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Damn Those Dog Tags

Your sister Ridley has passed away, leaving behind her ten-year-old daughter, Sadie. The Dagger Squad goes out of its way to ensure you and Sadie have people you can count on. Boring Saturday nights turned into game nights, rowdy dinners, and cheering events at Sadie’s soccer games. Any milestone or opportunity they want to be there. But the last to join the group is Hangman. The moment you met Jake Seresin, your heart screamed the cocky pilot was looking for a good time, not a long time. Deciding to keep him at a distance to protect your heart, Sadie has other ideas when she learns he was purposely left out.

Set Me Alight

When you agree, somewhat apprehensively, to a week-long camping trip courtesy of your best friend Nat, you end up irate to discover Jake Seresin is also on the guest list. He's everything you hate, everything you want to believe you hate. Because the day you met him, he said some things he could never take back. Not to mention his nickname for you grates on your every f-ing nerve. But when the two of you get stranded in the Washington wilderness, it's not just the elements or the creepy feeling you're being watched that has you feeling trapped, it's the emotional baggage too. Struggling to survive the wilderness is one thing, but navigating the labyrinth that is "Jake the asshole" is another beast altogether. Somehow, you've got to deal with both if you're gonna make it out of these woods in one piece.

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw

Way Down We Go

DTDT ONESHOT: Rooster knows he fucked up. Badly. Sadie kicking him out was the wake-up call he never knew he needed. With nowhere else to go, Bradley finds himself knocking on the front door of the last person he ever expected to turn to.

welcome to creepypasta hell 🖤

TLDR: long-time creepypasta fan gets tired of the takes on this website that she doesn’t agree with so finally decides to take matters into her own hands

~my backstory~

hello, hello. I am Charlie, your friendly neighborhood creepypasta freak. creepypasta was my first ever fandom all the way back in 2013, so the popular fanon versions of the characters from that time continue to affect my interpretations today (for better or worse tbh). after the stabbing (you know the one) happened my parents forbid me from engaging with creepypasta anymore, but it was always in the back of my mind as a sort of guilty pleasure. then, during the original quarantine, I dove right back into it with a vengeance.

~my blog~

this blog is going to be my headcanons for the creepypasta characters that I like, in the form of:

unhinged text posts

reblogs

answering asks (please send me asks)

obviously I can’t claim a lot of these ideas as completely my own, because I’ve interacted with a lot of people in this fandom over the years and taken bits and pieces to mash them up into my perfect abominations. but I’d say that’s the case for any blog of this sort.

~things I will do~

nsfw: because, like most others in this fandom, I have the hots for a lot of these characters. I am an adult, so I would like anyone who is not an adult or who doesn’t want to see my nastiness to block the tag “creepysmuttakes” and obviously don’t send me any nsfw asks if you’re a minor.

x readers

character x character

pretty much any other genre of headcanon you can think of

creepypasta mansion headcanons: obviously, these are what I came here for. there’s going to be a lot of them, and I hope to get asks about them as well.

Marble Hornets, EverymanHYBRID, Tribe Twelve: these tend to be a little iffy for me as far as my deep understanding of their lore, but I’ll do my best (also they’re gonna be altered quite a bit to fit my interpretation so if you don’t like that stay mad ig)

Ticci Toby/Toby Rogers: you’d have to pry this precious little man from my cold dead hands to get me to give him up. so he’ll be here too.

~things I probably won’t do~

character x character of something I don’t already ship: there are exceptions, like if I find a dynamic compelling but don’t personally headcanon it. in that case, you’ll just need to ask.

angst: listen, okay. I hate being sad. I use fandom to cope and distract myself from real life. there will likely be some instances where I will talk about the myriad of issues these characters are carting around, but don’t expect it often or for these discussions to be at length.

sexualizing Slenderman: I headcanon Slenderman as asexual and having no genitals, so if he’s gonna fuck anyone there better be a damn good reason. not completely off the table, but it would take a lot of convincing, let’s put it that way. (and also it’s not gonna be that sexy even if it does happen trust me)

~things I won’t do~

anything relating to Offenderman: this is self-explanatory. if you think any romanticization/sexualization/humanization of a character who was created to be a rapist is okay, kindly get off of my blog.

sexualization of BEN or Sally: I headcanon both of these characters to be minors and incapable of aging so that’s absolutely not going to happen.

x readers/character x character with characters whose sexualities are incompatible: what I mean by this is, if I headcanon a character as a gay man and you want an x reader with them and are a woman, not happening. sorry. find another blog. same goes for lesbians with men, etc.

here are the characters I’m taking requests for:

and here’s my ships:

in any case, I hope you enjoy your time in my little spooky wonderland!

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@sebastianshaw

Send 🍵for the mun’s salt!

