against every for, for every against

my name is a heart encircled by a serpent

[gatheringbones]

a person with chronic illness saying “I wish I could ravish you right now I’m just very tired” is extremely sexy and romantic

[gatheringbones]

can you believe they’re spending their flareup yearning to fuck meeeeeeeeeee 😭🥰

[fishpondfish]

he was openly bisexual. he didn't know that but he was

[fishpondfish]

favorite type of tag

[memecucker]

[fatfemmefreaquency]

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: fic that spends several thousand words establishing Kink World, the world structured entirely around the author's excruciatingly specific kink, does one sex scene in like chapter two, then spends the next thirty chapters interrogating the sociopolitical implications of Kink World.

[mtxyqmpsfqklt]

why do you go to church? you go to church so that after church you can drink coffee with the other people at church. bc you know these people, your parents might know them, your friends know them. you go there because that's where people are. a church is a tool for running a village. you get everyone in the same room a few times a week and make sure everyone's on the same page.

what changed wasn't values in some abstract sense. it's not like everyone woke up one day and, magically enlightened by science, understood that the catholic church's dogmatic misogyny or homophobia is totally reprehensible and its basic claim to power is unverifiable. many people's complaint with the pope is that he doesn't hate women or frociaggine enough and you can tell bc they vote that way, they get elected that way. what changed is that there is no village to run anymore and the few that remain are bleeding to death. physical mobility is up and communication is cheap. you're not even really supposed to know or care too much abt the theology. that stuff's for priests and weirdos. the church's claim to power isn't even supposed to matter. what matters is that they have your baptismal record and everyone you know shows up at least once a week to settle debts and trade stuff and introduce the kids to each other. and all of these things are handled by other bodies. church is just objectively optional if you want to live in society. by the time the fact claims about the resurrection become what keeps people showing up the church has already shriveled up and died.

[fruityyamenrunner]

the theological claims are not just for weirdos. the theology is for when people die and you tolerate the whole edifice because it seems like, at least, they know what to do when people die and to make sure they get eternal life. if you don't have confidence they can get you eternal life, why go to church?

[manykinsmen]

“men can’t be oppressed” -> men of colour

“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men

“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men

“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men

“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men

“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men

“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and

we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.

[mother-moths-stuff]

That's so perfectly summarized!

Great work!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Hey so that was a great date, yeah, but I don't think it's going to work out. Nono you didn't do anything wrong, and I have indeed had a crush on you since we started high school, it's just... well, I didn't want to bring it up at the time but we kinda got sucked into a portal fantasy midway through. We saved the kingdom over and over, relying on our knowledge of and trust in each other every time, throwing ourselves into the firing line to protect each other and using each others' conviction as a rock. We got married and lived a happy life together until the portal sucked us back mid-battle and you gave up all your memories of our journey in order to save my life right when we ended up back in the coffee shop. Yeah that was when I got a bit weird and went to the bathroom.

Anyway I thought we could push on and make the date work but I have all of these memories of secrets that this you never chose to share, decisions that this you never made, and intimacies that this you never experienced. And it's kind of screwing with the vibe yeah. Also on the date it was really, blatantly clear that you're sixteen whereas I have memories of ruling a fantasy kingdom for thirty years so like... that's a problem all on its own. Anyway this you just feels more like a daughter to me. A daughter with the woman I gave my heart and soul to over and over and received like in return, only to lose her forever on the journey home. On the plus side I can definitely help you with your math homework now.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

probably beautiful people ruined fashion by forcing the dialectic to run toward minimal, well-fitting clothes that aren't beautiful but also aren't so ugly as to distract from the aesthetic experience of looking at the beautiful person. and people think because beautiful people wear these clothes it makes them beautiful, so they copy it. naturally this has been a disaster for ugly people. I am trying to lead my fellow ugly people in the other direction.

