the widening gyre

I really don't give a damn about my bad reputation. Old enough that I've no fucks left to give. Sometimes NSFW. [she/her] {header art @nalonzooo}

[screechfoxes]

CRITICAL ROLE 4.29 Opening Night

[psmith73]

Bonus:

[jesterlesbian]

everybody neeeeeds to go read this new yorker cartoon article with jacob tierney!!!!! it's so good

[disgruntleddemon]

Obsessed w how the gangs' all posed in this scene ngl

[catgirl-kaiju]

A group of queer friends, at one of their shitty apartments, pausing the board game they were playing to have an impromptu group therapy session

[king-bones-the1st]

aw man you just know fred is going through it with his dad right now

[exhuastedpigeon]

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

[stuckinapril]

I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance

[stuckinapril]

wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!

[sexhaver]

lmfao the Scots in town for the World Cup have made a pilgrimage to Boston's world-famous Cop Annihilating Slide

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Jun 2026)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊👂‍ Mystery at the Masquerade (Secrets and Scrabble #3) (Josh Lanyon, author; Matt Haynes, narrator) - Elliot gets invited to the social event of the season, and murder ensues, naturally.

🥰 the courtship of ilya rozanov (cherrylilies (cherrydialectic)) - 75K, Hollanov AU - "After the tuna melt meltdown, Shane meets Rose Landry, has several deeply inconvenient revelations, and decides to do the only sensible thing: win Ilya back with sincerity, logistics, and a frankly alarming amount of emotional effort. Ilya, meanwhile, mistakes every tender gesture for the kind prelude to an inevitable goodbye. Or: Shane is living in a romcom. Ilya is living in a Russian tragedy." - delicious (and kind of hilarious) angst as Shane thinks he's being obvious and Ilya puts the worst possible interpretation on every gesture! ABSOLUTE DUMBASSES!!! (pos)

💖💖 +151K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Prep Work (Alethia) - The Pitt: Rabbot; 7K - I just love how Alethia writes these two old guys having late in life revelations about each other!

adrenergic (PenAndInkPrincess) - HR/GC: Hollanov; 15K - a brilliant fic about Shane's allergies and how he just…doesn't mention them to Ilya and then Ilya's subsequent reactions to learning about them - just wonderful and hilarious

a secret to yourself (rhodenia) - HR/GC: Hollanov; 33K - a great Ilya character study about 7 times he was jealous (despite knowing he has no reason to be)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Parlor Room - s2, e7

The Legend of Vox Machina - s4, e4-6

Um, Actually - s11, e11 (Tournament of Champions '26 Part 3)

Taskmaster - s21, e9-10

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

D20: City Council of Darkness - "A Bid, a Banksy, and the Bird in the Basement" (s30, e9)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Murph's Most Sensual Episode" (s24, e9)

D20: City Council of Darkness - "Zaeth's Sire and a Bear on Fire" (s30, e10)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Full Duckface on a Bird Scooter" (s24, e10)

Critical Role - C4 E028 | Chasing Shadows

CR Cooldown | C4 E028

Widow's Bay - s1, e9

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - The Alzo Era begins in Austin!

Short History Of… - The Kray Twins

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #94

⭐ Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 721. Exploring Platform Decay with Martha Wells

No One Saw It Coming - The houseplant that changed the British Empire

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Scary Movie

What Went Wrong - Giant (1956)

One Person Found This Helpful - Mozart vs A Screaming Goat (s4, e1)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - ‘Office Romance’ stars J.Lo as a CEO with a bad case of Brett Goldstein

Throughline - The uncensored war

NPR Music - 11 more songs to reset your mood | All Songs Considered

99% Invisible - Karaoke Videos

Plot Trysts - A Spot of Tut-Tuttery: Whose Body?

Handsome - Nicolle Wallace asks about favorite movies

Dinner’s on Me - Simon Helberg

Taskmaster The Podcast - Kumail Nanjiani (s21, e9)

⭐ What Next - What's the Beef with Screwworm?

Vibe Check - What Kids Know That Burned-Out Adults Don't

Ologies - Paternology (FATHERHOOD) with Darby Saxbe

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Adventure of the Empty House

NPR's Book of the Day - 'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New York

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Summer House

Dinner’s on Me - Side Dish: More with Simon Helberg

⭐ Sidedoor - How Can You Forget Me

Song Exploder - Paul McCartney "Ripples in a Pond"

Humans - Puzzle-Maker Wyna Liu's Just a Little Mean

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Disclosure Day and What’s Making Us Happy

Today, Explained - Nike lost its cool

What Next - My Clip Viral, My Spencer Pratt, My Kalshi Dived, Knicks In Five??

⭐ What Went Wrong - Out of Frame: Scientology and Hollywood

Endless Thread - Endless Thread on OnlyFans

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #95

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators

⭐ Mind the Tags - To the sausage machine! With OTW volunteers Elin and Brian

99% Invisible - 100 Objects #4: Lowe's Gas Bag

⭐ Hit Parade - More Than a Feeling Edition

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Billboard Top 40 October 16, 1982

Rush

P!nk

'90s Sing-Alongs

[maaarine]

2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228

@tojibignaturals

[revieloutionne]

[ospreyonthemoon]

I love that, like. He KNOWS the audience want to clap and so he's using them as an extra instrument. He turns around and goes hey, stop, and hopes they understand conductor gestures and it works, and then he has clapping he can use when he wants

[ariaste]

god i LOVE when the audience gets conducted. Right up there with Freddy Mercury's "AY-OH" bit at the Live Aid concert in 1985. And this, which delights me every time:

[byjove]

I can’t remember if I told you guys this but my grandpa paid a guy to put up a rock retaining wall in the backyard when my grandparents moved into their house in 1966. They live at the bottom of a mountain. The wall finally collapsed this year and my grandfather with dementia was PISSED OFFFFFF and he wanted so badly to call the guy who did it and chew him out for doing a bad job. My grandma is trying to explain that the wall lasted 60 years and the guy who did the work is probably dead and it TURNS OUT HE IS STILL ALIVE. Now we’re worried grandpa is going to get through to him (small town) and we’re going to see two 85 year old men come to blows over a rock wall that has been there since the mid-60s. My grandpa is a scrapper, he’s been to jail over a bar fight, the possibility that he WOULD fight this guy is high.

To top it off? The stone mason is the only person in town with one arm so grandpa would definitely recognize him if he saw him. If that is your grandpa, please protect him from my grandpa.

[cowboyjen68]

Happiness is being a butch lesbian. Today I turned 58. And life is grand.

[gaytanic-panic]

[isuggestforcefem]

Hi girls, let’s do something! Reblog to this post with a picture of yourself, or a transition timeline if you feel comfortable about it, and things that make you happy and comfortable about yourself! To spread a bit of positivity, and show the girls that are scared that there’s joy on the other side.

[killsixbillioncatgirls]

Been a while since i did one of these

Hrt saved my life and it'll save yours too, transition today 🫵🏳️‍⚧️

[mango-sabercat]

[cute-t-princess]

Why not. Let's do this...

Still can't believe the difference and how pretty I look now

[tomokokurokitulpa]

shes always loved her curly hair but it wasnt until after she became a girl that the rest of her became lovely to match. her big nose got cuter and her moles went from simple adornment to marks of beauty. start hrt start hrt start hrt start hrt sta-

[love-and-hisses]

Always Be Snoopervising, that's Tortellini's motto.

[michaelnordeman]

European Badger/grävling. Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2023).

[michaelnordeman]

Roe Deer/rådjur. Värmland, Sweden (13 June 2020).

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian Bullfinch/domherre. Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2022).