#it feels nice to have a community

[drakonovisny]

i went to a little lgbt+ meeting today and it was so nice to chat to older queer folks. it gives me hope yk :')

#not enough queer groups in ireland outside dublin #i offered to help make better social media pages to advertise the meetings #it feels nice to have a community

[1982brucespringsteen]

some good news!! the spanish state's ministry of equality has finally passed one of the most progressive trans laws on the planet, shielded free and universal access to abortion and banned conversion therapy and genital surgery for intersex babies, among a lot of other feminist policies. the minister of equality irene montero gave a speech thanking spain's lgtb and trans associations for helping her draft these legislations. couldn't be more proud!!

#spain #trans #ill always prioritize queer&trans revolution over reformism but man. man these are good news #these are gonna make people's life so much more comfortable #i was lucky enough to live in andalucia where we have THEE most advanced regional legislation on trans rights #so i didnt have to fight too many people to access hrt and to change my name on legal docs #but other ppl on the spanish state have been suffering so fucking much #and yeah this law doesnt cover non binary people or migrants but the door is fucking open. its a step forward #and after this terrible terrible week #after the antitrans antisemite game & brianna's murder and so many rampant transphobia #it feels nice to get a win #to have someone in power be so unwaveringly supportive #the queer community in the spanish state is NEVER gonna forget this. never #anyways!!! #felicidades gente trans española!!!! nos vemos en el registro civil dkkskdkkdkxkdk #mine

[noirandchocolate]

Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

#kidk says stuff #knit #i love making blankets anyway and these patterns are honestly cool #i already have most of the equipment i'd ever need but i still feel warm and fuzzy having this old gal's stuff too #my coworker thought of me ;__; she's seen my scarves and the table runners and stuff i have in my cubicle #she gave me precious things from her mother's beloved hobby because she 'knew i wouldn't let them go to waste'! #i feel very much like a human being and a member of a community because of this idk it's just nice all right? #crafts #blanket completion project

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

#rvb #agent washington #agent Carolina #lavernius tucker #michael j caboose #epsilon #my art rvb #ahhh a lot of feelings…of course I stepped away from rt as a company a long time ago #but RvB is special to me!! it was my first fandom experience ever #and the community here on tumblr specifically was so instrumental to me growing up #I really could not have asked for a better community of artists and writers to grow up in. I know it sounds like platitudes when I say #that everyone was super nice and talented but REALLY. People were so kind to me and somehow I became well known despite #my art and writing and me in general still being immature and hashtag cringe #I found my creative legs and #people would respond to my stuff with walls and walls of support in the tags and we would do exchanges and events every year #I made my first lyric comic and it’s still doing extremely well on YouTube even today!! my dad who passed away recently always loved it #and my favorite RvB writer came out of hibernation to write me a bunch of text wall asks about it #I’ve never had another fandom experience quite like RvB #I still keep in touch with many of my friends from that time period even though we’ve all moved on the other things #these guys will always always have a place in my heart #so long reds and blues….

[warmsol]

i think it’s so neat we are all here just doing our own thing with a shared medium. i think it’s very cool that people have their own style and expression of creativity. i think it’s awesome we all get to share a piece of ourselves here through the sims, in whatever form that might be. and i know it’s so easy to fall into the mindset of, “oh i need to do this like that, because xyz does that.” but honestly, staying true to yourself and your likes is always the right answer. you’re all so fucking talented in your own little way. and i hope you don’t doubt yourself too much today, or any day. 🫵🏼

#feeling appreciative of our community and the uniqueness within it this morning #🥹 have a nice day

[royalarchivist]

I say this in the kindest way possible, but I think this style of prose is more appropriate for a personal account rather than an update account. I have no idea who's being talked about half the time. 🥲

[ Tumblr meme via @mikaikaika ]

#QSMP #Philza #Edited #Phil #Let me know if this needs an additional tag #I don't think this necessitates a discourse or neg tag or whatever because I'm being silly but I'm happy to add one if folks need it #I won't post this one on Twitter I don't think because I genuinely don't want to hurt anyone's feelings #but. I feel very strongly about this. It's not helpful #I say this as a fan and as a professional writer (who also worked in the Marketing and Communications field for far too long) #The prose is nice! It's very whimsical and they're having fun! But I don't think it's appropriate for an updates account #I recently turned off notifications for QsmpEN and I'm considering muting them because half the updates just aren't helpful to me #I want to be able to speed read through the update thread I don't want to spend an additional 30 seconds trying to decipher who's who #I don't like posting complaints so I tried to make it a funny complaint #because I do think feedback is good! And I know I'm not the only one who feels this way #but at the same time: these update writers ARE volunteers #(As a side note -- I personally think anyone running a large social media account should be paid) #(I did that for a few years and it was hell. I can't imagine doing that and NOT getting paid for it) #But anyways #They're all volunteers so I don't actually wanna go all pitchforks and torches on them (which I wouldn't do anyways even if they WERE paid) #I'm just venting my frustrations in what is (hopefully) a funny way #but you're welcome to disagree! That's ok too #Portfolio

