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[robotcorsair]

By its cover - part 1

"Shouldn't you be more whimsical? You look like a lawyer." 

The fairy squinted, crow's feet spreading around his eyes. "Shouldn't you be less whimsical? You look like you sell candles at the farmer's market."

The vampire laughed brightly. "How'd ya guess?"

"Wait, really?"

"Nah, can't be in the sun, would make it difficult." The vampire winked. "I teach midnight yoga classes."

The fairy pinched the bridge of his nose, dislodging his glasses. "Are you fucking with me right now?"

The vampire smiled. "No, sir! Shall we get on with this meeting? By the way, what's your name?"

The fairy sighed.

#oc drabble #original characters #original drabble #original writing #i'm trying something new with a friend please be kind ksdjhksgd #the goal is to present this world and characters through a bunch of drabbles #ok to reblog btw

[bokkerijder]

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

#rambles '24 #ok to reblog btw #all my posts are ok to reblog #if not i would make them unrebloggable lmao #edit: i am a fool #i said that thinking this would maybe get 5 notes or something #and now we're here lol

[wetslug]

ppl who r using poll results as a way to Prove Something about society or come to any conclusion.. i hope you are aware that tumblr users are one of the most biased population groups you could conceivably find. gob bless

#sis the variables... remember stats 101... ur data is only as good as ur sample #its like asking around at an old folks home and coming back saying 98% of those surveyed love prunes. therefore 98% of people love prunes #ok to reblog btw #polls r still fun i just hope you take into account who is responding to them

[pjharvey]

former old soul gifted kid pleasure-to-have-in-class tenderqueer adults when they find out sometimes mental illness makes you perform poorly in school and be badly behaved and mean to people

[corpsoir]

the second you stop thinking "does this hair make sense?" and "do these clothes make sense?" when youre designing your own characters youre gonna have so much more fun and your characters will look much better and their personality will jump out at you i promise

a good shape/silhouette and visually easy to read character is always a billion times more important than whether or not their gravity defying hair or clothes that physically shouldnt work are realistic or not. get silly with it and relax, its okay. give your oc hair shaped like the eiffel tower who give a shit!!!!

#im stuck in oc hell rn #ok to reblog btw #im fully serious though like #its so much more fun working with a character with easy fun shapes vs just some guy #colours Can be important too but shape language silhouette and form is more important because youre gonna notice that faster #vs lets say if their eyes are green to match their socks or whatnot #anyway. i love character design can you tell. #corp.krax

[tyrantraveveromega]

I really wish people would stop moralizing whether or not you want to be called queer. Its literally just a personal boundary. Slur reclaiming is a decision you make for yourself and only yourself.

You don't have the right to tell other people to stop reclaiming it, but you also don't have the right to accuse others of being terfs or feds because they need it tagged. It doesn't stop being a slur because you reclaimed it. Just be kind to each other. Please.

#six.txt #ok to reblog btw

[aconissa]

To love someone deeply is to take on their griefs, in a way. I know every story about my partner’s childhood dog and when I see dogs that look like he did I gift them his name in my head. Through talking to my partner's family I feel the loss of a grandmother who passed away too soon, I see the hole she left and I mourn it. In his parents' home I sit on furniture his nonno built so when we find a table broken on the roadside we mend it together, with the skills he passed on to those he loved. Through my partner's grief I mold my own much smaller griefs – I look back through the loves and pains of his life and I hold them with him.

#something about mourning these people who loved him who i will never be able to share that love with. its beautiful in a way #ana speaks #ok to reblog btw

[midnightcthulhu]

well i've been running this blog for over a decade now and it's tdov so maybe it's time to reveal my mug. the person you see in these pictures is not the person i would like to be, and i don't really know what to do about that yet. but regardless of what i want or how i feel, he is me, and i'm living for the day when that fact doesn't hurt at all anymore

happy visibility everybody, no matter where you're at. even if the journey ahead is still long and uncertain, i have faith in you, and in all of us. keep going. just keep going

#tdov #vince take a picture without your face obscured somehow challenge (BRUTALLY FAILED) #ok to reblog btw

[furby-organist]

// Actually I'm convinced that Vaggie decking Lute with a radio (that's a radio, right?) is some sort of symbolism, especially since Alastor & Vaggie's relationship evolved over the season from Vaggie malding and Alastor being like "♪ hoes mad (hoes mad, hoes mad) ♫" to Alastor helping a shit ton and Vaggie being happy to see him alive.

