#excuse my furry twitter account
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you know what, i am right and im tired of pretending i am not
#excuse my furry twitter account#but ive been holding this one inside for a long while now#steven universe
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You don’t have to answer this question as it’s probably dumb to ask…but do you know what platform(s) would be a good starting point? Particularly for original content rather then fanart? I heard deviantart is a good place where alot of ppl got there start on but there’s lots of art thrives and such.
don't even worry, it's not dumb at all! it's hard to gauge where to Begin in the vast hellscape that is the online world. i do get this question [and some adjacent questions] often so please allow me to use your ask as an excuse to post a few of my site rankings for various art things!!
for reference, these are the sites I'll be addressing because i have used them at some point within the last year. please note: my information on Cohost and Itaku specifically may be out of date as I haven't used them in a long while. naturally, this is all solely my perspective. i run both a furry/original content account and an anime/fanart account on most of these sites and run them reasonably independently from one another. these rankings are based on how well each account fares on each site.
I will be talking about Patreon and Ko-Fi as if people will only be posting paywalled content there. you Can publicly post on both sites, but for the sake of this post i'm only going to treat them as paywalled sites since well, that's kind of their purpose.
POSTING ART IN GENERAL
the A-tier list sites here are the ones that are most practical, with a decent member presence and little to no algorithms impairing your reach. the only sites here with any sort of algorithm are tumblr and deviantart, but i feel they don't ruin your reach that much.
B-tier list is mostly centered around popularity. there are massive audiences on both masto and twitter. twitter can be really good if you're posting certain content. mastodon has countless instances [read: servers / subdomains, however you want to call them] that can help narrow down an audience and like-minded people. for example, i use mastodon.art whereas many furries may use meow.social. you Can be discovered by people on other servers than yours.
C-tier has been sorted in accordance to audience. this is solely in my experience, but not a lot of new people are flocking to cohost and itaku. we also just hate facebook in this house and i will never give a facebook products a high rating.
F-tier: if you are a new or growing artist, putting your art behind a paywall or making it a chat platform exclusive thing can really hinder your growth. you can still do this of course, but you won't get as many eyes on your work as you would on a public gallery. threads is there solely due to privacy issues that Cannot be overlooked. i will not recommend it.
POSTING ORIGINAL CONTENT / CHARACTERS / NON-FANWORKS
here's how i'd grade these sites for posting Original content, characters, stories, etc. your best sites will likely be furaffinity, deviantart, and tumblr. i've put these three here for their tag use, discoverability, and audience presence. tumblr can be a little glitchy with its tags, but they DO function.
A-tier is entirely centered around audience presence. these sites are great for showing off your work, but they don't have the same population as the S-tier. mastodon can be good as the quieter instances give you more discoverability. bluesky has been THRIVING when it comes to the furry community as of late [i'm personally on there daily] - the only reason i don't put it as S-tier is because it's invite-only AND you need to rely on your work being found through the Feeds feature if you aren't an already established artist.
B-tier: useful, but population may hinder your growth. toyhouse is GREAT for posting your original characters and stories, but it is invite-only and not necessarily gallery-focused [it can be USED for a gallery, but it's not the main purpose]. you can also post stories and lore to toyhouse. discord and telegram are Good, but again it can be hard to gain an audience through sites that require invites.
C-tier: it is DIFFICULT to grow on paywalled sites with original content. cohost [to my knowledge] has been stagnating with the release of bluesky.
F-tier: threads sucks, the end.
POSTING FANWORK, FANFIC, FANDOM CONTENT IN GENERAL
S-tier here is sorted because of audience presence. while twitter does suck, i'm finding a LOT of success there with fanart. tumblr is The fandom site of course. furaffinity is great for a surprising range of fanart that isn't exclusive to furry, and deviantart's Groups feature is still going strong which can give you that extra exposure.
A-tier is: fans Go here, but the population or algorithm can make things tricky. instagram is good for fanwork but the algorithm and the speed that things are posted there can make discoverability an uphill battle. patreon; if you make comics or art with fan characters [especially 18+ content lmao] you can grow pretty rapidly there. patreon, like any other paywalled site, should be a secondary site and not your Primary posting location. artfol and pillowfort are still growing. pillowfort has a Communities feature - sort of like deviantart groups - that you can submit your art to which gives you that extra exposure. artfol is just a nice gallery site and the tagging system is,, decent enough. a little confusing because the tag system looks up keywords in posts and titles First, you have to tab over to hashtag searching specifically.
B-tier: invite only and audience reach. again, bluesky relies on your art to be picked up in Feeds, as there's currently no tag search. inkblot is growing but has a decent audience. ko-fi isn't as known as patreon for exclusive content but it's still a good site. mastodon has tagging that makes discoverability easier, but mastodon and its many servers can make things confusing for some people. itaku's not as commonly used so it may be harder to gain new eyes there once you establish yourself.
C-tier: posting fanart to these sites Can Work. toyhouse focuses on posting and sorting original characters, so treating it as a gallery site won't get your far fast. it isn't impossible to grow as an artist there, but the site isn't intended for fanart posting. i cannot say much on cohost here. telegram and discord, again, it's harder for people to discover you out of the blue unless you mention your server / channel on another site.
F-tier: fuck threads.
lastly, to address thieves,
thieves are gonna be everywhere. i'm sorry to say, but there will always be shitty people. i recommend the following:
watermark your art. not in the corner, don't just sign in one spot, place a Huge translucent watermark over the WHOLE art. i recommend making it a colour gradient too instead of one solid colour or greyscale.
also: sign your goddamned art! put your username on there!
post a low resolution when sharing online. less than 1200px wide or tall. 72dpi. JPEG format. keep the high res privately for yourself.
add a subtle noise filter over your art. it doesn't have to be high opacity, and it'll make your art a little grainy, but it's good for fucking with AI bots and ruining any print quality potential.
i hope this offers some insight! if you have a different experience on these sites, please feel free to add your testimonial in the replies or reblogs! not every artist is going to have the same experience and growth rate.
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Pale 10.4
oooh, I wasn't sure we'd get a Verona chapter this arc
“Can’t show you this one, Tash.”
Tashlit, lounging on a beach towel, reached toward her waist and gestured.
“No, this one isn’t rude."
I like the unstated "gesture"
Tashlit held up a finger. One. Then the ‘what?’ gesture.
“The first most recent email is a reminder from Ding Phones that my prepaid phone account is almost out of funds, please visit the site to top up.”
I'm reminded of a great bit from Bloom Into You where the protagonist is eagerly awaiting a response from love interest, and when her phone pings it's an automated version update notification
“My mom tried to give me the dumbed down explanations but it felt a lot like I was in the way. So I gave the excuse I had to get stuff sorted out. And then we left a couple days after and we stopped in for a visit with her artist friend and I think that was meant for me. Like, she thought I would be receptive and I’d get it and stuff, and it was cool to see the guy’s studio and stuff but like, I’m here and that guy’s alllll the way over there.”
I got to avoid this as a kid: if the people coming over for dinner were family friends who would want to talk with me I would stay, if not I could eat early and then just hang out elsewhere instead of having to stay at the table while conversations went over my head.
“Oh. Disappointed, but not disappointed in me. Maybe.”
disappointed in her own parenting skills?
Verona grabbed her book, flipped back a few pages, and found the image she’d drawn after Tashlit had insisted she would take every art critique seriously. It was rude: a crude and rude drawing of a guy hugging a two-foot-wide boner that came up to the top of his head.
well if all else fails you have a career path on furry twitter
Jeremy replied. I don’t know how to respond except pic just made my week. Have some pics of Sir.
oh big mood, I also start messages with "I don't know how to respond" or something similar. If I wait to try and find words for a good response I just never send it.
“Is my dad going to jail?”
The words left her lips before she realized she’d asked.
“Is that another priority, Verona? That your dad be punished?”
It was subtle. The tone a little cooler than before, less warm.
Oh. She’d fucked it. She’d thoroughly fucked it, hadn’t she? Because now the idea was in David’s head. That she’d had an argument with her dad and things had gone wrong and now she was a manipulator or she was trying to get back at him and he was a tool for her to do that.
I can't tell if the child protective services guy is geniunely disapproving, or if Verona is panicking and reading too much into it. Because tone cooling here could mean a lot of things (ie David worrying that things were worse than he thought). If it is that says bad things about him! Honestly my first thought in this scenario (especially Verona was talking about not wanting to move) would be that she was scared of hr life getting completely disrupted by her dad getting arrested.
It's also sad that Verona's first thought on getting a (possibly) negative reaction to a genuine emotion is worrying that it makes her look manipulative or petty, because that is 100% what her dad has been telling her
The way he looked off to one side here and there made her wonder if he felt like his time was being wasted, now. Or misused. He kept taking notes when there wasn’t anything to take notes on.
I think "kid in a protective meeting visibly panics when told their parent won't be arrested" is something to take notes on!
“Sits in bed and sobs and tells me everything I’m doing wrong and everything he’s doing wrong and stuff about my mom.”
“Okay. How often is that?”
“Two to six nights a week, except when I’m away, or like, not nights but in the kitchen after he gets home from work, he’ll start telling me I didn’t mow the lawn or whatever and then it gets into how much his coworkers suck.”
... that is more often than I thought it was. Six nights a week at max, gods.
“Exacerbated by life circumstances?” he asked. He started to take a note.
“Not- no,” she said. She watched him continue to take the note, ignoring the ‘no’. She could imagine that penned down ‘life circumstances’ taking all the heat out of what she was saying.
I cannot tell if Verona is reading this accurately and this guy is going to be useless or not. Leaning towards not because I want to be optimistic.
“The third was- we went shopping and I got on his case, called him a bad dad and stuff. I pushed his buttons on purpose, because I could. And he freaked and stopped the car in the middle lane of a three lane road and made me get out. Cars were honking their horns and passing on the left and right. And I had icecream I’d bought for myself I was too full to eat and it melted while I walked home. I guess that doesn’t count when I think about it.”
I MEAN YOU'RE RIGHT THAT ISN'T TECHNICALLY BREAKING YOUR THINGS BUT IT IS IN FACT MORE WORRYING FOR DIFFERENT REASONS
“When was this?”
