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about putting on a show

i think some of the jokes in the conversations between smoky and sardonyx were intentionally awkward or ill-timed. i mean. smoky laughs about the crowd being easy to please, for a reason. 

“i’m so excited i could just shatter!”

we’ve just had a bunch of episodes dedicated to the topic of shattering. how it means gems can never come back, how steven thinks nobody deserves that, how it changed the war, and how pink diamond deeply affected characters like jasper and eyeball.

“she (jasper) lost her mind in a corrupted fusion… i guess you could say she had a short fuse!” 

again, making light of a horrible thing that just happened… but i don’t think the writers think anyone found jasper’s corruption funny. heck, even people who dislike her (mostly) agree it wasn’t a pleasant scene. smoky doesn’t look all that comfortable making these jokes either.

but it segways into the real topic of the episode - how people use jokes to cover up very genuine problems. 

oftentimes, it’s awkward or flat-out uncomfortable to listen to, but for many people doing it, it’s also a way of coping. they want to acknowledge these bad things, but they don’t wanna… make a big deal out of it. they need to talk about them, but they also kinda really don’t want to. 

and that’s smoky.

trying their best to make light of their insecurities, because they don’t want to address them, or they don’t think that’s what their loved ones (sardonyx) wants to hear.  it’s kind of like having fun with a friend, while also going through something awful. you might want to talk about it, but you don’t really wanna… bring up how horrible you’re feeling when your friend is having a good time. you just wanna put on a “good show”.

so smoky starts making jokes about themselves. they’re not particularly clever or funny, they’re just “lighthearted” ways of saying they have serious issues. 

“i guess zero plus zero equals… zero!”

“they say two wrongs don’t make a right, i guess i’m living proof that’s true!”

these “jokes” aren’t funny, they’re sad. and sardonyx, who is excited for them and loves them, recognizes this and starts getting visibly uncomfortable. 

not everything can be a laughing matter. 

i think sardonyx recognized fairly early that smoky had self-confidence issues. like many friends and family do, her response was to try to help smoky find their positive traits… but when that doesn’t work, it can make the person you’re trying to comfort feel worse. like they’re a disappointment on top of everything else, for not following the “script” by feeling better already.

it was well-intentioned. it was the only way sardonyx knew how to address it, while also keeping a positive and fun mood. trying to cheer smoky up, without interrupting the “show”. 

but sometimes, you gotta interrupt the show and talk about what’s bothering you. even if it means ruining the good mood, disappointing the metaphorical “audience” that exists when you make your behavior performative to please someone else. 

steven, amethyst and smoky aren’t totally there yet… but, despite the joking tone, i think they’re closer to telling garnet and pearl about their issues. it’s an important step, and hopefully, they’ll be able to really talk about this soon, without putting on a show.

since im seeing some self-medicating Discourse on the blue website again let’s just go over this again:

1. doctors are fuckers and if you’re not being served properly by the system you are in no way immoral for self-medicating

2. the dangers of hrt are consistently exaggerated but nevertheless are real. if you are self-medicating and are able to/have doctors who will help, please monitor your health in order to ensure that you’re not at risk

3. if you can’t do #2, #1 still applies.

thank.

you got any good screenshots/archived threads of EEnE Online? could only find a couple Reddit threads

I don’t have any on me right now, and I was gonna say I could try and remember to take some shots if I see one…

But then I realized I could just make a thread to get some responses, so maybe I’ll do that.

ARIES, LEOS ,SCORPIOS, & SAGITTARIUSES be like:

I mean, most mad "scientists" are really mad engineers.

The rest are generally biologists or chemists who've already, presumably, TESTED what they're about to release on the market.

A true mad scientist would only destroy half of the earth, since the other half is the control group.

the founding furries

we all knew ben franklin would be #exposed eventually

Caramelized Vidalia Onion Casserole

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

the sequel

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person on reddit, a site where the visibility of all posts and comments is controlled by how many people agree with it: “tumblr is an echo chamber”

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@bendin-in-the-wind replied to your post “tbh I’m really glad about how quickly “futch” went from something...”

so is a futch like, not a femme and not a butch

The way I see it it’s less “neither” and more “elements of both, neither really sticking out.” But there’s room for interpretation, I s’pose

what the fuck

Drawing porn of child characters from comics or cartoons is ILLEGAL in the United States

18 U.S. Code § 1466A - Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children                                                                 

(a)In General.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly produces, distributes, receives, or possesses with intent to distribute, a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that—                    

(1)                        

(A)    depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and

(B)    is obscene; or                                                                

(2)                     

  (A)    depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and 

   (B)    lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value;  or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2252A(b)(1), including the penalties provided for cases involving a prior conviction.                                

(b)Additional Offenses.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly possesses a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that—                    

(1)                 

     (A)        depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and                      

(B)      is obscene; or                                                                

(2)                       

(A)   depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and                                                

(B)   lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value; or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2252A(b)(2), including the penalties provided for cases involving a prior conviction.                                

©Nonrequired Element of Offense.  It is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exist. Source

Here are some recent cases and convictions.

Most recent conviction seems to be May 2016. That’s this month.

When abusive adults in fandoms prey on the children in them, try to spread that it’s okay to draw child porn of the child characters, to sexualize the child characters, they are breaking the law and encouraging minors to break the law. The law doesn’t care if you use it as a “coping mechanism” (even forgetting that abused people can become abusers themselves). This is illegal and it can get you imprisoned.

Please boost this. Not enough people know the law exists and big-name artists routinely bully people, survivors, minors into believing that spreading child porn in their fandoms is okay and to do it themselves. It’s not, and it can get rebloggers arrested for possessing and spreading obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.                 

My favorite characters: Sho Minamimoto - The World Ends With You

GHOSTLY DESIRES

i, personally, would love to calm down, and yet

Character: Garnet 

Series: Steven Universe 

Cosplayer: makayla_panda (instagram)

SUBMISSION

If you close your eyes just as it crashes, your brain is tricked into thinking you’ve actually died for a second, thus relaxing you.

I don’t understand why but I really hate this shade of blue

okay but consider that vermont also has pretty trees and the ben and jerry's headquarters

The areas in the red zones are seem terrifying to me honestly I would never move to any of these states.

addendum: sometimes i post to this blog by accident because tumblr is bad

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I used to use “i-dont-use-this-blog-now” but 1) people still followed me on this blog + 2) it fucked w/ people’s tags so honestly,