used to be @sarasonaya

25 | male

[reallyfaded]

Be aware of Lynks

[87sukiyaki]

[thetursithan]

Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

[lady-harrowhark]

mama bear, through gritted teeth: i said “let’s cross the road efficiently with mama”

[ryan-sometimes]

At university I met many different types of men, but two that fascinated me were:

Men who were clearly bisexual, but absolutely refused to accept it, and would just gaslight themselves into believing their attraction to men wasn’t real

Men who were straight, but weren’t necessarily protective over that fact, and were 100% willing to just follow their impulses in case they did ever like a guy.

What’s funny is that these two types were often in the same friend groups, but the existence of the 2nd type had no impact on the 1st type’s self acceptance

[hustlerose]

i can teach you

[alm0sthere]

t-teach me.. what??

[hustlerose]

[sepultiwa]

Have you read that article where Cronos says he used to be in love with Kate Bush and even got a kiss from her one time? I find that sooooooo cute 🥰😍

yesss ive read that. hes talked about having a crush on her a lot lol. i wanna know if shes aware that theres a black metal ghoul out there who's madly in love with her

[caffedorzo]

[importantcatpics]

[ilovemywife103947]

[nozoroomie]

Rediscovered my favourite picture of my twin sister's cat that I took and I don't think I'll ever get a funnier cat picture than this

[la-laborista-republiko]

Y'know what I really fuckin hate?

Tiny houses.

Not the concept, the notion, the Platonic ideal of a low-cost low-impact high-efficiency dwelling. That’s great. That’s awesome.

What really imagines my dragons is that in practice about 9 times out of 10 tiny house communities are just a way for rich hipsters to finally fulfil their greatest fantasy:

They found a way to fucking gentrify the trailer park

[poiplefunguy]

listen i know you’re making a point here but i cant stop thinking about ‘imagines my dragons’

[peekychu]

They should invent a cry for help that has zero negative effects on anybody and also that makes everyone treat you like a little animal in a cardboard box. But everyone’s cool with it because you’re a cute little animal and not an adult human that needs to get their shit together to stay alive

[peekychu]

This tag literally wins, I literally DO want to be a chiikawas. Honorable mentions to everyone tagging this as petplay though

[b4rty-r0s13r-w1ll-fck-y0ur-m0m]

When one of my moots that I've labelled 'famous' in my head interacts with me

[tilthat]

TIL that there is journalism equivalent to the Bechdel Test. An article about a female scientist fails the “Finkbeiner Test” if it mentions one of seven topics regarding her womanhood

via reddit.com

[prowlick-deactivated20210420]

The fact that she’s a woman

Her husband’s job

Her child-care arrangements

How she nurtures her underlings

How she was taken aback by the competitiveness in her field

How she’s such a role model for other women

How she’s the “first woman to…”

[hedwig-dordt]

Okay, one quote, and then you absolutely have to read the whole thing. 

Still, the virtue of some rules in Aschwanden’s test is difficult to see at first. Take the rule of “no firsts.” In the comments section below her post for Last Word on Nothing, Finkbeiner explained that no sooner had she taken the vow to ignore gender, than she caught herself writing that the astronomer she was profiling was the first to win a certain award. After a reader urged her to stick to her pledge, she removed it.

“The fact that she’s the first woman to do that says a lot more about the prize-giving committee than it does about her,” Finkbeiner explained in our interview. “So if I were going to put that into a story, it would be a story about prejudice in that prize committee.”

It blew my mind, because she’s right. The fact that there’s some many firsts left is the result of bias in the committees NOT IN THE WORK WOMEN DO

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I love when people are like "oh you think you're such a good person huh" when you never said or implied that because it tells you a lot about how they perceive themselves

Conservatives do this a lot

[innerchildabortionclinic]

This is so funny

[boundedbybones]

[stuckinapril]

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

[stuckinapril]

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

[eh-fandomtrash]

Guys. You need to set Harry Potter aside. Put it in a little box with a little post-it on it that says, “only open when Joanne Rowling is dead and/or can no longer do terrible things with her money OR is no longer a hateful bigot.”

Put it in the back of your closet.

Set it aside.

Find something else.

Step back.

Walk away.

Try another author.

Try another show.

Try another franchise.

But just… let Harry go. You need to stop feeding the transhate beast. It’s for the best. You will find something better.

Move on.

[whimsyswastry]

Recs that have HP vibes without adding money to JKR and her terfy pockets:

Adult Recs

The Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik (1) A Deadly Education (2) The Last Graduate (3) The Golden Enclaves

HP meets D&D meets a genuinely unique plot. Whatever I say about this won't do it justice.

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (1) The Final Empire (2) The Well of Ascension (3) The Hero of Ages

Unique magic system based on metallurgy. Big bad who reminded me Voldemort (although this may be because it was the first series I read after deciding to let HP go). The feels. The characters. It's just chefs kiss.

Young Adult Recs

Lockwood & Company Series by Jonathan Stroud (1) The Screaming Staircase (2) The Whispering Skull (3) The Hollow Boy (4) The Creeping Shadow (5) The Empty Grave

Children and teens, who are uniquely susceptible to the supernatural, are trained to find and disperse hauntings.

The Shadow & Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (1) Shadow & Bone (2) Siege & Storm (3) Ruin & Rising

While not as strong as the Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom duology, it was the first series I devoured at the rate I read HP. I highly recommend reading all 7 books in the series, but the first 3 are the ones most similar to HP in my opinion. Magic, a school (although not much of the story takes place on the grounds), a late magical bloomer as the protagonist, and the big bad shares some similarities with Voldemort here as well.

The Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni (1) Akarnae (2) Raelia (3) Draekora (4) Graevale (5) Vardaesia (6) Kaldoras

In all honesty, I haven't read this one yet. HOWEVER, I was going to recommend her other series (The Prison Healer) because it also shares vibes with HP. But this one actually takes place in a magical boarding school. So, considering her banter already reminded me of HP, I'm excited to read this.