an eternal cacophany

it's mostly D&D and gay shit

[cloudselkie]

[blackgirlsreverything]

[leepacey]

marie kondo has had ENOUGH of people calling her methods minimalism

image description: a screenshot of an instagram post from Marie Kondo, where she posted a picture of a bookshelf covered in colorful boxes, books, nicknacks, and plants. Her caption is: “Fun fact: KonMari is not minimalism! While minimalism champions living with less, I like to encourage people to live with items they truly cherish. Think of it this way: tidying is about what you want to keep in your life, not what you want to eliminate. Photo by @/belorenata. #MyKurashi” /end ID

[pathologising]

dating another person who's been thru shit is like 'I love you I'm going to maul your parents I love you'

[ladykeyleth]

Bonus:

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“I am living for this”

[toodrunktofindaurl]

“i’m quite a good snuggle buddy” “she is!”

bonus:

twitter | instagram | ko-fi

[5weekdays]

"hey, bobby, ginger's kid came out to her as non-binerary! can you believe it?"

"non-binary."

"huh? wha? what'd i say?"

"you said 'non-binerary.' the word is non-binary."

"right. non-byrony."

"oh my god"

[5weekdays]

"ginger's gonna march with her kid in the parade next year! she's so excited!"

"she'll get to make signs... chant slogans..."

"you sound kind of jealous, lin."

"well, maybe i *am* jealous. maybe *i* wanna be a PFLAG mom."

"pee flag!!"

"gene."

[5weekdays]

"...kids, are any of you non-binary?"

"i respond to both 'attaboy' and 'you go, girl!'"

"i'm whatever gender gets the coolest happy meal toys."

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Bathroom Voices Time

[thegaymertrainer]

So dope

[jordisstigander]

This may be one of the most fascinating and attractive things I have ever seen. They IMPROVISED that?

[hetrez]

Yes they did! God, I love Jack and Jill competitions, they are the coolest. They’re like the best part of a dance social (spontaneity; leaning into the lead-follow connection; the joy of dancing with different people and not just your choreography partner, so you get the same moves and steps with different style and feeling and nuance) but combined with the absolutely insane level of skill that you get when people have been dancing as amateurs and professionals for literal years.

Here’s another, one of my favorite dance videos online. Trendlyon Veal and Robert Royston are both West Coast Swing dancers, so there’s no crossover appeal, but look at them. LOOK AT THEM GO.

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[gardensandghosts]

www.Fadedpage.com has most of the Lord Peter Winsey series and thousands of other works!!

[vaspider]

Oh goodness, my mother loves Lord Peter Wimsey. She's been rereading the same slowly disintegrating paperbacks since I was tiny.

[gardensandghosts]

@vaspider oh!!! Please tell her I hope she enjoys!! Here’s all the Dorothy L. Sayers works available!

Search: fadedpage.com

[smoldragonborn]

genuinely concerned about how little queer history thats getting through to the younger members of the community. literally saw teenagers talking about how talking about pronouns wasn't a thing until 2020??? horrifying to think that they seem to insist queer culture didn't exist until they found it.

[smoldragonborn]

the fucking attack helicopter joke has been around since 2014!! leslie feinberg was born in 1949 and ze used ze/hir pronouns and obviously made comics about hir and hir communities identity and life! phalloplasty was first described in 1938!! christine jorgensen had surgery in the 50s to transition and published her biography in the 60s! even in the 1800s writers were talking about the need for *gender neutral* pronouns in both fiction and nonfiction!

yes, social media has let trans and queer people spread more knowledge about pronouns and identity, but acting like none of it even existed till the 2010s or even sooner is... concerning.

our older generations died, but that doesn't mean the knowledge has to die too! do not ignore and diminish the people before you.

[conversationswithamillennial]

Not to mention that many native cultures have words for third, or in between genders. Some languages weren’t didn’t even have gendered terms until colonization

[thetoadcrow]

tired of mfs asking invasive questions about your top surgery scars when you wanna go for a swim or just dont feel like wearing a shirt? here's some responses you can use!

"why do you have scars on your chest" "shark attack"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "my cat doesnt like me very much"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "the gods tried to take my lungs but dw i managed"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "bees"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "i worked in retail"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "those are actually my second and third mouths, they usually remove them at birth but my parents couldn't afford it"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "i fell"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "i said something controversial on twitter and the 15 year olds found out where i lived and attacked me"

"why do you have scars on your chest" *look down look back up and start screaming*

"why do you have scars on your chest" "haha oh yeah I tried to steal my brother's food when we were kids"

"why do you have scars on your chest" "I fought in the Trojan war along side the great Achilles and since then I bare these scars, I am honored to have participated in such a milestone for human kind and I am forever grateful for making it out alive, the men I fought with were great worriers and I'm sad their lives were cut so short... *start tearing up a little bit* I'm sorry for being emotional.. these scars bring me great sorrow from the memories of my fallen friends and comrades..."

"why do you have scars on your chest" "the New York city rats got me."

"why do you have scars on your chest" "i ran with scissors"

those are just a few examples, feel free to add your own if you like :)

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

Self-expression is the internalization of social authority, not the externalization of a “true identity”

It still drives me crazy that this was written in 2014

[by-moonflower-deactivated202401]

yeah i’m just gonna add the quotes that really struck me:

[hhartcandy]

Like literally everyone else, I too was fully decimated by this line

@criticalrole

[twinicegiantorbiters]

dragon hormones huuuuge needle to go through scales

[twinicegiantorbiters]

titanium or some shit

[teratocrat]

theres a knight on horseback galloping towards you holding it like a lance, only way to get enough momentum

[chipper-smol]

The HRG (Hormone Replacement Guild) provides an irreplaceable service for dragonkind

[charlesoberonn]

I wonder if you could make a spectrum of qualitative titles going from Ivan the Terrible to Suleiman the Magnificent

[charlesoberonn]

The best I could do in a 10-minute wikipedia scan

[doj-official]

To indict Donald Trump, prosecutors will need to prove intent. Well, here it comes

The hardest part will be establishing Trump's criminal intent. That's what the Jan. 6 hearings should provide

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

From the article:

Perhaps the biggest hurdle for prosecutors eventually to clear in order to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election will be proving his intent. As we explain in a new report, the Jan. 6 committee hearings that begin this week, together with what we know already, should provide more than enough proof to establish the former president’s corrupt mental state as he attempted to overturn the election.

In criminal law, “intent” refers to someone’s state of mind at the time of their criminal action. When proving intent, you need to show that they intended to do the thing that is a crime. Because it is rare to have direct evidence of what a person is actually thinking, prosecutors usually infer intent from the facts and circumstances surrounding a person’s actions.  

In the case of Donald Trump, what we already know about his actions and statements following the 2020 election demonstrate his intent. His actions explicitly showed he was willing to go to any lengths to retain power and was using false claims of fraud as a pretext. […]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

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