I'm in love with uh... 🤔

═.♥.══════This is now just a dumping ground for everything I like... & my life. GAVIN & FENRIR & MLB & HL. Total trash for love square, ikemen, otome. ══════.♥.═

[the-big-mood]

[wizardshark]

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

[sexshopshenanigans]

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

[ceres-zephyr]

I swear this is going to be a children's book. I swear...

[striders]

[ceres-zephyr]

Honestly can't afford to... But I know @burdenbourne or @burdenboundhouse is looking for creative talent... So maybe hit them up?

[sailorsally]

everyone rejoice, Ao3 is back

[tumblr]

well done everybody for being so brave about it

[julesjuliiet]

thought i'd advertise my emergency comms a little! a girlie's trying to provide for her family, so here's some of my latest commissions. every single artwork in this post was a commission are you interested?

simply dm me and we'll get you sorted out!🩷

pricing list:

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💬 3  🔁 11  ❤️ 81 · my commissions! (updated) .𖥔 ݁ ˖ִ ࣪⚝₊ ⊹˚ i put this together as good as i could, though always feel free to reach out if

[libraford]

Your kid probably already knows about sex. Despite your most careful efforts, they probably have figured it out at least a little bit.

My aunt was pregnant with my cousin when I was 4. My other cousin gave us a kitten because his female cat 'got out of the barn' when i was 5, and i had to learn what 'spaying' was. It was rumored (correctly) that I was a lesbian when I was 7. When I was 9, a couple of boys on my bus were gawking at a playboy one of them stole from their dad.

When I was 11, I was friends with a girl who was a victim of sexual abuse from a family member. My parents gave me 'the talk', which was largely about consent and why bodies are weird. I watched "Revenge of the Nerds." When I was 12, I was friends with someone who wrote rape fantasies. I learned what hentai was. I learned what a furry was (though i have a more nuanced understanding of it now). When I was 13, I was told by a classmate that I seemed like the kind of person to (extremely graphic description of a bdsm kink that I didnt know existed.) My church gave me 'the talk,' which was largely about STIs and why you shouldnt have sex til youre married. My school also gave me 'the talk,' which was largely about the names of body parts and what pregnancy is like. I saw a South Park episode. I saw some John Hughes movies. I watched a friend deep-throat a banana as a joke. Crime procedurals were on TV. When I was 15, most of my friends were on fanfiction.net and livejournal (I am old) or roleplaying through online forums. I learned what yaoi was. One of my friends had a restraining order on her ex for stalking.

At 16, I was largely inexperienced with sex- had never been on a date due to a complicated relationship with the closet. But it seemed everyone else had quite a bit of experience, whether good or bad or neutral. So I learned some things this way.

When we talk about banning books for being 'sexually explicit,' my mind goes to "Speak," by Laurie Halse Anderson- which is about a teenage rape survivor. One of the reasons for its banning is that it includes the rape scene, but the narration fades to black before it becomes graphic.

I read that when I was 13, and it made me think of Sasha- my friend who was a SA victim at the age of 11 and who knew how long it had gone on, who dropped off my radar after 5th grade. And I would think about that book again and again every time I would make a friend with that kind of story (surprisingly often.)

So... all of this. All of this gets revisited when we talk about purity culture, when we talk about 'sexually explicit books with minors,' when we talk about 'protecting their innocence.'

I, a nerd that never went to parties, was not the target audience for this book- even if it helped me relate.

The target audience was Sasha. Or Kelsey. Or Nicole.

And here I am, arguing with some asshole on the internet who probably calls himself a 'protector of children' by supporting drag bans and book bans and defunding planned parenthood, because he thinks that a young adult book about navigating toxic relationships that has the words 'hand on my thigh' in it should be banned because thats 'sexually explicit' and I'm tired.

Your kid probably knows about sex. Through friends at school, through family members, through observation. I think its okay to let them read books where the lesson is that they're allowed to say 'no' to it.

[libraford]

This, by the way, applies to a host of 'inappropriate topics' that books get banned over.

The book about drug addiction might not be for you, but it is for the kid whose dad is in and out of rehab.

The book about child trafficking might not be for you, but it might be for the kid whose cousin disappeared one day.

