that's how horses are

she/her, adult. Mainly about Peaky blinders, movies I watch and horses.

[nofckingfighting]

Tommy + horses 🐎

[recreationaldivorce]

sex testing isn't making people discover that they're intersex, it's making people intersex. if someone's sex characteristics are imperceptibly different to what sex defines they should have, it wouldn't have placed them in a different social category until both the technology and the drive to test were there. ppl just don't really believe that sex categories are also socially constructed and fluid. things like hormone levels naturally wildly range between people before it gets to a point where someone looks noticeably "different" for their sex—a cafab person with testosterone levels deemed high today would not have been intersex 200 years ago unless they displayed noticeably masculinised features, because nobody would have known anyone's testosterone levels and therefore can't use that as a basis for treating someone differently!

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[nightofking]

so satisfying to Organise Ideas yk

[waldmaerchen]

Roter Faden

[sideofcolumbo]

These are book covers for Japanese novelizations of Columbo episodes. On eBay:

Negative Reaction - Written in Japanese. This Futami Bunko The Mystery Collection paperback edition of Negative Reaction is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Naoaki Iijima is the translator.

Death Hits the Jackpot - Written in Japanese. This paperback edition of Death Hits the Jackpot is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Ken Asamatsu is the translator. It is a Japanese mystery novel.

Columbo Goes to the Guillotine - Written in Japanese. This paperback edition of Columbo Goes to the Guillotine is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Hiroshi Okubo is the translator. It is part of the Futami Bunko The Mystery Collection.

Grand Deception - Written in Japanese. This paperback edition of Grand Deception is authored by William Link and Richard Levinson. Akira Shiraishi is the translator. It is a Japanese mystery novel.

[nataliehall]

So there’s this guy Jimothy

[kitties-of-flickr]

kitties hugging

2004

[gingerswagfreckles]

Where's that post that's like "people on tumblr see anorexia as a stupid thing girls do for fun instead of a deadly disease" ?

[gingerswagfreckles]

Like I wonder if maybe these women have something else in common besides being rich? Maybe something like being in the public eye 24/7 and having 1000000000000 people a day comment on their bodies in public forums where everyone including them can see and hear it??

[gingerswagfreckles]

Sorry I'm not done. We are really at the "women developing anorexia is actually Another Way To Oppress You" level of backlash to feminism and "every single thing on earth is about Marxism" type discourse on the internet now? Really? Women are developing anorexia, a deadly disease that fucks up your organs forever and slashes decades off your life, to Show Off How Capitalist They Are and oppress you? And this is a take coming from "innerchildabortionclinic." Something something the reason abortion is the only serious feminist issue the left still likes to talk about has everything to do with being perceived as "edgy" and absolutely NOTHING to do with women's rights or bodily autonomy or seeing women as human beings, as is I think made VERY evident by this "hot take" by "innerchildabortionclinic" that women develop anorexia on purpose to show off how rich they are and oppress you. God all fucking mighty crawl back into Hot Topic and leave sick women the hell alone!!!

[liesmyth]

@transjeannedarc

[puppiegracie]

robby and ahmad's lil fist bump !

[lakeofsilverpike]

One choice the show made in revealing Robby’s character is showing us that he’s friendly with staff at all levels of the hierarchy in the hospital (except admin because this man hates the hierarchy). He and Ahmad are friendly. He knows Esme’s name, uses it, and asks how she is in both seasons. If you don’t work in a hospital you might not know that this really isn’t typical for doctors. Many will ignore the cleaning staff entirely. Few would know their names. Esme likes Robby enough that she saw him struggling during the MCI and asked if he needed anything, if he wanted her to grab him something to eat. That speaks to their relationship and to why the staff like him so much. He talks to them as equals. He doesn’t put himself on a pedestal, and that is really not common among doctors.

