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clood · 1 year

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on this day of me making all of the posts, i opened up east of eden to remember i had stopped on this specific page to talk briefly about the following paragraph:

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be human. One would be a monster.”

this is from john steinbeck’s east of eden, published in 1952.

in reading these lines for the first time i felt so disappointed and alienated, and then for a moment i was like, “oh well. this was published in the 50s!”

the trouble is, the sentiment toward asexual folks and asexuality still remains largely the same: we are told we are not normal, we are weird, some might even go so far as steinbeck did and call us inhuman. and shit like this hurts!! whether you see it in a book by an author you love or on your dash in the year of our lord 2023.

to my fellow ace friends, we’re fine just the way we are. we’re wonderful, even!!

idk why i’m really even making this post but like. i had to stop and read the paragraph out loud and process it and feel it, so i guess you do too??? support your ace and aro friends.

#anyway. ace folks are awesome #we are not monsters #asexual #asexuality #clood speaks #another mostly pointless post from yours truly lmao #still wanting to enjoy east of eden though i hear the whole book is insane #but still incredibly disappointed in this attitude

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nonebinary-leftbeef · 10 months

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DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

#i've been listening to icarus by bastille #and for some reason my brain fills in 'this is how it feels to take a fall' as 'this is how it feels to take off all your skin'#and like fuck man #and I KNOW that’s technically not a misheard lyric but my post my rules cope #anyway my line now #also probably phrased this poorly but its ok #im allowed to be incomprehensible #as a treat #and then fuckin #from we sink by of monsters and men #the original line was 'please look away dont look at me'#and i kept hearing it as 'please learn a way to look at me'#anyway #shoving this post in the queue but please be aware that i am writing it very late at night #q

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puddingcatbeans · 1 year

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to be perfectly honest. i don't care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be

#beanstalks #thoughts #tired of all the 'and the real monsters were us all along'#like yea we live in a society (derogatory) but also #we live in a society (in awe)

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iseathegalaxy · 3 months

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"but no one ever bothered to check the seas, so I'm going to"

all of us:

#SEA OF MONSTERS HERE WE GO #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #grover underwood #sea of monsters #pjo spoilers #pjo

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wolvesbaned · 4 months

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please, keep talking about Palestine. Especially during the holidays. keep calling and keep protesting. make every life lost unignorable.

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #art #artists against apartheid #free sudan as well and the congo and haiti #we will see an end to the colonial monster in our lifetime. we have to #star's art #i have/had something bigger planned to post but i'm traveling for the holidays and can't finish it yet

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fumifooms · 2 months

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Omg guys he just genuinely likes bugs and mollusks and critters 😭💘💔 Forced to noble when he just wanna crouch and watch things skitter in the dirt…

#Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #spoilers #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #toshiro nakamoto #shuro #tfw you latch onto the first person you see that shares your interest #I’M SOBBINGGG #Yeah i didn’t know the hag monster tidbit existed so now I’m adding stuff into my masterpost #6 yo toshiro watching a snail and tuning out his nanny calling for him I’m screaming #This post is blowing up so: just for your information I made a masterpost on his whole family situation we do get a lot of info on him #His character goes quite deep it’s just not relevant to the wider story so Kui doesn’t go into details in the plot #So yeah look for that on my blog if you want. Also he likes flowers <3 #Nature lover toshiro

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imissthembutitwasntadisaster · 5 months

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Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.

