to fish or not to fish

hi! I read things, I save things, I love you, but I'm very awkward!. still, I'm sure you're a darling! I WILL NOT TELL THE INTERNET ANYTHING ABOUT MY REAL SELF, WHATAHELL

[missing-sock-art]

Happy Disability Pride Month to my problematic princess with a disorder

Also available as Phone Charms!

[restinpiss]

The feeling of picking your skin is infinitely more euphoric than any fidget toy

[unofficial-autism-post]

Unofficial Autism Post

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[pearlo]

there’s very few things that drive me up the wall in fandom as much as this weird new assumption that fandom is primarily a space for younger people that older folks are only accepted into in a trial basis if they promise to centralize and accommodate younger fans, and further, anything else is creepy and predatory. IT’S OKAY FOR ADULTS TO PRODUCE CONTENT FOR OTHER ADULTS.

[deputychairman]

if I have to read “women in their 30s” used as an insult one more time I swear I’ll - step away from that user and just hang out with the other grownups who consistently create good content because I’m also an adult and too busy comparing car insurance to fight with teenagers on the internet, but goddAMMIT I’ll be annoyed

[teaboot]

I’ve been in this hole since yall lil shits were three apples tall and I’ll die in this hole too

[vamptits]

it's just really apparent that people think it's okay to want pain but morally abhorrent to want to give it. sorry but the sadist gets to have fun too. it's actually pretty crucial to the process.

[vamptits]

if I said I was going to a taekwondo class would you feel the need to tell me kicking people on the street is bad or.

[whoopsie-collective]

Image ID: A screenshot of a tumblr comment that says "yeah, its only abhorrent imo, when the recipient is non consenting, i've" the screenshot cuts off.

[dogspouse]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

[cheaphalloweencostume]

really? you don’t say

[immigrant]

its true though sex scenes are bad and you only are defending them cuz you wont question that men put their fetishes into everything. movies by women literally just dont have sex scenes and if rhey do its not gratuitous and lasts two seconds or its played for comedy . Fuck you and your dinners idc bro

[cheaphalloweencostume]

movies by women literally just dont have sex scenes

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i mean, it’s true! as long as you discount the crazy outliers like Jane Campion, Mary Harron, Sofia Coppola, Andrea Arnold, Julia Ducournau, Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma, Anna Biller, Jennifer Kent, Eliza Hittman, Cheryl Dunye, Dee Rees, Donna Deitch, Joanna Hogg, Rose Glass, Diablo Cody, Emma Seligman, Kitty Green, Halina Reijn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Charlotte Wells,

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Famously, women as a group have never had anything to say about sex. Certainly not artistically speaking.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[littledaisybell]

Lesbian kiss in 1930’s pre-Hays Code film Morocco.

[lady-dulcinea]

Erik & Christine Takarazuka Revue’s all-female production of Yeston and Kopit’s PHANTOM

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[rad-roche]

writing is a fantastic hobby but the kicker is it's a lot harder to show your friends as it's progressing. with a sketch i can show someone and they'll be like oh that's an apple. you can't do that with words until you get a lot of them down. so i'll just be like damn fuckin. uhh. check this out

that's right. and that's just one of the several words i know

[rowanisawriter]

that “negative kudos” poll really got me lol i have a full time job and a family. do you know what that means lol. I don’t think many people know what that means? it means i have maybe 1 hour MAYBE 2 hours a day that are mine unless i sacrifice sleep. and i use them to write fic most of the time and then i chose to post it online. And there is a subset of people that exists out there that thinks they can and should be able to publicly dislike or negative kudos your fic if they don’t like it instead of just continuing to scroll or hitting back. man no wonder so many people are so easily turning to AI, this unfeeling unflinching thing that just gives and gives more and more slop but who cares about the quality or the person who made it as long as you can just demand more and more and be given more and more. Fic and fanart are not products, you do not get to “review” them. We call it commenting because it’s not a review. And kudos doesn’t reflect on quality, it means thank you for sharing. if you feel the need to complain about something someone used their precious and rare and still valuable time to create for you for free, keep scrolling or literally just die

[seat-safety-switch]

Scientists still can't figure out why painting is both the single most pleasurable human activity, and one of the most torturous. Even the minor act of getting just a flick of pigment a few nanometers off of its intended target can destroy a full-grown adult instantly. And yet, we persist, because watching it get shiny and then dry on the surface is pretty awesome. Until you brush it with your thumb. Dammit, that's gonna need a re-do.

This love of painting is innate. You can hand a baby a bunch of finger paints and they'll bang something out, delighted at their ability to alter their little corner of the universe. Just don't let them go for too long, because then they'll develop performance anxiety about having screwed up the simplest goddamn composition I mean I am eighteen months old, I should be past this kind of mistake.

Folks since the dawn of history have been enjoying smearing brightly-coloured shit on darker shit. Or maybe you're supposed to be going light to dark. I can never remember. This feels right, and if it looks right, it is right. At least, that's what I'd say if anything I made looked right. Either way, that's how we got cave paintings, which everyone really likes to look at. Everyone, that is, except for the original artist, who if they were alive today would probably be dying of embarrassment at how many obvious errors in anatomy they made.

So if you're looking for something to do this weekend, why not smear some paint on a surface? You'll probably love it, or you'll hate it, which is kind of the same thing.

[salvaation]

literally been thinking of making this since i first watched so here

[reinapepiada]

shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics

[jose32551]

[aesungaia]