Why is it that bands that start out writing about life and dreams and stuff inevitably. Inevitably. Hit their twenties and suddenly discover sex and romance. And then that’s all they write about.

Why.

have this drawing i scrapped because as I thought about it i realized that they didn't fit the meme i based it off of

Every ✌️🏳️‍🌈💖queer vocab as gaeilge 💖🏳️‍🌈✌️ infographic I see has like aerach, maybe ait, and then the same list of terms that were directly translated from English by USI in like 2016. Cowards. Tell me the slurs.

batman secret files: clownhunter

(ID in alt!)

I say this as someone with mental disabilities, sometimes you just gotta take the L and do it. Maybe it'll cost you and send you into negative spoons but sometimes you gotta. We have a human debt we owe to one another and we have to fight for each other.

Disabilities make things hard to do safely, without pain, etc. Where you can, seek accomodations, ask for help, live your life, and do good in the world in the ways you can.

What we can't do with our disabilities? We can't sit here and wallow and use them as a shield.

Do you think Roman is the most abused kid out of the siblings? Like that Logan was the most abusive towards him

..................no, obviously not?! i don't think anyone's abuse was 'better' or 'worse' than anyone else's because that is absolutely not a thing that exists or could ever be judged!!! dude

look. i think they were all abused in different ways that were uniquely terrible for each of them and are incredibly specific for each character which is totally worth diving into and talking about -- like, i think it's so fascinating and depressing to explore the differing experiences of each kid, but in no way at all is one experience better or easier to heal from than the others. like, i think roman is the only one convinced that he deserves the abuse he received bc he's fundamentally lesser as a person, but i also think kendall has been made to feel responsible for the abuse of all his other siblings and holds himself responsible for any failing of any sort from any of them whatsoever, shiv has had to shove down her entire personality and any desire for love or affection or emotion or anything 'classically feminine' in order to be seen as a human being, and connor is convinced that the only way someone won't neglect and abandon him is if he pays them to stay. so just because in one post i'm focusing on one kid's experience and how it specifically affected them does not mean i'm saying they were 'the most abused' at all, only that this particular issue is unique to that particular kid, just as every other sibling has issues unique to them too!!! that's like asking me if a leaf or an apple has a worse life because both grow on trees. well, leaves get trampled on but apples don't, and apples get eaten but leaves don't! who has it worse? i don't know! both of them, neither of them! their experiences are equal in the harm caused but different in how it was caused and what particular manifestation that harm takes.

i know people ask questions like this about succession all the time but it never fails to absolutely just bewilder me. if you're ever at a point where you're, like, ranking the abuse experienced by fictional people by their fictional father, then you should probably go touch some grass. sorry

ffxiv garlemald discourse is so funny because people will go "ugh people just cant stand it when things aren't black and white" and then you look at how the empire are portrayed in stormblood and shadowbringers and its like hm. that seems like a pretty intense and accurate display of violent imperialism to me! Wow I wonder why people in this day and age may find it hard to feel sympathy for them or even hate them on principal. god its such a mystery.

the games like 50/50 to me on how it tackles these themes because I actually like the garlemald arc in EW, I think it has a lot of horrific and powerful scenes depicting how self destructive fascist propaganda and beliefs are, but I also think it doesn't go far enough on some fronts. the garleans' xenophobia is most notably and obstacle to getting them to accept the contingent's help, which is what they're there to do,

but there's never an admission of harm from any garleans on the uuuuuuuuh massive amount of war crimes the nations around them are still suffering from they're just kind of like "we misjudged you...but you actually wanted to help us all along" like yeah thats great now can we get you all some deprogramming because you keep talking about returning to your prime and glory days and I think we need to unpack some stuff you really SHOULDNT return to. im not even really talking about EW proper but the patches where things are a bit more chilled out and people are recovering.

It feels like they wanted to have their critique of imperialism and also have things end with the beauty of human connection and reaching out and these things just don't mesh well because hey a lot of your modern day audience is not gonna like having to treat people yelling xenophobic things at the cast and your character with kid gloves after you showed them hours and hours of the awful things these people's beliefs have done. especially in the present day hoo boy.

dysgraphic artiƨts risɘ UP!!!!!

