And Things

~26 they/them Alt main blog this is where the posts that are too horny or too depressing go

[thesirensense]

Your self respect has to be greater than your desire to be loved.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You're religious? You're like so chill and not homophobic and believe sex workers deserve human rights

Considering that there are literally billions of religious people on the planet yes, some of us are progressives. Jesus says to share what you have and be kind to your neighbors so idk why I wouldn’t support human rights.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The thing about chill religious people is that we are chill and kinda quiet so unfortunately the unchill loud kinds get all of the airtime.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not gonna try to convert you to my way of thinking but I will explain that spirituality is a fundamental part of the human experience and the universe is never going to be fully explained. On top of that community and culture are often connected very closely to religion.

Choosing to admit that you are a being of spirituality and you will never fully understand everything about how the universe works and connecting with a community and culture that fills those needs for you is a perfectly rational decision to make.

Yes I literally believe in the existance of a singular God. Yes I also fully believe in science. This is not a contradiction. I’ll never know for sure if I’m right about how the universe works but I don’t care. What I get out of my faith is incredibly important to me whether I’m correct or not.

I also don’t really care if you agree with me or not. I know what I’m about and I’m not one to try and convert people but I’m also not interested in hiding such a fundamental part of who I am. My queerness, my love for modern science, my love for life, are all linked deeply to my faith and I have no interest in trying to hide that even if I am a bit quiet with it at times.

[gorgynei]

the thing about orpheus is that he doesn't turn because he loves eurydice. he turns because paradoxically he is afraid to lose her. hes turned many times and found people have disappeared when he wasn't looking (his mother, persephone in act 1, eurydice in act 1). he loves eurydice, but by act 2 he's seen the way the world is. he has to turn. one last look is better than never seeing her again. hadestown isn't about death, its about self destruction and how grief paints your actions in the present.

[future-crab]

Imagine being Anais Mitchell and writing a song about the rhetoric of fascism so incisive and prescient that 10 years later an actual fascist would use that exact rhetoric down to the highly-specific phrasing in his presidential campaign. But also it took 10 years for the project you wrote that song for to move from living room shows to concept album to theater workshop to off-Broadway to Broadway, and its Broadway debut ended up coinciding with said fascist's successful bid for the presidency, and now it looks like your song that you wrote in 2005 is a super unsubtle reference to that one particular and highly-topical politician.

Frankly if I were her I would have started killing.

[reallifedakimakura]

ok hot

[chekhovs-raygun]

you can't blame orpheus for not looking back when euridice begged him to: he remembered how that didn't save her and what would have saved her was the song he was writing as fast as he could.

and you can't blame orpheus for looking back when euridice sang to him to hold fast and look only forward: he remembers how that didn't save her and what would have saved her was to look for her in the cold and the dark.

you can't blame euridice for loving a boy who couldn't save her. she loved the boy who tried every time.

[corpse-toy]

extremely tempting grindr bot message

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[ripempezardexerox]

One tumblr follower is worth 196 instagram followers

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[tearlessrain]

actually caring about the rights and safety of children is so stressful right now because a large amount of the time I'm sitting there internally screaming "THAT'S WORSE. THAT POLICY IS GOING TO ACTIVELY CAUSE HARM TO CHILDREN YOU ARE MAKING IT WORSE." and nobody cares because it's not actually about protecting children but the thing is children actually do need more protection very badly, just not like that. REALLY not like that. and the things that would actually protect children (education, greater personal autonomy, access to knowledge and resources that don't hinge on their parents being willing/able to provide them) would give adults less absolute power over them and that upsets too many people who see children as status symbols and tools and extensions of themselves.

[amandla]

[delavegaaaaa]

“You can’t fix him” I don’t wanna fix him! I wanna FUCK him! I’m a pervert not a psychologist!

[agnesandhilda]

if female top nudity weren't viewed as inherently sexually explicit. oh brother. I would be letting those puppies hang like you wouldn't believe

[agnesandhilda]

the thing is I would be okay with being viewed as sexually attractive while topless. like a shirtless cis man can be a considered a hunk beefcake eye candy etc but it's not by nature r-rated. usamerican society at large is able to understand that toplessness can be sexually appealing but is not in itself a sexual act when a man does it. if I could be just casually topless on a hot day or something without the little flashing light over my head saying think of the CHILDREN I would be getting minoan with it

[glowcowboy]

i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp