#lionhouse

[isozyme]

whenever i come across any fic of yours or a post you’ve made comes up on my feed im like “hey it’s the ‘i don’t reply to comments as a general rule’ person” like that’s literally how i remember you and have known of you for years because that statement is so weird and ungrateful and stuck up and it sours my interest in anything you have to say

congrats, coming into my askbox and calling me a bitch WILL get me to respond to you, you cracked the code. good job.

[isozyme]

to expand for everybody else, now that i've responded to anon in kind, i do wish i was the sort of person who liked replying to ao3 comments. i wish i was the sort of person who had ever successfully sent a thank you card in a timely manner! all my friends who manage this are so nice and kind and considerate and i admire them a lot.

i really, really, really, really do love getting comments on my fic. it's just that i know myself, and either i can have an inbox of comments that need a reply endlessly growing and perpetually hanging over my head making me feel guilty, or i can tell everybody "hey, if you comment you won't get a reply" and the people who will be disappointed by that (such as this anon) will know ahead of time that they shouldn't bother complimenting me.

[isozyme]

whenever i come across any fic of yours or a post you’ve made comes up on my feed im like “hey it’s the ‘i don’t reply to comments as a general rule’ person” like that’s literally how i remember you and have known of you for years because that statement is so weird and ungrateful and stuck up and it sours my interest in anything you have to say

congrats, coming into my askbox and calling me a bitch WILL get me to respond to you, you cracked the code. good job.

[isozyme]

when i was in my second year of graduate school, we were all required to attend a discussion group with our peers and a faculty moderator to fulfill our science ethics requirements. for discussion we were given a print-out with a few hypothetical scenarios and asked to have an open-ended conversation about what we thought would be the right thing to do if it was happening

there was one scenario i remember, which went like this: you're a male graduate student, but your professor is giving preferential treatment to another graduate student in your lab because he's in a romantic relationship with her. how should you address the favoritism?

and in that small, wood-paneled room, i had the dubious pleasure of being the only person who believed that the favoritism was unimportant compared to the fact it was never-ever-ever okay for a professor to sleep with their student. i found myself trying to argue that point while also having no idea what to do if i actually discovered it happening in my lab. this was over a decade ago: #MeToo wouldn't be a widespread thing for at least a few years.

i felt so alone, surrounded by fellow grad students trying to get me back on topic about the issue of favoritism. the faculty mentors offered me nothing. i remember telling a grad student friend afterwards about how gross it was, and she said it wasn't bad if the female student was into it - after all, she told me, she was actually dating a post-doc in her lab who was over 40.

it's been a long time. i don't know what the moral at the end of this story is or if it has a point. it's just an experience that happened to me.

[foxglovecove]

Some doodles from the amazing Newt/Hermann fic “First a Darling, Then a Marvel” by @isozyme

Emotional highs and lows, Newt obsessed with cloning a kaiju, and some smooches. Cannot recommend it enough!

[shaythey]

scene from this fic by isozyme on ao3

[isozyme]

as we enter another period of horrific online censorship, remember this:

you must protect the anime titty for the anime titty's sake as well as for the sake of queer people and sexual education (etc). it is good and beautiful for there to be cheesy games to masturbate to. nobody is growing hair on their palms and going blind.

kill visa and mastercard with your bare hands

[ashintheairlikesnow]

They start with the anime titty, but they never stop there. Censorship is a ship that tosses a few overboard but never tells you the plan is to drown everyone on it.

[redwingedwhump]

Censorship is a ship that tosses a few overboard but never tells you the plan is to drown everyone on it.

[isozyme]

hi op here and i know you all agree with me! we are not fighting, but i want to stay on the topic of my post:

even if online censorship was only going to ban stereotypical titty porn that is made for heterosexual men to jerk off to and leave all the other things alone, that would still be bad.

[isozyme]

dear thin people: you are not better than a fat person. you are told every day by society that you are more hard working, more discerning, more tidy and desirable and virtuous. but that's not true. you may have worked very hard to be thin, and you're still not better than a fat person. people choose different things to work hard on, and even though i have not chosen to make changing the size of my body a project of my day to day life, we are equals.

dear fat people: you would not be better if you were thin. society would praise you extravagantly and treat you more kindly, but that's because society hates fatness and you stopped being the thing they hate, not because you became a better person. there is no secret good thin person living inside your bad fat body, waiting to be freed like a pomelo being peeled. you now and the thin you in your imagination are also equals.

you can't tell by weighing someone if they are lazy or diligent, kind or cruel, ignorant or erudite. you can't fucking tell.

[alphawritersworkshop]

Applications for the 2026 workshop are officially open! Check out our website to learn more about the workshop and application process: https://alphawritersworkshop.org/. Excited to see what stories you're cooking up!

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

As a trans man I actually want to do a little reach across the transphobia isle and talk about "the butch shortage"

Because I believe the butch shortage is a real thing. The reason I believe that is because I'm a gay man who's into femboys and there is also a fairly gnarly Femboy shortage. But I think, if you're really a feminist, you'll understand me when I say that there's a fairly obvious reason for that that has nothing to do with trans people.

I know you spend 100% of your time obsessing over us, but trans people are not actually that common, we're common enough, but it's like demonizing red heads or twins. Additionally if you talked to a trans man instead of just deciding what our deal is for us the way that cis men do for you, you'd know that the "lost lesbian sister" thing doesn't bear out in practice. I like men. A lot of us like men. A lot of us also aren't very masculine, personally for me even if we lived in a post gender society where sex traits didn't mean anything I would still be on testosterone and cutting my boobs off because I just don't like those body parts. My life would be easier as a cis woman, I'd make more money, I'd have an easier time dating, I wouldn't have had to fight my family, but my body just wouldn't be right.

