Ignite the Limelight!

A blog about nothing at all except the passions of a dyke with varied interests. Technically a theater blog. They/them. Witchcraft Blog: @thewoodbinewitch

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[ms-demeanor]

I just have to lock in and get through my to-do list and then I'll start my new system with a clean slate and everything will be better.

[ms-demeanor]

Me, replying to every malingering email in my inbox: "It's going to be such a relief to clear this out finally!"

Everyone I'm replying to sending a response at the same time because I emailed them at the same time: ...

[ms-demeanor]

I'll set a calendar event for two weeks ahead of time and two days ahead of time so I won't forget.

[ms-demeanor]

If I just remember to do it every day it'll become a habit and I won't have to think about it.

[ms-demeanor]

I'll just stay at my desk until all of my tasks are done for the day and then they won't build up.

[ms-demeanor]

That's important, let me write it down on my hand so I can't ignore it.

[ms-demeanor]

If I skip lunch I'll catch up a little bit and I won't have to stay late or start early to stay on top of things.

[ms-demeanor]

I think if I work late all week that'll get me through the backlog and then I just have to keep up.

[ms-demeanor]

I have been out of my ADHD meds for three weeks and won't be able to get new prescription for another two weeks and there is nothing I want more right now than a single massive task that I can drill into for ten hours a day because having thirty small tasks that take twenty minutes each every day is grinding me into a fine paste and piping me onto crackers with a dill garnish.

[whatbigotspost]

2021:

Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher's review of nearly 70 studies finds

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

2021:

The Effect of Spanking on the Brain

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

2018:

Science Again Says Spanking Hurts Kids Long Term

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

2016:

Spanking Harms Kids, Doesn't Work And Leads To Long-Term Problems

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

2012:

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

2010:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

[whatbigotspost]

This post needs a "it's been 5 years" update, so here we go:

2022:

Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study

Spanking is a risk factor for children's social competency. However, establishing causality is a challenge, given selection bias in samples

The effects of spanking on psychosocial outcomes: revisiting genetic and environmental covariation - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Background There is a vast literature on the negative associations between spanking in childhood and various psychosocial developmental outc

2023:

Corporal Punishment in Schools - PubMed

The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical method for management of behavior concerns and causes harm to stude

Spanking and executive functioning in US children: A longitudinal analysis on a matched sample

Spanking has been linked to multiple maladaptive child outcomes. However, previous research linking spanking with children's executive funct

2024:

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly d

2025:

Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact

This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any pu

Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower

[whatbigotspost]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME TUMBLR

So annoying. So GD annoying.

[jstor]

hi jstor. I love you jstor

[fatartappreciation]

Hi, I love this blog! Do people ever send you their own art to post, or does that not happen often? Been getting back into sketching lately and was wondering if you were at all interested. I’ve attached them just in case

Thank you so much for your support and appreciation and for sharing your fine artistic work! Your subject, the devinely beautiful Angelina Duplisea, is beyond reproach, and you have done great justice to her masterful photographers Julia SH and Allan Amato. Please keep up the great work!

[heatherwitch]

I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.

[queer-as-city-folk]

The fact the 2 colors removed from the rainbow flag were pink and teal, is kinda ironic given that those same colors can make a trans flag

[queer-as-city-folk]

This is a coincidence of course, given the colors were removed in the 80s and the trans flag was made in 1999

[cuddlef1sh]

the sex-magic trans flag

[paperandpencilsandskips]

when a cloth mutual sees your wire post

[re-dracula]

Visit Original Link

For every 10% we raise, we’ve got a Dracula meme read by our cast to share with you all. Our 20% milestone is this post.

You’ve already unlocked the 30% meme but we’ve got another in store at 40% funded!

[wordswithkittywitch]

I wasn’t aware I needed to hear Dracula say “Fuck you fuck you fuck you” today, but it turns out that I did.

[pangur-and-grim]

dogs that I've been tempted by this week

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[sandersstudies]

Name as many Shakespeare plays as you can. Feel free to write them down and check your answers but not to cheat. How many can you name?

0

1

2-3

4-5

6-7

8-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-35

36+ (“all of them” depending on who you ask)

Remaining time: 3 days 14 hours

Tell me in the comments: are you from a country that speaks predominantly English? Was any Shakespeare required in your education?

[jaydenskyle]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[kaosuqi]

photoshop fakers are like the villain with moral standards now

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

“If voting did anything they would outlaw it.” Is such an insane take to me, because literally all of human politics for recorded history has centered around Outlawing the Vote.

[beezelbubbles]

Big tiem agreed. The problem is due to loss of ciritical thinking skills, people don't understand that "outlawing voting" doesn't come with a big announcement of "voting is now illegal" delivered by a mustache twirling villain on tv and now nobody at all can vote.

Outlawing voting looks like th SAVE act requiring the name on your ID to match your birth certificate making it illegal for millions of married people (primarily women, but this would have affected my former husband) and trans people to vote.

Outlawing voting looks like increasing restrictions on mail-in ballots, making it illegal for millions of disabled people and people without access to voting locations to vote. It looks like voting locations being hosted in buildings that don't have to comply with ADA. It looks like closing polling places so that high population areas don't have the capacity to get everyone through in a timely manner. It looks like requiring state ID and then restricting the number of available places to get that ID and making it expensive, because that technically isn't a poll tax.

It looks like absurd redistricting. It looks like "accidentally" purging active voters from the voting rolls a few days before the election. It looks like piling as many restrictions onto voter registration as they can.

Outlawing voting looks like voter suppression. But it really is the same damned thing.

[foldingfittedsheets]

When Korben was a kitten and I’d had him around a week he jumped up onto my keyboard. I scooped him up and set him back on the ground because kitties who walk on keyboards don’t get desk privileges.

When I looked at the screen he’d perfectly typed “loki”. I know those letters are all right next to each other but it still seemed portentous as fuck.

I looked down at him and said, “I will call you Loki over my dead body, you’re Korben and you’ll like it.” He’s been the most troublesome and mischievous cat I’ve ever owned but I refuse to cave to omens.