[Image text: there's actually no political label or identity that absolves you of doing harm.]
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Was walking through my mom’s house to borrow my dad’s drill when I saw my 11yo niece watching me with an odd expression.
“You wanna help me build the catio?”
Her eyes lit up, then she looked disappointed. “But I’m a girl…”
I rolled my eyes. “Do I look like I care?”
That must have been the right response because she jumped up and chattered excitedly as I showed her how to use a tape measure, a drill, etc. We spent all day building and she had a brilliant smile the whole time. After the tenth declaration of this being the best day in her life, I said,
“Gotta love that sweet sweet serotonin!”
She immediately started giggling, “What does that meeeeaan??”
Anyway, she had an amazing time building with me and acted like I had given her a solstice gift when I said she could paint it and that I’d take her to the hardware store to pick out hardware. She’s never been to a hardware store before and I love being the weird knowledgeable uncle who has weird pets always keeps fruit and pistachios in the house.
Update: While I was at the store I found a 53 piece around the house tool kit in bright purple, so of course I bought it for her. Her face when I gave it to her was priceless and she actually gasped. She’s going to “make all the stuff”
Are we going to talk about the “but I’m a girl.”? Where did she get that? Did someone teach her that? Who is it? I’m ready to kill for that cutie.
She learned it from her dead father
I’m just gonna assume you killed him for his blatant sexism
I was across state lines and in the presence of three witnesses at the time of his death. I have receipts timestamped. My alibi is solid.
i think the guy who only tells the truth and the guy who only lies should frot
Make sure to watch @stephanieswanquills newest video on youtube!! I got to draw her lovely kitsune~
“i can fix him” girl you are WORSE than him
Trauma didn't make me nice, I consciously made me nice because I don't want anyone else to suffer like I did. Trauma didn't make me strong, I made me strong. Don't you dare ever tell me my trauma made me anything but scared, broken, and confused. Don't give credit to the abusers for me being a good person. They didn't make me good, I made myself good.
Commission for @LowKeyMeeka and @Pancake_zzzz~
She's a twinge unhinged
Halloween Pin Up YCH commission for a friendo not on tumblr!
sometimes i have a hard time wrapping my head around the existence of doms lol... like u wanna to do all of the thinking FOR ME??? u wanna take care of ME??? u wanna make ALL of the decisions??? u just need me to sit pretty and make you feel good???? literally what are you, an angel???????
Huge huge fan of anachronistic interactions in my writing ideas. Using modern firearms to fight mythical monsters, using swords and shields to fight killer robots, powering computers with coal or gasoline, using a nuclear reactor to power a clockwork automata, space suits that look like diving apparatus from the 1800s, modern skyscrapers in the middle of stone and straw villages, using MRI machines to determine where you need a hole drilled in your head to let the ghosts out, killer AI being banishable by holy rituals that have unknowingly incorporated override codes, do you understand yet???
Maybe the real treasure was the boops we made along the way
Opinions on fullmetal alchemist?
Brotherhood is the best anime ever made.
It's the most tightly-plotted slowburn mystery I've ever seen. Everything ties together. It makes more and more sense the more times I rewatch it, which in a mystery story is goddamn rare. In the very first episode, the filler villain at one point says "You don't understand the shape this country is in!" and that's a completely innocuous thing for this character to say except no it isn't
The magic system is a beautifully hard arrangement that never breaks its own rules, and it effortlessly explains everything you need to know to follow every alchemy-based twist just through the explanation of equivalent exchange and the question "what could equal the value of a human soul?" Alchemy follows equivalent exchange at all points and functions basically like Advanced Chemistry, and whenever it looks like the rules are being broken, it's just because somebody is burning human souls to do it.
The cast is massive, but never crowded. Everybody has a part to play. Even the seemingly-interchangeable minion characters all end up being unique contributers to the plot; there is truly no separation between Main Characters and Minor Characters because at any point anyone can turn out to be suddenly deeply important.
Contains a profound philosophical meditation on how even the most powerful person is not omnipotent, and the purposelessness of a power that can't be used to save the people they love, and this theme culminates in the only instance of the "extremely cool powerful badass sacrifices all their powers" trope that I actually 100% like.
Somehow this slowburn hard-magic mystery builds up to a massive anime confrontation about teenagers using the power of friendship to kill god and it never makes any buckwild leaps to get there. The resolution is emotionally satisfying and ridiculously kickass.
There are stories that I come back to more often, or hit me harder in the moment, or contain higher highs, or had more impact on their genres, but FMA:B is, pound for pound, the best anime ever made. 10s across the board.
Good morning, sir! Boop!
Ack I have been boopified!