A Bitch Abroad

a queer who'd rather be traveling the world. one hundred years old in tumblr time. she/her. leverage and taskmaster are the best.

[spltlvlhous]

this was the guy writing letters to the doctor who magazine

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[jewish-joy]

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

[biglawbear]

Oh my goodness she is so lovely and full! And she's flowering!! That's a happy maranta indeed

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

[professorsparklepants]

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

[siesiegirl]

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

[crumbvulet]

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

[thranduilland]

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

[orriculum]

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

[purgaytorysupremacy]

I get why the term “subtext” originated on Xena forum boards because lol

[girl4music]

To be fair - it wouldn’t be called “subtext” now.

It would be called less explicit or less obvious.

Xena is very main text. It’s just quiet about it.

[purgaytorysupremacy]

yeah that’s why I put with “thirty years of hindsight” in the tags of my post. I’m not judging a show from 1995 using the media environment of 2026.

but also the Xena web forums of the ‘90s was literally the origin of the term “subtext”. and definitionally it is subtext. we’re more used to calling out queer subtext now, but it’s not explicit even by the standards of today. (I’m watching an episode as I type where Xena is making out with Hercules and Gabrielle kisses whatshisface and they call each other their best friends.)

conversations on those forums were some of the first conversations talking about non-explicit queer representation in media and what that meant for queerness on screen generally. it was kind of really important and groundbreaking.

[iolausian-fields]

Obligatory response to 'whatshisface'

As for the topic on hand, even when the subtext can be considered canon by the end I agree it's still subtext for the sheer fact that it is never said explicitly, no matter how obvious. (And I do love it exactly as it is.)

Unbelievable as it is, the subtext still managed to go above the heads of thousands of people watching the show. Which probably says more about the hetronormative of the 90s/00s than of the show.

[gabyluvsxena]

poor Iolaus 😂

[reading-writing-revolution]

[parkchanwoohoo]

It is so fucking funny to me how easily scandalized some people are wym callout post for a cannibalism kink. Grow up. This is the nothingburger leagues and you're throwing up in the stands

[anomalocaris-in-da-clurb]

It’s actually the peopleburger leagues

[parkchanwoohoo]

Blocking for being funnier than me

[wulfhalls]

three tickets for the odyssey pls

[sunshinestarseed-deactivated202]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

@infiniteeight8

[timemachineyeah]

Spirit Animal is racist.

Patronus was invented by a transphobe.

I think it’s time we all suck it up and say what we mean: fursona.

[xxlovelynovaxx-deactivated20241]

I know this is a jokey post (rip OPs notes) but a fursona is typically an animal REPRESENTATION of YOURSELF, not an external animal that is strongly meaningful to you and your life/journey.

I've seen daemon and familiar proposed, but to keep in line with the cursedness of the original post, may I suggest: spiritual tamagotchi

[timemachineyeah]

do you have any idea how refreshing it is to see a correction/suggestion to this post that actually understands the assignment

[iloveyoudie]

ty ian mckellen

[boycomics]

true romance

[nintendosbitch-archived]

Just so y'all know, there’s more lol

[boycomics]

true romance

[nintendosbitch-archived]

Just so y'all know, there’s more lol

[clytemnestraaa]

always such a struggle when you get to the sex scene part of the fic you're writing and you're not horny at all. i don't know. their things were touching. without ANY underwear. the end.

[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[soulakuarian]

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[luulapants]

My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds “the pronouns thing” and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, he’s been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for god’s sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and I’m like oh no oh no.

Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”

So we can relax. It’s just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesn’t want to remember anyone’s gender. He’s abolishing the genders.

[teaboot]

Your dad is so powerful

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He is so so correct

[stabbyflower]

*They are so correct.