Hi! You can call me El, Lib, Libby, some variation of my username, I really don’t care. Use whatever pronouns you want with me, get creative! I identify as asexual, aro-spec, sapphic, and queer. I’m also very much in favor of reclaiming slurs, so simply know that I am a faggot and a dyke :)
Minors, interact with caution. First of all, take your age out of your bio and don’t advertise the fact that you’re underage. That’s dumb. Also, if you try to follow me and I can tell that you’re a minor, I will be blocking you. That being said, I’m not your parent and I can’t control what you do. You can reblog my posts and engage with me about topics like music, politics, or sfw fandom things. Do not DM me if you’re a minor—I am absolutely not comfortable talking privately with you. Send it in an ask, please and thank you :)
I post very eclectically, and I’m not always great about tagging things. The few things you can expect from me are my one piece posting (under #one piece yapping, #libby watches one piece, and #libby reads one piece), various music things like compositions, practice videos, or just my thoughts (under #back on my music bullshit with practice videos under #practice log), political posts (under #politics or #us politics), and anything I find extremely funny (under #top tier posts). I’ve also been posting a bit more about The Summer Hikaru Died (光が死んだ夏) after the anime’s release, so those posts can be found under #hgsn posting. All of my original posts are tagged #libby shouts into the void, and I try to be consistent with tagging trigger warnings (formatted #tw [topic]). Anything I write will be tagged #libby writes things, though you can absolutely just follow my writing side blog if you want to see that stuff.
Other fandoms that I’m always down to talk about, regardless of how often I post about them, include The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと), bare: a pop opera, Batman/Batfamily/DC Comics, BBC Merlin, Bungou Stray Dogs (文豪ストレイドッグス), Check Please! (omgcp), Dan and Phil (the middle school hyperfixation turned up in the middle of the night and shot me dead), DanDaDan (ダンダダン), Danny Phantom, Dead Boy Detectives, Frieren (葬送のフリーレン), Haikyuu!! (ハイキュー‼︎), His Dark Materials, Miraculous Ladybug, My Hero Academia (僕のヒーローアカデミア), the Owl House, Percy Jackson, Pokémon, Precure, Princess Tutu, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sailor Moon, She-ra (and the Princesses of Power), Sasaki and Miyano/Hirano and Kagiura (ssmykghr), Skip and Loafer (スキップとローファー), Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, Winx Club, Witch Hat Atelier, and Wizard101 (I’ve played on and off for over a decade now). I’m always looking for more magical girl media, so please give me your recs!
Topics and/or hyperfixations (outside of the previously mentioned fandoms) include bra-sizing, soundtracks/compositions/leitmotifs, contemporary music, Japanese (which I’m learning), and poetry/writing (my very barren side blog is @elluminiswrites and you can find me on ao3 under elluminis).
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i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
Imagine being the avatar that single handedly saved the world several times and brought back the whole air bender population from the brink of extinction and some cunt still has the nerve to say "the previous avatar let us down" Korra should have ended the world sooner
And I know its gonna be one of those history fucked her over type deals but at the same time I wouldn't mind if Korra did destroy the world shed still be a better avatar then Roku
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Drinking soda is better than drinking nothing all day. Eating ice cream for dinner is better than eating nothing for dinner. Eating salsa is better than having no produce in your diet at all.
Water is way more hydrating than soda, but soda is more hydrating than nothing. A balanced meal is way more nutritious than ice cream, but ice cream is more nutritious than nothing.
Something is better than nothing. Some hydration is better than no hydration. Some nutrients are better than no nutrients. Some produce is better than no produce.
Don't let societally imposed food guilt trick you into believing that nothing is a better choice. Nourishing your body, however you can, is always the better choice. Fed is best. Always.
The worst sin you can commit around so-called "woke" white liberals is pointing out that, actually, NOT every homophobic republican is gay!, actually, many of them are just evil cishets doing their thing, and the closeted ones affect people more through evil than through their gayness so why are y'all so fixated on it? Hooooboy y'all those liberals will FLIP THEIR SHIT because how DARE you fuck with their hilarious narrative turning every evil anti-queer politician into a good ol' fashioned fag like they deserve, it's actually SUPER liberal and cool and effective to blame all queerphobia on queer people, why are you RUINING our GOOD TIIIIME
"BUT DOESN'T GRINDR KEEP CRASHING WHEN--" no. Jesus it happened ONE time at ONE republican gathering. Yes there's a SLIGHT increase in traffic on the site for their gatherings - the same as EVERY SINGLE BIG GATHERING OF HUMANS. If you've been telling people "Grindr crashes at EVERY GOP convention" you've been spreading misinformation to blame queer people for the violence they face in the US and it's gross
mandatory viewing on this subject (particularly the second one which provides some well-needed critical thinking and fact-checking on the whole "republicans always crash Grindr" claim; there's a shit ton of blatant misinformation going on there we need to make people more aware of. like, a major part of this myth stems from a straight up satire twitter account's post that was taken at face value.)
