i made some bombass fried rice today fuck
~*~*~*END OF CHAPTER ONE*~*~*~
_____________________________________
A/N: And that’s it :D I hope you guys enjoyed this update, I worked really hard on it!… If this chapter gets 10 comments, I will upload the next one ASAP. ^_^” This is a lot of fun–
My teacher: Hey, shouldn’t you be doing your homework?? -_-” Me: EEP O_O! Okay, see you later guys, GOTTA GO FAST! Please comment and remember NO FLAMES!!!
70K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 6 days
Text
i’m going to kdxjdhdjhddjjdhs
67K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 7 days
Text
you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers
153K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 7 days
Text
i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real
21K notes · View notes
machidielontheway · 7 days
Text
36K notes · View notes