you will dig and dig until your hands are bleeding

Sarah 🦇 she/her 🦇 29. Keeper of secrets and teller of tales. Monstrous and beautiful. A bead and an acorn. Graduate degree in dead people.

[whynotfabulous]

People talk about "The Shape of Water" like it's just the fish fucking movie as if it wasn't about a mute woman feeling truly understood for the first time in her entire life and then yeah fucking a fish

[eternalgirlscout]

one thing that's convenient about comics is that if you want to give a random character a solo story where they have to tackle a big problem alone that they're not equipped to handle, it's so easy to handwave why they don't just call their friend with the Exact Right Superpower. oh they're busy fighting immortus again. busy signal on account of the radioactive beams. time travel bullshit happened, sorry. superhero cape is in the laundry.

[eternalgirlscout]

dont. talk about the mcu on my posts

[lordsfromelsewhere]

quick and dirty 2 hr 15 min study bc i havent painted in over a month lol

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[jingle-knight]

I’m soooooo embarrassed. My lord told me “good night,” but I thought he was calling me a good knight, and, well, you could hear it clink against my codpiece.

[eternalgirlscout]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox

Rating: Explicit

Fandom: Marvel 616, Scarlet Witch (Comics), The Vision (Comics)

Relationships: Wanda Maximoff/Vision

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary:

After Viv discovers a magically locked file in the family memory drive, she comes to the Sorceress Supreme for help. Wanda comes clean; Vision comes up with an idea. Everything comes back around eventually.

i've been haunted by the end of The Vision and the Scarlet Witch (2025) for like a calendar year. and now i am exploring my many complicated and nuanced feelings about it by making wanda finally peg that android

[eternalgirlscout]

Testimonials:

"I'm surprised at how much of this I'm comprehending" -my husband

[patronsaint-ofthedenial-deactiv]

First of all he's not my boyfriend he's some other shit. Plus scientists don't even know the ramifications of it's hazards yet

[goldensunset]

really is embarrassing being known for being obsessed with a certain character bc if you start typing ‘arghhh i love Character so much Character is so peak’ it’s like yeah everyone knows. aw look grandma’s going on about her favorite old story again the fifth time this week

[dogpuppy]

[bakersfield-row]

[annabelle--cane]

everytime I've seen a recovering addict on this site post something about wishing there were more fun social spaces that weren't geared around substance use (including myself) I've seen them get called immature asexual anti-sex homophobes who need to grow up and get a grip. which is definitely cool and normal and a reasonable way to react to people talking about different accessibility needs.

[annabelle--cane]

I want to make it clear that I redacted "asexual" here because these people are usually just barely not saying the quiet part out loud, a large amount of this knee-jerk negative response to ideas about sober social spaces is 100% a holdover from tumblr's peak "ace discourse" days where exclusionists took hold of the idea that The Asexual Community wanted to abolish queer nightlife for being tooooo horny (to say nothing of the much longer and storied history of the intersections between various kinds of ableism and acephobia). just, I've gotten a few responses to this post that seem to think the redaction means I don't see this as related to acephobia, and that is completely untrue, I made this post specifically to draw that connection.

[hear-me-out-contest]

Hear me out...

Gigi - Dandy's World

Sunflower - Plants vs Zombies

Fever - illness

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home - Night Vale

Remaining time: 1 day 11 hours

What is a Hear Me Out?

They can be considered attractive in some way to you (but often not conventionally

They are someone/thing that you would not expect to be found attractive

Round 1, Poll 79/128

[cuunos]

peak dynamic in my opinion

[contemptible-scoundrel]

youve just been attacked by the bonus tiger

[threadbaremillionaire]

POV you have one minute to live

[killrockstar]

some of the music i listen to is straight up bad

[eternalgirlscout]

reading your rabies post helped me a bit. i'm currently in an ocd spiral that's causing me to believe the tiny scratch on my face that i woke up with was caused by a rabid bat that flew into my room, scratched me, then flew out without me waking up or noticing any evidence of a bat after waking up. even typing this out and seeing just how irrational it is does not ease my fear, but your post helped a little. i'm just hoping to make it through this spiral because it's the worst one i've had yet. thanks for spreading information that can help people like me :)

i'm so happy to hear my post was a bit of help to someone <3 it's really really hard to be deep in a spiral, especially with something like rabies that is ripe for the uncertainty and catastrophic thinking that ocd feeds on. i know it feels like you'll feel this way forever. riding it out is terrifying, and worrying/checking mental compulsions are easy to do without noticing and hard to stop, but the spiral always ends eventually.