“Christmas.”
winter in Canada? Admittedly I don't know that much about the weather but that seems hazardous
How could she even put it into words? It was pressure and pressure over years. It was telling her dad about her problems and it never mattering because he always one-upped her, and that added up little by little.
fascinated to see what people have done for Worm-style powers for Verona based on this as a trigger event
“Are you and your dad close?”
“No. I think he wants us to be.”
“How does he want you to be close?”
“Hanging out, watching movies. He’d rather I didn’t see my friends and instead went with him. I think he’s lonely.”
I normally think of this as a red flag in romantic relationships, but it's even more one in a familial relationship
It felt like every time he was making notes, he was taking down the statements or arguments she felt were weakest and most unimportant. Or stuff that made her dad seem more okay than he was.
Dad’s lonely, wants to bond with shitty daughter.
I really don't think that's why he's taking a note of it!
And also wow does Verona place the blame on herself all the time. No wonder she has self-esteem issues as part of the Kennet Trio, if this is how her dad has taught her to think of herself
…She wasn’t even sure what she wanted. She wanted to land this entire thing in the zone where she left her dad’s and went to Jas’s. That was the perfect outcome. It’s bad, gotta take this girl out of there, it’s crushing her and making her feel small and broken. So we pick her up and take her… no, that’s too far. Where’s a place we can put her that’s out of the house but not that super far away… Jas’s house!
yesyesyesyesyes. The guy mentioned temporary custody earlier, could that be this?
And even if it wasn’t impossible she couldn’t burden Jas like that, especially if Jas had a job she wanted and no time or money.
this has also been my concern with what is otherwise the perfect solution. Would the government provide a stipend for caring for Verona? It's not like she takes a lot of maintenance time-wise
“Almost died? Tell me about that.”
“At this thing I went to at the start of summer. I don’t want to get into it, it…
I think that's the kind of thing he has to follow up on, actually. Verona's dad not wanting more info on this was a red flag, and I don't think Verona recognizes how weird that was
I mean, she can probably pass it off as like an outdoors accident at summer camp (storm while hiking, bridge broke, etc etc) but she should have to at least come up with a story!
“Right now we’re in a middle stage, deciding what the immediate needs are. It doesn’t sound like you need to be removed from the home, and it doesn’t sound like you want to be removed from the home.”
:(
“I want to leave that house. I don’t want to go back,” Verona said. “But can’t I go to Jasmine’s, instead? Can’t- isn’t there a way to-” Breath hitched. She was aware her mom was sitting next to her. “Can’t we- you guys give money to foster parents, right? So couldn’t I go there, and couldn’t, um, you could give her money and I wouldn’t be a burden, and she’s a really good mom to Lucy and she’s lovely.”
the degree to which Verona is breaking down in this conversation is distressing
Verona didn’t know what to say when what she’d already said and how she’d reacted had probably hurt her mom, and her mom didn’t say anything.
eh, deserved
“Is it possible? To give Verona what she wants? I don’t imagine the money from the system going to her would be possible, like she suggested, but if we could divert child support, maybe?”
surprising W from Verona's mom! I mean, it means she doesn't have to change her life at all to accommodate her own child, so low bar, but this is also what Verona wants
“We’d be looking at… the schedule’s tight. This looks like, hm, three at-home visits over three months. During those visits, I or someone else with access to the file would be checking in to make sure that all course participation is maintained, that the house is safe. I would check in with Verona.”
“Only three visits? She’s so upset right now.”
“Resources are stretched thin.”
“You’re sending her back to that house?”
well fuck.
Lowering my estimation of CAS right back down.
Guess it's time to see if we can get Verona set up with a Demesne she can live in?
“I finished talking with David Williams. Then I called Jasmine, and I called your dad, and I called Jasmine again.”
Verona looked up.
“She’ll take you until the end of summer. Your dad agreed to it.”
oh fuck yes
And one way or another, by the end of summer things will be different
She was going to Jasmine’s. What came after could be saved for after.
The headache was gradually easing.
:)
“So he gave my mom a preliminary plan of three visits from CAS over three months, right?” Verona told Tashlit.
Nod.
“And that’s now going to be twelve over six.”
Double nod.
“And originally, anger management classes and parenting classes. Now it’s anger management classes and parenting and therapy.”
on the one hand, bleak that it took the drawing to get this boosted. On the other, good that this is happening, and specifically that when Verona felt she couldn't get meaning across in words, she was able to use her art to communicate
“I hate that we go off and do our own things and we don’t cross paths. And it is entirely my fault as the mom that I let it happen. A part of me hoped my situation would change or we’d grow into new interests that did have those overlaps… I did with my mom. It took until I was seventeen or eighteen before I could talk to her, adult to adult. But I screwed up.”
Yeah you did! I mean I also didn't have a lot of shared interests with my mother as a teenager, and I still tease her about saying "You know, I actually like you as a person" when I was ~22 (liking the person I was as an independent adult, as opposed to just loving me as her daughter) (english is my mother's fourth language so phrasing is sometimes off). But she still did her best to understand my interests, and was always engaged in my life. Adult to adult is not the only way to have a strong relationship with your child!
“Call. Anytime, any reason. I would move heaven or earth for you.”
“But you wouldn’t move,” Verona said
ouch
“Want to turn in earl-” her mom said, at the same time Verona said, “Want to look at my art?”
“I would love to,” her mom replied.
baby steps :)
“Boyfriend material?”
“Blegh. No. Not what I’m after.”
“A boyfriend? Are you-?”
“Nope. No, I wish. It’d be nice. No, it’s not the boyfriend part of that. It’s the material part of that. I’m immaterial. Maybe I’ll get there, maybe I won’t, but not right now. Lucy and Avery keep saying stuff like ‘uh oh’, poor Jeremy.”
“That doesn’t sound friendly.”
“It’s sorta accurate. Because we’re hanging out and he likes me and I don’t like anyone like that, so…”
aro Verona rights
A figure stepped out of darkness, and it wasn’t the local Others come to check in with her or welcome her to the area.
UHM?
“You tell me. Look what I found, or well, look who found me while I was out there!”
At that cue, Miss stepped out from behind the power pole. Wind picked up and dust from the roadside hid her face.
oh fuck yes
“A good one,” Miss said, walking past the girls. She walked up to Rook, and the two of them hugged. “Hello, it’s been some time.”
huh! Didn't see that coming, but potentially very useful if they have Miss bridging the gap between them and Crooked Rook
“I asked Rook to make sure you three were more or less alright until I could find my way back. She has, I hope.”
“She said she didn’t want to associate with us.”
“Maintaining that position let Matthew, Edith, and the rest draw their own conclusions about my intents and goals,” Rook said. “And it helps keep this secret right here.”
clever clever clever! This completly changes the balance of power in Kennet. Miss back, Crooked Rook as an ally, by extension Nibble and Chloe...
“Rook,” Miss said, sounding more than a little upset. She turned her head Rook’s way, and Rook adjusted the position of the mask perfectly, in accordance with that.
this is cute
“As long as Montague could seize control of the diagram at any time, on Matthew and Edith’s request… Miss can’t come into Kennet.”
good counter for Miss, but I think Montague might be recruitable? something to work on
“I’m thinking back to a few nights ago. At the factory. Edith pretty much sent Chloe right at us. She was aggressive with the furs, she’s been testing the rules. What if we dealt with her, like, right away?”
“Let’s,” Rook answered.
OwO
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One day Fundy was playing on the DSMP server when a unknown name popped up 'Firefox' he read and then asked his chat
"Who is FireFox?"
His chat whent crazy about him not knowing FireFox
"What's so special about this 'Firefox'?"
The chat keeps spamming messages like: "FireFox is the best!" And "POG FireFox" until a donation came
"The Great Fundy doesn't know me..? That's sad"
it said marked with the name FireFoxLeftTheChat
"I should probably search up this FireFox. They seem important."
FireFox one of the greatest minecraft players with around 5 million subscribers
fundy read on google
"5 million subscribers?!"
Oh my gosh...
He looks back at his chat, who are all freaking out about the possibility of him meeting Firefox.
He typed:
"Are you the REAL FireFox?"
,In the minecraft chat bar
"Yes, join Vc2"
He got as response
"Erm okay?"
He rushes to join Vc2.
"You suck man"
A female voice rang trough his headphones as he joined the VC
"WHAT?! FireFox is a girl?!"
"No. Because all the great gamers are men?"
she replied cold and sarcastic
"Er... well, I mean... you know..."
He trails off, not knowing how to respond to this.
"I was joking! I was joking! But seriously why are you so surprised?"
"Erm... well... I just assumed that one of the best Minecraft players in the world would be a guy. You know... because..."
"Your not really good at this are you?"
She interrupted him raising her eyebrow which he could obviously not see because she was a faceless streamer
"Hey! That's not very nice..."
she rolled her eyes and mumbled
"How did dream even let you on this server"
just loud enough for him to hear
"Hey! I'll have you know that Dream and I are good friends."
He is starting to get annoyed.
"Okay, okay furry boy! Now I gotta go! Bye!"
"Did you just call me a furry...?!"
"Aren't you a fox?"
YES! I'M A FOX! But it's just an avatar...
He is starting to get angry.
"Well goodbye!"
she said and left the Vc
He looks back at his chat, who are laughing at him.
"I am NOT a furry! She was mean..."
The next day Firefox was on the server building a house at the woods
He watches her for a few moments before joining the voice channel.
"Uhm... excuse me, Firefox?"
"Wassup"
"You kinda owe me an apology..."
Her eyebrows knit together
"For..?"
"What you said yesterday... you called me 'furry boy'! I am NOT a furry!"
"Jeez! Still mad about that?"
"Yes! I am not a furry!!"
"Okay okay! Sorry man!"
she said smirking knowing he couldn't see her
"I accept your apology..." You can practically hear the eye roll.
But you still owe me something...
She sighed getting kinda annoyed
"What?"
she spit out
"You have to let me beat you at PvP!"
He is smirking now.
she rolled her eyes
"You really think you can beat me?"
"Absolutely!"
He looks extremely confident.
"Okay... let do this then"
she leans back in her chair smirking
"Let's gooooooo!"
He heads towards the PvP arena.
A few minutes later Firefox was laughing as she killed Fundy leaving him mad
"NO! You're cheating.... somehow!"
