[selavy]

[uwillneverknowwho]

Hey. Stop for a second. Take this moment to appreciate that you don't have to write a paper right now. No one is asking you to write a paper. You don't have to think about the paper or plan your time around the paper. You have the freedom to think about whatever you want. Everything is going to be okay. At least you don't have to write a paper right now

[palamedestragedy]

HARRY DU BOIS + DANIEL MOLLOY

disco elysium + interview with the vampire / the vampire chronicles

[peliginfields]

a sampling of Speculative Fiction that plays with gender in interesting ways:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (of course. also see her short stories set in the same setting: "Winter's King" and "Coming of Age in Karhide")

Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer (25th century science fiction where humanity has supposedly entered a post-gender era. gender in reality hasn't been *completely* stamped out however [though it does certainly seem to bear less influence than today]. and yet our narrator's attempts to assign genders to other characters, apparently in fitting with his emulation of the literature of the Enlightenment, themselves show an understanding of gender rather different from either those of that past or our present. fascinating world-building in general informed by Palmer's work as a historian! she once said in an interview that her aim was essentially a world as alien to us now as we would be to people of the 17th and 18th centuries. i think it's a rather successful attempt.)

The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum (incredibly underappreciated! creates a gender binary that feels self-consistent but doesn't map onto the binary of women and men. far-future, posthuman society with a culture of high mutual surveillance, multiple bodies per individual, interesting religious world-building, discussion of "stagnation" of a society, etc. very dense and rich worldbuilding packed, in a skilled, not-at-all info-dumping manner, into a single stand-alone novel. the title reflects the book's plot well in multiple respects)

Walking Practice by Dolki Min (centers an alien stranded on earth who kills humans in order to eat after luring them into sexual engagements. lots of meditation on the reliance on gender to construct personhood, and the depersonalization that goes hand-in-hand with unintelligibility / failure to perform gender correctly. predictably quite bloody. protagonist's body [when not carefully and with great effort held in human form] is vague but clearly not-at-all human. a disability reading is also very appropriate and enlightening for much of the work. translated from the Korean into English by Victoria Caudle, and judging by the translator's note Dolki Min seems to have done some quite interestingly experimental work with the original grammar to communicate the protagonist's alienness. in the English translation, this effect is instead accomplished chiefly through typography.)

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (rather dated - especially in that it falls into the trap that The Unraveling avoids in allowing its genders to be [I would say] too understandable through the lens of men and women, but its three gender alien society may still be of interest. very biologically non-human aliens. note however that they're chiefly only the focus of the middle [though probably longest] third. unrelatedly, i personally love the descriptions of lunar society in the last third.)

"I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" by Isabel Fall (takes a lazy comment popularly used to undermine transgender identities and brilliantly uses it as a springboard to interrogate the relationship between gender and violence, the use of gender as a tool of the state, the question of how to reckon with one's *own* identity simultaneously being dearly important to oneself and yet also a tool of the state/deeply intertwined with, involving, and even necessitating harmful ideologies and practices/something that itself urgently needs to be interrogated, etc. the description of what the narrator loved about womanhood as they saw/experienced it - centered around complete self-control and power for self-invention and re-invention [which then transitions into their new gender as a mechanical thing i think] is also fascinating.)

[maybemayii]

Jacob Anderson talking about the icons that shaped his Louis — Grace Jones & Eartha Kitt (Part ll)

[the-wanton-house-wife-deactivat]

You’re welcome 🧄

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: Another year has passed, time to make another natural freezer

[eng by me]

[alexaloraetheris]

This is brilliant but the energy sticker at the end KILLED me.🤣

[sirlancenotalot]

[sirlancenotalot]

taglist <3 (lmk if you want to be added/removed)

@jacklesbrainworms @castielsprostate @sapphirecherry @carhengeapocalypse @snaggletoothblues @the-cosmic-yeet @scientists-and-stars @revenge-of-the-assbutt @einloukrativesangebot @i--ihavemoney @tessalon-pearls @babyblue-mind @ididit-allofit-foryou @anchoredphoenix @idontexistbutwhodoes @sixofcrowley @gracelyns @zelkiff @thesecret-lifeofme @mirroredmoons @horsewithaface @saturdaymournings @keircat7 @ikilled2angelsthisweek @trashgremlendoesart @knockedout-andinsane @strawlessandbraless @spookysadie666

[t4tstarvingdog]

“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear

[rott1nghearts]

[werewhorl]

The finished comic! Hoped to do this scene justice, Nighteyes is such a great character 🐺

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i think more haunted houses should have haunted clawfoot bathtubs that move and exist as separate, distinct demonically possessed entities 

[feral-renaissance-cat]

Fun fact! Haunted bathtubs are an example of coevolution with haunted houses! As houses became more elaborate, haunted water fixtures changed to match the opulence. As such, the haunted hut and its symbiotic counterpart, the haunted well, gradually changed into the more inviting haunted estate with the haunted tub now being an internal parasite instead of an external one. You are correct, more haunted houses SHOULD have haunted clawfoot bathtubs because they promote the health of the house and indicate a functional paranormal ecosystem.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this website is so utterly detached from reality i love it

[its-me-cryptotech]

I just imagined a haunted house as a full on ecosystem that needs each haunted piece in order to function as a whole. So if one spirit is exorcised then the whole system goes nuts and eventually ceases to operate. Meaning that once an exorcism takes place the entire house suddenly gets 10x worse till balance is restored.

[azzandra]

“Listen, ma’am, we can’t just exorcise this one poltergeist, this is a load bearing poltergeist, ok? We remove this one, we may as well rip out the whole damn ectosystem.”

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#velvet highbacked armchairs live at the top of the predatory chair hierarchy despite being pack poltergeists much like their haunted kitchenware counterparts #apex poltergeists such as haunted beds and chaise lounges and dining tables strongly dislike being moved

[castielsflowers]

every time the whole sam eats rabbit food thing comes up on the show or in fanfiction it’s such a great example of the writers doing something interesting that they don't have the guts to follow through with because it’s usually in the context of “sam eats traditionally non-masculine foods let’s laugh at him for his failure to perform masculinity on the Man Show” but in the context of PTSD and sam's self consciousness the mr. king of compartmentalization is eating “clean” foods in an effort to live in a “cleaner” body and cleanse himself of the moral failings and contamination that comes with having demon blood in his body which is an infinitely more interesting metaphor for abuse but yeah no sam's just a pussy for eating a salad got it

[bayesic-bitch]

Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

[greghatecrimes]

House drugged that coffee btw

[vaporwavesimulator]

hey followers. have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be inside a bag of cornflakes

[officialtokyosan]

ye

[vaporwavesimulator]

enter the cornflakes domain

[runby2]

I fucking hate this website because not only did I click this goddamn link expecting it to be a joke of some sort, but it wasn’t a joke and I sat here spinning the screen around enjoying myself in a stupid bag of cornflakes like the dumbass monkey I am on Tumblr.com, enthralled by being in a bag of corn flakes in

[nongunktional]

when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue