The First's reactions to encountering Bigfoot in the woods :)
*During a collective mission where Zack decided to take a detour to hunt for Bigfoot*
Sephiroth: We've been walking for an hour. Are you certain this is the location of the rumored Bigfoot sightings?
Zack: Yeah! It's cool, I just need to set up the camera, the bear trap, the bait and the net to catch him.
Sephiroth: Provoking Bigfoot is unwise. No creature appreciates being deceived and trapped. It could escalate to violence, leading us to kill it and ultimately having to transport the creature back to HQ where it will be dissected by Professor Hojo, thus angering it further in the afterlife.
*There's rustling in the trees behind Sephiroth*
Zack: Hey....
Sephiroth: Have you considered the possibility that Bigfoot has a mother waiting for him at home?
*More rustling and now a giant shadow appears behind Sephiroth*
Zack: !?
Sephiroth: No, you haven't. Another foolish mistake.
Zack: B...bih...big-bigfoo-b-b-bigfoo...
Sephiroth: You're very fortunate that the chances of this creature actually existing are slim. Otherwise, you'd risk facing its wrath and being mauled to death.
Zack, petrified: B-b-bi...b...
Sephiroth: What? What is it?
*Sephiroth turns around, meanwhile Zack runs out of the woods. Sephiroth doesn't follow him*
(20 minutes later)
*Genesis and Angeal are finishing up the job when Zack runs out of the woods screaming*
Zack: BIGFOOT HAS SEPHIROTH!
Genesis: What did I tell you about eating the mushrooms we find in the woods?
Zack: NO, REALLY. BIGFOOT GOT HIM!
Angeal: Bigfoot doesn't exist.
Zack: YES HE DOES! GO HELP HIM!
*Genesis and Angeal run back into the woods*
Genesis: I'll handle this creature, Angeal! Trust me, I'll dispose of it with a single strike. No one touches a SOLDIER 1st Class and gets away unscathed!
*They come face to face with bigfoot*
*Genesis is frozen in terror and disbelief*
Genesis: ......
Angeal: SHIT! IT'S REAL? GENESIS, HIT IT WITH A SPELL!
Genesis: ......
Angeal: REALLY? THIS IS JUST LIKE THE TIME YOU SAW A COCKROACH IN THE COMMUNAL SHOWERS.
*Angeal grabs Genesis, throws him over his shoulder and runs out the woods again*
Zack: Did you kill it? Did you find Sephiroth??
Angeal: We didn't see Sephiroth!
Genesis: The wretched beast cast a petrify spell on me.
Angeal: Oh PLEASE.
Zack: Wait, Sephiroth is still in there!? Oh no! I have to go save him!
*Zack darts back in the woods, hoping Sephiroth is still alive*
Zack: How could we all leave him? What kind of a friends are we? What if bigfoot ate him already? What if—
*Zack runs into bigfoot, quiet, docile and happy as Sephiroth is petting him*
Zack:
Bigfoot:
Sephiroth: He's a very friendly creature.
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Listen, I've been missing a lot of what's going on, but I'm throwing in my hat to say that I don't support whatever the hell is happening in syscourse right now
The flood of people and the extreme hate filling every single system tag, whether syscourse related or not, is nothing short of disgusting
Watching these "anti endos" try and fail to argue points rationally and respectfully is nothing short of embarrassing and I hope you all lose internet for a month
To the big name being thrown around as leading this failing crusade of hate, I hope you, specifically, lose internet for 3 months and that internet withdrawal and anxiety keeps you up at night and your sheets are soaked with night sweats
This blog has never supported HATE, violence, or threats
This blog supports respectful, productive discussions of sources and ideas
If you can't back up your claim with even a single valuable or reliable source supporting it, just don't make the fucking claim
Just stop talking
You're giving people more ammo to use against CDD systems, you're making it so that people are more likely to dismiss actual research and facts, you make everyone look bad and are making people more distrustful of good faith discussions
You're not making a difference or helping anyone, even yourselves
You are a negative in every sense of the word
You are a detriment to the CDD community and the progress we've made
You are making things worse
Your attitude and behaviour is gross, and I don't think that any person with even a shred of decency, intelligence, or kindness can argue against that
This blog is open to everyone who wants to learn and grow, but I will not tolerate hate in the community I'm trying to foster
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Since u talk about transmisogyny a lot on here, I'd like to confess: I did follow transandrophobia blogs for a while on here because I thought, well, it's nice that there is a specific word that makes it easier to navigate to find specific things relevant to my own experiences, surely? I realized after a while the only time these topics really get brought up is as a defense to why the term has value, rather than engaging in discussions relevant to actual transphobia against transmasculine people. It felt like it was never elaborated upon beyond vague mentions of these things, and then otherwise, it was discourse about the word itself. As you can probably expect transmisogyny was only mentioned in passing, so I didn't understand much about it for a long time. I believe it was your posts deconstructing transandrophobia that made me understand why, exactly, the word wasn't useful at all, and also why this framework exists largely as a way to attack trans women who criticize the word, whether the people involved are aware of that or not (relevant to say their ignorance can be just as harmful!!) Once I realized that, and how little transandrophobia truthers listen about transmisogyny on top of that, it made all of the discussion about solidarity just ring hollow. Ended up blocking the handful of people I knew from that circle. it sucks that communities like this exist but I want to let you know I really appreciate you discussing transmisogyny openly, I imagine it's hard, stressful and exhausting in a lot of ways, and I don't think it's something just anyone could/should/has the means to undertake, but I hope you know that it does make a difference. People like you making an effort to discuss topics in good faith and going through the ordeal of re-explaining things does wonders for those of us willing to listen. Still listening now! so again, thank you, and I hope you're taking care of yourself <3
Hey this is really awesome to hear!! I try to keep myself approachable and relatively non-judgmental for just this reason. People who are willing to listen and consider other issues and change your beliefs i love you
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tobi, can you give me some advice? there's a tattoo artist i really like, but i'm worried i'm annoying them by over-communicating. i totally get wanting to LIKE the person who you're going to have to sit with for several hours, and i am so chill in person. i just have a lot of things i want to them be able to draw on for my design (not requiring they use all of them, just like. Here's a dream board of content to get the vibe) and i worry i'm being too much :( have you ever encountered this? or can you maybe give me an artist's perspective?
