sine lucro friget ludus

I originally made this blog to talk about the media I like, now I just reblog whatever I find interesting or thought-provoking (which doesn't mean I 100% agree with it, just that it makes me think. I think we could all do with a bit less echo chamber and a little more hmm makes me think). I like a mix of highbrow and lowbrow, competence porn, pulpy vintage genre fiction full of sordid personal drama, worldbuilding-heavy SFF and sociological storytelling more generally. Also aggressive music and kinky porn. Big Dorothy Dunnett fangirl. Proud Eurotrash. Passionately against any type of censorship. DNI if you're into psychoanalysis. Previously dehautdesert and unhelpfulfemme.

[maygpt]

Hello! I got your message and I’ll respond shortly — I’m currently in the middle of eating a Peach, which is a delicate operation and thus I cannot type right now. Hope you understand!

[markovchaingang]

undergrads don't actually "think". they're just machines designed to identify patterns in data and apply those patterns to new data

[mahawavy]

[keyboard-worrier]

If you're ever struggling with math, Fields Medalist Yu Deng recommends yuri.

[incoherent-orca]

god bless him and may his egg crack soon

[beemovieerotica]

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

[beemovieerotica]

a linguist is analyzing it

[hell-mental]

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via versteur)

[sighinastorm]

Go to a furry convention dressed as an 18th century fur trapper. Longrifle, jawtraps, chains, fur hat, big coat made of sewn-together pelts of different polyester neons...

[chacha-tortuga]

[sighinastorm]

Man. You get it. :^)

[nobrashfestivity]

Frogs in Ukiyoe, 太田記念美術館 from the twitter account of Ota Memorial Museum of Art 

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

if i could give one piece of advice to newly transitioning trans men, it's that it's 100% possible to find a community of people (including women!) who don't treat you as a threat, and the people trying to convince you otherwise are not your friends

[ftmtftm]

Also, perhaps, have we considered that it's actually really bad that we treat closeted trans women (and closeted nonbinary people, and frankly cis men too) this way? Like. It's a bad thing that trans women are treated like distrustful monsters for """"being men"""" before coming out by one demographic and then are also treated like distrustful monsters after coming out for being trans by another. That's not a sign of a culture with a healthy relationship with gender in the slightest!!!

Have we considered that treating people as inherently dangerous or distrustful by virtue of their gender alone is in fact, the very gender essentialism that perpetuates radical feminism in our spaces and that is something that we should be working on stamping out?

I am genuinely sorry that people across multiple different identity lines experience this shit because no trans person should be treated like a distrustful monster just by virtue of their gender identity before or after coming out.

*extends my hand* Let's examine the ways we allow gender essentialism to invade our spaces and harm other trans people and put an end to this cycle of gender essentialist abuse together!

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

More relationships where they fucked once and then went "wow ok that sucked lets never do that again" high fived and were best friends ever after

[hanjisquokka]

seeing if anyone is interested!

i have two bts metlife d1 tickets that i can transfer if anyone wants them. i got upgraded seats so i dont need them anymore. they are section 309, row 20! i paid 70 for each, but i'll give them away for 50 each. just message me and i'll send ticket proof and we can talk about transfer!! i want to get rid of them so the seats don't go empty please !!

[pmamtraveller]

Yelizaveta Savina - “Princess Tamara,” a triptych based on M.Y. Lermontov's poem “The Demon.”

[250318]

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[chennnington]

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

[reasonsforhope]

I <3 HeroRats, I've been following them for years and they're still one of my favorite things

(I also <3 rats, and used to have pet rats, so admittedly I am super biased, but they're such sweet babies! Forget the anti-rat propaganda!)

Meet the HeroRATs: The Unlikely Rodents Saving Lives From Landmines

Dr. Cindy Fast, APOPO's Head of Training and Innovation, explains how the adorable 'HeroRATS' are saving lives across the globe.

You can adopt a baby yourself here ;)

There are also HeroRats saving lives by sniffing out tuberculosis, illegal wildlife trafficking products, and survivors of natural disasters during search and rescue operations! (source)

[mala-taste]

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[existennialmemes]

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

[katorrebaji]

<dune voice>

The power to destroy a thing is ownership over it.

If you haven't downloaded the actual file to your actual computer in a way that is inaccessible to the original company or anyone who is not you, you haven't literally purchased it

[subjectverb]

proxy relationship not a trope to anyone else but me which is a shame. Does no one else care abt the beautiful dynamic potential of conducting an entire shameful affair with someone just to get closer to their partner...Indirect kiss through some other guy. Possibilities !

[subjectverb]

some dynamics under this umbrella (feel free to add more im gonna forget some)

a wants b, b is with c, and a cant have b, so a gets with c

a and b both want c so they form a relationship out of mutual Well You Also Know C So You Get It And Also You Are Close As I Can Reallt Get To Them

a and b both want Each Other but they dont believe they can do that (whether or not theyre right is frankly irrelevant!! i dont care if they are cursed or just stupid) so they use c as a vehicle for their relationship

"this sounds really toxic and objectifying"yeapppp. 👍

[subjectverb]

IMPORTANT ALSO THANK YOU PIPER !!