#I don't know what else to tag this

[noswordinourlake]

I had been sitting on this for a while, but with the news of today it seemed timely to finish it. So.

The reference for the hands in this image are my own! It's always really pissed me off whenever I see someone pulling out the "AI 'art' will help people with disabilities create" strawman for so many reasons, not least the vibe that they're picturing someone like me. I have almost total paralysis in my hands and have pretty much my whole adult life. I think it's a failure of imagination if all these folks think I (and all the other amazing disabled artists out there) can do to create is steal other folks' work.

#art #digital art #anti ai #disability #i don't know what else to tag this #got mad drew a bunch about it #my art

[entomjinx]

I don't like Chamomile, but you love it. That's okay. It's not doing me any harm for you to drink Chamomile tea, and hey, more for you!

I like peppermint. You don't have to like it, but if you do I'll share some.

Treat fandom this way please.

You wouldn't harass someone in real life over not enjoying your favorite tea flavor, you would move on.

You also wouldn't go out of your way to buy a tea you dislike. You probably wouldn't even think about buying it and would ignore it on the store shelf.

The block button and tag filters exist for this reason.

It's less taxing on your mind and takes less of your time to chose to not interact with things you dislike. However, if you want to talk about your dislike of something, it's easier to do so with like-minded people. So if I chose to speak about my pure and unfathomable hatred for the taste of Chamomile tea, I'm going to do it with others who feel similarly.

I'm not going to tell people who's favorite tea in the world is Chamomile, that they shouldn't like it, because I don't.

That's their flavor of tea, and different flavors of tea add to the diversity! There's a flavor for everyone, and while some may not be for you, others are!

That diversity is what makes a community, a fandom, beautiful. It's only difficult to coexist when you make it that way.

I'm posting this because several people I know and myself are being harassed across several fandoms. I encourage you to reblog this, but it's not necessary.

And hey, while you're here: Eat something, drink something, take your meds, and get some rest. <3

#fandom history #fandom drama #fandom discourse #shipping discourse #i don't know what else to tag this #I just want it to be seen

[hiro--aoki]

my mum just said to me that my obsession with Carl is unhealthy and that I can't even talk to my friends normally😭😭😭😭

#the walking dead #twd #carl grimes #I don't know what else to tag this

[polyamzeal]

Got my copy today! Probably the first of many copies I will buy! I am excited to let you all know how it is.

#multiamory #book #relationship toolbox #I don't know what else to tag this #personal

[kizkataz]

for all new One Piece fans!

There's a youtube series that I just discovered thanks to my algorithm adjusting to my latest brainrot, and I've been meaning to give it a big shout out to hopefully boost their numbers and introduce other fans, like me, who are new to one piece and wanting to start from the very beginning of the manga. It is, essentially, a book club streamed by a guy and his mom as they go through the WHOLE story arc by arc, and they JUST started like a month ago (they're currently in alabasta!)

The son (Drawk) is a long time one piece fan and an artist. Each episode, he spends the duration of the talk drawing a piece of fanart related to the arc they're discussing. His mom (mama drawk) is a teacher (philosophy, english, lots of stuff and she's a big history nerd as well). It's nicknamed "mom piece" which I think is adorable.

This woman is an absolute DELIGHT. She has phenomenal perception, and is able to dissect the plot, characters, and world building in such an insightful way that even one piece fans who are caught up completely are blown away by the accuracy of some of her predictions.

She is 100% going to find the one piece before Luffy.

The weekly format of it makes it feel like a book club, and the pacing is great for new fans who want to read along with them at a steady speed, since they don't do Too Many chapters per week (they split alabasta into two episodes, for example).

Anyway I highly recommend to new fans like me!! 10/10!!!!

#one piece #i don't know what else to tag this #one piece live action #opla #this isnt technically related to the la but many new fans are coming from there so- #Youtube

[thicc-astronaut]

I made this image a long time ago of a grilled cheese slimegirl lounging between two slices of bread and I don't know if I ever posted it anywhere? So I'll post it here why not this seems like the site for it

#my art #slime girl #i don't know what else to tag this #I think was like the third image I ever made in MS paint actually

[tomatette]

Is this still done? Anyway, I'd love to see more of this on my dash: Kylux Kylux adjacent ships Armitage Hux Clan Techie Generally Domhnall Gleeson and all DG characters I do like other things too, but at the moment this has my whole heart <3 So if you post art / fic / edits or just reblog this kind of content every now and then, feel free to like this post and I will most likely follow you.

