Midnight Clover

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[midnight-clover]

Twenty make it stick

A heater for the big boy

[radiospiral]

“I cupped your soul in my hands.”

Finished my reread of Nona the Ninth, fuuuck that book /pos. Nona alt, close ups, and more below the cut:p

[pvtameliatucker]

you ever think about how Merlin, in modern day with modern medicine and understanding of the human body and its ailments, would YEARN for death 1000x over upon realizing the trek to the lake probably sealed the deal for Arthur's injuries? like that man had internal bleeding, torn organs clearly, and 100% had a spinal injury.

And he had that man on horseback.

he did what he could at the time but so you ever think about Merlin thinking about what he did wrong medically, in those final days?

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[aj-living-life]

Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.

[aj-living-life]

Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.

[cleo-fox]

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

[maple-seed]

Both options convey that he's horny

[cleo-fox]

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

[theomnipotentfox]

If it's the snack chip he might just be corny.

[luulapants]

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

mid-way pride month check-in

[gaypornvideoswebsite]

just saw someone comment under a videoclip of the sylvia rivera interview where she insists on the modern (circa 2001) pride movement being a capitalist smokescreen, a “straight gay” movement that worships the almighty dollar, that:

and this person is likely quite young but this really really really captures the limited imagination of capitalist neoliberal indoctrination around freedom and liberation. radical queerness treated as a paintjob over a prison as opposed to the bulldozer that tears the prison down. we have to dream for so much more and endure the pain of dreaming.

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[velvetys]

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I always forget that Merlin gets fired in the SECOND episode

[dollopheadedmerlin]

You're not allowed to hide this hilarious headcanon in the tags

[sowa9]

[sunfloowerlatte-art]

I’m back and still always drawing her

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I am just a little bit obsessed with the overlap between aromanticism and polyamory, I think. it's so awesome and fascinating to me

[productofaritual]

Wait can u elaborate actually I'm curious

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

kinda like. when the line between friendship and romance gets blurry and starts to dissolve, like in platonic or queer-platonic partnerships), sometimes the line between a friend group and a polycule can get blurry too

[aro-thoughts]

Yes 👏 my favourite. I like to think of it as "why is it normal to have more than one friend but frowned upon to have more than 1 romantic partner?" And I love to blur the lines of friendship and romance cuz of that and then take it in all sorts of directions

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[taytei]

happy pride to them

hope they know what a rainbow is

[gaybichon]

not even funny how true this is for me