karawrites ofmd & bridgerton

here to lurk and write • she/they • demisexual • polyamorous • incorrigible flirt

[once-a-polecat]

Local restaurant having trouble with whores apparently.

[goldentortoise]

Designated Weeping Area, a community art project from Cora Lee (coraleecreates, 2021)

[notlayingroses]

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!

[scarletjohansson]

HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | S4E05

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[loreleywrites]

im always saying this

[ggcrono]

[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[calidotgov-deactivated20240108]

congratulations piracy

[livefromtheloam]

Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

[commandtower-solring-go]

Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

[geekysteven]

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[whenstarsignite]

"be unafraid. not a moment of your existence will go unremembered."

anyway that moment in ep6 of solari was Wild and i had to do a quick rendition of xl-zl right before he zapped a guy with his laser vision. u see this right before u die. wyd.

[asociallyawkwardduckling]

I love Bigfoot. master of Specifically Kumite!

[washed-up-wurmcoil]

If you can't handle me at my angel of death who will weep for you and sing your eulogy even as I kill you, you don't deserve me at my silly robot dance.

[specialagentartemis]

I’m getting really irritated with “people have always been people” type posts where 90% of examples come from ancient Rome or medieval Europe and use this to act like the way people act in Cultures That Trace Their Cultural Histories From Rome And Medieval Europe are universal. Doubly so when it’s exclusively about city life in these time periods and places. People were people even when they did Kula rings in 19th century Papua New Guinea and lived in Hohokam courtyard group settings in 10th century Arizona and herded cows in 11th century Zimbabwe and didn’t have pizza or newspapers or birth control or lewd graffiti. Why are your examples of the universality of humanity only interested in what people were doing in the Bronze/Iron Age Mediterranean and medieval Europe. Learn about the Mesoamerican ballgame and Brithawon’s shitty pots and the egalitarian infrastructure of the Indus Valley Civilization and the lovingly fired and kept children’s pottery in 15th century New Mexico and gambling games played in Nevada 12,000 years ago as a method of social levelling and all the wild stuff Shihuangdi did. And then learn about how they thought about things very differently than you do too, and that’s okay.

[beroebluejeans]

There is a quality of books (or movies or shows) that I can best describe as “stickiness,” which is separate from being good or even enjoyable: a sticky book is one I just keep thinking about. Sometimes it’s because a book is very good (e.g. The Locked Tomb), and sometimes it’s because a book is very bad (e.g. ACOTAR), but there are also very good and very bad books that are slippery, such that when I’m done reading them they slip from my thoughts like water from a hydrophobic surface.

[googoogojob]

[tearlessrain]

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.