[vampy-campy]

Black Sails VIII.

[eebie]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[raelemond]

one 🍀lUCKY WINNER⭐️⭐️⭐️ will get an ALL EXCLUSIVE PASS to 😱🗡CLEAVE🗡😱 MY HEAD 💆🏽‍♂️ in TWAIN with an ✨️AAAAAAXE✨️

[cicadaknight]

dawg i’ve been working up the courage for a full year to ask our industrial mechanic if i can be his apprentice!!! i gotta do it this week!!!!! i simply have to know how to fix these beasts!!!

[cicadaknight]

i did in fact finally bring it up! had a whole spiel planned but then crunched it down to “hey I really enjoy working with you. if you ever consider taking on an apprentice, I would be very interested.”

he didn’t laugh in my face or say no! (also didn’t say yes). he was just like “huh. i’ve never thought about an apprentice before” and then i joked that the fun part of this job isn’t the pushing buttons and picking shit up and putting it down and he filled in “yeah it’s understanding how the machines work.” and then we chatted about electric motors 👨🏻‍🎨

have we talked about it since?? no!!!! have i made several dumb mistakes and been way too over eager? yes!!!! so honestly who knows but at least i brought it up

[cicadaknight]

apprenticeship secured!

[mrdetectivedouche]

Oh. So Fried Green Tomatoes is like a LESBIANS lesbians movie. Like this is fairly blatantly “I’m in lesbians with you”

[blond-shell]

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart. That's why she had been crying, that day. She had never felt that way before and she knew she probably would never that way again.

[hadesisqueer]

Looking back, Fried Green Tomatoes really had everything: feminism, abusive racist pieces of shit getting what they deserve, murder mystery, period butch-femme lesbians raising a child together and everyone knowing they're a couple and being cool with it, southern accents, cannibalism. Like really, everything.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

[antoniabishop]

flying swings

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think there is something to be said about this wave of white women made media that is so surface level with an underlying racist and/or insensitive bias and that refuses to engage with criticism. i'm talking taylor swift's the life of a showgirl, emerald fennell's wuthering heights, colleen hoover, the acotar series and booktok in general, etc. whenever you dare to raise concerns about the superficiality or the questionable writing or the treatment of poc in those pieces you get shut down with a "it's not that deep" or "let women have fun". this weaponisation of misogyny to justify slop made for mass consumption, especially considering how wide spread it is becoming, scares me quite a bit. to quote princess weekes, "the girlypopification of anti-intellectualism" is truly concerning, and i do believe it is linked to the rise of far right movements worldwide. if you refuse to engage with what you are being presented with, and exclusively consume brain smoothing content "for fun" then yeah you do become more susceptible to propaganda. it is that deep.

[cicadaknight]

trying to find housing right now makes me want to rip my face off

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[antoniabishop]

red salem

[elksewer]

oh oo ohhh ooo oh

[kiiwiidrawer]

Any Good Tidings?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I think one of the worst things a story can be is unproblematic.

Nothing makes a story more unreadable than being able to see the author squirm apologetically for the story they actually want to write—wringing their hands and imploring the reader please, please don’t be mad, I know it’s ideologically questionable but I need you to not be mad at me!

For example: a Good King™️. It’s one thing for a story to present a fictional monarchy and ask me to root for it. It’s another thing for a story to say, hey, I know what you’re thinking—but don’t worry! I can justify this premise! I have introduced a lot of convoluted self-aware political justifications for why my king is good and likable without actually asking any risky ideological questions! These characters aren’t actually problematic! Don’t be mad at me!

Commit to the bit. Apologetic, defensive writing designed to bypass obvious criticisms often winds up offending me far more than stories that are just kind of surface-level problematic. If I’m gonna be a hater you cannot stop me; the more you insist that a character is actually a good oil tycoon because of all these exceptional situations and beyond my reproach, the more I resent you and hate your stupid book.