Hell is a Teenage Girl

“Queen of the Depths” a fantasy/romantasy, out now and available on Amazon (free on Kindle Unlimited). “Sorcerer of the Courts” currently in the making.

[greyishdisaster]

Hot take but it is NOT a coincidence that our bodies fit together like the continents fit into Pangaea

[penny-anna]

Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O

[greyishdisaster]

Imagine one of them is like a turquoisey color and one day Grace calls them green and another day he calls them blue and then the whole class is like “AHA WE HAVE DEBUNKED YOU” and Grace has to explain that humans fight about colors too

[greyishdisaster]

I mean this in the most respectful way possible but can an asexual person PLEASE explain ace-platonic relationships to me? Like I don’t get how they’re different from regular “this is my bff” relationships. Like I get that it’s a bond that “transcends friendship” but isn’t that just like… really close friendship? Idk I’m just confused 😭

(p.s. just because I don’t understand ace platonic relationships doesn’t mean I don’t respect them, I’m sure they’re completely valid I just don’t know why)

[greyishdisaster]

“Fashion boobs” and other ways to stop hating women

I think Society™ underestimates the power of a name to make someone feel bad (or good) about themself. Like I’ve been seeing a bunch of TikToks recently about how girls heard someone call their flat-chestedness “fashion boobs” and they immediately stopped feeling insecure.

Part of the appeal of this term is that it isn’t inherently sexual, like many of the other terms attributed to breasts in general, and nor is it demeaning. It reminds me of when I first heard about “hip dips” and felt disappointed, but then someone else called them “violin hips” and said Marilyn Monroe had them too, and I immediately felt much better about myself.

There’s something very relieving about a non-sexual term which still attributes value and beauty to the recipient.

A lot of large-chested people in the comments of “fashion boobs” video lament about how they feel like they always look trashy when they wear the clothes they like, because their breasts ruin every outfit. They feel like a whore. And I wonder if those people would still feel the same if there was a widely used term to describe large breasts that didn’t sound like a name that a fetish-ridden man coined (I’m looking at you, “calcium cannons.” Eugh.)

Anyway, point being: maybe the problem was never women’s bodies, but how we speak about them.

[starsandscars81]

Do you ever think about the fact that one of the first things we know about Jesper as a character is that he cannot hold grudges well? Especially since vengeance fuels the other crows so intensely???

[greyishdisaster]

Even the most “moral” of the Crows still hold grudges (justifiably so). But Jesper— the one who, out of all of them, might just have killed the most people— can’t stay mad at Kaz for testing his loyalty or any of the other terrible things Kaz does. He just seeks his approval. There’s definitely something to be said about Jesper’s violence vs intent.

[greyishdisaster]

I just got rejected from every dream school I’ve ever had and I don’t know what to do with myself. I guess im just shit at writing essays.

[byjove]

I think it’s funny that robot vacuums are just robot vacuums but humans talk about them like they’re little pets.

[greyishdisaster]

Well they’re so little and cute and they need a little help now and then and they just go vrooooooom

[greyishdisaster]

I don’t watch My Little Pony but I now have a head canon that the reason they say Rainbow Dash like Rain Bow Dash is because she’s named after one of her relatives who invented the first rainbow and was named Rain Bow in the same way someone might be named Norma Jean or Bethany Anne or something like that. MLP fandom please accept my head canon

[greyishdisaster]

What, you don’t go to the woods and take selfies with the demonic looking deer statue that’s been slowly eaten down over time?

[saltoncity]

scientists are trying to discover something harder than getting out of bed to go to work in the morning. and dont make a fucking penis joke ok they already checked everyone’s dick and it doesn’t even come close

[greyishdisaster]

I’m literally scrolling rn because I can’t get myself to get out of bed

[greyishdisaster]

i dunno about you but PERSONALLY when i go to the woods, i always stop to say hi to Felipe

[headspace-hotel]

thought about that quote "homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in one" but how awkward would it be if we discovered another species that was homophobic

"homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in two. what? oh, humans, and the yellow-patched cuboid pinecone wren that was recently discovered on an island off the coast of canada. they're fucking bigots"

[greyishdisaster]

I’m stupid can someone explain what the new tumblr update is and why it’s bad

[greyishdisaster]

In “All Quiet on the Western Front,” there is a man— a farmer— who is one of the oldest in the group. He might be around thirty. The rest are all older teens, somewhere from sixteen to twenty.

The farmer is named Detering, and when the horses scream out in pain and agony after being bombed, this happens:

“His voice is agitated, it sounds almost dignified as he says: ‘I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.’”

Then, a few chapters later, in the wake of a bombing, there is a soldier screaming out in pain and agony that no one can find. Detering says nothing.

It is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war. But boys?

Well, no one likes it, but no one says anything about it, either.

[whydatewhenyoucanhyperfixate]

hot take: i actually don’t think wylan is on the autism spectrum. like yeah, he’s not great at social skills, but let’s not forget he was isolated from the entire world when he was at least eight, maybe earlier. he only had private tutors and i’m pretty sure his father only talked to him to scold him. so of course, when he sees people his own age for the first time in nearly ten years he’s going to be a little awkward. also i’ve heard people say his flute is his special interest but if (you believe) you have only one talent, one redeemable quality, wouldn’t you focus on that a lot as well???

so yeah i totally get that the signs are there but still… i think it’s more trauma than actual autism

[greyishdisaster]

In my humble opinion, if any of the Crows have autism, it’s Matthias. I’m just thinking of the way he never fit into the Drüskelle and couldn’t comprehend the way the other boys thought, even if he DID get indoctrinated. It was his social isolation which drew Jarl Brum to him.

[greyishdisaster]

Oh you thought “always an angel never a god” was bad? Try “always the invisible girl never superboy”

[tpwrtrmnky]

researchers: this condition is underdiagnosed advocacy groups: we'll spread knowledge that it's underdiagnosed healthcare workers: some of us will use expanded diagnostic criteria now patients: wow we finally know what's up

tabloids: the condition is mysteriously spreading. this is DANGEROUS.

[tpwrtrmnky]

healthcare workers who don't want to get with the times: as an authority on this subject, i say this is super duper scary. i have been half-assing care for some patients who have this condition for 70 years and so i am the highest authority you should listen to. researchers? more like reprobates.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The tags specifying autism are correct but like there's a reason why I chose to not name-drop a specific condition. Which is that this describes EVERY manufactured moral panic around greater visibility for some medicalized group of people.

[greyishdisaster]

Flashback to every time people have said “everyone has ADHD nowadays!” in response to learning I have ADHD even though I’m literally a textbook case, I just happen to not be a man