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spent five hours alone listening to music, turns out I will be ok

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024

I need to be a well off couple's third and I do not want to be on equal footing with them relationship-wise, I do want to be the secondary partner here, the kind who does weird sex things they don't normally do with each other and gets flaunted like a party trick over martinis to show how worldly they are. I want to sit on one of their Eames chairs and gaze into the eyes of their useless designer dog and realize that me and it are one and the same, that I am just another set piece, and plan my escape not before exploiting their networks in the arts and local politics and penning a novella that leaves readers to wonder where the fact ends and the fiction begins.

mosomosomoso

Tom Perkinson, American. (1940-present)

sweatermuppet

[sitting completely still in my own bed] this world is gutting me like a fish

chimaerakitten

So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like

lizziemack

When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

jasper-rolls

open-sketchbook

one of the things thats really, really hard to internalize as a writer is that you have spent way more time in this world than any reader will, which means shit that feels incredibly unsubtle and blatant, shit that sounds like a klaxon going off to you, is going to go right over their heads

maniculum

[ID for the original image:

A tweet by the author Oliver Darkshire, aka deathbybadger, reading:

“my editor: you need to make this part clearer

me: no I think we can trust the reader to interpret, I don't think we need to baby them

the reader:”

A retweet of twitter user D0ROG4YA, reading:

“y'all im 40% into this book im reading and this whole time i thought one of the characters was a horse. he is a man.”

End ID]

For anyone else who, like me, just Has To Know:

According to the original Twitter thread, the book is “Immortal Longings” by Chloe Gong.

The OP seems equally confused about why they made this assumption:

And yes, the character has dialogue, so the assumption was “talking horse”. The realization didn’t come until a passage that mentioned his fingers.

marzipanandminutiae

hello, internet user. before you is a selection of pictures you tagged "dark academia." you have 30 minutes to explain what each of them has to do with academia, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship"

if you cannot complete this task a literature professor will enter the room and beat you into unconsciousness with a baseball bat that has the word "GOTHIC" printed on it in large letters

good luck

sailermoon

sometimes u listen to some pop song from 2010 and realize oh my younger self is still in here

skatinginfinitelywithyourmom

lowpolyanimals

Dog from The Dog Island

catcrumb

theforce

i hate when americans get asked about the israeli/palestinian conflict and they say “well it’s not really my place to have an opinion” our country literally funds genocide against the palestinian people in the name of “defense” it absolutely is our business, we should be as mad as we can as loudly as possible.

paper-mario-wiki

man.

isotopegirl-deactivated20240730

love when i'm scrolling tumblr, reblogging posts and getting notifications from mutuals reblogging them minutes later like hell yeah we're hanging out

whitmanic

ill never forget when hbomberguy reblogged this post of mine:

and hbomber guy reblogged it and said:

highest of honors

purplehazeplaysoffasamsung

the world is not scary plus im strong as hell

papayajuan2019

biggaybunny

Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?