Liminal_Morality

20. Ftm. He/Him. 'v'

[kadywicker]

sexuality when ur trans is such a weird Rollercoaster let me tell ya

[kadywicker]

okay like seriously it's such a unique experience bc you're raised to like the same gender you're raised on the expectation that you'll marry a boy eventually. but the way it's talked about thought about Expressed feels Wrong. you don't want to be a girl on her wedding day marrying a boy. you don't want to be a girl kissing a guy. you don't want to be some guys girlfriend. so you say okay I must not like boys (even if you have proof to the contrary let me tell you I had some doozies of gay baby crushes on boys). but that feels weird too. it's off. it's Still Not Right. so then when u realize oh hey fuck wait I Am Boy and then that attraction to men is suddenly very appealing like........ a boys boyfriend???? a boys husband???? it's all So Much

like idk it's just a very weird form of internalized homophobia that's so hard to put into words bc like you weren't raised to feel ashamed for liking men but it was never Right anyway

(sidenote I'm sure this applies to trans wlw too I'm just not one and don't want to talk abt smth I don't understand. feel free to add on if you want!)

[portraitoftheoddity]

Sex stuff you probably won’t learn from fanfiction and/or porn:

Erotic fic and porn can be a lot of fun! But if you aren’t being provided with adequate sex ed through other channels (comprehensive sexual education, frank and open discussions with trusted adults, etc.), turning to fanfic and porn for your understanding of sex is gonna leave some major blindspots and may leave you with some unrealistic expectations. While there’s nothing wrong with these kinds of erotica, they are fictional and tend to leave out a lot of the more realistic, human parts of sex - they serve a great purpose, but that purpose isn’t primarily educational. The following is an incomplete list of some things you should probably know about sex that a lot of fic and porn tends to leave out:

It isn’t always super hot or super sweet. Sometimes it’s super silly. Or sometimes it’s sort of mundane and you’re both simply scratching an itch. That’s fine too. (Hell, sometimes you’re talking about comic books while boning and your partner is laughing that you’re getting REALLY ANGRY about spider-man while they’re going to town on you.)

You will probably not climax at the same moment. It’s a sweet idea, but extremely hard to coordinate, and if all your concentration is going into coming at the exact same moment, you’re probably not enjoying yourselves as much as you might. 

Sometimes bodies make weird, goofy noises. Squelching, slapping, air-escaping, un-sexy noises. It’s okay to laugh at this. 

Hell, it’s okay to laugh during sex in general.

Sometimes you fart. Sometimes you fart while someone is going down on you and it is embarrassing as hell. This isn’t the end of the world. Embarrassing body things happen. Heck, sometimes, with anal, there’s a little poo. You get over it.

Sometimes sex is… kinda bad? This doesn’t mean it’s assault, or something traumatic – sometimes it’s consensual but just kinda bleh and not what you hoped for. The best thing to do (if you’re talking about sex with a partner and not just a hook up who you can not call back) is talk to them about it. Figure out what went wrong, what you enjoy and what you don’t, and communicate what techniques you do and don’t like. Also don’t be afraid to stop someone in the middle of the sex act you’re not enjoying and offer guidance on how to help make it good for you too. (Side tip: masturbation makes great research into what you personally do and don’t enjoy sexually)

You won’t enjoy every sex act. Not every body is wired to find every thing pleasurable. You might find anal does nothing for you. You may find g-spot stimulation just makes you really anxious that you’re about to pee. You may not enjoy giving or receiving oral. You’re not broken if you don’t like something that every pornstar or smutty fanfic protagonist seems to have earth-shattering orgasms from. Everyone’s got nerve endings in a range of places – it’s quite literally, different strokes for different folks.

On that note, not all orgasms are earth-shattering. Sometimes it just feels warm and nice. That’s fine too. 

Sometimes, if you’re neutral on a sex act and your partner loves it, you can suck it up for them, and they’ll suck up something they’re not crazy about for your pleasure in return. But communicate preferences with each other! Know that when a partner does that thing you love that they don’t get much from, that it’s an act of care, and vice versa. 

Falling asleep in each other’s arms right after wild passionate sex seems really romantic, but dried and crusty fluids are gonna be a bitch in the morning. Also, after sex, you should both (regardless of your equipment) go pee to clear out the urethra of any gunk or bacteria to reduce risk of a UTI. 

Putting a towel down on the bed before sex means you don’t have to sleep on wet funky sheets. (it’s also verrrrrry useful for period sex if you or your partner menstruate.)

A lot of people don’t like dirty talk, or rough sex. Always ask first. (Fanfic on the whole does a better job than porn at showing communication, but a lot of it is still highly fictive on this point)

PROTECTION PROTECTION PROTECTION. Use condoms, dental dams, etc. not just to prevent pregnancy, but to reduce risk of STIs. (Yes, even couples with the same genitals who don’t need to worry about pregnancy).

Lube is great and very important, but random goopy things around you are not good lube. Random oils especially, since oil doesn’t flush out well and can trap bacteria inside the body – oil-based lubricant also degrades condoms. Use lube specifically designed for intimate purposes. Water-based and silicone-based lubes help sex feel really good!

Bigger isn’t necessarily better. A lot of people with vaginas don’t enjoy the feeling of being repeatedly punched in the cervix by a monster cock. Some people enjoy a larger size when being penetrated by an appendage or toy and some don’t.

Bodies are hairy. Genitals are hairy. You may get a pube stuck in your teeth at some point. If your partner is WAY fuzzier than porn ever led you to believe they’d be, well, that’s normal. 

Not everyone loves the taste of ejaculate. Sometimes it’s nasty (flavor tends to vary from person to person depending on their diet, but sometimes you just really don’t like it no matter what. Some of us hate the taste of peanut butter. People don’t always like things). It’s okay not to swallow, or to request a penis-having partner warn you so they don’t ejaculate in your mouth (in fact, it’s polite for them to do the latter). 

If you’re gonna have shower sex, get one of those rubbery mats for the shower floor that gives you traction, because otherwise it’s super embarrassing to call for an ambulance while dripping wet and naked because you slipped and accidentally broke something and your partner got a concussion while you were trying to bang in the shower. 

Moaning and screaming wildly during sex is fun but it will make the neighbors in the apartments adjacent to you hate you. Make choices accordingly. 

[marithlizard]

This is all excellent advice. I could throw in a couple more:

Keep reading

[mierac]

Good advice. Also:

Muscle cramps happen. If you’re in a weird position, your body may decide to object. Pillows for support can be wonderful things. 

Anyone who finds towels aren’t enough, they make waterproof pillowcases you can get for like $10. Fold a bath sheet in half, slide the pillowcase in between the layers. 

Related, there is no such thing as too much lube. (I wish fanfic writers would depict using lube more often, and I am looking at myself in the mirror on this one.)

[dirtythingsthatturnmeonposts]

An absolute must read, ladies and gents!

[victoriousflappage]

If sex is a newer thing to you or even if it’s not, please have a read of this! It’s pure gold!

This is also the reason I’m moving into Sex and Relationship Education (RSE) in the U.K. Education needs to be so much better regarding this area.

🖤

[jameshardcourt]

This is such a good list. I’m currently trying to find the right balance in my erotica between the fantasy and the reality, so that there’s an educational and realistic aspect to it that people can learn from too. This is a great resource for that.

Thanks OP and everyone who’s added to it.

[ironychan]

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

XKCD

[heyyitsjayy]

So that people don’t need to go through the notes:

- We have fossils of spider webs

- Paleontologists have reconstructed the larynx (voice box) of extinct animals and we have a pretty good idea what vocalizations they were capable of

- Fossilized pigments have been found in a variety of taxa

- Soft tissues fossilize more often than you think; we have skin impressions for like 90% of Tyrannosaurus rex’s full body (shoulder blades and neck are the only bits missing)

[wemblingfool]

If pop culture is your only window into extinct animals, then you do not remotely understand how much we know.

We know the entire lifecycle of a tyrannosaurus. We know from the sheer amount of remains we have, from every stange.

We know roughly how they sounded (as the person above me said).

We know they had remarkable vision.

We know they had the second. strongest sense of smell in history.

We know from their bones that they grew to a certain size and stayed there until about 14 or so, then absolutely ballooned up to their adult size in about three or four years.

We know they likely lived in family groups, because we have bones with certainly fatal injuries for a solitary animal (broken legs and such) that are completely healed.

We know exactly how other dinosaurs look, down to colors and patterns, because bones are not the only information that is preserved.

The Sinosauropteryx is one such dinosaur. Because pigmentation molecules were preserved in the feather impressions, we know it's colors, and it's tail rings (which one would argue would be it's "iconic feature."

(Art credit Julio Lacerda)

Microraptor is another! We know from feather impressions that it had four wings. We know from pigmentation that it was an iredecent black, like a raven.

(Art credit Vitor Silva)

This is not limited to dinosaurs, or feathers. We've found pigmentation in scales and skin. We've completely reconstructed two extinct penguins, colors and all. We've figured out the colors of some non-avian and non-feathered dinosaurs. We can identify evidence of feathers existing on animals without feather impressions.

We have feathered dinosaurs preserved in amber.

We can defer likely behavioral patterns through adaptations we see in bones, and from the environments they were found in. We can see how certain movements evolved through musculature attachments (yes, how muscles attached is often preserved). We know avian flight likely evolved by "accident" by the way early raptorforms moved their arms to strike at their prey.

We also understand behavior in extant animals and can easily speculate likely behaviors in extinct animals. (A predator running for it's life is not going to exhibit hunting behaviors)

We learn and understand way more from "rocks" than paleontologists are given credit for. And if you watch a movie like Jurassic World, which has no interest in portraying anything with any sort of accuracy, and your take away is "We can't possibly know anything about these animals," then you don't understand science.

As for shrinkwrapped reconstructions, we understand how muscles attach, and how fat works. Artists who lean into shrinkwrapping are are not generally concerned with scientific accuracy, or biology. They're only concerned with Awesombro.

