JulyFlame
@injulyflame.bsky.social
She/her. Navy vet. Invested in politics, civil rights, and books. Catjamming at fandom. The insomnia is terminal. Mask up.
When you are ill, your brain genuinely needs rest and to not be forced into working hard! Trying to force yourself into studying heavily while ill and unwell just results in taking longer to recover and your brain turning a bunch of it into random garbage from processing it wrong.
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
When you are ill, your brain genuinely needs rest and to not be forced into working hard! Trying to force yourself into studying heavily while ill and unwell just results in taking longer to recover and your brain turning a bunch of it into random garbage from processing it wrong.
You can't fix this level of brainwashing/misinformation fuck-up-ery.
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You can't fix this level of brainwashing/misinformation fuck-up-ery.
A bunch of them genuinely think that the Dems are worse/cause more problems/issues in Texas and/or the US than the GOP and if you try asking why they straight up repeat Fox News talking points. I met sooo many of these kids who seriously thought the GOP were less worse on LGBT, immigrants, etc.
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A bunch of them genuinely think that the Dems are worse/cause more problems/issues in Texas and/or the US than the GOP and if you try asking why they straight up repeat Fox News talking points. I met sooo many of these kids who seriously thought the GOP were less worse on LGBT, immigrants, etc.
I went to grad school in a more conservative part of the state at a university that was considered very liberal and the undergrad students were just a total fucking loss. A lot of them think they're progressive/leftist but they're as brainwashed by Fox News as their parents about the GOP and Dems.
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I went to grad school in a more conservative part of the state at a university that was considered very liberal and the undergrad students were just a total fucking loss. A lot of them think they're progressive/leftist but they're as brainwashed by Fox News as their parents about the GOP and Dems.
Texas has multiple issues stacked on top and regularly makes it more difficult for people they think *might* vote against the GOP to vote every election. The state of news and info here is also just fucking miserable and has nothing to do with the state party and its efforts.
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Texas has multiple issues stacked on top and regularly makes it more difficult for people they think *might* vote against the GOP to vote every election. The state of news and info here is also just fucking miserable and has nothing to do with the state party and its efforts.
What really gets me is she could have just kept her mouth closed and *not* do the weird dog whistle ad in the first place, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least one person advised her against doing it.
December 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What really gets me is she could have just kept her mouth closed and *not* do the weird dog whistle ad in the first place, and I wouldn't be surprised if at least one person advised her against doing it.
Pfft, yeah, Kawaki is just not a team player by any means, and that includes coordinating outfits. That absolutely suits him.
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Pfft, yeah, Kawaki is just not a team player by any means, and that includes coordinating outfits. That absolutely suits him.
rather than the Sakura fans when it comes to SS and NH.
It's especially wild considering the big aggressive rude shippers in the fandom are usually from the SNS folks and they tend to be passive when those folks get their shots in.💀
It's especially wild considering the big aggressive rude shippers in the fandom are usually from the SNS folks and they tend to be passive when those folks get their shots in.💀
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
rather than the Sakura fans when it comes to SS and NH.
It's especially wild considering the big aggressive rude shippers in the fandom are usually from the SNS folks and they tend to be passive when those folks get their shots in.💀
It's especially wild considering the big aggressive rude shippers in the fandom are usually from the SNS folks and they tend to be passive when those folks get their shots in.💀
Yeah, I saw some of that go down and it's just absolutely insane on multiple levels? Like holy shit, calm down, these are both the 'winning' canon ships, you're in NO competition with each other???
I genuinely don't understand it, since from what I see it's more the Hinata fans being aggro
I genuinely don't understand it, since from what I see it's more the Hinata fans being aggro
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Yeah, I saw some of that go down and it's just absolutely insane on multiple levels? Like holy shit, calm down, these are both the 'winning' canon ships, you're in NO competition with each other???
I genuinely don't understand it, since from what I see it's more the Hinata fans being aggro
I genuinely don't understand it, since from what I see it's more the Hinata fans being aggro
He is absolutely too much of an angsty and edgy older teenager to willingly be caught in a reindeer onesy.
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
He is absolutely too much of an angsty and edgy older teenager to willingly be caught in a reindeer onesy.
That kind of nonsense is straight anti brainrot, lmao.
The only things you shouldn't draw are things you don't want to draw, simple as.
The only things you shouldn't draw are things you don't want to draw, simple as.
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
That kind of nonsense is straight anti brainrot, lmao.
The only things you shouldn't draw are things you don't want to draw, simple as.
The only things you shouldn't draw are things you don't want to draw, simple as.
Just in time for Valentine's, which feels on purpose from the title alone.
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Just in time for Valentine's, which feels on purpose from the title alone.
