am i the only one to associate dark worlds heavily with having online friends? the ability to play in fantasy and be different people, while none of it is "real", pretend to eat food but it doesnt sustain you, go on adventures without really leaving the comfort of your home, talk to your friends in that sphere but they cant actually hang out with you in the "real" world. the way online friendships are seen as lesser, not Real, the way online relationships are talked about as if theyre inherently worse and non viable/non lasting. and how you can express yourself online in ways you cant offline and be more authentic to yourself in spaces shared with people just like you, but is often limited to just that space. its not a one to one allegory by any means but i think the strong parallels are intentional

Hi 4 days ago I couldnt find any dark ao3 skins that I liked so I learnt CSS and made my own skin.

Find the CSS here: github | docs

grayscale ao3 icons are from zerafanficss !!! huge creds

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Im not a pro at coding. the css is really messy :,) if theres any issues let me know so I can (maybe) fix it! (no guarantee)

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I remember years ago, long enough ago that I was still using either Tiktok or Instagram regularly, because that's where I saw this, long enough ago that unfortunately I do not remember the username, I saw an older trans woman responding to a comment asking "how come we see trans women from your generation, but never trans men?" And her response was simple. "Unfortunately, it's because most of them are dead." Between lack of safe and legal abortions (which, hey, look what's an issue again), the HIV/AIDs crisis (which still is lacking in approved treatments for trans men, and they're still likely to be denied PrEP/PEP even when they should be eligible as sexually active queer men), and how many of them chose to take their own lives after being forced into marriages and other women's roles, a lot of the trans men that should be elderly right now did not make it.

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.

Anyway. It's a really chilling answer. "Where are all the elderly trans men?" "They're dead." And I just wish more people saw that tiktok and listened to it and really took it to heart, now that we're in the age of "well obviously trans men have it so much easier."

stupid hoodie

gonna attempt to cut my hair joan of arc style wish me luck

NOT REALLY JOAN OF ARC BUT I LIKE TJIS

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ok I'm gonna go take a shower

Talk sprites for Deltarune Asriel

NEXT MONTH!

hey if you have a pet or pets you need to reblog this rn and tell me in the tags what their names are. bonus points for including what kind of animal.

had to share this

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

WAIT I WAS SO PREPARED TO LAUGH BUT THEN I LIKE ACTUALLY CRIED NOOOO qwq

it is this 4ever everywhere u look

night sky - glowy dark mode skin

The code for this site skin, as well as instructions for how to add it to your AO3 profile, can be found on my github

constellations ao3 skin!!!

okay here!

i made an ao3 skin looklooklook

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its an altered version of this green fireflies one

im really proud of this for no reason all i did was change the colors but anyways you guys should still reblog if you use it definitely id be very happy :)))))))))

edit: oh my god fine. it's not copy and paste anymore fine okay?? here's the link to github. for fuck's sake guys 😭

edit 2: here's a post tut i made on how to use these!

edit 3: there are now two versions of the skin: one with the text as f3bc70 (which is the yellow) and one with it as f3ca70 (a lighter yellow). if the second one is still a dark orange for you guys then i can make it lighter!

I hope everyone knows that this is the appearance of my ao3 while I am writing or reading on it from now on...