Dazed & Delirious

Mostly known as Crickette Keeper. Short in stature, quirky, fangirly, partially-sighted. Fatter & prettier in-person.

[natalieironside]

"U should move to another country" Can't, dude. They don't let ppl like me move to other countries usually. I'm like the exact sort of person border officials typically don't let into countries. Like I'll hand them my passport and they'll take one look at my weird ass and a mean waiter in a tuxedo will come out and cut it up in front of me w/ a pair of scissors

[natalieironside]

U ever seent that movie Casablanca? I wouldn't even make it that far. In a Casablanca type of a situation I would be very, very lucky to spend the rest of my life bored at Gregory Peck's bar w/o ever reaching Lisbon. Would be considered extremely privileged to do so.

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[nocoffeeplease]

[ghostcaterwaul]

Reblog to gain creative energy and to give more creative energy to the person you reblogged this from.

[wormvermin]

It’s Sickos Selection season again!

Have YOU 🫵 got yourself a copy of our latest and most esteemed pervert collection?

If you’ve picked up our previous bundles, you know that Sickos Selection features the best in the indie erotica biz—comics, prose, art collections, and more!

This time, we’ve got 400 PAGES of comics, 500 PAGES of art, and 100,000 WORDS of fiction from 25 ARTISTS—all for $25!

If you’ve been wanting to explore some new erotica, that’s just $1 each for a taste of 25 of us. It’s kind of a crazy deal.

For most of us, this bundle has proved our most reliable and substantial source of income from the erotic works, which we put so much time and passion into.

🩷

I’ve personally included my most recent knight/centaur erotica comic, A Diversion at the Inn. If you like seeing men bully each other and suck each other off, you’ll probably enjoy it!

Sickos #4 only lasts until June 6, so don’t miss out!

Throw your local perverts a dollar so we can all justify making more beautiful pornography for you forever and ever :•)

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[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

"Kill your local sex offender!" Oh, you mean the guy who went streaking at his local college football game on a dare one time? That's a sex crime.

"No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.

"What? No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.

"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"

Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?

Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?

How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.

Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?

People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.

"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"

That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.

Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.

The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.

EDIT: If you're going to go on this post to say that no, you think you really should be allowed to kill people you decide are rapists and/or pedophiles, I'm going to block you. I have already been blocking you, because it's clear that you aren't willing to engage with what I'm saying.

Also, if someone says something like that we'd be better off with rapists being dead BUT that they won't let that opinion shape their stance on public policy, and you reply to that person to accuse them of wanting to murder people, I'm also going to block you, because what the fuck that's a completely different sentence.

EDIT 2: Since so many people seem to fail basic reading comprehension, let's state it again, in different words:

1. Killing people is bad.

2. Killing someone can never be undone by any means we have.

3. If the government can kill people, they will want to kill their political opposition and other undesirables (WHICH CAN INCLUDE YOU PERSONALLY AND ANY IF NOT ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY).

4. If there is a class of people OF ANY TYPE who the government can LEGALLY KILL, they now just need to convince you their enemies count as that class (ever wondered why there's so much emphasis on claiming gay people are pedophiles? Now you know!)

5. If there is a class of people OF ANY TYPE that the public can LEGALLY KILL, murderers just need to convince people that their victims counted as that class (I murdered him because he's a rapist. Anyway now his job is free promote me into that position plz.)

6. As pointed out in the notes (thank you everyone pointing this out!), if the penalty for a crime is death, people are much more willing to silence witnesses to that crime (for example, murdering their rape victims), which is EVEN WORSE than just committing the initial crime.

7. THEREFORE the only way to keep those from happening is to have NO category of people it is considered okay to kill FOR ANY REASON.

[peachpulpeuse]

IF YOU SEE ANY PAINTING BY "EMILE CORSI" ON HERE, DO NOT REBLOG IT THINKING IT'S REAL AND FROM THE 1800s. IT IS AI-GENERATED AND EMILE CORSI IS NOT A HISTORICAL FIGURE

examples:

[tattedpetticoats]

And if you love the vibes and wish you could find something similar painted by a real person, let me introduce you to John William Waterhouse, on whose work the AI was definitely trained:

[laziestgirlintown]

Corsi is not real

John William Waterhouse official site

John William Waterhouse wikipedia

[blindbombshell]

I'm 30 or 40 Years Old - And I Do NOT Need This

I’m almost 40, which is harder than being almost 30 was for me.