He yells at his screen. His chat was making fun of him.
this only made Firefox laugh harder
"Why does everyone find me losing so funny?"
He glares at his screen. You can imagine him giving an exaggerated sigh.
"I don't know. You being mad is like my therapy"
she said between laughs
"I hate you!"
He mutes his microphone as he yells.
His chat started spamming "L" or "woman pog"
"Noooooooo! I hate this!"
He covers his face with his hands, looking miserable.
"I'll leave you alone with your tears and I'll go finish my house."
"Goodbye!"
He mumbles something under his breath.
Goodbye...
After that Firefox became trending on twitter and even Firefundy ship accounts where made
"NoooOOoooo! Why are they shipping me with Firefox?!"
After a few minutes he ends the stream and goes to his bed to scroll trough twitter
He sees #Firefundy trending with over 1 million tweets.
"Oh no..."
Suddenly he gets a text from a unknown number
"Were trending"
it said
"Who's this?"
He looks confused.
"Your biggest FaN!!!!!"
The person texted back
"Oh god..."
He sighs and rolls his eyes.
"Hey are you Dutch"
He suddenly gets from the unknown number (probably firefox)
"Yes...? Why do you ask?"
"HAHA ME 2"
She responded
"Uh.... cool I guess? Why are you texting me?"
"Idk I like to annoy you?"
What...?
He is confused.
"Are you Firefox??"
"OMG GREAT JOB SHERLOCK!"
He could basically read the sarcasm on the text
"Listen here... how did you get my number?"
"Lil pissbaby gave it to me"
"
"Lil... who?!
"D r e a m"
"So Dream gave you my number?"
"Ding ding correct answer!"
"I... I'm honestly not surprised..."
He looks annoyed.
"Well I gotta go! Bye dutchie!"
"Why are you leaving so soon?!"
He texts back quickly.
"Aww you want me to stay?"
"I mean... yeah..."
"Do you have a..lil crush on me?"
"What?!? No... of course not..."
"I... uh..."
"; )"
"Hey! Don't send me that emoji!"
He covers his face.
"I don't have a... uh... crush on you..."
"Okay well I really gtg bye 👋"
"Okay... bye..."
He texts back sheepishly.
Next day he's talking with Wilbur on a Vc
"Your trending? With Firefox?" Wilbur said slowly, smirking
"Don't remind me..."
He sounds annoyed.
"Do you really hate her"
Wilbur said slowly raising an eyebrow at his Dutch friend
"I don't... hate her..."
He mumbles.
"But she's so annoying and..." he trails off.
"And..??"
"She called me... a... furry..."
Wilbur chuckled
"Seriously?"
"Yes, seriously... she called me furry boy..."
This made Wilbur laugh more
"I kinda see why people ship you."
"What?! Why?!"
He is even more annoyed now.
"It's not even true!"
Wilbur shook his head smiling
"We'll see about that"
He said and left the Vc
"Wilbur?! Where are you going?!"
He yells at the Vc, but it's too late. Wilbur is already gone.
He gets a text from Firefox
"Elloo! Why is Wilbur spamming me?"
He texts back immediately.
"Uhm... yeah... about that..."
He looks a bit nervous.
"??"
"Well... he kind of has a theory about us..."
Then a sound came up on his PC
FireFox is calling you
He picks up the call.
"Oh... hello again."
His voice sounds quite nervous.
"What did you mean a theory?"
"Uh..."
He takes a deep breath.
"Well... uh... he thinks that I... uh... might have a... crush on you."
He flushes and looks down at the ground, embarrassed.
she chuckled
"Do you?"
"Um... I... uh..."
He sighs, thinking.
He blushes even more.
"N... no... I mean... uh...
He trails off.
He looks nervous.
she smirked
"Nah Wilbur is just being crazy, I mean we're like nemesis?"
"Um... yeah... totally... he's crazy..."
He looks down at his desk, thinking.
I... uhm... I mean... it's just... you're really... nice...
He trails off.
What am I saying...? I'm being crazy too...
"How can you think I'm nice? I annoy you every second when I have the change to do?"
she was happy none of them where streaming cause this would have been going viral
"Uh... I mean... you beat me at Minecraft with amazing skill, and... you're really funny... and..."
He looks up at the ceiling, embarrassed.
"You're so... uh... cool?"
He blushes more.
she blushed, glad he couldn't see her
"I guess your cool too"
His face lights up.
"Really? You think so?"
He is clearly surprised.
She chuckled
"Yeah sure"
"So... Uhm..."
He looks down at the ground, feeling embarrassed.
"I... uh..."
He trails off again.
"N... nevermind... it's dumb..."
furrows her eyebrows
"D-do you think I should do a face reveal?"
"Uh..."
His face is red with embarrassment.
"O... I..."
He looks down at his desk.
"I mean... I'd love to see what you look like, but I don't want to pressure you... so... only if you want to..."
He trails off.
She interrupted him by turning on her face cam.
His eyes widen.
"Uhm... oh wow... you're... you're..."
He flushes and turns a deep red.
"You're... you look... so pretty..."
Her cheeks turn red and she lookes down
"Thanks"
His face is flustered and he is looking at the floor.
"Y... you're... w...welcome..."
He mumbles.
He looks at her, his eyes meeting hers.
"You really are... beautiful..."
"Jij ook.."
She tells him in dutch knowing he could understand
He gasps.
"You... You know Dutch?"
"My parents are both Dutch but I grew up in London"
She smiled
He smiles back.
"Dat is heel tof!"
"Je spreekt het goed!"
He speaks with a surprisingly good accent.
she smiled
"W-well I think I gotta go.. bye Fundy!"
See you tomorrow!
and she left leaving Fundy a flustered mess
"Bye!"
He says quietly. He turns off his pc and lays down in bed.
He stares at the ceiling, unable to stop thinking about Firefox.
As soon as the Firefox got off the call with Fundy she called Hannahxxrose and Nihachu
"Girls I need your help!"
Hannahxxrose and Nihachu join the Vc
"Huh? What's wrong?" Hanna said quickly
"Oh my god, Firefox! What happened?" Nikki said afterwards.
They sound a bit worried.
"I think I'm in love.... with a fox...."
#fanfic#wattpad#writing#fundy#dsmp#fundy dsmp#fanfiction#dream smp#enemies to lovers#nemesis#no smut
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good morning :] i’m really excited about having an art tumblr again and i’m looking forward to taking off with it!! i’m gonna ramble for a bit about my plans here under the readmore ♥
i’ve been doing some thinking about how i want to navigate this account and my posts; firstly, i’ll try to post an art piece daily as i usually do on twitter, and i have a HUGE backlog of art to post here, so look forward to that! i’ll also keep a dedicated tag system for art, OCs, text posts, answered asks, reblogs, etc. so it’s easy to find everything!
also, as i’m an OC artist and i do a lot of worldbuilding and development on many of my characters (they’re my whole world!), i’m thinking of just dropping a link to each character’s toyhouse page when i post art of them! that way people can see more of the character if they want (also a subtle plug to my toyhouse as i’m very active there, follow me there too if you haven’t already!)
admittedly i don’t do as much worldbuilding on most of my furry characters who are just fun for me to draw, but they still mean a lot to me regardless, and i like having an excuse to think about them more :] i already went back and edited my last art post for a link to bonaire’s page.
i used to be mostly active on tumblr before the nsfw ban and missed having a place to post about my characters (thank you no word limit) and i used to get asks about them which made me so happy!!! i welcome messages in general, about my art or characters or anything else, it makes my day. i love rambling and could go on for ages about my characters so if you’re ever curious about them, shoot me an ask! i still remember a lot of the questions i received about my OCs on my old art blog (not gonna drop the @ but if you know you know lol)
i mostly do development on my human OCs which i may or may not post here at times, idk i’m very shy about my human art. but i enjoyed talking about my bloodborne OCs here in ages past so we’ll see how it goes >.>
i don’t wanna ramble for too long so i’ll end here but perhaps over time we’ll get used to my OCs here and maybe i’ll open up to talk about them more. i’ll try to be a little more open about them here than i am on twitter since i can add more text to posts ^.^ here’s my toyhouse in the meantime! and thanks for reading if you got this far haha
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Bit of a tiny tirade lel
tl:dr - i wonder how old friends are doin
just watched a video that was recommended to me about puppychan, and it talked about a person who they used to date and all the silly little memories i had with the friend group. it was a silly little discord group for this old twitter account called "furry struggle account" and if you recognized that name LMFAOO same boat, but i used to be cool with them but in like 2021 my ass kinda just blocked em for stuff i honestly couldnt verify, my only excuse for that was i 16 but is how it is i suppose lmfaoo. if i could i genuinely would just love to reconnect with the old folks i used to talk too especially hazel or bruiser, its been like 2 years sense we last spoke. if i could i really would love to see how they doin
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2022, a Year in Review
Over 2022, I've gotten to know so many wonderful people! I've tried to thank everyone I've gotten to know better one-on-one, but I also wanted to kinda write up a collection of my thoughts now that the year is ending. Though for the purposes of this, I'll go back a little further.
For a long time, I kinda denied being interested in the furry fandom, and a lot of things about myself in general. Toward the end of 2020, however, I grew frustrated and alone due to isolation, so I decided to explore that aspect of myself. I had always heard about Telegram being the "furry" chat app, so I decided to finally download it, join some groups, and see where it took me. It was fun, though it definitely led to a lot of heartbreak as well as happiness. I met some truly wonderful people on there that I still talk to to this day -- Friede, the "kind, but takes no shit" deer; Cotton, the jackalope with a heart of gold; Jay, my favorite cat who has been a stalwart and supportive ally; and so many others.
It was almost a full year later, near the tail end of 2021, that I began to realize I wasn't quite as straight as I thought I was. I had seen and enjoyed art and videos and such of men, but I had never really been attracted to any actual men so I kinda just put it out of my mind -- after all, who cares if you can be turned on by men if you're not interested in dating them, right? If I had to put a label to it, I guess I just assumed I was bicurious but heteromantic. But some of the people I met quickly showed me how wrong I actually was, as I ended up crushing on guys for the first time and really having to think about what that meant to me. In the end, I finally landed on "pansexual and panromantic" -- I can be physically attracted to, and have romantic feelings for, anyone regardless of their gender.
Not long after that, I also came to the realization that a lot of my friends were transgender. And of course, I realized that didn't make me trans by association, but coming hot off the heels of the latest revelation, I decided to ask some questions. I had always counted myself as an ally, but growing up in the Conservative Deep South, I never really got any real exposure to it beyond what was on TV, which (let's face it) is basically nil at best and harmful at worst. So I asked questions. And I listened. And I thought long and hard about what they said. Things I thought were just the "normal" part of life -- being disgusted with your appearance, actively avoiding being in photos, despising your voice… suddenly I was able to put names to it all -- "dysphoria." On the opposite end of the spectrum, isolation had given me an excuse to grow my hair out, something that I had longed to do for most of my life. And between wearing a mask and having longer hair, clients at work (and even my coworkers) started calling me "ma'am." And it felt amazing. So, I decided to try it out in private. I asked some of my friends if they could use different pronouns with me, and ended up realizing that I really liked it. It made me feel like me.
I continued being in the furry community after that, of course. I hadn't really decided on a design, but decided my sona would be a crow, as I really liked birds (thanks to someone I fell for playing FFXIV) and just really liked crows! They're clever as hell! I ended up adding a bunch of birds on Twitter after kinda watching their accounts in private. One of the first of those was Xythiel. I saw a post he had made on Twitter that he was streaming on Twitch, and I was kinda curious! I had watched my fair share of Twitch in my day, but not really any furries. And I knew Vtubers were a thing, but as far as I was concerned, those were basically all just anime women. So I decided to hop in and watch. He was playing Untitled Goose Game, which I had played recently and thought I could enjoy watching again. The chat wasn't super active, unlike some of the "normie" streamers I had watched before with hundreds of viewers, so I decided to kinda chat a bit, maybe give some hints when he got stuck, make some jokes, laugh along… It was an absolute blast. And so I kept coming back. I've made so many wonderful friends there that I really cherish. Dynso, Malar, Variable, Sam, Bunger, and so many others. Y'all have made me laugh so many times I can't even put it into words. I look forward to every stream, and I still get excited when he shows me something he's been working on in OBS, whether it's a sick new layout or a kickass DoDonPachi-styled raid alert. Honestly, he's a freaking OBS wizard.
Of course, my Twitch journey didn't end there. Xythiel would frequently raid other bird-tubers at the end of his streams, so I quickly began to accumulate quite the list of PNGtubers and Vtubers. And every single one has been an important stop. Between BB and his excellent art, Yrie and his spooky aesthetic and (by extension) his mod Greenie who has been so very kind, Spikey who my may not be a bird but deserves lots of pets… I enjoyed every one. Then one evening, after a stream, he raided Loki. And we hit it off immediately. Or at least I'd like to think so. I had recently started HRT to pursue my transition, and she was a fellow transgender bird, so it just seemed perfect. Her streams are just so very chill and open, typically featuring real-talk and flirting in equal measure (although sometimes less so, hehe) while we listen to music and she works on her art -- all while Loki's pigeon sona herself undergoes various transformations from her magic, usually to comedic effect. I instantly just felt like it was another home for me. I truly value my time spent there, and I don't see myself leaving any time soon.
One other streamer who we raided in to was Cider, who was playing a VR minigolf game upon my first visit. Cider's streams are… not Loki's. He has LOTS of OBS bits with lots of sound effects and zooms and all sorts of effects. People frequently come in and describe it as a live YouTube Poop. And in a way, that's honestly the best way to put it. It's hilarious. If nothing else, Cider is a goddamn entertainer. He has such a fantastic sense of humor and I honestly think he could make a monk who had taken a vow of silence have a full-on conversation because he's just so easy to talk to. In addition, through his streams, I met so many wonderful people that I love talking to every day. Between Shadraw, Same, Slayer, Spowte, and so many others, Cider and his Disclord (or now ඞisclord) has been another mainstay in my daily life.
I've also spent a lot of time recently watching Trending, whose frequent (and famously extended-length) streams have been an excellent source of laughs recently… even if he DOES kill his coworkers often during Phasmophobia.
2022 was a year of Self-Discovery for me. There's so much of my identity that has developed this past year, thanks in no small part to the friends and communities I've been a part of. It was also a year of discovering homes -- not just one, but many places where I feel appreciated and welcomed. And so, to everyone mentioned here. To everyone I wanted to mention but didn't include (just to keep this at a readable length). I just want to say that I appreciate and love you all and look forward to exploring 2023 with all of you.
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BNHA QUIRKS!!!
I'm organizing my notes for a character-insert story I'm writing and I felt like sharing them here!!! I think people would be interested in what I came up with.
FEEL FREE TO USE ANY OF THESE FOR YOUR OWN CHARACTERS!!
No credit needed. I made Flourish specifically with Shigaraki in mind because I know a lot of people would like to have a quirk complimentary to Decay so that Tomura can touch them safely.
and hey, self-shippers? I love you so much!! you're so awesome, pls send me some self-indulgent stuff sometime soon!!
also! Quirks that are present in my stories will be marked as IN-USE. this just means that what the quirk entails might change in the future.
FLOURISH - EMITTER (IN-USE)
touch-based quirk. complimentary to decay, rendering the user immune to decay. decay users are unaffected by flourish (cannot be healed). touching something with all five fingers heals/reverses any damage
i like the idea of decay and flourish canceling eachother out because they're complimentary quirks. shigaraki can touch you and??? you don't die?? and???? you touched shigaraki but he's not healing????? fun times
BOND - EMITTER(?) (IN-USE)
user has the ability to use a diminished version of someone's quirk if they share a strong bond with said person. Most commonly found in mutated individuals with animalistic features.
This isn't really a stand-alone quirk but more of an ability, but I still decided to include it because it has really specific requirements.
JACK OF ALL TRADES - EMITTER(?)
user can give themselves ANY quirk they desire (meaning that they can copy someone else's quirk, or create a new one entirely) this ability requires a lot of energy and while in-use, will tire the user out until the stop using the quirk or pass out. (think of it like charging your phone. eventually, the battery power will lower and you'll have to plug it in. Or you're one of those people who doesn't plug it in until it dies.) The more powerful the chosen quirk is, the longer the user will be out for. "OP" quirks like take more energy to replicate/use, and consequentially, will require a longer recovery period. Quirks like Overhaul or Decay will put the user into a comatose state. This quirk is literally just All For One Juniour Edition.
so basically like? all for one but fair. also the quirks aren't "saved" or anything, so if u want to use bakugou's explosion quirk, but ur already using tsuyu's froggy quirk to restrain something with your tongue, you'd have to stop using it and let go so you can use explosion instead.
NULLIFY - EMITTER
Touch-Based quirk. Touching someone with all five fingers will render them quirkless for 24 hours. Only works on one person at a time, and cannot be used on the same person twice in a row. Made with Shigaraki in mind.
i made this purely because i want to hold shigaraki's hand without turning into dust. also... imagine having to constantly remind yourself to keep ur pinky/middle finger off of whatever you touch. idk about you, but that's too much work for me. I'd rather just wear those gloves made for drawing tablets.
GRIM REAPER - EMITTER (IN-USE)
Touch-Based quirk. touching someone with all five fingers immediately kills them, allowing the user to harvest their soul (souls manifest as little cheeseball sized lights. they're all different colors, depending on who's soul it was.) souls can be eaten (they taste like gummi bears) whoever eats it has their body revitalized instantaneously, each and every individual cell replaced by a new and perfect copy. souls can only be captured in jars. they act like fireflies.
firefly rave... also this is literally decay but it only works on living things and also u get a snack. and a corpse. although idk i guess a corpse would count as a snack to someone. also if someone doesn't have a soul, they just die. lol
VAMPIRE - MUTANT TYPE
user is easily sunburnt, does not have a reflection, allergic to garlic (regardless of genetics) and cannot be killed unless the heart is damaged. User must drink a certain amount of blood regularly to avoid loss of inhibition (will attack nearest person to feed) and severe malnutrition, known as "bloodthirst."
honestly? this isn't really that beneficial... sunburns, no garlic bread, if you cant get enough blood you suffer and go apeshit... but I mean at least you've got circumstantial immortality.
HIGH ELF - MUTANT TYPE
user has pointed ears and is considerably taller than regular humans. naturally skilled archers, and have a strong connection to nature.
i couldn't help myself, i love DnD.
BETTA - MUTANT
fish subtype. user has fully-functional gills. The user's hair reflects the different kinds of tail types (plakat = short hair, crown tail = dreadlocs/separated strands, rose tail = long and flowy) and are naturally bright colors like red or blue. lethal close-combat skills and impressive speed. natural beauty is also a bonus
im surprised i'm not including this in my character insert story. it's my personal favorite so far. fishy!!!
WEREWOLF - TRANSFORMATION
exactly what it sounds like. full moons trigger the shift. user cannot control the shift. it's basically like periods except instead of bleeding out of your uterus, you turn into a wolf.
... yeah, i don't know what influenced this the most. the fact that i made vampires and felt obligated to also include werewolves, that i'm a furry, or that this gives me an excuse to push alpha beta omega dynamics onto bnha
GHOST RIDER - TRANSFORMATION
based on that one marvel comic series. when transformed, the user takes on the appearence of their skeletal structure engulfed in flames. the user is able to control flames and a vehicle/form of transport of their prefrence. when user establishes eye contact, the opponent will suffer the pain they have caused for others (if any.) cannot transform in direct sunlight.
i am incredibly ashamed to admit that it was only yesterday that i saw the 2007 ghost rider movie for the first time in my life. i fucking loved it. it was funny, freaky as hell, and so fucking awesome. i love ghost rider, i mean, cmon, like? that's literally what being a punk is about in a nutshell. skeletons. fire. leather jackets. metal spikes. chains. motorbikes. anti-heroes. also i really enjoyed the addition of genuine demon names. i got so excited when i recognized the name mephisopholes. the movie also gave me ACAB vibes so bonus points for that. and the little details like how johnny's fire turned blue whenever he focused on roxanne. god fuck it was a great movie i will be thinking about it for the next week or so. TL;DR THE 2007 GHOST RIDER MOVIE IS AWESOME I CANT BELIEVE I NEVER WATCHED IT. i always end up getting more attatched to the manga instead of the anime and this was no different.
