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#mdzs #the untamed #2020 #ao3 #pandemic escapism #mdzs has the best fandom #reality? what reality?!#i live here now #my quarantine pod is 100% queer chinese wizards

mooniliksa

the-big-mood

Whatever she’s getting paid triple it

deva-26

Synchronized Swimmers!! 😃 They still exist!!

itchywitchie

Todays’s brainworm is this as a concept for XLOV

I realize that they can’t physically do it, but the idea in my mind is too fabulous for words. Very old Hollywood but also I think some part of me is longing for a rui and manta ray interaction.

#synchronized swimming #xlov #artistic swimming #i don’t explain i just exist

gatesofminrathous

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

ao3commentoftheday

longhairedwumuti

in honor of wumuti's dip and the ballroom influences shown in the concept photos, @evolssluti0n on twt (with the help of quite a few others) has shared this awesome thread with lots of history and resources about ballroom culture. It's a great read--definitely check it out if you can. If you don't have twitter, you can read it here through the twitter thread reader.

itchywitchie

A great read and I love that this fandom is actually doing this kind of education instead of just coopting cultural elements without reference or context

loveisactivated

I came back for you.

itchywitchie

Aww i forgot how much i loved these two. Thanks op

asneakyfox

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

asneakyfox

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

bumblebeebats

“Frances and I were considering attending a Lesbian/Feminist conference this summer, when we were notified that no boys over ten were allowed. This presented logistic as well as philosophical problems for us, and we sent the following letter: Sisters: Ten years as an interracial lesbian couple has taught us both the dangers of an oversimplified approach to the nature and solutions of any oppression, as well as the danger inherent in an incomplete vision. Our thirteen-year-old son represents as much hope for our future world as does our fifteen-year-old daughter, and we are not willing to abandon him to the killing streets of New York City while we journey west to help form a Lesbian-Feminist vision of the future world in which we can all survive and flourish.”

— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response." (This essay in particular was apparently first published in 19-fucking-79, which is how long this conversation's been going on.)

huffylemon

sigynpenniman

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

slowspinningredemption

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

motherfucker-somewhat-limited

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

hydrojinn

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

xxtc-96xx

Taken from a stepladder putting up Christmas lights

-2014, front yard

an-autistic-with-personhood

“Brewing Storm on an Evening Commute”

And “Finally, no Power Lines”

-Sept. 30, 2020, passenger seat of a moving Buick

naamahdarling

Behind a near-defunct mall in super small-town OK. HUGE rays.

Park And See The View 2020

(it took seconds to happen)

Waiting for The Pharmacy Line to Move, 2021

Outside the McDonald’s Drive-Thru Window, 2018

not-a-salty-christmas-tree

Sunrise in early Mars 2022 at 05:09am, Walking Home from Work

madphantom

Sunset from the commie bar I occasionally volunteer at, 2023, taken five minutes before someone tripped down the stairs with a glass bottle in their hand while singing the Internationale

whiskeytiddies

Marble sky before I storm on my walk to the grocery store - 2023

cwicseolfor

I’ve been meaning to assemble this panorama and correct the very difficult lighting (especially for a very retro iPhone 5 camera) for ten years and this post reminded me to get around to it.

On June 26th, 2015, a completely foreign world to now, I was driving home with NPR on, and pulled into a grocery store parking lot.

I had just heard via the radio the Obergefell v. Hodges decision which legalized gay marriage.

Texas was celebrating with a double rainbow.

All love is beautiful.

A truly under-appreciated cdrama is Are You The One. I don’t know why it didn’t get more attention given that the cast is excellent, its part of that very trendy sub-genre of “FL girlbossing it at some traditional culturally significant to China industry (porcelain),” and the premise is wonderfully batshit.

Law and Order Prince takes amnesiac concubine of an elusive bandit hostage to lure out his enemy, by pretending to be her merchant husband. Unfortunately she is one of those people who can’t do anything at any less than 1000% so she wifes so hard while building a business empire (having correctly concluded that her “husband” is completely inept and best kept as a beloved pet at home) that all his schemes are bound to unravel and his life’s ambition changes from supreme ruler of all to househusband, and his latent femdom kinks are awakened. Comedy gold. Romance goals. Everyone should see it.

#are you the one #cdrama #cdrama recs #media recs as a love language #zhang wanyi #wang churan #liu lingzi

loveridden1999

things are especially hard for me on account of my big brown eyes & correct opinions on everything

fake-married-my-dead-fiance

Xianxia Help Forum

Help! My boyfriend lost his memories and now he's attempting world domination again

How to remove "evil bone" from husband (resolved)

Back again. Please explain love to me, I still don't get it. Explain it like you are talking to a toddler - Fate

Why can't a tree of emotions be burned down with Hellfire? Urgent

How to regrow significant other from seed?

gravitasmalfunction

10,000 y.o. heartless way cultivator experiencing weird symptoms - could it be cancer?

I raised my son to sacrifice himself for the realm and his stupid wife somehow recovered his soul shards and brought him back to life despite my explicit instructions not to - AITA?

Anyone else here worried their father might be evil? [longest thread in forum history, locked after 100,000 posts]

tomorrowsdrama

My distant relatives have literally been leeching off of me and drinking my blood for hundreds of years. AITA for not wanting to give them anymore of my blood?

Hi chat, you’re never going to believe this. Different poster than OP here, but I’d also like to know if I’m an asshole for not wanting to let my relatives and their weird students use my blood. I just want it all to end (and if the world ends too, would that be so bad?)

Hypothetically, how big of an age gap is too big? Is my feisty girlfriend too young for me if I’m over a thousand years older than her? Also, is it weird that she used to be my pet?

Help - I think my girlfriend might bring about the apocalypse! Should that be a dealbreaker? But she’s so small and cute.

Mod: OP please read the forum FAQ before posting. We have many posts that already asked and answered this question. If you’ve read through all those previous posts and still didn’t find an answer, then please provide more information about your situation so we can get more context and provide you with better answers. “My girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/etc. might cause the apocalypse” is overly broad.

wooberryy

xlov wumuti

itchywitchie

Why is umuti the hot goth girl i was in my heart/wanted to date in the 90s? Why is he just walking around mentally cosplaying a character in The Craft?

#xlov #wumuti #umuti #the craft

borealing

its very funny seeing people on this website go "ah yes, the two gay pieces of media that have aired, heartstopper and now heated rivalry. we finally have another!" like if you guys just opened your eyes to tv shows made outside of north america you would be feasting right now but that 1 inch tall barrier of subtitles is just insurmountable

itchywitchie

Honest question, what *is* the abject fear of subtitles about? I understand the difficulty that makes it not worth the effort for people with disabilities around reading. But everyone else?

rederiswrites

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

alexseanchai

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

rederiswrites

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

pandorasquillandquotes

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

vaspider

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

foxofninetales

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

itchywitchie

I have to add Fruit From The Sands by Robert N Spengler III - about the earliest crops and their transmission throughout Asia; and Ten Tomatoes That Changed The World by William Alexander - this one is just the history of the tomato in Western culture from a guy who is reeeeally into growing tomatoes (*will* make you stop buying tomatoes at the supermarket though).