Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
pair of selkie sisters one is an ethereal quiet aesthetical creature who stares out the windows when it rains and is married to a byronic male lead the other sister is a feral gremlin who makes seal noises at her husband to get his attention and is married a scrappy lil marine biologist who absolutely is down to go crab digging in the sand despite the fact that they’re in their church clothes.
btw they have a totally normal third sister who just likes to take day trips to the beach every so often. shes married to a quiet sailor they have 2.5 kids and never once has she even considered acting like her sisters. she has literally no clue whats going on with them.
gosh. byronic hero is quiet and uptight and ~ mysterious ~ and everyone is CERTAIN that he stole her coat but in reality she saw this hoity toity pale black haired blue eyed lit major and quietly left her coat on the bench he was sitting on. he brought it back to her three times before he Realized and then he brought it home with him and she was like ‘oh no….mother i have been stolen………….i must go live in a gothic castle now………………how tragic……….’ they then courted for three years before getting married.
meanwhile the feral one just climbed into the biologist’s boat like 'hey do you want to - stop screaming, its just me - do you want to get married’ and he was like YEA OK BUT WHAT THE HECK-. they were married in a month. the only reason it wasn’t a week was because no one could get ready in time.
once again normal sister did NONE of this she just went to college and let herself be dated and married.
When talking about harmful tropes about nonbinary people, we’ve got to stop targeting nonbinary artists. It’s not transphobic for trans artists to create inhuman trans characters, and it makes me really sad as a nonbinary person that nonbinary artists keep getting penalized by shitty things that CIS PEOPLE do.
It wasn’t shitty of Rebecca Sugar to make the gems nonbinary aliens, it wasn’t shitty of Nate Stevenson to make Double Trouble a shapeshifter, and it wasn’t shitty for Hamish Steele to make Courtney a nonbinary demon. What’s shitty is everyone who looked at these trans artists and went, “we should tell them they’re doing something wrong.”
If you’re nonbinary and don’t vibe with inhuman nonbinary characters, that’s fine! There’s nothing wrong with that! But telling other nonbinary people how they can and can’t make art is really goddamn shitty.
Mmm, you’re SO right, though, so thank you for these tags! It happens all the time that queer creators get forcibly outed by people trying to “prove” their art is “genuine” and it’s all-around a shitty time.
There is a way to talk about “media representation trends that can be harmful to queer people” without taking it all the way to “so we should aggressively pick apart every single instance of it and harass the creator until they either submit to public lashing or come out of the closet (regardless of whether they are safe to do so).”
It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
wdym you can hear it?
Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.
YO what the FUXK
The longer you watch it the more you get convinced that you can hear a distant thud and the air displace.
I heard the thud. I closed my eyes and the thud stopped. I opened my eyes and I heard the thud. My goodness but human brains are a mess.
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A looping, deceptively well-animated manipulation of a photo of a line of transmission towers. One in the foreground and one in the background are swinging their telephone wires like a jump rope. Between them is a third transmission tower, unconnected to any wires, which ‘leaps’ in the air - animated so it’s four legs stretch outwards as it jumps up, expanding it’s lowest rungs in time to the ‘stretch’ of it’s legs, and including a stretch-and-squash to it’s upper tower as it arches body at the top of the jump and is mildly compressed as it lands. The animation effectively makes the jump look very full of effort and force. Additionally, the whole of the image briefly jitters every time the tower lands, adding to the feeling of force, as though the camera recording the motions is caught up in the seismic reverb of such a heavy object hitting the ground.
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THUD. THUD. THUD.
Beckoning Shai-Hulud, Maker of the deep desert. May His passing cleanse the world.
If you put music on, it makes the sound get louder. Doesn’t even have to be perfectly in time.