- Bonus: Sending a topic can help the mun so they can organize their thoughts better.

You have chosen to allow me to do this with my own discretion and I hope you’re ready for some major fucking salt unloading.

You see that? Imagine instead of a teeny bit of dirt, it was overflowing with salt. Because...I have a lot. Some is very relevant to recent shit. Some is just always there. Anywho, here we go.

The toxicass performative positivity circle-jerk that’s going on in the rpc:

I have no problem providing encouragement. I do it on the regular. Give praise where it’s due, encouragement where it’s needed, AND for the love of the gods and all things good and holy- constructive criticism, people. I see a lot of “if I praise this certain aspect it will get better” very thinly veiled and really that’s not the case. You can’t improve where you don’t feel it’s needed and someone not looking to fix their shit is going to look at the five gushing praises they got and then get shitty when the one person not trying to blow smoke up their ass says something the slightest bit negative but in a constructive, polite manner. Y’ALL ARE DOING NO ONE ANY FAVORS. Fucking stop, please. And if you can’t take polite, constructive criticism, then you either need a disclaimer so people can choose whether they want to interact with you with that in mind, or go find some other hobby that isn’t a fucking COLLABORATIVE activity. Seriously, grow up or find something else. If you are going to interact with other adults, you can be an adult and face if you or your muse have stepped out of line. Can’t do that? Write fanfic, and fanfic only. I’m so serious I can’t even laugh over this. Do NOT claim you are open to constructive cristicism if you aren’t. I’m also now side-eyeing anyone that is constantly patting themselves on the back over not writing a certain thing like toxic ships or Mary-Sues. You doth protest too much. 🤧

Double Standards in the RPC when it comes to customizing your experience:

So apparently, it’s all the rage circa 2019 Dumblr RPC to say that you’re allowed to customize your experience- block as needed, have rules, request triggers, etc. And everyone will be sure to reblog those posts EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. those posts cross their dash. But then when someone adjusts their rules, or makes a comment, or blocks someone, it’s how DARE they do so. They have to put it all on the dash in some rant, or reblog a post with the opposite message immediately. How dare they do exactly what you’ve been throwing onto the dash every other day and encouraging them to do, and work to make their fun time a fun time! I mean, fuck them, right? Why should they have boundaries drawn out, I mean, if they dare to ignore yours then they’re some sort of heinous person, but they should totally let you walk all over them. Bruh. Stop being two-faced and just say you only give a fuck about yourself. Get it out and say it with your chest. Own that dunghill you’re dying on.

The “I’m going to tag every goddamn thing under the sun BUT for the fucking obvious shit” crew:

Before any of you decide to come for my throat for this- I have cPTSD. I have multiple triggers, most are just not to the point I would utilize the blacklist feature, and as I have already stated in my rules, I just unfollow for the certain things that would really bother me. I have spent full days working to come down from a panic attack after being triggered because it was an actual triggering topic or event. I know what a TRIGGER is. Stop. Trivializing. My. Mental. Health. If, for the love of all fuck, you’re going to tag stupid shit like love and domesticity for your sake when it’s “triggering” no one but yourself, but can’t be assed to tag N*SFW and actual kinks, and specific triggers you agreed to tag when agreeing to my rules etc... then you’re just using the concept of trigger tagging for attention and you can kindly go fuck yourself. I don’t care who you are, tagging N*SFW is just basic rpc common courtesy that way even if someone is okay with smexy/intense shit, they can safely scroll around fam/at work/whatevs as needed. I will HAPPILY tag someone’s real trigger. I will NOT feed into your dash pity parties, with the dumb ‘tbd’ tacked on like you’re actually going to delete it when we all know you aren’t going to delete it.

Welp. You said you wanted it. You got it. 😅

any book recs (fantasy, slow burn, romance, etc.)? aaaaand maybe if you can, rate your favorite book fandoms from your most fav to least 😮

I'm going to give two big recommendations based on books i'm really really excited to read and know that everyone i know has read and loved: Serpent & Dove and From Blood and Ash. For romance i recommend the like us series (tangled like us fucks my shit up) and anything written by RS Grey. i've read like all but three or four of hers and they're just super light and fluffy and easy to read. slow burn...i can't think of anything except like maybe read heir of fire again and fucking SUFFER. (this is a joke but i know you all know how serious i am.) also read stalking jack the ripper and it's following books bc we need more homies in the fandom. fav book fandoms! 1. TFOTA (the folk of the air/the cruel prince etc by holly black) because there's so little drama it's all of such little consequence it's great. there's like no anti discourse happening people all hate and love the same characters. it's just a good time. also all my tfota stuff has more notes. 2. shatter me bc again like, little discourse and we all just love aaron warner and would die for him and that's important to me 3. SJTR because everyone is just generally quite lovely here and we're just happy for new people to be added to our cult okay. 4. SJM fandoms - these are my home fandoms and i feel safe here but there's also a looooot of hate in them and a lot of negative discourse that i just dont... love and wish would kindly stay off my blog. like i shouldn't be nervous to reblog certain opinions i have/agree with bc i dont want to get attacked for having those thoughts. y'know?

you say you will leave the spn fandom because of all the toxicity and then you go around and reblog stuff with your positivity shtick. that's being more than passive-agressive. and fake. i guess you're just not capable of expressing any opinion of your own except that you liked the finale. and you're obsessed with the winchesters. because fuck cas right?

