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sergle · 1 month

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what I was talking abt earlier. we have fully looped back around and away from feminism, societally, whereas before it was very Feminism 101 to acknowledge that many parts of existing as a woman in a misogynistic society are painful and upsetting. not that being a woman is Inherently Negative in a bubble. but that living on this earth, in the conditions we're living in, is hostile to women. and that gender is a performance. that many of the Staples Of Femininity as accepted by society are things that you have to create and perform and mold artificially and aren't inherent, that COMPLAINING about day to day difficulties of existing as a woman is something that you're allowed to do. acknowledging these basic, again, feminism 101 things, that something tied to womanhood is more time consuming or more expensive or more dangerous Because Of The Problems. does not CREATE the problems. that when women complain about having to perform femininity, they are not, in fact, oppressing themselves. the call does not come from inside the fucking house. saying that you HAVE suffered does not fucking equate that you believe you SHOULD have suffered.

like I could talk about this for hours. how braindead and one-dimensional the Takes are getting. "being a woman is looking in the mirror and going fuck yeah i'm a woman" damn. I guess any negative experiences you have by living in a misogynistic world... are your fault if you are anything but positive? "you don't actually want liberation" we've fully gone back to telling feminists "you WANT to be oppressed" when anything negative about our society is pointed out. it's not real until I say it out loud, I guess, and then I'm actually the one who caused it. if anybody expresses any unhappiness with how they're treated or the status quo or the language and culture surrounding womanhood and femininity. they've created it, right that second. they invented it just now. it wasn't a problem before somebody complained, right? also trans women aren't braindead zombies who just follow the flow of whatever cis women around them say. I am pretty fucking sure they are very much aware of pain, and are MORE than aware of the swirling torrent of misogyny and standards of femininity than anybody else. actually. and I am pretty sure someone complaining on tumblr that being a woman means always putting on a performance is going to make someone change their mind about transitioning. also "performing femininity" as a necessity to being treated well as a woman is not fucking NEWS to your Local Trans Woman. I AM PRETTY SURE SHE GETS THE CONCEPT. using trans women as a scapegoat for this braindead perspective on gender politics is spineless, meritless, and pathetic.

#how I feel about my gender is not the same as how I feel about the living conditions of my gender #when I saw that post I screenshotted here I literally sat w my mouth open for a minute #sent it to my friends and was like am I fucking crazy. is this what we're doing now #Forced Positivity and that there is no war in ba sing se and actually #you're ruining children's lives if you complain about misogyny on twitter #I don't HAVE to tell little girls about the downsides because they are already being mistreated #before they have even heard the word 'misogyny' let alone know what it means #you do not have to be fucking happy all the time about the cards you're dealt.#you don't live in a bubble where it's just you and your mirror and your pretty dress and nothing bad has ever happened to you #unfortunately bitch. we will have negative experiences that are in fact. part of the package of being a woman #and IGNORING them doesn't make them not exist. actually they will continue to remain status quo unless acknowledged #sergle.txt #I see so much rhetoric that is JUST old-fashioned gender ideals being presented with liberal language on tiktok #that is just telling women that womanhood is just being a girllll and loving pretty things and being kind and gentleeeee and nurturing #and not working and just like being wholesome and being happy and being a light in ppl's lives and just LOVING LOVING LOVING being a woman #so if for even one second. you don't love it. you are actually failing at being a woman #if you complain about the standards for shaving or putting on makeup. which used to be Baby's First Feminism online #that's actually just you creating problems. you're not supposed to acknowledge it. you're supposed to shut up and smile into the mirror.

