Teaching Kids Consent Is So Important, Even If You Don’t Know Them

Splatoon should have a death mic so my squidding around buddies hear my scream when they betray me at the last second

I still get excited when my friends refer to me as their friend

"My friend said" "this is my friend" "they're my friend"

Im freaking out inside every time

In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.

Adding onto this because it’s on my mind

I’ve had confused feelings about my gender for a long time. I remember when I was 8-9 ish, when my mom told me that I would Get Boobs, I cried. I literally wept in the backseat of our old mustang in the drive thru lane of the Chick-fil-A. Maybe it was because I wasn’t ready to grow up, but even now I haaaaate having breasts. I remember hoping that they would stop growing as I got older. I remember wishing my period would never come. I got it at 10

I also remember thinking about growing facial hair and getting excited. I actively try to have a more neutral voice. I cover my body because I’m ashamed of being a woman because of how terribly we’re treated in general. Maybe politics has something to do with it, but that’s a separate tangent

It’s weird though

I want breast reduction surgery, but I don’t want them gone completely

I want to go on hormones, but I don’t want to change completely

I hate having a uterus, but I don’t want it replaced, just gone

I don’t mind she/her pronouns, and I call myself a lesbian all the time, but my connection to my femininity is so severed by so much

I don’t shave my legs but I shave between them and under my arms because otherwise I’m uncomfortable with myself

I don’t consider myself non-binary or trans, but I don’t think I’m cis, either

And while labels don’t define everyone and everything and you don’t need one, I want to be able to explain what’s going on in my head and with my body image. I want to point to a flat and go “that’s how I feel and those are my people,” y’know?

Not a vent, just an observation

Hold on. Cisgender people don’t question their gender?

I get asked constantly irl and on discord how I write/draw stuff and idk how to properly communicate that I just wing it. I just go with the flow. Babe I don’t even edit my stuff (and you can probably tell)

It is 5:03 pm on Monday, March 03, 2025, and Sydney has passed away in the arms of my father, my mother, and me.

Over the past few years, she’s suffered several episodes and lost her ability to walk and run easily. She’s lost almost all feeling in her rear half. She’s lost her sight and hearing. There were stints where she wouldn’t eat. The past few weeks themselves, she steadily lost control of her bowel movements. She whines in pain and there’s nothing we can do. Her tail doesn’t wag anymore.

Sydney was rescued when she was about a year and a half old. She was a runt, abused by her former owners. We got her after Fumble passed away, and she’s been with me for almost 13 years now. I grew up with her. She’s a strange German shepherd, but I wouldn’t give her for anything else.

She’d always bark at Crosby to shut him up. She liked to play fight and do tug of war. She’d sneak out of the fenced yard by squeezing herself through the spokes. Never a big kisser, always a big sniffer. She picked up pawing from Crosby, occasionally whacking us with no dexterity whatsoever. She always made the funniest groans and grunts when she got riled up. She’d play fetch but never give the ball back. She’d tilt her head, she’d death shake. We never really taught her tricks- she was perfect as she was. She would shed clumps every winter and summer, giving my mom nothing but grief. She was antisocial, preferring to sleep and sit near you rather than actually engage. And that was okay. She liked to burp directly in people’s faces.

But I know she won’t be in pain anymore. Crosby can show her Touchdown and Fumble. She’ll be able to run again and bark whenever she wants. She’ll finally be able to feel her legs again and see and hear better. It’ll be rough, but she’ll be happy.

I pray we gave her the best life we could. She deserves it. She still does. She always will. I’m glad she was here while she was. I pray she was fulfilled and that she knew it was her time so that she can go in peace.

Hiiii me again

Related to the post about the ownership of characters and the tags you put-

I just wanted to mention that you’ve given me a lot of confidence. I used to be the type of person who believed “if your oc even breathes in the direction of a canon character, it’s cringe and Mary Sue and you’ll be ripped to shreds for it.” I’d have to tread so lightly with characters I enjoyed and love them from afar because I felt if I made even a joke post someone would bring it up.

I’ve only just gotten into the cod fandom, found your blog a couple months ago, and it’s given me a lot of like. Idk!! Just “fuck it, do what you want” kinda vibes in the best way? It’s really hard to word this lmao. But since finding your blog I’ve made a 141 character, a shadow, literally shipping an oc with ghost now, and I’m having fun that I wouldn’t have if I didn’t find your blog

So thank you <3

Hello! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ

Well, It's been an apparent issue in this fandom. idk why, but when I visit other fandoms, the sense of ownership and possessiveness to the characters is not that high, like what's up with these people I don't know. Like, the characters in media, especially in games, don't belong to anyone except the studios that made them 😭

We as fandom members can create original characters, alternative universes, and stuff for them. I can't imagine a piece of media without fanarts, fics, and OC's really. Heck, that's what keeps the fandom alive. If there's one thing we can learn from history of media, is that you can't hold back people's creativity. OF COURSE, there are cringe ones and unhinged ones, but it's fandom, of course, it's filled with different types of people from normal to bizarre ones.

Here's the thing, just because one person has already shipped their OC with one character, that doesn't mean that character is LOST forever to that one particular OC like it's a damn popularity competition 😭.

I've also seen some people saying that they're so emotionally attached to this one character, that if they see him with someone else's OC. they get super emotional and super angry?? Okay that's just-- WOW.

If you feel uncomfortable seeing your favorite character being shipped with someone else, then that just means that you're NOT ready and not mature enough to be an OC creator and be in a fandom space. Full stop.

and if I may speak from experience, I've lost a few friendships due to being... quite popular OC shipper with Ghost 🥲.Like, I don't know what's happening, I personally don't feel anything when I see other's OC's with Ghost, or any character I like with other OC's -- I EVEN DRAW OTHER OC'S WITH GHOST FOR COMMISSIONS 😭

But yeah, before I yap too much, thank you so much for the good words in the last paragraph! It's very very lovely, and I'm glad you have your own OC to have fun with! Happy creating and happy drawing💖!

Yes. Have YOU considered that sometimes working on hard things is both necessary and worthwhile?

I am losing my fucking mind.