all feral, all the time

She/her. Queer & salty. Here to be fandom trash, mostly. You'll see a lot of: feminist shit, gay shit, Dragon Age, Nana, X-files, Sailor Moon, horror, and filmblr-related posts. Yes, I take fic prompts (but may take awhile to get to them.)

[emilyschooley]

BoS - one - The End is the Beginning is the End | Emily Schooley

Happy intense full moon in Aquarius! This Patreon-exclusive serialized novel will be releasing new chapters every month on the full moon. Wh

It's the full moon today, and you know what that means... time for a brand new chapter of Confessions of a Burned Out Former Magical Girl!

"Whoever decided to burden teenage girls with the responsibility of protecting the literal fate of the world needs a good strong punch in the mouth."

And one of my favourite pieces of feedback I got from a reader:

“Astrid is like if Carol from Pluribus was also a magical girl”

[dogpuppy]

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[feastofsnakes]

they added another luftballon while you were sleeping

[tracesofsandalwood]

From the 1960's lesbian "exposé" titled Chained Girls,made to be a warning against lesbianism.

[bunjywunjy]

Have you seen the videos of orca exploding a sunfish?

yeah man that shit is nuts

[bunjywunjy]

for real though they figured out that if one orca holds a sunfish carcass still while a big male winds up and rams it at top speed, the fish basically disintegrates:

there are many reasons they could be doing this, but a small juvenile orca was later seen scooping up the shreds, so my bet is that this was just a family making Orca Baby Food.

sunfish have extremely tough leathery skin with a thick layer of disgusting-tasting gel under it that gives the sunfish neutral buoyancy and also makes it too gross to bite. the traditional way to get around these issues and get at the tender flesh inside is to be a human with a fillet knife, but I guess just fucking exploding them also does the trick.

[makingqueerhistory]

Is there a reading lust for queer history and or queer theory that you would recommend?

Yes absolutely! I have curated a couple lists for this!

For physical books

For audiobooks

These are both affiliate lists, so a part of the profits go to Making Queer History, but feel free to use as a reference to find the books elsewhere if you prefer!

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[oshacompliantmagicalgirl]

[existennialmemes]

They should invent a kind of burnout, where after you reach your limit of existential exhaustion for the third time, your health bar doubles and you transform into a bigger, stronger iteration of yourself. Like you're a nintendo boss in the final boss battle.

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[feral-hawke]

Idgaf if this makes me hideously selfish or a villain or whatever, but I am 1000% done with entertaining people who are not actively interested in me as a person, who do not make an effort to ask questions about me or care about me and my needs and my passions, and who do not bring at least 50% give and take reciprocity to a relationship most of the time. A handful of people in my life are big mad that they have reached the "finding out" stage of what happens when they do not express curiosity or care, do not make a mutual effort to plan time together and expect me to do all the planning all the time, and do not bother to check in on me other than when they want something from me. They are finding out that I no longer expend emotional labour that is not fairly reciprocated... and frankly, they only have themselves to blame for fumbling me, because I have finally remembered how fucking awesome I am and I know how much I am capable of giving when I am properly valued, appreciated, and held.

And, conversely, since deepening my boundaries around my time and my emotional availability I have enjoyed the deepening of several wonderful friendships with people who acknowledge and respect the invisible labour I have put in across so many areas of my life; people who want to help create ease and joy in my life and who generously give me opportunities to receive love and care and gifts and support with ease. People who cheer me on and remind me to hold good boundaries, and who actively celebrate both personal and professional wins with me, as well as holding space for my disappointments and frustrations.

It's refreshing to know that people who value me and are willing to put in the work to be in relationship with me exist. I wish I could go back in time and give my younger self the audacity to love herself enough to choose herself first always.

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[hahaimdrowning]

Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, Militant Mary

November 13, 1914

[adelphicoracle]

I had never heard of this character before, but it really was published over a hundred years ago. Here’s a comics blog talking about her, and a couple more gems:

Obscurity of the Day: Militant Mary

It's hard to believe that this blog has been running over a dozen years now, and I am just now getting around to mak

[dalishious]

Adventures in Thedas are waiting for you!

Nearly 14,000 words later, and it's finally finished: My own take on a Dragon Age modification of DnD 5E! It is created with thought for those who are pre-existing fans of Dragon Age, but potentially new to Dungeons and Dragons.

In this handbook, you will find everything you need for a TTRPG in the Dragon Age setting:

4 lineages (human, dwarf, elf, qunari)

3 classes (warrior, rogue, mage)

5 specializations for each class

16 sample backgrounds

And more!

There are three main reasons I decided to put my lore knowledge to work and make this:

The official Dragon Age Tabletop game is just not that user friendly, in my experience with it; especially for anyone new to TTRPGs. This book I have put together is based on Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, which is a system that far more people are familiar with, and therefore is a) well known by many already, and b) easier to access further information on for those new to it.

While I was able to find a couple versions of similar modifications other people have made, those versions were out of date with the lore, and/or did not meet my personal taste/standards.

I love being a Dungeon Master, and I want to run more games set in Thedas in the future. But like I said, the official rules just aren't good for me, and I would prefer something like... well, this!

This handbook is free to use by anyone who wants it. (You are also, of course, free to make changes for your personal games as you like.)

My only ask is that you please reblog this post so more people can find it. I worked really hard on this, after all. Thank you!

[desinteresse]

Men who talk shit about gold diggers underestimate the grit it takes to put up with an insufferable man, even when money is involved. We should be thanking them for their service like they are veterans.

[little-trash-ghost]

Can't leave this in the tags..