The Lady of Moonscar

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of 'courage.” Profile pic by https://www.facebook.com/centuriiteam/

[beardedmrbean]

[bententeren]

ok so. so we’re just. not reading now. wow ok. ok!!! booktok says we should remove half of the fun from reading!!! wow!!! (i found this in a video and apparently it’s not just this person doing it. it’s. quite a few of them. just to make that clear.)

[incandescentsilence]

I was listening to a podcast about books done by a known local newspaper and the two hosts were speaking about a book each. I mention the local newspaper because those people are paid to do this podcast, it's part of their job.

One of the two mentioned "skipping some parts because I had to finish before recording and found them boring" in the same sentence as saying that she was often lost and couldn't keep track of all the people mentioned.

I'm like...maybe that's related??? Maybe the book is meant to be read in full??? But no, she mentioned her favourite part was the end and even advised to just skip to that.

And listen, I'm not the police you do you. I think it's weird to skip parts or only read dialogues, yes. Maybe at that point just change book. But! If you're a professional or semi-professional reader, if that's your job and supposedly your passion you want to share with the world. These are some wild ideas guys.

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[animentality]

[frogmerthur]

ɪꜰ ɪᴛꜱ ᴛʀᴜᴇ - ʜᴀᴅᴇꜱᴛᴏᴡɴ for @morgwenmicrofic prompt: "is this true?" (kinda)

[hippiedippieblondie]

Male loneliness this, male loneliness that. Have they tried lobotomies? Tranquilizers? Being fingered by medical professionals? Tearing the yellow wallpaper off the walls of the attic room where your husband keeps you locked up?

[goodman-grace]

Geralt probably huffs and puffs about gossip and it being "trite shit beneath him" but I know that bitch turns into the biggest gossip whenever Jaskier has some new court drama to tell him after Winter. Fully locked the fuck in when Jaskier starts drawing diagrams and timelines into the dirt with a stick they both found just to get the full experience. They start mapping out entire family trees and realise the newest drama is connected to some shit that happened 30 years ago in the same court and they only know this because Geralt decided to be a nosy cunt about it when he last passed through there

[goodman-grace]

Geralt's a fake ass homosexual if I had Joey Batey trailing after me for 20 years singing ballads about how amazing I was and tenderly stitching up my wounds after I got my ass kicked and gently washing my hair and was so devoted to me that everyone called him my bard I would've fucked him so hard that his vertebrae would be shooting out of his mouth like a pez dispenser but maybe that's just me.

[knightwithahundredkings]

Went to an Oedipus Rex adaption today and my friends were debating whether the Oedipus/Jocasta age gap was problematic. Like guys…I think their relationship has bigger issues

[homeiswhere-thephobicis]

[yallemagne]

I'm so fucking sick of men complaining "men aren't allowed to wear dresses or skirts but women can wear pants". WOMEN WENT TO JAIL FOR WEARING TROUSERS. THEY WORE TROUSERS ANYWAY. THEY WORE TROUSERS UNTIL THE LAWS FORBIDDING IT WERE OVERTURNED... AND THEN THEY KEPT WEARING THEM. You have to fucking fight for these things. You have to wear skirts and dresses if you want to destigmatize it. "People will judge me. I might get hurt." WOMEN WENT TO JAIL. GROW UP AND PUT ON A FUCKING SKIRT.

[stormbreaker101]

I LOVE COLLABORATIVE SOTRYTELLING I LOVE CREATING THINGS TOGETHER I LOVE "YES AND"ING WITH OTHERS I LOVE "NO BUT WHAT ABOUT-"S I LOVE HEARIJG MY FRIENDS' IDEAS I LOVE BOUNDING OFF OF THEM I LOVE ART I LOVE STORIES I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT MEDIA IT TAKES I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

[justnoodlefishthings]

Jackson Galaxy is selling a "vaccine detox" supplement that is literally just water

[justnoodlefishthings]

For $27.95 you too can own a small bottle of water that at one point might have touched rhubarb, probably

[talleryn]

TLT does kill your gays but like. In a sexy way. They’re haunting the narrative you can’t stop seeing them in the corner of your eye you can’t live without them they’re integrated into your soul but in such a way that they’re gone forever. Where do they end where do you begin. It doesn’t matter because you’re all dying anyway

[evil-genius-shark]

They also keep coming back on account of the whole necromancy thing.

[wrishwrosh]

ive said it before and i’ll say it again not enough historical romance focuses on technicalities

[wrishwrosh]

really for this kind of thing it’s no use going to published trad romance and i should know that. the really good shit is 400k on fanfiction dot net for a heterosexual pairing you’ve never considered from a piece of media you havent thought about in years written by a bored doctoral candidate who’s read a lot of primary sources from the long 18th century

[wrishwrosh]

recently rediscovered my absolute favorite entry in the genre: customs and duties by tortoiseshells, which is an insane technicalityromance set in 1738 boston, ft the stuffy british navy guy from pirates of the caribbean/ofc, smuggling, puritanism in the john calvin sense, the legal realities of widowhood, several real historical governors of massachusetts, debts, accounts, and of course customs regulations

[marzipanandminutiae]

I would also like to nominate and psyche's lamp shall darkling be, a story based on the 2025 Frankenstein movie that gets into the intricacies of 1850s convent school life, the process of Catholic ecclesiastical courts verifying miracles, multiple points of mid 19th century marriage and inheritance laws pertaining to property, and also spells the word connection with an X so you know the author has been in the 19th century literature trenches 

[wizardshark]

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

[saspitite]

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND

PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING

[kirain]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head, an incredible actor, musician, singer, LGBTQ+ ally and activist, devoted girl dad, and father figure to many of us as we grew up.

You will be dearly missed. 🩷