#i can hope and dream

[wheelie-butch]

I think it would be really interesting to read detail about Pickman’s life on the train and what it was like and invent characters who were there with her and is she still in contact with any of them or what have you. I don’t think that’s what I’m going to be doing with the fic I’m working on, I think I’m going for more about individual weird moments than a cohesive look at her life, but maybe someone will write a novel length fic targeted to me one day (dreamy sigh)

#sangfielle #pickman #fatt #i can hope and dream

[jennablackmorebooks]

I heard a song that would be so perfect lyrically to put on the Regards playlist I made but alack and alas! No one knows where this song is even from :(

#girl help i am becoming invested in the hunt for everyone knows that/ulterior motives :0 #CAUGHT UP IN A WORLD OF LIIIIES EVERYONE KNOWS THAT you got ULTERIOR MOTIVES #I really hope a full version of this exists. I have doubts bc people say it was for TV and is therefore probably originally short. but #i can hope and dream #if this is an ARG whoever made it SHOULD release it in full someday

[knifearo]

being aromantic is like. hey btw you're going to live a life that is the culmination of most of society's worst nightmares. sorry lol ✌️ but then you turn around and take a really good hard look at it and it turns out that living in that nightmare is fucking awesome and you get to wake up every day and take that fear that other people have and laugh and hold it close until it's a great joy for you instead. and being happy is a radical act that you define instead of someone else. and you're sexy as fuck that's just a fact of life i don't make the rules on that one

#aromantic people are just sexy i'm not making the decisions here it's just facts #course ur hot as fuck. it came free with the aromanticism #being sexy is just default settings for aromantic people 👍 #hope this all helps. anyway i'm on my 'i hope i die alone <3 i can't wait to die alone <3' kick rn #i think the existential fear that people have of Not Partnering specifically is so. well. #obviously that shit is strong and it is SO awesome to be free of it. #realizing you're aro and you don't Want a partner can be such a hit to the solar plexus #cause society says that's the only thing that'll make you happy. so either you go without that thing or you force yourself #into doing something you don't want which would make you unhappy anyway. #so you think it's a lose lose situation and you have to come to terms with what amatonormativity presents as the worst possible situation #but then! whoa! turns out personhood is inherently valuable in and of itself and romantic partnering is just a construct! #and that nightmare is now your life to do with as you please... define as you will... structure as you want... #best case scenario. is what i'm saying. #every day i wake up ready to spit all that amatonormative rhetoric back in life's teeth by being alone and being happy #and it's so fucking satisfying. every day. #fucking JUBILANT being by myself. and i love being a living breathing 'fuck you' to the romantic system #you need a partner to be happy? oh that's sooo fucking crazy guess i'll go be miserable then. in my perfect fucking dream life lmao #yeah obviously it's the worst possible outcome on earth to die without a partner. so terrible. can't wait for it :) #aromantic #aromanticism #aro positivity #aroace #arospec #sorry to bitches who are sad about not having a partner. i could not give a fuck though get better soon #you couldn't EVER pay me enough to go back to a mindset in which my inherent value wasn't enough by myself. #FUCK that shit. absolutely miserable and a bad life outlook in general. like genuinely do the work w/ amatonormativity and get better #life is something that can be so fulfilling whether someone wants to kiss you or whatever or not #i'm on antidepressants and i have people i care deeply about. what the fuck would i need a partner for lmao

[mienar]

from us it begins

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#artists on tumblr #illustration #animated illustration #animation #backgrounds #background illustration #animated gifs #stars #celestial #cozy rooms #myillust #hellooo! :') it's been a while! i really hope that you've been well healthy and safe #had a lot going on for me for the past couple of months but things are settling down thankfully and i can dedicate time to making art again #this is more of a whimsical/fantasy-like artwork - the thought or idea of seeing glowing stars up close #i know very well that stars dont work like that lol but i've always liked the idea that stars can be small and fit at the palm of our hands #a whimsical dream for sure! #anyways! i hope you'll like this! and i hope you'll have a lovely day or night ahead! <3

[rendevok]

step into the light

what do you see?

my sun,

my stars

shining on me

#narumitsu #wrightworth #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #ace attorney #can you BELIEVE i made it through that without a big ole smackeroo? amazing #anyway… dont think too hard abt what this is. theyre just in a magical place. dream world. idk. theyre in love does it even matter #shoutout to the anon that requested the kisses on the corners of the eyes…. my friend you spoke to a part of me that needed to awaken #the mush in this was brought to you by my maple tree of romance and a lifetime of boiling over with a need to channel it somewhere #they taste like a sunrise and syrup and i’m choking up #i hope the last page being colored isn’t too jarring it just looked like that in my head #that last panel of pg 2…. boys i’m printing that and sending it to all my friends bc wth i was FEVERISH with nrmts holy fuck #last art of 2023 AND first art of 2024. let it be a year of multi-track drifting #fan art #aa #rendevok #fan comic

[curb-your-dog]

how i thought @autismswagsummit's donnie vs kris round would go

and what's currently happening. somehow

#tmnt #rottmnt #donatello #posting this now in case he loses for maximum comedic effect #i want him to win so that he can lose to abed #i hope the poll's op gets a vacation after this i'm so sorry #edit: what do you mean abed lost- #edit 2: donnie vs abed in the wheel of doom dreams do come true!!! #curb's art of editing

[onionrimgs]

#twst #twisted wonderland #idia shroud #book 7 spoilers #twst spoilers #gif #new live2d expressions for an already existing character.. oh im so blessed by this #i really hope they'll keep adding more expressions to charas #well not very likely unless its important to the story but i can dream. i can dream

[jq37]

OK Brennan, if you aren't gonna let me have Aelwyn posted up in the manor at all times, having her use her dramatic villain skills to protect Adaine before going off to teach middle schoolers is the next best thing I could have hoped for. What a mental image--Ms. "I Came Here To Fuck" teaching cantrips to eleven-year-olds. Wild.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #d20 #d20 spoilers #aelwyn abernant #NEMESIS WARD #I'm obsessed with the concept #also I always headcanonned aelwyn as going CPS but middle school teacher is SOOOO good #God I hope they crash a class at some point #can you imagine her having to protect a class of kids from some end of the world bullshit? #I can only dream #you think she's teaching at the school the child dwarves they beat up go to? #Oakshield I think?

[midoristeashop]

Long car trips mean hunch over my ipad and film dumb stupid videos in restaurants at 11pm 😍 (future me screw u idk if it’s shaky also do not perceive me)

(That one vine)

Also have the things

#I didn’t even plan to use this audio LMAO #it worked ig I just added words #hijack #jackycup #it’s so wild yall car trips fuck me up cuz what do u mean I slept 4 hours straight and now there’s snow #IN CALI?? #ate some bomb ass food tho while filming and my sis just stared at me the whole time 😔 #ig that’s how ​toofthelss greets people LMAO #expressions are fun #I may not animatic but I can sure hope and dream #if u see this no u didn’t #a little loopy it’s fine yall #edit: omgf ITS SO SHAKY I AM ASHAMED #TY FOR LIKING THIS BUT ALSO WOW DO I KINDA HAYE IT #😔 it’s ok I’ll just dig a hole and lay down for a while it’s fine

[inkskinned]

one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.

in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.

disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.

desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.

in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?

we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.

except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?

and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.

to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."

this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.

in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.

the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.

and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.

some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.

the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.

we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?

"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.

there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.

#does this make sense #to do be deleted probably yikes #(takes a swing at a wasp's nest) #like i think ppl have started to just be really quiet when they like something 'problematic' #and im like... u can be like - #girl tswift NEEDS to just TAKE A BUS . LIKE????????????????????? #while also being like. #''she's a lot of fun'' #if ur personal policy is that u don't support her for that reason that's great #but it's like. eating meat??? #like yeah some people won't bc the environment. but the fact i eat meat doesn't mean i hate the earth #like i can say that i think the meat industry is HORRIFIC and also downright cruel to its employees #but like. still enjoy a chicken nugget.... #there are people who choose otherwise. it's okay . we are people. i make like no money. u probably don't either #us fighting about whether or not it's Right To Eat The Chicken Tender just distracts from like. #actually turning your ire on the corporation #i hope it's clear what i'm saying here is like. when we fight each other for Purity Reasons #we are just doing the work of corporations . for free. like they WANT us to be doing this lol #it's the fucking DREAM of the upperclass that now ALL forms of responsibility fall on the individual

[joneevarts]

When your bf can turn into a cat!

Based on @annczakdy post!

(I really wanna draw more of Dream and Hob but my brain I focusing on the Corinthian so maybe not rn lmao)

Part 2 of cat!Dream shenanigans

#morpheus #hob gadling #the sandman #dreamling #fanart #cat dream #dream of the endless #the dude has too many names im not tagging them all #he has the temperament of a cat too it's cracking me up #i can clearly picture him pushing a glass off a shelf or something like that #digital drawing #sketch #jo's art #also this is the first time i draw Hob and my lazy ass didn't used a reference pic #so i hope he's not looking too bad

[omtai]

new thursday song so good it got me painting w/ acrylics for the first time in a year …and at 2am no less !!

#omtai art #messy and silly but idc it was fun and i can’t stop looping this gd song #i forgot to eat bc i was busy with this shit!!! #doing the lettering was soooo scary my hand was shaking so bad i hope u can’t tell #i accidentally wrote repeating as repeaping the first time and it was like😭 shitttttttt #oh well. Excited for the clock to strike 12 in the mericas so the rest of my mutuals can partake in this moment #i tried to use my stamps for the letters but it didn’t work the way i wanted it to #alas #back to the old fashioned way of shaking like a leaf trying to write an E #thursday #application for release from the dream

[starrymarii]

Just finished replaying one of my favorite games ^^

#undertale #mettaton #flowey #undyne #temmie #heats flamesman #it's just as good as i remember #i love it sm #thank you toby fox for making a piece of art that has inspired me so much #ost is a masterpiece characters are amazing gameplay is fun 100000000/10 #if i ever feel bad i can just put on hopes and dreams and it fixes it

[little-pup-pip]

Hello!!! could you do a pastel blue and yellow golden retriever puppy moodboard? gender neutral please with a paci preferably deco but it’s ok if not!! with a theme of stars, pompompurin, and sleepiness?

Yes!!

#Golden retriever #!!! #i love them #i really like this one #so i hope you enjoy! #sfw interaction only #moodboard #sfw agere #age regression #agere #sfw littlespace #agere moodboard #babyre #age dreaming #baby regression #can also be #puppyre #puppy regression #golden retriever regression

[royalarchivist]

Etoiles just announced that will be doing a virtual tour of the Louvre LIVE with famous vlogger and YouTuber Léna Situation this Saturday on January 13!

Not only are Etoiles' virtual museum tours always very educational and interesting, but he also says it's been his dream to visit the Louvre for a long time. He's very excited to explore it with chat, and he says he hopes that international viewers will also be able to watch and enjoy the stream with the help of subtitles, since he knows not everyone has the opportunity to see the Louvre and it's a once in a lifetime experience.

Be sure to watch the tour live this Saturday, January 13 at 8:30pm (~11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST).

Translation (courtesy of @EtoilesUpdate):

YES YES YES, We’re there SATURDAY, one of my life’s dreams since SO LONG, THE LOUVRE ! I’m putting together an exceptional visit of @.MuseeLouvre with this MYTHICAL establishment just for us with Phillipe our always incredible speaker !! @.lenasituations will also be there and is SO excited to come, I think that she’ll be an exceptional guest who’ll know to ask the right questions! It’s this Saturday at 20h30, it’ll be a big week on my channel, I’m expecting you guys motivated 🥰

#Etoiles #IRL #SO PROUD OF HIM!!! He says this has been his dream for so long :') #That's amazing #I really hope I can watch it #January 7 2024 #Tumblr took an HOUR TO UPLOAD THIS FRICKIN VIDEO #I'm so salty

[spidybaby]

To think that he's probably blaming himself when all he wants to do is play and win with his team.

I don't want to read people tweeting that "we should sell pedri" People need to understand he's not doing this on purpose, he's trying to get better.

#football #pedri #I hope his family and friends give him as much support and love as they can #He's just a kid wanting to make his dreams true #pedri gonzalez #barca #fc barcelona #Wishing I can take his pain away