Bart Ender

Professional lurker

[frostedmagnolias]

Pair of Shoes

c. 1770-1779

silk brocade, leather, linen, and silk ribbon

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum

[enderofbloodlines]

When character A prepares to make a move on character B in my slow burn romance so I know they're about to get interrupted for a bullshit reason

[crinolinecuriosity]

Mod Mondrian Go-Go Boots | c. 1950-1967

[sm-baby]

[enderofbloodlines]

I've come a long way from my closeted aroace ''Yeah love isn't real, arranged marriages are the way actually'' roots but then sometimes I'm caught off guard by my stupidity. It's like I have to remind myself periodically that finding people hot is a thing and sex isn't a made up concept but an actual thing people do.

[die-rosastrasse]

Analogues I took at Versailles last Summer

[pukicho]

Top ten glands in your body to produce venom with

[leaf-de-man]

for sure the balls

[pukicho]

Your conjecture is baseless. Let’s see what the science says.

[pukicho]

It said balls

[bwaah]

i no longer yawn. i wait for someone else to yawn and say same. i am severley deoxygenated

[enderofbloodlines]

The laundry situation got so bad I had to wear The Bad Shirt™.

What is The Bad Shirt™ one might ask? Well it's the shirt of your wardrobe gifted by Satan himself. It is the one that makes you look like a sack of potatoe. It's the one that itches no matter what you do because even though the tag is only 5cm wide you swear it takes up the entirety of your left side. Now that I think of it, it's probably because the seams were stitched with dental floss. The shirt is evil, it is made of polyester so mean you'd think it was jersey with the ways it makes you SWEAT. Yes, the mischevious wrench knows its the last clean shirt you have left. The moment you put it on it cast the Fresh Skunk Whiff on you. It's been an hour, you feel so warm and sticky you'd think the shirt was trying to get a taste of his old home. You'd probably get the same results from wearing a plastic bag.

The plastic bag would probably be more comfortable.

[pukicho]

oh great pukicho there is a rumor going around on the corner of pinterest filled with tumblr screenshots, that you are transfem. i was to this point referring to you as she/her, but i see your blog description says ‘male’. we’re the pinterest folk misinformed? (i’m genuinely confused this is an actual question)

Oh is it this time of the year already?

[pukicho]

That’s okay

[superdodirty]

it ok to not be ready

[acceptanceineveryshade]

Please spread this shit like wildfire. People go on and sit through the whole experience and they’re uncomfortable because they just want to please their partner and they don’t tell them that they want to stop because they are not ready. It’s okay not to be ready. 

[lilacbreastedroller]

notice here that consent is revoked without ever saying no and consent goes so far beyond yes/no!!!!!!

[mind-breaker]

It is ok to say no

[odekiisu]

Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”

(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)

[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]

[shootingstars-or-airplanes]

Hey this is a pretty cool approach maybe we should take that to the Internet instead of trying to invade the privacy of millions of adults because some parents can't parent their kids

[enderofbloodlines]

People who don't see an issue with measures like this clearly didn't grow up in a no-privacy household. A door? What's that for? It's not like you're doing anything wrong are you? Sometimes I wonder why people who think like this don't just broadcast their entire life live for the world to see. Why not?

[nalonzooo]

🌙 oyasumimir

[justsomenobody40]

I’m really liking Tomodachi Life

[thingsfandomshavetaughtme]

I just really hate the word "fandom". It's just a portmanteau of "fan" and "random". It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word "fanbase" already exists.

idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain??

but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have ‘fandom’ when ‘fanbase’ already existed? but that’s language for you, always changing all the time

[madmaudlingoes]

Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers. 

[wordsandrobots]

So, seeing as the OED does not provide free access to its sources, I looked this up. According to various webpages, included this one, ‘fandom’ was used in 1903 by the Cincinnati Enquirer to refer to baseball fans.

Thus not only do we have an early example of a word that combines ‘fanatic’ with ’-dom’ as in ‘kingdom’, we also have a useful reminder that when it comes to excessively liking things to the point of it being its own subculture, people who are into sports have the rest of us beat by several orders of magnitude.

[yeoldenews]

As someone who reads a lot of old newspapers - I have to correct the OED as “fandom” was in wide use by the 1890s.

The Minneapolis Journal published a sports column called “Matters in Fandom” in 1892.

Use for non-sports fans dates back to at least the 1910s for film fans…

And the 1940s for science fiction fans…

The “he” in question here being Fritz Lang, director of Metropolis.

[enderofbloodlines]

The existence of a fandom implies a fansub's.

[enderofbloodlines]

NOOOO AAAAGH I'VE LET THE 288K WORDS FIC CONSUME ME FOR 24H STRAIGHT BUT IT HASNT UPDATED IN MONTHS NOOOOOO.

[enderofbloodlines]

My toxic trait is that whenever I see ''Aw tysm!'' written I read it as ''Autism''