The Sun, The Stars, The Moon, Mars, Earth

(repost bcz i made a mistake in the previous version)

i finally finished

after like- nearly a month of drawing these goobers, im finally done :D i love them so much <333

golly pac cubito how come u get two soulmates

so... finally finished this. which is great, cause my tsc obsession has been rearing it's head again, so idk if i would have been able to finish this later lol

this is probs the last voltron post ull see from me in a while tbh. dw ill be back on the voltron grind eventually

special announcement!

okay, during the progression of secret life, gem has been receiving some very hurtful and unnecessary hate comments. now, that's just not right. we all need to do better to support our favorite CC's.

so, i was thinking of hosting a geminitay appreciation week, where we, as a community, contribute to daily art pieces of gem for this entire week! gem needs to know that , despite all the hate she's been getting, she still has a lot of supportive and loving viewers who enjoy her and her beautiful content!

please spread this around and anyone is free to join in if they have the time to do so! ❤︎

aaaaaaaaaa someone has GOT to write this. pls i BEG.

being a former classmate or causal friend of Clary and Simon must be so crazy. like imagine being in the middle of your undergrad and opening up Facebook to see they've both gotten engaged a few weeks apart at 21 after randomly dropping off the face of the earth in high school 😭 I know all the old group chats were alive like never before that day

THIS. THISSSSS.

THIS IS MY NEW SCAR HC

An argument for the Eclipse

So, there's been a great deal of debate about which phenomenon should be assigned to each winner once they've claimed their crown. The first three were pretty obvious, people are still undecided on Martyn (he's the Sea in my book, but this post isn't about him) and now the people are once again split on Scar. I've seen Earth, Mercury, but my personal favourite has been Eclipse.

My reasons for this are as follows: who even decided each winner has to be assigned a planet? It seems so limiting. What happens once we run out of suitable planets? Not to mention the point of these assignments in the first place was iconography, which gets hard when you're stuck with the same circular planets. (Not to mention that Scott somehow being every single star just does not at all fit with this.)

It just makes more sense to shuck this guideline and ascribe the winners phenomena - just like actual gods. And what better for Scar than the crossing of the Sun and Moon, his two significant allies? A rare event - the day plunged into darkness for minutes at a time only for it all to pass as if nothing happened. The light in the darkness, the darkness in light. A reminder that not even something as certain as the rising of the sun and the setting of the moon can be trusted without reservation.

I think this is something really, really important. It can be hard to feel like you're "not disabled anough". Being "high-functioning", not ticking all the boxes, not being the textbook definition, not being "neurodivergent anough".

As a "high-functioning" autistic, I constantly feel like I'm not autistic anough. Like I act too "normal". But then I feel so guilty, because I should feel so lucky and grateful that I don't struggle as much as others. I feel so selfish for wanting people to recognise that I struggle too.

Just know you are valid. It doesn't matter if your diagnosis is official or not. It doesnt matter if you're labeled as "high-functioning" or "low-functioning". It doesn't matter, because you are valid.

(not just talking about autism btw. This goes for all neurodivergents <3333)

fuck it. shout out to "high functioning" neurodivergents

the ones who can mask easily, the ones who can get social cues, the ones who have managed to go most of their life not even knowing they were ND because they didn't present as the stereotypical ND person.

the ones who can pay attention in class, understand social etiquette, who understand societial expectations

the ones who don't feel neurodivergent enough bc they don't struggle in the same ways/areas a lot of NDs do, or they can't relate to other NDs' experiences because they always understood these things easily

the ones with high empathy, the ones who DO get the joke, the ones who are constantly told that they can't possibly be neurodivergent because they don't act like what you'd expect a neurodivergent person to act like.

you are neurodivergent enough. you are valid, and so are your experiences. not struggling as much as others do in some places doesn't mean you dont struggle at all. your condition and diagnosis is valid. your symptoms are valid. YOU ARE VALID. not checking all the supposed boxes doesn't mean you aren't neurodivergent. you are enough. you are valid. you are loved. you are valued. you matter. you belong in neurodivergent spaces, you deserve to use whatever resources are available to you, you are allowed to take up space in these communities. and i am so, so proud of you.

feel free to, and actually, i encourage you to reblog this with your experiences. we belong in this community as much as anyone else. please also tag this w/ any neurodivergent conditions i may have forgotten 💙

since this is getting lots of notes I'd like to add, even if you're undiagnosed or maybe self diagnosed, for whatever reason, (i.e. can't get access to a diagnosis, not being taken seriously, or just not wanting an official diagnosis, etc.) this still applies to you. actually especially to you folks. don't think for a second you're not valid just bc you don't have the paperwork or whatever to say it

My babies, my blorbos, the sillies in the world to me