Also when Vaggie + Lute are fighting, Vaggie sees a balcony railing barely holding rubble up, slashes it, and lets the rubble fall on Lute. It's not the same balcony that Lucifer pointed out needed some fixing, but it's reminiscent! Like Lucifer's comment was some kind of foreshadowing.

#hazbin hotel #ok to reblog btw

[dragonheadskilax]

#ok to reblog btw #lupin the third #lupin the iii #jigen daisuke #daisuke jigen #goemon ishikawa xiii #koichi zenigata #my edit #dragon talk #loopytalk

[argo-bolo]

Like, it's my birthday but my brain is just:

Thinks about Ender King and Rose and all of Philza's hardcore entities (something something podzol mini biome in Ender's cave and podzol in the biome Phil was caged in, idk)

Thinks about QsmpEN's flowery language for Philza

Thinks about how Qsmp Federation is just a cult

Thinks about Minecraft hybrid characters (and how I remember they were new-ish back in 2013)

Thinks about DnD tonight and how I have the birthday snail (basically a wish spell with no bad side effects)

And then it repeats over and over again

#argo-bolo originals #ok to reblog btw #should i tag this? at least for my cataloging i guess #im mentally well thanks for asking ☺️🙏 #qsmp #philza #philza hardcore series 4 #ive been thinking about that podzol thing since the cage happened and im probably just dululu tbh #but for the life of me i cant remember if phil has said anything about it being related to an entity or not or if he's done a project for i

[bokkerijder]

"these old men" so we keep doing this? we keep calling people with regular ages old? we keep repeating how no one in their 30s is old, but then the second someone turns 40 or, god forbid, 50... they suddenly are? like I know it's all just supposed to be fun and jokes but I'm also getting kind of really tired of constantly seeing it over and over

#ok to reblog btw #i'm just. #pushing the age up by 10 or 20 years doesn't help anyone #rambles '23 #fuck it i'm tagging fandoms. #good omens #our flag means death

[thefirstknife]

Mara is being a classic manipulative abuser trying to sway everyone to pity her and putting the spotlight on her own grief rather than the immeasurable suffering she has caused others, and the fandom is falling for it hard. As someone who will spend likely the rest of my lifetime healing from the hurt caused by someone like her and hangs out with many fandom friends with the same experiences... it's just really anxiety inducing and hurtful to see how large chunks of the fandom are so quick to praise and adore her for her "character growth". She is upset to be facing consequences for her actions and is trying to get pity. She is a horrible person and a fantastic character and she should be allowed to be the asshole that she is. She doesn't have to be good to be enjoyable. I am terrified the narrative will go the way of having Crow forgive her because that's the "good" and "kind" thing to do, thus essentially saying abuse victims need to be the "bigger person" and forgive their abusers. Not even gonna get into how she used the Awoken people from the first moment. There's nothing wrong with loving Mara but I think all of you need to take a step back and listen to people who have met real life Maras and understand just how messed up your support of her is when you're touting her as this traumatised person just trying to do what she believes is right (true) which makes her good and worthy and simply misunderstood (false, her trauma doesn't absolve her of being a cunt). She isn't growing, she's just further manipulating people and making things about herself. There is no moral failing in enjoying characters who are horrible people. She's no different from Clovis with her god complex and having slightly more noble intentions doesn't excuse her whatsoever. Her remorse might be genuine but at the moment she isn't seeking to provide any reparations to her victims, she just want people to feel bad for her being sad.

I was abused by my older brother, emotionally and physically, who manipulated (and still does) people around him.

I shouldn't have to say this, but I'm getting really tired of people assuming that everyone who sees some value in Mara's character growth has never been abused. That assumption is disrespectful and forces the person you're telling this to out themselves about their own abuse. Because if I don't, then people will just continue saying that I can't possibly understand what it's like. I understand. Unfortunately, personally. I would advise not to approach random people telling them that they can't understand what it's like because they happen to like Mara as a character.

