Yellow Octopus

A collection of the random interests of my strange twenty-something mind. LGBTQIA+ safe space. I don't intend this to be any sort of advice blog, but if something that makes you really want to talk to me, I'm happy to receive asks! Happy blogging!

[byjove]

what drink I think certain characters from Arthurian legend would order at a bar:

Sir Lancelot: Vodka Red Bull.

Sir Galahad: A glass of water, no ice.

Sir Gawain: The most pretentious craft beer.

King Arthur: Any beer. Not pretentious, not picky.

Queen Guinevere: Grapefruit seltzer of some kind.

Sir Kay: Stout of some kind.

Sir Bedivere: Dry martini.

Sir Perceval: The fruitiest, girliest, most whimsical cocktail on the menu.

Merlin: Also a whimsical fruity little drink enjoyer.

Morgan: Espresso martini.

The Green Knight: Absinthe and he genuinely enjoys the taste.

[byjove]

Galahad orders himself a single glass of water with no ice because of his ascetic mindset. Sometimes other knights will order him a Shirley Temple and he secretly enjoys that.

[byjove]

[darnitjack]

Ser Gawain: "My liege, which brewer like you best?"

King Arthur: Whosoever provides it free of charge.

G: My liege, 'tis bartered. None charge you even a sous. Which like you second best?

A: Whosoever provides it fresh and chilled

[byjove]

Arthur will drink the most mid beer ever with far too much gruyt and be like “my compliments to the alewife :)”

[gabriellelestat]

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

[space-feminist]

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”

(source)

feel like it's related to the phenomenon mitski's discussing here - if women's art is only seen as unfiltered diaristic emotion then of course it can only ever be accidental genius, never created with intention and thought

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

[bovineblogger]

LEAPS N BOUNDS!!!!

[doombellow]

@joy-and-whimsy-official

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This bison is joyful and whimsical!

[aammorbidccuriosity]

So here in UK politics a bin is about to win a By-Election

[typhlonectes]

Ouroboros Pie Crust by Danielle Baskin

[theinturnetexplorer]

Being a nature photographer seems great, maybe I should try…

[hareofhrair-in-a-funny-hat]

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Chris Judge Art !

[armengoldira]

[shirtsthatgohard]

[fionn-o-nassus]

Not gonna lie this makes me a bit irritated. Here's the real version of this photo:

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

It wasn't a guy being cheeky about sex in an ambiguous, cute way. It was a man stating, in no uncertain terms, that a whole state of the United States considered him a criminal for being homosexual.

[cabingold]

no somebody bless us with the characters being Bad Students. Annabeth who should have a 4.0 gpa but she can never focus in tests and although all her teachers love her, they can't help but wonder if she's cheating because. how else can she write such brilliant essays and turn in such amazing projects but still get a sixty percent on the test? thalia who attends high school for exactly One Year and pisses off all the teachers, one of them tells her she'll be a dropout someday and she never comes back. leo who was doing college-level geometry at eight years old but the teachers hate him because he can't sit still. and percy. who has been expelled from every single school since he was seven years old. who feels soooo bad every single time because he knows this means months of him and his mom struggling to find a good school that will take him for next year, he knows this means he is a Disappointment, and he really really really wants to go to college because. that was something his mom never got to do! and she s worked so hard to get him here! but also. he's juggling Kronos and emotional drama and a whole lot of other traumatizing shit and he almost flunks freshman year. gets caught cheating off rachel's test. never shows up to school on time. has to skip class every once in awhile so he can help with battles. can't help but feel like a Failure and still there's just. nothing he can do.

our favorite characters who are so bloody fucking brilliant strategists and mathematicians and sharp-minded and are dealing with a whole lot but pull out of high school barely earning that diploma just eager to Get Out. because ADHD and dyslexia and the Wars and the System. anyways

[evilnicegirl]

this would have got 100k notes as a tumblr post in 2018

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[ndnbutch]

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

[danielkahndyke]

sorry it’s actually so fucking crazy thinking abt how certain places have banned burqinis like literally making a woman take her clothes off in public like that shit is so fascist

[danielkahndyke]

genuinely horrific like that’s law mandated sexual assault & we just let it happen. hello. can anyone hear me.