I have an obsessive personality

Clearly this is a bad idea

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

hate that I was understanding when I should’ve just been a cunt

[rival2lover]

i'm a liability get you wild make you leave

[scinnlaece]

i want to beg you, as much as i can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. and the point is to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it live along some distant day into the answer.

― rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet, “letter four,” tr. by m. d. herter norton

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[india-official]

WOW THIS IS SO COOL :O

[guzhuangheaven]

pursuit of jade :

What does the Fan family's business have anything to do with a matrilocal husband like you? I am currently also part of the Fan family.

You just know Ningniang will carry that grudge about the pig's tail till the end of time.

[kaafii]

Perfect Crown (21세기 대군부인) 2026

[jievn]

PERFECT CROWN 21세기 대군부인 | 2026, Ep. 12

[inskeletondreams]

How Dare You!? + Text Posts Part 2 (part 1)

[pangur-and-grim]

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is the best one

[ruffboi-mags]

(in case anyone needs context, since i know there's a bunch of younguns who didn't even know the "It's gonna be May" meme... The song playing is NSync's song "It's Gonna Be Me", the guy in the mint green t-shirt is NSync member Lance Bass, and the guy in the pink hoodie is his husband Michael.)

[elephino-but-i-need-a-name]

I need to you all to know that the original caption for this is : “POV your friend mispronounces a word once and now it’s a national holiday.”

[waitingforthet]

[optimysticals]

I am laughing so hard I scared the cat.

[akajustmerry]

friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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Also prev tags:

That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[fangcaodi]

A Dream Within a Dream 《书卷一梦》 vocab list

圣旨（聖旨）shèngzhǐ - imperial edict

奴婢 núbì - slave servant

死囚 sǐqiú - prisoner that awaits execution

谋反（謀反）móufǎn - to plot a rebellion / to conspire against the state

孤 gū - I or me (used by a prince)

朕 zhèn - I or me (used by an emperor or king)

退婚 tuìhūn - to break off an engagement

劫狱（劫獄）jiéyù - break a prisoner out of jail

善待 shàndài - to treat well

算计（算計）suànji - to scheme

当家（當家）dāngjiā - chief / master

刺客 cìkè - assassin

自作多情 zìzuòduōqíng - to imagine that one's love is reciprocated; to shower affection on an uninterested party

冷宫（冷宮）lěnggōng - a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor

斩草除根（斬草除根）zhǎncǎochúgēn - to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely

皇位 huángwèi - the title of Emperor

棋子 qízǐ - chess piece / (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)

太子 tàizǐ - crown prince

遇险（遇險）yùxiǎn - to get into difficulties / to meet with danger

弑君（弒君）shìjūn - regicide / to commit regicide

[robotslenderman]

Source

[tributary]

teetotailer

[judygemstone]

first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store

[scavengedluxury]

*record scratch*

*freeze frame*

"Ja, das bin ich. Sie fragen sich wahrscheinlich, wie ich hierher gekommen bin".

[areyoudoingthis]

babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.