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t0ecoll3ctor · 19 days

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dear toe collector,

PLEASE show the pigshifter that'd be so fucking cool

also hypothetically if i had some screenshot edits from an old idea for a toh au would you be curious

thanks, ♠️

ya i think i still have the file on me hold on rq

boom

#alan becker #avm red #ava red #hahahaahaha i need to post more of my art from the discord servers on here #just havent because i don't feel like really doing so? also maybe just dumb anxiety saying that idk #also about the second question.... ***yes***.#i may not explode in text #but i might explode irl #seeing others combine my fav medias together makes me explode with happiness but also really shy for some reason idk. maybe just a me thing #perhaps i'm just insane #i was crazy once #also i did have an idea for yellow's palisman but i never got to drawing that #basically just their command block on their staff #like a little command block golem #a little command block golem who can fold back into their block form #did i explain that right?#i have a language disability so idk how to explain concepts in my head with words accurately so like #hang with me here #silly :)#animation vs minecraft #animator vs animation

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sysig · 2 months

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The familiarity is not very comforting (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Sans #Papyrus #Asgore #Always with memories/lack of memories being distressing! How memories shape action interests me quite a lot #Papyrus and Sans both have the ''this has been on me since forever so it's normal'' outlook on the plates #Defensive when other people get concerned about their lack of concern haha <3 #But what if ♪#Honestly probably could be set anywhere but I wanted Papyrus to be worried for Sans' safety and not fully know why <3 #Lots of very I don't know why I know this but I'm not happy about it haha #Can you tell I didn't use references for this from Asgore's outfit and the boys being on the opposite sides lol #It was very fun to draw them being carried haha ♥ Asgore's gigantic hands #Teeny tiny babies even still haha #In case it's unclear - Sans is looking at Asgore's text in the second panel and putting two and two together about his hand plate #That was a point of curiousity for me while I was reading :0 All the other text Gaster uses to communicate is WingDings!#All the papers he has the boys do and obviously his native font to speak haha #Wondered briefly if it was perhaps that distancing thing I mentioned a bit back in reference to ZEX actually haha #Like swearing in a different language - a way to not claim the action as his own in some small sense #Or perhaps as reference to their fonts being in that alphabet? I wonder!#I love their little interactions in how they look out for each other even in small ways <3 #Papyrus concerned of course! Falling is dangerous! It'll be more obvious why later but this is emotionally a very strong and real feeling!#And Sans wants to do anything he can to not make his brother sad ♥#It'll all turn out okay you two 💕

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i-like-media · 1 month

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He's so :D

#What I love about Jamie is that his love language is physical touch #he has to touch things to see how real they are and he holds those he loves closely #he's so happy to see the doctor is ok and not salamander that he can't help but touch him and keep him within reach #because as loving as jamie is he's also so protective over those he loves. and being far away from his friends makes him feel powerless #he can't physically fight off anything out to hurt them if he's not directly within arms lenght #doctor who #classic who #classic doctor who #the doctor #second doctor #2nd doctor #jamie mccrimmon #victoria waterfield #the second doctor #doctor who classic #doctor who gif

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fleshdyke · 9 months

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absolutely obsessed w the differences in not only his plucking but the body language from april compared to now. i love him sm

#like he’s so much more content in the second photo #like tbf in the first picture he had just spotted a dog being walked in the park but still #i think a lot of that contentedness is from me letting him on my shoulders. he just wanted to be close to me <3 #tia’s always been a hard to read bird bc of trauma and the way he was raised but these pics make it so much more stark. hes so happy in the #second pic :) if anyones curious i can do a whole body language analysis n break it all down #rambles #birds #tia

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musicalislife · 10 months

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His energy. The enthusiastic jumps. You can tell by his performances on stage, the way he interacts with fans that he truly means what he wrote. 💚

Video from his instagram story 2023.07.08.

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sibdubd · 10 months

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I’ve never felt so alone (felt so loved) by oopshiandetc

Ao3, 9k, Spider-Man!Louis, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort

After all the mess with disturbing multiverse, making everyone forget him seemed the best option to Louis. But now months into being completely alone and forgotten by everyone, he has never felt worse. However, like always he finds a safe place in Harry. Even thought he can’t remember him, or can he?

Or

In every universe Louis always finds his way to his Harry, even if it’s accidentally and unintentionally.

