Midnight Thoughts

Aidan, He/ Him There's a safe space inside all of us if we look deep enough {💠} My inbox is open. Kink+, FTM, poet, writer, photographer, gamer. Save a Life, Use a VPN. Untagged explicit content may jump scare.

[xultraviolentlightx]

I’m actually kinda fun once you get to know me (takes 3 to 4 years).

[yokowan]

deeply amusing to me how the term "minicomputer" was coined very prematurely

[yokowan]

^ this is a minicomputer fyi

[donjuaninhell]

And these are microcomputers. Yeah we really weren't expecting just how small we'd be able to shrink things down.

[minix-official]

We should keep the trend going, laptops should be nanocomputers and smart phones should be femtocomputers

[e-the-real-etherealist]

I think I'm mutuals with a femtocomputers

[gardengnosticator]

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

[gardengnosticator]

[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[yamada-ryo]

honestly one of the all time tweets of all time tbh

[modern-fairy]

Mushroom spotting on a hike in the German Alps

[steampunktomboy]

<3 is sentence concluding punctuation

[catchymemes]

[thememedaddy]

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[kradeelav]

i know things are hella grim in the nsfw/kink art circles especially in the last year --

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

there are friends and allies out there helping to build a working parallel infrastructure. keep being vocal, keep supporting these initiatives when it's possible, and keep supporting your nsfw/kink artists. ♥

[zoesupreme]

broooo can you imagine

[zoesupreme]

mid 70s. in the backseat with 2 honeys with huge bushes. you turn the knob on that radio and Al Green comes on. one of them asks you if you want a quaalude.

[alcrego]

Click

Visual Massage 201/300, H3lix.

22/08/2021

[financepigdotnet]

(violently jerking the steering wheel) my car swerves like crazy when i do this

[maidslime]

It's very telling how many terfs think "porn addiction" is a real thing when researchers found it to be a Christian invention that has to deal with shame and not actually a real addiction.

*Gasp!* You're telling me terfs are just conservative Christians?!

[maidslime]

Anytime anyone insists porn addiction is real I just call them Mormon. They get really pissy but it's true.

[nature-hiking]

Clouds breaking on the mountains - Adlerweg, Tirol, Austria, October 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

Instagram: nature__hiking

[depsidase]