[ghazal67]

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

this is literally how i dance

[askinfresh]

This went from “wow that’s pretty neat” to “WTF ITS ALIVE” real quick

[excima]

she did that

[spooky-pens]

If I don’t reblog this Puerto Rican ass mouse assume that I’m dead.

[the-haiku-bot]

If I don’t reblog

this Puerto Rican ass mouse

assume that I’m dead.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

I'm going to start a finishing school for 20-something annoying people that's presented as kink but instead instills virtue and respectability in the students. Covertly. They won't know what hit 'em. They go in as puppygirls and come out saying "I am fully human and I should become a prosecutor for the IRS."

[against-forms-recognizable]

that's just bog standard sexual sublimation

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

I like that some people have read Max Stirner and responded by trying to blow up royalty and some people have read Max Stirner and responded by playing the flute a lot and developing chronic alcoholism

[tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth]

Stirner was a dialectician; he was concerned with relations. As Nishitani says, he differs from Nietzsche in being primarily a social thinker. Some people have told me Stirnerian egoism seems like an incredibly bleak, lonely way of looking at the world. I can't agree.

Stirner is very concerned about mutuality, intercourse (as he called it), and *how we relate to one another* - ideally as an I against a Thou rather than as predicate-filled objects.

[homophobla]

People have been getting a bit parasocial so I think I need to say this:

I am your friend. I know you. You know me. This blog represents my whole complete true self. We are best friends. I love you. I want you carnally, as a friend. Thank you. You mean so much to me as an individual. You aren't a number. Send me money

[jehovahwitless]

[branchflowercuriosa]

Little Edie with Andy Warhol

[bitter69uk]

Died on this day: old money American socialite (first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Princess Lee Radziwill), bold fashion risk-taker, raccoon and feral cat enthusiast, devoted daughter, frustrated cabaret chanteuse and genuine eccentric Edith Bouvier Beale (aka “Little Edie”, 7 November 1917 - 14 January 2002). This woman, her equally idiosyncratic mother Edith Ewing Bouvier (“Big Edie”) and the documentary Grey Gardens (1975) by Albert and David Maysles are an endless source of inspiration. Pictured: Beale visiting Andy Warhol at The Factory, 1978.

[discodyke-dogthing]

When you start saying shit like “We need to put every pedophile in concentration camps” any person in power can convince you that any demographic they want you to hate is a pedophile. You need to kill that shit at the source and stop caring about other people’s thoughts.

[ofi-tvsembo]

start supporting & caring about victims of childhood sexual assualt/abuse more than you fantasize about torturing people who hypothetically harbor inappropriate attraction to children. yall have got to kill the cop in your head, grow past you're knee-jerk urge to punish.

[thelawfulchaotic]

I believe you don’t have to kill that cop; you can channel them.

Look, I think every one of us has, even the tiniest little bit, the desire to be An Hero and Do Good, Protect. I think that’s what that internal cop is. What have you absorbed since you were too tiny to remember? That fighting evil is how you Do Good. That evil can be crushed.

It’s wrong, but that doesn’t mean your need to do good is wrong. The cop in your head is not a real cop, it’s a part of you, and you can talk to it. Tell it that the way we treat sex offenders, with incredible overpolicing and no support to stay on a path free of offending, leads them to the same patterns. Tell them that the sex offender registry doesn’t help solve crimes, like it was meant to, but instead forces sex offenders to form homeless camps in the narrow geographic zones where they’re allowed to live. Who’s safer because of this? Who wins?

If punishment instead of the right support leads to more abuse — that part of you wants to do good, right?

It takes some training to avoid the knee-jerk response. I really recommend googling academic papers on what we know about how punishment and probation (don’t) work whenever you run into a specific question.

So yeah, don’t kill your internal cop, that’s part of your conscience telling you when you feel something is Wrong. But you can channel that conscience down paths that truly help instead of indulging in an inner jackbooted thug.

[queersatanic]

Happy birthday, Duane.