It doesn't have to be Kylux btw, Just Hux is good too. Or other ships with Hux. And solo Kylo too ig, though it's mostly Hux for me. I'm desperate! Please help <33

#kylux #techinicient #kylux adjacent #clan techie #matt the radar technician #domhnall gleeson #armitage hux #general hux #benarmie #hux #i don't know what else to tag this #so yes #i hope this'll get some likes so I will see more of my lovelies in the future!!

[evilwickedme]

so I wrote THE most self indulgent fic ever, which is "what if a tumblrina ended up in the dc universe wouldn't that be funny". it's definitely not based on my nightly daydreams that help me get to sleep not at all. anyway it's called Stranger in a Strange Land please feel free to check it out and maybe even leave kudos or a comment

#this my fic #dc fic #dc #social media fic #timkon #it's minor but it's there #I don't know what else to tag this #gail speaks

[shatteredblueflame]

For @mothayoin's hermitober day 2, King!

Ren-centric and with a large amount of treebark!

#trafficshipping #treebark #fanfic #my writing #i don't know what else to tag this #Flame's non-human hermit au

[pixlerelish]

#Jawan #jawan spoilers #go boy GO #vikram rathore #oooooo mummy #spooky season 2023 #i don't know what else to tag this #but I love him #Pix's pics

[seducemefanficsandheadcanons]

Request/Disclaimers

Please never be shy in making request and messaging me. I'm always looking for friends in the seduce me fandom.

I'm always taking request for one shot's unless I post otherwise,

Rules and Disclaimers

This is a Seduce Me the Otome blog, so I won't be writing for outside fandoms. Mainly because I don't like trying new things but also because I'm not in any other fandoms I feel comfy writing about.

I will not write detailed rape or pedophilia. If someone wants a character to have a history/recovering from the trauma of it, that is okay. BUT I will not write about the actual scenario. If the character is SA during the story, I will add something like passing out or just a time skip.

I will not write incestual relationships between the boys.

I will write fluff, nsfw, angst, trauma, self-harm, alcohol and marijuana use, grief, etc. That doesn't mean I'll be any good at it. I will always put a trigger warning on the posts that have this content.

I'm a bisexual female, so I'm not confident writing for a male MC, HOWEVER if you request gender neutral, I will try that.

6. If I do a one shot and you would like me to continue it, just ask. I may be able to, I may not be. It depends if I see the story going any further.

Please feel free to give constructive feedback on my work. I am far from a great author (yet), but I would love to get there.

Please be patient. Sometimes I struggle with certain requests, so if I don't get it done quickly, please don't think I forgot or ignored your request.

If you want to do your own continuation to my work, just ask.

ANYWAY, I love you<3

#seduce me the otome #seducemeotome #seducemetheotome #fanfic #seducemefanfiction #I don't know what else to tag this

[spyret-the-shitposter]

you think when bill cipher said “i invoke the ancient power that i may return”, he meant in a single episode of the simpsons where he tells viewers to invest in crypto

or was the minecraft axolotl just fucking with this dorito

#gravity falls #bill cipher #the simpsons #i don't know what else to tag this #i mean fam you gotta learn to be specific #genies can't read minds #buy crypto #suckers!!!!!!!

[meyerlansky]

just for reference, the amount of work gifmakers put into taking badly-lit, murky, flat footage and turning it into something dynamic and nice to look at is astronomical

even in a relatively well-lit, color-balanced show like stranger things [don't get me STARTED on the lighting in Every Period Drama Ever] it took a ton of tweaking to take this:

to this:

bonus split view of the unedited footage and my many adjustment layers:

i don't have the files on hand so i can't tell you exactly how many adjustment layers, but there's at least four on that gif alone, and they all took fiddling around with to get right. a LOT of effort goes into cleaning up even the best footage, cropping shots, and rendering gifs, and these aren't even anything fancy—no overlays or fades, no text, no playing with colors or insets, which add on WAY more work—just gifs of the scene.

gifmakers create out of love, just like fanartists and fic writers do. reposting gifs instead of reblogging them means we don't get to see whether people enjoy what we put so much time and effort into, and it means we don't get credit for the work we put in. if you wouldn't repost fanart, please don't repost gifs either.

