[ithiliien]

OUGHHHHH i’m thinking about el and orion and orpheus and eurydice and it is painful. el leading everyone out of the school but orion staying behind. el going BACK for him to lead him out a second time. can anyone hear me.

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[despazito]

It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[beggars-opera]

So I just found the most useful photo album in existence for tumblr arguments

[noldorinwa]

I HAVE FOUND MY FAVOURITE POST ON THE INTERNET

@georgeorwell @lordhellebore @francisperfectionbonnefoy @janiedean and everyone else have you guys seen this gem

[janiedean]

OH MY GOD I’M SAVING ALL  OF THESE RN

[fagstaynight]

(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ

[shroomshroomm]

[burnazog]

[thegadaboutgirl]

One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn

[theskyexists]

ONE MORE THING

Liesel is actually an incredible character?? BECAUSE she 'sleeps her way up'. It's so nuanced and uncondemned that I didn't even realise what a subversion she is. She 'sleeps with'/'seduces' Alfie to better her prospects and make her ambitions possible.

The implication of that nasty condemnation of women sleeping their way up in the workplace is that they get an unfair advantage and leg up because they do something as disgusting as trade sex without having any actual relevant skills or merit.

But Liesel is valedictorian i.e. she is the most accomplished, hard-working and competent person in the whole year. She is the most competent leader of her generation.

If anyone should get on top for merit, it's her. But she won't, because the system doesn't reward competence with power, only relative safety.

So she 'seduces' people i.e. offers mutual commitments to people by a classic schema i.e. a relationship that includes sex.

She uses sex transactionally, trades it as one part of the deal/package. She makes that very clear, which is why El keeps thinking later that she will want to be repaid. (As well as for other services/help rendered. )

I just love how El goes: well fair enough. Because it IS a fair deal. Alfie and Liesel have a symbiotic relationship going on where they provide each other with what they both need and want. El even sees how it'd be a fair deal for her, and the offer of sex is really just a sweetener - AND a shorthand for: we'd be partners in life.

[bigscaryd]

See that's the thing about Liesel. She's willing to trade sex for what she wants, but given the opportunity (and she's given it!) she'd much rather trade her unbelievable skill and drive for what she wants, but she also figures "you are worth hanging around, we might as well fuck."

Like I'm pretty sure Alfie wants her for London and his family's faction there more than he wants to get in her pants, but he's not gonna say no. Similarly, while she dangles the hook out for El pretty early on, I'm also pretty sure that she doesn't make the affirmative move herself until she's already decided she's fully On The El Train and she figures "I'm probably going to be following this chick around for the next couple of decades, we're both already stressed out to the point of collapse, we should see if we're mutually compatible for stress-boning."

[bigscaryd]

Oh and when I realized that Liesel Is Hermione...

[bigscaryd]

I have now said "Liesel is Hermione" to two people in person and they both made the exact same face.

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[furryprovocateur]

[gayfrasier]

i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.

[secunitscompromisedbrain]

excuse me, no I wasn't???

[beguilingcorpse]

congratulations to today’s lucky 10000

[socialistexan]

[vitabreva]

[themummersfolly]

How dare you leave this in the tags.

[animentality]

[mikkeneko]

#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden

[karometeenk]

me me me me me me me

[animentality]

[pitviperofdoom]

There's nothing sexier to me in fiction than characters that take integrity to its logical conclusion. Characters who understand and accept that Doing Good is not grand heroism but thankless drudgery, who get dirt and blood and vomit under their nails in the name of kindness, who look hatred and cruelty dead in the eye while throwing themselves into acts of compassion that no one will ever know to thank them for.

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[animentality]