[mortalityplays]

This is a dangerous sentiment for me to express, as an editor who spends most of my working life telling writers to knock it off with the 45-word sentences and the adverbs and tortured metaphors, but I do think we're living through a period of weird pragmatic puritanism in mainstream literary taste.

e.g. I keep seeing people talk about 'purple prose' when they actually mean 'the writer uses vivid and/or metaphorical descriptive language'. I've seen people who present themselves as educators offer some of the best genre writing in western canon as examples of 'purple prose' because it engages strategically in prose-poetry to evoke mood and I guess that's sheer decadence when you could instead say "it was dark and scary outside". But that's not what purple prose means. Purple means the construction of the prose itself gets in the way of conveying meaning. mid-00s horse RPers know what I'm talking about. Cerulean orbs flash'd fire as they turn'd 'pon rollforth land, yonder horizonways. <= if I had to read this when I was 12, you don't get to call Ray Bradbury's prose 'purple'.

I griped on here recently about the prepossession with fictional characters in fictional narratives behaving 'rationally' and 'realistically' as if the sole purpose of a made-up story is to convince you it could have happened. No wonder the epistolary form is having a tumblr renaissance. One million billion arguments and thought experiments about The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that almost all evade the point of the story: that you can't wriggle out of it. The narrator is telling you how it was, is and will be, and you must confront the dissonances it evokes and digest your discomfort. 'Realistic' begins on the author's terms, that's what gives them the power to reach into your brain and fiddle about until sparks happen. You kind of have to trust the process a little bit.

This ultra-orthodox attitude to writing shares a lot of common ground with the tight, tight commodification of art in online spaces. And I mean commodification in the truest sense - the reconstruction of the thing to maximise its capacity to interface with markets. Form and function are overwhelmingly privileged over cloudy ideas like meaning, intent and possibility, because you can apply a sliding value scale to the material aspects of a work. But you can't charge extra for 'more challenging conceptual response to the milieu' in a commission drive. So that shit becomes vestigial. It isn't valued, it isn't taught, so eventually it isn't sought out. At best it's mystified as part of a given writer/artist's 'talent', but either way it grows incumbent on the individual to care enough about that kind of skill to cultivate it.

And it's risky, because unmeasurables come with the possibility of rejection or failure. Drop in too many allegorical descriptions of the rose garden and someone will decide your prose is 'purple' and unserious. A lot of online audiences seem to be terrified of being considered pretentious in their tastes. That creates a real unwillingness to step out into discursive spaces where you 🫵 are expected to develop and explore a personal relationship with each element of a work. No guard rails, no right answers. Word of god is shit to us out here. But fear of getting that kind of analysis wrong makes people hove to work that slavishly explains itself on every page. And I'm left wondering, what's the point of art that leads every single participant to the same conclusion? See Spot run. Run, Spot, run. Down the rollforth land, yonder horizonways. I just want to read more weird stuff.

[nightofking]

was listening to a podcast abt unicorns, and a historian describes it in it as such "she is the opposites. she is ferocious, but in her story, she becomes gentle. she is wild, yet she becomes tame. she is harmful, yet she becomes the panacea. she is that, too. she is the reversal. she is the animal of reversal" and i need to do a tommy set on this, with the white horse motif and its hope/death duality, the roles pushed or forced onto him by others, the roles he actively chases for himself, it's all so...

[nightofking]

prev post had to explain again to a friend the difference between anxiety the emotion and anxiety the disorder and it's still a bit crazy to me (though i get why) that people don't understand that there's a difference! even when you break it down

yes everyone can be anxious, that's a basic emotional state, but not everyone is disabled by it and handles it in a disordered way (and even then you have degrees of severity). that's just it

it wasn't malicious of her she tried to relate to me that's all, i have no grudges, just had to explain that it's not a matter of feeling anxiety but the irrational ways the body deals with it and feels it most times

[redstonedust]

funny thing about anxiety is sometimes it kind of breaks your sense of danger. like i am known for repeatedly putting myself in situations that make my friends go "bro you couldve died. werent you scared?" and the answer is 👍 yjeah. i did it scared. i do everything scared. i didnt know that was the actual important kind of scary because i usually have to ignore my fears to function in society. it will happen again. watch out.

[catasters]

[katelyndanger]

You EMPLOYE Miette? You make Miette pay rent? Jail. Jail for father ten thousand years

[humiliationvictim]

Compliment: You are very easy to humiliate

Pretty bad compliment

[nodovess]

Ella Naper 1886-1972. Lily pad hair combs 1906.