from "they" to "we" 🥲

Okay can we just look at this for two seconds please, for July Disability Pride Month if nothing else

This is the image description box.

When you click on an image to describe it, do you know where the image description box goes?

That's right! ON TOP OF THE IMAGE, SO YOU CAN'T SEE IT.

I believe in modern science and the ability to make this window movable. Like, this is a known technological marvel, dragging windows to one side.

Could we please for the love of God have that? I can't speak for anyone else, but it would make actually using this accessibility feature a LOT easier, it's just good UI sense

Thanks to anyone receiving this voidscream

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage

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i dont think that byler needs to have had been planned since the beginning for it to still be happening

batjokes is one of those “I don’t like or ship this but I’d be lying if I said I don’t see where it comes from” situations for me. Like the Joker is definitely in love with Bruce I think that’s borderline canon at this point. And at some point Bruce’s insistence on keeping him alive becomes kinda sus

Zionists leave Black trauma alone for five minutes challenge. "Telling Jews that river to the sea doesn't mean what we think it does is like explaining what the N-word means to African Americans"— the amount of cringe here would kill a normal person dead. But no, if it isn't this it's BLM or George Floyd or MLK or or or while doxxing and expelling Black students for participating in protests and firing Black journalists and giving US cops training on how to kill Black people better. Fathomless levels of disgust.

Non-Black people in general need to leave Black suffering alone and focus on protecting the Black activists already at the forefront of pro-Palestinian protests. They're among the most vulnerable to violence by the white establishment right now.

i'd rather be friendless than to constantly have my boundaries disrespected

just saw a tiktok posted on instagram saying "if taylor swift spoke up about palestine, the west would fall" and actually you know what? it would. it would fucking crumble lol. social media would crash. and i'm not saying we should rely on celebrities to speak up on ANYTHING. i gave up that kinda thinking a long time ago and decided that pop stars are meant to entertain and that's that... and i'm fine with that. but... taylor did ask ppl to register to vote and didn't hundreds of thousands of ppl actually listen to her? and registered? didn't it make an impact? i'm still not saying that ppl like taylor or beyonce or selena gomez should speak up... maybe it makes an impact... or maybe it doesn't. but imagine if they did. selena said that one instagram post wasn't gonna change anything... but i mean she didn't even fucking try lmao. girlie's got half a billion followers for what?? what are these ppl doing with their money? their influence? imagine if taylor said that she wouldn't release rep tv until there was a ceasefire. imagine a world where that happened. and i wouldn't even be talking abt any of this if taylor hadn't actually tried to brand herself as someone who cared abt social issues a couple years ago. and i know many ppl feel the same way. obviously whether or not these billionaires are going to speak up or not... that's not really going to affect what WE can do for palestine... but i do think we need to reevaluate how much of our time and resources we put toward these entertainers moving forward.

me bc i had to go ahead and hyperfixate on a bunch of minor background characters with about 3 lines of dialogue each so literally no one else gives a shit about my fav ship in the whole fandom

just warning you the tags are very rambly and dont include anything important so you dont really need to bother reading them lol

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit [remixed, abridged] by Tao Yuanming

I don’t see enough Feng Xin x Jian Lan content and it makes me sad

bonus conversations from mikaela’s phone

TRANSCRIPT:

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[Group chat with My boys 💕]

Asa: My phone was dead.

Yesterday 7:52 AM

Mikaela: Casper was on a date last night, we should all bother him.

Asa: Bother.

Bother.

Are you bothered?

Dan: Jessica Cattrell, 22, on Dean’s list, “DJ Messy Jessie” @ KHCS 91.7 👍🏻

Casper: Keep your pants on weirdos im not even seeing her again She’s nice but it was awekward as hell

Mikaela: That’s a shame 🙁 But there’s plenty of fish in the sea! Don’t give up searching for my future son or daughter in law! 😉💖

2 -

Mikaela: Sadie’s first day was a success! 🎉🎈💃

Not a single tear in sight!

The good news: She made a “bestest friend” already 🥺

[Picture]

The bad news: When I ask what his name is, he tells me it’s Lightning McQueen.... 🚗🤔

Casper: Respect

Meet Cassia and Asgeld. Whom I have already posted here, but it was years ago, so here, meet them again.

They have the same mother, but different fathers as Linna remarried after Quentius went missing during the Great War. Good relationship in childhood and very complicated afterwards, as you can guess.

Do you see Jane as yourself or a separate person because when I read x reader fics I feel like I always make up characters that I think would fit more but idk

Me personally, I see Jane as a different person, just one with a few attributes I share! And that's kind of on purpose. I've essentially tried to make her a mixture of all of us, of the fandom, of the love we—me included—have for Matt and that world. That's why she's never physically described, why her original family is kind of murky and lost. She's both herself—her own character with a shaped personality and flaws and strengths—but also all of the readers, including me, and she looks like what each of us wants or needs to see, comes from where we need her to come from. Which is how I think of a lot of great Reader characters when I'm reading, or characters I style after me in RPGs! They're me but they're me in another world with another life story, which makes them different in their own way, in the way any alternate universe version of yourself might be different.

Because of Plot Reasons (TM), you can never really make a reader fully everyone, it's true. There are always choices the plot requires a Reader to make, which is one reason I've set Jane up with the backstory she has, and why we're exploring questions of identity through her that I want readers to consider - wouldn't we be the same as her, make a lot of the same decisions, feel the same loneliness and wariness and trauma, if we'd all gone through what she has? And if you spend all your time being someone else, how long until you start changing? How much of you is created and how much of you is born? How much of you would change if you went through what she did? And what if you did go through what she did? This could be you, what if? In that way, she's potentially (since some see her as entirely separate, which is fine!) a sort of a variant of us, an AU, a what-if, in which our lives and selves were morphed by circumstances beyond our control. This is how I see the CYOA books I read as a kid, and there was a great article I read a few months ago that sums up the You in CYOA, Reader fics, RPGs, and TRT pretty well (it's the highlighted bits I found most accurate, the part about not having 'relatability' I think was a misunderstanding of what You POV/Reader/the best CYOA books were about if done right since it CAN be relatable, though the rest of it after that still feels accurate).

So I don't think your stance is unusual at all! I've got a whole range of readers—some who see Jane (and other reader characters) as fully them, some who see her as wholly separate, and some who land somewhere in the middle. All of those for x Reader are valid, and I work REALLY hard to keep her as relatable as possible for that reason, so that even if someone does see her as someone else, you can still understand and appreciate her choices when the plot forces her hand. But that's the thing: where you stand on whether a Reader character is you or someone else or even a pre-established canon character is fluid. Everyone sees them differently, pulls on that costume, slides into that skin in their own way. And I think that's really awesome tbh, since it means we get a million different flavors of a character who's still essentially the same.