#Just . thought you ought to see

[uncanny-tranny]

Your life isn't a to-do list. You're allowed to exist, to take life as slow as you'd like. The dreams you have won't suddenly disappear. It's okay to stop and smell the roses, or to engage with "childish" things, or to recover, or do what you need to.

#positivity #encouraging words #life doesn't need to be a speedrun or a 100% run #sometimes it feels like i'm wasting my life but... who gets to tell me what is wasteful? i'm surviving out here and that's okay #and it's okay if you're also somebody who people think is 'wasting your life' #that's such a meaningless and frankly a very cruel thing to say to a person #because you'll see people call somebody's life wasteful because they're simply coping with disability/mental illness/grief/ect #it's a meaningless saying to tell somebody how YOU think they're wasting life. your life isn't a waste point-blank #we ought to be kinder to ourselves for choosing what we want/need out of our lives rather than placating to what is imposed on us... #...or the expectations we impose on ourselves #be kinder to yourself whenever you can. it's hard as hell but please choose kindness toward yourself #just something i thought about and felt like it was impirtant to me #i couldn't complete high school 'on time' because of covid and because i was in crisis. i felt so much shame about that. i felt stupid... #...i felt unworthy. but who decided that i am those things? the crisis i was in could have killed me. i couldn't deal with school then... #...it humbled me because i had to learn that i am not immune to needing to be kind to myself. i am human - i'm not a mindless drone... #...you aren't a mindless drone either. you are an individual. you deserve to feel safe. you deserve understanding and compassion... #...but not ONLY from others. you deserve it from yourself as well

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Need asoiaf fans to be disabused from the notion that anyone “deserves” the Iron Throne. Not a single person deserves it, doesn’t matter how good they are. And I’d take it a step further and say that no one deserves to be king or queen or lord. We shouldn’t be equating kingship/queenship with a happy ending. This series does so much to criticize this awful system so it’s particularly jarring that people will go “I want my fave to get their happy ending and sit on the iron throne”. That’s…kind of antithetical to what the series has shown us so far I think.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #people if there’s one thing you ought to take away from reading this series #it’s fEuDaLiSm bAd #that’s like super consistent across the entire system #it sounds reductive but like grrm has spent a lot of time showing us just how rotten this all is #the iron throne is pretty much a physical representation of this rotten system #and I also see people being like ~I want my fave to be the hero because that’s what they deserve and that’s a happy ending~ #as if grrm isn’t taking his sweet time deconstructing what it means and costs to be a hero #spoiler alert: it costs a lot!!! #being a hero isn’t going to be a walk in the park guys #my hot take is that part of the reason why people don’t like bran as king of the 7k is because they had thought the IT going to their #fav was the happy ending #so that’s why we get a lot of ~what’s bran’s tax policy~ #not to say that everyone asking that is asking it in bad faith #but so many people in this fandom think that certain roles are owed to their faves #gonna prepare a truck load of popcorn for when ADoS comes out because oooo the drama #btw this is not directed toward a particular fandom - because like half of the people who read this books think like that

[chiropteracupola]

"...but the stairs are grand underfoot."

#em draws stuff #rls kidnapped #david balfour #well I just think that the house of shaws ought to be a little bit haunted! #all those curses have got to go Somewhere after all! #and a little while ago I was creeping up the stairs in the dark with a midnight jam sandwich #and the thought 'davie would do this' came into my head. and then I went on a mind journey about whether or not he'd have sandwiches. #mild research + thorts conspiracy board have produced Inconclusive results on whether or not he would have a sandwich in 1750s cramond #as you see his Evening Snack did make it into the image but it got a lot spookier along the way! #fic to go with this To Follow Eventually!!! have been Writing It!

[forcedhesitation]

so I didn't know that if you even so much as trigger the waypoint for waukeen's rest and leave....florrick dies and you lose your chance to learn that duke ravengard is alive.

what's interesting about this is that although wyll is understandably upset at the possibility that his father could be dead, he is more openly resentful of his father exiling him in this unfolding of events.

the way he delivers some of these lines carries a slight tone of disdain I've not heard before, when he'd spoken of his father in corydalis' campaign, where the party saved florrick.

#bg3 #thoughts about media #this is so so so interesting and I hate so so so much that the narrative does not explore this more. #god I would LOVE if they fully delved into the complicated nature of being hurt by a parent you still love. #because the breathe of it is there. gentle. just barely felt. #they ought to give it life! that's such a relatable subject and we KNOW they can write complex narratives about abuse. #it would have set apart wyll in a good way too. because ulder hurt wyll but he can (and does) ultimately change his ways. #and wyll still loves him. even though what he did REALLY hurt him. which I think is SO fucking interesting!!! #NONE of the other companions have that. this would have been a unique exploration of the “toxic family” trope you see elsewhere. #I hate everyone who was involved in giving wyll the short end of the stick when it came to quest material. #I GET he was rewritten late. but a character who's so tightly tied to the core narrative should be a NO.1 PRIORITY!!!

[elegyofthemoon]

actually scammers taking advantage of the genocide to make money are The Worst People

#avil speaks #i can't believe just how /many/ scammers there are that are trying to take advantage of this and stomping on people who ACTUALLY need #the help #how heartless do you have to be that you see people getting killed/dying of starvation infection etc #and your thought is that this is the perfect opportunity to be taking money from them? money that could help them evacuate or get the #supplies they need?? #its ridiculous how many there are /here/ #ive seen way more here than twitter but its just Exhausting #listen since yesterday ive just been in a crap mood bc of personal life nonsense #so maybe im just digging my foot into shit that i ought to ignore instead #but it just makes me a little pissed on behalf of people who need the help #i wish i could say 'i hope these people learn' but i dont think theyre capable of doing so #anyways sorry everyone ill chill and go focus on something else instead #i havent been scammed or anything i just keep seeing a bunch of posts about them and it just makes me mad

[misted-buttercup-enjoyer]

Do you ever look at a group of enemies and think "They would definitely have been some kind of weird found family in another world."

#found family #found family trope #enemies #i love that tag not enemies to lovers or enemies to friends or enemies to family because these people always WILL be enemies in this world. #so the tag is just. enemies. #chell wheatley and GLaDOS anyone? #i could totally see Chell and GLaDOS being girlfriends and Wheatley is GLaDOS's weird little brother that follows them around #Wittebros and Evelyn under better circumstances if Philip can learn to put himself to the side a little #like bruh #heck lotta warrior cats stuff too #like hello? lionblaze and shadowsight could've had a cute uncle/nephew relationship in another life #and like. mapleshade and reedshine raising their kits together after they find out appledusk cheated on both of them #in the hypothetical that mapleshade made it across the river with her kits and wasn't turned away #it's bittersweet. it really is. all of this. all of these enemies that really ought to be friends or even family. yet here they are. #fighting and even killing each other just to prove they don't care. both desperate to fight the urge to hug and hold their sworn enemy. #my random thoughts #this post was made by Misty at 1:22 a.m. #good night #and never forget to examine closely what you REALLY ought to be to your enemy.

[genekies]

screaming in the club

time for another vent in tags

#so i was joking and i thought it came through but im also dumb and autistic and my jokes dont always cross. sO #i was joking about one of my roomates not seeing Nightmare Before Christmas before bc i was showing 2 of them my picture vinyl of it and whe #n one of them said they never saw it i said “but you were a loser on tumblr in the 2010s wdym” and their fiance was just rude to me and i th #ought it was clearly a joke but ig not and they lowley attacked me for it? im just?? i tried to clarify that i was joking and they know im a #utistic. hell the one i was joking to is also autistic but idk so now i feel like utter shit especially after all i did today thst juet drai #ned me. ive been trying to fix our 2nd shower. i had a meeting. i had an extremely hard therapy session. and i showered today. its been hell #like i am trying to get thru relapsing on SH and my ED and ofc they dont know but that shit made it worse and i dont want to say anything bc #then ill feel like im guilt tripping? idk but im also super nervous about a HRT appmt i have coming up and i cant afford it and we have no #food in the house i can eat rn and no one has gone shopping. i cant go shopping either bc i cant drive/dont have a car. and its making it #harder to help get back on track with eating when theres nothing for me to eat? so everything is fucking amazing right now. #the only meals i could POSSIBLY have and all claimed by the one roommate i was joking with. it all takes up half our freezer too so thats #fucking awesome. all this food for one person and none that i can eat or the other vegan in the house can eat. i have been hungry for DAYS. #all there has been for me to eat is cup ramen and grilled cheese. AND SOMEONE WHO WASNT FUCKING VEGAN ATE ALL THE VEGAN CHEESE IM GENUINELY #SO PISSED OFF? like dude yall have your own cheese wtf #the thing is its already really hard for me to tell when i am actually hungry bc of years of ignoring it so when i actually feel it and ther #es nothing it really gets to me. im so tired and idek where my EBT card is to get myself something. its all just so much. #i just want to lay in my bed and sleep for days. but i cant. i have too much shit to do. like even just tomorrow i have to clean the #bathroom. mop the kitchen. do dishes. shovel snow. and just generally take.care of shit because since we have 2 roomates MIA right now and #no one else wanted to do shit i had to step up and i am STRUGGLING. i have been for a while. the thing is everyone that didnt sign up for sh #it didnt have much going on besides probable seasonal depression #i relapsed. have debilitating mental health. i can barely get out of bed before 4 pm. and i have to take care of myself and my cat. #im so close to snapping on them at this point #i need the one roommate i actually like to come back or i swear i will lose my shit. hes only been gone for 6 days but HOLY SHIT #everything has gone to shit #vent over ig im going to sleep soon. still hungry if i cant find something.

