Cricket's Place

regular activity resumed amid the weight of it all. trying to make every day more beautiful however i can. || she/her || disaster bi || late 20s || multifandom || LINKS: AO3, Cellblock Scorch Podcast, KoFi

[rozanovshane]

this is just for laughs and not to be taken seriously at all :)

here’s my ai-free quiz. it’s just for fun and not an actual reflection of your personality. happy shanebugging :)

[rozanovshane]

which hudson williams are you?

dedicated to my wife @centaurshane

[rozanovshane]

which connor storrie are you?

i did this for one reason only lmao

[russianblush]

i haven't made a uquiz in over three years but this one is a Very Important study. feel free to reblog with your results <3

[rozanovshane]

which ilyabug are you?

happy ilyabugging :)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

come on down to the airport! we got

the worst coffee for $20

the tax-free smells gauntlet

people who have never read signs before

border cops, who are like regular cops except they only do the harassing immigrants part of the job

your country's least favourite franchise bar

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

It’s so funny how like. Spock is queer bc of the subtext, the Otherness inextricable from his character, meanwhile William Shatner was handed the straightest man of all time on paper and fumbled the bag bc he couldn’t stop giving Leonard Nimoy fuck-me eyes and now he lives in a bi Kirk hell of his own devising, forever enduring the conshatquences of his shactions

[phantomrose96]

wow this scene in my head is great. once i write all 50,000 words to get there then you'll understand too

[redstonedust]

your blorbos don't have to be romantic to love each other (#platonic love wins) but also they don't have to love each other to be romantic. ship those characters as a loveless marriage. make their feelings tragically one-sided with no hope of change. put them in a dead end relationship that they both know needs to end but neither are willing to admit it yet. more bad ships forever. its enrichment for me.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we need more fat fitness instructors and I'm dead fucking serious

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

to be seen on social media, fitness instructors basically always have to have contemporarily attractive body types. whereas fitness instructors you meet in real life have a huge variety of body types.

being a well-qualified fitness instructor requires education and experience and yes, usually a significant level of fitness, be that strength, flexibility, stamina, so on.

Many people have all of those qualifications, while also being fat.

Perhaps the biggest lie advertising has sold you is that being "fit" means being thin. That is spectacularly untrue. The world is filled with fat athletes, amateur, professional, in all variety of sports, performing remarkable feats any of us would be damn proud to accomplish. That's a hell of a lot of experience and talent, including many educators you or I would be lucky to learn from.

[chucktaylorupset]

and then there would have passed a pleasant slash fanfiction, had the authors misogyny not been immediately unveiled

[chucktaylorupset]

in our rush for “he would not fucking say that” how we forget the all too common: She Is Not Fucking Like That

[chucktaylorupset]

good morning, the likes on this post now outnumber the hit count of the fanfiction on which this was based and with your help we can make that true of the reblogs amen

[contagiousgrace]

The Sound of Music really did teach me a lot from a young age about the importance of knowing the implications of your boyfriend's political beliefs, his moral character, and choosing someone you're aligned with, not just someone who's good at dancing with you. Also, to be wary of blonde men.

[pealeii]

❌ “friends don’t look at friends like that” devalues friendship/platonic forms of love, pushes amatonormativity

❌ “historians will call them friends” devalues historians and forces complex relationships into modern simplicities, also devalues friendship/platonic forms of love

✅ “do they know its legal now” suggests the characters are stupid, poorly suggests that this is the only barrier to their relationship—both of which are funny as hell

[flightsofwonder]

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

[flightsofwonder]

why does this have 85K notes

[randomslasher]

because we reblogged it instead of cleaning our [x]

[ackee]

my unwoke thought. i dont think all genderbent characters should look exactly the same as their original. it takes a certain wisdom to know when their femininity or masculinity is key to their character regardless of gender, or when the behaviors/traits tied to their gender (or the opposite gender) being important to them is actually is what's at play here. though i do think more people should make genderbent characters look exactly the same if it means there's more muscular women. end post

[auroraboringaliceinwonderland]

I love every single interaction between Persephone and Eurydice. The way Eurydice looks at her always smiling, and the awkward interaction when Persephone poured her a strong ass drink, and the sadness on Persephone’s face when she sees Eurydice there in Hadestown.

Legitimately the way everyone interacts with Persephone. They really do treat her like she’s a goddess. Every touch she gives someone, or look she makes at them — there’s a reaction like she’s a literal goddess in your presence. Because she is

But like. With Eurydice especially. My gosh. She looks up to her and loves her so much, and you can really tell how Persephone cares for her too.

For everyone, really.

Their interactions are special to me

[swampgallows]

"tbh we might have clowned on [aros & aces] a lil too harshly" bigotry. the term you're looking for is bigotry. denying communities their vocabulary and ability to safely exist because you think you're the personal arbiter of which identities are "valid" is bigotry. minimizing and infantilizing and harassing entire groups of people based on their orientation is bigotry. aphobia isn't some forgettable phase of being cringe as a teenager, it's bigotry that inflicted long term damage to these communities.

[swampgallows]

These notes are heartbreaking. There are hundreds of aspec people describing in detail how they went back in the closet or lived in denial or in fear because of the malice, harassment, and ignorance toward aromantic and asexual people. Aspec positivity tags used to be full of porn and gore. This included pictures of the corpse of a teen girl who came out as asexual the day before she was brutally murdered—and Internet strangers responded by debating her orientation.

Aphobes tried to argue that only lesbians could experience corrective rape, or that it was somehow appropriating a term exclusive to South Africa, or that an asexual person willing to have sex could not be correctively raped. They insisted any evidence of oppression was either misdirected or fabricated. Being an entry in the DSM until 2013 and developing medication specifically for treating the condition didn’t count. 

They told us all of our words were either stolen or stupid: allistic people tried to say that “aspec” was specifically about people on the autism spectrum; “zucchini”, squash, and other innocuous aspec terms and motifs (black rings, playing card suits, cake, space, dragons, etc.) got ridiculed to death; QPRs as a concept are derided as “just friends” and irrelevant to anyone but aspecs, who themselves are deemed irrelevant. In fact, the “clowning” quote in the OP was in the notes on a post of mine about the importance of recognizing queerplatonic relationships. 

Aphobes insisted that aspecs couldn’t speak other languages, that it’s a “white people thing”, that teenagers are just trying to feel special, that it’s a side effect of SSRIs, that we’re “basically straight” (straight-passing, i.e. erased). Anything to deny us our existence. Anything to minimize us, to keep us invisible and silent, to blame us for intracommunity issues, to invalidate us. 

I got attention for getting angry in 2018, and I’m still angry now. This has been happening on tumblr for over a decade. It’s been known for a long time (and even admitted by terfs themselves) that aro/ace exclusion and trans exclusion go hand in hand and contribute to terf rhetoric. When you hurt us, you are hurting your own community. Arguing that aspecs do not belong is not “discourse”. It is bigotry.