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anotherpapercut · 1 year
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the ACLU and Missouri library association sued the state over proposed censorship laws so they're retaliating by cutting our budget by $4.5mil 🙃
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darlingcloudie-9 · 25 days
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woe; my kny self insert be upon ye 😾😾
isn’t she cool like
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melit0n · 5 months
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What does Sleep, as in the deity, look like to you guys? Because as someone who's been around in the Sleep Token fandom for a while, I've seen a lot of different interpretations.
To me, Sleep doesn't really have a set, physical body outside of a person's (perhaps Vessel's) dreamscape. Afterall, why should something that dictates all the odd, horrifying, joyful and (sometimes) meaningful things that happen in your dreams be one thing? Sleep could be the shadow in the corner of your dark room you swear is moving, the tapping of rain as you're about to fall asleep, the creaking of the pipes inside your house/apartment as you slowly dose off at your desk, etc. Outside of a dreamscape; Sleep is only what you need it to be. Hence Its need for Vessel as Its mouthpiece.
However, in the dreamscape, I can see Sleep as a fish. Not a particularly alive looking one, per say, but the scattered remains of one. All bones, empty eye sockets (but are they truly empty?), rotting flesh and scales peeling off bit by bit etc. Specifically, a kind of deep-sea fish; like an angler fish, a sixgill shark or a Greenland shark. But! Along with its bones, Sleep has bioluminescent innards. Viceral that ebbs and flows in multi-colour fashion with each flick of Its tail.
The deep sea fish imagery mainly comes from the fact that the deep sea is almost completely unknown; many of the creatures down there are completely alien to us, like Sleep has supposedly become over the hundreds of thousands of years that It's existed. The deep sea, for the most part, is completely silent. Calm; the perfect place for a nap (if you can breath underwater of course).
It's the perfect habitat for the Unknown, odd and horrifying.
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catastrxblues · 8 months
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rachel elizabeth dare defender til the day i die
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god i wish i could create moodboards
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crispyflowerblaze · 7 months
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hello anyone who is on neopets! okay so the faerie festival is all centered on illusen and jhudora, which i for one think is great. honestly the dynamic between those two is one of the best things neopets has going for it character-wise in my opinion. they're just so bubbline coded to me. not like illusen is that similar to princess bubblegum and jhudora is that similar to marceline, i mean not like i think they're that different either, but either way i just mean the dynamic and their interactions are so similar to me. i just want illusen and jhudora to be revealed to have dated in the past. and to date again. please tnt come on let them kiss
but anyway that's so not the point. are you a person on neopets who has never read "you had one job", a short story in issue 703 of the neopian times by user quanticdreams?? if so, please do. oh my gosh this is literally one of my favorite pieces of literature ever, anywhere. and i only ever found it because i got a short story published in that issue too ("you had one job" is the third story down on the short story tab, the picture is of jhudora, you can't miss it, and mine is the one right above it :) keep in mind though that it's personally my least favorite of everything i've had published on the neopian times though lol. literally if you read my stuff on the neopian times i will love you forever okay??????? and if anyone cares, my username is dunefurandlilypelt. um yeah that's a warrior cats thing if anyone can tell, uh i have like 18 or so journals in my room that are just filled with my completely OC warrior cats au. but nevermind all that), and gosh i'm so lucky i did because that story is part of my dna. i love it so much. i'm obsessed with it. i don't even want to spoil it because that's mean and i don't want to describe it because i wouldn't know how. read it now please
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letsmcfreackingloseit · 6 months
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I JUST SAW MATPAT IN THEATERS AND IT WAS AWESOME AND I'M SO HAPPY
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your-turn-to-role · 1 year
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been working my way through the lovm s2 q&as that are on youtube
and like! love them as always, the cast is great, great to hear them talk about this stuff
but also. i took like a year ish hiatus from this fandom before tlovm pulled me back in, and in that time i, among other things, finished my theatre degree
and god does this hit different when you're a week out from the professional opening of an original musical you wrote with like 7 other people, and are also not just a performer in but the music director of
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kelprot-old · 11 months
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i still think that viewing stories as this unchangeable format is both like. the end and also this inevitable progression of narrative analysis btw. like let me try to explain.
on one spectrum, you have the whole. disney marvel movies Clickbait youtube videos "ENDING EXPLAINED" and all that shit. where everything is objective and the story is treated as a malevolent entity that just spawned one day with no explanation or anything. like go on twitter and you'll find a couple thousand guys who will laser-focus on like. something being "unrealistic". that mindset of "that would never happen in real life!" = therefore the story loses all merit. in their world, there is no team behind a story, no person making the decisions that led to each event and character, nobody is purposefully writing each line, and there's no significance to most of it. you take it all at face value, "what someone says is exactly what they mean", but apply that to an entire narrative.
and the other "end" (i dont think this is like. the Hightened Perfect way of engaging with anything. i'm just fond of it) is treating the story, both the base fiction itself and the circumstances around its creation, as a full package. parts of a story that may be narratively unsatisfying, or that may be a result of bad writing or lackluster foresight, are a part of that story. it allows it to be both the original, and both a potential examination and sort of..."secondary" (?) narrative of sorts, that focuses more on a reflection of storytelling as a whole, and how we use the medium + what we can get out of it. or just an unintentional but Always-There Story about Storytelling.
for instance, if something you've been enjoying falls off at the end, if the writer struggles to pull all the pieces together, and what was once a Beloved Tale that you deeply adored just kinda....falls apart, that's still a story. it doesn't really lose the significance it had to you, that significance is turned into frustration; an upset at the lack of a satisfying conclusion. i'm not saying this shit doesn't suck, it fucking does, we all like good endings, or at least satisfying ones. but in providing the reader that frustration, i'd argue that still allows significance. there is still something being told, but maybe that story itself is of a more meta variety. in pulling it apart and viewing it from different angle, i think theres more opportunities to take potentially "passable" works, and grant them more significance. because even if that lack of a perfect ending was an unintentional fault on the writer's side, it still made you feel things, and it was a part of the story, in the end.
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rotationalsymmetry · 9 months
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I don’t know if this is what you are looking for exactly, but I enjoy writing for Postcards to Voters because they focus on non-presidential races. I am currently writing postcards against an anti-choice constitutional amendment proposition in Ohio.
I wish more people would do things like that, instead of making posts that guilt trip people for not being excited enough about voting for the Blue sexual harasser instead of the Red one.
Thank you for your highly sensible response.
I guess there's a thing where "just because someone takes 15 seconds to shoot their mouth off online about something that's annoying them doesn't mean they have the time/energy to do anything actually constructive, even more so for the people who took .5 seconds to hit reblog now on someone else's shooting their mouth of post" but I think it would be strictly better for people to spend that .5 second exerting a smidgen of self control and going "either it's actual GOTV or it's not, and if it's not I'm going to not reblog it."
And as the election is over a year away...I don't think "vote blue no matter who" is actually a Get Out The Vote action at this point in time. It's annoying enough when people do it in person but at least then there's occasionally some chance of having a reasonable discussion about it, but on social media between people who don't really know each other? Ha snowball's chance in hell.
(I haven't done Postcards to Voters the last couple years, but I did around 2019-2020 or so and they are fairly low barrier to entry as long as you have stamp money, super introvert friendly, you can be as creative or non-creative as you want to be, and as you can do it from your home on your own schedule pretty darn spoonie friendly as well. As well as covid-safe. And yes, there's a big focus on local/state campaigns, which warms my participatory democracy loving little heart.) (ughh sounds like an important campaign maybe I should pick this thing up again.)