The way I see it, a tattoo artist will have a ton of different clients all with different communication styles. If I have a very talkative client, that's just their communication style and tattooing is a service based industry so I will meet those clients on their level to give them the best possible experience.
Even if a client is "annoying," it's my job to conmunicate clearly, and if I need a break I am my own boss and I decide when to take that break and come back and answer emails and such.
I personally prefer a client to be overly talkative than someone who has no idea what they want but still want to know how much it will cost. You wouldn't believe how many messages I get that are just "how much for an arm tattoo i want a name" and you think they mean something little on their wrist but they actually wanted a huge cursive deco font that covers their entire forarm.
Regardless of the communication skills of the client, its the artists job to make sure they have what they need and to not be a dick about it. I have heard now and then of artists being dicks to their clients over their ideas and honestly my advice is if that's the case, don't go to that artist.
They're already stabbing you with a needle and getting paid by you for it, they don't have any right to be an asshole on top of that.
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while it would no doubt be bad for the maybe three chill and normal nice people vaguely adjacent to those communities, a bitter part of me does wish the yankee centric (dare i say the US and Canada only) ~vintage 70's lesbian pins~ "i reblogged a picture of marsha P johnson so please ignore the fact i keep accidentally reblogging from open terfs" "queer history by which i mean Urban US queer history" industrial complex would dry up or get its act together a bit.
like if there was even a fraction of the pushback for being mutuals with crypto terfs and reblogging transmisogynistic shit as there is for when a trans girl accidentally fucks up or even just says something kinda rude, then half the most annoying userbase on the website would be dead.
idk maybe I'm being a bitch but I roll my eyes so hard when people make US Queer history out as some universal thing and make some 80's pride march their header etc and treat marsha p johnson as some kind of figure of redemption for transmisogyny ("trans women of colour threw the first bricks at stonewall so I don't need to unpack anything or stop reblogging weird transmisogynists").
I'm glad ur having fun in Ur imaginary better past but that wasn't actually a better time, especially if you're black and/or transfem. same with like riot grrl nostalgia. like just come on now we all know why *you* think it was a better era.
"know your roots, by which i mean california in the 70's"
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Danny gets punted into the DC universe for some reason and proceeds to haunt Gotham because it’s gothic and there’s this hero cave with a bunch of cool tech (he misses Sam and Tucker) and this big family (he misses his mom and his dad and his big sis). He helps the vigilantes there with their battles and writes info he learns from spying on rogues on sticky notes (he misses clockwork) to leave by the files in the batcave. He thinks he’s being slick and stealthy but all the batfam realizes he’s there and basically pspspspspsps him into the family and somehow Danny never catches on
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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.
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Every so often I come across people going on about 'queer is a bad word, I'm not a terf but we shouldn't use that word in community/academic/etc settings, don't call me queer' and just
Okay
You're not queer
I won't call you that, no one should call you that, and anyone that does is being an asshole regardless of their identity or minority status. It doesn't matter what reasoning you have behind not wanting to be labelled as queer, what trauma you may or may not have, what you've identified as in the past and present, and whether or not your preference just comes to not liking the vibe of the word for entirely inscrutible reasons. No one has any right to pry.
If you say you're not queer, then you're not queer, and that's okay.
It just also means that if I, a queer person, talk about the queer community, then I'm not referring to you. If an academic refers to queer history and queer texts written by queer people about other queer people, they're also not talking about you. If a corporation starts using 'queer' in their ads then they can eat shit because fuck 'em, they have no fucking right to use our words when they aren't and have never been one of us, but if a well-meaning ally uses 'queer' as a one-syllable shorthand for LGBTQIA+ in a verbal conversation, then there's no reason for you to get any more annoyed at them as you would if they used the word 'gay' instead.
