"girls support girls-" okay but are you normal about queer women? are you normal about BIWOC? are you normal about disabled women? are you normal about autistic women? are you normal about fat women? alternative women? unattractive women? are you normal about women who choose not to shave their legs and armpits and faces? are you normal about butches and tomboys and masculine women? are you normal about trans women? are you normal about trans men? are you normal about nonbinary folk and people who lie outside the gender binary or renounce gender all together? are you normal about women who absolutely despise and detest the latest trends? are you normal about weird women who unsettle you with their interests? are you normal about women who don't wear makeup, who will never wear makeup, who openly dislike makeup and the makeup industry?

… klar

Also shoutout to the dutchies, have fun beim klarkommen.

Been thinking about historical beauty standards lately and the fact that being rounder and heavier was, in fact, considered fashionable for a very long time, and then the fact that people will always interject with the “it’s because weight meant you were wealthy and able to afford food and leisure,” which, sure, is true to some extent, but it’s not like… the only reason that was desirable? Like, is it that hard to believe that people genuinely found that beautiful? That both men and women would rogue their cheeks to make them look more lively and full? That men would tailor their waistcoats to give the illusion of a potbelly because it was the fashionable silhouette? That to be soft and plump was considered lovely and attractive? Honestly, I feel people’s insistence on the whole “weight meant you were wealthy” thing can quickly become a kind of backhanded fatphobia, this assertion that being fat meant something else desirable, and thus became the Desirable Thing. People have had fat and been fat all throughout history and been found beautiful for it, period.

there’s been many times in the last few years when army was so divided i thought we’d never recover but none of those times hold a candle to what’s going on right now. genuinely there’s no coming back from the way these anti-boycott, anti-DOING-FUCKING-ANYTHING armys have been acting

kiss me, son of god

y'all know that one weird french anti-smoking ad?

i feel like one day ill be 37 sitting in my studio with no ideas on what to draw and will think "hmmm. ill just draw men" and start sketching, and then when im finished ill look at the paper and dave strider will be there staring right back at me

sorry im still lflsposting but again im just thinking about how backwards these two smile sets are from each other. mirrors and reflections and echoes forever !!! bc like i said myungha smiles a Lot -- hes kind of got like a perma halfway smile on his face most conversations and he also does it to defuse questioning about his wellbeing, so its his charm + masking, baybee. but when he becomes more open & vulnerable he actually seems to smile less (like, yeowoon saying he's running for myungha flusters him and makes him all shy, and kyunghoon saying he wants to drink with myungha later on makes him like halfsmile then sort of contemplate it, etc). and yeowoon is just the opposite of course, with his smiles all big n bright once he drops his wall. its very fun i love it

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"I guess maybe some people just have a weird relationship with fear," says Gerard Keay.

......*delicate cough* :')

Salted Ground

sometimes you talk at me as if i’m a different person

but look at me! the same as i’ve always been

better, even.

the old me was as kind and as loving as you nurtured

and the new me? i can lie just as well

better, even.

5 years in review (2018-2022)

@rejectshumanity said: 🔥

(unpopular opinions - open)

//once again not too sure how unpopular this is lol, but something else that's been on the brain for a bit.

so, i think it's gone down in recent years, but i really hate the like... common stereotypes associated with gender and sexuality headcanons in media. these aren't universal, of course, but off the top of my head:

the bitchy competent girlboss is a lesbian; the slightly less bitchy but still competent girlboss is bisexual; the super friendly but weird person is pansexual regardless of gender; the mostly friendly but still kinda mean girl is trans; the super nice soft boi is trans; the incompetent malewife man is bisexual; the silly childish adult is asexual regardless of gender; the cold practical unfeeling person is aromantic regardless of gender; etc etc etc.

there's nothing wrong with any of those character archetypes on their own, nor is there anything wrong with people who fit those stereotypes. the problem comes in for me when people in fandom seem to always jump to these archetypes without really... thinking about it or really analyzing the character.

(fun fact: this is actually originally part of why i first imagined salvatore as pansexual, because i really wanted to write a huge fucking cunt who ID's as pan. but i later realized he would identify more with the term bisexual, so i changed it.)

(also i'm not touching the debate between those two terms with a ten-foot pole, just talking about trends that i find irritating in fandom.)

Going to be slightly toxic towards zoomer weebs here but after months and months of posts shocked and awed by "breakout star vtuber" Vox Akuma and wondering how he got so popular (well for male vtuber standards at least), you all were clearly not around when CDawgVA was doing his Sebastian roleplays.

Literally Vox is just copying that formula and tweaking it to today's content standards.

British? Check

Deep (not really that deep but we'll benefit of the doubt this one) and smooth voice? Check

Giving copious amounts of fan service to his audience? Check

The only difference is Vox has corporate backing from Nijisanji because content creation is visibly profitable now and seen as way less of a risk by companies. Also he has the greatest advantage of being an image so at least physically human flaws don't exist.

Like fucking hell article writers and video essayists, do your weeb online content creation research.

Everytime Spiderverse gets a resurgence im always reminded I started the Spidersona trend by accident, pissed off a bunch of marvel fans, even got in a news article for it??? And will NEVER get recognition for it

AND I THANK WHATEVER GOD IS OUT THERE THAT I DONT CAUSE OH GOD COULD U IMAGINE THE DRAMA???

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death to the misconception that “lxc is stupid” and “mxtx was surprised that people thought he was smart”. this is NOT what happened, NOT what she said, even an idiot with a google translate (=me) was able to figure it out. god