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inkskinned · 10 months

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i got my isbn today for the book. 8 months to go. my mom and i were talking about what the next steps are. i was eating trail mix, standing on one foot, phone tucked into my ear.

"yeah," i said. "the problem is that tumblr as a market is like, not something that can be studied." there's this weird wave of nostalgia and affection for this place that came up over me: how lovely we avoid consumerism. okay, it sucks as a creator. but also? keep stickin' it to 'em.

my mother made the sound at the back of her throat that i also make, the one that means i've got an idea. "you should figure out some kind of reward for presale amounts. maybe you give out poems or a mug or a signed book or something. would your followers like that?" my mother is sweet, and kind, and i have no idea how to explain on this website you can buy someone crabs.

i put more m&ms down the hatch. i had to speak through peanuts and almonds. "if it passes 25 thousand i will print the book out in its entirety and eat it live on camera."

"oh god. no, you don't have to do that." she was anguished. "just tell them that you'd love them to read it, and that they've inspired you to write. you got started on that site, and they helped you keep going. raquel, you love these people. the community? you talk all the time about the other writers and artists and whatever else. tell them that you're hoping for their support, they'll come through."

"no," i assured her. i discovered i had dropped an m&m, but an ant had already found it, so it belonged to him now. i will let his little life have a surprise blue treasure in it, too. "i'm gonna fuckin' eat the book."

#writeblr #:)#the small secret love i have for y'all. the way i am filled with gratitude.#for the nosebleed club. for stephen particularly.#for every artist i've ever been in contact with and collaborated with.#for every person who has commented on my work and passed it along or fallen in love with it #for every silent 'just hitting like' follower and for every person who sends me dms and for each of you #i know i suck at replying bc i have anxiety. but like. you keep being here. so i keep writing.#i legit wouldn't be here without you.#thank you sophie thank you katie thank you carolyn thank you stephanie thank you jess #thank you if you're reading this #i got too overwhelmed with love and have to stop writing this FAR too early into the thank yous bc im about to cry with love

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cangrellesteponme · 2 months

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#yeah i'm not dead woo let's celebrate #my art #kuroshitsuji #kuroshitsuji fanart #black butler #black butler fanart #grelle sutcliff #grell sutcliff #anyway i didn't draw SHIT for a good while and when i got back to it i suddenly hated using the flat marker brush???#it's part of what makes my signature distinctive so i used it for that but yeah i switched brushes #oddly enough i'm not hating the more textured look? it gets very pixelated at times but it's not awful #back to the signature- it felt weirdly nice to sign things again #i haven't in a while #if you're one of the very few people who also follow me on instagram you'll know i don't use it on there #and the only art i've been doing these days has been original work so yeah nothing on tumblr #and thus the words 'brain exhaustion god stan' have not been written by this comically large hand in a hot minute #enough rambling this is just grelle art because i love her and i know y'all love her too so i thought it would be a nice comeback piece

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coffeecatcraze · 3 months

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I would just like to say how hard it hits me in the chest to see Charlie masking every time she's onscreen the day before the fight (including what we see on Vox's spy screens of course), except when no one is with her but Vaggie. Even during her emotional speech she tries so damn hard to keep that confidence up and smile on. But we do see her stop masking twice, when the only person watching her is Vaggie.

First:

No one's really paying attention to her, and she's not smiling; she's worried. When Vaggie approaches her, she doesn't put on a happy face. She talks about her mom with the same smile as in the first episode (during a very emotionally vulnerable moment with Vaggie, might I add). It's not happy or confident. It's nostalgic, wistful, and sad, because her mom's absence is something very personal and painful for her. When Vaggie asks if they're ready, Charlie doesn't instantly start to smile or answer with confidence even though she usually would (even within that short beat of time), because her mask is off. She's not confident or optimistic. She's scared. She's not ready.

Then Pentious comes out and she's all smiles again! The mask comes back on when someone other than Vaggie is there.

Second:

Of course, one of our favorite scenes. Charlie's alone when she breaks down, but when Vaggie shows up, she keeps the mask off. She admits how scared she is. When she does smile, it's not the big smile she's been throwing on throughout the day, and it's not strained either. It's soft, gentle, and real. She's not masking. Vaggie is genuinely making her feel better when she's finally letting herself fall apart, just by being there and reminding her that no matter what happens, she's already accomplished so much, and she's so loved.

Charlie is under a lot of stress and pressure. She's scared. She's not as optimistic as she's making herself out to be. She's giving everything she's got out there being a strong, confident, inspirational leader and friend in front of everyone, and it's only with Vaggie that she lets it go. She doesn't have to try to be strong. She doesn't pretend. She lets down her guard, because for her, Vaggie is that one infinitely special person who gets to see every part of her; the one person she can always be her honest self with.

There were plenty of times in other episodes when Charlie didn't mask her negative emotions around people, but that was when she didn't have anyone looking to her as a leader. She's running on adrenaline and the weight of people's expectations as Extermination Day gets closer, and she can't let the mask she's put on slip in public. She has to seem like she's totally ready for what's coming. But Vaggie is different.

The amount of trust and love Charlie has for her is staggering. She's under an insane amount of stress and pressure, and having Vaggie by her side is probably the only thing keeping her from completely falling to pieces. Seeing a relationship so full of deep trust and love is absolutely beautiful. <3

#hazbin hotel #chaggie #charlie morningstar #vaggie #no i am not saying her usual attitude is always a mask #just that when you're known to be a certain kind of person it becomes an automatic mask sometimes #and from these two moments and the situation as a whole it looks like that's what was happening here #she's probably spent the last month trying increasingly hard to keep up a face of confidence and fearlessness #except with the one person who's by her side and not following her #they are PARTNERS and that word means so much

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bitegore · 6 months

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Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

#red rambles #viva palestina #antizionism #i haven't actually seen a lot of antisemitism personally. not recently anyway. but that's more a feature of me not following antisemites #i DO however see a lot of people talking about the people they're seeing throw their support behind antisemites using palestine #as an excuse to conflate all jews with israel #and i cannot stress enough that that is literally what israel and zionist forces abroad WANT.#i am jewish. my entire family is jewish. i want to see palestine free. and i have SEEN how the jewish community gets conflated with israel #both from the inside and out #and i am dead serious when i say that every time someone is antisemitic it strengthens the conviction from people abroad #that it's a terrible sad situation but there's 'no other choice'#if you're being antisemitic you are doing the enemy's work for them. Stop it.#like... look. i am putting this in the tags bc im talking in the tags but i mean this. I do not give a single flying fuck if you personally #are a giant raging antisemite at the moment. Your personal beliefs are your problem and not mine. I do not fucking care. But if you are #being openly and loudly antisemitic *in your support of palestine* you are absolutely not fucking helping. I am so dead serious right now #if you want to raise awareness and you're being antisemitic because of deep held beliefs or whatever i want you to look around and read the #fucking room. Do you understand how much of Israel's international support comes from the idea that they are the only country where jews ar #safe from antisemitism? do you see how every time palestine comes up people point at incidences of antisemitism in anti-genocide actions to #discredit the entire movement? do you not understand how your actions are cutting the movement down at the knees?#i'm jewish and proud of it. i don't like antisemitism. but there's a genocide on and i'd rather work against it than quibble over who i #work alongside. i dont fucking care. you can be as antisemitic as you like in private. stop fucking the movement up.#there are bigger things to worry about here. if i can put aside my own concerns as to who i'm talking to you can hold your tongue #and fight the good fight instead of handing weapons to the people who are trying to fucking flatten gaza.

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aromanticduck · 9 months

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Just to make the distinction between the first two clear:

Option 1 is for people who couldn't follow the plot of a show/film at all without subtitles. (And it should say 'difficulties' - it cut me off)

Option 2 is for people who would miss bits but still get some of it, or who could follow but would have to work really hard to do so.

#subtitles #accessibility #movies #film #television #organic home grown content #polls #no option for 'i have no actual issues following subtitled media but i bitch when people want them on anyway'#because if that's you you're a big ableist baby who doesn't deserve a vote #100 tier

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lazylittledragon · 1 month

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it was nice while it lasted. to have something i actually liked by you. eddie ruins everything

there's a really easy solution here and i'm going to let you figure it out yourself because i do have faith that some people still have functioning brain cells

#ramble #my guy whose house do you think you're in #you're complaining about steddie in the steddie factory #also the implications of the wording are so funny #why were you following me if you didn't like any of my work before mombin #you're so obsessed with me it's everything #usually i let these rot in my inbox bc the idea of anons refreshing every day to see if i've checked is hilarious #but i had to share this with you #not to accuse anyone but are you the same person who brazenly told me my same face syndrome was out of hand

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t00thpasteface · 5 months

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TFW A POPULAR BLOG RANDOMLY REBLOGS YOUR SHITPOST AND NOW YOU HAVE A CONSTANT 99+ ON YOUR ACTIVITY AND A SUDDEN INFLUX OF NEW EYES ON YOUR BLOG WITHOUT ANY TIME TO PREPARE OR LOOK PRESENTABLE

#strange-aeons if you're reading this: hi. thank you so much. love your work. also hi people who follow strange-aeons #shebbz shoutz

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probablybadrpgideas · 1 day

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Paper here!