I NEED Zelda lore with good historical allegories PLEASE hire me Nintendo I would make so many good metaphorsssss

caroline cossey, sandra caldwell, elizabeth coffey, you truly have been doing the most. 

I don't have much expierience in tickling so could you give some advice about technique? How to move ur fingers etc.?

It really depends on who you’re playing with as we are all unique! You have to take into account that every body is different, and every body is going to react differently to tools and touch.

❗️Negotiating is mandatory! You have to discuss with your play partner/s how they like to be touched, how they don’t like to be touched, if they have sour spots, where you can touch them, where you can’t touch them, if they like certain tools, if they don’t want certain tools near them, if they like finger tips but not nails, etc. Every body part, every body!

Some people don’t like rough tickles. Some people may only respond to light tickles in this spot, but rough in another. Some people are feather ticklish, but get nothing from brushes. Some people like mouth tickles, some people don’t. There’s all these different scenarios unique to every single one of us.

There really isn’t one right technique to tickle. You really have to negotiate with who you’re playing with, come up together with how the session will play out, how they like to be teased and tickled, and take things slow as you explore and experiment with them! You can discover alongside each other what you both like and dislike! Just like sex is a skill, kink is a skill too! We don’t start off as perfect players, we learn through experience and discussions! Overtime you’ll come into your role/s and have your own techniques!

the unexpected aspec experience of opening up a word document to write more pages for an ~adult~ fic, happily writing a little bit, and then suddenly being completely uninterested in the subject material anymore. 0/10 very inconvenient, finishing this fic will take forever at this rate

Artist Problems:

You can create intirciate imagery, colour the rainbow and beyond, imagine things that don't exsist and wield your creative tools with mastery.....

But for SOME reason... writing words and signatures just looks like chicken scratch with a side of dumpster fire mixed with scribbles and shame upon your family.

Another is you can fold Origami stupid tiny and with complex folding techniques but ya CANNOT wrap a damn birthday present to save your life.

at this point it looks like when i write linebeck i Have to include some kind of breakdown scene or moment

i understand why many fountain pen users prefer subdued, more professional ink colours but the thing about me is i dont use my pens much outside of drawing and writing in my planner or oc idea notebook so i’m armed with three jinhaos and one kakuno each with a different shimmer ink at all times

also signing documents with in glittery pink is awesome

When writing, did you ever suffer from a fear or underdelivering or misrepresenting a topic? If you did, how did you overcome it? I enjoy writing but rarely bring it to the public out of fear that I am either not doing good enough or badly portraying the themes or aspects of what I write.

Absolutely, and on the one hand it's a very healthy fear - it prompts you to do your research and be thoughtful in how you write. On the other hand you've just got to accept that occasionally it will happen. Inculturation is a hell of a thing, and leaves us all with a thousand kneejerk preconceptions and perceptions of the world, some benign and some downright awful. And sometimes they crop up no matter how thoughtful you try to be. And you gotta understand that when it happens and people call you on it, you just have to take your lumps and learn what you can from it.

It doesn't help, of course, that the words you write are only ever half of what your audience reads: five people reading the same book are reading five different books, each filtering the text through a lifetime of psychology and experience. And they will find themes and problems in there you never even considered, and they will also find resonances and beauty in your work that you could never have foreseen.

At the end of the day, writing stuff thats meaningful to you (hell, writing anything at all) is a messy, bruising business, and anybody who tells you there are simple solutions or clear rules to follow is either lying to you or to themselves.

But you can't let it paralyse you. Its like if you're playing football and you're worried about falling over. It's a reasonable fear and you should do your best to avoid it, but occasionally it's gonna happen, and unless you want to spend the whole game just standing still in a field, you've kinda just got to get on with it. Just try not to be one of those writers who's always taking dives and... screaming for the ref to get a free kick? Hm. That analogy may have gotten away from me. I don't actually know much about football.

Point is, I'm aware that this isn't the most reassuring writing advice I've ever given, but yeah, its a messy, scary business. Just do your best. Be thoughtful. Be kind. And always do your research.