#larry fanfiction #harry styles #louis tomlinson #larry stylinson #spiderman #louis and harry #spiderman louis #alternate universe #superheroes #sad louis Tomlinson #fanfic #angst #angst with a happy ending #english is my second language #i tried

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adwox · 10 months

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rainy days

#mega man x #xzero #mmx x #mmx zero #megaman #zerox #the second i came home today drenched in rain i knew i had to whip this out #theyre waterproof and the umbrella id honestly more inconvienent but zero knows X likes stuff like this #human stuff you could say. but i feel that implies X wants to be human and i dont agree with thet #more that hes just naturally curious and would want to have the experience of sharing an umbrella #i imagine zero thought of the idea to use an umbrella with him fully on his own #like he just kind of put two and two together. which is one of Xs favorite things abt him #zero is very observant and action oriented but after getting to know X he uses his perception primarily just to make X as happy as he can #zeros love language is acts of service in my HUMBLE OPINION.#i could go on.#>mine_>art

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leolingo · 3 months

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foolish's spanish is so fucking good right now im BUZZING with energy its so incredible to watch

#so PROUD of him he did this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#the case study of the qsmp as a second language acquisiton environment.................#i think about it so much #depressive episodes kinda got my ass last year so i didnt get much done but i wanted to base my college thesis around that maybe ^^#PERHAPS ill look into it again god these moments make me so happy #kit.txt

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tincture-overcast · 9 months

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Wicked the Musical is a flawless masterpiece and here’s why

it touched my heart as a child and so no flaw it has means anything to me or my everlasting love for it

#this post is not about anything #why talk to me about ‘the pacing in the second act’ or ‘the lyrics you find awkward’ when I love it? what do you hope to achieve?#I‘ve memorised the entire show in two languages and I’m currently working on a third #it’s probably been years since more than a week went by without me singing a song from it #sometimes things match the frequency of your soul and you can’t help but become connected #inextricably #in a metaphorical way not a ‘buy crystals’ kind of way #posts that are nothing #posts that mean nothing #posts that are just for me #wicked #wicked the musical #musicals #musical theater #musical theatre #if the movie is good I will be happy #if the movie is bad I will not care #my partner performs in 3 stage musicals and I perform in 0 and somehow *I’m* the musical theatre nerd between us #the ‘somehow’ is that it’s true and I am

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bisonaari · 9 months

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Learning the lyrics of Cha Cha Cha by heart before learning finnish was one on my best moves without even knowing omg

Because so far I'm on day 64 of finnish duolingo. It's not much, but still a decent amount to understand very basic stuff.

And while not sleeping because insomnia, my brain happened to choose Cha Cha Cha as a bg song. Why not. So it's playing it my head, the lyrics go on and

I understand stuff???

Not everything of course. But like "oh I recognize this part of the word it must be a verb" or "since this word might be an adjective the sentence structure is like that" or "I remember from the translation that this line means that, so that unknown word must be this one"

Since I started from absolutely no knowledge, it's such an easy way to measure how much progress I've made 😭💚

#käärijä #bison learns finnish #just really happy to get that feeling that some locks have been opened #it's my second fav part of learning a new language #first part is the moment just before starting when you don't know anything yet #second part is starting to understand the logic and unlocking patterns

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productofaritual · 3 months

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Totally happy for the folks who r getting their second languages in the QSMP, not jealous at all, nu-uh, totally don't envy you at all, no wayyy never how could I possibly ever in a million yearsssssss

#sincerely #someone who does not have their second language on the qsmp #/j/j OF COURSE #IM SO HAPPY FOR YALL #like thats genuinely great!#for you!!#but like #when is it my turn #when do the slavics get some rep #/nsrs #qsmp #qsmp posting

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writingdesk-ravings · 1 year

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British children lit from the 1840s - early 1900s is more complex with more engaging characters than most of what CoHo has written

#@ ravings #do i like to read classic. Yes #is english my second language. also yes #if i dont understand a word i google it. its not that hard #anti coho #anti colleen hoover #specifically about The Secret Garden btw #but in the same breath i am still happy more people are reading #just- wish it was a little better

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legionofpotatoes · 7 months

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nimona thoughts! still my top movie of the year so far!!

