Kiana Khansmith
todays bird
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
Jimmy Eat World
Phantogram Three
Not today Justin
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Color Me Curious
cherry valley forever
Origami Around
No title available
YOU ARE THE REASON
sheepfilms
The Stonewall Inn
Today's Document
Product Placement
titsay
🪼
No title available
Fieri Frames
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Bulgaria
seen from Indonesia
seen from United States
seen from Colombia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Mexico
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Albania
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
@hottdadganondorf
need That character absolutely delirious with fear. recoiling from everything. unable to parse what's happening around them, their mind stuck in fight or flight. shaking and hyperventilating. completely unconsolable even as they're wrapped in a crushing hug.
galaxy brain addition thank you
The problem with trying to come up with a way to say "this book has sex in" is that there's loads of options which all mean different things and none are perfect. Like...
clean/wholesome vs dirty - obviously this one is bullshit, we don't need to talk about why
smut/smutty - a classique. Pretty good, but feels like its falling out of favour.
steamy - as above, really. feels slightly more vague, makes me assume it's sexy but not explicit. More dated - been replaced by spicy.
erotic - erotica is a whole genre to itself, with different parameters to romance. Conflating the two weakens genre defninitions for both.
explicit - does what it says on the tin, but risks sounding a bit clinical. If steamy is make outs and fondling, explicit is genitals getting described up-close.
spicy - gets a lot of complaints, but lends itself well to a rating scale and is very popular
open/closed door - this is a good shorthand, but not very familiar to people who aren't reading romance. Again, doesn't rate very easily - a closed door is a closed door, but the open door could lead to either slow vanilla missionary or a full-on BDSM scene.
porn/pornography - comes with a lot of assumptions which makes it harder to use in certain spaces. Sits at the 5/5 end of the scale in my head. Similar to erotica in that its a distinct genre.
saucy - this is just a Carry On film. no one is aroused.
sexy - too vague. colin firth fully clothed in a pond is sexy. gwendoline christie in plate armour is sexy. that one fish from finding nemo is sexy. brushing hands described in the right way is sexy. could mean anything.
this book has sex in it - literally no
Then you've got the problem that websites like tiktok and instagram, which is where most marketing happens, can surpress content that's too sexy, especially if its queer, and authors are being forced to be over-cautious with the words they use.
And we also can't forget too that on these platforms you have to catch people's interest really quickly, and often they might not read the description. So you have to catch people as quickly as possible, using as few words as possible.
Antique by YEONJUN
I am literally writing a story featuring this type of sphinx, albeit without wings, with 4 limbs and the forelimbs being a human/animal hybrid allowing for grip… And it’s a struggle to find references. Then I log on, scroll past bed time, and here she is…
The hunched and monstrous knight with a spiked flail who wanders the crypts under my keep escaped last night.
Coincidentally a lot of bludgeonings in the hamlet last night, probably nothing
Marx and Engels
Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent, England by Nigel Dunnett
met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name
the worst part is I can't dare ask her that last question because then she might say something like "You don't remember, do you?" and pull out a katana and obviously I'm not stupid enough to take that risk
can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy
It's from the "Maxims of Ptahhotep", purportedly written by a 96-year-old vizier to pass on his wisdom to his son:
If you marry a good-time girl
A joyful woman known to her town,
If she is wayward,
and revels in the moment,
do not reject her, but instead let her enjoy;
joyfulness is what marks calm water.
yay ty. Between the above and the links in the mentions we have 3 translations total
Happy Wife Happy Life is 4.5k years old
Other sites also have the "Does anyone have this image?" posts, but only on tumblr you'll find "Does anyone have that mesopotamien clay tablet?" posts.
The End of the War, oil painting by EvgenyEliseev
me, struggling to write: hmm, this part is a little difficult. maybe i should check my planning document, which i created as a helpful tool for my writing process!
the planning document:
imagine you kiss me because you think im pretty and then i stab you. a little
Im rooting for all knights/bodyguards who are in love with their charge/the one they are sworn to protect
Just a psa for fic writers who use the “trauma bond” tag, please make sure you’re using it correctly. A trauma bond is not two people who experience similar trauma and bond over it. It’s a carefully curated, manipulative bond between abuser and victim to keep the victim coming back because of the addictive highs and lows that come with abuse.
If you want to tag two characters bonding over shared trauma, a good substitute tag would be “bonding over shared trauma.” Trauma bonding is, by definition, an abusive relationship and may steer people who have experienced it away from your fic. Please spread the word and happy writing!
Feel like this is relevant again, so just gonna leave this here for anyone who needs it (been seeing this term used incorrectly a lot lately).
Yes! "Trauma bonding" and "bonding through trauma" are two different things!
Can’t leave stoat’s tags to wither in the notes
remember, these are the animals that still get hunted with weapons designed to make them stop coming toward you, more than they’re designed to actually kill them in one shot. General recommendations for load out include large caliber “backup guns” in case it gets too close after the first long gun shot doesn’t kill it.
Because boars are basically berserkers, and hurting them makes them want to hurt you back so bad that they would impale themselves on the spear you stabbed them with in order to reach you and murder you before they bleed out.
I once worked with a woman who went on a boar-hunting trip for her 40th birthday. her husband, carrying a large-caliber semi-automatic rifle because he’d done this before, drove one out of the tall Kansas prairie grass, but didn’t see where it went until he reached the clearing where his wife was standing, pointing her .357 magnum pistol at the beast as it charged her
she didn’t fire until she was certain of her shot (no time for a second shot when a creature that big is charging that fast and all you’re holding is a revolver)
her hubby only had time to shout and unsling his rifle before watching her fire directly into its brainpan from just 12 feet away. by the time it skidded angrily toward her, it was deceased - but barely, still biting at her feet
he never went hunting with her again
ovaries of iron on that woman
i used to work with a guy who regularly went boar hunting with a bow, and he refused to use guns to do it because he had quote “seen too many bullets bounce off them”
Then he explained that boar have a really dense really thick layer of fat under extremely tough skin and the way the physics of that works apparently means bullets can skip right off them instead of penetrating.
We all made fun of the 30-50 feral hogs guy but he was right.
If anyone wants to hear from the 30-50 feral hog guy, he gets interviewed on this podcast
I listened to this while doing some work and really enjoyed it.
you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out