Another thing that I want to mention at the start is that I have never in my life claimed that Mara did nothing wrong or that she isn't a bad person. She is. It's a part of the reason why she's a fascinating character. She's an uncompromising leader who worked under the idea that the end justifies the means and that she is the only one that can see us through to that end. It's a cruel life for everyone around her.

Her trauma doesn't absolve her of being a cunt, but it does explain why she is one. I think this is not only valuable, but crucial to understand because that explains that her cruelty wasn't out of sick malice and enjoyment of hurting others.

If we want to care about abuse, we have to understand that parental neglect is also abuse. Mara is also an abuse victim. This also doesn't absolve her of her actions, but it does explain them. Mara's recent new line in which she tells Elsie about Osana Sov, her mother, is a classic abuse victim story about parental abuse. It's one that rarely gets acknowledged because that type of abuse is structured specifically in a way to go unnoticed. But it's abuse nonetheless. And I'm sorry but if we care about abuse victims, we also have to care about abuse victims who become cunts. That's the only way to really fix the situation.

And I do genuinely believe in fixing the situation. I know that a lot of people don't want their abusers to get better or to change and I also know that a lot of people don't believe that their abusers CAN get better and change, but they can. Not all of them of course, but some can. Insisting that Mara is not actually changing and is just pretending and being manipulative again is your trauma talking. The text is incredibly clear in this scenario and it's not just coming from Mara herself; it's coming from people around her. So unless we believe that literally every character (including incredibly perceptive ones like Elsie or Ikora) would fall for Mara's every word even when they never did so previously, Mara is genuinely changing and she isn't manipulating anyone or pretending to be trying to get better for good girl points. That's incredibly uncharitable interpretation where you have to go out of your way to insist that she's just pure evil. It's equally incorrect as saying that Mara is pure good.

Again, I know that not everyone is capable of dealing with that in the same way or same time as someone else. There was a time in my life when I genuinely wanted my brother to just die and be gone from the world and that he is not deserving of any introspection or the ability to change. And I know there are horrific people who have done truly unforgivable things and that it's hard to think about them as people deserving of effort and change. But if those people put in the effort and want to change, we have to give them that second chance.

Of course, their victim is not obliged to help them or be in their presence ever again. This is a right that Crow is currently exercising, with no end in sight. But if he eventually chooses to give it a go? His story will not be worth any less to an abuse victim. It won't align with everyone's story, but it will align with some of them and again, if we care about abuse and abuse victims, then we also have to care about those that aren't identical to us. It's not about being the "bigger person." I don't want to be prove being a bigger person to my brother, I just genuinely think that it would be better for everyone involved if he changed and worked through all of our issues and we were a normal family.

The text is also more than clear about Clovis who has never in his life believed that he is wrong or that anything that he did was wrong, including all suffering he caused to all of his family and humanity. Like, this cannot get any clearer. And the game directly made that comparison to debunk it in a very on-the-nose way: in a full dialogue in-game. Clovis doesn't think anything he did was wrong; Mara does (and Rasputin admits to the same).

I would also like to point out that the game is filled with abusers who never get a fraction of the same flack. Calus is a massive abuser who neglected and emotionally manipulated and punished Caiatl her whole life, as well as treated his people as accessories to his own goals and tossed them into suffering and death for his own amusement. Not even for anything dire like saving all life in the solar system; for pure amusement. Reading about Gahlran is a special type of horrific depiction of Calus' disregard for people's autonomy and safety.

People also for some reason don't see it, despite it being incredibly clear in the lore book, but the Witness abused Rhulk into obedience through isolation and manipulation. It picked Rhulk because he was already on the edge and then it used isolation and manipulation abuser tactics to sway him away from his people and turn him into the genocidal unquestioning obedient follower that he became.

Savathun was also a fairly abusive person as well and probably the best comparison with Mara. She was knowingly manipulating her siblings, and her nephews, and also her children, for whom she had very little love and care. She also completely ignored them and left them pretty much for dead when she decided to become a Lightbearer. And you know what? Savathun is also an abuse victim herself as well. She is a traumatised person that has been on the receiving end of manipulation and we all feel very bad for her circumstances. And Savathun also wanted a second chance; and she got it!

