we're the kings of imagining things

[she/they]

[achillesinhighheels]

[worldformula]

what if i never see you again?

[orphanedsource]

MOHG SWEEPS!!!!

WE WON

[orphanedsource]

THEY CANT KEEP HIM FROM US!!!!

LUMINARY MOHG CERTIFIED BALLER PICKING UP THE MANTLE FOR GAYS WORLDWIDE

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[saturniandragon]

[endiness]

Did you ever love someone who didn't love you back? I know you know who I'm talking about.

[catasters]

[warl0ck-arts]

Perfection.

[audhdspacewizard]

"I wish I had something that could store energy and also absorb vibrations."

The faithful and compressable spring:

[louisealzzz]

awababwbabwbabwa

[loveisactivated]

I came back for you.

[demoncity]

Tokyo Godfathers 東京ゴッドファーザーズ 2003 — dir. Satoshi Kon

[weepingwidar]

Georg Wilson (British, 1998) - Strange Pastoral (2025)

[stephexmachina]

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

[stephexmachina]

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

[stephexmachina]

it is about being a woman. hope that helps!

[vibrantstarfire]

reading comprehension questions for the notes:

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?

[greenbloods]

genuinely i dont even think that asoiaf believes in karmic justice, but it does absolutely believe in narrative retribution. the difference is one of proportionality: none of the characters deserve what's happened to them, but they all 'cause' their own fates on a broader scale. this is what a lot of the "subverting expectations" criticisms of the book get wrong; bad things don't happen to characters out of random chance, they happen as a reflection of their earlier actions.

jaime calls bran a cripple and thinks he would be better off with 'a good clean death,' and when he himself is crippled later he realizes that he would rather life over death. ned unjustly beheads gared and lady with the greatsword ice, and is himself unjustly beheaded by his own sword. jeyne calls arya a horseface, and she later has to masquerade arya for her own survival. even catelyn's death has a strange poetry: her last act before having her throat sawed is murdering jinglebell--the only frey present at the red wedding who was an innocent--in exactly the same way as she is killed a minute later. everything you do comes back to you, but that doesn't mean what happened to you was just.

i dont think it's a coincidence that every act of one-to-one retributive violence in the story rings hollow: arya killing the tickler, vargo hoat's dismemberment and death at the hands of the mountain, brienne killing shagwell the fool, jorah the slaver sold and branded as a slave. these aren't moments that give the characters catharsis. even the large examples: valyria salted the wreck of old ghis to make sure nothing could grow there again and enslaved half the known world and in return old valyria is a smoldering doom half-sunken into the sea, likely at the hands of the very slaves they ruled. aegon the conqueror put a blood curse on the burning wreckage of harrenhal so that nothing could ever survive there and in turn King’s Landing is going to be reduced to absolutely nothing. asoiaf's narrative retribution is karma without the justice.

[processes]

minimalist pencil sketches of cats by Shou Xin (手訫)

substack

[notkatniss]

[userarmand]

we're in danger girls

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

i would like to remind everyone smugly using "usamerican" that you are not being woke or reclaiming anything you just don't understand how adjectives or languages work

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

It's not a problem that a word means different things in different languages. That's what languages are. It's fine. The person suggesting Yankee as a blanket replacement clearly has some interesting and terrible racial politics that they're refusing to interrogate. How do you people live like this

[random-jot]

[geosie]