#gifmaker problems #i'm tagging this #stranger things #because that's what these examples are and there's a lot of compilation posts #that use reposted gifs without linking back to the original sets #but it's a problem in every fandom i've been in #don't repost #don't repost reblog #i don't know what else to tag this #okay to reblog #please do tbh #strangerthingsedit

[twotailednekomata]

Hay, do y'all have any tips for when one notices they prioritizes personal shit/fandom/social media over important stuff like schoolwork or bedtimes during the school week? You know, so that they will do the schoolwork now and, when they have free time, that is when they work on personal projects? Just asking for a friend, hehe...

#The friend is me #key's post #I don't know what else to tag this #Hmmmm... #halp #<- (*＾-‘) 乃 #I have a terrible habit of just scrolling through Youtube or Tumblr #instead of doing work #Personal or school related #There is a reason I still haven't released my Rimworld comic despite promising it since late last year #Watching videos or reading posts turn my brain into happy mush #and even when I'm like 'I WILL do work today' #the 'One more video please...' mindset makes me waste my day away #I got work to do #I'll be surprised if I manage to focus on it instead of scrolling trough Tumblr blogs

[yoinkschief]

JSchlatt jumpscare

#anyway #IF I SEE ONE GOD DAMN COMMENT ABOUT HOW I SHOULDN'T DRAW HIM I'M GONNA SHIT THAT PERSON'S PANTS #please this isn't even related to that god forsaken storyline #okay maybe a little #BUT ONLY FOR MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE 💜 #no I'm not talking about Schlatt #JSchlatt #Schlatt #art #fanart #traditional art #i don't know what else to tag this #gay people #gay #mlm #homosexual #gay man #Spotify #jay draws

[improbable-warden]

Alright girlies I have some thoughts about Paul so strap in cause I'm getting theological. 

I just reblogged this post and I stand by my agreement with it - truly OP is right and I sobbed during Paul’s birth because Camiledes is such a deep and unadultered affection of loyalty that it is tragically codependent. And if we are thinking in terms of interhuman relationships (which is not a wrong way of looking at their relationship) then it is indeed twisted and I miss both Cam and Sex Pal so much in a very Normal way. 

But I’d like to bounce off the notion of Greek soulmates that nerdetiquette mentioned and add onto it by thinking about medieval Catholic notions of love (in the sense of caritas not amor) and unity. Paul is, for all intents and purposes, the exemplum of perfect Catholic union in love according to 13th century theology. Allow me to elaborate.

According to 13th century mystical theology (yes, mystics, as in religious people who recieved visions from God and interacted with him in dreams, not unlike Harrow through most of Nona, actually) a person could experience union between the soul and God through love, beyond consciousness. In fact, according to a very popular 12th century mystic (Bernard of Clairvaux), experience (and especially the experience of affection or love) was the means by which this union could be attained - a union which was itself the truest expression and experience of love. But what is this union?

In the 13th century, female mystics - especially Mechthild of Magdeburg - elaborated on it through their own mystical practices. Mechthild wrote extensively about the “annihilation” of the Soul into God: at the moment of union, the Soul would dissolve back into the vast river (her imagery) of the holy divinity. The Soul’s ability to lose itself so completely in the eb and flow of God was contingent on one thing: the Soul’s humility. Humility in this sense means surrendering the Soul’s individual (human) will to the will of God. But, importantly, if the Soul submits her will to God, then God also submits Their will to the Soul. (I apologise, I don’t have the exact reference to this in Mechthild’s text off the top of my head). Essentially, it’s a mutual surrenduring where neither will supercedes the other. This is exactly what Camilla and Palamedes were aiming for when they combined into Paul, because the big problem they were having before their union was that either Camilla or Palaemedes’ soul (whichever was dominant at a given time) was trying to push the other out, to enforce its own will over that of the other. In surrendering to each other, they became One.