[6footeel]

haven’t made any decisions about his colors yet so i kind of just had fun with it lol

#i have some thoughts and feelings abt him #.art #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #he’s just a little blobby guy up there #i have some really specific thoughts abt arthur as like #the child of 2 british jews . who immigrated & then had very little connection with community before they killed themselves #and thusly he was handed off to a catholic orphanage #and so . the complicated feelings about religion #along with them being compounded by how much loss he’s had in his life. and how much suffering #i just. as a jewish dude . i have feelings abt it #it’s literally all headcanons that i’ve made up but it slots in very nicely with him so. yeah

[canisalbus]

hey! do you consider yourself a furry? if so, do you enjoy being in the community? if not, what label do you use, and why? (been wanting to ask this for a while:))

Sure, I don't mind being called a furry. My art certainly qualifies as furry art and my characters are furry characters. But I've never been that connected or active in the furry fandom in general. There's a lot of core experiences that I'm missing: I don't have a fursona, I don't own a fursuit and I've never been to a furry con. My online circles are very furry-centric but I don't think any of my irl friends consider themselves furries, despite our shared tastes and interests.

#so yeah furry but not a very community oriented one I guess #I'm always out of the loop when it comes to happenings and drama and such I literally never know what's going on #I tend to use the word anthro when referring to my art/characters but that's just personal preference furry is equally correct #I feel like all furries are anthros but not all anthros are furries and I just like to pick the word that covers both? #while we're here let me say that I find the theme of anthropomorphism super fascinating #people have been humanizing animals since prehistory which lends it a sense of timelessness and it's a concept that is culturally universal #it's silly but #in some trivial way I feel connected to the larger continuum of humans making nonhuman things in their own image #which is nice it makes me feel kinship to those cavemen who sculpted lion headed human figures out of mammoth ivory 35 000 years ago #answered #anonymous

[quaranmine]

collapses on the floor and Dies

#lmao like a 13 hour day for me with added effect of some. borderline hostile community interactions #their concern was highly valid it just still didnt feel nice to be on the opposite end of that (from a personal standpoint not professional #knowing that i literally can't provide the resources they want/need. both as a systematic legal barrier and a 'i dont have millions of $$' #and that i wasnt even born yet when the thing in question happened.... #my much more experienced coworker diffused the situation and we had a more constructive conversation going forward #where i think everybody left the event feeling like we could do something #but it was uhhh wild there for a little bit #im tired. i gotta go do it all again tomorrow and thursday.

[sableeira]

why is sending asks so anxiety inducing. this is the socially awkward cringefail website.

#considered sending them on anon because anon asks are less anxiety inducing but I have to get over myself sometimes #asking around the community what people’s fave artworks were this year #I feel like at the end of the year it’s always nice to look back at everything you have drawn and #to pick out the ones you are especially proud of #it’s just ugh sending asks and social anxiety…… #and I’m gonna miss like 20000 amazing artists 🥲 #sina’s rambling

[vanityangel]

Forgive. Forget. Family.

#wrestling #wwe #solo sikoa #jey uso #the bloodline #wweedit #wrestlingedit #my gifs #jey and solo have had a really good rivalry dynamic with everything #also ive thought about this forgiveness thing ever since solo said that line and everyone was like ???YOU dont forgive EITHER??? #'like you did it to jimmy that doesnt make sense' yada yada etc #but i like to think of it in the context of an angry little brother who has BEEN angry for a long time #at the older brothers he feels left him behind #and having not ever forgiven them for that #he just hasnt been communicating it directly so it keeps going over their heads why hes always so mad all the time #jey: idk if i can forgive you (2 months later) ill always forgive you #solo: who tf said i was looking for forgiveness ill do it again #(and he does) #the chicks not ready to make nice is stuck in my head now

[lineffability]

sappy little end of year post to celebrate my own personal lovingly curated corner of fandom that I've been enjoying immensely this year, full of correct opinions, good takes and little drama 😌😌✨

three special shout-outs to very lovely people:

@crowleyholmes chii you're such a ray of sunshine and your lovely tags and enthusiasm were just too fucking contagious, even before I was following you I kept thinking 'how can someone be THIS nice' but then you started talking to me and you ARE, aren't you 💛😌 glad to know you, you're a delight and, dare I say it, a friend

@chernozemm what can I say - I adore you, zemmie, ever since we started talking it feels we've barely stopped, I love bouncing ideas and headcanons and fics and just anything, really, off you, and you definitely know things, and me <3 just genuinely enjoy your vibe a lot, you gorgeous person

@queerfables you were the first person I started talking to in 2023 GO fandom I think, and we've exchanged auch lovely opinions and GO book memories, I love your fandom-familiarity and metas and you-ness ✨

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also just wanted to shout out some people I've simply enjoyed seeing on my dash, following, writing, reading, arting, metaing, talking, commenting, prev-tagging etc etc, you make this fun <3

@opscuritas @plumbum-art @fellshish @foolishlovers @nice-and-accurate-ramblings @fagziraphale @wraithee @ashfae @voluptatiscausa @gaslightgallows @copperplatebeech @sabotage-on-mercury @ineffabildaddy @crawley-fell @crvwly @gingiekittycat @nightingalecottage @azfellandco @goodoldfashionednightingale @wearecrowley @halemerry @books-and-omens @ineffableteeth @luminousslime @lonicera-caprifolium @mrghostrat @grntaire @snek-eyes @fremulon @focusfixated @aduckwithears

#go fandom #hope i didn't forget anyone i wanted to include #also if you like/reblog my posts a lot then i definitely know your name and you're also important 💛 #i feel that even though i was active in 2019 and posted fic/rambles/etc #this year i really properly participated in fandom again and got to know ppl and have a fun little community #forgot how nice that kinda online experience can be 😌 #so thank you i guess!

