Pink is the new black

A punk rocker with flowers in her hair. She/her, 25, Bi. ENTJ. Slytherin Pride.

[kallypsowrites]

Alicent: Rhaenyra’s children are savages and they bullied Aemond by telling him they found him a dragon

Viserys: I dunno, that seems like a pretty shitty thing to do. Are you sure it wasn’t Aegon? Cause that kid sucks

[tcustodisart]

Happy Pride Month 2022!!!

Faust the Crow loves you even more than she did last year!

[kelvintimeline]

every time i see a ship having a really dramatic, heartfelt moment i’m just like “you’ll never be sasuke and naruto” and that’s my illness, that’s my cross to bear

[kelvintimeline]

there isn’t a scene in all of cinema, literature, or even lived experience that can compare to sasuke and naruto slowly bleeding out, having blown off each other’s arms as they remembered each and every moment in their childhood where they long to be close to each other, and just lying there, bitterly trying to antagonize each other, before sasuke asks “why did you do that for me, no matter what i did to you, why did you always chase me?” grappling with his self-hatred and feeling of utterly isolated from the world

and for naruto to answer “you know already, don’t you? because you’re my friend” and then sasuke asks “what is a friend to you”

and naruto to again answer, “it’s not like i really understand it either, just that when i see you take on the world and get all messed up, it kinda… hurts. it hurts so much, i cannot leave it alone”

and they lie again in silence, reflecting on their memories, until naruto asks if they’ve died and gone to heaven

like there is NO romance in the WORLD that could EVER COMPARE TO THAT

[kelvintimeline]

sasuke begging naruto to reassure him that he can be good, asking him how he can be so sure he won’t be manipulated into doing harm again

it being so obvious to naruto that sasuke is inherently good that he can only respond with confident disbelief before sasuke turns away in tears

the almost heartshaped smear of blood between them, a ghost of hands that can only touch each other on another plane–that can only be held in the wake of violence

for real your favorite romantic story cannot even touch this shit it can’t it canNOT

[homoinsensitive]

fucked up addition:

sasuke before the fight saying “i know your heart and you, mine” — naruto is the only person who knows sasuke’s heart and thinks he can be saved; sasuke knows naruto will never stop running after him and therefore believes he “needs” to kill him as he sees their bond as his biggest weakness, his only tie to konoha that he must destroy before he can wipe out the village

sasuke about to deliver what he believes to be the killing blow to naruto, the one and only person left in the world who cares about him

sasuke after the fight, accepting that although he can physically fight naruto to the death he will never be able to destroy the love naruto has for him, and in that sense he has well and truly lost:

[godtiercouchpotato]

Him saying “I need to kill you” instead of “I want to kill you” drives me crazy. He needs to kill Naruto for his revenge but doesn'r want to kill him

[sandflakedraws]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

no one needs to add “sounds fake but ok”, “no”, “well, not me”, “impossible”, etc. to this post. and i’d rather you not.

[duckbunny]

one day you think: I want to die.

and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book.

and I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun

I want a cleaner kitchen

I want a better job

I want to live somewhere else

I want to live

[unbotheredmuse]

[hazystars]

you forgot the best part tho

(via @butchmuppet)

[chilewithcarnage]

no lie, the second half of this post really helped me put a different perspective on my life and greatly the decreased the anxiety i have about my life to come

[valenschmidt]

This wasn't the three Peter Parker hugging for me

This was Tom, Andrew and Tobey hugging happy and excited for getting this once in a lifetime opportunity to work together as the three Spider-Man. I truly believe they became really good friends after filming this movie

The three generations of Spider-Man hugging... Don't touch me I'm emotional

[britneyspears]

I might as well do a hint of my thoughts here before I go and set things square on Oprah 🤔😜🤷🏼‍♀️ !!!!! 

[enfranchisement]

Transcript:

Okay, so, I’m here today to answer all of your guys’ questions. And the first main question that you guys have been asking me is, “What am I going to do now that the conversatorship’s over with?” Very good question.

Well, let’s see, I’ve been in the conservatorship for 13 years. It’s a really long time to be in a situation you don’t want to be in. So, I’m just grateful honestly for each day and being able to have the keys to my car, and being able to be independent like a woman… owning an ATM card and seeing cash for the first time, being able to buy candles. It’s the little things for us women, but it makes a huge difference. And I’m grateful for that, you know? It’s nice; it’s really nice.

