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Welcome to my blog!

This blog is where I like to ‘archive’ things that I see and like, using tags and the tumblr archive function to find them again.

These are some of the general tags that I will tag posts with!

#Comic (Try adding fandoms or fandom abbreviations: #loz comic, #tf comic, #gravity falls comic, etc)
#Dog (#dogs, #dog video, #dog post)
#Cat (#cats, #cat video, #cat post)
#Fish (#fish video)
#Informative
#Storytime (#fic, #original fic, or for news stories/personal accounts that I did not/can not verify as true)
#video (for all kinds of video posts!)
#audio (for posts and videos that require sound in order to be enjoyed. Some overlap with #music)
#trans rights! (for comics, jokes, stories, and memes relating to/made by trans people - sometimes sad or negative!)
#inspiration (for images that I found interesting or pretty)
#subject to study ( for images that I intend to study to learn how people got their results!)
#character design (for art with character design that makes my heart go doki doki!)
#arts and crafts (for videos and posts on a wide variety of specific arts. Think book binding, leather working, #dance, rare instruments, etc)

I hope you enjoy your time on my blog!

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neoyi
storm-of-feathers

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

emeraldspiral

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice

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even-in-arcadia

today in defenses of boromir that no one asked for: tired of reading that boromir’s death was in vain because he failed to save merry & pippin from the uruk-hai.  the fact that this clearly important warrior was willing to die to protect those two is what convinced the urukhai that they had indeed captured the halfing who carried whatever important thing saruman wanted.  they took the hobbits to isengard (to isengard gard) because they thought they had the right ones!  boromir didn’t succeed in preventing their capture but he did in fact keep them alive by making them seem valuable.  furthermore, he actually also saves frodo in this way: because the orcs and uruk-hai think they have what they came for, they stop looking and turn back: if they had not, they might have ultimately found and captured frodo or at least raised the alarm that a hobbit with an Important Thing was on the loose, setting others searching.  which is the very heart of tolkien’s worldview - that you do the right thing because it is right, and doing the right thing is never in vain. 

to conclude this essay boromir died a hero and saved not just merry and pippin but also frodo and sam. 

even-in-arcadia

some excellent additions in the tags here @erynalasse & @manta-ray-parade

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jeynesansa

[ID: Tumblr tags that read ’“#thank you op #and also on a wider note #it bothers me that people say boromir’s death was in vain #as if utulity is the only axis we measure worth on #i’m sure tolkien would have disliked the implication #that honor and courage and a real effort to do better #especially after succumbing to temptation #somehow don’t matter #because they do!

#but also his willingness to sacrifice himself for the hobbits/fellowship shows the ring did not end up consuming him #his love for the hobbits saved him from the ring’. There are two pleading emojis at the end. End ID]

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coelasquid

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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

coelasquid

Sometimes I wonder how many of the 90 thousand people who have interacted with this post have been like “I think I’ll go to OP’s blog and see what other lovely nuggets of wisdom they have” and then get hit with a wall of nothing but homoerotic drawings of the men from the Yakuza franchise.

haroldjaffe

[Image description:

Panel 1:

A frustrated artist with a big colorful thought bubble labeled INFINITE POTENTIAL over their head and a pencil in one hand hunches over a blank sheet of paper and asks, "How do I pack this down into sometime I can actually share?"

Panel 2:

The artist looks at a small grey box in their hands and asks incredulously, "All that work for THIS?!" Brow furrowed, they shove it off on a second person. "Here you go, I made this, it sucks."

Panel 3:

The recipient peeks into the small grey box and colorful light pours out onto them. Holding the open box, they look around in awe, surrounded by the colors of infinite potential the artist had originally imagined.]

coelasquid

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The middle person is the one who drew all the homoerotic yakuza art

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brawltogethernow

"It's a pity that soulmate stories have never–" Yes they have.

brawltogethernow

Every year there's a new fifty thousand note post by someone who thinks they're the first ever person to think of subverting a genre they don't read.

yeah i was/am this person with abo i KNOW theres amazing subversive fics out there fics that use the abo stuff to elevate a story to pure distilled art but i just hate abo so much i tend to immediately skip anything that has it so i cant see the stories thatd id like i do give em a chance every once in a while