been thinking about how to frame my thoughts on this gem, and I ultimately arrived at a bit of a pretentious jumping-off point. but honestly, my favorite stories are always the ones that end up demoting the whats, the hows, and sometimes even the whos in service of the whys. it's the hardest question and context to tackle in any story, and it's worth interrogating the most in order to find any true meaning, any connection at all to what's told.

nimona shows exactly why walling yourself away from the "others" isn't good enough. it shows why you have to do the work and see them.

not just that it is dogmatically "the right thing to do". not just depicting what certain systemic injustices are, how they are deployed, and who they are targeted at. but the why. that simplest, purest shape of questioning an injustice dating back to your gentlest time as a child, when you were vulnerable, naive, and truly curious in the best possible faith. the question you would always ask was why.

you are picking up a sword to threaten the unknown. you've been told the whos and whats. you parse it thus. but you don't know the why. you are watching this happen on TV, contextualized, simplified, dramatized. you are connecting the dots. understanding the why.

nimona painstakingly drills down on that why. arduously, achingly digging past the institutions of fear fed by cycles of indoctrination and right down to the core of it. packaged in a simple-to-parse fantasy world built with deft, elegant metaphors and archetypes that immediately fall into place and make sense to a person of any age.

it is animation as a medium and fantasy as a genre both working in concert. a fun and colorful romp that ends on a gentle embrace of reassurance that tells children - both literal and the ones buried deep inside adults - that their first question to the world was always the correct one. because it was the kindest.

#nimona #text #I had such a rough time with the ending and how much it affected me. I knew what her goal would be the moment she headed for the town squar #even before the obvious visual connections. the film carries you alongside her internal state so well that it's almost a magic trick #but really it's just good a-b-c-s of dramatization. not a second is wasted on tertiary noise that's not serving the central metaphor #and you know kids are hyper-attuned to that. they lack the language to conceptualize effective storytelling #but storytelling isn't about peering behind the curtain. it's about receiving whatever is the result of it #and I know deep in my bones that this movie was a warm balm on the hearts of many little ones and that makes me so happy #I'm a 30 year-old adult and it damn near made me weep. anyway! not to promote netflix NOW of all times #but man what a good ass story. you can keep your barbied heimers

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aprofessionalwithoutstandards · 2 years

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Are Spanish-speakers unique in this regard or is everyone making a whole stink outta nothing bc I don't think it is that outlandish to write Medic tf2, a person whose second language is English and first language is German, as replacing English nouns with German nouns while saying a sentence in English. I am Hispanic. I know a lot of people who speak English well, but their first language is still Spanish. My first language is English and I still substitute English nouns with Spanish nouns when I can't remember the word for it in English or learned the Spanish word first (words like bacalao, aguacate, cucubano). People often criticize characters who speak Spanglish as being "unrealistic, no real Latino person talks like that" even though some literally do - it feels like people are criticizing Latino characters for being too Latino and not assimilated enough. Are people... critiquing other people for making Medic tf2 too German? Your Medic isn't assimilated enough. Canceled

#again fuck if i know i don't speak german But i don't think it's crazy to think that a guy whose second language is english #maybe doesn't remember every word in english all the time #especially culture-specific things? like platanos or bacalao which i only encounter in puerto rican settings #open mick night #this one's REALLL personal oopsie. happy hispanic heritage month #tf2 #team fortress 2 #medic #medic tf2 #tf2 medic

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delta-piscium · 1 year

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part 1 | cw unresolved angst [unfinished/for now not being worked on]

Eddie feels excitement buzz through his veins, the same way it does before a gig. A steady hum that has him tapping his fingers against the wheel as he drives.

He’s leaving Hawkins today. He and Steve are leaving Hawkins today, together. They aren’t going too far, only moving to Chicago. It’s far enough away and big enough of a city to get a new start. A place where everything that happened the past few months won’t follow them but also close enough to visit.

Eddie spent some weekends there when Hawkins got too much and Indy, which had been his usual escape, had felt too close. He’d slept in his van and it had honestly been miserable which said a lot about how much he needed to leave.

But it had paid off, he’d gotten to know some people and through them got a job. It was at a bar that regularly held concerts, he’d even managed to get a regular spot playing there.

