my promise...i've kept it.

hoot, she/her, adult aged. AO3: hoothalcyon icon by ace-artemis-fanartist

[girlkaramazov]

just helped an old old man log into his outlook account and we succeeded and he said “young lady, go in peace. we have accomplished this mission.” what an electrifying way of speaking…

[tsarina-anadyomene]

There's really this strong temptation that everyone has which basically says "to have interiority is to be like me; ordinary people are surface everywhere." And this manifests in different ways in different spaces, and becomes really pronounced when you cluster together with similar people. So tumblr users often act like straight people don't have any interiority because it helps you feel the deepening of social bonds with other gay people. This happens professionally too. I think it was Summer or Sharks who was saying that programming people think that intelligence is just being really good at writing code. Not surprising but very strange to me! I am (equally ridiculously) used to thinking that intelligence is being really good at philosophy, having command of a lot of sources that you can use creatively, etc. This reflects a kind of dynamic on tumblr and reddit. On reddit to have interiority is to be a science guy and on tumblr to have interiority is to be a humanities girl (and the dynamic is gendered in exactly this way). And I think there is something dangerous about habitually regarding other people as automatons. It's good to have people outside of your niche to remind you that other people from different walks of life are quite deep and complicated. They are full of love and fine grained attention to things you never thought to care about. And I think a lot of people go through life thinking of themselves as perpetually victimized by basically empty people rather than having genuine confrontations with full, genuine people who are committed to subtle, complex and real values, who have detailed and intricate histories, and who have a bond to you that you might never quite fully understand. But we rarely even try at understanding these things. We just decide that they're stupid and ridiculous and unreasonable.

[bigbluefishi]

Eowyn 🐴

[liarsblade]

Anyone else a little irritated that we can't talk about how the This Book Is Afraid Of Me phenomenon is in many ways a rational response to the online Torture Panopticon without someone writing an essay about how the Solution is to switch from reading the genres you like to reading the genres they like instead or is that just me

[liarsblade]

"this is why you need to switch to reading erotic bodyhorror mechsploitation webnovels" okay so 1. I don't think that's going to help actually because people who work in those genres are not like, magically immune to the panopticon 2. This does not dismantle the torture nexus actually? 3. I don't like........ Want to read that ...... So.....

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[orteil42]

Wait, what? You are a guy? o.O Your posts are all so.. girlish..

[lunehowls]

lazy doodle bcs im lazy

[aisatsaa]

Day 1: Soulmates

«Excuse me, I think you may have dropped your book»

[sleepnoises]

boyfriend's quail photos have reached perhaps a lifetime peak today

[blutopaz15]

two more silly "good morning" gif edits of our dorks in love

feel free to steal!!

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[nedlittle]

people always talk about the doomed love timeloop when they talk about hadestown. look i love that shit as much as the next homosexual but can we please talk about the revolutionary politics. genuinely one of the best anticapitalist pieces of art of the 21st century. can we watch act 2 with our brains please

[a-fucking-velociraptor]

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[dajo42]

this is the happiest day of my life

[laloon]

[keranos-god-of-storm-crows]

Too soon

[saheeli-rais-wife]

65 million years…

[randomslasher]

Don’t worry, guys. Carl is clearly a brachiosaurus, which lived during the Jurassic period. (And before anyone says our lil’ boy Steve is a velociraptor and therefore puts our comic in the late cretaceous, aka the time of the comet–that lil guy could easily be a compsognathus or a caudipteryx, both Jurassic-era species of small theropod dinosaurs. So the light getting bigger every night is going to pass by harmlessly, and Steve and Carl can go on enjoying the stars together until they die of old age, since Carl has very few natural predators at his size and I bet he’ll protect Steve, if he needs it (though small, fast and carnivorous as Steve is, he probably won’t). 

So it’s all good!! 

[gardenofroseandthorn]

That entire response explaining how these two characters didn’t die a fiery death but instead lived long and happy lives literally made my day.

[amurderofkittens]

I was ready to be heartbroken again. Thank you for making it happy after all.

[stillarriving]

build a fire and see if i die

[valtsv]

sorry for thinking fully clothed sex is hot. sorry for thinking that making someone ruin multiple layers of valuable fabric separating them from me because they're so desperate for my touch is attractive. i'm so fucking sorry alright.

[valtsv]

put your clothes back on. no i didn't lie we're still having sex just have some faith in me on this. can you do that.

[jackimer]

Knock knock who’s there it’s Rocky!

[evardstentacles]

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever