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pretentious grad students, intellectual snobs, and highbrows of all stripes FOR fanfiction

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via @orchidego ❣️

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(via @mariemulle)

exactly! exactly.

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(via @gothicastles)

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(via @girlalcuin)

very much so! and, at risk of sounding self-indulgent, let me reiterate my old post on this point:

[pharmacommissar]

you dhould be your own person. you are so young and insecure. at this rate you will never be able to find the cup or the scepter

what

[skovenshemmeligheder]

He doesn’t even have the cup or the scepter

[introspect-la]

THE JOCKEY BY HENRI DE TOULOUSE LAUTREC (1899)

[kindahungrycaterpillar]

I won't fetishpost in the tags on someone else's post because it seems rude but: aspiring ascetic with harsh inner rules about pleasure and enjoyment realizing that Oh Fuck, Food Can Taste Good and they really can't help themselves around it. Double points if they're at risk of being caught out as a glutton and/or hypocrite...

[kindahungrycaterpillar]

@luxurygood the awesome thing about Chocolat (1999) is the penultimate scene where the priest antagonist (who spent Lent starving himself and going increasingly off the rails about how the town chocolate shop is an affront to God) breaks into the place to wreck it and then is so overwhelmed with lust for the chocolate that he gets caught by his parishioners stuffing his face in the store window. On Easter Morning.

[toskarin]

eating rice, there's definitely an upper limit to how much you can eat, but thinking about it in abstract? when filling a plate? it's hard to conceive of it. that's what makes it so dangerous

[luxurygood]

either everyone else has to start feeling like there's something Secretly Good and Meaningful about clothes that goes beyond/is outside the boundaries of gender and sexuality or I have to convince myself to stop feeling that way. looking into mind-control beams now

[depsidase]

[tlirsgender]

Realizing some things about myself. My recurring themes. In a sex way so that might just be a fetish

[tlirsgender]

The author's barely disguised motif

[dollsahoy]

People who drink coffee: why did you start?

I don't drink coffee and I've never wanted to, but that's obviously ~not normal~, so I'm curious why most people do start drinking it.

[dollsahoy]

Additional question: People who don't drink coffee, why?

For me, it's because, as a child, I was incredibly cranky, and as soon as caffeine-free Coke was introduced, Mom had me start drinking that, and, hey, I got a lot less crabby, so that made me want to avoid caffeine. I also never really cared for the smell of coffee, either, so had absolutely no interest in drinking even decaf.

(and yes I am very aware that "it makes me feel better" and "love the way it smells" are top answers in why people do drink it XD)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I started drinking coffee as a child to keep warm in winter

[tk-duveraun]

I lived in Seattle and there was just... free coffee everywhere. Usually with tiny cookies. And eventually I was like, "Yeah, I could go for a drink and a snack"

and I had a little drink and a snack enough times that I tricked myself into liking it

[flamingwell]

I got diagnosed with ADHD and started on coffee as medication before getting actual *real* medication.

[indirectcomedian]

xena gave us trans drag lesbianism as a treat

[autisticexpression2]

There are layers to this. Earlier in the episode, Xena discovers her secret while they're sharing a locker room. A woman she has got naked with turned out to be trans. It's the exact scenario terfs are always fear-mongering about, but Xena just shrugs it off.

Also, the kiss was a big deal not just because it was gay but because the trans actress was HIV positive. They wanted to show the world that you can't contract HIV just from kissing someone. Bear in mind, the AIDS crisis was still fresh on people's minds in the 90s.

Happy Pride.

[amisconfused]

a true artist never makes fun of beginner artists nor speaks ill of them

[boringkate]

If you say that you wanna see estrogen sold in vending machines then everyone assumes that's a joke and would have like major societal implications and cause all kinds of problems etc if it were allowed, but in a bunch of countries you can legit just like buy estrogen at regular normal pharmacies without a prescription or anything and it's fine. It's no big deal. It isn't even newsworthy.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

one of my first imaginary boyfriends was a tornado 6_6

incredible sentence

[rockabillywife]

Looking at reviews for a book on bird migration ?

[gelphienation]

idk I can tell that some tumblrinas are not up on fat politics because I see a lot of people saying stuff like “it’s better to be a little fat than waste your life trying to be thin” or like “it’s chic to have a little belly” like okay but there are fat people who are “a lot fat” and have “a lot of belly” which everyone is weirdly silent on all the time. Like the fattest person on earth still deserves to exist in human society with joy and dignity regardless of how they got to that weight or how many health conditions they have as a result of their personal actions…that should be everyone’s baseline here I’m not really sure what’s complicated about it

[romanceyourdemons]

psychic beam blast. none of you understand the late victorian eugenics/determinism/orientalism/scientific history/racial-sexual-class great chain of being unity of affect enough to be talking about what dracula does and does not represent

[romanceyourdemons]

dracula serving as a synecdoche for european aristocracy is in no way at odds with his widely recognized status as a gross antisemitic stereotype, because in the late victorian (especially english) literary mind medieval aristocracy = regressive = disabled/malformed = irrational = feminine = catholic = eastern = jewish = romani = queer = underevolved, which in turn smacks of irishness and spirituality. these are all linked together—explicitly in the scientific and literary worlds of the 1890s and more covertly today—in a web of emotional associations that smooth over all contradictions, and all adds up to: we have moved into the rational, masculine, blue-eyed light called modernity, but something is clinging to our ankles and wants to drag us back into the dark. are you one of the things on my ankle? prove to me that you are not. step into the light and assume your proper place under me, or i will defend myself by slicing you away

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actually while i’ve still got this soapbox stuck to my shoe i also wanna say i think culturally we gotta start conceptualizing physical fitness as a productive hobby rather than an obligation

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it’s sort of like clothes. there’s a baseline level of involvement with clothing necessary to stay safe from the elements and participate in society. having a variety of different clothing isn’t *strictly* necessary but pretty tangibly helpful. knowing how to do some minor mending and tailoring is nice. once you get into sewing your own clothes, you’re in hobby territory. if you’re making your own textiles from scratch, that is not only definitely a hobby but not something you can expect other people to want to do

the sort of nonsense fitness influencers get up to is sort of like people showing off their homemade silkworm farm and then pointing at everyone else and going “what’s YOUR excuse for wearing a TSHIRT from the STORE???” and actually nvm that would be fucking hilarious. god i wish that was an actual thing can you imagine

[mumblesplash]

that’s what i’m talking about!!!!!