He’d been so nervous to tell Steve, to ask him to leave with him when they’d only dated for a couple of months but he’d agreed. He’d smiled so big when Eddie asked and they’d gone there together just days later to look at apartments and jobs for Steve. Miraculously they’d found both.

Eddie is honestly amazed at how thorough they’ve been. He’s always envisioned himself packing up his van in the night and just driving. No plans, just him and his van. He likes this better though. Likes the certainty of it, likes that he and Steve have this plan together. That they have a future together.

He turns into Steve’s driveway, his parent's driveway really. After all, he won’t live here anymore.

Eddie has to stop himself from straight up skipping up the driveway, still does some weird half-walk/half-jump thing because he’s too damn happy not to.

He knocks on the door, his lips stretched in a huge grin across his face. One that he couldn’t suppress even if he wanted to.

Steve opens and-

And he’s still in his pajamas, a grim look on his face.

“Did you oversleep?” Eddie teases even as he can tell that isn’t it.

The corners of Steve’s mouth twitch down and Eddie instinctively reaches a hand out to touch, to comfort, only Steve takes a step back. Making a mix of dread and confusion creep through him.

“I’m not going.”

Three simple words and they have the world tilting.

“You’re not-“ his eyebrows scrunch together, trying to make sense of it. “Like today? Do you need extra time? We can postpone by a couple of days but-“

“No, Eddie.” Steve cuts him off, “I’m not going at all.”

“What do you mean?” Is all Eddie can say, is all he can think because what does Steve mean? Eddie doesn’t understand.

Steve looks annoyed, he’s never annoyed with Eddie. Always so patient and kind, but now he looks like he does when his parents show up once a month only to disappear again. And he’s looking at Eddie.

“I can’t leave Hawkins, the kids,“ he turns slightly looking to the side, away from Eddie and that is so much worse. “They need me.”

Eddie wants to scream, wants to ask Steve what about him? tell him that he needs him too.

“When did you decide you weren’t going?” He asks instead, he sounds detached.

Steve shrugs, still refuses to look at Eddie.

“A couple of days ago.”

Eddie feels it like a punch in the gut. A couple of days and he hasn’t said anything? Has pretended to be happy with Eddie about them leaving.

Every doubt Eddie has ever had about Steve and their relationship comes crashing down on him in full force. Tiny voices telling him that Steve never loved him, that this never meant as much to him, that he’s had his fun now and is throwing Eddie away. King Steve is done playing with him.

But, all those things clash so hard with everything Eddie knows about Steve, has spent months learning and falling for. Except the Steve he knows, his Steve wouldn’t do this. Wouldn’t pretend to want a future with Eddie only to take it back at the last second. But obviously he would, since that’s exactly what’s happening now. And if Eddie is wrong about that then why wouldn’t he be wrong about everything else?

Still, through his doubts he hears himself say a broken “Steve?”

He says it like a question and a prayer. Begging Steve to take it all back in the crack of his voice.

Steve swallows and maybe he will take it back because the bob of his throat looks like doubt but then he opens his mouth and he doesn't take it back.

“I’m sorry,” He says and then he turns around and leaves, closing the door in Eddie’s face. Closing the door to their lives together, catching Eddie’s heart between the hinges and crushing it.

Eddie stands there for what feels like a lifetime, waits for something to change. For a second he thinks Vecna is back and this is all a mind trick, almost hopes it is. Nothing else happens though, and eventually he stumbles back to his packed-up van and drives.

He passes the town limits alone, just him and his van.

part two

#the happy ending i promised when i posted this never got written but im telling you they sort it all out #I was sad over something and wrote this so .. u know #there will be more like there’s a happy ending #sorry for any mistakes it’s very late and I’m also horrible at seeing typos and like honestly formatting text? I don’t understand it #I wing it - sprinkle in commas and full stops where it looks empty like yeah idk #English is my second language too and I’m not good in my first so you can imagine the struggle?#steddie #steddie ficlet #steddie fic #steve harrington #steddie angst #steve x eddie #eddie munson #stranger things #my post #dels steddie thoughts #My writing

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