light them the fuck up

But she now has an imaginary friend. Any guesses.

But she now has an imaginary friend. Any guesses.

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

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Everyone: You do realize this ban only hurts the people producing legal content, right? Like, those small pages posting illegal stuff never tag their pages appropriately, and don’t care about having to remake a new blog if theirs gets nuked because they can just make a new burner account to post that stuff again.

Staff: …

Everyone: The only adult content that will likely be spreading around would be the illegal content, since you are strong-arming the legally-abiding and responsible adult content creators who take care to tag and label their content and not post anything that’s god damn illegal.

Staff: …

Everyone: That’s also assuming that there won’t be people that just continue posting adult content, either with censor bars or cuts to bypass the adult content check, or by just posting whatever anyway and not caring.

Staff: …

Everyone: None if this even addresses the racism problems that people did have, including the adult bloggers you are now getting rid of. You can’t just get rid of text posts or images of disgusting rheotoric unless there’s a nipple in the mix, yeah?

Staff: …

Everyone: Speaking of which, this new plan of yours still requires moderation, which is seemingly the main responsibility you are actively dodging with this adult content ban measure.

Staff: …

Everyone: So now, basically nothing will have changed except for all the responsible adult content creators being gone that made up a decent number of your most active and loyal users, some of the most active critics and filters of racist content users being banned, and the only people being left posting illegal content or blatantly breaking your rules to post legal adult content to spite you.

How did you think this was going to pan out?

Gosh! Thank you, I’m really honoured that you think so highly of me and my colouring! O: What a lovely message, haha! :D <3

I really don’t consider myself an authority on colouring in any way (I wouldn’t know colour theory if it hit me in the face) and my colouring technique is very simple, so I’m not at all sure I’m qualified to teach others how to colour. But I can do a lil’ walk-through to show you how I go about it, and maybe you or someone else will find it at least a bit helpful! I use Photoshop, but I’m guessing other art programs have settings that are similar enough to PS that this might still be useful. Since you mentioned Mabel, let’s use her as our guinea pig. ;D

When drawing the line art I’ll add the deepest shadows in black, as seen above. Be careful not to overdo it, though - just the deepest shadows!

multi-fandom roleplay is not only an excuse to turn characters you love into cool monsters, it’s an excuse to shove as many nerds into the same place as possible and watch them act like idiots

Can someone do me a huge favor and uhhhh draw Lup in this outfit?? Message me and I’ll swap fic for it if you want.

Being a trans dude, let me say that since I was raised as a girl, I was taught that everything I was feeling or experiencing was just ‘female hysteria’. That it was fake and I just needed to learn to love my body. 

Doctors told me this when I came in for appointments, struggling to find the words to explain why I felt so wrong. Nurses told me this. My parents told me this. My therapists told me this.

That I was just fine, and all urges to want to crawl out of my own skin or to stop existing entirely was just me having ‘hormonal spikes’ or being ‘depressed’. 

As it was, I did not realize I was trans until my late twenties, and I had no idea what I was experiencing was dysphoria because my symptoms were frequently dismissed by trusted doctors or diagnosed as a ‘'behavior problem”.

Now this is just my experience being raised as a girl, but I have no doubt whatsoever that trans women have had upbringings that made them question if what they were experiencing was dysphoria, or just them being labeled as “messed up”, or even “hypochondriac”, etc, by family, doctors and peers.

It’s honestly cruel to question someone’s validity as trans for not having dysphoria, especially because you are entirely alone in finding out whether or not you have it. No doctor in my life has ever read through my medical history and noticed any trends and told me accurately what was going on with me.

Because doctors actually don’t know. Tumblr doesn’t know either. YOU know. You are the only one who can know, because it concerns your body. It’s hard and it hurts like hell to figure this all out by yourself, and unfortunately in our current craptastic healthcare system? It’s yourself that you have to almost entirely rely on. And being called crazy at every turn by the people who are hired to help you sure as shit doesn’t help matters.

You are strong as hell and you amaze me.

Likewise, if you know you aren’t your assigned gender and you don’t have dysphoria? 

There is such thing as gender euphoria. It means you feel fucking great when you’re validated as your gender or even if you validate yourself as your gender whether through dress or going “I am [gender]”.

Neither are mutually exclusive, but some people feel apathetic to their assigned sex, not hating it or anything, just they could don’t mind it, but when they get called certain pronouns they suddenly go “That feels good, that feels right.”