Lol, okay. I just about had it. I'm gonna answer this one and then I'm gonna turn off the anon asks, close my inbox. Listen, I really don't need to justify myself to any of you for having an opinion, but here we are. Once you all read this, please do me a favor and block me or unfollow if you disagree or want to fight more. Firstly – I said that I'm thinking about staying of tumblr for a while, and in the tags I've mentioned that I'm thinking about blacklisting the Supernatural tag because of all the negativity and toxicity. In the end I didn't, because guess what – I don't come to tumblr only for Supernatural stuff.  Secondly – my positivity shtick? What the hell. I mentioned that in one tag (I actually had to go look for it), and it meant that I'm keeping the positive things I pulled or got from the finale and keeping it to myself. It is MY positivity. I didn't try to force it on anyone. Thirdly – I'm obsessed with the Winchesters. ... I don't even know how to answer this one. I am not obsessed with them, I have a Winchester preference, if you want to name it that way. I like Cass as a character, I do. And I love Misha. I just connected with the Winchesters more and that's my personal choice. I have faves in every show or movie I watch. In Supernatural, Sam and Dean are my faves. I have never said and will never say „fuck Cass“. I do not hate his character for fucks sake. And yeah, I am not a Destiel shipper so I'm not as invested in him or his connection to Dean as some of the people are, but that does not mean I was happy when he died or whatever else has happened to him throughout the show. On the matter of my opinion, fine. Here you go: I liked 15x19, even though the solution for dealing with God was a bit silly to me and maybe just... too easy? But hey, it happened and I liked the aftermath of it and the boys saying to him: You will grow old and you will be forgotten. Because that's a popular opinion in the old tales and myths etc., that that is the reason why there aren't any gods anymore. It's also basically in canon of the show? Remember the Paris Hilton episode? Remember the episode with all the other gods when Gabriel dies? Yeah. The thing with Jack being a power vacuum was messy because it wasn't really set up well, but it kind of worked. I've dealt with that and moved on. The finale – yes, I liked it. It made me really emotional to the point of ugly crying. I'm glad it did. One of my fears for the finale was that I just wouldn't get it or feel it and that this huge thing that has been a part of my life for the last 10+ years will just leave me feeling nothing. Luckily that did not happen. I've always had two ways the show could end in my head: 1. Sam and Dean being a sort of mentor figures to other hunters, like Bobby was to them. But still doing hunts, and basically riding off into the sunset in the Impala – because they have work to do. 2. Heaven ending. Yep. I was kind of leaning towards this one just because of everything that has happened in the show. There was no way that they both survive the final showdown and get to live happily ever after (even though they deserve it), but they would get to know peace in Heaven and finally be free. We kind off got a mix of both of these points, with them riding off into the sunset at the end of 15x19, and with them ending up in Heaven in 15x20. Some points I've seen thrown around I'm going to address so you can get my opinion as wanted. 1. Dean didn't deserve this ending Yeah, that is the whole fucking point. He did not deserve it and he got it anyway. Because that is just how life works sometimes. It's sudden and unexpected and it really isn't fucking fair. Just because we all love Dean and wanted better to him does not mean he would get it. He got to die by Sam's side, in the arms of someone he loves most in the world, his little brother and he got to say his peace. He was scared but he wasn't alone and he got to say his goodbye. Would I've liked it that both him and Sam got to grow old? Yes. Of course I would! Who wouldn't? But I also really understand this ending for him too. He died in a silly way. I'm sorry, but shall we count how many times they all could have died in an instant when they lose their weapons, get knocked over or pushed or whatever? We got a whole fucking episode about the sudden ways Dean can die (Mystery Spot) and we are still surprised that this could actually happen? It was sudden and unexpected and that was the whole point. One wrong thing happens and you are gone. And this time there is no one to heal you and bring you back because that is what life is. 2. Sam's ending I get this too. Dean made Sam promise, and Sam kept his promise. The woman was not seen properly, it wasn't Eileen etc etc. Also – that was the point. We got little flash-moments of his life to see that he lived it, he kept his promise to Dean. I understand people who are upset it wasn't done well (that wig was really atrocious) or that his wife wasn't Eileen, but I also understand the decision to not put focus on anything but Sam and his son. Concerning both their endings – people are saying – stupid endings because this is what the boys have always wanted or feared and it was exactly what they got. I get even that. What happened to Dean could have happened to him 10 years down the road. It could have happened to Sam. It could not have happened at all. It could have happened so that they both die on the same hunt. But the ending thought is this – they would always be reconnected in Heaven. The long or the short way round would always end up in the same place and this time we got what we got. The thought that they ended up in Heaven with everyone else, that's what counts the most for me. 3. This is a stupid ending Not for me. This is coming back full circle for me. I've read more than one time that this kind of ending negates everything they have done, but I respectfully disagree. They have done a lot. They saved so many people. They won a fight against God and ultimately saved the Earth and made it so that everyone had free will. That is fucking huge and so important and such a big legacy to leave behind, even though basically no one knows about it. And them ending up how they did does not make everything they have achieved any less important. Who they've saved, killed, loved, lost – this ending doesn't make it any less important or stupid. Not for me. 4. They didn't pay homage to any other character on the show ... but they did? At the end of 15x19? I mean, yeah, maybe they could have put Cass or Jack or Donna or Jody at the ending too, or whoever else you want to name, but they didn't. Why? Because ultimately this was a story about two brothers against the world. I understand that decision too, and actually I love it because we got to focus on them for the finale. Do I agree with everything in this season – no. Some things could have been done better. The writing was choppy at times and some things didn't make sense and yes, they could have mentioned stuff and people... But there are worse seasons that this last one, so that's saying a lot. In conclusion - I am allowed to have my opinion. I am allowed to love something even though someone else really hates it. I am even allowed to dislike or hate something that makes someone else really happy. Except I don't go around attacking people in their inboxes for hating on something I love and vice versa, I don't put my anger about a certain ending or a character arc onto others just to feel better. That's being a shitty human. And Supernatural, and so many many many other shows have thought us to not do that. Instead they've taught us (or tried) to be better, do better, to be compassionate and kind. I urge you to do that. Next time you want to rant and accuse and shit all over someone, I kindly ask you to take a breather and think about it, think about what you are doing to others and to yourself.  And do better. That's all I have to say. Take care of yourselves everyone. Be kind.

