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i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

harpyharpyharpy

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

geralt-of-riviass

I need as many people as possible to see this cause I'm all giddy about this project and how good it turned out.

Cross stitch Rocky puppet made with plastic canvas.

uncahier

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

jayalaw

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

riceflavor

I say we keep making things queerer and more diverse just in case

remy-labelle-purple

People who fear spiders tend to let their phobia get the better of them, a new study finds.

cadere-art

Gift for my most beloved husband of two black capped chickadees.

ikkiturso

Hii! This is my 1st post on Tumblr :3 love Hypnos sm

theghostparty

You think the devil has horns? Well, so did I But I was wrong, his hair is combed and he wears a suit and tie He's nice, polite, he'll catch you by surprise A smile so bright, he's the devil in disguise

(truly can't believe I had to google whether cigarettes were smoked in 1871 and then learned that later 19th century they were referred to as coffin nails)

blluish

clumsypuppy

this has been plaguing my mind for days

brehaaorgana

wait wait okay I have discovered people visiting the US for the first time and treating Yellow School Bus like a celebrity sighting and this is so pure and great. Yellow School Bus like in the movies is real.

emi--rose

This off season I am working on a Ranked List of Best Violence from the 2025-26 season. I am therefore accepting propaganda for violence and also music to set the violence to.

My current top 3 are:

3: Laroque WWE super slam on Fast

2: Montréal - New York line brawl (feat Ozzy Leaving)

And of course at #1 is Stace absolutely flattening Curl, lmfao.

adamantineheart

my fav not mentioned yet is the "is that my circus? are those my monkeys?" knighter moment during the MSG game

emi--rose

Top 10 for sure. The memes were also choice

havinghorns

This is a real wonky proof of concept for another Drunkard's Path modular linoprint but I'm v excited to redraft it properly, the repeat looks v cool and it can kinda go as big as you want.

godtrauma

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]