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IM LAUGHING SO HARD I DIDNT THINK SEXUAL DESIRE WAS A REAL THING LIKE I ALWAYS SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED SEX BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING OR EXAGGERATING OR SOMETHING THATS WHY IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME TO REALIZE I WAS ACE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING SEX ISNT THAT IMPORTANT IM 19 YEARS OLD I CANT STOP LAUGHING LITERALLY 99% OF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES SEXUAL DESIRE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE

knightarcana

This is pretty much the definition of being an ace person, tbh, and I’m so glad.

old-songs

#I thought it was an exaggeration for literal years (via sonickitty)

this is literally the #that sounds fake but okay meme im dying

overlycaffeinateddreamer

#ME#I THOUGHT SEXUAL ATTRACTION WAS RARE#AKA#HOW TO FIND OUT YOU’RE DEMI (via @miseryauthoress)

kyogre-blue

Honestly, every single cheating plotline never made sense because “but why do you have to have sex with them? just don’t??”

skidar

^^^^ Every single cheating plot line ever I was like: What is so hard about keeping your pants on what is your problem??

callie-quite-contrary

…do you have any idea how hard it is to do literary criticism that will get published when your reaction to at least 75% of character motivations is this makes no sense whatsoever why do they even care?

sazandorable

When people ask you why you don’t date someone just to try, and when you answer that well you’re not interested in that person, they explain that usually you don’t like the person at first, but you might fall in love after having dated a little while

and you’re just?????? but what?????????? is the point of dating someone if you don’t like them??????????????

what do you mean the point is making out and sex????????? why would i want to do that with someone i don’t already like?????????

trashbandikyut-deactivated20181

I have literally experienced all of these.

genericfandomusername

the first time i saw this post it was honestly such a huge relief or so affirming or something. a lot of asexual people talk about feeling kinda weird or ‘broken’ or whatever, like realising some kind of ‘otherness’, but i honestly thought everyone was like me and just lying/exaggerating until i realised that asexuality is a thing and, no, they were not actually making up their sexual attraction, whoops

iwantthatbelstaffanditsoccupant

Confirming this. You know how long it took me to realise it wasn’t just a social thing to find strangers hot and truly want to sleep with them based entirely on that most ellusive of things:”sex appeal”? Thirty years. I spent *thirty years* thinking it was just a thing people said. A deliberate, socially-accepted exaggeration. I spent about 25 of those years taking a “huh they are kinda pretty looking” and amping it up to meet the social expectations of everyone around me.

inevitably-johnlocked

Woooow this is so relatable. I spent 34 years thinking I was broken because I just didn’t *FEEL* anything other than crushes. I never understood.

ruffboi-mags

Y'all are both valid and adorable and I’m both laughing hysterically at how OH NO, SEX DRIVES/ATTRACTION IS FULL ON A THING but also a bit pissed on your behalf that you had to spend as long as you did not understanding.

#ace of hearts (and other parts)

justintaco

I really hate those stupids posts that are like:

“What about REAL monster girls??? Not just weird humans?? like real huge MONSTERS?? With giant sharp claws and big sharp teeth?? Where are those???”

You’re thinking of bestiality. You want to fuck a T-Rex.

justintaco

viewtifulmarkovich

If it passes the Harkness Test, I’m down.

viewtifulmarkovich

For the uninformed:

randomitemdrop

This isn’t an item or even a game mechanic but I think y’all know you need the Harkness Test at some point or another in most campaigns

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here’s my issue with the harkness test

archdemoning

howtofuckamonster

The takeaway here is that Scoobert Doo is a fuckable monster

bemusedlybespectacled

look, the harkness test isn’t whether a monster is ATTRACTIVE, it’s whether fucking the monster is UNETHICAL. “do I find scooby doo hot?” is a separate question from “IF I find scooby doo hot, would fucking him constitute bestiality?”

felixitas

manstrans

questioning myself after making this

sew-birb

Steve Buscemi was in Spy Kids 2??

evil-cowboy-wizard

That’s your big takeaway from this post??

#oh tumblr #skin to skin (or skirt or lace)

dankmemeuniversity

explorerrowan

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

lynnafred

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

So its that easy huh

Of course it is

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.

#art can change the world #people can be good

kendallroynsfw

my mom makes background stories for all of her animal crossing villagers and she has, inexplicably, determined that pietro had a wife who died mysteriously. so she put a tombstone outside his house because he “moves her body with him from island to island”. i asked her to elaborate. she will not.

kendallroynsfw

i just asked if she thinks he killed his wife. the answer: “I don’t know. I just know he loved her very much. He loved her very much. Maybe a little too much. I don’t know.”

elucreh

I wrote myself a lovely headcanon about how Flurry was a single mother and kept her baby in the little wheel because it’s like an exersaucer but for hamsters

(because WHY does a SENTIENT HAMSTER have a PET HAMSTER, it was too disturbing, I needed backstory)

but then one day her baby DISAPPEARED from her HOUSE and all I could think of was she must have lost a terrible custody battle and--

no, she’s not living on my island anymore, why do you ask?

