*shrug emoji but wearing cool shades*

zee, 30, they/them

[enlitment]

spill for me, Muse, the wine-dark tea on a problematic man

[fcntasmas]

nothing unsettles me more than like a good fic on ao3 with no opening notes and no end notes. nothing but story. who are you? where are you writing from. are you ok. who hurt you

[fcntasmas]

#i click onto the author’s dashboard and open all their other fics looking for notes on them#they are all similarly blank#i go to the author profile. it tells me the author joined in 2014 and nothing else#they have no bookmarks. they have one gift and it’s a bts fic from orphan_account. none of their own fics are bts fics.#this fic has altered me. i leave an unhinged comment then bookmark it and go stare out the window // via @elegantlyloquacious

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users are addicted to telling on themselves when precisely 0 people asked for it

[lakemojave]

I for one would be embarrassed as fuck to announce that I have a hard time relating to both real and fictional women, that I find no meaning in black art forms, or that I find trans people of my desired gender invariably unattractive. Like if those were things I believed then even my therapist couldn't get that out of me. And yet.

[i-am-the-oyster]

[merildae]

Body of my sweater is done!

[qqchurch]

the Ice War on Europa...

[qqchurch]

[deep-state-partisan]

[somestrangeangels]

[strawhatsufi]

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

[strawhatsufi]

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[strawhatsufi]

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

[black--stars]

[Start ID: tumblr tags that read "#ohhh fuck that's a really good way of lookking at it #it forces the relative nature of it all to the forefront #it *makes* the listener pay attention to the fact that their context isn't THE context #and removes the assumption of Default]

[trollkatt]

Big Jack

Pet Foolery, #93

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[shrubfriend]

I love you Martha Wells. I love you and your beef with privatized transit and whatever happened to you at Rainforest Cafe.

[littlespoonevan]

i actually think what makes buffy and spike's dynamic so interesting is that they've both already had their Big Love. she loved angel and he loved drusilla and for both of them it was the all-consuming, can't sleep, can't think kind of love with that instant attraction and constant desire to be around each other. so then what happens between them can't be that, bc both of them fully believe they'll never love like that again. and so instead what you see is a love that kind of creeps up on them both at different points???? and by the end that love has transformed into one of comfort and this sort of relief that comes from feeling so understood by one another - not because it was something that just happened but because they had to work for it and realised they wanted to

[lonelyroommp3]

and so javert you see it’s true this man bears no more guilt than you. who am i?

[b777-36n]

No, I don’t care if it’s “just the overture” or “only the orchestra.” I don’t care if there’s no one technically onstage yet. Put your phones away and stop talking. The show has started.

[per4mancecheck]

[captain-price-returns]

[filmnoirsbian]

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

[filmnoirsbian]

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

[filmnoirsbian]

I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

gshsjb

[enki2]

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm