Boys And Girls Of Every Age 🍂🎃

we were talking about this in the chat lmao

Here it is!! My Tma season 5 Curses animatic that i’ve had in my head for 4 months!!!!!! (Major spoiler warnings for episodes 161 to 189). I’m rlly proud of how this turned out and also that I managed to finish it before the last ep airs so it’s like my one big love letter to season 5. In any case! Please enjoy!!!

Biromantic/Asexual Night Vale phone backgrounds for anon

it’s movie night ❤️

[ quick doodle before i go take a nap bc i’m sick ]

I am really baffled by the people attacking AO3 for hosting stories that involve rape, incest, pedophilia, and other dark things. Have…have they never been to a bookstore or library? People write stories about all manner of dark, horrible things. This is not remotely new. And at least on AO3 and other fandom platforms, the dark things are generally tagged. In bookstores and libraries, not so much.

V.C. Andrews was freaking popular when I was in jr. high and high school. Her books were in the school libraries. They needed to be stamped with trigger warning: EVERYTHING, but mainly things from the fun list of rape, incest, pedophilia, and child abuse. Her books are still sufficiently popular that there are new ones coming out despite the fact that she’s been dead for years!

Her books are in the library I work at. Her books are in most bookstores. Her books are probably still in the libraries of the jr high and high school I went to. Does that mean anywhere that has her books supports rape, incest, pedophilia, and child abuse?

That’s not how it works. Yes, there are occasionally things that a store or library will decide they don’t want to carry, no matter what. The first bookstore I worked at wouldn’t even special order The Turner Diaries. A lot of bookstores won’t even special order The Anarchist Cookbook. I’m sure there are other books out there that people are reluctant to touch, even with a ten foot pole. But, barring those few exceptions, most bookstores and libraries are not in the business of policing the content of the books they deal in.

Not because booksellers and librarians are all monsters who should be reported to the FBI, but because there’s a long history of censorship going very bad places very fast. Also, free speech is considered an American value. Hell, let me just link to the ALA page on censorship.

I don’t pretend to know why stuff like V.C. Andrews’ books, or the fics on AO3 that some people want to report to the FBI, are popular. I don’t get it. It doesn’t appeal to me. Yet I recognize that different dark things are in kinds of fiction that I do like - violence, murder, torture, war, other things that most of us really fervantly hope never to experience in our lives. I don’t know whether fiction is an outlet for whatever darkness lurks in everyone’s hearts, whether it’s a way of dealing with our fear of bad things happening, whether human culture just finds bad things fascinating, or what. Maybe humanity is just super fucked up and Pluto really is a warning buoy telling other civilizations not to go near the planet with the creepy mammal infestation on it.

But I don’t think going after fic platforms because some of the fic hosted there is disturbing is a solution to anything. (And if the people doing so are not also on an equivalent campaign against bookstores and libraries, I suspect that what’s going on is not what they claim is going on.)

Unique

taking a fatal wound through the lower abdomen and wearing a ribbon over the wound post-revival. Hm…

support your trans sisters!! 💓 (my links- store, instagram etc)

I hope something nice happens to ace people today

they deserve it

[image description: a collection of 5 doodles in varying quality of jon sims from the magnus archives, 2 of them are in normal humanoid form sleeping, and 3 are in his nightmare eye man form. all are wearing various novelty shirts, reading things like “I AM VERY SORRY”, “I ALSO DONT WANT THIS”, “THIS IS ELIAS BOUCHARDS FAULT, HE’S HEAD OF THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE, LONDON”.

as well as two that have pictures on the shirts, one saying “BONE APPLE TEETH” with an apple, and another with a cat hanging from something , which reads “HANG IN THERE”. jon is a middle aged man with long greying hair, brown skin, and many scars. his nightmare eye form is the same, but without any facial features and like, covered in brown eyes with glowing green pupils. end id]

fun shirts to haunt peoples nightmares to!

the top left was inspired by a tumblr post but i cant remember how the post was phrased so i cant find it if anyone knows please tell me