Gwen | She/Her | Trans Lesbian | I'm a professional editor and write smutty sapphic fanfiction on AO3
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my biologically 22 year old transgender daughter, turning deep red and trying not to pop a blood vessel: H...HAAAAAAAA......RRRAAAAAAAGHHH!!!!
me, periodically glancing back over my shoulder while doing 110 down the I-95: Come on sweetheart, focus! Kids 6 and under eat free at this place and I know you can age regress 2 more years
the angel chained up in the passenger seat browsing the menu on his phone with his free hand: do u guys think these are like actual buttermilk pancakes or is it just a marketing term
Todays the day!!!
Take one and pass it on
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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
Me: *stuck on the same spot for days, trying to connect two lines of dialogue and unable to determine how character A should respond to character B in a way that sets up character B's next line*
The little Neil Gaiman in my head: Listen to your characters. Try to determine what they want and what feels right to them. What's the next thing that should happen?
Me: Alright, let's hear it, character A. You heard everything character B just said. Now what do you have to say to that?
Character A: *starts crying*
Me: OH SHIT
Literally cannot emphasize enough that my #1 writing advice is to stop being afraid. Stop being afraid of sounding too cringe, or too stupid, or too horrifying, or too horny, or too weird, or too much, or too little, or too you. You need to put your entire pussy into your art. Sure, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you keep yourself to the blandest tamest safest roads possible you will be of no one's tastes, not even yours.
group chats and servers scare me so much i will drop in there once every 3 months to show a picture of my cat or a screenshot of a game im playing and then ill disappear from the face of the earth forever
Anyone else feel like they missed a significant youth socialization thing that would make sense of the visceral hate for polys? Why does it incite actual anger? This is obviously more than meeting an annoying ex-theater kid poly dom once
reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts
āYour art isnāt valued by the number of notes you getā okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, itās still disappointing.
Look, I want to believe that Hanamusa Shipping taking off the way it did wasnāt 100% due to the good art and the fact that an animation professional started it, but because it feels so effortless and comforting.
Lots of ships want to focus on the drama of the relationship, or the youthful aspects of them, but this ship that literally had no chance at screentime speaks so much about what we value in a relationship.
We have two adult women, with their lives made, getting together over a happenstance. One of them has known nothing but heartbreak and loss, but she remains confident and hard-working, another one is a single young mother, who hasnāt been presented as something other than a mom, but we can tell her values by how she raised the lead character of the show. Their energies compliment each other because they both nurture each otherās needs: Jessie needs stability and healing, and Delia needs a partner who can spice up her life.
Theyāre characters we judge by how they revolve in Ashās life, but bringing them together is not just funny at thought, but it allows them to reclaim their narratives and exist and expand outside of their initial roles.
I want to believe this ship took off because it made us want closure for these characters, and because it illustrates perfectly the goals of a working relationship: Growth and Comfort š
i walk into starbucks and order a pumpkin spice latte with 13 shots of espresso. i tell the barista that i intend to transcend humanity and become a god. i ask for no whip cream
i have personal beef with religion
Rewatched The Good Place for the first time since s4 dropped and. Oh my god. The Good Place said "people are a result of their environment but we always have a moral responsibility to be better" and The Good Place said "every day the world gets a little more complicated and it gets a little harder to be good" and The Good Place said "even in the face of total nihilism, when nothing you do will matter, you still have to at least try. Because trying is better than the alternative" and The Good Place said "if you have bills to pay and shit to deal with you don't have time or energy to become a better person" and then The Good Place really said "people get better when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't " and THEN The Good Place really said "no one is irredeemable. Everyone can try to be better today than they were yesterday" AND THEN! The Good Place said "Heaven is just enough time with the people that you love" OH MY FUCKING GOD.
Wednesday, if Wenclair werenāt roommates -
Enid, staring at Wednesday across the quad: Smash.
Yoko: Enid! You canāt seriously like the new girl.