#the thing is when we create monsters #90% of the time we also make them defeatable

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bluegiragi · 5 months

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work it out (part 2)

early access + nsfw on patreon

#simon you asshole #he knows exactly what he's doing #slow burns gotta slow burn and buddy we are at barely a simmer #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #monster 141 au #giragi art #promise next couple parts will be action packed #have to maintain a mix yknow

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kikicolors · 5 months

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saw the ghoul design in the new fallout tv show

#'we wanted him to be hot'#im so flabbergasted #u know what would be hot? a man that looks like a monster but still has charisma #a ZOMBIE MAN. he doesnt even have contacts??? at least make his sclera jacked up????#pissed #fallout tv show #fallout #fallout 4 #ghouls #body horror

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scruntassdude · 7 months

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i love gary so much he really gets me

bonus:

#finnpost #fionna and cake #marshall lee the vampire king #prince gumball #gumlee #fionna and cake spoilers #i cannot believe we got confirmed monster fucker gary thats so funny to me #real of him tho #in every universe gumball/bubblegum see a dangerous red-themed demon and go 'oh i cant NOT fuck that'#real of them tbh

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milkkbunnz · 1 month

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I need him so so so bad 😩

#dungeon meshi #ryoko kui #art #digital art #sketchbook #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laios touden from dungeon meshi i need you so bad come home we can be monster loving freaks together <:(#fanart

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pianta · 2 months

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my variant cover for Monster High Pride 2024 !! 💕

#monster high #kieran valentine #spelldon cauldronello #spellentine #mh g1 #pride #art #illustration #naoart #i didnt have drawing official monster high art on my 2024 bingo card bUT HERE WE ARE #I ALSO GOT TO DESIGN SPELLDON AHHHHHH

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chalkrub · 1 year

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do you think it’s a friendly wolf

#my art #werewolf #anthro #furry #wolf #oc #els #illustration #the answer is NO but we should also remember looks can be deceiving #guys i accidentally started buying pokemon cards again. i'm never going to financially recover from this #but have you seen the crown zenith subset with full art cards of underappreciated pokemon....did you see....I NEED it #i haven't brought ANY cards since early sun/moon and even then it was just a little collector's box because i wanted the arceus pin/promo #please god forgive me for spending money on pokemon cards again PLEASE #i'm your weakest soldier anud i require your strongest card pulls so i can get simisear vstar thank you amen #and also bibarel thievul lumineon and miltank thank you amen #GRAAAAAGAGHHH WHY DID I SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON PIECES OF CARD I'M NOT RIGHT IN THE HEAD!!!!#monster art

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just-a-sewer-goblin · 6 months

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I want a beauty and the beast where he's a monster and gets cursed to be a human. And the woman comes and they fall in love and yada yada. But he gets hesitant whether he wants the curse broken because what if she thinks he's scary as his original form?! So he talks about it with her and she's like "you big doofus I love you no matter what" and he turns back and is very shy and hesitant and "what if she's scared now!?" Meanwhile she's like already taking off her clothes

#the sewer croaks #beauty and the beast #because lets be honest we were all disappointed when he turned back #monsterfucker #monster x human #beauty x beast #shy monster

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thhecaptainschair · 4 months

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Watching Percy kill a Fury with Medusa’s head through Annabeth’s eyes permanently altered my brain chemistry

#I never imagined a quiet monster death #but here it was perfect #because that scene wasn’t about killing a fury #it was about annabeth’s changing view of percy #and percy slowly becoming the hero we know him as #honestly everything about this episode was phenomenal #pjotv #pjotv spoilers #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #annabeth chase #captain’s log

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tofixtheshadows · 1 month

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So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.

#Dungeon Meshi #Dungeon Meshi meta #Mithrun #Milsiril #Kabru #btw I'm working with the only translations I could find sorry #so keep that in mind #like it just seemed WEIRD to me #that gloomy introverted Milsiril #who left the life of a Canary behind #decided to do this Canary-adjacent work of helping this guy #maybe the queen made her do it because so many people died and they needed more Canaries idk!#but why would anyone pick Milsiril as a life coach? I really think it was her own choice #it's so interesting how we get these hints of a downright sinster Milsiril #I really like the complicated relationship she and Kabru have #struggling to fully humanize him from her elven perspective #but still taking him seriously wrt: his fears over being a monster or his desire to go to a party!#crazy stuff there #everything about Kabru and adjacent to Kabru is insane what a character #musings with Dea

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