P.S. lmk if you wanna know more about my character insert! i post a lot about him on my twitter account and i'm generally more active there anyways!!
#bnha#mha#bnha quirks#mha quirks#emitter quirks#character quirks#quirk ideas#shigaraki tomura#shigaraki x reader#all for one#decay quirk#dungeons and dungeons#dnd#ghost rider#quirks#mha x reader#bnha x reader#shimura tenko#tenko shimura#shiggy#mha shigaraki#my hero academia shigaraki#bnha shigaraki#shigaraki tenko#bnha tomura#boku no hero academia tomura#mha tenko#so much shiggy#shiggy overload#i just really like shigaraki
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Y’all probably don’t remember me, but hi. My name is Gigi and I turned 18 over a month ago. This account, along with my old main, will probably be deleted soon. I’ll be making a new blog (one focused on witchcraft and some other of my interests). I won’t be sharing it here since I’d like to leave everything behind and start a new.
The reason I’m deleting everything is because all these accounts were owned by me when I was 13-15. Back then I was an uneducated, easily influenced child who believed everything you said. I had internalized homophobia (which is funny cause i turned out gay), talked shit about my old high schools gender inclusive decisions, and openly supported racist creators/friends. I sincerely apologize for all my actions that have harmed/hurt anyone. What I did was inexcusable and once again, I am completely sorry.
During this time I was surrounded by a lot of toxic people both at home and online. At the age of 13 I was with a man 4-5 years older than me who for over a year convinced me to do nsfw rp’s with him. He wasn’t the first one who’s done this but he was the one who’s stuck out the most. Nothing was irl, it was all over Twitter, but he’s still emotionally and physically damaged me.
I had friends who would constantly make fun of me, turned my own name into an insult, a word meaning annoying. One time they accused me of being homophobic for crying and begging them to stop sending me furry p0rn. I felt safe nowhere at this point on the Internet.
When I was on tumblr, I ended up making friends with really bad people. They showed me so much niceness and an actual support system I felt like I could trust. The issue? They were extremely problematic. Just associating with them made me hated, which was completely understandable. I was so awful to so many people. I said and posted things for /their/ approval. Once again, I was uneducated and the things I said were awful and shouldn’t be defended. I am simply explaining my situation in hopes for people to understand my point of view.
I watched right winged videos/propaganda and took them all as fact, turned out any other information I was given. I will not stop saying how sorry I am for everything I’ve said and done. I’m not excusing my actions, I’m saying I was uneducated, easily influenced and dumb. That was all 3-5 years ago. I’ve grown to be a bigger, better person. I’ve cut all the awful/toxic people in my life, I’ve educated myself, I am moving on from the past. I am a new better person. I was justice in the world for all the minorities that are/have been hurt. Please sign petitions, please spread the word. This world isn’t perfect, it never will be, but you can help. I’ll be providing a carrd for resources where /you/ can help.
Once again, I am sorry for past me’s actions, let us all join together and help others out who can’t help themselves. Wear a mask, wash your hands, drink water, and stay safe <3
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I’ve been mulling over Jenna Marbles’ most recent video for the past few days, processing both the video itself and what it means for the future of someone whose content honestly means a lot to me, and I think I’m finally ready to throw my own opinion unto the masses, at least to get the thoughts out of my head and the emotions off my chest.
So, with all of that being said, first and foremost:
Jenna wasn’t canceled.
Read that again, if you need to. I really think this is something people need to understand. At no point was Jenna Marbles canceled. No one was calling for her to be canceled. Her video came as a shock to everyone for the sheer fact that she wasn’t being canceled.
At no point did Jenna’s viewership tank. At no point was she a negatively trending hashtag. At no point were there masses of people wanting to #cancel her. People did tweet at her asking her to address her past videos, yes. She says this herself in the video. But a handful of people asking her to address past videos or current friendships does not a cancellation make. Jenna’s fanbase is in the millions, and I’m sure that although they stood out starkly to Jenna because she is a sensitive person who genuinely cares about how she affects people, the people that were sending her tweets requesting answers were far fewer than the support Jenna has had for years now. So no, Jenna wasn’t canceled. This wasn’t Cancel Culture™.
With that said:
Jenna did address racist videos that she made in the past (along with slut-shaming videos as well). She showed the clips, she flat out said that they were racist and wrong (unacceptable then and unacceptable now), and she didn’t make excuses for them. She apologized. The wording of her apology wasn’t always the best (“I’m sorry if I ever offended you” veers close to��“I’m sorry you were offended”), but her intention and the meaning was clear. She regrets ever making that racist content. It’s not content that she would create now, nor is it content she condones. It was racist and wrong and she’s sorry.
So the question is: Why are so many people trying to defend the content that Jenna herself finds reprehensible?
I have seen many people (white people, namely) who are trying to say “that wasn’t even blackface” (even though it was) or “it was a different time back then.” First of all, while Jenna did have a bad spray tan back then, she was doing a mocking impersonation of a black woman. It was blackface. Second, blackface and racism weren’t any more acceptable in 2011 than they are now in 2020. As Jenna herself said, it was wrong then and it’s wrong now. Yes, those videos are old, and Jenna’s content has changed drastically since then. However, 2011 was not so long ago that it was a completely different era of history—and even if it was, blackface was still racist, derogatory, and wrong even during the period of history in which it was everywhere. There was never a single moment in time when blackface was acceptable or okay. There was never a single moment in time when making racist impersonations of an Asian language was acceptable or okay. And Jenna herself recognizes this—she says as much in her video, where she says that what she did back in 2011 was wrong, that she should have never made that content, and that she’s holding herself accountable for it. There is no excuse for the content she made, there’s no dismissal for it. It was wrong, she knows it, and the fact that she owns up to that and holds herself accountable is what (in my opinion) makes her worth respecting as a person. But with that said?
If you’re not one of the groups featured in the racist content, you really do not get a say in whether it was racist or not.
White people don’t get to judge if something is racist toward black people, or Asian people, or anyone else. If you’re not a woman, you can’t say if something’s misogynistic. If you’re not queer, you can’t say if something’s queerphobic, and so on and so forth. You don’t get to say, “This wasn’t actually blackface and wasn’t really racist” when you yourself are white and plenty of black people are saying otherwise. They get the final say. So even if the problematic content in Jenna’s old videos was up for debate (and it isn’t), you are not the one who would get to debate it. Black people are. Asian people are. Those affected by the slut-shaming video are. I understand you’re a huge fan of Jenna’s, and I am as well, but you do not have a seat at the debate table for this discussion. Your place is in the audience. And on that note?
People in the affected groups are not obligated to accept the apology.
I’ve also seen (mainly white) people attacking black people or Asian people who aren’t accepting of Jenna’s apology for whatever reason. Fans are angry because Jenna has clearly changed and doesn’t make racist content anymore, and so they don’t understand why people are still upset with her. But here’s the thing: A hurt person is never under an obligation to accept an apology for the people who hurt them, and from what we know of Jenna’s character, she would agree with this. If a black person can’t bring themselves to forgive Jenna for the blackface, they’re perfectly within their right. Someone saying “sorry” doesn’t erase the hurt that was done, and sometimes it isn’t enough. So if you feel the need to start a fight with someone because they say they can’t bring themselves to like Jenna because of her old videos, don’t. It’s really not your place, and again, given what we know of Jenna’s character, she wouldn’t want you to do it anyway. (Though on that note, I’ve seen far more black and Asian people saying they accept her apology and forgive her than not. So again, this isn’t a mass cancellation. It was never a cancellation. No one canceled Jenna, she chose to apologize and take responsibility for her actions of her own volition, and that’s something that should be respected, not reacted to with horror.)
With all of that being said, there’s a second side to all of this that I think a lot of people don’t know about. Julien posted a message on his twitter yesterday regarding Jenna leaving her YouTube channel, and I recommend that everyone read it, but the long and short of it is that while Jenna absolutely meant everything that she said in her video and truly does regret ever hurting anyone and doesn’t want to hurt anyone ever again, she is leaving her channel NOT because she has been “chased off,” but rather for her own mental health.
Jenna has been a public figure for a decade. Aside from a rare vacation here or there, she has consistently made a new video every week, on top of other projects (such as their shared podcast, the Twitch stream, et cetera). Particularly given the sheer audience she has been producing content for, that is a lot of stress for one person to handle, and with everything going on, it’s not in Jenna’s best interest for her to handle that right now. She’s chosen to leave YouTube indefinitely NOT out of fear of any torch-bearing mob, but rather because it’s what’s best for her at this point in her life. Is it sad? Absolutely. I was gutted when Jenna posted her video saying she was leaving, and I’m even more gutted to know that someone I admire so much is struggling right now. But I’m glad that she’s made the decision that’s best for her. I’m glad that she has Julien to support her, as well as their four furry children. And while I’m sure that most people just didn’t know and thus weren’t purposefully ignoring anything, I think that saying that Jenna left because she was “chased off” the platform instead of recognizing that she left for the sake of her own mental and emotional health both pulls attention away from how stressful constantly being on a stage like that can be, as well as does a disservice to Jenna herself.
This was a long post, but it’s one that I felt I needed to share nonetheless. Jenna is a huge inspiration to me as a person. Not in terms of “I want to have a YouTube channel” (because I definitely do not), but rather in terms of how she chose to live her life however the hell she wanted to live it and embraced the fact that she was a lady in her 30s. I’ve learned to take on a lot of that energy. If the podcast is canceled as well, I’ll be truly crushed. But knowing that Jenna’s channel and potentially the podcast are canceled for the sake of Jenna’s mental health eases that a bit. I want her to be happy more than I want her to produce content out of any sort of obligation. She deserves a happy retirement if that’s what she’s chosen to do.
So to summarize:
— Jenna was not canceled, at all, ever.
— If you are not black, you do not get to determine what blackface is. If you’re not Asian, you don’t get to say whether what she said in that rap of hers was racist or not.
— Jenna has truly changed and grown as a person, no one is disputing that, and her acknowledging her past awful behavior, apologizing for it, and holding herself accountable (while not making excuses) is what shows how she has changed and grown as a person and is what makes her admirable as a person.
— Jenna is choosing to leave YouTube for the sake of her own mental health. There is no Cancel Mob. There never was. Goodnight.
