All subtext... till we fic it.

Over 18 preferred She/Her • French  • 30ish • • Translator • Drabble writer • Bookworm • “I love words. That's all.” Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (adapted by Martin Crimp)

[foodffs]

Best Lemon Ricotta Pasta

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Is this how you roll?

[beardedmrbean]

poke

[makingqueerhistory]

Making Queer History Needs Support

Hello, we need more support to keep this project going. Due to personal strains and the current economy, we need to ask for our community to rally behind us.

We need more patrons, as well as one-time-donations before the end of this month. Thank you all for keeping us afloat for 10 years, and we hope to be here for another 10 years if at all possible.

[yummyinmytumbly]

Corn Gazpacho

[pez-uzi-deactivated20160424]

Places where reality is a bit altered:

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

[sp1ne-sh0t]

I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

[mysticskyes]

I get the playgrounds at night because I walk to one that’s near my house at night sometimes and hang out. I always feel like I’m being watched or followed, or rather something out of the ordinary is happening

[flintyfae]

zine i made about being a boring queer!

nothing more natural than changing and evolving and learning and discovering things about yourself.

happy pride from this fat trans butch

[iliothermia]

i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure

[capybaralovers]

Joined our Capybara community group 👉 https://www.tumblr.com/communities/capybara-world

[queerliblib]

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

[meeliesaysno]

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

[ksfoxwald]

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

[ithasteeth]

I LOVE LIBRARY

[queerliblib]

WE LOVE LIBRARY USERS

[queerliblib]

if you’re in this situation you can still get a Queer Liberation Library card!!

queer books, for free, for anyone anywhere in the usa. we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible to sign up

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes

[worst-roommates-ever]

i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america

[worst-roommates-ever]

for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.

at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".

[worst-roommates-ever]

okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that

if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.

i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations

(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)

[yummyinmytumbly]

The Basque Tartine

[memeuplift]

[uptownthots]

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

[uptownthots]

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

[simena]

François-Auguste RAVIER

[simena]

RAVIER François Auguste

[frenchy-lu]

Hello hello,

Juste pour prévenir, on ne sait jamais ça peut toujours être utile, nouvelle version de mail douteux: https://info.signal-arnaques.com/actualites/campagne-phishing-faux-abonnement-69e-juin-2026/

J'ai reçu un mail de ce type. Le montant est ce qui, j'avoue, m'a fait lever un sourcil. Parce que je me serais souvenue d'un abonnement avec ce montant. On échappe pas aux memes à 2 balles.

Aucune idée de comment ils ont le RIB lié à mon nom et adresse mail (ça me rassure pas des masses, d'où vient la fuite sur ce coup là?) mais tant qu'on ne leur autorise pas un "remboursement" ils ne peuvent rien faire avec donc c'est déjà ça.

Faites gaffe, cliquez sur rien, et généralement quand vous recevez un mail où vous n'êtes pas à 200% certains d'avoir fait un achat, google reste un outil pour vérifier si le mail est un scam.

[frenchy-lu]

Hey, @republique-francaise-officiel désolée de te déranger. J'ai un follower count qui est plus que négligeable. Et ma banque, d'une ville avec une population aussi assez négligeable, a eu 3 personnes qui ont signalé ce type de mail. Je vais donc supposer qu'il y a eu un certain nombre de personnes qui ont reçu ce type de phishing. Est-ce-que tu pourrais passer l'info? (pas besoin de reblogger mon post, tu peux faire le tien si ça t'arrange mieux? Sérieux, je n'ai aucune idée de quel autre blog FR je pourrais @ à ce sujet ^^; )

[republique-francaise-officiel]

Oh sympa ! Merci de m'avoir tagué ! De mon côté c'est les amendes pour stationnements gênant (j'ai pas de voiture) que je reçois en général mais l'abonnement ça pourrait bien piéger des gens.

(Eh attends il me semble que j'en ai reçu un de faux amazon prime en y réfléchissant bien)

[aphrodesca]

J'ai totalement failli me faire avoir parce que j'ai cliqué sur le mail. Je peux dire qu'après on est appelé. J'ai eu quelqu'un qui prétendait être de ma banque, du service des oppositions et des fraudes, qui m'a dit que j'allais être débité si je n'acceptais pas le message qui m'a été envoyé sur mon application bancaire. J'ai refusé, et j'ai eu de la chance.