#we're All Valid
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Just wanted to reaffirm to myself and the world that romance-favorable aros are valid. Greyromantics, demiromantics and any other aro-spec identities that experience occasional romantic attraction are valid. Aromantics who for whatever reason still desire and take part in romantic relationships are valid.
It's been a bit of a rough ride to get to where I know this to be true. When I first found out I was aroace, I felt broken for identifying as aroace and still wanting to get married someday. It felt like I was lying in some way, or that I was betraying the aromantic community by wanting what by definition of being aromantic, I should never want. I felt guilty knowing my future partners would feel things towards me that I would never be able to feel in return.
I know that most of the aromantic affirmations are themed around wanting to make sure that aromantics in general know they are valid in an amatonormative world. Most aromantics experience the exact opposite problem as me, not feeling valid in having zero desire for romantic relationships (which is of course valid, romance-indifferent, romance-averse and romance-repulsed aros are very much valid). But there is next to nothing on the internet that I've been able to find saying that it's okay to be aromantic and romance favorable. You're not betraying the community in some way. You're valid too.
So here's that post. If you are romance-favorable and aro-spec, you're valid too. Don't feel as though your identity forces you into a box. The label that fits you best isn't tailor made specifically for you and you can do whatever you want to make it your own.
#aromantic#aromanticism#romance favorable#romance favorable aroace#romance favorable aromantic#romance favorable aroallo#greyromantic#demiromantic#aro spec#been feeling like im not quite doing anything right recently#some of it is in regards to my aro-spec identity and desiring a romantic relationship someday#it once again feels like im doing something very wrong#so i wanted to remind myself#and everyone who finds this#that im valid#you're valid#we're all valid
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*holding snw characters in my hands like a precious rock collection* i just think they're pretty and neat
#all these people fighting over spirk v spapel and canon vs non-canon and tos v snw#and i'm just vibing with my emotional support space nerds ✌🏼#no one needs to feel guilty for liking it or not liking it#we're all valid#snw#strange new worlds#star trek#star trek strange new worlds#she speaks
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our teacher told us to write an essay about any topic we'd like
sir, prepare to read paragraphs upon paragraphs about asexuality and aromanticism and how platonic relationships are just as good as everything else and not everyone has to have romance and sex in their lives to be fulfilled
#i'd say i pulled an all nighter for this but i passed out somewhere around 1am and now im cramming everything 2hours before school#but still#this is for the grades#and for the world to know that we exist and we're valid#asexual#asexuality#aromantic#aroace#aspec#aroace pride#asexuals are valid
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✨January 1st Moodboard✨ 😍💖🤡
#OFMD#Our Flag Means Death#OFMD Season 3#The Art of Clownery#...SJDKHSDJKLS WE'RE SO BACK BAYBEEEE WE'RE SO BACK#clownery at its ~*~Finest~*~#oooooo max you want to validate us so so bad oooooooooo#you want to let the gays win so so bad ooOOOoOOOooo#YOU WANT TO PUT SOME BACKING BEHIND ALL OF THESE SEEMINGLY SUSPICIOUS INSTA CAPTIONS SO SO BAD OOOOOOOOOO#please max im crying rn#i just want to see ed and stede get married#is that SO WRONG#IS THAT TRULY TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR
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Happy pride month everyone!!
#hope y'all can celebrate and be happy this month#we're all valid and deserve to be happy#pride month#lgbtq#bungou stray dogs#bungou gay dogs#bsd#dazai#bsd memes
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Nano being in November really is so silly, they're like "this aligns with zero academic breaks, starts right when seasonal depression hits, and also it's time to start worrying about traveling and gift giving for the holidays" like come on 😅 u are all so brave
#i know they do a thing in july to address this#but it really should just! be in the summer!!#100% of the times i have skipped nano (ive only done it once lmao) have been for this reason#FOR the record: this is an extremely lighthearted comment#everyone's process and time management and schedule is different and valid et al#nano would not be for me any month if we're being real#I take deadlines as suggestions under any and all circumstances lmao
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In all seriousness, though. One of my favorite things about this last episode of Critical Role is that I was a week behind when it aired and the ONLY spoiler I truly saw was the Imodna kiss. Like, there were vague mentions about Chet’s kidnapping and Vax marble screaming, but other than that... nothing. And even then it was SUPER vague to the point I didn’t even understand the spoilers. Meaning...
I literally had no idea that they legit showed Imogen’s mother, Ludinus, and Ira on Ruidus until I watched the full ep. That’s how absolutely batshit we all went for the sapphics and honestly? Completely valid.
