#I have been thinking about this a lot

[meatloafzzz]

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#one piece #one piece art #one piece trafalgar law #one piece corazon #donquixote rosinante #one piece shachi #one piece penguin #one piece bepo #heart pirates #papa Cora #I have been thinking about this a lot #all the videos of a big dog taking care of kittens are so heart warming #but this was super quick and messy #i might delete this later #meatloaf draws

[jeanmoreaux]

i think we don’t talk enough about the fact that panem rose out of and is the direct consequence of a climate apocalypse

#i have been thinking about this a lot #makes the books even scarier given that we’re stirring right towards one rn #thg #mish reads thg #the hunger games

[justpinmeagainstawall]

y’all is making other people horny a kink? Because if so…yes

#i have been thinking about this a lot

[greaseonmymouth]

leverage s5 revised episode order

so it's my understanding that it's pretty much general consensus that s5 is setting up the ot3 endgame, showing us throughout the season how close they are and how well they work together and establishing their relationship the best way they can without the network realising, right? we see this in how they do historical episodes, always pairing Nate and Sophie but they've paired Parker and Hardison and Parker and Eliot, and in the present they've done Eliot and Hardison enough times. and so the finale, The Long Goodbye Job, is the final dot over the i to make that clear - Eliot, Parker, and Hardison die together in the fake scenario because anything else would be anathema, and they skip off into the sunset together as a three person Leverage team while Nate and Sophie skip off together as Out Of The Game, For Good

The Frame Up Job and The Rundown Job support this by showing us how well Eliot, Parker, and Hardison work together, how flawless a team (how thoroughly established an ot3) and by showing us Nate and Sophie as a thoroughly established married couple disgustingly in love and bickering and on the same wavelength

now I propose (and not just because of Eliot's haircut in The Rundown Job clearly indicating this episode should've come later in the season) that The Long Goodbye Job was not intended to be the series finale, and that The Frame Up Job and The Rundown Job were supposed to form a two-episode series finale directly following The Long Goodbye Job. soft epilogues, if you will

points to consider:

in both of those episodes, the other half of the team does not appear and is not even mentioned. it's not like the Girls / Boys Night Out episodes, where the episodes are mirrored and the team is working on related problems, and is then reunited at the end - these are entirely separate episodes featuring two independent teams

Vance to Eliot: "Hell, your girlfriend's already out of her cuffs." Nobody corrects him. Not Parker, not Hardison, and not Eliot. Ok this one doesn't prove episode order I just love this subtle ot3 confirmation moment

Sterling, to Nate and Sophie: "Now I know where you are. Call me. I'm hiring."

this was already funny as is, and we're presuming this is because Sterling hasn't found out where the team relocated to after Boston, but imagine if this is actually after The Long Goodbye Job? Sterling let them go. Nate pushed him and he came down on the side of thieves, and he let them go, and then couldn't find them but now he has and his frustration with the case and Nate and Sophie's casual disregard and the final 'I'm hiring'? It's been a couple of months since The Long Goodbye Job and this is the most fun Sterling has had in ages

but the ot3 half ok. so The Long Goodbye Job tells us that they die together and they live together, and they continue Leverage as a 3 person team. Give it a couple of months and they're in DC and they face a real life and death moment - and they live together.

and also, you get Eliot telling Vance "I work with them now" and then he limps bloodily off into the sunset squished between Hardison and Parker like the three of them are off to have some incredible sex

listen I just think season 5 makes so much more sense if we consider those two episodes as the episodes establishing the happily ever after epilogues after The Long Goodbye Job

also in Leverage: Redemption the very first episode we find out that Nate had a shady stash of paintings and materials and whatnot so what if that is actually a hint that Nate and Sophie did actually get back into the game, with Sterling, until Nate passed away and Sophie clocked out?