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Where to Find Eevachu/Squiggalaimon: A 2018 Exodus Masterpost
Because there’s no excuse for you not to still be following me if you abandon ship. I’m not leaving, again: catch me and my band playing sandstorm as this titanic disaster of a website goes down like live journal.
Eevachu:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Eevachu - Plenty of free stuff and a good way to get email notifications, if that’s your thing.
My website: http://www.eevachu.com/ - Has my art gallery, store, and links to all relevant websites that I’m on.
Regular Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eevachu - The other “T” hellsite, I’m honestly on here more than anywhere else and the best place to go if push notifications are your thing.
Art-Only Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eevachuu - *NEW* In light of the exodus, I made an art-only twitter, just for y’all.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eevachu/ - I post the same art stuff here.
deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/eevachu - If you wanna come pretend it’s 2005 with me. It’s like a nice retirement home for fandom grandmas.
Fur Affinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/eevachu/ - I post all my art here, not just furry stuff.
Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Eevachu - Best place for fanfic. I also have a Fanfiction[.]net, but like... it’s 2018. C’mon.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Eevachu - In case you’re old like me, again, just art posts.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/eevachu - Mostly livedraws, I’m trying to do more with it with my actual face.
Telegram Channel: https://t.me/studioeevachu - If you use telegram, I update this with just the important art-related posts.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/eevachu - I might start updating this more? It’s just a tip-jar for now.
EDIT: WHOOPS forgot Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.io/Eevachu - Currently empty, but I’ll probably have that up soon as just an art blog.
Squiggalaimon:
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Do you ship m/a/x/v/i/d
Hmmm to be honest I’m more a Dadvid sucker, but I like old!Max and David ship! 10 years old Max having a stupid schoolgirl crush on David is cute too I guess haha. But in general I’m not very fond of the big age gap between them.
I’m not an anti tho, because I think everyone can ship everything they want, they are all fictional characters. As long as they are not thirsty for children irl.. That’s a big problem then. I understand some people’s discomfort. So if you are uncomfortable, be sure to black list the maxvid tag and stay away from the discomfort source (that means, don’t go harass artists calling them pedos and tell them to “kys”).
No one stops you from enjoying your own ships or non ship stuff in the fandom! So don’t waste your time on something you don’t like/makes you uncomfortable, and avoid spreading toxicity in a fandom that could be peaceful. Spend this time for the artists you like and support them instead. :)
EDIT IN 2024:
I got an ask in my inbox and I think it was referring to this post, haha
It’s been years, but I feel like it’s time to clarify some stuff. So, back in the days, this fandom had like 80% of minors, meaning most of the drawings of this ship could be drawn by them. I avoided this kind of ships because they would make me uncomfortable, but would not call myself an “anti” either.
Here’s why: at the time, an “anti” would go into someone’s inbox and harass them with death threats, insults and “kys” stuff. Some would even push their own follower base to do the same. And like I said, most of the artists were minors- so calling them “pedos” and threatening them, were way too unreasonable.
A lot of minors are not even aware that an adult/kid ship should not be okay. Because they might probably see this ship through the younger side’s point of view, like a high schooler crushing on a teacher, I don’t know. For example, I used to not know it wasn’t normal for a 22 yo guy to flirt with me when I was only 15 (thankfully, he already had too many red flags for me to be interested aha).
So what I wish for now, is only for people to at least explain to these young artists why it is bad, not harassing them. And if they are uncomfortable with this ship, they could do like me: just blacklist the tag.
As for the other adults artists drawing this ship, I would not try to find excuses for all of them. But I would not call them pedophiles, as I would not call a person who writes “non-con” fics a rapist, or a person who enjoys furry p-rn a “zoophile”. Simply because I do not know what’s going on in their mind. They could be going through mental issues, personal ones, or finding a way to cope with it by using fiction. Or they could simply not be thinking much about it, and draw a pair with a dynamic a bit too ambiguous for the audience to differentiate it with a ship that makes them uncomfortable. I don’t know- Some signs can not be mistaken though, in that case, flag and report their account (I saw a screenshot of one account on Twitter claiming that pedophilia should be legal, that was maddening- they got suspended by the wave of reports)
But yeah, I hope for all of them that they manage to grow out of this phase and/or know to differentiate fiction with real people. In conclusion: it’s not good to draw this kind of ship if you know the real implications behind it and think it’s alright in real life too, but it’s also not good to threaten people in their inbox without explanations. Stay safe everyone!
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Boston dog walker's photos of pack go viral A Boston dog walker has taken his service to the next level. (CBS) — A Boston dog walker has taken his service to the next level. Steven Watson has been walking dogs for decades, but it’s the pictures he snaps of his furry clients all around town that have gained him a new following. For the past several years, Watson has been posing his pups and posting the pictures. One shot recently went viral when a passerby snapped him in action on Boston’s Longfellow Bridge. “It got a lot of traction on Twitter and pretty soon my Instagram was blowing up,” he says. Watson’s canine clients follow him around town for hours each day, stopping for pictures at landmark locations or wherever inspiration strikes. “I get the best results when they’re a bit tired, but not totally wiped out,” Watson says. Two-and-a-half-year-old Magnus, a Labrador retriever, had to try out for “The Pied Pack.” He has since become a local celebrity. “We’ve had maybe, I want to say, four or five encounters where people have come up and been like, ‘Oh, excuse me, is that Magnus? I follow him on Pied Dog Walker account, and I just wanted to say hi,’” says Krister Svensson, Magnus’s owner. Svensson says Watson bonds with the dogs from day one. “He’s not just their dog walker, he’s really their best friend.” Watson says he gets one good shot for every 30 he snaps. And he doesn’t use treats. He says the secret is trust. Copyright 2021 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments); if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '1028841917614232'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); Source link Orbem News #Boston #dog #magnus #pack #photo #Photos #Pup #Software #stevenwatson #Town #viral #Walker #walkers #zoology
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November 21, 2020 [1]
Why I gave up and never looked back actually has to do with what happened on this day. In October, similar time frame, my dog got sick. I nursed her back to health.
I had it with humanity because I was tired of the “spectrum” always going “woe is me that is not my ID”, because they pulled that shit on me. While my dog was sick. “at least you can go outside as yourself”. You mean the me, who has eyesight so bad he’s walked by someone dear to him? I live with regret and guilt daily. I say NOTHING of it, because that’s not what people want. My strength is my silence, if I had to say. Or rather, it’s my weakness because I have strength in my actions. You could say that I have strong silence, which is bad.
I never got a response back after saying that, no. I don’t get to do that. I’m aware of my luxuries. Clean water, clean healthy food, plethora of stuff, internet, AC, you name it, I’ve practically got it. Also, it’s not even about me. it’s about people acting special all the god damn time. It’s not about that person whining either. It’s about NEITHER of us.
One asshole gets to play the “bara furry says shit” card. Except I’m not a furry. I never even figured out my lack-of-avatar problem. You know, an artist either has their own face, or some sort of face, right? I do have problems with furries in that I don’t like the drama that’s usually found from them. I’ve had a few incidents, by the by. However, they’re just people. That’s all they are. People are people. The “gender spectrum” allies always get to do this, and I’m fed up with it. You get to treat people like shit, but when they call you out for it, you get a magical shield. That’s what Twitter has. Quite blatantly, it’s all over hurt feelings.
Want to know what I did? I didn’t even call them out for that. I was pointing out other situations in our world, like how doctors have to live with their decisions. Those with a conscious have to know who they let live and who they let die. Identity? How about their ID being “murderer”?
Tell me how it’s not beyond hurt feelings. “Hateful”? It started with me agreeing with a guy calling “them” special snowflakes. The following thread was exactly that; they were talking about themselves as if they had it the absolute worse.
One “ally” even tried to refute my “people born without limbs” by acting like you can add prosthetics onto anything. THEY NEED TO BE CONNECTED SOMEHOW. Excuse me? Does it look like our technology can reproduce feeling properly? No. We’re on the way to that. You’d know if you weren’t so ignorant to people’s woes. Trying to play the saint over “identity”? If society needs to reaffirm you so that you may survive, then yes, it is all about being a special snowflake.
Tell me then, why does it matter what letter of the alphabet it is that you want to be? Why does that matter? To make your ilk feel better about yourselves?
I’m not okay with the amount of canceling people can receiving. I call it “canceling” because it’s negativity if not “counter-hate” by the “gender spectrum”.
I don’t know what the hell “gender” is, or what it even “feels” like. I see people as people. Everyone struggles with life. EVERYONE. You know nothing about me, not even introducing yourself, yet you yourself desire identity affirmation by SOCIETY, and try pulling “going outside as yourself”?
You’re the sheep that follows the same society that came up with these constructs of division. Male, female, once you get to them at their root and core, what do you have? What do you have AFTER you do that? The only use it is, is to categorize reproduction. That’s it. I’m not stupid enough to follow societal conventions; I don’t even know what “gay” is. Blanket terms are stupid.
At our core as humans, we’re all bisexual. We failed so badly; we fucked that up, ended up as wusses who can’t face our reality that anyone can be with anyone, and as a result, we’re afraid of invisible labels. Now, no one can be with anyone because they have petty interests and fetishes rather than having an open mind with the idea of “mates”.
John is a man’s name? Who said? I’ll give you a hint. Society. Think about it. Ask the question. Why? Why is it so? How is that the case? Is it WRONG? What is WRONG about it? Why do you believe John can’t be a woman’s name?
I actually have a name commonly used for females. So, uh, yeah. I can choose to change it, or I can choose to keep it. I will, however, acknowledge that either outcome is for my comfort. That’s because it is. It serves absolutely no purpose beyond that. Tell me how it does.
You’re saying this crap to someone who knows the flaw of equality and can see your hypocrisy. Equality is taking into account 8 billion human lives and trillions of animal lives. The same “equality” you get from “BLM”. I saw a re-tweet of “if you’re black” you can get help financially, but if you’re not black, you should “re-tweet or help out people”. So, you’re fine with taking non-black money, but if others do the same, you’ll go all “ACAB” and “blue-lives matter pig”?
Not even 1 million cops to the 300+ million people. We will see rotten cops. The entire movement’s focus was to enforce the law on law enforcement. How does no one remember that? What, you want to excuse your behavior to act like a stereotype? Then when there weren’t any cops in certain places, people still bitched.