The point is that if I wasn't transitioning, I wouldn't be butch, I'd be dead or I'd be a feminine scene girl Instagram influencer who's boyfriend in a marginally successful screamo band who is holding her back from jumping and locking up the sharps or has joined a super goth 27 club suicide pact with her. Like you guys are not bagging me as your butch gf I've got long green hair and I'm paying luxury car amounts of money for a penis because I want to make a guy's masquara run down his face while I fuck his throat so bad it makes me look stupid.

No trans guys are not your enemy, some of them are masc and like women but those guys would have transitioned in any decade, there's evidence of them doing that going back as long as we've been writing things down. It's guys like me who have an easier time pretending to be female that are running up the transition numbers in the 21st century. In the 50s I would have just killed myself as soon as I got pregnant and that would have been that because as a feminine homosexual manhood wouldn't have been worth transitioning into at the time.

The butch shortage is actually happening because people who would be happier as butches are pretending to be feminine straight women. The same way the Femboy shortage is because all the men who want to be feminine are DL. I know this because I go onto Grindr and I see 12 men who are like "oh I like to cross dress please fuck my ass but I won't send you a face pic" and then if I meet up with that guy I'll find him in a frat house and he'll meet me wearing a hoodie and basketball shorts and he'll have a secret drawer where he keeps his lingerie. It's like, dire out there. The men that the gods put on this earth to be makeup twinks are not becoming women, they're becoming Brad. And so, because misogyny is reinforced with violence, I must assume that the women put on this earth to wear a pit stained wifebeater and a cut off jean shorts and cut their hair off are becoming Chelsea with perfect makeup and long bleached hair and entering undiscussed lavender marriages with Brad the would be makeup twink, when she should be dating you (well probably not you because you're deeply unpleasant, but a lesbian who's into butches) and he should be dating me.

Society is not convincing butch women they're men it's convincing them they're trad wives. As it had been doing for centuries. This is obvious to anyone who understands how the patriarchy works.

[isozyme]

i must speak my truth

there should be more pisskink and puppy play in heated rivalry fandom

[isozyme]

AO3 LINK HERE

"It just happened, so fast," Shane said. "We met and she likes hockey, and I like movies, so —” "Yes, you are perfect together," Ilya snapped. "It wasn't about you. I promise." Shane wanted to comfort him, fall forward and bury his nose in Ilya's chest, breathe in the stinky cigarette smell that clung to all his clothes, feel Ilya's fingers stroke the nape of his neck, and listen to the whoosh of air in Ilya's lungs. But he couldn't do that anymore. Shane had a girlfriend now. He was done making bad decisions. Ilya nodded. "One question," he said in an even voice. "If you answer honestly, I will accept your apology and go."

[isozyme]

Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, 5k, rated T, no archive warnings apply

I've written a new fic! (That I can post publicly because it's not rpf! Hooray!)

Click here to read~

[isozyme]

does anybody have any favorite tumblrs that post art? i like everything from antiquity to contemporary, variety is a huge plus

i'm in danger of falling down the "lets look at every lot the prestigious auction house has available online to find the interesting ones" rabbit hole

[isozymerase]

ISOZYME FINALLY REBLOGS SOME SHIT

let's go fam i've got a new blog for zero original content

[isozyme]

i promise no hockey on this one unless i make a mistake

still not gonna tag anything but i promise i have good taste

[isozyme]

the source you linked, and the link within that [the one labeled ‘consume far more energy’] do not back up your claims. the article they linked there is talking about how GPUs use more energy than CPUs which is obvious and every consumer laptop or desktop has a GPU today. lmao

From the literal UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY at ENERGY.GOV:

Artificial intelligence is cited as the primary cause of data center power demand increase. The tech companies most invested in AI are literally building more power plants. Because they need extra electricity. They need extra electricity because of the AI industry, because, as you read, the GPUs consume more energy than CPUs. You need GPUs to run and train AI. So the data centers are replacing CPUs with GPUs. Therefore, the new AI-capable data centers using the more power-hungry chips consume more energy than the old data centers which used the less power-hungry chips. As you can see above, they are projected to use hundreds more terawatthours (TWh) than before in order to power the AI craze. (For reference, 100 TWh is the equivalent of ten million people's average annual energy usage in the United States, not an insignificant amount.) Building power plants and consuming a lot more electricity is not good for the environment. I think this is something worth getting upset about.

Please forgive me if I have glossed over some technicalities. I am simplifying because I think you're stupid.

[isozyme]

every dipshit on here that's been like "um actually the environmental cost of ai is negligible it's just like streaming netflix, you're angry about the wrong part of it" can eat my ENTIRE FUCKING ASS, we were fucking right the whole time. this shit is guzzling electricity just like all us ai-haters have been saying.

From the New York Times:

[source]

sounds like an environmental impact to increase the power consumed by data centers by 300% over 3 years. they're literally building new power plants. btw consumer energy costs are also projected to go up by like 30%.

mea culpa time, ai-buttkissers. mea. culpa. time.

[isozyme]

as we enter another period of horrific online censorship, remember this:

you must protect the anime titty for the anime titty's sake as well as for the sake of queer people and sexual education (etc). it is good and beautiful for there to be cheesy games to masturbate to. nobody is growing hair on their palms and going blind.

kill visa and mastercard with your bare hands