Reblogged rancidslime
Reblogged bramblepatch
happy halloween! 🎃👻🍜
Magical girl who had wanted to be one so badly but never had that magical mascot/mentor encounter so she summoned a demon to contract with instead.
It's not a dark story or anything, the magical girl is just as cute and cheery and friendly as factory standard and never loses that faith and optimism, she's just Pact-bound to a frightening demon from the underworld instead of a cute teddy bear mouse.
“What if he’s manipulating her to evil-“ No.
“What if she needs to eat souls to survive-“ No.
“What if she becomes horrified with what she’s becoming-“ No.
Demon being viewed as weird for making a pact with a cute, cheery schoolgirl.
At every demon party where they show off their pacted there's evil, terrible, and frighteningly beautiful and then there's this teenager in a cute magical girl dress.
"I don't get you Goragog." "Listen, it's nice. Just nice! Can't things be nice? Is it a sin for things to be nice?" "No and that's part of the problem..." "You're just jealous Samantha created a "bffs forever" blingee with me. When was the last time one of your warlocks did something like that for you?" "*on the verge of tears* it's been DECADES!"
Meanwhile on the other side of the room...
"So what do you get in exchange? I get eternal youth and beauty."
"Yeah, and I get all my enemies smited."
"And my guy gave me immeasurable wealth. What'chu got, kid?"
"This super cute compact! Isn't it pretty? The heart-shaped jewels are so sparkly, and the mirror is always spotless!"
"...."
"And since we're pactbound, we're basically roomies now, so I also get a cool best friend and sleepovers on weekends!"
"...."
"Oh, and I also got my magical powers, of course."
Er'trian, Harbinger of Eternal Night, Defender of the Shrieking Chasm, and Lord of Eight Furies stared at eir favorite rival in confusion.
"But it's a pact," ey said. "A deal. An exchange is built in! You can't just Bestow Magical Powers for nothing in return. So what are you getting out of this, Goragog???"
Goragog's dark eyes wept their endless ichor. A halo of eldritch nightmares flickered around his head. With deliberate slowness he turned to meet Er'trian's accursed gaze.
"The power of friendship."
Reblogged thespacelizard
A third set of jaws
One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback.
All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.
“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”
Reblogged agender-xion
Reblogged foxboyclit
Statement of Y/N, regarding their time in servitude to the entity formerly known as One Direction. Statement begins.
Reblogged asexual-thot
honestly? abandoned/on indefinite hiatus/very slow to update fics, even and especially AUs and longfics, are often some of my absolute favorites. and people who refuse to read them are missing out!
for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.
so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)
i don’t normally ask this, but if this resonates with you please reblog it, so it can reach the authors who need to hear it <3
Reblogged mak-to-the-future
Don’t speak of humanity while you turn away from the cries of Gaza and Sudan.
Don’t write about peace while you ignore hunger, blood, and tears.
Yet the world stays busy…as if our lives mean nothing.
How many times must we remind you that Arab blood is not cheap?
How many times must we scream “Look at us” before anyone listens?
And Sudan is collapsing in silence, as if it doesn’t exist.
Raise your voice. Do not stay silent in the face of injustice.
Silence in front of murder is betrayal...Ignoring suffering is a crime.
Vetting info in blog description!
Reblogged hamletisintown
"Warning: Safe usage of this product requires following the instruction manual"