You have every single right to be labelled or not labelled as you like, and I will stand behind you all the way. If someone is trying to shove 'queer' on you when you really don't want it? Then I will happily, metaphorically, deck them in the face for you. We are still family, whatever you choose to call yourself, and it's important that we stick together.
But
If you aren't queer, and you get frustrated when you see queer people talking about the queer community, take a deep breath, and consider:
They aren't talking about you
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Usopp's constant negativity and anxiety are something useful and "positive" at the end of the day (eg: fight against Perona) because he doesn't necessarily need to change his views, he just needs to trust himself and his abilities more and he just uses what he has at the moment which is, you know, negativity. It is not something positive but it does keep him safe from danger and he will end up being proud of himself and stronger than he could ever imagine, but that doesn't mean he'll stop being negative. It's just another personality trait a lot of people have, and Usopp using it for his advantage is something great, I feel. He takes pride in being like that. He's loud and shameless about it.
Unlike Sanji, who dwells on his negativity on his own. Quietly. And lets it consume him without having any power over it. His self-sabotaging and self-sacrificing behavior often comes from a place of giving up out of fear of others getting hurt to save him because that's pretty much his core fear. Being a burden/Not being able to save the people he cares about from himself and his past. It's not something the manga shows that much in comparison to Usopp's negativity, but Sanji's pessimistic views are pretty much one of the reasons why WCI happens and why he puts himself in the worst situation in Wano.
And I think (this is why I'm writing all of this) that they're perfect for each other because Usopp could show him that being afraid and negative isn't something so bad. After all, at least Usopp is aware that if he can't do something, the crew will help him out no matter what. Usopp's negative, yes, but it's alright because he doesn't go through it on his own. Even if he does look shameless and "selfish" when desperately asking for help (he isn't, by the way. It's actually pretty reasonable to act like that). Sanji needs to learn to ask for help shamelessly too and he needs to stop putting all the weight of the world's negativity on his shoulders. They need to carry it together.
Like- There's just something so personal in Usopp going "Yes! I am scared. Frightened even. Please, help!" because he might not like that part of him and he's trying to be stronger and more independent every day, but he acknowledges that things can go south and his reaction is very fight or flight but pretty mostly flight to be safe. While Sanji's response is always to fight because he refuses to let others know he needs help in case something happens to them (and also because he feels ashamed of feeling weak). Usopp shares the responsibility and accepts that he's kind of a loser sometimes but Sanji refuses to do so.
This is just a thought about Sanji learning that being a coward and asking for help isn't bad because they're meant to do stuff like that, and Usopp growing to be stronger and independent but not necessarily stop being pessimistic because sometimes you just... Are like that. Sometimes you're scared. Sometimes you have anxiety. And that's alright. You can be strong anyway.
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reminder to everyone that trauma IS a valid reason to use aspec labels. "i don't know if i'm aspec or just traumatized—" protip!!! you can be both!!!! the thing about labels is that they're not immutable states of being that you're born as. they're literally just words that we use to describe our lived experiences, and if asexual or aromantic or any related label feel relevant to the way that you experience attraction, whether it's a result of trauma or not, they're there for you to use. having trauma as a cause does not invalidate the fact that someone is experiencing lesser or no attraction. that's still the aspec experience babey. use the label if you want it's there for you <3
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you know if we do accept the last epilogue-esque sequence as a sort of dream/wish of ted's and therefore not necessarily canon, very funny if we then simply go "yeah, trent's book is called 'the lasso way' actually. he didn't change that. nope."
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btw in case you're wondering if, after reaching adulthood, you finally escape the horrible pain of always being picked last for sports/games: unfortunately, it does still happen, and it still hurts as much as it did when you were a kid
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Freeshell "More Tuna Please"
Do you want to make a ghost? How about a ghost of a cute catboy? No? Well here's a freeshell anyways!
He comes with a little tail animation, all of the recommended expressions, plus eye options for each, plus some extras I threw in for funsies, and a couple of arm poses. Altogether, the combination of all these pieces adds up to 135 surfaces (and you can use \i[] tags to add a sweat drop or blush to any surface that doesn't have them, for further flexibility!)
I also included a psd file that you can use to recolor him! You can use him as-is, but I think it would be really nice if every use of him made him a slightly different cat.
He's FREE go DOWNLOAD HIM NOW and MAKE A GHOST. Slap him into my Simplicity Template and pick a topic to write about, and you can make a ghost without doing ANY art and ALMOST NO CODING! You could have a ghost TOMORROW if you really wanted!!
If you're interested in making a quick, simple ghost with this, but you don't know where to start, feel free to chat with me and I'll indoctrinate you into the ghost-making ways :3c
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On a more serious note, I'm considering writing a post on communism because I don't think tumblr understands what this term actually means and what it would look like in practice.
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yes im trying not to be so mean yes im working on my temper but under no section of my Healing Contract does it mention that these things must apply to my sister. in fact if you read the fine print it says im actively allowed to make her miserable. for my mental health
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everyone is... so cool
but this place is strange
not bad! but it's strange
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