#I did big posts arguing about this in 2000 but I felt crummy afterwards so I'd really rather not rehash all that#it's theoretically and pragmatically wrong on multiple levels#this is the internet you don't get unity#you get two splinter groups arguing the two most extreme ends of the position possible each side convinced that they are 100% right#someone who's a little bit in favor of voting blue no matter who will get downright dogmatic about it#someone who's a little bit against will end up surrounded by anarchists who think voting is a waste of time#which wouldn't be the worst outcome ever#except that as far as I can tell most of the most vocal anarchists on tumblr don't do shit except tear down democratic politicians#like ok glad you think you're right I don't want to have anything to do with you though#there's like 2-3 anarchist posters on here who actually talk about direct action and organizing and stuff -- about things people can do#I guess with the abundance of time freed up by not spending a couple hours doing research and half an hour filling out a ballot#or much much less time than that if they're voting just for the president#yup congrats you sure saved a lot of time there now you have more time to convince other people to not vote either AWESOME GOOD JOB (sarcas#on an unrelated note I really need to work on a following the local news habit#and finding some way to learn more about oakland's history since I live here now#and I know how annoying it can be when someone's trying to be active in local politics but is missing highly important context
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screw-u-vaanu · 1 month
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samijami · 9 months
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I love it when I see transgender people and I just really wanna talk and hangout with them,
Not just because I'm trans and I really relate to them, but because trans people are literally just so awesome
The best people I find are always trans, like..they just have the best goddamn personalities istg
I also love any LGBTQIA+ people, all of them are just the best
We just..are so kind, it's really conflicting with how people treat us usually
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coyoxxtl · 10 months
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twitter is a circle of hell
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4arconinoma · 8 months
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And on the topic I just have to rant about Bruno's characterization in this fandom. Listen uusually i dont give a fuck about mischaracterization for the simple fact that I am so used to it and it will happen inevitably. So i dont let it bother me But there are some examples in which its so egregious, that it feels like people watched a different show or something...
After rewatching Vento Aureo it just blows my mind how the fandom got to this, weird, "mommy bruno" thing this state for his character that is hardly even present in canon. Its strange because when I was younger and i first watched it I kind of subscribed to it too, i think just by seeing people act that way it cemented itself in my mind as fact But rewatching it now, its so obvious that its just MISSING his entire character, and so many little details and aspects of it that the show makes quite Clear!
Its not just the fact that he is so young. But that bothers me too I wish people acknowledged that hes barely an adult. People act like hes 30 or something HE'S TWENTY he's BARELY AN ADULT okay and I Know he acts older than he really is and maybe that's why people mix it up, maybe people haven't seen his age on the wiki, but don't they state it in the show ?!?! Either way, the thing is that's Literally a canon element of his character, he DOES act older than he is because he HAS to he HAD to grow up so much earlier than everyone else he has to act more responsible than even the 22 year old on the team because that guy just cant step up like he does And hes had no other reliable figure to guide him ever since he was young it was only Him and he had to become entirely independent at what fucking 12 years old.
Right and wouldn't it just be really cool if people actually took that into consideration? That he's so young he's tired that maybe he's JUST as scared as everyone else on the team and he feels lost and confused too but he just CAN'T let that show because he's the ONE person who is keeping the team glued together? And Giorno yes he stepped into his place — Which is its own sort of tragedy to me, that the 15 year old had to follow in Bruno's same steps of growing up too soon because no one else could manage things like he does and he has only himself to depend on now while running the Entire Italian Mafia — but either way it's just the way this attitude of his is brushed off as Mommy bruno mama bear hes such a mom 🥺🥺🥺 Is almost insulting? And i wont even get into the gender role aspect of that, some people have discussed that before too, that in contrast with Abbacchio who is the "father" (nevermind that he can barely even take care of Himself, and is cold to his entire team, not a great example of a father is it) is mischaracterized too for the sake of woobifying Bruno! Also hate this as a Bruabba enjoyer but thats another discussion entirely
And the last thing that puzzles me is just, that he doesn't even act close to being motherly in canon. Maybe save for the Trish thing, and the thing with Narancia's backstory, which is indeed him caring for younger people But due to what i stated previously, he HAS to and Id bet he feels compelled to. I wont deny that he is kind and he doesnt want kids to lead a life like his, because that's literally a part of his character that they show. But I think people are forgetting that he fucking beat up a 15 year old immediately after meeting him, then didn't even invite him to his gang: GIORNO did that HIMSELF, Literally went "you Will let me join your gang. I will join it' now." and bruno was like Okay. And the thing from my previous post, is that they literally canonically show that Bruno does act detached to his gang, not... not the other way around. See why this characterization misses so much. He doesn't have TIME to build any particular bonds with his gang Yes he is kind to them of course he is But like the scene of Abbacchio's death where he orders everyone to just go on because they don't have time for this even though he's just as distraught, or Trish feeling frustrated that he acts so cold, he puts some sort of wall between him and the gang even if it's subtle. Narancia even says he knows this about Bruno, that he knows him because of his past with him he noticed that Bruno PUSHES people away because he doesn't want them to go down the same path he did, not because he is their "mommy" it's because his life is fucking MISERABLE and he is a kind person so he doesn't want that for others, especially not younger people because HE was in that same spot too so YEAH okay he cares about kids WHO WOULDN'T What kind person would want to let a child down his lifestyle... This displays his kindness and virtue as a leader, not his. """"Motherly instincts"""".
Okay. I don't know, I just wish the fandom left room for this sort of nuance to his character. I have never seen anyone bring this up. It's always people just making up this completely different Bruno than the canon one, I understand why people confuse this. I used to as well, when I was young and many people in this fandom are, but fuck, it would just be nice if people took this aspect of him into account, because I think it's interesting! Its so much more interesting than going Aww Mommy Bruno he loves his kids (ugh) and completely ignoring the rest of his character! Just... a thought !!!!! Or several !
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kitttwilight · 1 year
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MIKU IS LITERALLY SEETHING RN. teto is HIGHER QUALITY THAN HER. she sounds MORE HUMAN than miku. how the tables have turned.
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transgender-catboy · 7 months
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I love my friends
#i think im just going to talk in the tags for a moment. got a lot on my mind#for starters. the fnaf movie comes out soon. really looking forward to that. think its gonna be awesome and amazing and I'm super excited!!!#secondly. waiting on funds so i can buy that mask i saw the other day and some Halloween candy from Walmart#i . want to do little goodie bags for the kids in my building. but im too scared to go up to their parents and ask candy preference and#allergy concerns. so. idk. maybe I'll just save it. I think it's a cute concept but it makes me feel like my mother.#she loved to do little gift things for people. but it was always people that didn't like her. i don't want to be that way#i know my value. i know my time and energy means something. i don't want to waste it on people who don't give a shit. ya know?#not saying the kids are those kinds of people. not what i mean. but just as an overall thing. i don't like being like her.#...yeah. i dunno. you get raised by one person your whole life. you pick up some of their characteristics#i can't sob without sounding like her. safe to say i am a little emotionally constipated. so i seek other means to relieve that feeling.#like yesterday when i threw up. i played it off like that was a blunder on my body. but i know what i did.#hey. at least it's not the other method. right?. .. yeah. okay. i know. not great either#but it hurts. and I'm so fucking sick and tired of crying over her. genuinely. it's exhausting crying all the time#but that's the only way I can get those emotions out#I've tried to do the counseling thing. but other things made that impossible. then i moved.#and i tried the grief thing but instead i just got a talking buddy? he helps me get out of the house yeah.#but we dont talk about her#... i dunno. I'm just here.#guess i waited long enough. now you get a mini secret. every time i make an i love my friends post. I'm reminding myself why I'm still going#I'm usually sitting around somewhere in my apartment (desk couch bed) crying. alone. thinking about you guys.#so uh. thank you.#i love you guys so much. and i don't know where I'd be without you#probably dead.#💖#vent
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