But I am not here to be a victim. I lived with victims my whole life as a child. That’s why I got out of my house, and I worked for 20 years, and worked my ass off! I’m here to be an advocate for people with real disabilites and real illnesses. I’m a very strong woman, so I can only imagine what the system has done to those people. So, hopefully, my little story… hopefully, my story can make an impact and make some changes in the corrupt system.

And the #FreeBritney movement: you guys rock! Honestly, my voice was muted and threatened for so long and I wasn’t able to speak up or say anything. And because of you guys and awareness, and kind of knowing what was going on, and delivering that news to the public for so long… you gave awareness to all of them. Because of it, I think you guys honestly saved my life in a way, 100%.

And I know there’s a lot of jokes about the #FreeBritney movement. “We’re not free; we’re expensive!” Okay, birdies, I’m expensive too!

But, anyways, with that said, let’s move forward. God bless you all. Everyone have a good year, a good Christmas, and rock on!

End Transcript

[l0uisvuittondon]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[mielnah-deactivated20220722]

are they... you know...? *makes a stabbing motion*

[delioncunt]

[quietpetitegirl-deactivated2025]

I hope I find someone that loves me the same way Stephen Colbert loves his wife ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[korben600]

The one and ONLY redeeming factor of 2020’is that Stephen has been stuck at home for the entire quarantine, so he’s been forced to do his bits at his house. Which looked real hard for him, since he doesn’t have an audience laughing at his jokes.

And the thing is, when he came back to his studio, he’s not allowed to have crowds there either because of New York’s restrictions.

But without fail, every other joke, you can hear this one, single woman laughing in the background.

That’s his wife.

Covid restrictions don’t apply to his spouse, and everyone else in the studio has a job, and has to work, so she’s become the only person in the room left laughing at his jokes.

She doesn’t laugh every time. You can tell she’s not doing it on cue, because there are some bits she clearly likes better than others. Some bits where she is laughing her ass off, and some where she just chuckles.

But my god, every time she laughs, Colbert’s face lights up like the sun.

Like, even if every other person on earth was dead and gone, if he was on his deathbed and breathing his last breath, he’d still make a jokes, just to make her laugh again.

So yeah. Get you someone who loves you like Stephen Colbert loves his wife.

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

here, have some bi-ace solidarity

[1stsana]

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

my favorite part about this is everyone tagging their ace/bi mutuals like "look!! it's us! it's you!!" target audience

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

stop being funnier than me on my own post

[thegreatescape]

i’m in tears

[bananonbinary]

seriously i wish people understood that queerbaiting has almost nothing to do with the actual content of a story. two men can gaze soulfully into each other’s eyes for 45 minutes straight and then at the end be like “oh yes my good pal friend no homo” and its still not anything more than homoerotic and kind of stupid writing.

queerbaiting is a marketing technique to get gay people to buy a ticket. it’s hemming and hawing whenever someone asks about subtext, giving long answers that don’t mean anything to sort of imply “maybe you just need to wait and find out. ;)” it’s interviews where the actors talk about how much they love that particular relationship, and they think they will ~surprise~ you with how it turns out. it’s every single trailer showing these two people almost kissing, even as the creators talk about how offended they are that anyone would think it’s gay.  it’s disney’s 65th First Gay Character that they sort of imply might actually be a main character this time but is yet another nameless asshole. it’s evil, because it’s completely deliberately misrepresenting the actual media just to make a buck.

[saint-river]

Sex Education (2019–)

[sawasawako-archived]

people really just read books like “no thoughts head empty 🤪”

[sawasawako-archived]

between white women on tiktok saying they only read books for the romance and people on tumblr forcibly applying ao3 tropes to narratives i’m beginning to think maybe you all should’ve paid more attention in 10th grade english class

[bernard-black-books]

I was talking to this girl on hinge and we got onto the topic of books (i work in a bookshop), and she asked me if i had any favourite tropes to read? And for the life of me i couldn't figure out how to respond? Like Ms, i dont read fanfic, i dont understand what youre asking. I dont think 'tropes' can be used interchangeably with 'genre'. We dont have a section at work for shit like 'enemies to lovers' im sorry thats not how real literature works

[werewolfmack]

I thought this post was gonna go somewhere relevant and interesting for a full second, but I guess not. Tropes are older than dirt. The idea of a trope has existed as long as humans have been making things, and it’s not empty-brained to ask what tropes someone might enjoy reading. For example, someone could answer: haunted houses. rivalries that span decades. tales of revenge. generational family dramas. coming of age stories. stuck in a snowstorm with a killer. The word trope is just a way people currently talk and think about concepts in literature that we’ve been thinking and talking about for ever. It just adds a layer of specificity. If you can’t comprehend someone asking you what tropes you like to read, you might not totally understand what a trope is, and that doesn’t make the other person dumb.