#animal crossing: new horizons #animal crossing #my fic #this is me this is my life

everythingfox

(via)

elucreh

oh my god I’m stealing this idea

#baaabies #such good parenting (and politics)

vyl3tpwny

What are your takes on shipping and the discourses that surround it?

personally i think postal workers should be paid more

#justice for postal workers!#what held them up #subverting the text

geckosocks

My favorite thing about fanfic Zuko is that he just does not have a reference point for sexism. Like:

Some person: isn’t that women’s work?

Zuko, thinking of Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee: women’s work? You mean homicide?

beka-tiddalik

When Zuko becomes Fire Lord he’s sitting in a meeting where there happens to be only one female advisor, Takiko (Which strikes him as a bit weird but for now he’s got bigger gazellefish to fry because he’s still trying to figure out who is worth keeping around even if *sometimes* (every day) he’s tempted to just turf them all out and start from scratch rather than deal with the paranoia) and Takiko’s in the middle of giving a presentation when they run out of tea. One of the male advisors remarks on this loudly, staring pointedly at Takiko. Because some female in the room “obviously” she’s the one who should be making the tea.

Takiko, used to this nonsense, starts to move towards the pot but to the collective shock of everyone in the room she is waved away by the Fire Lord.

“No, no, you’re in the middle of your presentation, I’ve got this,” says Zuko.

Male advisor: *sputtering* “My Lord! Surely Takiko can do that. Is it not below your station to pour tea?”

Zuko: “It’s fine. Uncle Iroh always pours his own tea and he’s ranked above all of you.”

*Room collectively recalls that Uncle Iroh is Dragon of the West*

Male advisor, changing tack: “She has uh… much more experience with such things.”

Zuko: *displaying an impressive level of control in using a fire technique to heat the pot that he learned during his time working in the Earth Kingdom tea shop* “I doubt it.”

(The kicker: Zuko makes better tea than anyone in the room has had in an official meeting in *years*.)

#atla #if wishes were ficcishes

witchleia

it’s pride month so it felt appropriate to make screencaps out of the perfect scene in Galavant where an army of gays save the day

#galavant #human rights for queer humans

lonelyroommp3

when you are on the internet, and you happen upon a ship you did not previously know existed, and you think to yourself “lol why the hell would anyone ship that”, and you go into the ao3 tag for a laugh just to see what the fanfiction ecosystem is like for this absurd new rarepair you have discovered, and you see a fic and think without a trace of irony “hm i kind of wanna read that”. that is your last chance to get out. your make or break moment. you are icarus and your wings are starting to smoulder. you need to make a decision there and then about who you are, what kind of person you’re going to be. because once you click that link there’s no going back for you. and that is a promise.

#subverting the text

gangler

Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”

mackasaurussex

Okay but…if someone wants to take me on a date to a Barnes and noble and get me dinner and a drink and then let me peruse the stacks like I’m not saying no. A sandwich, a beer, and 2-5 books on various topics I hope I’ll someday read about? Good night.

silvysartfulness

The Swedish equivalent of Blockbuster is now best known for its candy, snacks and sodas.

thestraggletag

This is El Ateneo Grand Splendid, an old theatre turned bookstore in Buenos Aires:

The stage itself was turned into a cafe:

You can’t even begin to comprehend the massive amounts of money this place makes, despite the fact that they turned the theatre boxes into reading nooks like this:

I’ve literally spent days holed up in there reading books for free while also consuming massive amounts of coffee and pastries.

Adapt or die, people.

emospritelet

OMG that’s AMAZING!

#art can change the world

wenofqishan

the exact same scene where we see mianmian with her husband but her husband is just wen qing with a fake moustache. it takes wwx like a full ten minutes to recognise her

wenofqishan

artist’s impression

deliciousblizzardshark

Call AO3 we don’t need any more fanfic anymore nothing could beat this

#YES #Y E S #YESTHIS #if wishes were ficcishes #the untamed

fanhackers

Call for Survey Participants

Interested in online sociolinguistics in fandom? Then have we got the survey for you! We were contacted by a research at Bellevue College, who asked about boosting their study, so we’re passing this along. The study is about sociolinguistics in online fandom, and really digs into how individuals personally define various fannish terms. There’s a particular focus on shipping and antis, and a portion of the survey is optional and uses trigger warnings for potentially upsetting content around antis and anti discourse.

The number of survey questions vary depending on your answers. People have finished in around 20-30mins, and some have really dug into the optional, long-form questions and have taken an hour! We figure around 30-45mins is a good estimate for length.

The survey closes on June 25th, so go take it before the month is out

We’re really interested to see the results of this one… fan sociolinguistics are always so interesting, especially with a topic like this one!

Survey link: https://bellevuecollege.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bBGo5Duqrhog1yC Project FAQ: https://fanthropology.carrd.co

swordofomens

@cluegrrl

#please be aware #science is cooler than skience any day #subverting the text

bustnuttington-deactivated20151

no one ever wants to mention that marsha p johnson was also a sex worker no one ever wants to acknowledge that sex workers have always been on the frontline of most radical historical movements

rohgoreihgiorefdhgirehgreihg-de

miss major and sylvia rivera were also sex workers and all of them used money from their sex work to keep lgbt kids from homelessness

somethingaboutsomethingelse

Brenda Howard, the mother of Pride, was also a sex worker. Sex workers (particularly trans and bi sex workers) were instrumental to forming the modern queer and LGBTQ+ liberation front. If your praxis and activism doesn’t include and uplift sex workers and sex worker rights, then it’s nothing more than a sham.