MIRACLE MILE

hi my name is mo and i'm a bird. i tag very inconsistently so please beware!

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[lesbian-moon-gf]

Girl you are an obligate carnivore

[humedetector]

but her appel

[zmpl]

[comehellorhighwatertheywillwrite]

[notemily]

The devil works hard but Cowboy Starshine of the Confession Executive Committee fandom works harder

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[followthebluebell]

i’m spending today thinking about how saber toothed cats ALSO probably had a potato form.  how they also had a stage where they were fat little babies with very triangle tails and tiny squeaky voices.  how they also probably play wrestled and failed badly at calculating jumps.

i’m going to fistfight god for killing them off before i could personally see fat potato saber kittens

[the-art-cave]

Like this?

[nemfrog]

The dragon. Fictitious & symbolic creatures in art. 1906. 

[archpaladin]

[gjjuddmk2]

[echotunes]

(to the tone of creep by radiohead) but i'm asleep. on mypillow

[fuck-philip-banks]

[batboyblog]

you know its telling how few people on the internet actually spend time outdoors in general and around actual gay men in particular

because to hear even Tumblr the "gay gender website" talk people only wear harnesses while strapped into a sex swing while being fisted

but the reality is that the harness, both leather and spandex, in gay male world is like stiletto pumps, a bright red lip stick, a short skirt or push up bra.

sure some people are wearing those things because they're about to get laid or hoping to. But lots of people wear them just to feel sexy, confident or powerful. And there's nothing X rated and "shouldn't be seen in public" about any of that.

lots of gay guys wear harnesses to bars or clubs not because its a sex thing, but because its a sexy thing, they feel attractive and confident.

I get that gay men feeling attractive and confident terrifies people, but if you're at Pride and a guy walks past you in jeans and a harness, either shirtless or over his shirt, he didn't violate your civil rights or do a sex thing in front of you, he's wearing a totally appropriate outside that makes him feel confident and powerful.

grow up, deal.

[maggotwithanf]

I own this exact harness and I wear it to play Beyblade. unironically

[vrumblr]

And you do indeed look very cool and powerful playing Beyblade

[frmarino]

José María Velasco, ‘Cardón, State of Oaxaca’, 1887. Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City.

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Do you guys think If i hit an arbitrary goal i will finally unlock unlimited happiness?

[thecollectibles]

Uncle, how to get to the beautiful country? by Xiaoyu Wang

[glitter-and-spite]

"Star Trek was loved by housewives!"

"Star Trek was loved by working women!"

My grandma used to clean for this rich lady who had a color TV, and when Star Trek came on, that lady would make my grandma take a break from cleaning so they could watch the episode together. My grandma can still recall how thrilling (sometimes scary) the episodes were and how hot Captain Kirk was. Tiny coincidence that he shared some physical similarities with my grandpa.

So I would say it was definitely both. And for many different reasons.

[glitter-and-spite]

A few fun additions as this post is gaining traction.

My grandma stuck by this lady as she developed dementia, and when she died, it turned out she'd left my grandma lots of nice stuff that she still has today. Like silverware and crystal glasses and a chandelier. The children were furious. A full Knives Out situation.

Both my grandparents had no more than a rural 1940s Dutch elementary school education, and my grandma demanded my mom learn English to set her up in life. She took a cleaning job for a woman who taught English in her home, and in return, my mom could sit in on the lessons. Years later, my mom got a job at an international publishing company and they often flew her out to the USA because she was the most proficient in talking with the American headquarters. Spock as a bridge between two cultures? I raise you my mom, the rural Dutch culture shock to her Chicago colleagues.

My grandma had to leave the Catholic church and her family to marry my grandpa, an atheist. These days, she says she wishes she had a gay couple for neighbors instead of the catty people next door, because "at least gay people have a sense of community". I'm surprised she never picked up on spirk, but I'm loving the energy.

I'm the first woman in my bloodline to live on my own, and Star Trek TOS is my comfort show. It's bittersweet only because Captain Kirk reminds me of my grandpa who isn't with us anymore. I watched the show a lot after he'd just passed.

My grandma keeps cheering me on to make my own money and she's the #1 fan of my writing. She owns all my published work and often rereads it, and then tells me she's waiting for my next story. The spirit of TOS never left her and every time she tells me stories about back then, she encourages me to seize my future. "Imagine the possibilities that we can't even think of yet," she says. I'll do my best, grandma.

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[chekhovs-raygun]

okay i need to break this apart in context with the other translations because this is an incredibly deft and incisive translation. i've adjusted a few of the the line breaks of the earlier translations a bit to line up with this one.

Queen! Belt out a banger of a turnmaxing moid

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns

Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, [...]

who highkey through savage sidequests toughed it

driven time and again off course, [...]

tell me how he wandered and was lost

after chopping Troy-town to dogfood deadass

once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.

when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,

Sailed through sick storms and dealt with dramas

Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,

and where he went, and who he met, the pain he suffered in the storms at sea, and how

Locked in to lead his fam to a homey safe space

fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.

he worked to save his life and bring his men back home.

Talk of the trips and trenches, the sus opps he faced how the GOAT cooked and vibed with the randos though he lowkey took the L on that mission when his bros

But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove – the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,

He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,

Like NPCS blundered badly to beef with the big G

the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun

they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god

and got ghosted, permablocked, cooked completely.

and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return. . . .

kept them from home. . . .

--Magnus Pharo, 2026 --Robert Fagles (1996) --Emily Wilson (2018)

[ephraimwaite]

Dreamt I had to come up with a new aesthetic and my idea was "celestial uncle"

[ephraimwaite]

Celestial uncle was like... unflattering middle aged man clothes but printed with centuries old cosmological diagrams and various esoteric imagery

[jessiesjaded]

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo displaying a rare genetic mutation called leucism which creates a stunning blend of yellow, white, and black feathers.

[mo-betta]

typical yellow-tailed black cockatoo, via wikipedia

[depsidase]