Malt does more than milton can

Yet still others of us take it another step: we try to waken the Shadow-Beast in us. Not many jump at the chance to confront the Shadow-Beast in the mirror without flinching at her lidless serpent eyes, her cold clammy moist hand dragging us underground, fangs bared and hissing. How does one put feathers on this particular serpent? But a few of us have been lucky - on the face of the Shadow-Beast we have seen not lust but tenderness; on its face we have uncovered the lie.

[biwlw]

i am actually starting to lose my mind because so much of the way people view bi women is literally just the way hardcore misogynists see all women but everyone thinks its fine because unlike normal women our sexuality really does only exist to please men! and like even on the extremely rare occasions people agree this happens the best we get is like vague acknowledgement that its a bit of a bad thing some people do sometimes that they should work on and not literal rape apologism that is responsible for horrific acts of violence! thats fucking insane! why do people keep pretending like this isnt totally insane!

[biwlw]

this isnt just a few bad opinions based on a misunderstanding! there’s a widespread belief that bisexuality in women exists for men’s pleasure but for some reason we’re supposed to believe the fact every idiot is obsessed with thinking of us in terms of how “open” we are to men is a coincidence that is completely unrelated to our astronomic rates of sexual assault, abuse, and stalking! but also we shouldnt even complain about those things anyways because they wouldnt happen if we just made smarter choices and avoided bad situations! how is this not immediately recognized as fucking evil!

[jncoes]

*checks my email at the club*

[island-delver-go]

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[neuromedical]

I’m glad eduroam is such a paneuropean experience 😂

[cybercrimer]

[beyonslayed]

Capitalists in the 70s: you know how we can make even greater profits? Get states around the globe to stop providing public goods and services, have them lower taxes on corporations, privatize those services so we can fill in the gap left by the state no longer providing these goods and services so we can make a profit like because that’s how the market works, and offer credit (debt) to states and consumers who can’t afford basic public goods and services or the infrastructure to provide them again so we can make a profit off the money that as taxes would’ve gone towards providing these. Let the free market do its thing baby!

Y'all: HERE’S HOW BABY BOOMER JOE AND HIS BUDDIES RUINED THE ECONOMY FOR MILLENNIALS WHEN THEY BOUGHT HOUSES WITH A 30 YEAR MORTGAGE

[the-memedaddy]

[wlwellbutrin]

me talking to my lesbian and bi women friends: i don’t believe that “attraction” is a well-defined concept and i generally lean social constructivist when it comes to sexual orientation—what i identify as my lesbianism arises in a certain social context and i don’t necessarily think it’s some kind of mystical and essential part of me. i think it’s ok to define your orientation that way if you want but i also think that, especially for women, many people find it more healing to define it sort of actively. you’re not beholden to an immutable Nature that you can’t challenge; you can define what you want and seek. as such there’s more of a gray space between lesbianism and bisexuality than many people would tell you, and sometimes choosing one label over the other is a matter of gut feeling and not the cold scientific distinction people may picture. of course it doesn’t make sense to call yourself a lesbian if you’re pursuing men, but in dealing with misogyny and compulsory heterosexuality a woman may make the choice of whether or not to include some kind of “potential” attraction to men in her orientation. basically, if you want to be a lesbian, you can be a lesbian, and if you want to be a bisexual woman, you can be a bisexual woman. sexuality should be something you actively participate in and that makes you feel happy and comfortable with yourself, not something preexisting that you just can’t escape from and are forced to accept.

me talking to men or straight people or people whose politics i don’t know and trust: i was born this way.

[youwerefromohioandimissyou]

butch cowboys need love too!

X

[gothicprep]

before blaming others, think: whats the 1 constant in all your failed relationships? its that cursed egyptian amulet why do u even have that

[goonsoftheweb]

[thebootydiaries]

just saw a flat-earther tweet “need me a thick girl with curves” is that allowed ?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[onlinepunk]

Could you imagine if edward had just been some regular dude like fucking around with bella and she said with the utmost confidence “i know what you are…..you’re a vampire” and he’s just out there alone with her in the middle of the forest like

[lunarlegend11]

twilight au where Edward and his family just go along with it for kicks:

Rosalie hates it, Jasper sucks (or can’t keep a straight face) so he takes any excuse to avoid Bella, Carlisle doesn’t like pretending to hurt people so he decides his new persona has miraculous control, Alice and Emmett are LIVING this lie

they have an emergency family meeting to come up with basic ground rules and cover story but then just wing everything else

[heidivolturi]

Edward had to tell Bella that they sparkle in the sun because Alice had dumped an entire bucket of glitter on him that morning when he got out of the shower

[ohsalamanders]

how would jacob fit into this tho

[onlinepunk]

he’s a furry

[namrekeya-deactivated20161028]

What they don’t tell you about prolonged periods of introspection and careful observation is the harm that can come from being totally alone in that process, with no one to remind you that feeling, learning, watching, and healing are communal. When lonesome thought is fetishized, you feel obligated to suffer in silence, to see all struggles as individual rather than collective. You tell yourself that maybe you’re just growing apart from things you thought you knew, that you’re not doing healing right, and this must mean you’re just inadequate. And at some point, you obsess over this cultivated lifestyle of being quiet, small, and invisible as a means of personal protection that you feel forgotten about and in the end, you have no one but yourself to blame.

Sometimes I wish I could speak and write like I used to. But the more I see and interpret, the less I speak because I become increasingly aware of my own mental boundaries as well as the structural limitations I didn’t want to know existed. And the less I speak, the more I simply think myself into non-existence – or at least, what feels the closest to thinking but not really living.

What does it mean to be seen without desiring all of the accompanying narcissism that attaches itself to forms of recognition? I’ve been thinking and re-thinking the politics of recognition for almost exactly half of a year. Recognition is something so paradoxical to me, and thinking about it is bound to drive you to a point in your mental health where any mention of soap-bathing, bubble-blowing “self-care” rituals make you want to disappear a little more with each passing day. I wonder what it does to a person to ponder alienation in alienation for this long, in addition to all of the recognition rituals that compensate for it. My heart hurts just trying to wrap my mind around that.

I grabbed coffee with a friend I admire so much yesterday, and I asked her if she was feeling this way, too. She said something I knew to be true, but so desperately needed to hear and be reassured by: “Everyone is feeling this way. This feeling is political, not just personal. It permeates daily life and it’s only getting worse and worse.” And I can feel it all the way from Egypt to the United States, the two places I keep escaping for each other only to find myself retreating again for the other. The current global crisis in capital that is building up is wreaking havoc on so many of us in the most insidious ways imaginable. But even attempting to communicate this is difficult and frightening because alienation is so often strategically pathologized, misdiagnosed as “depression”, and written off as individual suffering. And so, we all suffer in silence.

[mesopelagic]

having horns would be incredibly impractical in day to day life but theyd be sexy so does it matter…

[sustainablefarming-deactivated2]

beyonce really is that friend that’s like “all men aint shit!! you dont need them dont even think about them! men dont deserve you!” and then she goes home to her man and you go home alone