But how is this surrendering mutual? How does it work? Well, really seamlessly when the internal theoretical logic insists that the Two are always already One in the Same. Which is exactly the case in both Mechthild’s text and Nona. In book 1.22 of The Flowing Light, Mechthild says, “Tell me, where did our Redeemer become the Bridegroom?” And the Soul answers, “In the jubilus of the Holy Trinity. When God could no longer contain himself, he created the soul and, in his immense love, gave himself to her as her own.” Which, let’s be super honest, sounds like a slightly nicer version of Nona John 1:20: “I wanted... I wanted you. I wanted you like a caveman wants a wildfire. [...] I cupped your soul in my hands. I took you into myself and we became one. I mean, I tried. There was so much of you. [...] But I needed a house to put you in, if I wasn’t going to put all of you in me” (p. 405-408). The Soul is the result of God/Jod’s overflowing desire (love); she already belongs to Them/Him, and They/He always already belonged to her. Mechthild continues, asking, "What are you made of, Soul, that you ascend so high above all creatures, mingle with the Holy Trinity, and yet remain whole in yourself?" And the Soul answers: "You have brought up the question of my origin. I shall tell you honestly: I was made by love in that very place [in the Trinity]. For that reason no creature is able to give comfort to my noble nature or to open it up except love alone." Which, once more, sounds very much like Nona John 1:20: “From my blood and bone and vomit I conjured up a beautiful labyrinth to house you in. [...] I remade us both. I hid me in you... I hid you in me” (p. 409). Again, the Soul is always already a piece of God, a fragment of his eternal and all-encompassing love. If every Soul is God, and God is every Soul, then we are all always already One. Perfect union in love (”one flesh, one end” ; “two in one flesh”) is inevitable and mutual - it is not the annihilation of two different selves into each other, but the realisation of the One perfect self which is the two selves, and which the two selves already were.

Therefore, in this light, we must understand Paul as representative of precisely this kind of perfect mystical love union.

We can take this one step further by considering that 13th century mystics often visualised such union as a marriage between the Soul and God (above, Mechthild calls God “bridegroom”, for example). I could write literally hundreds of pages explaining the implications and nuances of mystical union as marriage (and I have). But suffice it to say that the sanctioning of marraige (and thus of conjugal union) as holy sacrament has a long history in Catholic theology with an eye specifically on the fertility of such unions. If we want to consider “two in one flesh” as a metaphor for heterosexual reproduction, the Church Fathers would absolutely support us on that. What I’m trying to get at here is that not only does Paul represent the perfect example of spiritual union between two perfectly aligned Souls in this theology, but also the perfect example of physical union between two perfectly aligned Souls: that is, offspring. Paul is neither Cam nor Sex Pal, but they resemble something of both of them in their body and in their mannerisms and way of thinking. Much like a child would its parents. 

And this brings me neatly to my final point concerning the name Paul. Biblically, Saint Paul originally persecuted Jews until he was converted on the road to Damascus (I’m not summarising with details) - Sex Pal and Cam originally were very against the whole Lyctorhood concept until they did a whole lot more learning and discovered how to perfect it. They, like Saint Paul, were originally “non -believers” in a way. But more importantly, Saint Paul (who I personally fundamentally despise, truly fuck Saint Paul he’s got some terrible fucking takes) writes in 1 Corinthians 7:2-9 : “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. I wish that all were as I myself am [celibate]. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.” While this cannot be called a praise of marriage, Paul very much sanctions marriage and especially highlights (in a shocking moment of not being a huge fucking misogynist) the sense of unity, of oneness, of mutual responsibility between spouses (italicised in the quote). And to the point about it being “better to marry than to burn with passion” this feels very Camiledes, since early Nona it’s established that Palamedes appears to be inclined to write erotica but Cam firmly blocks him from doing so - blocks him from sexual temptation. They belong to each other, and to each other alone. 

What I’m trying to say is that Paul is, in this sense, the truest pinnacle of Catholic love on both a physical and spiritual level. They are the incarnation of perfect consent and aligned will, the very image of the Soul’s perfection and wholeness which can be attained through pure love. It is a tragically co-dependent love insofar as isolated indivituals are prised above spiritual perfection, but from a medieval theological standpoint Paul is nothing short of love’s ideal form. 

#nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn #tlt #the locked tomb #paul #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #sex pal #medieval theology #medieval mysticim #catholic theology #i have extensive sources for everything i talk about and will be happy to provide if anyone cares about my niche ramblings #paul nona #camiledes #i don't know what else to tag this