oh right i was Not Using tumblr. ok see you guys later. maybe on cohost.

*Please only answer this poll if you’re American, if for some reason you have a burning curiosity to know where the results are at I can send an update, I don’t want the results to be too skewed.

Feel free to tag/reply your state and which you identify with more strongly

This is why fat shaming can have tragic consequences.

"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

i know it’s been said before, but it bears repeating: a big, big part of maintaining your confidence & self esteem as a creator is fully embracing the concept of “you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.”

for example, i’m not someone who’s particularly good at coming up with complex, elaborate plots or incredibly unique ideas.  it’s just not how i choose to write.  and it would be easy for me to look at someone with an elaborate, super unique plot & decide that because i don’t write like that, i’m not a good writer.  after all, unique plots are good, and my writing lacks those, so my writing must not be good, right?  well, no, actually.  i just have different strengths, like taking a simple premise & digging super deep into its emotional depths.  that’s what i do well & it isn’t any better or worse than people who do elaborate world building or come up with really creative and unexpected plots.

your writing is never going to be all things to all people.  it just isn’t.  inevitably, you’ll have to make creative choices that favor certain aspects of writing over others.  there is truly no getting around that & it’s honestly a good thing, because it means you’ve developed your own style.  but you’ll always encounter other creators who posses strengths that you don’t.  it doesn’t mean one is better than the other or that your writing isn’t good enough. 

comparing yourself like that would be like taking a piece of pizza & a cupcake & going “oh no, that cupcake is so sweet & my pizza isn’t sweet at all.” or “gosh, the garlic crust on that pizza is delicious and my cupcake doesn’t have ANY garlic.”  obviously your pizza isn’t sweet.  obviously your cupcake doesn’t have garlic.  a food can’t have every single delicious flavor at once.  the cupcake is good like a cupcake.  the pizza is good like a pizza.  so you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.

now that it's over i'm going to do my laundry and take a shower

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

Here, have a mirror of the final Nightly build of Citra (March 3rd 2024), and the most recent build of Yuzu I could find via the Wayback Machine. (February 28th 2024)

I've asked this question before and been surprised by the results, now I have access to more weirdos it's your problem:

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

i don't think lysandre is hot i think he needs to get a psych eval

there is little worse in this world than people being horny for your favourite character that you are not horny for. shut up about his dick i wanna talk about his narrative significance

manifesting

more people know aaron's name than they do of the people killed in palestine

had a dream the next luigis mansion game was announced and it was an open world that took place on the moon

I always had the assumption that they all moved into the tower for convenience and as part of their promotion, but still have their original apartments that they can visit and get stuff from when they want. But I realized that maybe not everybody agrees with that, so I’m curious about what y’all think

here since none of you know what a bear is

Reposting this from Twitter because I want people to see it and ruminate on it.

For those curious, I took a screenshot of that shithead instead of QRTing to avoid giving them engagement, since I know blue checks get paid for that on Twitter and I'd rather not give them any more money. Not the point though.

Remember that doomerism and defeatism are the greatest weapon of the enemy and that ours is hope. Hope never truly goes out; please hold on to it.

EDIT: Since people keep reblogging about the South Park one being in poor taste, I just want to acknowledge it here even though I did already in a reblog that I unfortunately don’t think anyone saw. Apparently South Park is problematic and has promoted antisemitism, and I’ll admit I’ve never seen it so anything specific about the show would be out of my field of knowledge. I’ll just take everyone’s word for it. Fair enough.

BUT, regardless, on principle that does not devalue anything about the other examples or the point I was trying to make. It’s just generally good to spread awareness like this.

When a trans woman says “do not call me dude or bro,” that is not an invitation to explain to her why you are going to call her that. Simply do not use the words. If you are told “do not misgender me,” it does not matter how much you explain how you aren’t misgendering her when you use a term that’s misgendering her. It does not matter if you don’t think you’re misgendering her by using a masculine term in a gender neutral way.

All you are telling her is that you do not care about her as a person and will misgender her as long as you feel like you are justified in doing so, which is the exact same logic used by transphobes in misgendering trans people. You cannot tell someone what their gender is. You cannot see their true gender, better than them, and decide what words you want to use.

When you say you are using bro or dude in a gender neutral way, you are not calming her down. You are telling her that she is to blame for the dysphoria caused by your misgendering.

All you need to do is not use the words she tells you not to use. Oftentimes it’s two words. All you need to do is not call one person two specific words. It’s tiring seeing people willing to die on this hill, defending their right to misgender trans women because they can’t let go of two words for a little bit.