[britneyshakespeare]

just saw a video recommended to me about "the kinks as a reactionary band" that was over 2 hours and i never saw the channel before in my life. was quite sure it wasn't worth a time investment if it had such an attention-grabbing title that didn't really say anything so i went to the channel by itself. lots of worrying titles/thumbnails. then i went to their link twitter account just to make sure they were a racist and i didn't even scroll down that far to see that they said people with anauralia/aphantasia (no internal monologue/pictures in your head) deserve to be enslaved.

#sometimes i just find it hard to believe how reactionary people are. jeez #i have no interest in this guy's takes on the kinks #the guy was called the academic agent btw if you want to go block him or ever see his stuff recommended #tales from diana #you know when you can just smell something's fishy #like if someone i knew and respected made a video on how the kinks were 'problematic' i probably wouldnt defend #the kinks are one of my favorite bands but my honor is not tied to theirs #hell. the rolling stones are one of my favorite bands and i HATE them! #their music has had a remarkable personal influence on me and ill always love it but they have quite a lot of misogyny #not to mention casual racism in their discography. #i dont feel the need to pull these things apart in front of an audience as repentance. just. i know #we ought to have these sorts of conversations about the things we love and their issues. #i mean. not me right now. im not ready right now for a rigorous or academic deep dive #i just wanted to say that i saw this and it made me laugh/scoff. #admittedly i dont understand anauralia at all and i find it hard to relate to but it does interest me #aphantasia i dont have but i guess for me pictures are less vital to my thoughts than words #im a very word-reliant person #the academic agent thinks they ought to be enslaved though. jeeeeeesus.

[afieldinengland]

i’ve told this story but when i was in year four the best teacher i’ve ever had got frustrated by the fact that we weren’t having science lessons— we were a tiny rural catholic primary school, and the woman who taught science came in from offsite up until i guess she couldn’t be bothered anymore. and so my teacher sought to compensate through what i imagine were varied means, but what i remember is the two consecutive days where he passed the butcher on the way into work and brought us a) a pig bone and then b) a cow heart, which he hacked open with one of the woodwork saws we never used and encouraged us all to touch marrow and flesh respectively

#i don’t think i could convey to you how absolutely seismic he was. my mother sees his wife around sometimes and she asks after me #one day he sat us down and played us music and just wanted to know what we thought. it was hey joe by the jimi hendrix experience #i found the piece of paper i’d written my notes on a while ago. it was so stunning then to be asked what we thought like that #another time i asked him what we had after lunch and he said it ought to be maths but he’d seen some leaf rubbings the other day so we went #out and did that. he had a peculiar convoluted murder mystery thing that involved walking us all around the graveyards and empty buildings #in town. he wore hawaiian shirts all the time and played the guitar #and at the root he was the first person to think i was not too shaky at the whole english thing. sent me and some other people on these day #courses where you fucked around and wrote haikus about leaves #we put on one play where the central song was malvina reynolds’ little boxes. we had another structured around a flaming lips album #we went camping as a class and i told a horrible histories ghost story that freaked him out about a pharoah’s daughter without hands #he wrote a parody of the house of the rising sun to teach us how many millilitres were in a litre. we played myst on the smartboard

[2wo-knav3s]

#thoughts you have while cooking dinner #anyway it’s actually a good thing you’re in control of your own destiny. every choice is yours. #it’s just that sometimes I wish I couldn’t see the domino effect of my own actions #this is just a silly joke bc really you ought to embrace that shit!!!

[stardustedknuckles]

Sometimes I see someone trying to draw an audience to a show by comparing it to something known and beloved and I'm like. The only thing they have in common is two girls kissing. Which is fine, but please don't tell me these two pieces of media are similar and if you liked one you'll like the other when quite literally nothing else about them matches up.