For those who like our games, we are still working on Forgotten Thicket! Life has just been A Lot lately (I won't talk about Pencil's life but personally I just moved house like a week ago) but it's coming, and we've even got some ideas we're throwing around for game number 4

#not an idea #forgotten thicket #feel like we've talked about this one less that the previous two but again this is because Everything Happens So Much #always happy to answer qs #other than that one person who was like oh why are you talking about the games you're making on here #buddy this is our games-related blog we thought people who follow it might be interested in games

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blondeaxolotl · 19 days

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Small doodles I did on my tablet for fun!!! two are just Alice in Wonderland/Madness Returns AU with Elizabeth and Ran-Mao (and Grell and UT as Cheshire cats)

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carrotkicks · 1 year

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you’re so right that 16!chuuya wouldn’t like 22!chuuya. at that age even though he swore loyalty, he didn’t really want to be in the mafia. he only joined to save the sheep, and part of him wanted detective murase to save him and get him out of the mafia in stormbringer. seeing 22!dazai would prove to him in a way that he could leave, and yet 22!chuuya is proof he doesn’t. he’d probably have a lot of conflicted feelings about it.

Chuuya WAS given the chance to get out of the Mafia! He genuinely didn't want that life, even if he says otherwise, Even if he argued he chose to join the Port Mafia, he really DIDN'T. And every character he was close to in that era from 15-16ish was trying their hardest to keep him there except! Murase and Verlaine. Chuuya obviously hates verlaine but. Murase is an interesting case because the two of them obviously have a shared history! Chuuya does actually care about Murase, and he really deep down wanted him to bring him to the light and all that. But MURASE DIES! Right in Chuuya's arms, right before his eyes! And the only real chance of leaving dies right alongside him.

So now he's an adult, and he's accepted that "this is the way things are now" and while his relationships have changed, and they way he takes care of himself has changed I'd argue that Chuuya himself as a character hasn't changed much since SB (or even 15 tbh. for such a dynamic personality, he's kinda a static character). He's given up the idea of ever leaving the mafia, and sorta locked himself down, Chuuya /hates/ the idea of 'giving up'. I'm sure if 16 Chuuya looked at himself at 22, he'd find that he's still exactly where he was, just with a fancier coat, and IDK if he'd like that very much.

#ask #something something chuuya's a tragic character #he has a lot of convictions but doesn't follow through a lot of them #he's a hypocrite #he's was just a kid who was being exploited by his environment and now as an adult he's still there. BUT he's still really young!#it's a matter of TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE MAN. you're so passive about some things.#this guuyyy gives me so much to think about

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khihi · 1 day

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if you dislike rpf and think a normal response to someone just having fun with rpf is to steal their hard work and paste it on a more public platform where the real people in question are more likely to see it then i don't think there's much help for you, i think you're probably just addicted to performative morality and are more of an asshole than you realise

#joost klein #putting it on the main tag because i know some of you who are like this lurk here apparently :)#did you know it's so easy to keep scrolling and backlist content and block people!!!! and guess what!!!! it's also free!!!!#listen it takes a lot to rile me up but not only are you an art theif stealing from people with more talent than you have in your pinky #you're also just a dick !#i sure hope you're a child who learned all their morality from tiktok because if you're an adult going around like this then. jfc.#sorry followers and moots etc i am piiiissed offfff rn

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uncanny-tranny · 8 months

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The bourgeois or "exploiting class" doesn't inherently include the person who gets their nails done biweekly, or the disabled person who has a carer, or the guy who got a $70 video game for full-price, or the person who relies on medication (yes even the ones you don't think they "need"), or anything else like this. None of these people will, on average, have the ability to exploit workers by means of ownership or whatever.

While you are busy fighting with fellow workers, you are still being exploited by your boss, by capitalism, by (potentially) not having healthcare, by being overworked and underpaid, and so are they.

#politics #feel like this wording isn't satisfactory for me but fuck it we ball #used bourgeois because i think as a colloquial word it's recognized but like...#...i dunno i think some people use it to mean 'person who can do [x]' even if they quite literally own no means of production #like the idea that you're exploiting a worker by agreeing to a service they provide isn't what bourgeois means #if i paid a carer to care for a disabled person they aren't being exploited by that disabled person...#...HOWEVER that carer absolutely can (and probably will be) exploited by the systems of power (eg their boss or capitalism)#perhaps it's too late at night for me to be posting about this but it's something that bothers me!#*especially* when it comes to disability and other groups already exploited by marginalization 👍#if your leftism percludes the disabled (including the terminally and profoundly) or the elderly or the queer or so so much i don't WANT ITTT #saw a disabled person i follow lament how afraid they were to have a carer out of fear of Being a Bad Exploitative Person #and they obviously need one and that makes me so fucking angry to know that they are needlessly suffering

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bonesandthebees · 2 months

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btw reminder in case anyone gets the wrong idea, just because I'm talking about writing c!wilbur does not mean I support cc!wilbur. I do not support that man in any way and I don't want anyone who supports him still to think I'm on that side. all my writing has only ever been about the character, and when I continue writing the character in the future that's all it is. the fictional character of c!wilbur from the dream smp.

#I usually dont pay attention to who follows me #but I saw in my notifs someone with a wilbur pfp who supports wilbur just followed me #so I blocked them #I'm not going to comb through my followers to block everyone who still supports him bc i have way too many followers to do that #but just know you're not welcome here

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cinimuffin · 7 months

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