parabola of mystery

Nic. 33. They/Them. Lesbian. I write queer genre bullshit.

[true-bluesargent]

the thing is is that you'll be like. 11 years old and someone will tell you that you have to shave your legs. either it will be your mum or a friend or a mean girl in the p.e. changing rooms telling you how gross it is that you have hair on your legs. so then you ask your mum about it and she says yep you have to take this razor blade and drag it across your skin under running water and just hope you don't cut yourself too badly and you have to do this every single week and maybe more frequently than that and you have to do that for fucking ever. the rest of your fucking life. because the hair that grows naturally on your legs is gross and ugly and people will laugh and boys won't like you! of course boys have hair on THEIR legs. but that's normal and even attractive and it's just not the same for you. and a few years later they'll say well you obviously should also be shaving your armpits. and then it's your arms and then it's that you have to wax your upper lip and pluck your eyebrows and ewww why do you have hair on your fingers and your toes.. you need to shave that too. and then suddenly you need to buy spray that will make invisible hairs on your face visible so that you can shave that too! and it's expensive and time consuming and difficult and it HURTS but they just say beauty is pain babe! and you're not allowed to say that maybe if beauty is pain then you don't actually want to be beautiful

[true-bluesargent]

and i'm so fucking tired of girls who do shave being defensive when this topic comes up because then i have to say well of COURSE it's your personal choice whether you want to shave or not! no offense! maybe it makes you feel empowered! you do it for YOURSELF! because that's bullshit and i actually DO think you should stop shaving your legs because it's not fucking empowering it's insane. if you give it more than a minute of thought it can't possibly be empowering. you're in a PRISON!!!!! and i was in the prison too okay and i know it seems hard to break out but i promise you it's not. and the more people we can break out of the prison the easier it gets for everyone else i swear to god. please

[oneheadtoanother]

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[funky-clown]

Bank heist outfit ideas

[penny-anna]

Ok u know that like. Period drama shirt. The white shirt men are always wearing in period dramas. The Colin Firth jumps into a lake shirt. Are you visualising this in your mind? Ok now imagine: a butch wearing the shirt. And she has tasteful cleavage. Do you see my vision.

[parkchanwoohoo]

No I think it's really great when a friend group of approximately twenty seven individuals spread out in the sidewalk as they walk so nobody has to walk behind the group. There's nothing better than when I'm trying to get home and I see the tableau of Jesus at the Last Supper gliding towards me like Jamiroquai in the Virtual Insanity music video and I have to decide who has the narrowest frame that I can shoulder-check my way past

[dailyhudsonwilliams]

Hudson Williams arriving at the GQ Met Gala After Party at The Twenty Two in Union Square on May 04, 2026 in New York City.

[peiriaig]

my oomfs told me to post on tumblr again. I spent 2 hours drawing this grimmons, for nothing no likes I bet, so see-

[comefeedtherainn]

fandom: dragon age

relationship(s): zevran/male mahariel, fenris/male hawke, solas/male lavellan, male lavellan/dorian/iron bull

rating: e

tags: if that looks like a lot of relationship tags…yeah, this is a veilguard fix it but like with some respect and love for the original, more like a veilguard hey wouldnt this be fun, canon divergence, pov alternating, lavellan's love life specifically is SOOOO MESSY so like be warned, zevran pov, inquisitor pov

summary: An aging Warden hears the song. A weary Champion tires of war. A mortal made Inquisitor reaps what his tumultuous heart has sown.

The veil is still thin a decade after the Breach, and elves the world over flock to northern Thedas. Change is on the horizon. The Dread Wolf, Fen'Harel, Solas, a not-quite-god who moves as a mortal but commands loyalty like a deity, has somber plans that even those who were closest to him can only guess. His army grows by the day for an unknown purpose, and it is quickly apparent that if Solas cannot be reasoned with, he must be stopped. Even if he is not the only one to go down.

*~*

It has never sufficed to place all the world upon a single person's shoulders; they were always going to arrive here, and they were always going to do so as one.

CHAPTER NINE: like blood and lovemaking

“How are you spotless?’ Harding asks Zevran accusatorily. Zevran winks at her. “Once a Crow, always a Crow, my dear. It is unbecoming to dirty oneself at work.” “Speaking of Crows, what the fuck?” Krem asks bluntly, nudging one of the bodies with his boot. “Did we piss off someone I don’t know about?” “No,” Zevran snorts. “I did.” “It’s been years since they came after you,” Theron says tensely, pulling one of his arrows out of a corpse and cleaning it in the dirt. “I thought there was a new family in charge.” “There is. I daresay I disposed of enough of the Arainai line that it was inevitable.” “Woah, wait. Those rumors were true?” Harding asks, eyes wide. “I thought that was bullshit." Zevran spreads his hands, a charade of humility. “It is only partially as glamorous as it sounds.” “Glamorous? You single-handedly murdered, what, three quarters of the old leading family? And you’re not dead?” “Scout Harding, please, enough of this flattery. I am a wedded man.”

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[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[cowboy]

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

[heronbrew]

I think it's hilarious that hands down the worst way to learn magic is the actual rulebook. Please do not read that. It's just there for reference when something weird happens

[lesbianralzarek]

posts that i know are about magic the gathering but i have to check to make sure op isn't just living in a way doper world than me

[cynema]

Tim Curry taking a break on the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

[2well2water]

i think we need to bring back calling people internet famous instead of calling them influencers like there needs to be something borderline derogatory injected back into it

[lesbian-polls]

[stephexmachina]

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

[stephexmachina]

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

[stephexmachina]

it is about being a woman. hope that helps!

[vibrantstarfire]

reading comprehension questions for the notes:

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?

[306saint]

trash tarot deck (22/78)