#You will like b/y and warrior nun only if you are here to see women love each other and thassit #The similarities between avatrice and beauyasha begin and end with 'they both fight good and like each other' #You can throw in religion but it's not the same #You can throw in circumstances that ought to keep them apart and that's every love story #If you're into one of those ships at all because you love their actual relationship and how it came to be #There's pretty much nothing that makes them similar #Even if some effort had been made to be like 'if you like a good sapphic battle couple' like yeah for sure #But 'if you like b/y you'll like avatrice' is such a weird stance #My love for b/y isn't transferable for one #But all you meant was that they fight evil stuff with swords and a little divine magic and that's fine #Sdk has thoughts #Just in case #Anyway warrior nun is fine as its own thing and the relationship is even good in its own right #But as comparisons go it's they're both ready to throw down and also one of them has faith and they kiss

[chiropteracupola]

but still I keep your hand, as a precious souvenir...

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #haunted by your hand #the gambler: james webster #the highwayman: kate heriot #remember that 'what should I draw' poll? well girl soup won so here is Girl Soup as you so politely requested. #feel like I ought to tag this for Something but for the life of me I do not know What. #time to say a little context also. for I fear that this needs context. #james's entire Deal is a bit 'sad old bartender with a dead wife in the walls somewhere' except that she's not particularly sad or old #and the wife in question is not precisely in the walls so much as being preserved in alcohol in a barrel in the basement #'but what else are you Supposed to do after you've stolen your ladylove's corpse and turned her hand into a sorcerous artifact? #just bury her? well that would be both a difficulty and a waste wouldn't it. better to keep her close. right here. right here.' #so you see james's thought process on this one. and if she's drinking a little of what's in that vat of dead girl juice what's the problem. #...I realize now that I'm not ever sure I Said what the haunted by your hand storyline was out loud on the website before. #so if this was a sudden bucketload of information then. well. do not know what to say beyond That's Just How It Is. #aaaaand caption lyrics from tom lehrer's 'i hold your hand in mine' since I am still finding room to get a little silly with it around here

[gingerbreadmonsters]

wip not-wednesday

oh, vindemiator. it's alright, darling, don't cry. it will all be over soon.

-

“I’ll find a way. Even if it’s just for a short, precious while. I will.”

Magic, they say, is simply the next step after emotion.

It makes sense. Feelings and magic, the inescapable cause and the inevitable conclusion. The cup runneth over, and the magic swirls forth. Flame, dreams, flesh. However small or weak or unknowable, in all things, the magic persists. It has a funny way of hanging around, of sticking to things it shouldn’t, of hiding itself in places where it shouldn’t belong. It has a funny way of knowing you. It has a funny way of showing it.

...No, that’s not right.

Maybe there’s a better way of putting it.

Demons, you see, are made of magic. They understand it instinctually, its ebb and flow, its push and pull. They’re weaved into the Spellsong, feeling every chord and harmony, feeling every tug at the web. And so when little troublemakers try to have their fun, when they try to bend the rules for a little while - it doesn’t go unnoticed. That inescapable flood of magic that swept across the known reality, screeching and tearing and splintering. The whole world turned inside out, blood everywhere, spilling out across the universe. Foolish little creature. Did you really think nobody was watching?

The mirror can only handle so much. Six marble faces in the moonlight. Sometimes, things slip through the cracks.

“Deviant?”

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #my tumblr is glitching like mad right now good lord #but i thought you ought to see this 🥰🥰 #a return to the universe of 'one more paradox' #just a little. as a treat 🥳🥳

[birdmenmanga]

god every day I wake up and mourn what birdmen was never able to do

#just thinking thoughts... #stray bird thoughts #like... it's just so sad... #I think although kekkaishi was relatively quite successful #it was such a sellout series for tanabe #that she put in a romance because they said there ought to be one #(you can see in the one-shot yoshimori didn't have a love interest) #and I think because it was her first long series she was willing to throw a lot of her values away in exchange for safety. for popularity #and I think at the end of kekkaishi she decided that she didn't want to live like that anymore. #laughter at the end of the world is a lot more cryptic and unclear and unmarketable #and I think for birdmen she was trying VERY hard to make it accessible and enjoyable #while remaining true to the things she deemed important #but maybe the timing of it wasn't right. #maybe she just wasn't good enough at the execution. #maybe she didn't compromise enough. #but it didn't succeed. not in the way that maybe it could have. in a different universe #I don't know. it's so difficult to say. #can one really say that you failed after serializing in shonen sunday. I think most would consider that a sort of success... #I don't know. laying down on the floor. #GOD I CAN'T GO TO DANCE LIKE THIS #I'M LIKE 2 MILLIMETERS AWAY FROM CRYING