If true paleoartists tried to reconstruct a hippo, while they naturally would not get every bit correct, it would certainly look like a real animal, and not that alien monster that tumblr is so fond of using as "proof" that paleontologists don't know anything (an art piece that itself was extreme and satirical, and a condemnation of the particular subset of paleoartists I mentioned earlier)

Every time paleoblr tries to show you how extinct animals actually looked, all we get is a chorus of "thanks i hate it" and "stop ruining dinosaurs!"

[fecktrecool-deactivated20220314]

Loosing my shit at the knowledge that T-rexes nursed their loved ones back to health

[shitposting-for-the-soul]

@lusus--naturae​

[lusus--naturae-deactivated20210]

[crorad-deactivated20200924]

I will send literally every person that reblogs this a badly drawn picture of a bird.

[liminal-morality]

BORD?!

[root-deer]

This is it this is my favorite video in the whole wide world

[liminal-morality]

Yussss

[liminal-morality]

My favorite thing about the Lance×Pidge ship, which has quickly taken over Allurance for me within the seconds it took for Lance to jump to save Pidge(it was already close since s1 tbh), I'm just a shitty procrastinator and have been lazy lmao, is the various ship names I've seen so far and I can just imagine it being a fucking meme within the group.

Names I've seen and opinions:

Plance- A++ lovely garden.

Pidgance- Alright, fair. Each loses a letter.

Rainforest- Yes. I love when ships just become normal words. Less annoying autocorrect.

Pance- Love, I just want someone to joke that it seems like Pidge 'wears the pants in the relationship' and just responding with just confusion and mild discomfort, "How the fuck am I going to wear our relationship? Do I need to wear both him and myself?" And having an existential crisis as the person looks on in horror before booking it and absconding. As soon as they're out of earshot just straightening up and looking at other paladins with a deadpan stare, "And that my friends is how you smash the gender binary and sexism at once."

Cyance- is cute because it is their colors mixed, sort of has Lance's name in it, and sounds like Science for Pidge.

Lidge- always becomes lodge on my phone and it makes me want to lodge it into a blender.

Klance- I will laugh in the face of K/antis everywhere if these two end up together and that was what Klance actually meant. Been my person conspiracy since the beginning too.

Flirtyrobot- is strange but hilarious and quite fitting.

Smartwater- Ahh, the word ship names. Understandable and easy for new Voltron fans to guess the two being shipped.

Seasalt- the saltiest of salts for the ultimate move against salty K/antis when combined with Sheith.

[cherryandsisters-deactivated202]

rip James 😔  

[liminal-morality]

Omg his face is just A+++

[badguyyyyyyyyy]

dude i’m such an a+ person

proof: asthmatic, anxiety, autistic, adhd, aromantic, asexual, possibly agender, asshole

[liminal-morality]

Lol same, except I'm more ADD than ADHD.

[melodylamb]

if ur ace/aro/aroace and have no idea what the heck ur doing slap that mf reblog button

[liminal-morality]

I recently got a drawing tablet and threw myself headfirst into this project after failing at using it twice. Y'know like a normal human being. Pretty proud of it for my first digital art and I rarely use color in my normal drawings. And I had to do something to celebrate my boy, Takashi Shirogane, being a confirmed happy relationship with another man. They are no longer together so, I don’t ship it currently or post canon, but pre-kerberos? Hell yeah. BUT THIS ISN’T AVOUT SHIPPING. IT’S ABOUT THE WONDERFUL REPRESENTATION THAT WE’VE BEEN BLESSED WITH.

[meme-theft]

[adamsmasher]

i love you you funky lil bird

[liminal-morality]

🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[amateur]

[wholesomethemedmemes]

This isn’t a meme but please watch it

[liminal-morality]

😊😊😊😊😊

[juno8482-deactivated20190210]

Could you upload your little spanking comic where Keith ends up in a healing pod from twitter on here? I think it’s hilarious.

sure!

[liminal-morality]

Oh my Fucking god

[rembihnutuur]

I always like to post sketches in case I screw up coloring so badly that I can look back and cry

[liminal-morality]

First of all, fantastic artwork that conveys their relationship wonderfully. Second, very nice attention to the lion's details. And third, that's the single most relatable thing I have ever heard about coloring sketches. A++

[liminal-morality]

SET MY GAY ASS ON FIRE

I'm screaming! My boi, Shiro, leader of Voltron, respected and beloved pilot of the Garisson, sweet, strong, good boy, Takashi Shirogane, is our lgbt representative!!!! Damn I hope when they get back there's closure for my boi because they were happy together. That doesn't mean I want them back together though because that seems like a whole lot of emotional turmoil for all parties involved that is really unnecessary.

[pragmaculture]

Ladies and gentlemen, our national bird!

[kylemeister1-deactivated2018120]

it is currently ｒｅａｌ ｋｉｗｉ ｈｏｕｒｓ

[mad-hare]

animals that evolved with no natural predators are amazing

[irritatedkiwi-deactivated202512]

go fuckin wild little man

[yukoraya]

Автор неизвестен, но прекрасен.

[liminal-morality]

Okay so I have no clue what any of this says but I feel it in my soul so yes.