[bjurnberg]

“There’s plenty of fish in the sea”

Well maybe I’m not a fish.

Maybe this entire world you live in where you find partners to love openly and freely and it’s normal and natural is an environment where I drown.

Maybe this thing you call love can take forms you’ve never considered. Forests. Tundras. Deserts. Mountains. Stars. Maybe I need a wider view than the swift beat of waves can afford. Maybe I need slower seasons to acclimate my emotions.

No, I don’t know what my love will look like. I’ve only ever been around fish. I don’t have the words to describe what I’m longing for. But it’s certainly not in the water.

#every time I talk about my sexuality I feel like a fish out of water #then I realized I don’t have gills #what does that make me? #I used a lot of labels trying to figure this out #asexual #demisexual #aromantic #demi rose #aspec #and all of them feel nice like a warm blanket #until it gets too tight and I have to stick my foot out #I know no label has to be 100% forever #nor should they be #but hell do I want a community that understands me #a place I don’t have to explain my differences constantly #I want a partner that’s like me #where will I find him? #cuz we ain’t fish #bjurnberg

[silverselfshippingchaos]

your f/o loves your body hair!!

no matter how much of it you have, whether you remove it or not, they're completely understanding of it. they'll never think you're "dirty" for it. after all, it's completely natural. at the end of the day, it's you, and your f/o loves you. they'll never judge what you choose to do with it or what you wear. you love them unconditionally, so why should their feelings for you be any different?

proship dni please!

#you can rb this if you'd like hehe! #i have a lot of body hair and although i've been shamed for it a lot. it's still me. i like it. there is never anything wrong with somethin #we can't even control! #it's a very cute thought to me! i feel like m.atthew is the kind of guy who'd snuggle me and run his hand over my arm and giggle because #his girlfriend is so fuzzy and soft and feels so nice in his arms #self ship #selfshipping #btw this goes for ALL kinds of f/os! not just romantic!!! #f/o community

[hajihiko]

Good... what ever time of day it is when you see this!

It's been a minute since youve popped up on my dash. Not that you're obligated to post or anything, I just hope that everything is going alright for you lately and to let you know that whatever is happening, I'm rooting for you.

It was bright n early in the morning ☀️

I haven't wanted to post anything original during the strike so as to not pull attention away. I was also really sick for a while there so I haven't had much energy either (getting better tho). Thank you for caring! ❤

#not an art #P sure it's in order to not take attention away from the palestenian hashtags and cause #So I could have been writing and answering asks. I haven't much felt like it though everything is very bleak right now #Ik online activism isnt All That but it makes me feel better to think I'm doing tiny somethings (also esims and clicks and that). #Hope everyone else is doing what they can too in their community and outside of it. Hug someone today or say something nice 🫶

[malicious-devourer]

something that's been on my mind a lot because it isn't talked about enough- here are my three personal rules for those who have "problematic" fictionkins

1. being kin of a villain/morally wrong character, being from an problematic media or creator, etc, does NOT mean we support or condone any of their actions. we shouldn't have to "prove" to you that we're good people. you don't control who you're kin of. if any of you mfs start condoning illegal or unethical shit your kins have done though, this rule doesn't apply- go fuck yourself

2. you can still be happy about being kin of the characters. villain characters often have so much more to them than just "being evil". this goes to an extent, of course, but you deserve to feel comfortable with your kins and talk about them to people who will listen. DON'T TALK ABOUT TRIGGERING THINGS YOUR KIN HAS DONE AROUND OTHERS!! GIVE TRIGGER WARNINGS‼️ just as a general rule of thumb be wary of common triggers and be mindful of others. use your common sense

3. lastly, just be nice to others. there are going to be people who still view you negatively because of your kins no matter what you say or do. just leave them be, and don't let them get you down. if someone doesn't want to interact with you, just respect their wishes for christ's sake.

yeah there it is folks ;p just got tired of all the bs surrounding this topic and felt like it should be addressed

#fictionkin #hot take #otherkin #villainkin #nonhuman #alterhuman #therianthropy #this goes for therians too ig? #the cryptids or predators maybe #fictionfolk #fictionhearted #please fictionkin community y'all need to hear this #i have people coming at me cause i'm kin of valentino ☹️ #to the point where i'm scared to use my proxy #can we please be nice to each other #irl #tagging that bc i feel this way about two of my d/as #delusional attachment #da #dunno what to tag this