#leverage #leverage redemption #alec hardison #eliot spencer #parker leverage #sophie devereaux #nate ford #leverage meta #i have been thinking about this a lot

[entriprises]

buck & names

for the majority of buck’s life he’s been evan. the last 7-8 years of his life have fundamentally changed him, they define so much of who he considers himself to be and they mark a period of constant growth and understanding of himself. he hasn’t been buck for his whole life, although it certainly feels like it some days because of all that he’s gone through. 

he grew up evan. should he ever return to hershey, georgia, virginia, arizona, florida, oregon, and the other million other places he’d at one point or another stayed in then they’d only know as much to call him evan. it’s how he introduced himself back then, even when his last name came up as a nickname one time or another through sports or any other culture he’d inserted himself into.

buck comes with his career, with firefighting. it’s not even meaningful when it comes to him, it’s just a way to separate him from the other evans in the academy. it’s not new, it’s not strange, and he slides into it quite easily. he’s been called by his last name before, and naturally it just shortens to buck. firefighting as a whole is something new, and a place where he truly starts to feel comfortable, even though he’s not taking it nearly as seriously. he associates the comfort with firefighting, and in that everyone calls him buck so when he gets to the 118, he corrects bobby. he tells him right there that everyone calls him buck. it’s not that he’s attached per se, it’s not quite his whole identity, he just likes who he is as firefighter buck.

the identity bit comes over time, and somewhere along the way firefighting is more than just something he’s doing, it’s very much his life. he cannot deal with a reality where he isn’t firefighter buck, and he refuses to accept one. he pushes through all of his recoveries because of it, and with that also comes the attachment to being buck, not evan. 

when it comes up again, with his parents, they go for the obvious answer when addressing him: they call him evan, because why wouldn’t they? it’s part of the distance between him and his parents for them to call him evan, something not even his sister calls him anymore. when he tells her that he won’t have anything without firefighting, she assures him, “you will still be buck.” and when his parents call him evan he specifically says “buck, that’s what people who know me, that’s what they call me.” because fundamentally who he has become in his time as a firefighter, the people in his life, his found family are all things that are entangled with this identity as buck.

evan isn’t who he is anymore, and buck, being someone who has always seen himself in extremes and his own rigid frameworks (buck 2.0, buck 3.0), casts evan right into the past. still, it doesn’t leave him completely. his parents still slip up, he responds to evan, it’s still something that’s around, it’s just not how he carries himself. he’s buck, the firefighter, the guy who has grown and survived so much that sometimes it’s a little easy to get caught up in the jokes of being untouchable. 

and then eddie goes and calls him evan once, and it’s like something else entirely. it happens just once, but it reaches through to buck in a way more than buck ever will because there’s this extreme idea of who buck is right? buck’s the strong guy, the survivor, the big tough firefighter. evan? evan’s the lost guy, the hurt kid, the side of himself he left behind, the one who didn’t ever feel like he mattered. evan’s the one who won’t brush aside what eddie’s trying to get through to him. 

but then it really begins with tommy, and most importantly, buck doesn’t correct him. there’s no moment where he says to him at all that he prefers buck— and there’s been endless opportunities to do so. he welcomes it, turns his head at every call, and feels warmer from it. there’s someone who not only offers him a chance to explore a new side of himself, heal, feel relief, but also sees him as evan, and wants to know him as such (outside of the firehouse, because ultimately while it’s what introduced them and what gives them a lot to bond over it’s not what their relationship circles around/centers on/etc). evan is a reconciliation, at least the start of one. it’s a coming together of two extremes that buck has built for himself and hasn’t really tried to do before. more than just figuring out his bisexuality, realizing that piece about himself, buck gets to explore now with the whole of who he is. 

#im so sorry about the length of this #i have a normal relationship with my name #that’s why this is eight paragraphs #also i apologize if this is full of typos and things that just don’t make sense im writing this during lecture & mid headache #i have been thinking about this a lot #e. buckley * headcanons #if youre here from fandom pls no reblog pls do not look at me

[burningchandelier]

My step dad was old enough to remember the holocaust first-hand. He was eight when his family celebrated the end of the war with their neighbors in New York.

I grew up in the state with the densest population of nazis and white supremacists in the US. I knew not to talk about being Jewish too much.

I remember the first time someone called my family Christ killers. I was six. I didn’t understand, but I knew from my parent’s faces that it was bad.

This is the first year I have fully understood why my mom used to give me an Easter basket, why we had a tree at Christmas time, why I was taught enough about cultural Christianity to pass without a second thought. My family was protecting me from the future they had good reason to fear.

