masks that cover the face but leave the eyes visible give someone a deeply personal character - they present someone as a thinking, feeling person first and foremost, and anonymise them physically.
on the other hand, masks that cover the face but leave the mouth visible do the opposite - they present someone as a body, a visceral and physical being. where the eyes subjectify, the mouth objectifies them.
the implications of nose reveal are astounding
Gabrielle, Skordo, and Razum-dar in Season of the Worm Cult is the ESO equivalent of the starter trio in Pokemon Legends ZA
genuinely puzzled by people who do not enjoy training their animals and/or think it’s ‘mean’ to have trained them to respect boundaries and rules. like yeah your dog would probably prefer to jump up on the table and eat your food but that’s how you get Poisoning bro. sometimes humans do know what’s best even if that’s mildly annoying to your dog
and also like…training is enrichment. for the most part animals LIKE being trained…you know how exciting it is to learn a new skill like crocheting/cooking/whatever new hobby you picked up? for your dog that’s the same as learning Sit. you’re giving them something to do!! that’s not cruel!
Seriously!! Just like your toddler may not LIKE the boundary of “You can’t go outside unattended”, there are asks we have of our pets that they may not LIKE, but need to be followed for everyone to, well, keep living.
i mean this completely seriously but… a cup of coffee can save your life a little, a shower can save your life a little, making your favorite meal can save your life a little…….little things actually add up to really big things in the long run if you let them, the secret to surviving everyday is infusing a little bit of magic into the mundane i truly believe that
they hate me for my ardent refusal to accept cruelty as the status quo
"Does The Way Christians Use Capitalized He/Him For God Count As A Neopronoun" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
forum is locked guys. get that opinion out of here
saying “i want him” about the character but not in a romantic or sexual way . i just Require him i need to Obtain him
World map with New Zealand in the center
World of Warcraft
I HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE EDITS ON CANVA I AM UNSTOPPABLE
i was going to do a rant about this before seeing this tweet but imma just leave this here
This goes hand in hand with pushing for only queer people to play queer roles. Which in theory sounds like a good thing to push for authentic representation when so much of the past stuff was bad.
Except the actual real world outcome has become queer leftists abusively dog piling any actor they deem "inauthentic" leading to actors being forcefully outed against their will before they were ready in an attempt to make the abuse stop. Including children. People have been justifying psychologically tormenting literal children for not publicly disclosing (and being firm and set in) their gender and sexuality in order to work.
In many wants it's set back queer media and made people just as afraid of queer roles ruining their careers and their lives as they were when bigots were doing it. Which is not an improvement to the situation! It's really only giving cover to people who want none of this to exist.
We could have just praised the process we wanted to see. Personally I love seeing Jim Parsons take that big normative sitcom money and fucking off to make emotionally powerful queer films with it casting queer actors whenever he can. But praising that will always be more constructive than bullying Kit Connor. If Daniel Craig wants to spend the rest of his career making charming gay detective movies about helping marginalized woman get revenge on abusive rich assholes, then I don't care what his sexuality is because it's still pushing queer media far forward.
We could have positively addressed rainbow capitalism by supporting queer-owed business. We could have accepted that mainstreaming queer iconography at Target (much of it designed by queer people who got to pay their bills making it) would make space for people buying that small batch t-shirt at Pride. It's not like people only ever buy one t-shirt in their life.
A closeted-for-safety trans boy buying his first binder at Target could have created an opening for the next one to be from Shapeshifters. Instead he may never get the chance to know what it would feel feel like to take the first step because the wrong packaging could endanger him and the (fair) price mightbe unaffordable.
We can't built perils into doing better. We can't keep calling nigh-impossible next steps"the bare minimum" and tearing into them for every imperfection if we want people to do them at all. At minimum that's a burnout machine. At worst it gives bigots leverage to maker sure we have nothing. Kindness and enthuses support of what we want to see happen makes way more progress.
Unfortunately many leftists are still so stuck in the purity-sin-redemption mentality, even when they surface-level reject Christianity, that instead of growth and change everything keeps getting treated as blasphemy unless it's perfect. Even though perfection is impossible. So the whole well is primed to be poisoned by the people who genuinely hate us.
TikTok live is such a waste of time there are no good….
this is how we should generate power for cities
contextual storytelling from that sign in the back
muttering "the hamsters control the wheels" as i wander around like a blind medieval soothsayer
This is Tamriel’s most foolish pantheon. Why does Seht, the largest Tribune, not simply eat the other two?
Boethiah wrote this
Boethiah these nuts
"you don't post your dead dove fics on anon?" no, all of my dead dove, dirty, disgusting gay smut are posted on my main. I have no shame. normalize a girl being a pervert and a sex-crazed freak
I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day
I take it all back everyone on this site is toxic
