May Your Ladies Be Badass & Your Men Cute

Hi, I'm Hayley, and I like a lot of things, the list of which is constantly growing. It currently includes the likes of Mo Dao Zu Shi, linguistics, Check, Please!, and kpop, but those are by no means all. I'm also always willing to gush about CAPTAIN AMERICA and Fullmetal Alchemist. My avatar is from an awesome sketch by chirart.

[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[symptomesper]

Also, if you’re even a little concerned about getting a hump or having trouble standing fully upright in your old age, this is how you prevent that. If you want to be up and about when you’re old you have to start when you’re younger. And keep in mind there is no bad time to start and it’s never too late. Starting today is way better than never starting at all.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[fruitcakebro]

Holy moly they're GOOD. The music is fucking FIRE, and the outfits??? They're all so PRETTY???

[snoodly-boop]

Does anybody know who these are??? Do they have albums!! 🤩🤩🤩

[raspberryslut]

I was so curious that I had to go find this band. They're called Fortress Dwellers and they have a website with all of their socials!

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

MUSIC | Fortress Dwellers

Step into the fantasy world of Fortress Dwellers. A fantasy Renaissance musical collective blending epic original music, immersive performan

[lynnmint8]

🫡✨

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[bstrdr]

Eridian Grace, as in culturally Eridian, not the species Eridian, is so important to me.

Grace who does jazz hands and taps when he's asking a question and says some words three times like Rocky. Grace who makes chirps and trilling noises when he's happy.

Grace who starts thinking and dreaming in Eridian, who sometimes has dreams that are just sound, no visual. (Grace who, if he ever goes back to Earth for whatever reason after years on Erid, forgets some words in English and speaks in the sentence structure of Eridian because he has to translate from Eridian to English when he speaks outloud).

Grace who does scarification (even if Rocky protests at first) - I've read some fics where he does the Voyager pulsar map, or dots and lines showing his route from Sol, to Tau Ceti, turning around towards Sol, and then the line going all the way back to Erid. Even though he already has the scars from Rocky saving him, maybe Rocky's family crest. A scar showing his rank as Captain of the Hail Mary - maybe something to represent her, too.

Grace who wears Eridian gems, as earrings, in a chain for his glasses, in strings draped over him that clink together when he walks - the most important ones, like the earrings he wears all the time, the color of the blueish-green gems (or spots?) in/on Rocky's carapace.

Grace who wears a bracelet on each arm that have ribbed marks like on Rocky's arm so he can properly say goodbye (not something he had to do, but something that felt right to do, something that made him feel more like himself), sound included.

Grace who considers himself an Eridian!! Grace who IS an Eridian!!

[pap3r-love]

you get me… i need eridian grace so bad. i definitely this his body movements and cues would become a lot less aggressive and hed lack some facial expressions, not just from like.. the pressure and stuff hes living in, but also because everyone around him doesnt need those as much more pronounced movements, hell he could twitch a muscle and theyd know.

he speaks quieter, using sound cues a lot that dont particularly make sense to any normal human. most eridians who spend a lot of time with him have developed these sound cues as well, which is definitely strange. since grace cant make all the sounds they can make i like to think he has a sorta like.. sound board? not one he uses a lot but if hes talking to a not well known eridian hell use it to indicate tone and other things like that when necessary, he likes to use it while teaching cuz he doesnt want to have kids growing up and talking weird from the get go (they usually do anyways)

i like also thinking about how rocky is probably so much different than everyone else. he not only spent 4 decades alone with no company, but then spent the next 8(?) or so years with a complete alien with VERY different cultures. he’s probably a lot different now. :3

[petrova-line]

rocky’s design notes from james ortiz’ instagram :) going insane at the reason rocky put two arms together when giving his name was to show his family crest

[ego94]

“if you’re plus sized you can just shop on shein/amazon/cider, they have a good selection!!” yeah but i don’t want to rely on fast fashion. i think fat people deserve more ethical and high quality clothing choices

[onlyroxxie]

Just posting this here:

Fashionbrandcompany.com

Shopmyviolet.com

Misscandyholic.com

Forestinkclothing.com

Shoptunnelvision.com

Universalstandard.com

Loudbodies.com

Tuesdaybassen.com

Shopsoftcore.com

Snagtights.us

[hecatelund]

Shout out to Chub Rub Clothing too! By and for fat people and really cute to boot!