Clovis was a massive abuser whose wife had to run away from him and hide, who did not see his child and his grandchildren as real individual people. He manipulated every single one of them, most of all Elsie, to whom he most likely lied about her disease to make her accept the Exo body and to whom he directly said that he is in control of all information about her own body. He also did not view any people as real people and instead, they were all experiments. Reading his logbook and his extra experiments (warning for medical trauma and body horror) is, to borrow words from an in-game character, "a gratuitous exercise in horror." He has never, not once, said or did anything that shows he regrets it or thinks anything he did was wrong.

You might say "but nobody is making excuses for Calus or Savathun or the Witness or Clovis!" And like, yes they are. They're never addressed as abusers and they have plenty of fans who treat them just like their cool blorbos. A really interesting example is the Witness who, by god, has a really cool design, but whom people are consistently treating only like a sexy otherworldly alien who is just sooo shippable with its abuse victim.

And as much as that makes me super uncomfortable, same as Calus bros who to this day swear that he's actually someone worthy of following or that Clovis is just a poor little meow meow that everyone is being too mean to, I am not here to tell people that they aren't allowed to do those things. And I am not going to send them guilt-tripping asks telling them that I am an abuse victim and that they cannot possibly have similar experiences because they post positively about these characters. And I certainly can't claim that none of them understand abuse.

I don't know why Mara is the only one that gets this sort of response. Mara is both an abuser and an abuse victim, she was a miserable person as a human to the point where she straight up decided to commit suicide. She was a cruel leader who believed that only she alone can save the world and that everybody else is at her disposal to be used as she wants. And she has since learned how awful she was and regrets it. She wants to change and be better. No matter the timeline, she remains our steadfast ally until the end. It's really not that difficult. There's no double or triple deceptions and manipulations involved.

Me and many others have actually literally been talking about how Destiny writing is currently focused so much on every character sounding like they've been going to therapy and how everyone is super introspective about their problems and wrongdoings. I assume this is because we're slowly wrapping things up and we can't have characters being too ambiguous in the face of our endgame enemies, but no matter what's the reason for it is, the conflicts and characters have been getting increasingly more straightforward. Mara is not going to flip the switch on us.

If you for any reason can't stand to see a storyline in which someone like Mara gets a second chance, that's something that you will have to deal with in your own time. Disengaging from the story is okay. Disengaging from the fandom is okay. Sometimes media will tell a story about your experience that doesn't align with yours perfectly, but it does align with other people who have been through similar issues.

And in case of Destiny, this is a story whose main theme is "second chances." Mara wants one so she deserves one. Savathun wanted one and she deserved one. Even Calus or Clovis or even the Witness; if they want one, they deserve one. It's okay to not want to forgive any of them personally and even to struggle with the fact that the story is trying to pass that as the right thing to do, but again, that's something for everyone to deal with in their time. And please don't make assumptions about other people and their relationship with abuse.

#destiny 2 #mara #abuse tw #long post #ask #ok to reblog btw #or add to

[corpsoir]

i fucking hate the term "content" dude. im sure others have pointed it out before but its literally such a bad term; if you mean art, video, music, writing, or any kind of artistic or creative work you put online for yourself and others to enjoy just say what it is, stop boiling it down to some sort of corporate selling term like "content". im not an "online content creator" im an artist.

and even if youre someone who makes a living off of selling said art or videos or whatever it might be, i think its wrong to just strip away what those terms imply and just calling it 'content', sorry it makes you sound like a corporation with that dry lingo. just call it what it is

#does this even make sense #sorry im annoyed lol i HATE the term 'content' as its used online i think its stupid #just say what you mean #ok to reblog btw #corp.krax

[tyrantraveveromega]

I get that not all of us are natural born netjockeys but please don't give anyone your login information for any reason. Especially if they're stressing how "urgent" it is, it's someone you don't know, and or is claiming to be a member of an app's support team when you didn't reach out first. Those are all telltale signs of a scam. Please keep yourselves safe!

#raven.txt #ok to reblog btw

[tortellia]

#good omens #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #its 11 pm and im genuinely losing it 💕 #mine #ok to reblog btw #SIX THOUSAND YEARS. SIX FUCKING [gunshot]