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Multifandom. Memes. Born 98, bisexual.

@federluftmask

all of your feelings are valid as in “worth acknowledgment and internal consideration” but some of your feelings are also stupid and mean, and you need to deal with that shit without making it anyone else’s problem

like we are all beings of light, namaste, but also every single one of us has an ugly, dumb, selfish, lazy goblin living inside of us which can never be silenced or destroyed. and being a decent person means keeping that little fuck in his special little playpen hidden away in your heart, with his colorful enrichment rattles and his favorite pieces of raw meat, where he can pipe up with his wretched little opinions and you can nod sagaciously at him and pat him on the head and tell him you understand why he feels that way and never, ever let anybody else get their feelings hurt by him, because he sucks shit and nothing he has to say is worthy of notice by anyone but you. you should pay attention to him, but only because it’s important to understand your own worst impulses, and because trying to ignore him will make him break down a wall and run out into the street where he can show passerbys his privates and eat cigarette butts right off the ground. your goblin is valid: that doesn’t mean he’s fit for company.

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My newest character Belza!! A vampiric alchemist who’s definitely has a healthy relationship to her work ⚗️🩸⚰️ I wanted a character to visually have some medieval jester inspo purely as a treat for myself and I thought “who better than a vampire of science” she here she is! I lost all my brush settings before painting this so hopefully it still looks okay. Also, I changed the scythe to a warpick in the end because I think they are neat.😌

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‘Over The Top’. 1st Artists’ Rifles at Marcoing, 30th December 1917 by John Nash.

Nash’s painting is unusual in that it is one of only a few that depicts a specific action. The unit portrayed were hastily recalled back from ‘rest’ in response to a German attack. The poorly planned counter attack resulted (as was so often the case) in heavy losses.

as a reminder, romani culture is entirely closed. gadje (people that are not romani) cannot respectfully make romani ocs. you cannot respectfully make romani headcanons. you cannot respectfully write fiction about our culture.

if you are writing fanfiction about a character that is canonically romani, do not write about them practicing our culture. do not write about them speaking our language. do not write about them experiencing antiromanyism.

do not write about canonically romani characters as thieves, kidnappers, seductresses, magic-users, or fortune tellers. do not write about them as nonhuman, especially with regards to vampires. if a romani character is canonically a thief, kidnapper, seductress, fortune teller, or vampire, do not write about them at all.

"does that mean people that aren't romani can't write fanfiction about [character] ever???" if you're asking, yes.

nine times out of ten, anything beyond a mention of romani heritage is done disrespectfully. i would always rather read fanfiction about a romani character written respectfully as culturally ambiguous than i would a romani character written explicitly as romani done badly even out of ignorance.

we have been misrepresented so consistently that we do not want you even trying. leave writing about our culture to us, even in fiction. opre romani.

#saving as a draft bc i do want to look for other romani folks opinions on this matter #but honestly this is absolutely understandable

here are some examples of other rom saying the same thing. each word is a different link. i realize these are all tumblr posts but tumblr's relative anonymity means it's one of very few places it is safe to be openly romani online without fear of being outed in real life.

in the future, you should probably remove tags like this before you reblog posts.

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bruh what

Oh for crying out loud....

The youtube grandma here is based off this video by a historian who suggested that it could be used as a knitting tool, something that’s considered a fringe theory because the vast majority of what we know about knitting history suggests that it hadn’t been invented yet at this time or place. Just because something could be used to make glove fingers doesn’t mean that it was used to knit gloves, any more than your average hair stick can be used to knit with. What’s more even the youtube grandma acknowledges that it’s not very good at making glove fingers. 

Historians have found dodecahedrons without any holes in them, with wax inside (meaning it might be a candle holder), and in coin hoards. There are a lot of theories for what this thing did and a knitting tool is one of the least likely. It’s cool that she saw this and actually tested the theory out, but it doesn’t hold water, so stop turning this into a “historians don’t know what they’re doing” post.

Based on when I was playing against my mum and I chose Yoshi for boxing for a change and my mum took her chance to choose Sonic. I then proceeded to beat the snot out of Sonic as Yoshi which was both hilarious and painful. rip blue boi.

Yes, WTNV kicked off the audio drama renaissance and was groundbreaking in foregrounding a queer love story in 2012 and made a huge mark in tumblr culture at the time. However none of this has to do with sexyman credentials. What makes Cecil the Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman is that he’s a perfect illustration of how when presented with just a voice and some descriptions of truly bizarre outfits, tumblr will still overwhelmingly draw a skinny white man in a suit.

[ID: Two versions of the “Point going over people’s head” meme. A figure looks at the leaked No Fly list, the version on top says “Bi lesbians are valid reblog to make an exclu[sionist] mad <3” and below says “If you use a problematic label you’re bad no matter what.” The point going over both their heads is “There are Muslim children on the US No Fly list” /End ID]

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