The aftermath of COVID leaves everyone suffering; why the hell do you get a pass for your “prefix” or “pronoun”, or even “race”?
This was all during the heaviest parts of COVID. People were losing their lives and their homes. I spent my time reading hundreds of lives. It was horrible.
All of this is only a factor of giving up. It’s not the whole thing, but it influenced it pretty well. I don’t care if I’m “hateful”. I’ve seen people receive far more “hate” for the most insignificant words than they should have.
I’m ignorant, yeah. I’m ignorant to these peoples’ woes because I can’t understand. I don’t need affirmation; I live as myself. I’ve been hated and alone for my entire life. I’ve only got one friend, and even then, that’s a bit... difficult to explain.
I always keep in mind that we’re just people. We’re just humans. There’s so much more to life, so many more lives. I don’t compare woes like that. I will not say I have it worse than others, because realistically, I don’t. They always get to make these assumptions without knowing you. Instead of giving a name or an introduction, you’re given a label.
I don’t see people as labels. Are you gay or are you a person? I don’t need to know your interests because I’m not looking for anything in particular. If you want to talk, we can talk. That’s about it. I can say I’m a nice guy sometimes. I’m a great listener.
I don’t need any name-basis because I know names matter little on the net. Requests? I only need the person’s user-name to contact and respond to, so obviously a handle is needed. But, what connotations do I read into that? Is keithsmith93 really important, or is he really the 93rd keith smith?
Why does that matter? If I know him to be keith, then Keith he is.
However, above all else. You do NOT assume you know anything about a person like that. Especially if you want to “compare lives” because you can always go outside as yourself.
You do not say that shit to someone who has a sick pet. How would they know? Easy. Have some manners and understand that everyone has a different life. There are billions of people who will undoubtedly have it worse than you. Have an open mind and adapt to that fact.
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Much Tweeting About Crushing
JILY CHALLENGE | @chierafied vs @tadasgay
Social Media AU
in which James has a hopeless crush on his neighbor and tweets about it, which is fine. Until Evans follows him.
My belated submission for September’s @jilychallenge. You know you’re in too deep when you make a secondary Twitter account so you can get screenshots to include in your silly one shot... >_>
James blinked at the grey cat curled in the middle of his bed.
The cat stared back at him, seeming to dismiss him at the same time.
Feeling confused and just a little surreal, James did the only fathomable thing: fumbled for the smartphone tucked in the back pocket of his jeans and pulled it out.
The cat studiously ignored him as he snapped a picture, then clicked to share it on Twitter.
James’ fingers skimmed across the screen to furiously type a tweet.
The cat yawned.
The doorbell rang and James hastily pocketed his phone; glared at the cat who didn’t as much as twitch.
James shook his head as he made his way downstairs, tugged at his hair as he pulled open the front door.
And then stared slack-jawed at the gorgeous redhead wringing her hands at his doorstep.
“Hi,” she said, flashing him a nervous smile.
“Hi,” James echoed, his fingers jumping to his hair again.
He was staring. Had she noticed he was staring? God, he hoped not.
“So… I just moved to one of the flats next door,” she said, “like three, four days ago…”
“Oh. Right. Cool,” James said, suave as ever as his attention wandered between her captivating green eyes and the full lip she was biting.
“And, well…” She sighed, shrugged her shoulders. “My cat’s gone missing. Have you seen him? He’s grey and –”
James held up his hand. “There was a cat on my bed when I came home. Pretty sure he’s yours. Must’ve left my window open or something…”
A true, brilliant smile bloomed on the woman’s lips.
James’ breath caught.
“Really? He’s here?”
James nodded and made room in the doorway. “Right here.”
He turned and started to go up the stairs, painfully aware that this fit neighbour was both in his house and following him to his bedroom.
She squealed as they reached it, quickly crossing over to James’ bed to scoop up the cat.
“Don’t you go wandering again,” she spoke sternly, wagging a finger in the cat’s disinterested furry face. “You had me worried sick!”
She turned, the cat in her arms, and gave James another heart-stuttering smile. “Thank you so much. And I’m really sorry about all this, I hope he didn’t bother you –”
“Ah, don’t worry about it. He wasn’t trouble, really, more like a source of confusion. I’m glad I could help.”
He grinned at her, hoping he managed to look charming.
“Welcome to the neighbourhood.”
The woman’s cheeks flushed in embarrassment. “Oh, I didn’t even introduce myself. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be, you were preoccupied.” James held out his hand. “I’m James Potter by the way.”
She shifted the cat in her arms to free her hand, grasped his.
Her skin felt both warm and soft and something in the pit of James’ stomach fluttered.
“I’m Lily Evans. Nice to meet you.”
“Charmed,” he managed, vaguely aware that he was grinning again, probably looking more like a loon than a proper Prince Charming.
“Well, thanks again, and sorry for the trouble. We will just get out of your hair.”
She turned to leave and James followed her back downsairs.
“Yeah. Okay. See you around?” He winced at that hopeful lilt in his voice. She hadn’t noticed, had she?
She paused in the doorway and smiled, and James stopped caring.
“See you,” she said.
He lingered there for a moment, letting his gaze trail after her, until he realised he was staring again.
James shook his head and firmly closed the door.
His fingers trembled a little as he dug out his phone. He typed out another tweet while his mind was still busy playing over the encounter.
James went to put the phone away, then paused. After a second of hesitation, he typed out another tweet.
James turned off the screen and put the phone away.
For the next two days, James found his thoughts straying back to his neighbour. She had been gorgeous, yes, but also so nice and sweet and… God, he was really pathetic wasn’t he?
“Smitten” was the word Sirius had gleefully flung in his face when he’d met his friends over a pint and told them about Lily Evans and her cat.
And now, James had a sinking suspicion that was exactly what he was, because he’d wasted half the work day either thinking about Evans or trying to make up some believable excuse to go knocking on her door so he could see her again.
He sat himself on the couch, clicked Netflix on the TV and tried his best to immerse himself in an old favourite show because he really needed to not think about his neighbour for a while.
He was half-way into the episode when the doorbell rang. James jumped out of his seat and rushed to the door.
When he reached the door, cool irritation drowned and killed the eager hope bubbling within. Anyone could be behind his door so why had his thoughts immediately jumped to Evans?
He was still mentally chastising himself, when he pulled open the door.
The sight of his beautiful, red-haired neighbour offering him a hesitant smile was a jolt to James’ system. His heart jumped as he stared at her.
“Hi.” Her voice was as sweet as her smile.
His mouth had gone dry, and he had to clear his throat. “Hey there.”
“I’m sorry to bother you again…” she began, squirmed a little on the spot.
“I doubt you could be a bother if you tried,” James said, his brain too frazzled to even try to play it cool.
The corner of her lips quirked. Amusement flashed in those captivating green eyes. “Careful, I didn’t even plead my case yet.”
That sparkle of humour and teasing lilt in her voice had James’ stomach plummet all the way to his wobbly knees.
Blimey, how could she be so perfect?
“Go on, then,” James said. “I’m all ears.”
“Well, I got some new furniture earlier today. Had a friend help me get started putting it all together but she had to go and I’ve been at it for hours and am going cross-eyed at the instructions…”
A grin rose to James’ lips. He could just picture her, biting her lip while those green eyes darkened in frustration.
He stuffed his hands into his pockets. “Assembling furniture has that effect on people.”
“Yeah.” She grimaced. “So, at the risk of sounding like a bloody damsel in distress… I could use some help.”
James was beaming at her. “Well, now, how could I say no to that?”
She returned the smile, her shoulders slumping a little in relief. “Great.”
James grabbed for his keys from a side table and was out of his door, following her to the neighbouring townhouse.
He returned several hours later, a goofy grin on his lips and a stumble in his step. It had been an interesting evening, he mused to himself as he stopped before his front door to fumble with his keys.
Lily had managed to put together the dining table and chairs with her friend but had lost her patience with the bedside table. James had let out a few choice words himself as he had struggled between the instructions and the actual assembling. The bookcase had been much easier, though it had taken the both of them to finally prop it up against her bedroom wall.
James shut the door, tossed the keys back to the side table. He plodded through his house, raking his hand through his hair. He definitely was smitten like Sirius had said; no female he’d harboured feelings for had ever had him so neatly wrapped.
If only he could tell how she felt about him. She’d been perfectly friendly and they’d shared more than a few laughs and even two glasses of wine when the furniture was finally in one piece and in its place. But he just couldn’t glean if there was any hope for something more…
James grabbed his phone from the sitting room coffee table, then headed upstairs to his bedroom.
It was a very nice day, James decided as he deposited the rubbish into the bin. Warm, but not too warm; cloudy, but not in a gloomy way. He should go jogging later, if it stayed like this.
Lost in thought, he didn’t see her until she called out with a cheery “Hi!”
James turned, a smile immediately rising to his lips as he saw his neighbour.
“All right, Evans?”
She stopped beside him on the pavement. “I’m fine, how’re you?”
“Fine, thanks.” James scrambled for something more to say, and in a classic small talk fashion, defaulted to weather. “It’s a nice day.”
She flashed him a smile. “Yeah, I was getting sick of all the rain earlier this week. Glad to see the sun’s still up there.”
James laughed.
It might have been her appearance that had initially attracted him to her – and he still found her every bit as gorgeous as she had been when they’d first met – but now that he was actually getting to know her, little by little, it was her sense of humour that reeled him in, had him falling deeper.
He tried to adopt a casual pose. “How’s the cat?”
“He’s being his charming self.” Lily paused, and shook her head. “Woke me up at 3 AM last night. He was sick on my carpet.”
“Ouch.” James grimaced. “I’m suddenly very glad I don’t own a cat.”
She laughed, the lovely sound causing wild flutters to erupt in James’ stomach.
“They can be a handful,” she agreed, “but I wouldn’t know what to do without him.”
“Must be nice to have the company.”
“Yeah. It really is.”
James nodded down at the bags Lily was carrying. “Got some shopping done, eh?”
She glanced at the bags, then met his eyes. “Yeah. My wardrobe needed some updating. Moving is a real hassle, but it gives you the perfect opportunity to sort through your things, don’t you think?”
