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Guys, I did a thing…

Once upon a time,  in a galaxy far far away I did wibley wobley timey wimey stuff While driving around in my impala with a high functioning sociopath who solemnly swore that he was up to no good . We hoped that the odds we’re ever in our favor while taking a slice of dauntless cake knowing that with great power comes great need to take a nap and that we had been looking better in black than the widows of our enemy’s since 1234

hey if you're canadian put Canadian Culture things in a rb/reply or send me an ask. im tryin to do a thing and i feel like google won't be it <3

HOWEVER please rb if you're not canadian for the sake of boosting too 🤠

ok so i love steven’s universe for a lot of reasons, but I just noticed something:

everyone who watches the show knows that Rose is seen as beautiful, and elegant and likely the most attractive character in the show.  

But then we also see stuff like:

Mayor Dewy thinking Pearl is beautiful, and even calling her “hot”

Jamie thinking Garnet is literally the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.

Stevonie, a non-binary but mostly female appearing character, being seen as very attractive by multiple other characters, and Sadie finding her attractive instead of being catty. 

Then we have these two. Saphire is a tiny blue one eyed ice smurf and is also seen as beautiful. Ruby is a tiny red angry square with almost no traditionally female characteristics and is also seen as attractive enough to find true love. 

Vedalia even says Greg is hot. A+ body positivity despite gender and body type. 

What I haven’t seen EVER in Steven’s Universe though is any of the characters being portrayed as ugly or physically unappealing to anyone. Fat characters get body positivity, skinny characters get body positivity, curvy characters get body positivity, tiny characters get body positivity. You know what else? No two characters have the same body type just like real life. It teaches you that there are endless different ways to look and still be beautiful. 

No one gets left out. No one gets called ugly. The only “bad” characters arn’t bad because of the way they look, but the way they act. Fat characters are never seen as ugly because they are fat. 

This is so important for little kids to see. 

And I know the counter argument to children being taught that it’s “ok” to be fat will always be “well being fat is unhealthy and they should feel bad about being fat so that they will work on loosing weight”. But guess what, that kind of thing leads to eating disorders, and kills children’s self esteem, and makes them hate their bodies. Some people do need to loose weight if it actually does affect their health but a lot of the time they really don’t, or they can’t for whatever reason. Some people feel more comfortable being on the heavier side. But even if you are concerned for a person’s health, the stress and depression that comes along with having a poor image of yourself is much more unhealthy and limiting than a little belly fat. 

 It also shows you that the Gems choose their appearance, which is also supper important. Pearl, and Lapis choose to be skinny, Amethyst and Rose choose to be fat, Garnet chooses to be a giant curvy square, and all of those things are completely accepted and ok. 

Love yourself. 

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

Hi,

It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

5 Things

As tagged by @ittybittypearlygirly I know it’s late but I have a job and am preparing for a mission so tumblr went on the back burner

5 things you’ll find in my bag(usually I have a jacket of some sort the number of pockets varies but things I will have include

3 pairs of wireless headphones (I got a pair from my boss and they are like 10ish bucks at Walmart so I use them more than traditional headphones)

A portable battery for my phone (it’s not used often but it’s always there)

Pens( usually have 2 or 3 stuffed in random pockets)

Pocket knife (I tend to walk home from work I’m just a little paranoid about it)

Wallet (never leave home without it)

5 things you’ll find in my room:

Various posters from all my different fandoms and memorabilia hanging as well(my graduation cap, and eagle scout scarf. Tickets for school dances an entire shelf dedicated to stuff I’ve built or designed (I’m an engineer so…))

A cup of pens and multiple note pads (writer)

Overflowing bookshelves

A radio or speaker

Stuffed animals (my favorite is a dragon my girlfriend got me)

5 things that make me happy:

My paycheck (a steady income is something I’m still getting used to)

Reading

Music (this explains the headphone situation)

My friends (I relyed on them a lot more during my mental health struggle and they are always there for me (over a year since last major incident))

Orange Soda and Andes mints (my comfort foods)

5 things I’m currently into:

Doctor Who

Sherlock

Girl Meets world fanfiction (most of which involves Rilaya)

Descendants (slowly writing a collab fanfiction may post it later :/)

Tumblr

5 things on my to do list (guessing this means bucket list but mine is always changing so currently)

Go on a Mission (something my religion really focuses on)

Get married

Go to college (I have half of my associates in engineering)

Have a family

Don’t relapse (TW:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx used to self harm as of Jan 14 2018 I’m over a year clean it’s worth it)

5 people: @jellobugg and any other people who follow me that feel like doing this

So I’ve been getting a tattoo done the past month and just got my final session done today. It’s Gallifreyan translated to “Hell of a Bird” overlaying on top of an Orion Nebula concept. A tribute to Peter’s 12th Doctor and my favorite episode Heaven Sent.

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals