Schweben im Nirgendwo

[sin-ophelia]

Fangirls Through the Ages by Lid Thom

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of

[lefildelhorizon]

CRISS CANNING, Green Chrysanthemum, 2016

[lamignonette]

[lotstradamus]

it's fic rec time once again my fellow bastards of the ice rink. part one and part two are here for your Perusal. may we always feast.

situationship era:

florida by garagepaperback

A little more "Touch Me" by foolishgames

degausser by knucklecurve

Knock on Wood by mcshrug

liminal boyfriends:

apple tree, my brightness by campholmes

the marble leaves the man by citrusses

pour out by dinosaur

berlin pond by toyourdetriment

the great surrender by totheverge

the one hand rim-rocker by tedyexe

breaking your ground by twnkwlf

one of them gets outed:

i really hope you're gonna get out soon by taywrites11

AUs (one or both not a hockey player):

bloodfeather by embodied

AUs (both still hockey players):

The Sochi Affair by flawlessassholes

Home Ice Advantage by taywrites11

omegaverse:

dark out and still thirty degrees by tedyexe

wildcards:

like a virgin by eleadore

blender in a blender by garagepaperback

toil and trouble by thathastu

[ouroborosmotifs]

how am i supposed to relax when there are things

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[pollen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Wild Pear Tree"

[stringcage]

Years of personal growth can be unraveled in 2 days at your parents house

[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[transfemmbeatrice]

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

[ymutate]

Maynard Dixon

Clouds On The Mountains

[lets-talk-about-sects]

Okay kids buckle up for the INSANE story I just heard from my little brother

[lets-talk-about-sects]

**As a disclaimer my brother is a cis straight dude who only dates the most basic white girls you can find. He's very emotionally aware but doesn't linger on his emotions, just processes them and moves on (this is wild to me)**

He calls me on my break just to say hi, that he’s driving back to Denver from visiting his girlfriend, to which I respond “didn’t you break up with your girlfriend (of like a month) last month” and to which he says “yeah I have a new girlfriend, we’ve been together four weeks but I went up to spend the weekend and meet her friends” and I’m like ok great this is already ridiculous

[lets-talk-about-sects]

So we’re chatting and I’m teasing him about how he doesn’t sleep with people on first dates and he says that he’s changed his policy, it’s just that he won’t have sex with them if he’d rather be doing something else, so I joke that I’ve had that where I’d rather be watching the show Chernobyl (true) and he says “yeah or watching a movie with my housemate” and I say hey bud that’s kind of gay and he says yeah I actually had a weird gay moment last night

And I go oh???? And he goes yeah, I was at the bar with the girlfriend and some of her friends and one of them was a guy and we were hitting it off, doing a little flirting as you do with your bros at the bar~

[lets-talk-about-sects]

And then my cis straight brother goes on to explain that sometimes when you’re out with the homies and you’re having a good time and the vibes are right you just give em a little kiss, like just a kiss on the mouth between bros, “no tongue or anything like that but just to express that you’re close and having a good time”

I’m like “My dude that’s not a thing” and he’s like “between confident straight men it is” and I’m like “NO IT’S NOT"

[lets-talk-about-sects]

So there we’ve got my brother having casual queerplatonic relationships with his homies at the bar, and he’s telling me this and I’m obviously speechless, so he goes on and he’s like “so because this guy and I were hitting it off I go in for a little kiss and he fucking swerves me” and I’m like yes my guy but because my brother is actually very good with respecting boundaries he was like “ok man great communication, won’t do it again"

BUT

Apparently my brother and the dude and my brother's GIRLFRIEND who has been there the WHOLE TIME go outside (I assume to have a cigarette but he didn’t tell me that part) and the guy turns to my brother and is like “man I should have kissed you when you offered it” and my brother is like “cool good shit man” like in the most bro way possible and then the guy grabs his face between his hands and just PLANTS a big one on his mouth

And THEN the guy panics and shoves him down on the ground!! And my brother has the normal reaction to being shoved on the ground unexpectedly which is to say “what the FUCK” and the girlfriend says “what the FUCK” and the guy goes “what the FUCK” and leaves

[lets-talk-about-sects]

And my brother ended the story there and was musing on it like "this guy obviously has some complexes to work through about his sexuality, no confident straight man kisses another confident straight man and then panics and runs away”

Which took me out at the KNEES lol

[lets-talk-about-sects]

And that, dear readers, is the batshit story my brother told me!

[lets-talk-about-sects]

OH MY GOD AND

AND

I told my coworker this and they were like I’m actually shipping him and his roommate and I was like HUH because I hadn't considered that and then later my brother sent me a photo of his housemate wearing sexy handcuffs

[lets-talk-about-sects]

nice

[themundanemudperson]

#WILD#this is so validating for fic writers everywhere#your blorbo Can In Fact Be that oblivious

love the prev tags

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[insomniparty]

[visenyaism]

Being or having been a student the American public education system absolutely entitles you to have whatever opinions or reflections about the system you hold in your heart. But whew there are a lot of people here speaking on pedagogy whose base level understanding for why they did anything they did in school clearly has not advanced past “my teacher made me do this task or think this way or write this thing for no reason other than she’s a bitch”

[visenyaism]

“Why did I have to do worksheets/comprehension questions” Making sure you understand the basic factual content of something is really important before moving on. Incentivizes a closer reading of the text than you otherwise would have taken with built in scaffold of things to look for the answer to while reading. Processing your thoughts through writing helps them stick better than just reading.

“Why is there lecture” In terms of efficiently establishing facts to get everyone on the same baseline there aren’t many better ways to use class time. Everyone needs to be on the same page about The Facts before you go and practice a skill.

“Why is there homework” so you could practice what you learned in preparation for next class.

“Why didn’t they teach xyz” they DID teach you the skills to recognize the gap in your knowledge and be able to rectify it. Education and literacy are the keys to self-sufficiency and not having to just believe the things people tell you. You are never limited to just the content you learn in school when you have all the critical thinking and research skills you learned as well.

“Why did teacher insist on their interpretation of the text” When you’re teaching a skill (how to substantiate an argument by looking for slash analyzing evidence) the content (the interpretation) should be familiar or given out so that you can focus on building what matters. Vice versa when teaching content. They could also just be right.

“Why can’t things be more engaging/fun” some things will never be as fun as phone. A nonzero but hopefully minimal part of education is always going to be making people do things they would not otherwise want to do. Coping with being bored is itself a life skill.

“Why did I have to ask permission to leave the room” Teacher is legally responsible for your well being and needs to know where you are and how long you’ve been out in case there is an emergency.

[slugbus]

autumn/winter affirmations:

7 p.m. is not late

your day is not over at 7 p.m.

you are allowed to leave your house after it gets dark

7 p.m. is so early