What I was hoping this post might touch on is how people cling to book reading as a hobby that will make them automatically smarter or more superior than those who aren’t, no matter how little mental engagement they actually put into reading. There are people who shit on novels like Things Fall Apart, The Jungle, and Invisible Man for not being “entertaining enough.” There are people who base their entire personality on being an avid reader who chose to never think critically or challenge themselves. There are people who think reading makes you more empathetic by default, when in reality anyone, even terrible people, can project themselves onto the hero if they can’t think critically about their own life and choices.

People can just be into romances, that isn’t inherently stupid. Nor are knowing what tropes they enjoy. That’s just how some people engage with books, and we shouldn’t be looking down at people for that. I have way more issue with the white goodreads users who rate Things Fall Apart as two stars and start their review “I guess I’m racist for not liking this.” I too am annoyed at the failure of public education, and I too was flabbergasted when someone on reddit asked “what’s the point of comparing two very different books to each other” when I pointed out that American Psycho kinda has Lovecraftian themes. But you’re falling off the mark here, to go on about how you hate tropes because they can also be applied to fanfiction tags. 🙄 This attitude is how people start calling themselves sapiosexual.

[headspace-hotel]

“That’s not how real literature works”

If you think “real literature” doesn’t “work” that way, you’re not thinking substantially about literature, neither in individual instances nor in the broader scheme.

What do you think a tragic hero is? What do you think a quest narrative is? How do you think we can conceive of Seven Basic Plots? What do you think Comedy and Tragedy are? Do you think the Aeneid popped out of nowhere without referencing any of the patterns of Greek epics that made it compelling to its audience? Do you think Shakespeare was popular because his plays were “original” ideas with storylines that would have been surprising to his audience? Do you think fairy tales sprung out of the air as discrete individual units? Do you think no one has ever written anything that follows the patterns of Greek epics, Shakespeare, or fairy tales intentionally? Do you think “literature” contains no works that intentionally evoke an existing pattern in their plots and characters?

“Genre” as bookshops use it is not somehow superior to “tropes.” Fantasy, Westerns, Paranormal Romances, those categories are like, less than one or two centuries old and also damn near useless for anything except marketing. Genre is a hot fucking mess and pretty artificial. Tropes on the other hand? Those have always existed. They are, quite literally, inherent and natural parts of stories.

What “genre” is the Epic of Gilgamesh? What “genre” is the Odyssey? Fantasy? Do you think it is in any way appropriate to “genre” these stories using categories that would have been nonsense to their ancient audiences? What the fuck is fantasy?

Over and over again, we have told stories about heroes destroyed by their hubris, about mortals struggling against the inevitability of death, about the antics of trickster deities, about clever young boys outwitting giants and other malicious characters, about young girls swept into royalty, about brothers in conflict with one another, and the ability to identify these patterns and explore why they have persisted is…basically what literary and folklore studies is.

Just because you consider fanfic or romance to be “lesser” doesn’t mean they can’t be analyzed, or that the mechanical components of those things don’t exist in Real Literature. 10th grade English class clearly didn’t do any good for the people that did pay attention, if people are growing up thinking tropes were invented on fanfiction websites.

And it’s just a depressing point of view to be so preoccupied with how people “should” tell stories that how people do tell stories is not even interesting.

[xiaq]

All of the above is A+ but I'll add one more thing: do you know what I just finished filling out for my publisher? Of the book that will be in bookstores next year? Paperwork listing the genre and...the tropes. For marketing and sales purposes. This is standard procedure. It's how my book will be marketed online upon release. It's how my book will end up on suggested title lists. It's how Amazon's algorithm knows that such-and-such book is the bestseller in two niche categories and 20th in a broader category as well as 56th overall in YA titles. So aside from the fact that "tropes" have existed far longer than "genre" as folks have stated above, the people/companies who make "real literature" right now literally require authors to provide lists of tropes included in the novel at the front end of the publishing process.

So if you're working in a book store and don't think tropes exist outside of fic, that's a self-own so devastating I'm getting secondhand embarrassment right now.

[secretsofthegrotto-deactivated2]

Achilles: “my Patroclus” “bury my bones with yours” “my heart’s companion” “return him to me unharmed you motherfuckers I swear to god”

Historians: they were really good friends, dudes, buds, bros if you will