Esoteric Eau-de-nil

- Leo - They/Them - Queer - Tarot enthusiast - witch - God Enthusiast - loves tea - reads all the things! -

[ineffectualdemon]

Every time I apply my oestrogen gel because of menopause I think "there is a trans woman somewhere who is also sitting in her underwear post shower waiting for the gel to dry before she finishes getting dressed" and I feel happy and a sense of kinship and camaraderie with her even though I am not a trans woman or even trans femme in anyway

But I know how to apply the gel because I saw posts from trans women how to apply it and I feel that even though are reasons for using it are different that we are not so different

So for any woman or non binary person out there who are sitting post oestrogen gel application and scrolling on their phone as they wait for it to dry...we are doing this together and this genderqueer person lovee you

[iscariotapologist]

it's been suggested that i read a secular work of fiction so the other day i picked up what i believed to be one such volume from a little free library well tell me why the book i picked to specifically not read about god and mysticism for once is talking about the way of a pilgrim and the philokalia and the fucking cloud of unknowing. i can't get out of here. jd salinger i'm in your walls

[rivercane]

[mr-deep-downer]

[sailatina3]

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[threeninesfine]

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

—J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

[creatingblackcharacters]

"From these made-up horrors, these fictionalized enemies, he had created a villain worthy of the violent bravado that he imagined he would display if confronted by said villain. This web of racist lies was what he needed to make himself seem like a man. He invented a story about bad guys who were out to get him, and he repeated it to himself and others until he believed it. Then he made up another story- of himself as hero, defending himself and his family against this violent threat- and he repeated that one until he believed it too. Brian wrote himself into his own American westen, a world of cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers. And for a man with no job, few friends, and a family that couldn't stand him, pretending to be a main character in violent American mythology was as close to belonging as he was ever going to get."

Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[autumnsgambit]

Girls don’t like boys, girls like the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. And other girls.

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[theempathogen]

[ottermatopoeia]

[aflo]

Attempting to locate a new Greek restaraunt using my gyroscope

[unique-ones-enlightened]

[thesylverlining]

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

[quantum-jump]

Or, as my dad put it,

Sympathy: I know how you feel Empathy: I feel how you feel Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?

[paramourblessings]

Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?

[autisticcaleb]

Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.

[yviisxo]

rest in peace to this diva

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[coelii]

I think that’s part of what makes the payoff for this joke one of the best in the series

you’re supposed to think Homer is just being his usual idiot self and is about to realize the obvious (har har har he doesn’t belong there!)

but no!

props to them for not only making the actual joke a funny misdirection, but topping it off with this (surprisingly progressive) stinger:

[ofswordsandpens]

directors using colorful or "impossible" lighting to convey mood and meaning and beauty my beloved. directors making night scenes impossible to see for the sake of realism my beloathed.

[shanyshko]

for the rest of his life carter vaughn assumes everyone around him is a closeted gay person just so he never has to be the only one running his mouth about allyship at the fag table in the russian ice cream shop again. people try to tell him this is NOT progressive but it's not about that.

[steveyockey]

carter vaughn to his closeted bisexual teammate who he doesn’t know is bisexual: Just To Be Clear, So Everyone Knows Who Might Be Listening: I Would Have Gay Sex With Matti Jalo. that’s how supportive I am of All Gay And Bisexual People, known to me and unknown to me. anyway eric how are you handling the divorce

[smokingrozanov]

That first instance of Fingers In His Mouth is so stupid hot. Shane is lost in the sauce immediately just from the sensation of having a hand on another man’s body + something in his mouth & you can literally see the brain to body connection occurring when he decides he has to drop to his knees & get Ilya in his mouth.

[actuallysara]

About season 2 being more graphic than season 1:

Jacob: they're very similar level of spice

Hudson: hole

Jacob: no

[maklodes]

Utopian techno-futurist concept: a tofu container which has a peel-away lid which is not bonded more strongly to the container than to itself, and as such can simply be peeled away rather than being iteratively torn into shreds or cut with a knife.

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[carryonmywaywordmisha]

Okay I saw this concept on a threads post and am dying for the full fic. Is there a fic where Ilya lies about the sweet nothings he’s saying to Shane in Russian and says they’re swears or insults and then Shane calls other Russian players those terms. Like he thinks he’s calling them “asshole” but in reality he’s psychologically fucking with these poor Slavic men and calling them things only their loved ones call them. Do u see the vision???