Times Are Tough. I Need To Get Back In Touch With A Piece Of Media That I Can Hyper-fixate On

Since there's no gen BES discord server that is both 18+ and is a chill space that welcomes everyone, here's one for all you folks to join!

It is not ship-specific, so it's for general fans of the show, while also having a space for specific ships like Mizemi and Taimizu and the OT3 of Aketaimizu if you're interested in those!

(reblogs appreciated to boost!)

Sometimes little pleasures in life are loadbearing. Whenever someone is like "If you'd just give up tea and coffee and sugar and--" im like I'll stop you right there. Because if you finish that sentence i am going to kill everyone in this building and then myself. If i have to face the horrors of the world without my little jar of caramel flavoured instant coffee i am going to go full American Psycho. Believe it or not, my main priority in life is not to have perfect teeth or be an Olympic athlete or look like a supermodel, but to actually enjoy living, because I spent far too long not doing that and it royally sucked. And boy, some people don't like hearing that. Particularly dentists

Haven't shown this lady warrior yet! She's dressed as a Ukrainian cossack (more of a costum-y version than a historical one). A digital sketch, mimicking old graphite on paper drawing.

Ще таку воїтельку не показувала. Скетч цифровий, але в стилі старого рисунку графітом по жовтому папері. Дуже таке люблю!

but if I sleep that means I have to go to work…. But I need to sleep cause I’m going to work but if I go to sleep that means I have to go to work… and if I’m going to work I need to sleep but if I sleep now I’ll have to go to work

stickwork - patrick dougherty (2010)

change of pace. here’s some gross werewolf content

“The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape other than that in which it was born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman and the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Like the monster, I am too often perceived as less than fully human due to the means of my embodiment; like the monster’s as well, my exclusion from human community fuels a deep and abiding rage in me that I, like the monster, direct against the conditions in which I must struggle to exist. …You [the reader] are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.”

— Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”

"As if choice, carefully bred into your nature by grief and training and hardship, was any choice at all."

- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.