As it is, I feel as though I’ve been experiencing a sort of protracted grief. The life that I saw for myself, that was pruned away without my input, leading me here; unmarried, disabled, childless.

I knew that having children was unnecessary from a young age, and, as early as 8, I was telling people I was just fine with raising other people’s children. As long as I didn’t have to birth anybody, I was going to be fine. I said this over and over to people, adults in my life and peers. I was molested, bullied, mocked, going through lots of medical issues – I didn’t see a world I wanted to bring a child into, let alone the nightmare of pregnancy.

Everything I’ve learned about pregnancy has been against my will, a slideshow of horrors. My whole life, men have shrugged off this nightmare because it isn’t theirs – the closest they’ve ever gotten to the horror of an unwanted pregnancy being the face-huggers in Alien franchise. A parasite ripping itself from your body forcibly, just as likely to kill you as not, while everyone within earshot tells you to calm down.

I have dated people. Taller than me, shorter than me, stronger than me, skinnier than me, fatter than me, darker than me, lighter than me, foreign and domestic. I’ve held so many people’s hands in the dark and thought “this might be it, they might be the one” to the point where I think, now, it’s disingenuous. I’ve been up and down the commitment scale, been proposed to twice, made plans to have babies! I never moved for love, I never strived for love, never thirsted for it and never thought it wouldn’t come by because I’ve always felt that I was made of love, even when I’m spiteful, because you have to love in order to truly feel the power of hatred. I think if you hate something, there’s a part of you that loves it. The only true opposite of love is fear; and fear comes from the unknown. Once you understand a thing, they say, you can’t fear it.

I did think I would at least have committed my life to someone, felt that echoing response back of my soul to theirs. I have tried on so many lives, I have tasted the skin of a lover for the first and last time more than I care to think about, I have fought about and clung to and thrown away so many relationships, that I cannot bear the thought of ever regretting any of it. Each one of the people I’ve allowed into my life, into my bed, has been special to me in some way or another. They called me a Dark Horse, my kindergarten teacher aesthetic apparently jarring with the thread of lovers I’ve left behind. At one point, I even had an Italian lover begging me to stay with them in Florence; simultaneously, I politely didn’t respond to an Italian instructor’s email, that I realized only recently was a love letter.

When you’re nearing 40, unmarried, no kids, with zero plans for either, it feels like a door is slowly closing – and while you can be grateful the shitty person dumped you and that you’re not stuck with their child for the rest of your life, it turns out you can still be sad that it ended. It turns out, you’re allowed to grieve for the things that didn’t happen for you by the time you thought they would, even if they’re not something you necessarily wanted.

When you’re staying away, purposefully, from romantic entanglements because the dating pool in your area appears to be ICE’d over, people will still think you’re a lonely heart. The things that I thought would happen TO me, whether or not I wanted them, never materalized, and, instead, gave way to issues I didn't expect.

At the end of the day, I have never been lonely, even when I’m alone, and I’ve never been lacking for attention, even through my percieved detriments. To presume I’m less because I lack a spouse and/or children is insulting – so why do I keep doing it to myself?

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

please stop assuming people with chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and chronic illnesses are faking it to get out of doing things. they would love to be doing as much as everyone else but are unable due to how their minds and/or bodies function. give them grace.

[annabelle--cane]

what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.

what I say: sex isn't real and you can't have it

[grumpznsuch]

when did you get hot? x

[grumpznsuch]

welcome to my parents’ house tour 🏡🕺🏽

[tazatouille]

i will get my freedom.

[fairycosmos]

look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i don’t think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.

[serotonin-sunrise]

fun fact: this POV is actually called “body neutrality” and it’s SO MUCH more accessible/realistic for a lot of people. it’s based on the idea that the way we look is the least interesting/important thing about who we are, and that our bodies are worthy of respect regardless if they fit the mold of the current beauty ideals.

[rubyjones]

Create your own book cover - without generative 'AI' | Ruby Jones

Get more from Ruby Jones on Patreon

Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

[rhube]

I annoyed my cat by writing this and not playing with her; you might find it useful?

[copperbadge]

This is a fantastic guide not only to the technical aspect of cover design but the aesthetic aspect as well!

[naamahdarling]

This is GREAT STUFF. Highly recommend! Exactly the techniques I have used on covers in the past, and they look great!

[spiraledfaun]

some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business"

is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.

if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.

in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.

um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i'm not fucking kidding!