Enid, with heart eyes: Too late. Pretty, mean, goth⦠I never stood a chance. Do you think she likes girls?
Yoko: I heard she ate that kid she murdered at her last school.
Enid: What cannibals canāt be gay? Youāre being really homophobic right now.
I saw a post a couple of days ago that said one of the most important things about Steven Universe, thematically, is that everybody in the core cast has done at least one completely morally unjustifiable thing, regardless of how likeable or sympathetic they are otherwise, and that this is important to understanding the show thematically. This is true.Ā
But it also reminded me of one otherĀ thing I really like about Steven Universe, which is that itās the emotional-toxicity equivalent of all those posts about how cartoons have to come up with unimaginably worse forms of death and violence in the course of avoiding getting censored for depicting plausibleĀ forms of death and violence.Ā All of the waysĀ in which SU characters cross those emotional and interpersonal lines are wrapped up either in their fantastic abilities or their bizarre life circumstances in a way that makes it all esotericallyĀ awful and often much more existentially horrifying than any of the real-life dynamics itās alluding to. Youāve said nasty things to people in the heat of the moment but youāve never shapeshifted into the guyās dead wife to twist the knife a little more. No violation of bodily autonomy is ever gonna involve contriving a situation in which the other party will believe that itās necessary to fuse with you, body and soul in order to do demolition work. The most toxic relationship in the world isnāt gonna involve imprisoning someone at the bottom of the ocean for several months and only emerging to participate in humanoid-sacrifice rituals. Your codependency will never last 8,000 years, be frontloaded with a faked death youāre biomechanically incapable of confessing to, and end with your partnerās suicide-by-childbirth. Your worst roommate situation will never end with one party stealing the apartment and taking it to the moon. Et al. Et al.
I donāt remember where I was going with this, precisely, (and I may have drifted sideways from the original discussion topic of crossed lines per se, but whatever.)Ā I mean part of itās funny because it exists in a series with tons of mundane, non-metaphorical examinations of interpersonal issues, like everything to do with Lars and Sadie, or Sour Cream and Marty. And thereās an extent to which Iām just describing how cartoons are written. But thereās something special about how Steven Universe does it. Something delightfully fucked up about it all. I think maybe part of it is that itās a consideredĀ and embracedĀ fucked-upedness, none of this is justĀ anĀ ill-considered fridge-logic by-product of something else they were trying to do. Like for every one of these, someone in the writers room probably went,Ā āMan, this has some fucked up implications,ā and then everyone would go,Ā āYeah!ā and hi five and put it in specifically because of that. Great Show. Great show
Nebraska hasn't passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: 'I will burn this session to the ground'
Damn. I thought she was just gonna up and make a fuss and her swearing to protect trans kids was a bunch of empty words (again).
But no. She's one-woman filibustering the entire Nebraska legislature into a complete standstill until they agree to protect the rights of trans kids.
She was 100% serious when she said she'd make it as painful for everyone as it is for trans kids. Gahddamn.
This is why small elections matter. She's not a country wide senator or president or shit. She's just a local official representing District 6 in Nebraska.
This is why the "smaller" elections between the presidential elections matter.
-fae
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characters who view themselves as tools/weapons first and people second... characters who martyr themselves for a cause because they think that's the only way they can be worth something... characters who push themselves past their breaking point again and again and again... characters for whom devotion and masochism are inseparable... characters whose self-sacrifice becomes self-annihilation...... what was my point again? i had a point. anyway.
āIt must hurt her feelings.ā
do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what youāre thinking about in the tags.
āif no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel somethingā is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying āitās seahorse timeā on a denim jacket
Go for it, Samus!! Youāre our icon!! š
Tbh I assume everyone on here is lgbtq+ if youāre straight youāll have to come out to me
There is no crime I wouldn't commit for my favourite horse in the whole word, whom exist only in the limited period of time in which the console is active