insomnicat

Howdy, & welcome. Don't know how you stumbled upon this page, but it's nice to have you here. Header image is by apofiss. I don't really care what pronouns you use for me, & I don't feel comfortable sharing my actual age, but I am over 18. I go by Sleepy, but you can also just call me Cat. Fandom sideblog is toomanysleepythoughts.

[insomnicatvibes]

I don't know how I got here, & I don't know what I'm doing. My only hope is that I don't fuck this up somehow.

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[steampunkforever]

Once I finish killing this guy the cycle of violence will be over, trust me guys

[enraged-fanby-and-co]

Friendly reminder that women are also very much enforcers of the patriarchy, often unintentionally so.

[chaotic-carnifex]

Intentionally, too. There are also plenty of women who will deliberately leverage the fact that they've gotten good at fulfilling social expectations around femininity and womanhood against others to boost their own social clout, often by deriding those others for not living up to patriarchal ideals.

[vetchtibbles]

wow you folks write some really good posts keep it up 👍 puts my hands into my pockets and stands there a little too long

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[apricops]

people saying that nepotism is a problem created by capitalism make me lose my mind. have you heard of this thing called "a king"

[houndmother]

(bravely) tote bags suck!

[houndmother]

I just don’t wanna carry a bag that only goes on one arm, I hate being permanently lopsided. but like.  At the same time. I feel like a kid when I wear a backpack. And the backpacks made for adult adults are all ugly. there’s gotta be a better way.

[cowboyspones]

women were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic

[json-derulo]

when we started talking about getting a small-breed dog I was like, "I will NEVER turn into one of those people who treats their little dog like a doll or an accessory by forcing them to dress up in ridiculous outfits. Dogs HATE that. They should get to be DOGS, and that means not having to wear anything but a HARNESS and being FREE to ROLL in the MUD." and then I adopted a dog who throws a fit if you try to take him for a walk without letting him pick out a bow tie first. a dog who loves wearing pajamas so much that I'm about to spend a disgusting amount of money on several sets of linen ones for summer. a dog who watches me wave at him to follow me through a mud puddle and just stands there blinking up at me like, "are you fucking serious? and get my paws wet?"

[json-derulo]

me: I will raise him no differently than the two 80-lb labs I had growing up. absolutely no hoity-toity frou frou little yapyap dog stuff. he's gonna be a good ol' fashioned, rough-and-tumble, capital D-O-G—

—never mind. the boy yearns to be ensweatered

[json-derulo]

to celebrate the popularity of this post, I ordered him another set of the linen jammies in yellow. now he looks like paddington bear

the etsy seller threw in a little miniature hermes silk scarf as a freebie and I dare you to tell me he doesn't know how handsome he looks in it. whenever we take it off of him he broods like he's a wealthy victorian orphan child in desperate need of a seaside holiday to restore his delicate aristocratic constitution

[digitaldiscipline]

went out for pints with the lads last night.

[kuttithevangu]

I just saw someone make the assertion that “everyone on booktok has low literacy, and romantasy books are bad because they’re catering to those people”

And this was meant to be a BAD thing. A problem. But if you actually believed that a massive population of low-literacy adults were buying books, becoming obsessed with them, and discussing them at length… wouldn’t that be a great thing? That’s how one moves from low literacy to high literacy: by practicing reading

Unless you think low literacy is an immutable quality reflective of poor character, in which case YOU are actually the problem

[dragonastra]

Apologies, im going to go off on a slight tangent.

Now the take OP saw is objectively wrong. I don't think romantasy is inherently bad, and its definitely not bad BECAUSE it's catering to bad readers. There are a lot of issues with the publishing industry right now and i think a lot of authors aren't getting the editing they need to make better books. That's a different issue, not restricted to romantasy.

I sincerely hope these low-literacy readers gain literacy this way, but the odd thing ive noticed is they... DON'T seem to be practicing reading. As in, the book they read in their mind is not the book on the pages their eyeballs are seeing. It's bizarre. Like, to the point where theyre making recommendations and discussing aspects of the book.... and then like, my friend checks it out and reads it and is like "I have no idea where they got the idea that this size kink porn book was breaking down feminine stereotypes".

Anyway i just wanted to go off on a tangent. I distinctly remember fucking Twilight being hailed as a gateway book for the first several years it was out - like yeah it wasn't the best novel, but girlies got obsessed with it and it made them seek out more books. Which was undeniably a good thing.

It's just an extremely odd time to be in, where a lot of readers......... aren't actually reading.

[kuttithevangu]

I mean, the example you’ve given sounds like people who are in fact reading but don’t know enough about feminism to recognize when a book that SAYS it’s breaking down a stereotype is actually enforcing it. It takes time to build contextual knowledge and understanding of deeper implications in text.

All of the straight romantasy bestsellers SAY they’re female empowerment, their authors truly believe they’re female empowerment (after all, she’s writing her fantasy! As a woman!) but as far as I’m aware none of them are really challenging dominant gender roles or heteronormativity. It takes a more advanced reading skill to realize when someone is actively lying to themselves and to you about the content of a book.

If you were a good reader when you were very young, you’ve probably already made this step. You’ve had time to be in spaces where people actively dissect media they enjoy and criticize it. If someone is JUST NOW getting into reading as a hobby, then they haven’t had that time to build context and analytical skill.

Your friend’s experience describes people who ARE practicing reading. They just haven’t mastered it yet. What you describe as “not actually reading” is first of all what most people do when they’re just reading for fun, and secondly, a stage every high-literacy person also went through at some point in their lives, you just maybe don’t remember being in it because you are a statistical outlier

I promise the twilight girlies who went on to read other books ALSO weren’t reading twilight that critically. Until they were.

[pinklocksoflove]

[introvertsnation]

[iminato]

Reblog if you have mourned the death of a fictional character.

[ianoshea]

If you do not reblog this you are in fact lying.

[itsbeeugaymers]

…..so….so so many….

[cee4bugza]

[brightgoat]

FIGHT!! Or flight...

The Illager and Piglin forces clash as the Raiders try to keep the horde away from their almost completed portal, and as the Piglins try to recapture the one Villager- further convinced of its value as a resource from how its been helping the Raiders... but suddenly....

Minecraft: My World AU - Nether Arc Part 15

CLOSE UPS:

[queencalico]

[narwhalsarefalling]

this was the image i was trying to send btw

[galladegamer]

[cyberr-v0id]

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be a long haired man