champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends

Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

SEETHING rn because when i was getting ready to go out my housemate saw my platform boots and told me "watch out for low-hanging branches" thinking he was being sooooooo funny and guess what i walked straight into on my way into town. well why don't you just fucking guess.

scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

the first mad max is uh. not good, huh

everyone was right, the second one is a lot better

like it actually tells a story worth paying attention to instead of wasting your time for two hours

guy after having a completely normal social interaction: i made things weird again and they hate me

10% luck 20% skill 15% concentrated power of will 98% exhibitionist 90% brat 85% rope bunny

there’s nothing wrong with overly self-indulgent shit like honestly

make that fuckin beauty and the beast au with your otp

draw your favorite character broken and bloody for no reason

make a self-insert that’s super important and powerful

write porn of that obscure ship centered entirely around your personal kinks

headcanon your faves as your sexuality, gender, etc

have fun man

i mean in the past i’ve made fun of all these things but i’ve grown up and chilled out and honestly? fiction is your platform to go nuts. have a great time. do what you want to

just respect other people’s boundaries and don’t go forcing your headcanons down other people’s throats, because they deserve to have a good time too

enjoy fiction however you want to and don’t let other people tell you how it’s supposed to be enjoyed

to all the people reblogging this and saying “except for this type of ship i don’t like”: get bent

i wrote this post almost 8 years ago, in may of 2017. in 2018 a long, aggressive harassment campaign run by the exact sorts of people the reblog was about got this account terminated a few months before the nsfw ban. it took me a while to come back to tumblr and once i did, it took me even longer to openly post about profic stuff like this again. i never in a million years expected to see some old post of mine cross my dash today with almost 70k notes; as i recall, it had a few hundred when this account still existed.

i'm not nearly as confrontational anymore, but if there's one thing that's still true, it's that i stand by everything i said. and i'm glad i said it. scrolling through the notes, i found some old comments disparaging me or this message, but what was important to me was all the comments that said something to the effect of "i needed to hear this".

i want more people to hear this, really. i want people to know that you can do whatever makes you happy in your fictional works. those characters aren't people, and you can't meaningfully hurt them. things you explore fictionally don't mean you condone or desire them irl. "bad" or cliche writing doesn't somehow hurt other people, and really, it doesn't hurt you either. self-indulgence in art is not a crime.

please create what brings you joy. block people who upset or attack you. avoid what you dislike and uplift what you enjoy. fandom is only as serious as you make it, but it's not activism, and it's not a test of morals either.

I AM LOOKING MY OWN GHOST IN THE EYES. AND I AM UNCOMFORTABLE

i didn't recognize it at first, but it's coming back to me. ESPECIALLY the last part, the reblog.

at least one person got on my ass for saying "get bent". i don't remember why, or what their issue with that statement was, but my partner posted a kanji tatsumi meme in response. his blog was willingly deactivated so that's just as gone as my blog

i think this was the meme