Sam Wilson's pretty boy

"Write for yourself."

That's all well and good. In fact, every time I write that's what I do. I write the story I want to tell. However, it's still a story that is meant to be shared. It is still a piece of my soul I took and polished and shared with you.

"Write for yourself," they say over and over and over again and I can't help but wonder, if we've lost some portion of the true meaning of that phrase.

Agreed. I mean to me it's almost the same as sharing premade things or things someone else made. (not as your own of course) I really like this thing and I want to share it with you. But writing and art are more personal. *I* made this thing and I want to share it with you/people. "Look at this thing, isn't it neat, don't you think it makes my collection complete?" (which just popped in my head... so yeah)

Also it's not about the story it's about the community!

Every time I see something along the lines of this or towards artists/gif makers telling them to stop complaining about people not reblogging, this goes through my head. (your post inspired me to make the gif lol)

Shoutout to all my fellow ppl who see themselves as being simultaneously a boy and a girl. People who often wear clothes traditionally associated with their agab, or who don’t feel extreme dysphoria towards their body. People whose gender issues stem from within, and from knowing that they can’t just metamorphosise on a whim. People who’re a multiplicity in of themselves. People who’ve never known a life of gender singularity. People who’ve always been this way, people who’ve never known different. People who live exactly how they are, as confusing and conflicting as it may be sometimes. People whose friends and family would be beyond shocked and surprised if they told them they weren’t cis. People who love being this way. People who love having their own unique version of the masculine and feminine experiences, who use contradictory sets of pronouns. People who don’t really know if they can call themselves trans, but definitely aren’t cis, and altogether definitely don’t really care. People who are boys and girls and men and women and both and neither all at the same time. I love you. We’re the coolest. <3

He colonized the fucking book

If you are a fan fic writer and you're alright with people making fan art of your fic, reblog this 💚

This is actually very normal human behavior. It's just that most people (in the USA) think "Jesus strengthens me" instead of "I am a pikmin, dandori time"

This is literally why stories and fantasy are so useful to humans. We cannot tackle every mundane challenge with enthusiasm, and facing against profoundly daunting tasks can be deeply demoralizing, and you don’t get to feel cool or heroic for filing 400 pieces of paperwork.

We arm ourselves with stories and fantasy, so that the laundry can become a charming hurdle to overcome, and the daunting stack of bills is the leviathan we the brave knights must slay.

Humans have always been like this. So many cultures have stories or mythology or even rituals about literally embodying another being better suited to the challenge one currently faces.

Stories are armor. Stories are fuel.

There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

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*whisper chants* vampire pumpkin vampire pumpkins vampire pumpkins

This is the quality fall shit I’m here for

I think it’s great that Pumpkins (and other squash) were only introduced to Europe around 1600 and the Serbs wasted absolutely no time blaming them for their problems.

dude oh my god. like theres no question that theres a transphobe working for staff doing this shit and theyre just letting it happen

like theres just some fuming raging terf in the moderation team harassing any single post regarding trans women and the staff of the "queerest place on the internet" think shes too much of a pal to actually deal with

UPDATE staff sent me this message and removed the flag. hopefully they really are working on the unfair flagging of trans posts and itll get better in the future but idk.

(the buff col sanders image wasnt nsfw it was a fully clothed image of col sanders drawn to be really buff that i edited to say "every terf that interacts w this post will die in a car crash within 3 days" or something. i added it after the flag and removed it eventually)

another update if you see something thats sfw get flagged you should dm @/humans apparently theyre willing to work it out. unfortunately not the best way to fix terfs mass reporting posts about trans women but hopefully you can get some of the unfairly flagged posts resolved.

reading a book with a medieval setting and i was v excited for it BUT these characters have such modern hangups about touch and personal space that i keep forgetting it's meant to be the fourteenth century. lads. get in bed together, it's cold.

like this man is freaking out about sleeping next to someone (for warmth) because he has never shared a bed before

sir??? you are from the fourteenth century??? surely this is not such a novelty to you

also so far christianity does not exist in this book. we have not even so much as mentioned passing a church while travelling.

i repeat: sir, you are from the fourteenth century,

#I know there’s suspension if disbelief #but why make that the setting if you’re just going to ignore all the rules? #why not go in for ‘and there was only one bed with five other people in it’ debauchery (via @cardboardcupcake)

honestly i need somebody to write "there was only one bed with five other people in it" immediately, that sounds like it's either going to be incredibly full of repressed yearning, incredibly funny, or just an orgy, and i would love to see it go in any and all of those directions

#ok five people in the bed. the two on the outside are in the one bed trope #the two on in inside are also in a one bed trope #but they’re separated by the middle person #who's genuinely dying of hypothermia and it’s kind of bringing down the vibe

@fis-paprikas this made me snort-laugh, thank you

ughhhhhhhh im trying to take over the world but my incessant need to make anagrams of my top secret plans keeps giving me away

other anagrams of delta-omicron:

MORON CITADEL

CILANTRO MODE

CONDOM RETAIL

MOONLIT CEDAR

LORD MEAT COIN

RENT ACID LOOM

ACNE MOLD RIOT

guess the op of that tweet lives in the moron citadel

this is so beautiful

my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.

sometimes the best place for an "oh" moment of realization is while reeling from a punch and tasting blood in your mouth. it's kind of like a fucked up first kiss.

now THIS.

This is yuri

And THIS.

This is yaoi

our friend's daughter is at the age where she is extremely chatty and speaking in full sentences, and i love kids' use of language.

apparently all strangers used to be "ladies," but now they are "neighbors." since they speak english exclusively at home, "neighbors" speak german; it was very distressing to hear her mom speak german once, because, in her words, "you're not a doctor or a neighbor!"

When learning how to talk, each one of my 3 sons went through a phase where I was the only person they said "She" for. Obviously, SHE was Mom, and HE was the rest of the world

Three sons, and I was the only female in the household (dog was male too).

i love the idea of a mode of language where the human noun classification system is “one’s own mother” and “everyone else”

The Hollywood Ghost Club || After Hours

the pet policy was gray area to the ghosts.

@thedragonemperess thank you for the idea, you are a genius.

@thehollywoodghostclub-afterhours

A/N Honestly this is really self-indulgent ‘cuz my instincts went “This mf forgets to eat I just know it.” and turned it into a really fluffy fic lmao. I wrote this with a male Spiderman in mind, but gender-neutral readers are also welcome of course! Hope you all enjoyed it!

Miguel O’hara doesn't take breaks. Miguel O’hara only leaves his lair if he’s needed on a mission to set another anomaly straight. So what do you do? Exactly, force him into taking a break… Sorta.

Miguel O'Hara/gn!Reader

Additional tags/notes: Reader is almost entirely undescribed, aside from being much smaller than Miguel. This story features hurt/comfort, angst, pining, slow burn, found family dynamics interpreted quite literally, as well as other cameo and background characters from ATSV and the greater Marvel universe. There is no use of y/n, and this fic updates once a week on Mondays or Tuesdays.

Read on Ao3 here.

If you prefer to read on tumblr, you can find all published parts under the following links: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, Part 8, Part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12 in progress

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