there are so many things a 16 years old person should be doing beside throwing hate, BUT HERE YOU ARE BEING A BRAT

@bfmyers I really can't take this anymore, are you really that full of hypocrisy to scream TOXIC left and right while you yourself use your free time to only spread hate? I don’t usually do this and I try to stay away from useless discourse but you're just kicking on my nerves way too much

under the cut cause boy I have a lot to say. (really, it’s long. I needed to point out everything)

I'm going to kindly tell you to fuck off artists' backs.

you have 0 fucking knowledge of what you're talking about yet you're making callouts and worse, people agree! the same people who supported the artists before by reblogging and liking their art are now shitting on them and "ihh no more reblogs from them" only because you write a lengthy shit in which not only that you threaten a human being, you don't even know how to argue. a link to a picture and screaming "toxic" ISN'T A GODDAMN ARGUMENT

people of this community, PLEASE use your fucking brains and don't bow your head to what every nameless kid has to say. you don't have to believe me either, just use your fucking brain and heart and do the decision making yourself

Now, you did a callout post on @dbd-omija pointing out how toxic they are!!! omg gasp animal death? abuse?? HOW IS THAT pOsSIbLe

where have you been until now because this is a horror community:

in the TCM universe inbreeding is mentioned multiple times

in the Halloween movies Michael kills two dogs and eats one of them

omija clearly stated they went with the 1978-2018 timeline BUT NO YOU KEPT SCREAMING BECAUSE HOW DARE THEY SAY SOMETHING AGAINST YOU

on that matter: in the halloween movies Michael's cult makes him rape his niece, in another movie Laurie, before jumping to what it seemed her death, kisses Michael's mask lips. GASP, when will you sue the directors?

after he escaped, Max literally slaughtered every living creature in that farm. put the DBD devs on your "I need to sue them cause I have something to say against this horror game!!!" list

If there’s something I can agree with you on, it’s about tags. Yes, these are triggers, yes tagging is important, but let’s not forget that being in this community IS about being surrounded by triggers. out of courtesy sure, we should tag our stuff accordingly, but to go all out to say “omija, if you’re reading this, i’m going to pee in your mouth.” HOW. IS. THIS. ACCEPTED?! HOW

HOW THE FUCK PEOPLE WHO REBLOGGED THAT CALLOUT THOUGHT YES THIS IS GOOD?!!?!

