I’m Tired Of These Charachter-building Experiences

Any/all pronouns. Saltylocks on AO3 and Saltwaterhair on Twitter. This is basically just a curated tumblr experience with things that give me serotonin.

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[gonzocoded]

can i be earnest for a second. i mean more than usual

[gonzocoded]

my earnest belief is that you gotta take pictures of yourself that look really bad and unattractive and that never end up seeing the light of day. because someday you’re gonna go through your photos and see them and say god i’m so glad i get to see what i looked like after running around in that rainstorm

[gonzocoded]

AND you’re not gonna look at them and go god i look bad you’re gonna see them and say god i was so happy god i was so alive

[alexxuun]

Grace think fondly of his scar if you even care.

[all-the-bones-ever-deactivated2]

this hit me like a truck

[sandmandaddy69]

[get-thee-to-a-shrubbery]

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[its-your-mind]

[miteistic]

[nick-nonya]

[cleanedupcorporationprogress]

[boothyghost]

[all-save-challenge]

I love this post especially the rat part

going on me feed

[trolleybusaberrations]

what do you mean there are exactly zero rats i. this post

[bingle-official]

[primordialsoupvendor]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[cthoseris]

[annabelle--cane]

what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.

what I say: sex isn't real and you can't have it

[raeyxarte]

As soon as she undooms that redhead lesbian the wedding is onnn

I don't usually post art here so @raeyxarte is my Ig art acc

[blonde-wednesday-art]

Bookmark I painted last summer for a girl I foolishly believed loved me. I made it after I read her copy of Gideon the Ninth.

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

she looked at my pussy like it was a bag of rice. ans her penis was a wet cell phone

[violentoffender]

[topbottomswitchblade]

This guy after 7 minutes of thinking about it:

[triassictriserratops]

man went through a whole journey in his mind in those 7 minutes. learned new things about himself. this is the most revolutionary 7 minutes of his entire life. he was BORN in those 7 minutes.

[arenzalenskaya-deactivated20250]

tfw your necromancer refuses to eat your soul and cuts part of her temporal lobe off so you don't meld into her soul and make her all powerful but she bleeds every time she hears your name and goes through a myriad of alternate universes where things could have been different, risking her own life and accidentally being trapped a place where she will probably die, all because she couldn't bear the thought of existing in a universe where you did not, and then you wake up in her body and are furious for her and at her. and then you call her by her house name. when everyone around her has refused that part of her identity even since she became a demigod, mirroring her reciting your own name as she prepared to die instead of the prayers she had been taught since she was born. and you bitch to her that she did not lift enough weights

[dillusion-art]

family portrait.

ig: d.ill.usion

[swordrogue]

oh??? my god????? This is so so so good holy shit. Can't even contain this one in the tags. The detail is making me crazyyy. The position of Ianthe's rapier? The arm over her front?? Gideon's left hand on her head and her right positioning Harrow holding the sword??? The chains????!!! They all have them - gold or glitzed or bone. They're all chained up and intertwined and focused on different things. This art is so good I'm eatinng it

[sandersstudies]

When a “funny” dude likes you and anytime he sees you anywhere he will be like “yoooo wassup it’s Jelissa!” (Or whatever) like “omg Miranda is here whaaaat” for literally no reason why do they do that

[sandersstudies]

They are more likely to do this the more meek and shy they perceive you too. They are less likely to do this if they think you’re loud and confident. Idk what it is it’s not even necessarily bad or annoying it’s just like why.

[sandersstudies]

This is a VERY sweet take and I hope it’s sometimes true

[sandersstudies]

Okay I thought this behavior was annoying before but now it’s actually quite endearing thank you extroverts who want introverts to feel included.

[digidiskette]

There was a stoner I liked very much when I was playing age of Conan some ten or more years ago. He would roll up into the vent, yell my name and rip a fat one on mic before vanishing again. Always made me feel special. It was like a dog that would greet you by barking as loud as possible and wagging his tail so hard it leaves a dent in the wall when your car rolls up. Everyone was luke warm to cold on him but he was my fucking buddy and I loved him because he made me feel wanted which I sure as shit wasn’t getting at home!!

Eventually I made the decision to start emulating behaviors that made me feel happy and started doing that in other places. To this day my whole discord chants the nickname of whomever joins the call, like a pack of seagulls who just locked eyes on a delicious spare French fry. There’s nothing quite as amazing as walking into a room and hearing a chorus of loved ones drawing out your name like they were going to sweep you off your feet if they could, slash like a pack of feral dogs ready to bowl you the fuck over.

[zathorn]

I've reblogged this before but fuck does this last story really make it

[taraljc]

emulating behaviours that make me happy sounds like a really good idea and I'm going to try to do that from now on

[lemoneyshipz]

went back to my night vale tag and i CANNOT BELIEVE that i never posted this drawing of cecil and kevin’s tattoos here (drew it back in 2022)

[nightmarewing]

Man. We are entering almost-unprecedented levels of just feeling mysteriously and unresolvably bad all the time. I say almost because my teenage years were like a new inexplicable neurological phenomenon and/or random pain every single day, just an endless parade of "what the fuck is my body doing now," and it's not quite that bad. But it's pretty bad.

For example, I just started getting a Brand New kind of headache that kept going away and coming back, and now it's just stuck. To think that at this point in my life I would actually be saying "wake up babe, new headache just dropped"

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

i don’t play any trading card games, but…

wouldn’t it be possible for a MtG and a Pokemon deck to duke it out? I mean, they both use numerical values to determine damage and health, right? The Pokemon player could do Pokemon shit on their turn, and the MtG player could do MtG shit on their turn, then plug in the resulting values into the opposing card, right?

I’d like to see someone try, at least

[prmmytmbl-blog]

@talenlee @lexcellence well?

[lexcellence]

Magic colors are Red, Green, Blue, White, and Black, right? You can make that work, give or take the fact that White in Pokemon doesn't have energy/lands

[sabrinacarprenter]

KATHRYN HAHN OF AGATHA ALL ALONG