[asoftgoth]

a few more I would add because I get asked about clothes a lot:

foxblood.com

anthropologie.com

killstar.com

midnighthour.com

and la femme en noir goes up to 5xl in their new items!

Vixen by michelinepitt.com is another amazing brand that goes to 5xl also! Micheline is a cofounder of La Femme En Noir btw, im a big fan

[mortarandsquishle]

THANK YOU

[igrabbedthemoon22]

Maya kern is also a shop for plus sized people! Cute skirts highly recommend! @mayakern

[poes-crypt]

Can also recommend @shopwitchvamp

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[naryamirie]

hello. is this thing on. everybody should start naming their years, it's a sort of tradition in my family and it's always spot on, though often we understand the errors of our choice when the year is over and you learned a new facet about your word. my mom severely regretted choosing victory one year — many a battle was fought and she arrived at the end of it battered, bloodied and among metaphorical piles of corpses. Victory can be bitter.

For 2024, I had named it the year of honey, thinking myself very clever. I did not call it honeyed, sweet, bathed in delight, no: it was the year of honey. I suppose I forgot to ask myself who made the honey, and why, and how. Honey indeed... for others, not me, the defeated worker bee who dropped dead at the end of summer after putting her life force into spoils others would enjoy.

I didn't notice, but I didn't set a name for 2025, too worried about my immediate survival. I'll think long and hard about what I want to bring forth, and try to be strong enough to bear the weight of what I want... I invite you to do the same and set it on New Year's Eve, if that calls to you.

[headspace-hotel]

We have a similar tradition where we choose a Word of the Year on New Year's Eve, but it is randomly chosen from a dictionary.

You move your finger up and down the pages of the dictionary until someone tells you to stop, and that's how you pick a page. Then you blindly move your finger around the two-page spread that you get until someone tells you to stop, and whatever word you land on, that's your word.

My word for 2025 was "oophitic." It refers to the texture of a certain igneous rock. I did not encounter such rock. So I don't know how it applied.

My word for 2026 was "tinderbox." That seemed very portentous...

[mysterycharacterbracket]

Season 3, Round 1, Poll #1

I accidentally made the first poll a day long instead of a week, so I'm reposting it.

Character 1: She is a very enterprising businesswoman who -- due to market conditions -- had to deliver an alternate product to her customers. Did she tell them about this change? No, but they liked her product waayyyy more after the fact. Also she helped her upstairs neighbour gain revenge against a corrupt cop.

Character 2: Last member of his species. Got kidnaped and almost decapitated. Canonically has no eyes yet somehow can see. Uses a sand clock as a wristwatch. Chronic workaholic. Gets no respect. Producer of a news channel (does all the work). Pretended to be the yeti (is ashamed of it). Got into a jack and the beanstalk plot (the seeds were not magic, god himself made them grow). Got turned to stone and got turned back by singing. Without him, everything falls apart. All the parties are in his house. Got randomly found as an infant in the forest by two of his co-workers (he could only say his name). Didn't know what vacations were. Very adorable.

Character 3: She’s got mommy issues, abandonment issues, all the issues in the book. Her mom disappeared and was assumed dead, and she spent a good chunk of her life avoiding the press about it. Then mom comes back and she proceeds to go into a spiral assuming that her mom is up to something nefarious. Her defense mechanism for avoiding being hurt is to insult people. She’s quite possibly the funniest person alive. She committed identity fraud among multiple other crimes, all in the name of catching her mom in the act of lying. By the end of the story she has daddy issues as well. She’s got all the problems and will fight god about it

