Tag: inspo

You dont desrve to be critiqued on a personal level for having alturnate (and in my case eye opening/hope restoring) veiws on dirk as a character and i hope people stop having this toxic attitude towards you. You are doing good work, and as a mlm im so greatful you decided to take this beastly discourse on. Please stay strong and keep faith in yourself.

Just so you’re aware: Your single kind message has more power over my emotional state than 40,000,000 vagueposts like these would combined. If I helped one single person enjoy Homestuck more, see themselves in it a little happier and brighter, feel more connected and fulfilled through this fascinating, marvelous, sprawling chaoswreck of a story, then I’ve done my job and it’s a job worth doing literally as long as my body allows me as far as I’m concerned.

I kept engaging as nicely as I was able because I will never, ever, ever give up believing in this story and in the power of human beings to talk and understand each other. It’s not in my veins to do so. This story and these characters inspire me and I want them to inspire other people too, and if you find yourself doing that a little more because of me then my life’s work as far as I’m concerned is accomplished, and the only thing left to do is do even more of it.

Thanks for sending this. I got like 4 or 5 messages like these and they all mean the world to me. I’m lucky I have people like you guys around, I’m lucky to be in a position where the worst of my problems is some tumblr peeps making fun of me with some weak takes, and I’m lucky I have the opportunity to pursue the soul-wrecking passion I feel for this story and try to help other people see what I see in it. I intend to continue doing so, and nothing’s really going to shake me out of that. Thanks for helping to reassure me other people see value in what I’m doing, though. 

There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld. It’s also the anger at the headmaster who would decide that six-year-old Terry Pratchett would never be smart enough for the 11-plus; anger at pompous critics, and at those who think serious is the opposite of funny; anger at his early American publishers who could not bring his books out successfully.

The anger is always there, an engine that drives. By the time Terry learned he had a rare, early onset form of Alzheimer’s, the targets of his fury changed: he was angry with his brain and his genetics and, more than these, furious at a country that would not permit him (or others in a similarly intolerable situation) to choose the manner and the time of their passing.

And that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry’s underlying sense of what is fair and what is not. It is that sense of fairness that underlies Terry’s work and his writing, and it’s what drove him from school to journalism to the press office of the SouthWestern Electricity Board to the position of being one of the best-loved and bestselling writers in the world.

Neil Gaiman, (x)

anti-reg-positivity:

kdkorz10211:

litwickweer:

I want a world where lesbian women’s love exclusively for other women is never questioned, and they are never pressured in to heteronormativity.

I want a world where bisexual women’s sexuality is never used as a weapon to attack her, where bisexual women are not thought of as morally or intellectually inferior or “dirty”.

I want a world where asexual women are assumed to be living happy lives, and recognized as being totally fulfilled in their independence, and are never told they need a sexual relationship to be whole.

I want a world where heterosexual women can have healthy relationships with men and are treated fairly by men.

I want a world where transgender women’s gender is never questioned, they are not pressured by cisnormativity, and are allowed to express themselves and their sexuality how they want.

I want a world where intersex women aren’t subjected to unnecessary nonconsensual medical procedures.

I want a world where nonbinary women’s genders are respected and they are never told it is wrong to identify as both nonbinary and a woman

We want a world where pansexual women are allowed to express their sexuality however they want, their attraction isn’t considered slutty, greedy, or impure.

We want a world where polyamorous women can love as many partners as they feel comfortable with, their relationships are never questioned and are not assumed to be cheating.

opossumprince:

thoodleoo:

if anyone ever tries to tell you that the ancient greeks were more sophisticated than us, just remember that there was a ship war between plato and aeschylus over whether achilles or patroclus was the top in their relationship, while xenophon was off complaining that he didn’t ship that

“Is Achilles A Twink” – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,