@xyliandra / xyliandra.tumblr.com
I don’t know how to do anime, but I seem to have a tradition of drawing new fandom couples in the rain. I wanted to put a Japan snapshot location image on it.
I’ve always had a thing for umbrellas…
commissioned art by @cryoclaire (creator, illustrator and co-writer of the webcomic Drugs and Wires) based off the following scene from my fanfic Bear Your Soul on the Ice.
“Yuuko wanted to know if you were naked and blamed it on the pregnancy hormones when Nishigori got all bent out of shape. I told her you were probably wearing a swimsuit.”
“Nope! I decided to do it naked! In France there’s a copy where I’m getting out of the bath–”
Yuuri put his hands over Viktor’s mouth. “Stop talking. Please.” He knew his face was beyond red.
Viktor just looked at him with an extra sparkle in his eye, but didn’t move.
“You know, I don’t even want to know. Yuu-kun, the ice is ready.” Alexei just looked at them. Yuuri knew that they had to look a sight, tangled up together on a couch, limbs akimbo with Yuuri pressed over Viktor and his hands covering Viktor’s mouth. Yuuri groaned.
-Chapter 15
sorry i haven't read your fic yet it's been in my open tabs for 8 months
Free! Fam: I have a super random question.
I swear that I know the Pleiades star cluster from Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. I vividly remember Nagisa mentioning it & Rei saying it was the wrong time of year. Anyone else remember this in the Free! anime? Or the Reigisa mook? Or a fanfic? Or am I crazy??
today’s date is the 3rd? what’s next, the 4th? the 5th? the minor fall, the major lift?
You can only reblog this on the 3st of January
the 3st huh?
in my experience nobody stops having a favorite animal when they grow up but people DO stop asking. well now i’m asking. what’s everyone’s favorite animal mine is the noble manatee
A moment of light during the siege
It really does feel like that
You are allowed to like your own writing. You wrote it, it's tailored to yourself, you should enjoy it. You took plain words and put them in a beautiful order to create an awesome story. Beat that imposter syndrome and be proud.
someone: wow, you don't look a day over 25!
vampire who was turned when they were 25 (20 years ago) and really doesn't want anyone to know about it:
someone: wow, you don't look a day over 25!
vampire who was turned when they were 25 (200 years ago) and thinks that's the funniest thing they've ever heard:
someone: wow, you don't look a day over 25!
vampire who was turned when they were 25 (2000 years ago) and is getting really tired of hearing it:
plot twist: they're all the same vampire
if a crab was verified would it do it like this or like this
She saw her moment and got glossed up for it
I joked a few minutes ago about how in internet discourse anyone over 25 is a “queer elder” but come to think of it most of these young discoursers don’t even believe such a concept exists. Gay men who watched their entire friends groups perish to AIDS are “privileged cis gays,” older trans women who use dated terminology to describe their own experiences are problematic, elders are just a conservative old guard to rebel against, and anyone over thirty who speaks to you at all must be a predator. The first time I heard the phrase “okay groomer” online, it wasn’t coming from self identified conservatives but from tiktok teens reacting against leather at Pride. You guys are ignorant and uncultured and proud of it!
Nobody hates you because you’re young. They hate you because you’re ignorant and annoying. Hope this helps.
Speaking as a “queer elder” (don’t really feel like one but shit if we’re joking about anyone older than 25 being one might as well roll with it). To my young queers (and my young LGBT+ folks who don’t use queer).
You are not getting pushback from the older segment of the queer community because you are young.
It’s because you came into the spaces we built for you and instantly tried to kick us out.
It’s because we opened the doors for you and you walked in and demanded that everyone you don’t like leave. You demanded that the kinksters, the crossdressers, the freaks and the weirdos, the non-binary trans folks, the people with conflicting identity labels, the people who apparently don’t enjoy their smut “the right way” leave.
It’s because you have thrown yourself into queer spaces with all the fucking audacity of a straight white woman raging at a rainbow flag in a grocery store, wailing about how it’s not appropriate for children.
It’s because you apparently think that you have some right to tell us, and other queer people your age, HOW to be queer.
It’s because a SCARY number of you think that using the word queer is bad in the first place.
It’s because so many of you have come here drowning in radfem rhetoric, and your response to being corrected is to scream “pedo!” At any queer peer who disagrees with your puritanical approach to kink and fantasy.
It’s because so many of you think that being LGBT+ means you can’t possibly hold onto the conservative values you grew up with, and when you’re called on it you attack anyone and everyone in your way.
Us queer elders aren’t hating on you because you’re young. It’s because you have come into the space we built- a space that we built on from what OUR queer elders built. Which was built on what THEIR queer elders built. And so on, all held up by a foundation of fucking blood of the queers who did not fucking survive, who we lost before I was born, and continue to be lost.
If we seem hostile to you and the ideology you bring? It’s because us elders know a threat when we see it. And the shit I see SO MANY of you young queers saying IS a threat. No different than the threats we’ve faced before. Except this time. It’s coming from inside the fucking house- and we won’t tolerate that.
Some of the replies to this drain my everlasting soul.
