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a dumb side blog

[skeletonsofstars]

joining the war against evil heartless aroace characters on the side of evil heartless aroace characters

[dame-bloodrose]

I love Murderbot. It's so relatable. "I want to sink into my media feeds and pretend i don't exist for a while." It is literally doing the same thing I'm doing right now

[ryebreadgf]

girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

[ryebreadgf]

I got a message about how this is supposedly mean. I am holding your hand when I say that refusing womanhood and clinging onto girlhood will not save you from the realities of adulthood. I am not saying you are not young. 26 is incredibly young. you are free to love the concepts and media associated with girlhood but there is much to love about womanhood that you are not seeing. there is something to be said for being free of the shackles of girlhood and childhood. you are an autonomous being. you have power over your life and the paths you will take. it is easier to see the paths when you start taking yourself seriously instead of waiting for others to do so. no one is saying you have to be serious. womanhood is joy too. a different shade of yellow

[beaft]

being on the aro spectrum would be a lot easier if being single wasn't made to feel like a literal death sentence

[beaft]

it's all very well to say "friends are just as important as romantic partners" but in practice this simply is not the case lmao. you can share a flat with a friend but it's expected that sooner or later that friend will meet someone and will move out to go live with that person instead. if you're hanging out with friends you can bring your partner along but your friends can't come on a date night with you because that's third-wheeling and it's weird. you can know somebody for most of your life and still be second-best to some guy they met on tinder 6 months ago. you're meant to just accept without question the fact that your friends will prioritise time with their partners over time with you. being single is treated like a problem that needs to be fixed. we casually use expressions like "just friends" or "more than friends". everything we read and watch reinforces the idea that romantic love is what gives life meaning and therefore your life is meaningless without it. i try to keep my chin up but my god it is bleak out there

[unown]

viva la vida defined 2008 I don’t remember anything else and I refuse to

[theinternetcitizen-deactivated2]

There was a financial crisis

[the-cheshire-cat-grin]

sorry bro can’t hear you i think st peter is calling my name

[fuhosh-i]

“Where’s the pathetic element?” Exactly Tom Hardy. Exactly.

(x)

[bettsfic]

reblogging this again because i can't stop thinking about "where's the wretch?"

i have hundreds of thousands of words of writing asks on this blog spanning a decade. i've read dozens of craft books. i've been teaching creative writing for 8 years. and "where's the wretch" might be the best craft advice i've ever heard.

[saintmachina]

Caught myself thinking "I want to watch a video essay on a certain element of gothic fiction, but I want a very deep dive, with lots of sources quoted, I don't mind if it's a little dry, or even if I have to go hunting for it, as a matter of fact that sounds fun" and then I remembered JSTOR exists.

[jstor]

We are humbly requesting links

[saintmachina]

Thank you for the access you gave me to Jenny DiPlacidi's Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgression, JSTOR, you always know exactly what a girl needs!

[severalowls]

No song nor poetry can convey tragedy like a cat who wants through a door

[severalowls]

[strawmaguchi]

She’s just like me…. SHE’S JUST LIKE ME FR!!!!

[adhd-merlin]

opened my mobile kindle app for the first time in a while and it immediately started harassing me about le morte d'arthur

[adhd-merlin]

[viktor-the-leshen]

[sixty-silver-wishes]

idk guys is this funny

[nickandros]

genuinely best thing to come out of american politics in a while is this whole earnestly calling republicans "weird". never underestimate the power of cringe to turn the tide of a political campaign.

[nickandros]

genuinely the democrats best option right now is just to reply to insane republican takes with

[t4timekeeper]

romance is lame and overrated i love mentor/mentee relationships in fiction and especially when theyre sort of fucked up

[t4timekeeper]

greatest hits:

- You started out as a bet/challenge to see if I could successfully wrangle the infamous Problem Child but oh whoops I got attached!

- You are my kind, bright-eyed protegé who would never do so much as rip a tag off a mattress. anyway I am going to acquaint you with Criminal Activity

- I showed you genuine kindness and it was maybe the first time you’d ever experienced it and accidentally ended up becoming more of a parent to you than your “real” blood family ever was. Uh. Do you want to play catch in the park or

- I will gladly take any punishment meant for you. I would go to the ends of the earth to protect you, even if it meant I had to die in the process. I would do it a thousand times over, and I wouldn’t regret any of it.

- I taught you how to fight, and now through some circumstance or another, I’m forced to engage you in life-or-death combat without holding back.

- I put you through training from hell to make you the person you are today, for “your own good”, and now you’ve realized that you can hit back. And you can hit hard.

- I have made you into something greater than yourself - but you are changing from how I have designed you, and this is something I cannot allow.

- I taught you everything you know, and it was the greatest mistake I’ve ever made.

- I will make you just like me - by force, if necessary.

[t4timekeeper]

stop taggin this with ships / “and then they kiss” / “but what if it WAS romantic” you are missing the whole point of this post so bad. this is a Certified Aro Post. get weird about platonic dynamics NOW

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

this whole ouroboros thing keeps coming back to bite me in the ass

[skiffst]

i love when academics are like this

from the translator's introduction in my copy of antigone... she's his blorbo.... <3

[ihateornithologists]