The book about the school shooting will likely not make your kid a school shooter, but it will provide understand for the kids who have been through one.

The book about racism isnt supposed to make you feel bad for being white- its supposed to help the kid that feels bad for being black.

The book about a gay kid wont turn your kid gay, but it might help the kid who needs to come out.

The book about the transgender kid probably wont make your kid trans, but it will give a voice to the kid that already is.

Your kid probably knows these things if they've interacted with the world outside their nuclear family at all. If youre looking at a reading list and thinking that the books should be banned, it might be prudent to instead ask yourself 'who is this book written for?'

[erotetica]

Would like 2 add my experience as a fully homeschooled kid, with few peers to learn from:

Computer. Still.

Despite parental rules & an internal piety that made me backclick often & uneager to sneak around them, I still got Goddamn pop-ups. Despite my small internet/socmed footprint--I misspelled 'Nuremberg Egg' for a history of clocks project, and saw dick.

It's impossible 2 raise a child in ignorance in the digital age

Pro-censorship legislature & its proponents are still squirrely about admitting this about CSA victims, but their treatment of LGBT kids & Reproductive Health has lost them their opacity anyway--

They want the gay kid to pray it away & live closeted. They don't want them to read about Pride, or joy, and get ideas.

Belligerent ignorance accounts for some ppl, but the rest are willful. They do not care about innocence. They want ignorance, isolation, and control (which i think is good to keep in mind; extremely good thread already tho).

[deepspacenova]

You woke up to cause trouble

[ceres-zephyr]

🫦😂🤣

[jackkdaniels]

I respect an "I can fix him" villainfucker 50x more than a "he didn't do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood!" villainfucker. like yeah they both get the cute domestic happily ever after, but man the first guy has depth they have nuance and most importantly they are actually aware they're a villainfucker

[jackkdaniels]

but the guy i respect MOST is the unapologetic villainfucker. "yeah he did that shit and it was sexy" fuckers. "was the wanton murder fun babe it looked fun" fuckers. these guys know where it's at

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

[thekindlygrammarfairy]

it's called lady macbething someone, I'd grab you the college humor video but I think it's paywalled.

[charlesoberonn]

I found it

[ceres-zephyr]

😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[sallowly]

COMMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN again!

Right on time for the holidays, so if you're thinking of treating yourself or others with some artwork, I'll be available :D

my tumblr DM's are open

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I've ever read - but I've read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:

[prokopetz]

I feel like this excerpt is significantly enhanced by knowing that the novel in question is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an inexplicably sapient flea who lives on Bella's body, and that's why the third priest's penis is described in this way: from the narrator's perspective it literally blots out the sky.

[kingarniestar-deactivated202509]

me when im a flea

[official-penis-posts]

Official Sky-Menacing Penis Post

[ceres-zephyr]

🤣

[romancenjoyer]

“the possibility of rejection is essential to forming deep relationships with people” - chanté joseph for british vogue

[romancenjoyer]

[bubobubosibericus]

how fucking DARE you come for me like that

[ceres-zephyr]

Uhhh.. Good day to you too?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Fairy: Hey I didn’t get your name.

Me: Yeah that was on purpose.

Fairy: Oh my god stealing people’s names has been categorized as a war crime for like a hundred years. Do I seem like the kind of fairy that would do war crimes?

Me: Well yes, but that’s just my impression of you personally. Not fairies in general.

Fairy: You’re smarter than I thought.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: So is the fairy monarch democratically elected?

Fairy: I think the one from a small corner of Alabama might be but for the most part, no. It’s still decided by a contest between the three oldest children.

Me: What kind of competition?

Fairy: Well it used to be to the death but that was too violent so these days each kingdom comes up with their own. In mine I think they play marbles but I’ve never seen one.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: Okay so why shouldn’t I say thank you or give gifts in return for favors?

Fairy: That’s mostly a regional thing but where I’m from it’s insulting to the wealth of the person giving you stuff. Like you really only thank people when what they did was like a huge burden so if you thank someone for giving you something that’s like calling them poor.

Me: Fairies have wealth inequality?

Fairy: I mean we technically still live under a feudal system if I’m being honest but with modern technology and ethics nobody notices.

Me: Do you have Internet down there?

