"my horse is tired"

["my horse is tired"]

[stone-stars]

oliana's lullabyeEmily Axfordcampaign 3 ep 72

Lyrics:

child, don't listen to their words
you're not a monster
no matter what you've heard
you're everything i dreamed you'd be
a miracle to me
they don't get to tell you what you're worth

darling, you're native to the night
so take these wings i gave you and take flight
don't ever be ashamed of your claws, your bite, your strength
they don't get to tell you who you are

honey, don't ever change a thing
your fire breath, your many heads, your poison serpent sting
just because they're afraid
doesn't mean that you have strayed
they don't even get to have a say

i can not give you their love
but i can make you strong and brave
and i can make you tough
their swords and arrows cannot pierce
the hide of one so proud, so fierce
they don't get to tell you who you are

they tell you you're a prophecy
but you're a possibility
they don't get to tell you what to be
and let them write their histories
clinging to their legacies
you and me, we know just what we're worth

["my horse is tired"]

[sinkholesissyftflapjackgogoboots]

methinks that one of the most fucked up things about misogyny and its effect on society is that *not* being catcalled and/or objectified often or ever can also be a major hit to self esteem

like, it's wild for my brain to be like, oh i've only been yelled at on the street and felt unsafe because of it once in my life, so that for some reason dictates my attractiveness and therefore worth???

["my horse is tired"]

[asphyxiated-lungs]

hey, can i get a hit of that? (crisp autumn breeze)

["my horse is tired"]

[jupiter-suggestion]

i want to be inconvenienced by you. i want to wait for you, i want to hold your things while you do something else, i want to make adjustments to my plans to make space for you. someone at your side who takes up no space and has no needs of their own is not a person, but a shadow. i don't want a shadow, i want you. i want my life to be altered by your presence in it. please, inconvenience me.

[pikogofret]

if toxic, why sound endearing?

[flagellant]

do you seriously consider someone saying "my love for you is unconditional and based in the trust that we are permitted to need and want the other in small everyday ways; never feel ashamed to ask me for help or for being a part of my life"

as being toxic?

[the-seelie-court-official]

Having needs and expressing them is good actually, and it's tragic that people are so willing to swallow themselves so as to not be a "burden" on each other. My girlfriend and I lend each other our metaphorical spoons all the time. That's not toxic, that an honest relationship, where we ask for help when we want it- not just need it. When we want it.

May the people who think taking up space is toxic or co-dependent find healing. Because y'all... it ain't good to think that way. You have needs. I hope you feel safe enough to stop hiding them one day

["my horse is tired"]

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[fangirltothefullest]

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

["my horse is tired"]

[newtype-lila]

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

["my horse is tired"]

[sabertoothwalrus]

yknow how the greener parts of apple skin are tan lines from where leaves and branches obscure the sun? I’m surprised I’ve never seen anyone utilize that for printmaking

[sabertoothwalrus]

finally got an apple that shows this effect well

[sabertoothwalrus]

OH THIS IS EXCELLENT THANK YOU

["my horse is tired"]

[omghotmemes]

Y'all forgetting the OG

[berlynn-wohl]

The above post is not the OG. 

The original, as seen below, was posted on Facebook by a guy in Cincinnati. Someone else saw it and thought they would have more luck propagating it if they changed the city to “Detroit,” because in the American popular consciousness, Detroit is a more infamously blighted city than Cincinnati. And indeed, that version was the one that proliferated, because it resonated more with the people who saw it. The original poster and the original city were forgotten.

Does this really matter to anyone (besides Joshua Cromwell)? Perhaps not. But sometimes people do this with things that are more important than porches…

[tricerasox]

someone stole our fucking meme! can’t have shit in Cincinnati

["my horse is tired"]

[loverboy-havocboy]

you need to reblog art. you need to reblog fic. you need to reblog gif sets. you need to reblog headcanons and meta and theories. if you want fandom to survive, you have to do these things. start looking at the notes on the fandom posts that cross your dash and i guarantee you'll notice a massive disparity between likes and reblogs. you are consuming. you need to participate.

[anstarwar]

This 100%

I don’t understand why people don’t reblog things on tumblr anymore

That is how you participate in fandom on this godforesaken website/app. By reblogging, not likes, REBLOGGING

What happened? Why has this changed that people don’t reblog stuff??? Genuinely want to know because people are very much using repost/share features on sites like IG and Bsky, but they are doing that less and less here where the site was literally built to function via reposts which we just call reblogs on tumblr.

Like I get that no one owes anyone “engagement” or whatever it’s called these days - but this ain’t about that. It’s about sharing our love for a thing PUBLICLY (dare I say socially) and hoping it’ll find new people to also love it PUBLICLY. (Don’t get me started on my old man yells at cloud speech about fandom being privatized/gate-kept and hidden in discord servers)

Like what happened to unabashedly sharing interests? Putting stuff up on the tumblr fridge (via reblogs) that are basically saying “omg guys look at this amazing thing, I saw it and I wanted everyone else to see it so I’m putting it up on my tumblr fridge for you to see because it’s amazing and I thought you’d like to see it too and hey maybe you can take a copy (reblog from me) and put it on your fridge cuz maybe someone you know that I don’t know will want to see it too”

[loverboy-havocboy]

i was going to add this to my tags rant, but actually i need to say it out loud:

if you privatize your enjoyment of fandom creations, fandom creators are going to start privatizing their creativity.

art will stop being posted. fics will stop being updated. blogs and ao3 accounts will disappear. some of these creatives will just start sending their works to people they know will enjoy them; others will stop creating entirely. and it will be because they got tired of being ignored in favor of secret little discord bookclubs and shunned to the hidden likes section on people's blogs.

the biggest contributors to this toxic fandom culture of apathy and selfishness love to point out that no one is owed engagement. you forget that you are not owed what you now call "content", and you will lose the things you enjoy because you refuse to be kind to the people who are making them available.

["my horse is tired"]

[assiraphales]

filmmakers and audiences and critics alike all need to start suspending their disbelief again

[assiraphales]

‘this doesn’t make sense’ so?????

[zoanzon]

important edition

[ecosystem-administrator]

I feel like this one is relevant too

["my horse is tired"]

[potoh]

Two stunning winners ✨️