#critical role#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#imodna#the fandom literally just said yeah yeah the people on the moon we've all seen it#but what about the KISSING SAPPHICS?#and we're valid
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the only correct way to draw them:
Beelzebub has to fit in Gabriel's pockets
Gabriel has to be kaiju sized
Gabriel has to have ultra yaoi hands
Gabriel's head scale to his body is 1:36
#ineffable bureaucracy#good omens#good omens 2#this is obviously joking btw#I firmly believe everyone can draw them however they want#these are beautiful characters that deserve the kind of respect and love you wanna give them#whatever your headcanon or your style for them is valid don't let people say otherwise#don't gatekeep in fandoms we're all here to have fun
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tumblr when i make a normal tawog post:
tumblr when i make a tawog post with rob in it:
#is the gumblr tag claimed by anyone#cuz if it isnt i vote that we use that from now on#its right there. like we dont even have to do anything its just perfect#anyway i love this for us. love that we're all so nuts about this one guy who's only crime is being tall and a failure#and also possibly dead#shout-out to everyone who posts stuff unrelated to him#you guys are VALID and APPRECIATED#gumblr#the amazing world of gumball#tawog#rob tawog#tawog rob#rob wrecker#tomothy rambles
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pretty please, my fellow progressives
Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?
And most of all, that it is false??
No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?
No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?
No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.
It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.
We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."
Doesn't work.
Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.
We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.
Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.
#antisemitism#anti-semitic#yes this is about how gentiles use zionism#yes this is about how fast it went from 'this isn't NECESSARILY antisemitic' to 'this ISN'T antisemitic'#yes this is about claiming that we claim antisemitism to deflect valid criticism#yes this is part of a larger pattern of violating every progressive standard but only for jews#none of us would ever say 'people are just claiming misogyny to deflect valid criticism'#we would never claim that trans people secretly control or “influence” the government#we would never treat Ukrainians like “'noble savages” who need us to speak for them#but we treat Palestinians like “noble savages” who need us to speak for them#we know to center the people affected and uplift their voices in every other situation#but in this situation we ignore the fact that we're supporting palestinians by talking ABOUT them#we swallow far-right Palestinian propaganda channeled through diaspora organizations#while Palestinians in Gaza demand completely different solutions and support#zionists echo Palestinian solutions and experiences because we know people in Israel and Palestine#and we get told we love genocide or just blocked#this is how Hamas propaganda is designed to work. Hamas has systematically silenced Palestinians for 18 years and now it's all you know#it is genuinely terrifying to see the entire progressive community sound exactly like the alt-right while it absolutely insists it's not#we also know to center marginalized people's voices about what harms them -- except the Jews?#honestly I think that progressives listened before Oct 7 and that the “no we just mean ZIONISTS are evil” has done wonders to reverse that#let's be real the zionists-not-jews trope comes from Hamas too#all it had to do was claim it definitely meant Zionists not Jews and that it was the Palestinian resistance and progressives flocked to it#its fighters were calling home from the massacre to boast about how many Jews they had killed. it has not changed.#i suppose that the zionists-not-jews thing gave freedom to unexamined antisemitism that people felt guilty about#but oh my god it caught on like absolute wildfire#wall of words
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I wanted to make a post like this for a while, but since i was asked the question i can make it here!
i'm also speaking as an actual black person....so if you don't like these conversations where black people speak on black issues and how we feel, then just ignore this.
So in the past, yeah I agreed with this but my opinion has kinda changed with TF One.
However, I am still extremely uncomfortable seeing depictions of Black human formers Megatron because most of it, especially in ship art is extremely racist and relies on racist stereotypes of black men being abusive, violent, and problematic when his partners are drawn white or lightskinned (i see this all the time in megastar and megaop art. megatron is portrayed as the huge brutal black man and starscream/optimus are the small white twinks who are being beaten by him - it's gross and racist but for some reason it's common).
In general, I think it can be harmful to make a slave character, who inevtibly turns into a genocidal war lord and a generally awful person, a black person (even with his redemption arcs). it also racializes slavery, when we know that slavery doesn't have a race, and Megatron himself is a gladiator. Gladiators are slaves, and one of the most famous gladiators was from Thracia. This again is mostly a fan issue, because I at least have always seen Megatron coded as white in the comics and in the shows. In many depictions, he has a European accent, voiced by white European people (posh english lmao, or in ES Scottish).
That said, in TF One, I'm willing to let it slide. That's because Megatron isn't the only slave. Optimus, who is voiced by a white man, is also a slave, as is Elita, and Bumblebee. I think you know, not racializing slavery and having this notion that slave = black by default, is what makes it okay.
I still wouldn't feel super comfortable seeing Black megatron fanart because again, none of the depictions have been good in my opinion, as a Black person. And i mean none of them, and I do wonder where the thought in this fandom came from that making a person who canonically is violent and aggressive, was okay, just because he happened to be a slave. It is a far too common trope that I see in fanfic and fanfart, especially again...in a shipping sphere.
