αи∂ ι вєςαмє тнє ѕтσям

the first of two non-finale compliant The Adventure Zone fics I wrote in a mad dash before that episode dropped, so spoilers up through all of Story & Song and all that. shout out to my good friend who gave me the initial idea for this!

Carried Home (side Barry/Lup)

Years ago, Lup had sworn off ever having children.

you can also read it here on AO3! 

the second of two non-finale compliant The Adventure Zone fics I wrote in a mad dash before that episode dropped, so spoilers up through all of Story & Song and all that. shout out to my friends who came up with this ridiculous, yet so in character, fic idea. parts got a little more angsty than I intended but I’m real good at that oops. 

content warning for stuff like drug use, murder, and everyone being completely unashamed about such things. listen. it’s ya boys. do you expect anything less??

Blaze of Glory (side Barry/Lup, please check those tags)

One last mission for a dear friend who can’t do it himself, a plate of special macarons, and absolutely no dogs on the moon.

you can also read it here on AO3!

hey guys! haven’t been around much this summer for a variety of reasons; first, so much cat sitting. second, the family house apparently is just full of so much bad history that getting anything done while here is impossible. loving that mental block. thirdly, I’ve done way better just. not being on here. so much (way too much) of fandom is just so toxic and shitty and honestly? I don’t need that in my life.

I’ll still be posting fics up on @giraffles and reblogging them here, and of course on AO3. nothing has been abandoned! just put on hold while I ride the summer out. :> thanks for all your support!

you can catch me on Twitter @ kawaiiaggron if you still want occasional dumb updates or need to message me. you can also message me for my discord if you’d like.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARI!!! @cariisms

i’m super thrilled to gift to you this absolutely amazing drawing based on your fic hurricane, which was done by the amazingly talented and awesome @bergzerk. seriously, everyone go check him out and possibly even commission him because as you can see, he kicks serious ass. a million thanks again! ♥

speaking of being amazing - cari, you’re legit one of the most amazing people i know. you’re so enthusiastic and passionate and kind, your light touches everyone you interact with, and i’m honored to get to be someone who can bask in it. i love you so much and i hope i can tell you in person soon!! the Best of Baes ♥

If you are anti-Otayuri and have ever once uttered something along the lines of “18 year olds are adults, minors (everyone 17 and younger) are children; ships between adults and minors are ALWAYS wrong,”…

…and now with the reveal that Keith is 18, you’re like “uM WELL he’s barely an adult, so it doesn’t count and Klance is okay”…

…and if you have “don’t follow me if you support adult/minor ships” on your byf pages and still ship Klance after now knowing that Keith is an 18 year old adult…

… then you are a Grade-A Hypocrite.

You can’t pick and choose when a ship is okay and when it’s not. 

Why is 18 year old Keith still a teenager, okay to be shipped with 17 year old Lance? But 18 year old Otabek is a grown-ass adult, who cannot be ship with 16 year old Yurio because it’s “pedophilia”? 

(spoiler alert: it’s not pedophilia, neither ship is, but that’s another rant for another post)

And don’t pull the “Otayuri has a bigger age gap than Klance” crap on me. I see some of y’all don’t ship LeoJi as well. Y’all may not be outright anti-LeoJi, but I’ve seen many of y’all say “it’s ‘iffy’ to me because of the age gap.” Freakin LeoJi, who are 17 and 19, who, when you look at their birthdays, have a 1 year and like 5 months age difference. Y’all say it’s iffy because Leo is a grown ass 19 year old and Guang Hong is still a literal child of 17. Okay, sure.

I also wanna call out anti-Otayuri people who ship Sara and Mila (because there are a lot of you, I see you). Sara’s 22 and Mila is 18, just keep that in mind. 

Now with the new age reveal for VLD, shippers are saying that, by your own anti logic, that Sheith is fine because Keith is 18, he’s an adult, it’s totally fine for him to date another adult like Shiro, right? And you’re turning it around saying “oh but it’s still creepy for a 25 year old to date an 18 year old because 18 year olds are still teenagers!!” 

Why is it okay to ship 18 year old Mila with a 20-something-year-old, but not okay to ship 18 year old Keith with a 20-something-year-old? Hm?

None of these ships are wrong. None of these ships are gross. None of these ships are pedophlia because none of these characters are pre-pubescent. 

You don’t like Otayuri or Sheith because the age gap make you uncomfy? Cool, that’s fine. But stop harassing shippers and calling them pedophile apologists.

I’m just pointing out your hypocrisy by using your own anti logic on ships that you do like/ship, such as Klance and Sara/Mila.  

 You don’t like certain ships (Otayuri and Sheith), so you had to make up some BS reasons to vilify the ships you hated. Then when we shippers use that exact same logic on you, you’re doing these mental gymnastics to make your ship Safe and Okay, but the Gross Ships and still Gross somehow for some reason. 

Do you antis not see your own hypocrisy? Your lack of self-awareness is astounding, I gotta say.

Don’t like your own medicine? Maybe you should think long and hard about all the times you have harassed and bullied Otayuri and Sheith/Shaladin shippers, telling them to choke or rot in hell or kill themselves, accusing them of pedophilia, etc, the list of your crap goes on and on. 

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

You? Me? A committee of my friends? Of yours? Of those who have the most kudos? Of those who have no interest in fandom, but want to protect other people from dangerous content, whatever it may be? Who gets that power, and how long will they have it?