Fairy: Only dial-up. That’s why I come to your house.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Fairy: So you’re telling me that human men don’t think that frog eyes are sexy?

Me: Well not most of them to my knowledge.

Fairy: So I bought these contacts for nothing.

Me: Hey man you don’t have to be a frog spirit to lure men into your clutches. Plenty of dudes are into cat eyes and ghoulish moaning.

Fairy: You really think so?

Me: I know so! Stop doubting yourself so much. You can definitely find some mortal men to lure into the timeless void for several centuries and adopt a demon cat with you.

Fairy: Thanks, man. That means a lot.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Fairy: So humans... don’t eat glass?

Me: No? It’ll cut up our insides and kill us.

Fairy: Ooohhhh. Oh no.

Me: What did you do now?

Fairy: More like... what I’ve done over the past three centuries since I moved out of my mom’s house.

Me: Did the coughing up of blood not cue you into anything?!?!!

Fairy: I thought that humans just spontaneously die sometimes!

Me: No we don’t! There’s physical reasons for these things!

Fairy: So... no more bringing nightshade and glass entrees to the potluck?

Me: No!

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: So why mushrooms as portals?

Fairies: Look man, even we don’t mess with mushrooms alright? Sometimes they open up a portal to the human world and it’s just best to not question it.

Me: So wait. You don’t make the fairy circles?

Fairy: No. Mushrooms decide.

[ceres-zephyr]

Why is this so hilarious? Also, is this someone's real lit work? Cos I have to read it

[wordpress-blaze-50843665]

The Latest Harvard BiGS-Council on Business & Society publication: COMPANIES & PURPOSE

Welcome to the very special issue magazine co-published by The Harvard Business School Institute for Business in Global Society and the Council on Business & Society: COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet

In this second collaboration, Harvard BiGS & CoBS offer you 106 pages of insights and 24 articles from globally recognised faculty and prominent business leaders from around the world to propose a truly global and also regional perspective on the ever-important issue of purpose and its impact on corporate value, employee motivation, society, and planet.

This special issue kicks off with an introductory Editorial by Prof. Debora Spar, Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society at Harvard Business School, and Adrian Zicari, Academic Director of the CoBS, and professor of Accounting at ESSEC Business School.

Three sections follow: Companies & the changing landscape, Leading by example – purposeful businesses, and Global Perspectives on Companies & Purpose.

Section 1 highlights include exploring the role that business plays in solving social problems, how companies can manage the dual mandate of profit and purpose, the purpose ecosystem and how private actors and stakeholders help companies reach the SDGs, and finally business for good – an update on the shifting landscape since the 2019 pledge by 181 US CEOs

Section 2 includes a focus on the increasing interest in company ownership and how it brings wealth to the wider base, the strategic nature of integrity in corporate governance and purpose, caregiving and companies – how it boosts corporate value and workforce motivation, and corporate business coopetition as a strategy for building a better world.

Section 3 explores the bigger picture and features, among other super insights, innovations from the global south that combine profit and purpose, the move beyond the business case for equality, reframing sustainability as purpose, and a focus on Latin American CEOs and responsible leadership that impacts business and society.  

So, as this seemingly exceptional year of change, complexity and challenge moves on, we hope you enjoy this special issue co-developed by two of the world’s most influential actors in responsible business at the crossroads of society and planet. We’d be delighted to hear from you – your feedback, comments and ideas – and please feel free to join in the debate either by contacting us through this website, or through the contact details on page 2 of this magazine.

Kind regards,

The BiGS-CoBS Editorial Team.

Useful links:

Link up with Profs. Debora Spar and Adrian Zicari on LinkedIn

Download our previous co-developed magazine on Climate Change: Strategies for advancing the green transition.

Read a related article: Companies must commit to profound transformations.

Learn more about the Council on Business & Society

The Council on Business & Society (The CoBS), visionary in its conception and purpose, was created in 2011, and is dedicated to promoting responsible leadership and tackling issues at the crossroads of business and society including sustainability, diversity, ethical leadership and the place responsible business has to play in contributing to the common good.  

Follow the CoBS on LinkedIn

Download magazines and learning content from the CoBS website downloads page.

Member schools of the Council on Business & Society.