now you said that Omija's making all of these seem cute and that’s the real problem. this is where you are sooo wrong and let me explain:

a round head doesn't instantly make everything cute. there are many many details that the human eye perceives as cute, things that artists go to when they want their art to be seen as cute. from the color chosen to the way their eyes and mouths are drawn, to the very line work they’re using. yes, shapes count too, but this is not the case and we should get out of our tiny box and see the big picture. Their comics are not meant to be cute, actually much respect to them for being brave enough to approach well known subjects that are not explored. But that’s it. If YOU see it as cute then it’s your problem really. Art and fiction is prone to interpretation

If anything, how much cute stuff we have in the community should be the anomaly, not that someone draws anxious Bubba

omija's Amanda and Bubba art is problematic! someone asks why, you: because is toxic!!!

really? I actually think that, given their individual personalities, omija portraits the ship’s dynamic really well. Amanda is not dealing well with her feelings and with humans and Bubba has problems understanding things in general. they are two deranged people finding a way to cope and to accept another human presence nearby. "Amanda is picking on a disabled person how can you say it's well!!!!" let me remind you that his entire family is picking on his disabilities and the fact that he loves but also FEARS his family is a big theme in Leatherface's story and personality

Also, another argument of yours was about “the power play” and how that’s problematic. I’m...honestly surprised you even thought of this argument because the entire slasher fandom, the movies, everything slasher related IS BASED ON POWER PLAY. Have you read what they wrote for Laurie/Michael to say the ship is based on power play and it’s wrong? No, me neither, cause I don’t care, but you seem to care enough to vomit about it. Go read some things and tell me how problematic the writing is, you need to call out writers too after all

Btw, surprise! I don't ship neither of the mentioned ships, but I can use my brain enough to see what omija does is actually well made and well thought, sick, weird in some instances, but well thought. kudos to you artist. I can also see those who ship Laurie and Michael are still nice people

But just like you and many others I have my own morals (do you now? Exposing yourself like that to NSFW content while so many people are scared for their life because of people like you? hmmmm) and I can’t really stand explicit pedophilia. I’ve read so many books or seen so many movies where it was mentioned, it’s a trigger factor, it’s taboo, therefore is normal to be used in darker works. It all depends on the circumstances and the way it is presented, cause it’s a piece of fiction. Nobody attacked George R. R. Martin for the controversial things he had written in his books right? I wonder why

Because, another surprise, fiction is different than reality and only this argument alone should be enough, but some monkey brains out there will come to scream at me how fiction affects reality. Someone who writes a murder mystery isn’t actually killing people when they put pen to paper. People who play shooter games do not wish to shoot people in real life. Someone who writes about rape will not welcome the rapist in their arms nor do they wish to rape someone. So on, it’s simple, again, we just need to use our brains.

If you have bullying-related or a family related or any thing related trauma and you see a Michael/Laurie fic or Quentin/Freddy or whatever other ships or subjects you have seen around, and decide to click on it, and then you have a negative reaction, that fiction is not harming you. Your unresolved trauma is harming you. Your decision to read something when you know it triggers you is harming you. The past actions of yourself and those who inflicted harm upon you are harming you. All of those things – your trauma, your real-life bullies, your actions – are real, and have the ability to harm you. (the italic bits are from @dracfics who said it better than I ever could put in words. Thank you)

next on your "who am I going to shit on today" is @renlvbon

not gonna lie, for the omija callout I read everything searching to see whenever you are right or not. I don’t personally know either of the artists but I could read enough to see you’re just a self entitled person with something to say regarding everything. for ren's callout I simply skipped after I saw your argument.

you're not doing gods' work by opening people's' eyes that they can or should portray the characters the way they are, disabled and gross. no, you're just picking on someone's art style

Can we stop this toxic nonsense???

don't get me wrong, I agree that we shouldn't make them supermodels and we shouldn't erase what they are, fucking ugly and gross killers, but saying people who don't draw them a certain way are cowards or calling them out or whatever else shit is TOXIC and ANNOYING. We all change them more or less, we have to because none of us are the original creators! We’re just thirsty people making them to be what we want and what we imagine because they’re fucking fiction

I’ve seen people agreeing with you saying the artist should consider real people with disabilities or on the heavier side (“like me” they pointed out). I’m so sorry if this comes out as rude but if you search or need validation in a horror community that’s not a good thing at all! Body positivity and a healthy approach to disabilities should. not. be. searched. in. a. horror. community or any community on tumblr for that matter. You want some positivity on that? In a real case scenario with them we all would die, no matter how you look like

Going back to the artists, some people don't have experience/ are insecure/ are uncomfortable drawing body hair or fat bodies or whatever. That doesn’t make them fatphobic or whatever shit I saw you writing in your tags.

