the desert, briefly, and Klara

Everything from type theory jokes to feelings about old video games. But mostly reblogs of fanart. If you want to see posts that are more likely to be written by me, maybe look me up on Mastodon. Header image by Jessa.

[bunchabears]

found this vintage ad for a weird old tv

[goomyloid]

happy birthday chapter 3 (and 4)!!

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[hg-sailorstar]

The princess

[sillyzlaurr]

DARK SANCTUARY

[xanaxfarts]

Moonbows

A moonbow, also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, is a rainbow created by moonlight rather than sunlight. It's formed when light from the moon refracts and reflects off water droplets, like those in rain or mist, creating a visible arc of light in the sky. Moonbows are generally fainter and less colorful than regular rainbows, and they are much rarer due to the need for specific conditions like a full or near-full moon, clear skies, and dark skies.

[akikazeume]

ラルセイのためにまた考えました🐰

[vividciggy]

TLT as tumblr text posts (pt. 2)

[robosuta]

Sketch I was too lazy to render. I love the rock outfits

[ace-trainer-alice]

I think a lot about how destructive observation can be. There's this idea of being 'truly seen' that forgets that all light comes from an angle. Necessarily all observation includes a perspective, complete with its own biases, assumptions, flaws, and blindspots. Nothing can "truly see" you, not even you. Especially not you, actually, you've seen yourself so much that you'll end up making countless little assumptions. I like the argument of parallax, that we can see a more complete image by taking multiple perspectives at once and comparing how they differ. But, for a truly destructive perspective, the goal is to take apart your own. In what ways can you be observed that will most highlight your blindspots, your weaknesses, your little things you ignore? It's an interesting question. How best can you be taken apart? Which threads to pull will leave you falling to pieces? What can be seen of you that is most destructive to your self conception?

[elontid]

I like how this is simultaneously hot but also rhymes with how for my whole adult life I've carefully lived as though deep criticisms I get from anyone I actually respect are in fact the most valid truths, at least when it comes to how I move through the world and my impact on other people / place in their lives.

[discoursedrome]

they're always bringing experts or activists on the news to agitate about porn and there's a standard script for this that's like "I think sex education is important, I'm not anti-sex, but so much of this porn is violent and misogynistic if not outright illegal, and it's far too accessible to our children"

I want to see someone finally be brave enough to say that the government should just make its own porn for teenagers that accords with community values, so they don't have to go to these shady places to get it. I think the government porn would probably be pretty bad but I would be so eager to hear about the process of designing it. there would be so many stakeholders and consultations. in canada it would have to be bilingual

[dickgirlsdaily]

[quendergeer]

no-one would find it at all sexy at first but then in 20 years there'd be a thriving fetish scene where people develop elaborate codes and practices around culturally-embedded tropes from government porn

[quendergeer]

guy who can only get off when his dom pretends to be badly dubbed into quebecois french

[procyoren]

Sea grunkle

[sailor-moon-rei]

by 虞花

art republished with artist’s permission // not allowed for AI training

[depsidase]

[hotvampireadjacent]

I’ve been trying to share this since I found out. They are moving onto harassing people in Memphis.

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Everyone was lovely in getting the word out about Chicago and Minnesota. I want to spread that awareness for folk in tennessee.

[fulltransmetalgenderist]

my fellow trans people: all of the answers are in the river. you just need to go to the river and everything will make sense. a lake or ocean are fine substitutions. find the water and go to it. bring your friends. go alone. have a beer.

[pealingpetals]

this really spoke to me, as a trans hippie shut-in.

find the water and go to it. 👍

[candyredterezii]

starting a collection

[toadcroaky]

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[633nm]

repping the "schoolteachers and lesbians" crowd, even when i do feel it's somehow relevant that i am married i still never want to use "Mrs." because there is no Mr. in my marriage what is his 'r' doing here

[elontid]

Growing up in the 80s and 90s this was such a big mainstream cultural deal. Like, as a "sign of progress angrily resisted by reactionaries" it felt at least as big as the idea of asking for pronouns / using pronouns people ask for feels now. Except maybe more mainstream? But those years' equivalent of today's pronoun-mockers would absolutely deride anyone who asked for "ms." and either refuse to use it or use it derisively.

Also, at the time, "Miss" strongly conveyed "single and available to be pursued (if not a Tragic Old Spinster)" and "Mrs." even more strongly conveyed "married to a man and this is his last name". That they don't have that baggage now, at least as strongly, is the result of these struggles.