[80's synthpop music plays]

[25, she/her] I can't write descriptions for shit, my dude

[raisinchallah]

season 1 xenas always going between go on gabrielle experiment find someone else other than me because she fears she will destroy her life and is also lowkey suicidal but when gabrielle brings home yet another boyfriend from old friends floppy haired orphan boyfriend sanctuary xenas like oh my god he pees on the rugs can we get rid of him i hope he dies and is like sooo jealous and protective and mad about it and keeps giving the new boyfriend weird death glares and being like come on gabrielle walk near me right now :) and pretends to be sad when yet another one of gabrielles boyfriends gets hit by a car or is eaten by a coyote when left out at night

[friendlyfreakazoid]

Every episode Xena’s like “Gabrielle I’m putting you in danger. You need to stay behind. You’re the only thing in the world I care about, I couldn’t bear for anything to happen to you.” and Gabrielle is like “Xena I could never leave you. My world revolves around you and I’m completely devoted to you forever. I’m staying by your side.” And then Xena does a bunch of backflips and immediately kills the bad guy by kicking him in the crotch

[rosegardenwraith]

Certain lines in Xena will rip your heart clean out of your chest without warning because it’s like… What if you loved a woman more than anything in the world and she loved you back but the life you led together was inherently dangerous and difficult to live and try as you might to protect her you couldn’t prevent her from getting hurt as a direct result of her proximity to you. And because you loved her you wanted her by your side always but because you loved her you wanted to leave her forever so she wouldn’t get hurt anymore. And there was no choice you could make that you wouldn’t hate yourself a little bit for. Okay I see why lesbians went crazy over this when it was airing.

[apenitentialprayer]

Am walking through Manhattan, there's a woman who can't be more than 25 in a big fur coat, walking with a cane, angrily saying into her headpiece "I want them them destroyed," I feel like an extra in a movie

[cosmicanger]

Haiti, ph. Cristina Garcia Rodero

[niqvassieart]

A little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by.

I've spent a lot of time peering down a microscope in the last few years, enjoying taking inspiration from the real tiny organisms to make one of my own.

[injuries-in-dust]

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

[pmamtraveller]

By Jackson Howell

[apas-95]

could it be....

secret mystery?

[elfagito]

every friend group has a corpse in it. if you think yours doesn't, YOU'RE the corpse.

[finalwomanarchive]

ken lum

[avtavr]

Ken Lum, Death and Furniture (series), digital prints on archival paper, 2021. Courtesy of Royale Projects and Ken Lum.

[jetix]

2022-04-11

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

[pangur-and-grim]

I swear to GOD I’m not vagueing my situation, but I made a post recently about books I was planning to read this year, and I find it very….. interesting that multiple people came into my inbox afterward to tell me that all the queer authors in the bunch had sinned. like maybe they had, I dunno. it wouldn’t stop me reading (I love Interview with the Vampire, I have Thoughts about Anne Rice, etc). but it is interesting that none of the non-queer authors merited this whisper campaign, despite some of them honestly deserving it. not saying anything outright here, just making an observation. listening and learning. you know

[pangur-and-grim]

[fandom-man]

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

[mentohol-blog]

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

[direhydroid]

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

More from the notes:

[tosety]

Oh, no, tsundere isn't the right term because we aren't trying to hide anything.

We're not about to leave you stranded but we really do think you're an idiot for getting yourself into the situation.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front