“Definitely. You never realise how all this stuff just accumulates in the cupboards you never open…”
“I know. I threw out so many useless things you wouldn’t believe.” Lily rolled her eyes.
“You’ve settled in all right?” James asked next.
“Yeah, yeah I have.” She smiled, and her green eyes sparked. “I love this neighbourhood. And the house is great, really beautiful. I mean I know I only have a basement flat since that’s all I can afford right now... But I just love the atmosphere, this historic vibe.”
“Glad to hear you like it here,” James replied.
And he was glad. Her enthusiasm was captivating, and he couldn’t help the grin tugging at his lips.
“Well, I should go and put my new clothes away.” Evans grinned back at him. “See you around!”
“Yeah,” he called after her. “See you!”
He really, really hoped he would, as often as possible.
James went inside. Then fumbled for his phone and opened the Twitter app, punched in a tweet as he whistled off-key.
James had barely got through the door and shrugged off his coat when the doorbell rang. He turned with a frown, ran his hand through his hair and opened the door.
His heart jumped at the sight of his neighbour.
“Hullo,” Evans greeted him, smiling that gorgeous smile that stole James’ breath away.
“Hi,” he said, certain that the grin rising to his own lips was on the side of goofy.
Evans shuffled her feet. “I hope I’m not intruding…?”
“No,” James hurried to reply. “Not at all.”
“It’s September so I decided it’s time for an apple pie,” she said, glancing at the pie in her arms. “Only I realised I’m probably not gonna be able to finish it all by myself. And since you’ve been so great and welcoming and helped me with the furniture back in July… I figured I owed you baked goods.”
“You don’t owe me anything, but I won’t turn down baked goods.” James grinned again, and stepped aside. “Come in, please.”
“Cheers.” Evans came in, and James shut the door.
“Make yourself at home,” he said, glad he’d just cleaned up a few days ago. “I’ll go put the kettle on.”
Instead, Evans followed him into the kitchen, set her pie on the counter and then stood watching him putter around.
“Can I give you a hand?”
“I appreciate the offer,” James said, and glanced over his shoulder at her. “But my mum would skin me alive if I let a guest help.”
She laughed. “All right. I’ll have a seat then.”
“Please do.”
James got out mugs and plates and spoons, and set the table while the water boiled. He had to keep busy to distract himself from the fact that the woman he adored was sitting at his kitchen table, just a few sparse yards away.
He begged his racing hard to calm down as he filled the teapot.
And then there was no more stalling. The table was set, the tea brewed, the pie waiting to be cut.
He sat down at the table, hoping against hope he wouldn’t spend the whole time staring at her like a lovesick loon.
He poured her tea, while she sat patiently across from him.
She arched her brow, humour flickering in her eyes.
“You mum really did teach you well, I see,” she commented as he set in front of her the plate with the slice of pie he’d cut for her.
“I was not the best of students, but she was very particular about manners.”
“I find it a bit weird to just sit and wait and not help out… But I guess it’s also nice to be a guest, when the host is such a gentleman.”
“As long as you don’t tell anyone else,” he said. ”I’ve worked too hard for my troublemaker image to have it all ruined now.”
“Troublemaker? You?”
“Evans, you have no idea.”
She cradled the mug in her hands, her green eyes brilliant and trained on him. “Enlighten me, then.”
So he did, and they talked and laughed and ate and drank… and James couldn’t help wondering what it would be like, to share evenings at the small table with her, day after day.
After Evans left, he collapsed onto the couch and pulled out his phone, typing up a tweet even as his heart was close to bursting.
After a long and busy week, James was looking forward to a quiet Friday night at home. It was closer to six PM when he got home, his feet dragging a little as he trudged upstairs to his bedroom to change his clothes. He came back down decked comfortably in pyjama bottoms and an old worn t-shirt, and headed to the kitchen. He heated up yesterday’s leftovers, then grabbed the plate and walked right past the kitchen table.
He plopped on the couch, flicked on the telly and kicked back.
It was some time later, after he’d gone to take the dishes back to the kitchen but before he started on a new episode of the series he was intent on binging, when he grabbed his phone from the coffee table to quickly check any messages or notifications.
There was one routine Twitter notification in his email inbox that James barely glanced at – then stopped when the name registered in his brain. Heart leaping into his throat, he did a double-take… And swallowed thickly as his world screeched to halt.
“Shit,” he managed, staring helplessly at the e-mail.
“Fuck. Shit.”
James’ fingers were numb and trembling as he raked them though his messy hair. What had his latest tweet been again? Something sappy and stupid about her smile…
He squeezed his eyes shut, forced himself to remember.
Yeah… it had been sappy and stupid, as Sirius had been quick to point out, but at least James hadn’t mentioned Evans by name.
He zeroed in on that silver lining, his brow furrowed in concentration. He didn’t think he’d ever actually mentioned her by name. That was good. He could work with that.
Although early on he had made those tweets about his fit neighbour…
Shit. James grimaced.
Evans was quick and clever. She’d put two and two together in a heartbeat.
He was so busted.
Unless…
A wild sudden hope dawned amidst all the panic.
Now that James thought about it, he hadn’t mentioned even the neighbour-thing in a while. So unless Evans scrolled through months of tweets, his secret would be safe.
And she would have to be seriously invested to bother to wade through all that.
He doubted she’d go through the trouble, so she wouldn’t figure it out all those tweets were about her.
…Right?
The doorbell rang.
James jumped, clenched his jaw. His knees felt a little weak when he got up, his heart beating erratically in his chest as he made his way to the door.
His fingers clutched at the doorknob like a lifeline, dread pooled and built into a crescendo as he turned it.
James pulled the door open.
The panic was still bubbling at the back of his mind, but his face eased into a smile.
Evans looked the same as always, the dark red hair, green eyes, the bright energy stamping each feature.
A rush of warmth and giddy excitement flooded him as it always did at the sight of her.
He had just enough time to notice the gleam in her eyes. Then her slender hand fisted in the front of his T-shirt and yanked.
More than that sudden jerk of her hand, it was the feel of her lips crashing against his in a kiss as hot as it was demanding that staggered him.
His heart burst and he melted into the kiss, responded to it with great pent-up enthusiasm.
James panted for breath when they finally pulled apart, his hazel eyes glazed.
Evans watched him, her eyes dancing with the same mirth curling her lips.
“How hard would it have been,” she said, her amused voice just a little breathy, “to say something to me in between all that tweeting?”
James ignored her teasing question in favour of tenderly cupping her cheek.
Then, he smothered her smile by pulling her into another kiss.
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If you’re Gay and Trans here’s why you shouldn’t support the homophobic and transphobic minds behind Floraverse
If you read ForbiddenFlora, you’ll know that the trans representation isn’t that great. With Glip’s hatred of men and how the characters act, it really seems that Glip just sees their trans women cast penises. A lot of Glips porn that involves trans characters just seems like Futa porn but called progressive. Now, I’m not one to kickshame, but I am one to point out that conveying standard Futa porn and calling it trans representation is horribly transphobic. But don’t listen to me on this, I asked a few of my trans pals their extended thoughts which you can read here.
Transphobia receipts:
Now, since the Floraverse crew is so LGBT+ friendly, you would believe there would be no issue with pointing out how the trans representation is offensive. You would be wrong.
Here is how Glip responded when a gender fluid individual pointed out they were offended by Glips portrayal of trans characters.
Now hold on, you say, Glips right here! Trans lesbians are still lesbians and the sex they engage in is still lesbian sex, the gender fluid person is being transphobic here!
Actually.
Glip cropped out what the user said. Here was their thread in full.
Oh.
So it seems the person was more upset about how Glip uses trans women as fetish fuel. Not that trans lesbians aren’t lesbians....How curious that Glip purposely cut out everything they said to make it look transphobic.
Wait. Hold on.
Glip didn’t censor their icon making them easily identifiable and manipulated what they said to blast them on Glips popular twitter account, oh no I hope they didn’t get harassed.
Yeah. Guess what fucking happened.
Btw? One of Glip’s fans who harassed this gender fluid user told them to shut up and listen on trans matters. It went just about as you’d expect.
Now. I’m normally not one to blame a creator for what the fans do, but Glip intentionally made it so this person could be found by their fans, and intentionally cropped their argument to look transphobic.
So basically, if you’re trans and you’re uncomfortable with how you’re portrayed in floraverse: Fuck you! Let me just make it look like you said something transphobic and sic my fans to say transphobic things to you!
Wait...Reading up, something Glip said sounds interesting...
Glip literally hates you if you’re a gay man
YIKES DUDE.
If you don’t want to draw m/m porn, that’s fine but when you word it like that it seems like you got some hostility towards the gay male community. Especially since all that person pointed out is how you’re using trans women as a scape goat for not having straight sex....why do you use this opportunity to attack gay men?
Oh! Hey! This reminds me of the time Glip said they hated the furry community because of all the “cis gay men”
Quick questions:
1. Why is Glip uncomfortable in a community dominated by gay men? Why is the fact they are gay important?
2. Why is Glip implying that there’s a connection between being gay and being sexist?
3. Why does Glip take an instance of a gender fluid individual being upset about how Glip portrays trans characters as an excuse to attack gay men?
The only answer to all three: Glip is actually incredibly homophobic.
Now for my final topic: Beleth. The once Asexual, Agender, and Aromantic doll.
Floraverse LGBT representation doesn’t really matter and will be taken away in an instant because the porn is more important.
I’ll keep this one brief.
When Beleth was first shown off, one of their main traits advertised was how they were ace/aro/agender. Cool, right? Well. People were a bit upset about how Glip portrayed Beleth’s asexuality. Beleth seemed to experience sexual attraction! Something Asexuals don’t exactly do.
Glips reaction was to make Beleth no longer ace/aro/agender. When criticized on their lgbt+ representation, they fucking revoked that representation instead of trying to improve it.
...
To conclude:
1. If you are trans and are offended by how Glip portrays trans characters, you’re transphobic and Glip will manipulate what you said to open you up to harassment
2. If you’re a gay man fuck you, Glip hates you. Why? Because you’re gay.
3. Lgbt+ representation in Floraverse means fucking nothing and lgbt+ traits will be revoked if you dare criticize it, and the porn takes priority over the lgbt+ representation anyway.
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