[unproduciblesmackdown]

already thinking "and by 'religious' really i mean 'christian'" re: how the term "religion" is not really useful when it's largely like, from a christian perspective, what is considered "equivalent" of christianity, see: perhaps a "rival"/obstacle to some person or group being considered christian....and even if not thinking about converting anyone, resulting in some at best misinterpretation / misrepresentation based on framing it through/as [element of christianity] and limiting of any more accurate language

like how tumblr recommends me a post about someone thinking about "religion" in general and concluding that it's Weird and perhaps Wrong for anyone who is a "true believer" in their religion(tm) to Not be proselytizing / trying to Convert everyone. like yeah why isn't everyone being an evangelical christian, they ought to be, benevolently informing all those around them that they're going to hell, otherwise. don't see any problem with this conclusion, or that someone's getting antisemitic in the notes already in agreement, or that That's Not How This Works and you don't just know how All "Religion" works based on considering it to be an alternate version of christianity (which in itself doesn't All work like that either)

#and even when it comes to having a Critical View of any belief system / way of living / spirituality it's like...people are on that already #without having to see it from a christian perspective or understand the only possible framework for it as [critiques of christianity].... #a dogmatic approach / doctrine of Salvation....not how it all works out there re: ways anyone can be anything besides christian #So Bizarre why everybody's not all trying to ''convert'' everyone else in the world....is it. #what; like; ''you'd think everyone would be launching an inquisition'' like would you. #even if you know fuckall abt non christian beliefs / perspectives / traditions/practices / identities / ways of life etc.... #we could maybe go ahead and question this conclusion. or perhaps go ''but also i know fuckall about all that so why am i theorizing'' like. #and again there are non ''western'' christian traditions....and of course individuals and philosophies within christianity who would also #not think you can only Truly be christian by going ''and i'd better be trying to convert everyone. or i'm being a jerk'' too #not actually the case that everyone thinks everyone else who doesn't share some ''religious'' factor is Damned To Hell or an equivalent.... #anyways telling tumblr actually this particular post? isn't for me. and i don't thank you #another tiresome factor of [mass at the benedictine monastery] like the homilies/sermons were especially exhausting #they always were but like ''what are you even talking about'' as one priest goes on about how it's silly for people to say they're #Spiritual but not Religious b/c the only way to be spiritual is to be christian lite & if you're Genuinely even christian lite then you #ought to realize you should go full throttle christian. like a) No b) why are we preaching to the choir here. we're all at Sunday Mass??? #not like any sermons ever feel that thoughtful when like too much analysis is like uh oh? a bit heretical are we??? which is not universal. #gee thanks for this [are we just supposed to all sit here feeling validated in our superiority; or...?] experience #wisdom you couldn't totally get from someone going on some self-assured monologue abt heathens these days over dinner or sm shit #really makes you think. and then someone will be really thinking & going ''shouldn't everyone w/a Religion be an Evangelist'' hmm: No. #and they aren't ''wrong'' about their own beliefs approaches perspectives identities traditions etc for it either. Done #anyways changed ''religious parent'' to ''christian parent'' for its own enhanced accuracy & precision alike....

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I'm getting tired of how pro-S*puffy the Boom comics are, and how I feel like they keep trying to turn S*pike into A*ngel.

#like that's one of the reasons i hate s*puffy now. because more and more i feel like the ship became b*angel 2.0 #especially if you get into the comics #and then boom just seemed to look at that and went 'so what if we took that to eleven?' #*'took that up to eleven?' #like i'm probably going to get killed for this... but i was thinking about b*uffy the last vampire slayer #and i honestly think that that story would have made more sense if you switched a*ngel and s*pike's roles in it #like in a perfect world i wouldn't want to throw either of them under the bus #but s*pike is the one who called himself 'love's bitch' and a*ngel was the one we always saw as more heroic #so it makes more sense that b*uffy and s*pike would have gotten married or something but then it didn't work out and he left #and we don't see him again #and then a*ngel shows up after having left b*uffy for ages. to her happiness or whatever. to try and help her save the world #and then and only then they rekindle something #and then the anniversary comic having a psychic telling s*pike that he's going to fall in love with b*uffy and he needs to be ready for her #like the whole whistler thing or something #and i thought most s*puffies like the ship because they weren't all prophesized or whatever and just against all odds happened upon each #other and then ended up being good for each other. so why are we trying to make them b*angel? #and then in the '97 comic s*pike is helping g*iles b*uffy w*illow and x*ander instead of a*ngel like he's supposed to be because of course #he is #and says he he used to be evil but now is trying to make amends (which is supposed to be a*ngel's whole thing! and s*pike. even souled #s*pike. never cared that much) and that b*uffy and w*illow ought to try it some time. like he's better than them or something. and i CANNOT