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eating him on 260317 📸 YUTOPIA323

#why does this only have one note. he's literally being squonshed and about to be eaten

learning languages is fun because in some areas youll be like "oh wow theres one word for this thing thats covered by 20 different words in english? thats so easy and convinient!" and then in other areas you'll be like "what the fuck do you mean you use different numbers depending on what kind of object youre counting. im going to kill myself."

scarlettohairdye

I see someone else is learning Japanese

#or korean :-)#queue #languages

15 hours remain... until tracklist... <- a thing that's normal to say

#shrimp thoughts

Wordle 1,811 3/6 REDEMPTION!!!

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#shrimp thoughts

mrhealyourgirl

happy pride to losers who get no bitches and stack no paper

#\o/#queue

maddie-grove

I think an experience I had at a book club recently exemplifies the problems faced by today's romance novelists. One month we read a historical romance novel from 2021 that was fairly typical of 2010s historical romance in terms of gender/sexual politics. The heroine has sexual experience, her own money, and a group of female friends who are supportive but have their own stuff going on. The hero is a decent hunky guy whose worst fault in the relationship is emotional avoidance due to a Big Secret. There are background lesbians and the protagonists are chill about it. The sex is enthusiastically consented to. Most of the book club had a very "meh" response to it, mainly due to reasons that didn't have much to due with said politics (like not finding the relationship very interesting or thinking there weren't enough sex scenes), but, crucially, some people zeroed right in on two moments that could be considered in bad taste. The first one: the hero admires the heroine's silhouette while she's changing behind a screen and talking with him. The second one: the hero tries to curb his sexy thoughts about the heroine by getting her a glass of warm milk, reasoning that this is a very unsexy thing to do because it's the sort of thing you would do for a sick child. I personally thought the first thing was a total non-issue in context (he's looking towards her because they're talking, she knows he's there and how shadows work) and the second was kind of a silly, overdone joke but not creepy or offensive. But the people who took issue with it were genuine in their disapproval, even citing our current climate of misogyny as why it rubbed them the wrong way.

The following month, we read a dark romance where the hero (who briefly met the heroine while she was dating his friend/roommate and became obsessed with her after she started commenting on his kinky online account where he wears a mask but no shirt) uses his near-supernatural hacker skills to put secret cameras in her house and otherwise stalk her. Her reaction is "this guy is fucking insane and probably dangerous...but this is really hot and actually I have a feeling he's not dangerous." Which is validated by the story. The handling of the dark subject matter is basically a shrug before a continuous jerk-off sesh. And the book club LOVED this story. Everyone was like "oh, he's not really a bad guy and this is barely a dark romance."

And it's not that I think this is an entirely unreasonable response. If something's labeled "dark romance," most readers willingly engaging with it aren't going to be bothered by the romance being dark. Whereas an iffy moment in a "normal" romance novel might be an unpleasant surprise. But it does create a situation where characters in a "regular" romance novel can't do anything problematic or even anything giving the appearance of problematic-ness, even if it would be natural and/or interesting for them to do so, and where characters in a "dark" romance commit shocking crimes and it's never taken seriously either by the narrative or the audience. So the stories that get rewarded are (a) frictionless, pedantic "regular" romance and (b) equally frictionless set-ups for erotic scenarios. Which is a shame if you want to read a real fucking book, however lighthearted or pulpy.