#my parents are really old #I have been thinking about this a lot #antisemitism #growing up Jewish can be really complicated

[overexciteddragon]

I really think "white" people need to get more connected to their actual ancestry

Let me explain.

The idea of "white" as a race, or ethnicity, or culture, is white supremacist in nature, it coalesces an array of completely unrelated cultures in an attempt to erase their individual ancestry and weaponize that sense of isolation and so ensuing "togetherness" against other peoples— Natives, Black people, Asians, Latinos, etc, etc...

And we can sit here and talk at length about how white people are the worst and white people have no culture... but I think it's important to focus on how everyone has culture, everyone has ancestry, and reconnecting with that might actually be so, so beneficial to detaching a lot of people from the purposeful isolation that white supremacy inflicts as a form of propaganda

Did your family come from the UK or France? Which part of it? Is there a traditional dish from that country or town or village that could be interesting to learn how to make? Did another side of your family come from Poland? Do you know some of the history of that country? Some of the language?

I always knew my family was mostly Italian and I did get raised with Italian food and customs... but up until recently I still fell for the very American idea that "Italians are just white" and ignored a lot of that history... but no, half of my family isn't "just white" in the same way that my spouse's British family isn't "just white". My family comes from Verona and Venice, both were part of Rome and still have many Roman ruins preserved, Verona having been part of the Byzantine Empire before that. Isn't that fucking cool? Isn't that neat? And I bet if my spouse looked into where their family came from and the history and culture of that area, we'd also find something really cool

Fuck "white" pride, fuck "white" culture. White culture is nothing but white supremacism, the homogeneity of completely unrelated cultures is a fascist tool, the act of influencing people to cast out genuinely interesting aspects of their ancestry in order to partake in a made-up "culture" is propaganda. Look into your Italian ancestry, your Portuguese, your Greek, English, Irish, Danish, Swedish, German, Austrian... if you live in a colony country, learn how you got there, learn where your blood came from, all the weaving twists and turns your DNA took to get to shape you inside and out the person that you are. Isn't it cool as hell that we're all made out of generations upon generations of mixing and mingling peoples? Isn't it so damn neat that I have a bit of blood in me from people who were part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Pindorama communities, Portuguese towns, German villages, Dutch cities?

Fuck "whiteness," tell me your family's story, tell me the tales of the journey your blood made to get to who you are. Ask your parents or grandparents if you can, access your hometown registry if you need to, but find your ancestry, because you do not need to just consider yourself "white" and internalize that you "have no culture." You came from somewhere, and one of the ways you can and should detach yourself from the fascist tendrils of "white culture" is by finding your own

#personal #i have been thinking about this a lot #i think culture and ancestry are so cool and #you don't have to dismiss your heritage/ancestry just cause you're “white” #if anything that should inspire you even more to detach yourself from that idea my friends

[stingslikeabee]

changes in relation to romantic shipping rules

Hi guys! So - I’ve decided to make a small shift in relation to romantic ships for Melissa and which realistically doesn’t really change anything, but I thought I’d put this into words and make it official going forward. As of today, this blog is moving to a multi single-ship one.

This means that, in relation to romantic ships, I will only write Melissa against one variant/duplicate of that muse (this, of course, doesn’t extend to OCs). This is mostly because my ships tend to be incredibly well plotted and developed and I always end up feeling like my partner writes ‘the’ version of that muse and I don’t want to be unfair and hold someone else to my view of their muse just because I’m more partial to another portrayal.

This also doesn’t apply to any current situations (although I think there is only one or two instances where this happened) - in other words, none of the established ships which we have discussed, created tags for and written about are being dropped. This is just for future interactions and I do plan to keep the relationship page up to date so everyone is aware of which spots are taken and whatnot. 

Finally - this doesn’t apply to any platonic connections! These have an unlimited number and I’m always happy to further establish these dynamics as well. :)

Thank you! Mari.