from the second video:
But building on that essay [first video], and what we’ve discussed today as a prime example of a narrative born from the “homophobes are secretly just gay” trope, I want to examine why it’s so resistant to correction, and why people that are otherwise usually media literate and concerned with truth over comforting myths might grab onto this with both hands and refuse to let go.
And I'm including myself in this. The first time I heard the Grindr crash thing, I laughed. I'm not coming to you from moral superiority. I'm coming from a position of "I also fell for this and then felt annoyed about it and made it everyone else's problem in the form of a video essay because I think the truth is actually a more effective political weapon than a lie."
So why does this work? I think there are four main reasons, ranging from "understandable" to "I'm not sure that's healthy babe."
The first reason: yo, it feels good. Queer people are constantly on the receiving end… Of right-wing politics in a material, tangible way. These aren't abstract disagreements. These are people who've campaigned on the premise that your love is invalid, your identity is a disorder, your existence is a threat to children. And when the power imbalance is that stark, there is something extremeeeelllly satisfying about the idea that the oppressor who thinks they are so much better than you is nothing but a fraud. They can’t even meet their own bar for “deserves rights.”
It's the political equivalent of "the bully has a crush on you." We're told that story from childhood. So when someone offers an adult, political version, "they're homophobic because they're secretly homosexual", we’re already primed and lubed, and it slides right in to how we understand the world. And suddenly, the power dynamic feels more manageable, they’re just pathetic self-hating gays, I’m not scared of that. It feels good, and it feels true. And that’s the exact kind of story that goes viral, regardless of whether it’s based on evidence.
The "Republicans crash Grindr when they gather" claim has every quality of what misinformation researchers call “sticky”, as in, it’s sticky. It’s sticks to your brain. And it does so, even after you learn the truth. Researchers call this The Continued Influence Effect (CIE). It’s a cognitive phenomenon where misinformation continues to influence a person's reasoning and beliefs even after it has been clearly and credibly retracted. The paper posits that people continue to use misinformation because, on some level, they still feel it is relevant or useful, even if they know it's false. This paper frames this not just as a problem of forgetting the correction or new information, but as a problem where the feeling of familiarity and narrative coherence from the original misinformation overrides the factual knowledge of its retraction. We believe, because it feels true.
And you’ll see this under any post that’s been debunked. People who fell for it will say “well, it might as well be true” or “This case might be false, but this really happens, so it might as well be true, and in a way it is true.” [laughter] Like yeah but in another way that isn’t nonsense, it isn’t. But it doesn’t matter, once it’s in your head, it’s often hard to get rid of. Especially when it’s gone so viral that you’ve seen people talking about it from all directions, each time your new worldview being compounded and cemented. And this… it went viral. And I get why.
One: it’s funny, and funny storied spread faster than boring ones.
Two: It’s ironic.
Three: We have a clear villain being a hypocrite. People love an exposed hypocrite because...
Four: it feels like justice. It’s someone we see as a threat getting caught in the act, exposed for their lies! They finally get their just desserts! And on top of that, it’s easy to believe because...
Five: it’s just plausible enough even for a skeptic.
If youre a closeted person somewhere out there thinking "I want to transition but it would be less progressive/unique/countercultural for me to be that gender instead of this one" please know that you are a real person not a character in a narrative and cant live your life based on what is good media representation. You are real you can only be yourself and theres no moral weight to any identity over another
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wait i just found out you can be nice to people and be their friend i thought we had to kill them all cause i was raised in a lab to be a living weapon
Next up on the papercraft backlog - this one! Inspired by StrangeTheDreamer by Laini Taylor , featured on the Illumicrate mug that was included in the recent DOSAB Collections Edition box!
I really love how both of Laini’s series have drastic contrasts of themes between light and dark, good and evil, ally and foe - and those themes really directed concept for this. The chaotic field of moths dissolving out of Sarai’s dress balanced out the buttery-smooth golden beasts flowing from Lazlo’s book as the two are joined in the middle, meeting somewhere halfway between dreams and nightmares.
Here’s a new paper on tool use in cattle! It really doesn’t surprise me. I wonder if people who raise animals ever look at studies about them and say, “That’s a new discovery? Bessie does that all the time.”
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