#it is interesting! i feel like w/ romance novels and fanfiction they're less stories/Fucking Books and more like products that people reach #for to satisfy their needs. cue 2954 fake dating coffeeshop aus where it doesn't matter if the characters are 16 or 36 because they'll #act the same and their story will follow the exact same beats. it's a Product. and it's also interesting because sometimes when i read thos #stories i do have a similar reaction. one particular fic i remember was very steeped in like... nonsexual kink dynamics? i remember being #half squicked half fascinated when a fic i was reading out of curiosity (i already knew the author's characterization and preferred #dynamics weren't my cuppa comma But) had a scene in which the love interest rudely snaps at the pov character to basically shut the fuck #up and let THEM handle [a situation that directly involved the pov character] to which the pov guy instead of bristling at being snapped at #(when their concerns were entirely genuine) was tickled pink because it was the first time someone had treated them like a younger/#underage person instead of a fully grown adult. and it first EYE bristled for the pov guy but then fascination took over because i do #consider (not all. i know there are exceptions in the form of both fics and writers and i adore them) most fics Products For Self-Indulgenc #and this kind of framing was very out of the left field. something like this? in what in many aspects was a pretty standard love story?#that's uncommon! but a) for a brief moment the story became closer to Being A Story; and b) i knew damn well that this was a fic #that took place in a [Kink] World so obviously the characters would be acting like Kink World Citizens. so to speak.#fandom

I grabbed the book about literary theory that I got second-hand in uni and remembered that it came with a really cute poem by, I presume, its former owners

#shrimp thoughts #also! i'm not saying this to hate but rather from the Interested point of view. but also: note the language #it is SO CLEAR that it was originally written in english BUT by native polish speakers with a loose grasp on english #it's like a polish version of kpop song english. and i love it precisely BECAUSE it proves that there are more stages of 'knowing #english' than not understanding a single thing and absolute fluency. they wrote A POEM. it RHYMES. you can understand it EASILY.#it brings me back to being in primary school -- roughly around this time too! maybe a bit earlier! and trying to write song lyrics in eng #they had similar grammar because at that time i still translated polish words/sentence structure into english and got 'boy which to me #appealed' (NOT drawn from experience lol unless you count 'listening to music' and 'reading books' experience) instead of 'the boy #i liked'. i feel like it's interesting particularly because plenty of native english speakers who love kpop have a big blank space where #'the ability to understand that some people aren't native speakers' should exist. they subconsciously feel that being bad at english makes #you stupid and obviously they don't want their faves to be stupid so they stubbornly claim that the wonky english in kpop song is actually #really clever and fully intentional wordplay when it's like. sure! yeah! we can't rule this possibility out! but when you hear the idols #actually speak english you see they're not on that level. AND IT'S FINE. it's literally FINE you can still understand them perfectly and it #doesn't make them bad artists. it makes them kpop idols who do kpop lyricism! it's literally noooooooormal

sixty-silver-wishes

happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

#slender trunk which facilitates gay sex...#queue

jung-koook

260604 - BTS Family Photo #2026BTSFESTA

#MY GUYS <3 #bts #bts:ot7 #kpop #long post

kabaks

@gaysails how dare you be funnier than my post

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i took a beautiful picture of my blueberry&strawberry tartelette but i made the mistake of forgetting that everything is covered in glaze (?) and taking it by my window so now every blueberry reflects the view outside my window very well. help

edit: slightly less self-doxxing version

#shrimp thoughts

uss-edsall

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

kesslersymbolic

This image?

uss-edsall

YES

eddardsharpe

bacony-cakes

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

catgirl-kaiju

#laugh rule #queue

heaveninawildflower

Woodcut of a grasshopper (1918) by Julie de Graag.

Rijksmuseum.

Wikimedia.

#źwierz!#insects #art #queue

7fff00

Gustave Buchet Swiss, 1888–1963

Paysage aux nuages, 1913 Oil on canvas 28¾ x 23⅜ inches

#oh i love the colors!#art #places #queue

k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl

how to tell mutual hey i think ur really cool we should talk more but like also im bad at talking and am always exhausted

veliseraptor

#if I keep liking posts maybe it’ll one day do the trick (via @whoisthatmovinginthedark)

#👀💧#queue

aristocrating

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

nudityandnerdery

itreallyatemyhand

#kpop enthusiasts vs sampling/interpolations/chord progressions =___=#queue

sunday-bug

#😌#queue

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