Happy 19th Birthday to the Nintendo DS!

The cycle.

Now you know.

I must reblog this comic from time to time to make sure I skip the theatrical curse.

I never thought about it the first time I saw this comic, but now I suddenly find myself asking:  what curse is on the *actors*, to compel them to perform in this play?  The crew, the ushers, the director?   Does a theatrical troupe decide to stage ‘The Duke in Shadows’ as expiation after some sin?  (Perhaps someone spoke the name of the Scottish play, or they performed ‘Cats’.) 

Or, more disturbingly, perhaps there are theaters here and there dedicated (sacrificed) to the play.  There is always a production of it running somewhere, every night, and people just…drift in to play the roles.  Sometimes you just know you’ve made a terrible mistake, and then you find yourself searching for local auditions.  (You’ll get a part. Everyone does.)

Should I tear my eyes out now? Everything I see returns to you somehow Should I tear my heart out now? Everything I feel returns to you somehow

-The Only Thing

I played this song, The Only Thing by Sufjan Stevens, on repeat when it came on during one of my opening shifts at work, where I had 2 hours to put in my headphones before the store opened and I would have to listen to the same 10 songs over and over again. Despite the original meaning of the song being the artist coping with the death of his mother (as the whole album, Carrie and Lowell, is about) with self-destructive tendencies and thoughts, I thought the lyrics also suited Rex really well, detailing Rex’s disillusionment, grappling with his new freedom and loss of meaning in life, as well as the constant companion grief must have been to him after the war ended. The world also seemed to have wanted me to work on this, as the shift that this idea spawned from ended early, and the shift I was supposed to have today was cut, giving me basically 4 days to just hammer this whole thing out. I’m really happy with it and I think I found my new brush for adding texture too :)) I did have to cut two lines from this, since I didn’t really quite know how to draw them out into a comic format. But I have to say, this was super fun to work on!

A lot of people don’t understand how difficult it can be to know you are asexual for sure, and to be confident that the label is true on you. You spend years asking yourself, “How can I know if I feel sexual attraction or not?”

Trying to prove you DON’T experience something is actually ridiculously hard especially when you are nowhere close to understanding what it is you’re trying to disprove.

It’s a lot like playing a game of Where’s Waldo, but you have no idea what Waldo looks like and you rely entirely on the partial description of him you get from other people.

Take this image, and find “Jeremy” in it:

At first you’re like, “Who tf is Jeremy? That’s a thing?”

And then from discrete descriptions you hear in the hallways, you find out Jeremy has a red shirt.

And so you point to everyone on that picture who has a red shirt like, “Hey hey, red, THIS could be him. Certainly one of these is him!”

But, alas, you’ve gotten it confused with someone similar, but not him at all. This happens when you mistake romantic attraction or aesthetic attraction for sexual attraction or, if you’re aro, platonic attraction for romantic attraction. You’ve misidentified him because he was wearing the same color shirt and looked somewhat like what others were talking about.

You go online and ask for more descriptions of Jeremy, and you may gleam a few details. People are like, “Oh no, Jeremy has stripes on his shirt, and a funky…I don’t know, over the shoulder scarf thingy. Look, it’s really hard to explain. Trust me, if you have seen Jeremy, you would KNOW him.” Which is like ??? confusing, although it is true.

If only you could prove Jeremy isn’t on your board you would know you’re ace//aro, but it’s hard to ever be 100% certain he isn’t there when you have no clue what he looks like.

Which is why it is important for aces//aros to just, forget about trying to be 100% certain and just identify anyways. That’s what helped me the most, knowing that I didn’t have to prove something, I could just assume, “Yeah, if I had felt sexual attraction, I would know. I don’t have to prove without a doubt I don’t in order to use the word.” It’s okay, you give yourself your own validation.

(@acephobia-is-real​ for your question)

Diversity win!! The spike traps are gay!

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HOW ARE WE FEELING TODAY GAMERS

mysterious boy…..

Dear everyone

But if you don’t celebrate Christmas, then

But if you don’t celebrate either of those, then

And if you celebrate a mixture of those, then

And if you don’t celebrate any holidays this time of year, then

❤💚💙💛♥

¯\(ツ)/¯

Vine shenanigans part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5

i’d be great at among us if i didn’t have the attention span of a squirrel, the memory of a goldfish, and speed of a sloth

You’re not a shitty person just because some people don’t acknowledge you or appreciate your worth. You matter. You are loved. You’re not defined by what other people think of you. Better yet, why define yourself at all? A definition has limits and boundaries. Seek only to grow, expand, evolve, and change. The right people will persist in your life or appear in due time. Love yourself; focus on yourself; take care of yourself; radiate love, goodness, and kindness; seek knowledge; express gratitude daily; pursue the things that tug at your soul. All else will follow. You’ll be alright. Keep your head up.

REBLOG if you have amazing, talented WRITER friends.

Because I certainly do, and I love every single one of them and their work.

@badromantics >:3

@dragonnutt

Who else suppresses their feelings in an attempt to make things less complicated but ends up just making them worse