Character 4: Ginger environmental reporter. Very ignorant. Managed to get himself lost in the desert and the woods. Tries to usurp his best friend for his job of main anchor very openly (his friend is too stupid to realize). Occasionally dances with a mummy. Someone tried to cut his ears off. Ran over a fellow reporter for no particular reason and it remained unremarked upon. Tried to join a tribe of a previously thought of endangered species. Descended upon a river of human waste in the name of journalism. Has pilot capabilities. Has a gambling addiction. Is constantly scammed by the same bald criminal. Dressed up as a mummy to bust a chain of contraband. Occasionally uses horseshoes as actual shoes. Became depressed and tried to become a radio personality. Got threatened with a water gun. Accidentally summoned the devil. Gets constantly educated by his niece and nephew. Bet his aunt on a horserace (he won another aunt). Used a pacifier will into his twenties. His worst nightmare is having perpetual hiccups. Has PTSD from being on the dead slot of 5 am for 6 years. Almost threw himself in an active volcano because of a card game (the other player cheated very blatantly and he didn't notice). A witch tired to marry him. Wrote a horrible play in the name of education. Has aspirations of presidency. Can play the piano. Becomes an involuntary participant of a magic act. Hits people with his guitar. Is related to bats. Looked for El Dorado. Believes cowboys are a Hollywood invention. Almost dies and is saved by a very slow horse.

Character 5: A crime boss who is light on her feet and caring for her children.

Which character should win?

Character 1

Character 2

Character 3

Character 4

Character 5

Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

[amongthespaghetti]

okay i know we normally do this with more pop-focused festivals but i wanna see how many metalheads are on this site: how many groups do you recognize?

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Voting ended onJul 3

(i recognized 64)

[shattersaurus]

Hello everyone!

Last year I started designing a series of Coat of Arms, themed in the spirit of Pride Month and using different mythological creatures as heraldic animals. I now aim to turn these designs into wearable pins and will be running a Kickstarter in July to fund this endeavor! I have found a very trustworthy local manufacturer, who has already shown the quality of their craftsmanship with the first batch of test pins I received, just look at the detail they were able to produce!

Since I try to support local manufacturers, which produce pins with fair wages and are more ethical than outside of Europe, the pins are more expensive to create than through the usual pipeline via Asia.

I therefore seek to crowdfund the expenses since they would be more than I can afford. If you are interested and look forward to support this little endeavor, please follow the link below to sign up for a mailing list. People who signed up on the email list and pledged during the campaign will receive an exclusive sticker set by the end of a successful launch consisting of the following designs:

SIGN UP ON OUR PRELAUNCH WAITING LIST TO GET THESE LITTLE GUYS FOR FREE

Our Kickstarter Prelaunch Page:

Coming soon: Coat of Pride: The Mythological Pride Enamel Pin Collection!

A collection of Pride themed Coat of Arms Enamel Pins. Rally your friends, choose your crest and celebrate with PRIDE.

[pepurika]

Tiger, Tiger - Page seasponges

A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cyc

The final chapter... begins!

[pepurika]

DID YOU SEE... new page tomorrow!!

[tanadrin]

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

[jadagul]

https://xkcd.com/2567/

[tanadrin]

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

[bigscaryd]

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

[nordenflycht]

there's an xkcd for that also

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[pencildragons]

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

[pencildragons]

I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT

some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:

Inuit artists:

the jerry cans (esp their album Inuusiq)

beatrice deer

twin flames

Māori artists:

jordyn with a why

Indigenous australian artists:

tilly tjala thomas (i particularly love ngai yurlku nhiina)

kardajala kirridarra (srlsly check out ngajabu (Grandmother's Song))

i've also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven't checked out his stuff yet

[columbidaae]

Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually

(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,

[aconissa]

For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!

[alqemizzy]

i'll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.

[emeraldraccoon478]

I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that

[morathicain]

Haven't seen Belle Sisoski here yet so here we go: she's the current Artist of Year for BURO impact Awards. She's from Malaysia and knows how to play an insane amount of ethnic instruments and mixes them with her own voice. She does covers and her own songs, mixes ethnic instruments with Techno and shows the process. And she's also a live DJ at 19!

And one of her own:

Oh and of course there's also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:

[upthewitchypunx]

1876 is a Pow Wow punk rock band from Portland, Oregon

1876

[tieflingkisser]

Alien Weaponry is an awesome Māori metal band

Darkaside is a Papuan metal band

Shepherds Reign is a Samoan metal band

[vonclosen]

Ts'msyen (pacific northwest coast) black metal

[oyasumiwa]

[dragonie]

I also want to recommend King Stingray here! They describe their work as Yolŋu surf rock

[secretsfromwholecloth]

Lenin Tamayo, Quechua pop singer.

And of course I can't not add Mari Boine (Sámi) to a post like this:

And Arvvas, who I think have moved on to other things but did mashups of Sámi traditional singing and jazz:

[doveywovy]

okay i have a long and complicated heterosexual steve/bucky au but what matters is that the super serum functions essentially like testosterone & steroids. and thus a cis female steve still passes for a man and ends up doing a whole mulan thing with captain america. which she has complicated feelings about but lets not get into that bc the point of this post is her accidentally stolen-valoring like half the identities within the lgbtqia+ community

sam thinks shes a trans woman who's transitioning in the modern era. super reasonable assumption based on what he knows ("captain america" is a man in all the history textbooks, but stevie actively makes an effort to get gendered right off the clock). he fumbles on pronouns like twice while figuring it out and then becomes Steve's Biggest Ally TM and never finds out he is aiding a cis woman with her gender dysphoria and not a trans woman. cool bro move regardless thanks man she needed that

natasha thinks steve is nonbinary and the gender role switching comes from that, because natasha has an insane relationship with her own body+gender and its connection to work. like her role as the femme fatale means she views being a woman as part of her job obligation/title; she views steve's gender situation as similar. she thinks steve is for real actually a man on the job and for real actually a woman off it and this makes so much sense to her.

tony thinks steve & bucky are gay men and refuses to delve into this because he is very worried steve fucked howard and he does not want the details. he makes a lot of mildly homophobic quips that he views as a status of him being progressively accepting (think the "no son of mine wears a skirt........that doesn't match his top!" jokes people made in the 2010s) which steve either totally misses or just views as sexist jokes that she ignores.

thor thinks steve & bucky are lesbians and is very happy for them. he's way more used to the muscular body-builder look on woman so he can easily tell that steve's a gal, but during his early days on earth when he had long hair a lot of people informed him that 'long hair is a girl thing' (it was 2009 after all). so thor assumes any human he sees with long hair is a woman, ergo bucky must be a woman. what a beautiful lesbian partnership. he hopes he gets an invite to the wedding

[doveywovy]

5) bruce thinks steve is a trans man because all of his deep delving into the serum means he understands that it essentially functioned as ultra-transitioning but he doesn't really get how fucking crazy steve was about Having to Fight in the War and thus he assumes this was gender affirming care for steve as much as it was anything else. hes misgendering steve so hard but he thinks hes being really supportive in doing so, and steve is both very used to scientists specifically disregarding her perspective and also coworkers in general getting it wrong, so she just. ignores it. in 10 years when bruce figures it out hes going to feel like the worst person alive. Bruce also assumes steve is bi because he buys into the peggy carter cover backstory for Captain America & is aware that steve is currently married to bucky.

6) clint has no idea what gender steve is and is too afraid to ask at this point. but hes pretty sure they (?) are asexual because they (?) haven't seemed to be attracted to anyone in all the time they've worked together, even when natasha does her classic "lets make out for a cover identity' thing and- oh they(?) have a husband(?). a partner of indeterminate gender also? clint gives up. thats captain america. he's just going to use the captain title in every sentence instead of pronouns.

[eat0crow]

I’ve been seeing an increasingly large amount of people get into fic binding lately, which is fucking amazing! I love each and every one of you guerilla publishers! With the history of fandom takedowns, purges, and the bull shit legislation corporations try and start every few years, it’s so good that fics are being given permanency. 

I’ve noticed that fic binders seem to be focused on longer fics, ones in the 50k onward range, which makes sense and is great because these fics absolutely deserve to be put into print! But, the thing is, my favorite fics have almost always been short one-shots, and no one seems to be talking about binding them.

So! I’m gonna show you how to bind short one-shots.

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