#ooc! #psa #I have been thinking about this a lot #and decided to make it official #I'm usually so focused on a particular portrayal #that I don't want to ruin the experience for someone else #so I'll just change approaches to be fair :)

[shepherd-tothestars]

It's almost 4am. Time to post about my Feminine Urge to just make a Nia Xenoblade Chronicles 2 blog. No it's not just because she's the catgirl party member--

#down to earth ;; ooc #i have been thinking about this a lot #if you know who nia is you know shes the best character besides jin in 2 #jin is also someone i love to write #im so close to just making a multi dedicated to my xenoblade and ff14 blorbos

[yakakukuro]

as the older sister it makes me feel very ashamed that my 8 years old little brother knows that i’ve tried to kill myself. he might not understand exactly what wanting to kill yourself means but he does understand the act, and it makes me feel bad with myself that i’m such a shitty sister.

#i have been thinking about this a lot

[ravenclawboys]

robert nozick | anarchy, state, and utopia (1974)

#philosophy #words #i have been thinking about this A Lot

[cozylittleartblog]

@staff if you [change] the [design] of the fucking [dashboard] i will kill you

edit. i want it on the actual post that i am not actually making a de-th threat against the staff. that's shitty. the caption quotes the fucking costco hot dog meme, which i originally said in the tags. if any staff member sees this please do Not take it personally

#dashboard #staff #tumblr update #comic #art #doodles #costco ceo about the price of a hot dog.png #i refuse to believe this is a real problem that site owners think people have #frankly i refuse to believe people had this issue with deviantart before eclipse #i am sorry you have to put about 15 minutes of effort into understanding a new website. feel better soon #my main blog doesn't have it yet but i logged into here to make this post and. i have it #this is fucking terrible. it would ahve been really really funny for april fools day but not as a permanent change #i hate it a Lot. i hate it so fucking much. oh . my god. #edit - guys i amnot actually sending de*th threats to staff it's the costco hot dog meme

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone #yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post. #writeblr #ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person #and on this blog we support workers. #at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going. #when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens #have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists #and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like. #it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases - #at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory. #it was what i had seen. #and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference #we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol' #so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender #and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID. #he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different #i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

#and i know that sounds silly like YES. it was just a bookr ecommendation #but i feel like a lot of people either dont really care about whats a good starting point for younger kids in their shared fan spaces #or dont really take the care to recognize different peoples ages would effect what they would both enjoy or #be capable of engaging with #not to mention theres a lot of manga that would NOT have been appropriate for a 10 year old to read #so the fact that he askedd and even asked what sort of thing i liked at the time #was very sweet. i think about him a lot and i hope hes doing well #txt #scratchpost

[voltaical-art]

do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.

#tw mild gore #bg3 #wyll ravengard #bg3 ansur #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #ask to tag #wahoo had a lot of fun with the colors in this #we could have had it alllllll wyll shouldve been able to bond with the dragon #like ough how do you think wyll feels about casting spells like eyebite and blight #the ending of his quest is so.... lackluster #i like the emperor i think hes really interesting but like... he does kinda swoop in and take over the end of wyll's personal quest...

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

#It’s just so different #even though it’s public it still feels secret and safe. i feel comfy sharing a lot more on here than I do in my actual day to day life lol #in my head I’m also just speaking to myself 90% of the time which helps #if a friend off tumblr saw my thoughts I’d feel so weird ab it #esp bc they might get the vagueposting about certain situations and tell mutual friends #no thank u. this is for me. I’m not about to start censoring my thoughts bc someone I know knows my tumblr #u guys literally saw me have LIVE BREAKDOWNS #meanwhile I’ll have the worst fucking day in history and tell no one about it. I’m already cripplingly private but way more so in real life #this is basically a low stress journaling outlet for me. it’s so important for me to maintain the separation #like this is actually my diary & has been so handy for letting out emotions / articulating thoughts / staying on track !! #& I’ve met so many kind people on here who actually get me. which is so hard to find irl bc I’m surrounded by pre-med gunners/overachievers #who are by standard not very good w emotion & can be competitive/judgmental. or at least it’s hard for me to be vulnerable in front of them #and I’m part of that crowd so I reserve my emotions only to a handful of very close friends #it’s nice to hop on here and express negative emotions!! or positive emotions!! just whatever I want and it’s low stress and people get me #I don’t have to worry about judgment or competitiveness etc etc #like everyone on here is so kind & nice & understanding. & just a breath of fresh air from the types I run w. it’s just nice to have this #so idk that’s why I think I’ll always be strict about keeping the worlds separate. it just works #p