grow up & blow away

when someone misinterprets a character from ur hyperfixation

a fallout mod that makes the player bark the exact phrases displayed on the dialogue menu instead of a line based on them

piper: How about you, huh? Do you support the news?

Sole: HATE NEWSPAPERS

Questioning ur gender as an afab person is hard bc ur like do I genuinely identify as Not A Woman or do I just not identify with the negative images of women that have been shoved at me since I was born? Like do I not like being referred to as a girl because that really isn’t who I am or is it because being connected to femininity comes along with some not great associations? And then there’s the question of am I really Not a Woman or am I just butch/futch? And then u get into questioning what gender even is to begin with. What is gender? What is masculinity? What is femininity? Is there anything inherent to either of them, or is it all socially constructed bullshit? Does gender actually exist?? If not, then what the fuck is my relationship with gender?

Sunbeams burst through the canopy like stained glass, radiating enlightenment in a kelp cathedral. A sunny Saturday is as good a day as any to give thanks for the miracles of oceanic photosynthesizers, from the microscopic to the Macrocystis.

Whether the food we eat, the ecosystems we cherish or the air we breathe, the blessings of seaweed are many, and their protection is a worthy offering.

me irl

k so in last encore we got

yeah i dont think this is a f/e adaptation

we have 2 new PVs since this post and one is nursery rhyme saying she’s all alone and the other is li shuwen not saying anything and being credited as “berserker” so basically this is a sequel and all the masters are dead good night mr coconut

“You can criticize something you love!”

Yeah, and you can also get tired of criticizing something you love. You can get completely fed up with it and decide, “You know what? Flaws aside, I love this thing, and I don’t have to waste hours of my life admitting its flaws to strangers on the Internet in order to somehow justify my love of it.” You can get sick of watching others gleefully tear it apart, for no reason other than that it’s popular and they hate that you love it. You can get sick of watching others tearing it apart with good intentions, too.

In the end, it’s just a cartoon, or a book, or a movie. It’s not that serious, and you can enjoy it without hyper-focusing on its flaws. You don’t need to justify your love of something to someone else, least of all a person you don’t even know.

The Huntington Herald, Indiana, October 29, 1928

probably gonna get slammed with anon hate for this but like…

much of the ableism towards Autistic people doesn’t happen “because we’re Autistic,” it happens because we’re weird.

now consider that… and now consider what some of the most common insults are here on tumblr.

weird, gross, embarrassing, cringeworthy… all insults based on that same idea of “you are different and we don’t like you.” 

and now consider the constant mocking of “just trying to be special” and “Not Like Other Girls™” that is constantly seen on tumblr.

from early childhood, we are taught and conditioned to know that any deviation from the norm will be punished. for Autistic people, who make up a big portion of what is usually thought of as tumblr’s userbase, this conditioning is often increased tenfold by coercive “therapies” such as ABA and Social Thinking. 

the fact that so much of tumblr’s culture is based on strict deviation from the norm– often citing “weird, embarrassing, cringeworthy, just trying to be special” as offenses– is regressive. and as an Autistic person, I would go so far as to say that it is at least somewhat rooted in ableism. 

if you’re Autistic and you do this, especially if you’re a survivor of coercive behavioral and social treatments designed to make you “normal,” please think about why you take part in this treatment of others. I know you’ve been hurt, and overcoming internalized ableism is hard. I’m here to help.

if you’re allistic and you do this, please stop. just stop. we’ve already been through enough.

also yes, allistics can reblog this. please do, in fact. 

i finished the first 5 volumes of the case files of lord el-melloi ii and like half of volume 6 (which im not in a huge rush to finish because part 2 of that case isnt out until winter comiket i believe) and its pretty good imo. it kinda bridges the gap between zero and fsn while fleshing out the clock tower and magi in general, i feel like it’s more focused on worldbuilding than any other TM thing. volume 2 in particular is almost entirely focused on clock tower politics which was neat actually

i feel like the biggest flaw is that since it’s meant to be a canon prequel to fsn, sanda makoto is clearly walking on eggshells around The Lore all the time and trying not to contradict anything and to clarify everything. so theres a part where someone tells waver “if you summon your servant again HE WON’T REMEMBER YOU!!!!!! *unless it’s in [the moon cell] or [a FGO singularity]” which kinda ruins the drama of that moment… or when zepia in vol 6 shows up and starts expositing about alternate timelines and how the DAAs dont exist in this one and it’s clearly for the benefit of the reader but waver and reines are like ??????????? and nothing he’s saying feels really relevant to their situation… i feel like having the character exposit past the other characters directly to the reader is a thing that happens maybe too much now in fate and it throws me out of the story every time (BB going “ok im gonna call you senpai but just so you know my real senpai is in another universe but that universe doesnt exist and i never met them” right off the bat in the CCC fgo collab so people wouldn’t complain lol)

anyway gray and reines should smooch

also spoilers for volume 5 but