sir, those are my emotional support jazz hands

ferb. 22. he/they. perpetually obsessed with pirates and swords. Black Sails, M*A*S*H, Hannibal, Lord of the Rings, and archaeology are my main interests right now!

[visenyaism]

Marylanders don’t say hi hello how are you my name is they just try to kill you with their car. which is of course a great honor in their culture

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[thoodleoo]

had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes

[beemovieerotica]

was at a bar and a 50+ year old drunk white woman complimented me and my friend's outfits, told us there was a campsite up in northern maryland where a lot of gay bears go to have sex in the woods. we asked her how she knew about this and she very aggressively said "because i'm a FAG HAG!!! but i'm not allowed to say that anymore I GUESS!!!"

[deepinourengines]

unclean = adj. of or pertaining to uncles

[silverssorrysoul]

shane crashout/breakdown fics <3

licked by fire by Anonymous

“You know, there are a lot of kids that look up to you—”

It’s the refrain of Shane’s life. As if Shane doesn’t know that it’s pathetic. As if Shane doesn’t know what he fought through to get here. Abruptly, Shane is furious.

get gone by geniflux

Shane tries to grab at the right words. “It’s not that simple. Shane Hollander is me but it's also like - it's a thing people use to sell something. It's like a cardboard cutout of me.”

Trade Winds by northisnotup

WIP but worth it to start reading now imo

Nothing happening in that moment, on that bench, almost midway through the 3rd period down fucking 7-1 to the fucking Scouts, was impulse.

It was just the next logical step in a degradation that's been a long time coming. The slow dissolution of Shane's loyalty to the Montreal Metros.

virtue theory by gone_girl

When Shane thought back on his life, he could not identify a serious misstep. Nothing should be wrong with him. He'd done everything exactly how he was supposed to.

all the dishes intact by all_delighted_people

Shane liked The Centaurs. He really did.

Or: The Centaurs lose in the finals. Shane and Ilya host a dinner party.

i'll sleep on the floor (you're making this so hard) by morganalegay

Shane has been the favorite son for twenty-nine years. Ilya, he’s sure, has never been the favorite son. Maybe when Irina was alive, maybe when he had his mother to adore him, to support him and encourage him, to cheer him on. But he’s never basked in the glow of people who love him, not like Shane has. When Ilya disappointed his parents (his real parents, not Shane’s), he had something to be afraid of, something real, real danger, real fear of losing, of not being good enough. Ilya was raised starving.

Shane should be willing to share. He should want to.

cardiac tamponade by asthestarsforetold

Shane thought he knew two things: his move to Ottawa would cause chaos, and that the Ottawa Centaurs were nice. As it turned out, he only knew one of those things.

Or: the Cens are still a team of professional hockey players. They're going to fuck up.

[francesca-feasts]

Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)

For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the worki

Rebecca Fucking Solnit. She gets me every time.

[18kgold]

Favorite bits:

1) On the one hand most of those in the USA who could be described as working class are neither white nor male, and on the other those who are telling us that the Hunt for the Working Class must take priority over all else tend to be middle-class white men when they're telling us we must give up our commitment to other issues – women's rights, racial justice, immigrant rights, climate action.

2) God knows there was troubling information enough about [Platner] who was made up entirely of red flags and white male fantasy [...].

3) But Jesus said ["Let him without sin cast the first stone"] while preventing a crowd from stoning to death a woman accused of adultery, aka taking a stand against violence against women.

4) [W]omen's rights are very important to progressive men, just not as important as anything else.

[hopefulmisanthrope]

And don't miss this absolute banger:

As sociologist and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom put it last October, "Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows from it — suggests that we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor that are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party’s base. The conceit at the heart of that belief is that poor white people are too racist, and too uniquely ignorant of their racism, to vote in their best interests. Therefore, Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class." Cottom is a Black woman; Black women are the single most loyal constituency of the party, the ones who vote for it in the highest numbers, but I have never heard similar arguments about how we must bend to their needs no matter what. She continues, "Our culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes. Every single time, they were young and immature and it would be a shame to hold them accountable for anything they did wrong."

or this one:

PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder – has been cited, including by Platner, as a justification for his post-military conduct. On the one hand, while it may explain it, it doesn't justify that behavior in a candidate for senate. On the other, another Marine who served in Iraq, David J. Morris, who wrote a powerful book, The Evil Hours, about PTSD, wrote me some years ago, “The science on the subject is prettyclear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat. Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psychologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural narratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow heroic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.” A significant percentage of American women are survivors of male violence, including intimate partner violence and rape, yet I rarely hear PTSD invoked to justify or excuse their – our – behavior, and I've never heard it invoked to justify violence by women.