Drawing a black character less than the color YOU think is good? Have you ever tried to color skin? There are so many ways to do it, there are so so many colors you combine and you play around with + lighting and shading that alters everything. and yeah maybe some people pick a different color, a lighter one, or a more yellow one than they should for asiatic people, or whatever. but these tones are NOT easy to get well (you can always put a brown color down and to call it a day, but maybe people won’t want that. They don’t want to be disrespectful, exactly cause there are predators like you that don’t know how to help, only how to fucking scream). Or maybe they simply don’t know how. Every artist has their own range of comfort zone, be it about subject - composition - colors - etc. I don’t do well with neon colors for example, it happens. Hell even the screen you’re using alters the colors

How about giving actual tips, support and explanations instead of rude call outs? And don’t come at me with the “color picker” shit cause color picker from a real life photo is hell and if you don’t know some color theory your art is going to look dull and lifeless regardless

The only time I can agree that whitewashing is wrong is when white-supremacy, nazi and other ugly shits like these are coming into the topic. But it’s not the case here

some young artists don't have the skill to draw certain body shapes, or body hair, or even a non-anime face. some others think putting a scar on the character’s face make them 'uglier' and ‘scarier’ and for them that's enough AND THAT'S ALRIGHT

drawing something that's supposed to be ugly but still having anatomy and proportions and a functionable mouth or eyes placement or whatever ISN'T EASY. ofc, you can go all out if that's what you want, but personally I want things to still be working because at the end of the day every single one of them is human. I'm not drawing dark fantasy in this fandom, I'm drawing slashers

NO ONE IS DRAWING FOR YOU. NO ONE IS USING THEIR SKILL TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD. art and writing, especially when is made in the free time of the creator, is made FOR THEMSELVES. If there are people enjoying it? Yay, that’s a win, but no one expects everybody on this planet to like what they’re doing. We’re getting back to that golden rule, DON’T LIKE: MOVE THE FUCK ON/ BLOCK AND LIVE YOUR LIFE. EASY. no one uses these unnecessary callouts for anything, if you have something to say do so kindly, if you can’t, just vent to your friends

So now let’s wrap it up cause IDK how many of you even make it through this point

can we fucking stop making young artists and writers cowards for drawing or writing how they can and however they fucking want? Please and thank you

this shit going on with "the best artist/writer for x y z character" or "conventionally drawing ugly Bubba uwu" will just destroy the confidence of whoever wants to keep drawing or writing or joining the fandom. There’s no competition who draws Bubba the ugliest nor who writes Michael the best. if you can do things a certain way, do it, and let the rest draw and write whatever they can WITHOUT FEARING THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

now I'm waiting for your very "well" argumented reply but I hope you'll understand that what you're doing is TOXIC and you should stop or at least change your way to address things. You’re talking to other human beings, not a void when you can throw any random thought you have in the morning. I don't care about you to be honest, but there are so many people out there following your words mindlessly and the creators are suffering and it's not fair.

don't forget to tell me to go kill myself. have a nice day

a thought exercise (of sorts)

I think a lot of y'all can probably relate to a feeling of discomfort with the popular/Christian model of the afterlife in which people who live in a certain, very specific way are going to go to heaven and all others will end up in hell. The popularity of The Good Place, which interrogates and criticizes this concept, is a testament to this. So let's run with that. (This is a long post and frankly also a bit of a rant but I promise I have a point, please bear with me.)

At least for Americans, we live in a society that buys into this idea pretty wholesale. Almost everyone probably knows some people who are pretty religious, or at least has encountered someone telling them that eventually their sinful life will catch up with them, and they will be in hell. "Go to hell" (and variations thereupon) is a common phrase in our society and the concept shows up fairly often in popular media.

And I think most of us agree that while many of these examples are surface-level harmless, being endlessly confronted by the belief that you are doomed to some horrific end, that the ultimate culmination of existence is this idea that you find horrific, is pretty shitty.

So we start to push away from this idea, at least in our minds. Some of us might try to reinterpret these concepts, mentally redefine how this afterlife works in order to make it line up better with what we're comfortable with. Of course there are lots of other religions and philosophies with different interpretations of the afterlife that give alternative possibilities for what the point of our lives is.

And of course there's the other side, the final belief: maybe there is nothing after this. Some people find a certain comfort or at least logic in the lack of some final reward or punishment for earthly behavior. They don't need that promise of ‘life everlasting’ in order to find life fulfilling, because there's a lot to live for on this earth.

My belief, at least, is that there's nothing wrong with any of this, and if you don't agree you may want to stop reading because you probably won’t connect super well to the point of this post. (Yes, there’s a point, remember? Eventually.)