ESSEC Business School, France, Singapore, Morocco

FGV-EAESP, Brazil

School of Management Fudan University, China

IE Business School, Spain

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

Keio Business School, Japan

Monash Business School, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia

Olin Business School, USA

Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada

Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa

Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.

Source: The Latest Harvard BiGS-Council on Business & Society publication: COMPANIES & PURPOSE

[pereczke]

Im at work and nobody knows that im painting Doris from Shrek in Pre-Raphaelite style on my ipad.

[pereczke]

In case anyone thought I was lying, here is the proof!

My reference was Hanging the Mistletoe by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Its hard to match with their skill but that lady reminded me of Doris very much)

Edit: fixed some shadows

[ceres-zephyr]

Can we buy it though??

[thestuffedalligator]

Out of a moment of aching sadness and fury and manic impulsivity, a wizard turns a killer whale trapped in a theme park aquarium into a human so she can smuggle it out of the park and back into the wild.

[thestuffedalligator]

She is now stuck on a road trip to the coast with a 6’6 woman who has tried to kill and devour a moose.

[digitaldiscipline]

Next summer, Gwendoline Christie stars in You Orca Know Better

[ceres-zephyr]

I would literally pay to see this in a book. Let's publish it!!!

As someone who now knows a publisher...

please, let's make this a reality.

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

What

[thesacredlocnar]

yeah this checks out

[helloitsbees]

tags via @thyrell

[ceres-zephyr]

Mojo Jojo is weirdly adorable

[phoenixyfriend]

Gonna go full white girl here for a moment

If I ask if a food is spicy at all, and you reply “No, not at all! You can barely feel it!” then that is a contradiction. It is spicy. It may not be very spicy, or even moderately spicy, but it’s still spicy. Please just tell me that straight-out.

I know there’s a good chance you’re mocking me in your head when I say that I cannot handle spices at all, and that even the mildest of sauces, that you insist are barely there, are going to hurt, because I’m mocking me too. I know I’ve got a child’s palate when it comes to spicy food. I know it’s almost laughable, how badly I react to even table pepper in more than the most minuscule of doses.

But if I ask “is this spicy,” and you answer “not at all,” and then proceed to tell me that it’s mild, then I will still consider it too spicy.

If I ask “is this spicy at all” and you say “no” while knowing that it is, just a tiny bit, because you can’t imagine anyone reacting, then please don’t be offended when I take one bite and then throw it out, because I asked for a reason.

It’s a dumb thing to talk about, but… yeah. Just do your cannot-handle-spices friends a favor and be honest when they ask. Mild is still a level of spice.

(This goes doubly for strangers, because if they have a digestive problem like, IDK, ulcers or something, then spicy food can irritate the stomach lining further and cause extreme pain. Some people claim that capsaicin can be used to treat ulcers, but you know… just play it safe, yeah?)

[magicalotterlady]

Also please be honest with what kind of spices are in the food. Doesn’t need to be some big secret, especially if someone has allergies.

Most people I know don’t give a second thought to something like common ground pepper/peppercorns. It’s not even spicy to most. But I’m allergic. Even a tiny amount can render otherwise safe foods into hive causing annoyances at best or up to anaphylactic type reactions at worst, depending on how much I end up eating and what it’s in exactly.

I’m pretty good at noticing if a dish contains pepper by sight or scent, but there have been mixups. Hives are bad enough, the gastrointestinal symptoms are worse, and I’d prefer not to die because of peppercorns.

[omgshiftercat]

I have a friend with a peppercorn allergy, and yeah, it doesn’t matter how little is in the food, ‘cause his system will make him puke it up later. And unfortunately, pepper isn’t included in the list of “common allergens” to put on packaging, so anything that says “spices” is suspect.

[ceres-zephyr]

Me.... this be me. I have absolutely 0 spice tolerance.

Until recently when I could handle black pepper. I think giving birth to my second son changed something?

[loomis-maxima]

it's crazy that a game developer made him and now we're all whipped for some pixels 🤧 he is literally art 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

(photo edits not mine, credit to all the people who got these amazing photos from the game mod, i'm so jealous that i can't get mods on my PS)

[ceres-zephyr]

Frfrfrfrrrrrr