[angelbabymikaa]

i love garlic so much she is so sexy and cool

[angelbabymikaa]

everybody say thank you central asia

[outofcontextgarf]

[coolerdracula]

[lightshadowverisimilitude]

Waymo Takes Revenge, Dropping Drunk Teens Directly Into Squad of Cops

A Waymo vehicle delivered two 15-year-olds, who were drinking alcohol and shooting small water beads out of the car, straight to police.

I'm sure it's totally fine and normal and great that the taxi spies on you and will just deliver you directly to the police :)

This definitely can't be something that would be used in an abusive or arbitrary way :)

Law enforcement for sure wouldn't abuse something like this :)

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[philcollinsenjoyer]

explained to an 8 year old that once a fruit is ripe you only have so much time until it rots so you have to eat it soon and she said so i'll never be able to keep it perfect like this forever? no and there are about a million pieces of art for you unrelatedly

[chemsexholmes]

Unfortunately you will talk like a tumblr user for your entire life. Sorry.

[scribblyspaceskeleton]

[warriorsmurf]

Unfortunately your kids might also talk like Tumblr users. My daughter said "Get cherished, idiot" to her cat yesterday.

[theunvanquishedzims]

Children usually do pick up their parents' native languages, yes

[qqchurch]

[sparvverius]

what's so awesome about miranda hamilton is that she knows full well that revenge brings nothing good and that it will probably make her and her loved ones and many innocent uninvolved people more miserable and that it would not be what the person she lost wanted and she has no illusions about any of it. but when push comes to shove even if the end she's been fighting for for two seasons is in sight she simply cannot let the bastard get away with it

[nongunktional]

i really hate the way the "boobs vs butt" thing got broken down into this implicit idea that butt is the nobler stance. it's really stupid. personally im a woman guy. [realizes how that sounds] [purses my lips in thought] [nods confidently] im a woman guy

[psilactis]

with the odyssey by nolan releasing I've been thinking a lot about black sails, and one of the main thoughts is... it's a miracle it got made at all

I mean obviously it would have never even got greenlit post pandemic, what, a show that lasts 4 seasons with a complete story, so full of symbolism and long speeches it requires you to actually pay attention to what's going on? A show with no set morality with all its characters being some kind of Grey? In the age that all shows are made to be watchable while you are on your phone and that has the moral depth suitable for a toddler? Yeah it wouldn't have prospered at all.

But the thing is, it shouldnt have been greenlit back in 2014 either. That is something I've wondered a lot about and still wonder about today. Yeah ok the first season they could get away with, funky dark pirate show here to rival game of thrones yay! But then the second season rolled up with all its gayness and anti imperialism and long ass monologues. And as far as I know, no one was watching it. How did season 3 and 4 got greenlit? Especially with so many viewers dropping it after the flinthamilton reveal. I'm guessing it gave the network SOME money, money that probably wouldn't have happened if Starz was a streaming service. It flew so under the radar there is barely any official criticism of it, the rating in rating sites like rotten tomatoes is done by appraisal of like two people, the actors ask have the best performance of their lives and never got noticed.

I don't really have a point to make here. I mean yeah steaming is killing art but I don't think black sails is an example of that. It having been made at all is a miracle

[giveherswords]

There is no sex act that is inherently dominant or submissive. Just as there is no body part that assigns a sexual role by default. What we confuse—constantly—is mechanics for meaning.

Penetration isn’t power. Receiving isn’t surrender. What we’re reacting to is the social script of the penetrator: this body takes, that body is taken. This is most visible in how the female body is read. Femininity is culturally positioned as receptive, penetrable, acted upon—less a mode of agency than a surface something happens to.

As a femme dom, my domination often involves penetration—but it isn’t located there. It lives in the dynamic: authority, framing, guidance, the shaping of desire. There is no situation in which I become submissive simply because I’m being fucked. I’m not yielding control. I’m exercising it.

Queer people tend to get this. We have history in language: dom/sub for dynamic, top/bottom for preference. We’re less invested in pretending presentation predicts desire. That separation matters.

In many cis/het femdom spaces, the fantasy is doing something specific: it’s negotiating power that already exists outside the scene. For some cis male subs, the erotic charge is bound up in taboo or transgression; for some cis women, dominance carries the thrill of stepping into authority that isn’t culturally assumed.

Lesbian dynamics don’t always start from the same baseline. Two women may still carry differences—race, class, history, trauma, anatomy—but we aren’t entering the scene with dominance already assigned by gender alone. We begin with a closer approximation of shared social power. The pleasure isn’t in stealing authority; it’s in choosing, together, to redistribute it.

Is the body ever free of social scripting? Maybe not entirely. But it can be freer—when we separate mechanics from meaning, anatomy from intention, and inherited power from chosen dynamic.

That choice is the whole point.