As mentioned before, the hyperchristianity of American society and culture (at least, I can’t speak to other places) means that anyone trying to stand apart in this matter experiences a lot of pushback, some subtle and some not. There's a view that those who try to reinterpret Christian ideals are doing it wrong, fundamentally violating the faith in an unacceptable fashion. And of course xenophobia is rampant, and those who believe in other religions or none at all are seen as somehow less moral-- and thus, implicitly, less human.

And on the other side... I imagine even those who have made some peace with the idea of no afterlife find the concept of that final end, of simply ceasing to exist, a little scary; personally I think it's terrifying, and I would guess based on  the concept of existential crises that this feeling is pretty common. Especially from a cultural context that's incredibly individualistic, probably because of the values from the same Christian obsession that brings us hell, there's a huge subconscious urge to fear that if we truly are gone when we are dead, that nothing we did had meaning in the first place.

Nevertheless, we believe what we believe, and while we can explore different paths I think that we don't really have a choice in what finally makes sense to us. So we walk that razor edge between the rather oppressive-sounding end society claims we are destined for, and the hysterical alternative it presents to make that end seem like the better option.

Now, maybe I'm just stretching out on a limb here, maybe I have been this entire time, but in my opinion, that description doesn't sound too different from the experience of being aromantic in modern society. To review:

We live in a culture that aggressively promotes something as a fundamental purpose of the human experience that we find repulsive or at least not especially attractive: romance

This concept shows up everywhere, almost ubiquitously present in music and fiction, seeping into language and pretty much omnipresent in public consciousness. We're often presented with the idea that even those who dislike or avoid romantic love are eventually doomed to it, with imagery like cupid literally shooting people with arrows actually considered charming (???), or the tradition of kissing under mistletoe getting brought up whenever two people who look like they might be a ‘good couple’ are vaguely near any hanging plant at a christmas party, or the trope of the aggressive matchmaker friends

The relentless push of this, the insistence that we *will* end up in a romantic relationship or at least experience simply as a result of being human, really sucks for aromantic people. It's upsetting for us to be confronted with it constantly with essentially no warning when we're just out here trying to have a good time. We feel attacked. (I'm using old meme language because this post is depressing to write and I needed to lighten up a little for my own sake, but I'm also 100% serious, it really does feel like an attack sometimes.)

We try to find our own way to be happy, some exploring romantic relationships despite not feeling attraction, or trying to seek fulfillment through different types of relationships such as QPRs, close friendships, family etc.

Some people aren’t looking for that sort of life-defining relationship; they genuinely feel fulfilled by other aspects of life.

(All of these approaches are okay and if you don’t agree kindly fuck off.)

We get a FUCKTON of pushback for this. Aros who come out to their romantic partners are often automatically dumped because they’re perceived as unable to hold up their end of the relationship; even if they genuinely love their SO, they're by default perceived to be 'doing it wrong'. This is especially relevant when the aros has certain boundaries because of their identity (or if they happen to also be ace, though that’s not necessary for this to happen), which to a lot of people makes their relationships fundamentally inferior to a relationship between non aromantic people.

The fucking insistence that *love makes us human uwu* means that those who choose not to participate in romance, or in any sort of life-encompassing interpersonal relationship, are seen as somehow less capable of being fully fulfilled or even just... Less human. If you don’t think this is true I want you to take a good hard look at how many aro/aro-coded characters in media are robots, aliens, villains, young children, or other groups not treated as fully human by the narrative. (I’m reblogging with links to articles about this because that’s apparently the only way to get tumblr to let it show up in the tag. There’s also an interesting movement called voidpunk which i think originated in the aro community that afaik is a response to this dehumanization)

This pervasive cultural drive toward romance also manifests as a sort of... I want to say internalized arophobia, let me know if that's appropriative since it is based off terms used by other groups. I, and probably a lot of other aros regardless of how genuinely proud we also feel, do have a fear that being without romantic connection will leave us unhappy, or worse that we are somehow broken. This feeling is terrifying and it sucks, and the fact that it’s reinforced and probably created by our amatonormative society means that there needs to be a change.

Finally, we are who we are. I'm pretty sure its not a challenging opinion anymore to say that you can't choose who you love, and that means aros are just as valid as any other identity. So I'll restate: we're stuck in a society that says either that who we are is impossible and we're going to end up somewhere we don’t want to be, or that who we are is horrible and will leave us fundamentally unhappy.

(If parts of this sound combative or frustrated, that’s because I am. We are. Sometimes, even often, it feels like society hates the very concept of aromantic people, and most others it feels like we’re just invisible. I personally don’t have the courage to talk about this in real life but all of the frustration has to go somewhere, so...)

I hope that this post helps you relate a little better to the problems that aros face. This post is partially meant for aspec people who want something to relate to, so I'd be really happy if other aros and aspec people weigh in, even/especially if its to point out the places where I'm overgeneralizing or just plain wrong. I'm not any kind of expert on this, it's obviously just my thoughts.