Who are you comfortable with giving the power of regulating all the content? What happens in grey areas? What happens when something you like isn’t liked by the Decider? Is there an appeal? Who gets to make the arguments for and against something?

Certain people are screaming that AO3 is bad because it’s not a “safe space.” The real problem they have, though, is that AO3 was created to be a safe space - for writers. And it does a pretty good job of that. It was designed to be a place where writers are safe from arbitrary content rule changes, random and unwarned deletions, and abuse-report abuse (which is common on ff.net). The Four Big Warnings + CNTW system is beautiful in its fairness and simplicity.

I’m a member of the LJ generation, and when I first came to Tumblr (grudgingly and out of desperation, I might add, since it tragically seems to be the only place to really connect with other fandom peeps) I was horrified at how people here had established this sort of fucked up bully culture, where nobody is responsible for monitoring their own consumption, and rather they expect everyone else to custom tailor content to the whims and desires of the Shrieking Banshee Masses. And woe be to the person who doesn’t bend and break! “I’m going to bully you while accusing you and your Big Mean Poopie Content of being the actual bully, so I can hopefully distract you and others from realizing I’m being a royal intrusive asshat who failed Astronomy 101 b/c I clearly believe the world revolves around me.”

The irony here is that this in itself is an abuse tactic - victim blaming with a side of gaslighting. Pot, meet kettle.

And it’s the exact same mentality that drives right-wing lunatics to kick up a fuss about the existence of icky cootie gay people in media because we need to “protect family values”, or who take to screeching at Starbucks because their particular religious symbolism isn’t portrayed on the winter holiday cups and OMG WAR ON CHRISTMAS, STARBUCKS STOP OPPRESSING ME BY NOT CATERING TO MY PERSONAL TASTE.

The mentality is one and the same - “Cater to ME ME ME or FACE MY DIVINE WRATH even if it means taking away other people’s freedom!” while hiding behind a flimsy-ass shield of faux righteous anger.  

im just imagining this little shit running around the streets of barcelona in the middle of the night trying to cobble a costume together while he lets beka handle the music

he bursts into chris’s hotel room at 3 like “give me one of your sexy tank tops”

& chris is 75% asleep and doesn’t register that none of his clothes are appropriate for a 15 year old. he gestures at his wardrobe and as yurio leaves he’s like. “im 2 sizes bigger than you my tanks will fall off”

yurio looks him dead in the eye. “good.”

yurio takes pleasure in waking JJ up at 5 am and asking for his tackiest piece of jewelry.

“here’s this cross necklace that i got at a flea market for 2 bucks”

yurio snatches it out of his hands. “im going to kick your ass today shithead”

JJ wonders if yurio understands the meaning of an exhibition skate.

the hardest part is the jacket bc yurio’s outfit just isn’t right but there’s no one here that’s actually his size and yurio hasn’t slept in 24 hours.

he’s on his 5th red bull.

when suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, he sees someone outside the rink wearing the gaudiest purple leather jacket he’s ever seen. it’s perfect.

“you! how much for your jacket!”

the man is confused bc he doesn’t speak english and also the men’s GPF gold medalist is screaming at him. he’s 80% sure these are his last moments on earth.

“jacket“ yurio says like that will make the man understand.

through a complex game of charades, yurio manages to communicate that he wants the jacket. the man happily hands it over bc holy shit it’s the ice tiger of russia.

yurio throws the guy 30,000 rubles.

yurio shows up right before his EX running on 15 red bulls with under eye circles darker than his soul.

“you look like you’ve been shoved through a meat grinder” mila says

“good” yurio replies.

no amount of foundation will help. lilia is panicking, barcelona is falling. yurio’s eyes still look like they can see through time.

georgi kicks in the door. “i got this”

it’s 5 minutes to show time and yuuri and viktor come to see him off. they’re still in their own EX costumes.

“wow! so chic!” viktor says before getting distracted by a dog in the stands. (”it’s in a purse yuuri, 10/10 would doggo again“)

“davai!” yuuri says.

yuuri has a pair of sunglasses clipped to his shirt. yurio points at them. “are those viktor’s”

“yes?”

they’re gucci and worth more than nikolai plisetsky’s car.

yurio snatches them and skates off before viktor comes back.

beka is at the edge of the rink dressed in all black. he flashes yurio a thumbs up.

tumblr’s “your fav is problematic so I must VOW TO HATE THEM FROM NOW UNTIL ETERNITY” culture

tumblr’s "I am not even 1% problematic” culture 

tumblr’s “wow look the media is so biased and puts so much spin on everything and we are angels who don’t spin at all! we are beacons of unbiased knowledge!” culture 

tumblr’s “wow this person is so wrong so I MUST SEND THEM TWELVE THOUSAND ANONYMOUS MESSAGES TELLING THEM TO DELETE AND DIE” culture 

tumblr’s “THIS PERSON IS THE BEST PERSON EVER THEY ARE OUR QUEEN OUR KING OUR SAVIOR AND CAN DO NO WRONG” culture 

tumblr’s inability to see things in not black and white 

tumblr’s inability to recognize that people can change and grow–moreover, their inability to acknowledge change and growth as legitimate 

tumblr’s inability to perceive complexity 

I’ll also be heading back to NY Saturday, to cat sit for a few weeks, so the best way to contact me is probably my Discord, giraffles#7385!