shine for me

oh, darling, i know what you're going through.

[kingjonghyun]

❝in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.❞

[mintaii]

qifrey...................

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjaa]

This. This is the online friend experience.

[echodoctor]

#me to a person i've known for 5 years: remind me what your gender is

[hannahlockillustration]

Day 3 of drawing Ditto until I give in and nab Pokopia...

Ditto as Ophelia.

[heartsl0b]

[organicmatter]

Actually what was everyone's favorite recess activity it reveals so much about your character

[organicmatter]

The tags and replies to this are actually so cute let's all have recess together

[impishglee]

i’m curious what arbitrary and specific flavors people dislike are. rb and tag a Taste you simply don’t fuck with. for flavor reasons not texture reasons. for me? i do not like elderflower or caraway for whatever reason

[kingjonghyun]

so glad people still think this website is cringe like good thanks for keeping the rent down and let me continue reblogging gif sets in relative peace

[gean-grey-blog]

One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go.

I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried

And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated.

"She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair"

I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of"

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people.

[wormtoxin]

Just curious: What do you call it when there is no central meal cooked in your household, and individual members are expected to find leftovers/cook for themselves?

[javascrypt]

you will have coworkers more incompetent than you could even dream of

[thelesbobaggins]

“that character is a war criminal” that character is from a fictional fantasy world and did not attend the geneva convention

[wizzard890]

hard agree with these tags specifically

[bloodzag]

seducing his lovers with the power of boyfailurecy

[sappharic]

I think the use of gen ai prevents students from learning the crucial skills of bluffing and winging it. When I was in high school and forgot to do a book report, I'd just yap through the oral examination and get a 7+. This is an important life skill, don't pass up the chance to improve your yapping by using ai.

[bigolbadblog]

i feel like something that's missing from some people's understanding of kink fiction and fantasy is, like... in fiction and fantasy, everything is in-scene.

when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.

so like. when fiction does kink in a way that would be unsafe or harmful irl... just keep in mind that you're not watching actual people neglecting check-ins or ignoring their set contract or genuinely harming each other. you're watching a scene without the behind-the-scenes bits, and that's okay.

[bigolbadblog]

this has gotten a couple replies along the lines of "yeah, you can just assume the characters worked all the important consent stuff out when you weren't looking!" which is true in some cases, but not the point i was trying to make, so please bear with me while i try to rephrase myself.

when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.

if someone went up to their partner and said "hey, wouldn't it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?", and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that's a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?

now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons... that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.

kink fiction doesn't have to be about characters consciously and conscientiously Doing Kink. kink fiction can be stories where the kinky things people fantasize about or roleplay (but wouldn't want to happen in real life) do happen in the universe of that story. because the story is a scene.

[beaft]

the infuriating thing is that there is genuinely so much good queer literature out there, contemporary and not, but there is also a sizeable chunk of readers who think that a book only "counts" as good queer literature if it's a) unproblematic, b) contains romance as its central focus, and c) has the characters state their orientation and/or gender identity directly to the audience using socially acceptable 21st-century terms (as opposed to resorting to cowardly tactics such as Subtext and Themes)

[kingjonghyun]

i'm so fucking sick of this new wave of gl and bl stans they know nothing of the history of the genre and are so culturally christian and refuse to distinguish fiction and reality it pisses me off so bad