This is even more important because I'd also hope that this gets to non-aspecs and gives you some insight into our experiences with amatonormativity, because we are a pretty small community and if the world is going to get safer for us we need your help. If this post makes sense to you, please share it, because people need to hear it.

I don’t have a solution to the problems presented here, though the staples of this kind of thing are important: include aspecs, in your fiction and your discussions. think before you say something that might erase or dehumanize us, and if an aspec person tells you something you said was hurtful to them, listen. don’t constantly push romance onto people. (specifically @ some allo aces, many/most of you are fine but you know who you are, don’t put romantic stuff in our tags please god why). more generally, it would be really cool to start tagging things as romance or romance mention because some of us are romance repulsed and don’t want to be surprised by that stuff.

(Finally, because this post does talk a lot about religion, I do want to mention that I don’t mean to trivialize or take away from what religious minorities face, or say that our problems are one to one identical. Please let me know if some part of this is offensive because that's not my intention at all.)

TLDR: Since people seem to have trouble understanding how alienated aspec people feel in a society whose values are fundamentally hostile to our existence, here’s an example that might be more relatable.

cosmiclesbians reblogged your post and added:

uuuuuhhhggggggggg do you have any reading...

You are literally fucking demented. I am talking about everything, including ppl who want to kill you and those who just make those kinds of comments those who just think its wrong but you got your goddamn head so far up your ass and so fucking determined to prove me as a homophobic person when I am no where near that, you fail to reason and see logic. I’m taking the gloves off, and if you wanna talk about bigotry look in the goddamn fucking mirror. You think I don’t know about fucking everything you said? I’m very much fucking aware, it seems you don’t have any goddamn reading skills, I WAS CLEARLY USING A FIGURE OF SPEECH TO EXPRESS HOW WELL I KNOW ABOUT HOW LGBT SHOULD BE TREATED AND YOU DECIDED TO TAKE IT LITERALLY. Oh my god you fucking idiot, you’re embarrassing yourself so much. While I agree parents can cause kids to do stuff like see lgbt people as wrong you are completely out of your mind if you think society as a whole teaches people to be homophobic. There’s certain areas in the world where yes, a lot of ppl despise lgbt people, but there’s also a hell of a lot of fucking places where they are accepted. I’m from goddamn canada bitch, do we have the individuals here who still hate lgbt, yeah, but for the most part as a whole the entire fucking country is welcoming to lgbt people, we’ve had same sex marriage legalized for years, there’s fines if you’re caught denying lgbt people jobs and stuff because of their sexuality, etc, so it sure as hell ain’t MY society teaching me this. Move the fuck away from the homophobic state your living in but your own fucking shitty experince doesnt account for the WHOLE POPULATION. I’d tell you to use common sense but clearly you don’t fucking have any, bitch. YOU’RE STEROTYPING STRAIGHT PEOPLE THE EXACT SAME FUCKING WAY HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE STEREOTYPE YOU AND ITS NOT RIGHT, BOTH ARE NOT RIGHT.

YOU’RE MISSING MY  FUCKING POINT TO STOP FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE OR YOU’RE GONNA GET BURNED. THE FUCKING LGBT COMMUNITY HERE IS THE MOST TOXIC THING EVER, AND YOU WANNA CALL ME HOMOPHOBIC? HOLY FUCK, IF ONLY YOU KNEW THE AMOUNT OF LGBT FRIENDS I HAVE, PEOPLE I KNOW, MY OWN FUCKING CREATIONS THAT ARE LGBT. I AM ERAGED TO BE CALLED A HOMOPHOBE JUST BECAUSE I TOLD YOU WERE WRONG IN FIRING BACK THE SAME STEROTYPES.

I USED AN EXAMPLE, TO PROVE SOMETHING THAT IS WRONG, BUT YOU COULDN’T FUCKING AGREE TO THAT, AND HAD TO BE LIKE “I DONT LIKE YOUR OPINION SO YOU’RE HOMOPHOBIC” HONESTLY FUCK RIGHT OFF, AND JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR IM NOT LIKE THIS CAUSE YOUR LGBT, IM LIKE THIS CAUSE YOU’RE A FUCKING HATEFUL, SPITEFUL, UNGREATFUL BITCH. Also you realize if you say im a “hetalia” fan i’ve dropped that shit like 3+ years ago now, so wyd stalking my blog, bitch? Also I didn’t block you, you fucking blocked me.  Long story short, you’re demented and fucked in the head, kindly go mate with a catus you stick crazy fuck, I don’t support ANYONE who acts like this, and is rude, and insulting the whole way thought and then spits out demented world views and false information and throws around accusations and the like

INTO THE FUCKING BLACK BOOK, FUCK YOU ASSHOLE.