"It's a serious thing just to be alive." @bornunderabluemoonbaby - Tumblr Blog

been turning over in my mind recently that a lot of 'good romance' these days is touted as couples who 'deeply understand each other' or 'just instantly get each other' etc, and whatever that really means aside, i would like to posit that imo there is something inherently romantic in the opposite - in not quite 'understanding' or 'getting' another person, but being willing to work at understanding them, seeing things their way, and supporting them anyway. not this instantaneous mind-meld 'self recognition through the other' stuff. i want both people in my romance couples to feel desire and work for the rest; to be changed and shaped and challenged by each other!!! if there is no friction, there's no traction, and therefore no staying power!!!

pseudophan

help i got sucked into 9-1-1

why does everyone just plain refuse to watch good television. like you literally don't have to do this

timrousbeastie

animentality

today's twitter discourse is that women are incapable of enjoying anal sex, and thus anal sex is abusive, in case you were curious.

sistersorrow

My favourite part was the one person who said it's different when a man takes it up the butt cause men apparently have a biological butthole advantage

animentality

women and men cannot compete side by side in the anal sex olympics because men have a clear biological advantage!!!

female sphincters are delicate and soft and not made for the stress of anything beyond taco bell.

male sphincters, however, are made to take a pounding 🥴

elierlick

One year ago, trans women held an iconic topless protest outside the Scottish Parliament. I love it when trans women hold topless demonstrations. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it exposes the obvious contradictions of defining trans women as legally male.

Now, a year later, Parliament has its first two transgender members, one of whom represents JK Rowling in Edinburgh. We can't attribute this momentum solely to the protest, but the direct action seems to have galvanized a new political movement of trans people across Scotland.

guerrillatech

kedreeva

if you, like me, are hesitant to enjoy what kinda sounds like "relaxes food standards" on the surface, I'm happy to report that this isn't "everyone can do what they want with your food supply without oversight" but rather a case where in NYC you had to have a permit to sell food and a second, superfluous permit to sell frozen desserts. This action simply removes the need for the second permit, rolling it into the first permit in order to help small businesses. Yay!

ralfmaximus

This kind of stuff (the superfluous second permit) usually happens because somebody ages ago had a beef with another vendor, but they knew somebody powerful at city hall. So they pulled some strings and WHAM. All of a sudden, their arch nemesis ice cream vendor is out of business. It's a form a grift.

Mamdani is fixing it.

foone

I'm not saying I have ADHD, but I was trying to make an analogy about yearning in long distance lesbian relationship and how it slowly intensifies the need like a tea with the teabag left in it too long...

And it made me realize my tea-steeping alarm went off like 20 minutes ago and I turned off the alarm but didn't remove the teabag

holdoncallfailed

hey don't cry. canon lesbian aunt fritzi, ok?

crazy56u

Close, actually.

peppermintquartz

Not sure if her purring is audible via the phone camera...

She cried at the door until I let her in and climbed into my lap. Of course this means I'm not allowed to go to bed for the foreseeable future

artisanjelly

reminder for all hockey fans:

netflix is making a hockey show called "the sticks" that is based on a very real tragedy that occured in canada in 2018.

the show follows a minnesota high school team after their bus crashes and coming back to hockey afterwards.

in 2018, the humboldt broncos' (a junior A team made up of 18-22 year olds) bus was hit by a tractor trailer on a highway intersection. 16 people (10 players, 2 coaches, and 4 team staff members) were killed, along with 13 other players severely injured.

the memory of the humboldt broncos crash is an incredibly sensitive subject carrying a lot of trauma to both the survivors, their families, and deceased's families. the trajectory of hockey in canada was changed significantly after this tragedy.

despite this, netflix has decided to make a show using the death of young hockey players for profit. they did not consult the survivors, nor the deceased's families. they stole a canadian story for a feel-good cash grab.

i understand wanting to watch shows about hockey, but this is not the show to watch. do not give it attention, as the humboldt broncos' memories deserve to be theirs and theirs alone to share.

forustothinkistobealive

This is how Netflix advertises the show btw… They’re calling it “your new hockey obsession”. It’s disgusting.

stuckinreversemode

Judith Burton’s Outfits in “Ride or Die” — Costume Design by Sharon Gilham and Shay Cunliffe

dathen

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~