Queen Mad's Random Ramblings

Devoted to whatever makes me shriek and squeal with giddy delight. And anything else I find interesting. It shall be as random as I am.

[montanabohemian]

anyway, if anyone could help me out with my moving expenses, i'd greatly appreciate it.

[alt-illustrations]

Heron by the Waterfall

[floursend]

sakura-clave🌸🌸🌸

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen The Rescuers Down Under (1990)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onJun 28

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

[cheaphalloweencostume]

really? you don’t say

[immigrant]

its true though sex scenes are bad and you only are defending them cuz you wont question that men put their fetishes into everything. movies by women literally just dont have sex scenes and if rhey do its not gratuitous and lasts two seconds or its played for comedy . Fuck you and your dinners idc bro

[cheaphalloweencostume]

movies by women literally just dont have sex scenes

[eroscestlavie]

Everyone envies me for my shrimp lighter

[eroscestlavie]

[anarchopuppy]

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

[astrovampz]

This too shall pass but why the hell did it even have to happen in the first place dude

[joelmcwinger]

What's something you want to see happen for Annie [in the Community movie] that you didn't get to live out in the series? [x]

[h4nifah]

it annoys me that straight men get gassed up for being ‘eaters’ but this category doesn’t exist for women bc it’s literally assumed that all women can and will give men head, it’s seen as an expectation and not something extra that we get praised for

[montanabohemian]

#no no keep going you're onto something here

[theeternalghost]

We all have that one character we’re in too deep for.

[fleetwoodmactshirt]

[thatbitchsimone]

[radiqueer]

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

[aromanticduck]

Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me

Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care

[byjove]

idk if this is because I’m autistic or because I’m an asshole but I HATE unannounced visits at my house. I do not care if you are the love of my life, if you decide to surprise me by showing up with no warning on a Sunday at 9 am when i haven’t showered in 3 days and i have dirty dishes in the sink, i will not be pleasant. PISSES ME OFFFFFFF

[artdecohomeg1rl]

Or maybe you’re just Bilbo, OP.

[byjove]

I hate to admit it but. True…

[insomniac-arrest]

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way

[full-moon-phoenix]

~“Your primal instincts are not bathed in blood.”

My god this is beautiful. Such a refreshing change of pace to the constant glorification of instinctual human violence.

[thechekhov]

Primal Human Instinct pack also includes bonus instincts such as:

imitating weird noises made by other animals

playing with water

the urge to eat anything brightly colored and jelly-like

touching things that look like they will move in a funny way

seeing faces in literally everything, including toast

jumping up to see if you can bap the top of that doorway

saying ‘ow’ when something unexpected happens, even if it doesn’t hurt

[annabelle--cane]

I think a lot of people spent their childhoods being very deliberately forced out of their comfort zones by parents / teachers / whomever in a way that was just deeply unpleasant and degrading and so, when they reach young adulthood and are finally allowed real control over their lives, become set on only doing things they know they're comfortable with forever. that's a really important thing to be able to do, especially if you're so used to having your boundaries routinely ignored that you aren't even certain what you like vs what you can bear, so I absolutely see why a person would have a negative reaction to being told that discomfort is good: it can very easily sound like being told that all that work they've been doing to prioritze their needs for the first time ever is Bad and Selfish, actually. and to that I will say two things:

one: as long as you aren't hurting or, like, being a dick to anyone, just staying in your comfort zone isn't an immoral action. if you just want to read one type of book (or just fanfiction), or just eat one type of food, or just watch one type of movie, or not go to new types of social events, you aren't being a bad person for that, and if people say that, they are soundly wrong and just trying to get a self-righteousness kick.

two: trying new things because you want to expand yourself feels a hell of a lot different than trying new things because you're being forced to. you'll feel better about trying new foods if you know you have a back up familiar one in case you can't stomach the new one, it's easier to read new books if you can experiment with audio versions or reading it in little five-page chunks by yourself, you can breathe a lot easier going somewhere new if you aren't chained there for three hours because your parent is your ride home, etc.

tl;dr: new things are good. I get why you might not want to try new things, and that's fine, but it's also more comfortable to try new things as an adult with your own agency so, yeah, what have you got to lose by trying a weird old art film?

[girlmostlikely]

[brbjellyfishing]

and how do you know what that sounds like

[assassinregrets]