This inspired me to microwave and then air fry *two* potatoes (to speed the process up) and it turns out I truly needed midnight potato.
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This inspired me to microwave and then air fry *two* potatoes (to speed the process up) and it turns out I truly needed midnight potato.
Oh, artist absolutely knows what they are doing here.
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Oh, artist absolutely knows what they are doing here.
I could not possibly begin to guess here, but they're both very nice to look at, and that is the important thing.
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I could not possibly begin to guess here, but they're both very nice to look at, and that is the important thing.
Yeah, though unfortunately a lot of that fan behavior isn't Boruto-only, it's a lot more common these days just due to the profileration of antis and purity fandom and is just... supremely not great.
Do you use Discord, by the by?
Do you use Discord, by the by?
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yeah, though unfortunately a lot of that fan behavior isn't Boruto-only, it's a lot more common these days just due to the profileration of antis and purity fandom and is just... supremely not great.
Do you use Discord, by the by?
Do you use Discord, by the by?
Yeah, this is basically what I do. Stream through that and buy physical where I can.
YouTube Music is fairly solid, you can pull from pretty much anything that's on YouTube as well.
I also haven't had the so far Spotify-specific of it feeding AI 'artists' into my playlists.
YouTube Music is fairly solid, you can pull from pretty much anything that's on YouTube as well.
I also haven't had the so far Spotify-specific of it feeding AI 'artists' into my playlists.
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Yeah, this is basically what I do. Stream through that and buy physical where I can.
YouTube Music is fairly solid, you can pull from pretty much anything that's on YouTube as well.
I also haven't had the so far Spotify-specific of it feeding AI 'artists' into my playlists.
YouTube Music is fairly solid, you can pull from pretty much anything that's on YouTube as well.
I also haven't had the so far Spotify-specific of it feeding AI 'artists' into my playlists.
Is this possibly a lot to try to do in one month? Yes.
But also if I focus on these things more and not my just for me future AU spinoff stuff, I can achieve most of this.
And is this a lot of Naruto? Yes, but I am not fanficcy for any of my other fandoms these days and/or have left them. 🤷♀️
But also if I focus on these things more and not my just for me future AU spinoff stuff, I can achieve most of this.
And is this a lot of Naruto? Yes, but I am not fanficcy for any of my other fandoms these days and/or have left them. 🤷♀️
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is this possibly a lot to try to do in one month? Yes.
But also if I focus on these things more and not my just for me future AU spinoff stuff, I can achieve most of this.
And is this a lot of Naruto? Yes, but I am not fanficcy for any of my other fandoms these days and/or have left them. 🤷♀️
But also if I focus on these things more and not my just for me future AU spinoff stuff, I can achieve most of this.
And is this a lot of Naruto? Yes, but I am not fanficcy for any of my other fandoms these days and/or have left them. 🤷♀️
The homophobia accusations are also, like you said, dicey, weird and complicated, because it is a good portion straight women writing it, with many generally straight women reading it as the main audience, and it being used to silence concerns about misogyny.
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The homophobia accusations are also, like you said, dicey, weird and complicated, because it is a good portion straight women writing it, with many generally straight women reading it as the main audience, and it being used to silence concerns about misogyny.
The only positive is that while there's still shipping fights going on with Boruto, it's practically mild in comparison.
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The only positive is that while there's still shipping fights going on with Boruto, it's practically mild in comparison.
(so much surprise torture of the female love interests tossed in without warning or appropriate tagging, even on AO3) that I just gave up. And of course, it's still very present with the Naruto fandom as a whole.
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
(so much surprise torture of the female love interests tossed in without warning or appropriate tagging, even on AO3) that I just gave up. And of course, it's still very present with the Naruto fandom as a whole.
And yeah, the misogyny is so, so tiring with the shipping. One of my other main fandoms is comics, and while there are some m/m ships I like, I straight up do not touch them at all or read for them just because the aggression and violent fantasies were so bad at one point
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
And yeah, the misogyny is so, so tiring with the shipping. One of my other main fandoms is comics, and while there are some m/m ships I like, I straight up do not touch them at all or read for them just because the aggression and violent fantasies were so bad at one point
It's genuinely wild at times the stuff I've had thrown my way or said to me with the implications that I don't belong as a result.
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It's genuinely wild at times the stuff I've had thrown my way or said to me with the implications that I don't belong as a result.
I identify as mixed and am from a working class background, first gen university, and there's genuinely so much going on in fandom spaces sometimes that is either exclusionary by accident or sometimes with hostility and on purpose towards those aspects.
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I identify as mixed and am from a working class background, first gen university, and there's genuinely so much going on in fandom spaces sometimes that is either exclusionary by accident or sometimes with hostility and on purpose towards those aspects.