Hi :D

they/he/she, apparently an Adult, TME, AO3-JeraldOfRivers

[saltwaterscully]

what you must understand is that i have five incredible fan fictions in the works. and you might never see any of them

[ashetheshade]

They keep running this psa (I think) about how we need to build more jails as if the crimes that most affect people’s lives could be fixed with jails. Make a corporate crime squad you fucking cowards.

[i-post-hilarious-tweets]

[butterfly-sapphic]

Do threats and punishments make people change their behaviour to the desired? Or does it make them prepare for the punishment? The answer will shock you.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[tricky-pockets]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Tremendously comforting, really.

[laluce1999]

How I be moving lately

[ashetheshade]

Literally my entire family. Like my entire lineage even. Complete non-issues blown up into things that literally kill people.

[charl0ttan]

my third theory is i think some people text like writing letters and some people text like sending telegrams

which are you?

letters📜✍️

telegrams👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

both

neither

what?

bald

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

[charl0ttan]

wait lets kinsey scale it

only letters

primarily letters sometimes telegrams

mix of both

primarily telegrams sometimes letters

only telegrams

other

neither

what?

bald

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

[ashetheshade]

There a story about a granny who fries vadas (that get stolen by a crow, who is tricked by a fox) that my mom used to tell me when she got sick of me pestering her for bedtime stories. And now every time I see an old lady making vadas I think of that story.

[ashetheshade]

I love going to functions just to leave them. I remember one of my favourite parts of birthday parties was tucking myself away in some random uninhabited room, or if it was an event centre the halls/ outside. As an adult, my ability to ditch functions is only increasing, as I find random trails at parks to walk by myself, which I couldn’t do as a kid.

Thanks for the meal, I’ll be back in like an hour :)

[kitsunemakina]

my sense of humor:

[plantanarchy]

still fuckin hate that “bee-free honey” that’s made from……… apples. bitch who you think sexed up those apples

[nihilistwife]

A farmer, by hand and with love and care

[plantanarchy]

wild bees still sexin em up when he’s not looking

[nihilistwife]

old mccuckhold had a farm it seems

[vriskarlmarx]

the thing about latinoamérica is that it's the most beautiful wonderful place on earth. there's a spinal cord of mountains running through, and at their feet you have everything from deserts to forests to jungles to glaciers. the lungs of the world are here, and so are the eyes into the sky. there are animals like axolotls and vicuñas and llamas and condors and jaguars. and the people are the most clever, the most resilient people in the world. you have cultures that are thousands of years old that have been resisting colonization for hundreds of years and in several cases successfully fighting back and even gaining territory. you have people who have lost their loved ones decades and decades ago who are still fighting for justice. you have a rich history of solidarity and struggle and you can sit with people in a circle passing a mate around and they will tell you of all the times they put everything on the line for a better world. there is an entire island that inspired revolutions around the world and that has been resisting a blockade for 60 years. there are communities building autonomous, revolutionary structures right now. and really it's not a surprise that there's so much grit and strength here because it would be inconceivable to be born and to live in this beautiful place without fighting for it.

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[cosmovain]

is it weird if i say i genuinely wish there was more positivity aimed at people w large chests

[cosmovain]

"having a large chest is the beauty standard" no having a large chest is the Sexual standard theres a difference. i can only even be Hot and everything i ever wear will be deemed too sexual for every single situation. tank top shows too much cleavege or side boob a button up is always too busty and a crop top will always show too much skin. having a large chest leads to so much back pain and sexualization and complaining about it makes people go "ahh grass is alwahs greener/you are the beauty standard, why complain?" like genuinely i urge yall to watch anything with a larger chested woman and notice, REALLY notice, that her chest is her entire personality. notice that people critiqing misogynist charavter designs alwayd tend to rally in the statement that large chest=misogny, casting aside the Many Many Many women and people who look like Me and just . have a large chest? and exist? and deserve respect and not to be seen as nothing more than a sex symbol by both sides? idk ikdayy

[seasalt-caramelstars]

this is one of my favorite revastila interactions, mostly bc this is what a kinrath looks like:

and i also have no idea what revan is trying to imply here

[laelish]

HAHAHAHA! I had never looked up what a kinrath actually looks like before. That is hilarious.

If Bastila isn't making a kinrath pup face in every other interaction with Revan are you even really romancing her?

[k0rmlod]

Descending into tombs with bro, what shall we find

[helenvaughans]

[quasi-normalcy]

No source, but with your help, we can make this true.

[ashetheshade]

So I was not super keen on going outside with my aunt and little cousins but it was an event at a park, and there was a river/ marsh place that had fish, geese, herons (?), ducks, and other small birds. The highlight of the day was when I told my cousins about the small turtle I saw, and all of the kids there then insisted we go look at the pond, and when we went there were BABY DUCKLINGS!! So CUTE!!! And SWANS!! I haven’t seen a swan in ages! And an EVEN BIGGER TURTLE!!! So basically all the kids were shrieking and I was very close to doing so too lol.

I only found it because I was getting kind of overwhelmed by the noise in the park. What a wonder stepping away to relax for a bit does. That’s the nice thing about being an adult, you can leave the group to chill for a bit if it gets too much. I should do that more often instead of just storming away.