But I think TF One is able to balance it out, and since this is D-16, he is. a lot calmer, kinder, etc. I think things can get in muddy area when he eventually does turn into Megatron and he becomes the genocidal tyrant we all know and love....especially when you make the black one of the group the one who chooses violence whereas the white voices ones don't.
but who knows? My opinions are ever changing depending on how things are handled.
if you disagree with this, that's fine just do so respectfully and i mean at least be black
#megatron#transformers#transformers one#yeah humanformers megastar and megaop artist who draw megatron black need to get their tablets taken away - unless u plan to draw optimus#or star black but other than that y'all are NASTY- esp with how it's handled in megastar - CHILE#I ALSO kinda like that we're gonna see megatron turn evil#not that i mind the abundance of redemption arcs he gets#but i tend to think fans forget that he was a villain at a point#or at least#that's how i say it#i find that nowadays when i speak of megatron as being a villain#people look at me like i have two heads#i love good grandpa megatron#but i also like him being a villain#the woofbifiers got him#because peopel get mad mad when you say he is a villain#and tend to forget that he did all of this#which is why i LOVE in earthspark how thrash is able to be mad at him and he's valid in that#but aside from that - i want him to be a villain just straight up#but i also am going to love the kind personality we get from him in tf one
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Ashton and Laudna looking at each other and like a funhouse mirror of something awful, something awful, a death that already passed, feeling shattered beyind repair, feeling like a dead body walking. Ashton and Laudna looking at each other and seeing similarities and then speaking and hearing differences. Of fucking course we're not past redemption. I think we're fucked but there's still hope from here. Gotta be the best broken thing we can be.
There's pretenses and kooky personalities and the kind of abrasive that's meant to draw out truth.
Dead bodies walking through a howling storm, buffeted by wind and sands and lies, and somewhere in all that yelling and chaos there's a line of understanding. Like a rope in a sandstorm.
#its about: we shouldve died and we still dont really feel alive. awful things happened but we're here#I FEEL SO VALIDATED IN ALL OF MY OLDER METAS#critical role#cr spoilers#c3e32#laudna#ashton#cr liveblogging#character meta#laudna meta#ashton meta#my meta#dying buddies
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okay, apparently this needs to be said because some people can't come to this conclusion on their own, but if you don't like to see people criticising or hating on your fave characters or you fave game, then maybe social media isn't for you, or maybe you should go to reddit, where no one's allowed to have an opinion unless they're riding rc's cock. either that, or start choosing lis that aren't so awful or problematic, because obviously you can't deal with people having a different opinion to yours
#and i am not shaming people who have different tastes. i can understand why someone would find amrit appealing. i guess#but you can't blame other people for feeling like amala dating her cousin is fucking weird and nasty. because it's valid#if you get upset by this stuff i'm gonna assume you're either a child or immature. and to that i'll say either get out of here because -#- this app is Not for minors. or grow the fuck up#let's stop with the bullshit because we're all tired#romance club
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look. sometimes you feel the urge to make a silly little four hour playlist about a fictional blonde woman you're in love with and it's called being a dyke i can't help it
#welp! its been long enough. give the ppl what theyre waiting for<3#hi guys whats up welcome to my channel we're back with a buffy the vampire slayer playlist about you guessed it! the only valid blonde<3#its all in order pls no shuffling i love to make things as complicated as possible have fun!#and if this gets two notes well. itd be pretty funny tbh#caroline.txt#my playlists
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So I think I'm over my Obey Me Phase or like at least over Nightbringer because it's Season was shit but just you know food for thought...
Aint it funny how MC is now completely isolated from other humans/their friends/family/pets?
Like my friend and I were talking about it and like imagine MC has HUMAN/MORTAL family and friends that they talk to every time they were separated from the brothers. Like whenever the Immortals really tries them or pushes them they can go to their human friends for like a palate cleanser and a clear head/remind themselves and ground them to the reality of their situation/support from NOT blind lemmings. Like sort of remind them that they're still human and not on the same playing field as immortal Demons/Angels/Sorcerers
But now in Nightbringer that's literally stripped from them; MC has NO ONE outside of the Brothers/Immortals they're literally FORCED to bond with their circle of dysfunctionals and its like now you are stuck in that toxic friend circle because literally your circle of support hasn't been born/exist yet. That's fucking horrific.
No wonder MC is far more clingy and annoying in Nightbringer than they are in OG; Every lesson is a chip away at their original personality and sanity to replace it to the codependent creep MC is now lol.
#obey me nightbringer#obey me#obey me MC#obey me nightbringer MC#MC is so fucking annoying this is the only headcanon i can work with#No but like its so creepy because i always imagined MC balanced their human life and their Devildom life to stay rational but now#Well now with no circle of human/mortal supporters like their friends and family theyre literally forced to cling to the brothers#Its so terrifying about Nightbringer thats why Im still so upset we're stuck in the Past#Its shit like this that makes me unable to enjoy Time Travel Shit like I want to go for Boba with my friends but I cant do that#No i cant do that because I got a toxic friend group to babysit#No but like MC seems more stupid and clingy so my guess is theyre mentally unraveling to the point they just dont want to be alone#Like begging for validation and attention from anyone especially the immortals#Pray for MC theyre going into their codependent phase now#Don't worry; just like with real friends theyre not gonna break out of this for years until they get the courage#Which we all know MC doesnt have the balls to drop the brothers/Immortals like bad habits lol#Ima play with this headcanon until MC stops sucking or we go back to the future.#I miss MC's family and friends who have to live with the fact the immortals took them from them again
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people having an "oh no he's hot" moment about brennan in my notes: ‼️this is a canon event and I cannot intervene‼️
#brennan lee mulligan#but for all those that already been knew too#i see you and we're valid#if you don't think he's hot i don't need to know ♥️
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