a queer bird with a funny hat

bisexual 🏳️‍🌈 mess - she/they - almost a fanfic writer - we don't tolerate intolerance in this house

[patisserieblu]

Kimetsu No Yaiba

Accolades*

All The Time In The World

Cloven

Club Infinity*

Do Your Best

Famished

²⁶Fe

Prey Drive*

So Much Cuter (With Something In Your Mouth) series*

Sweet Osmanthus*

Thaw

Avatar The Last Airbender:

Of Sake And Frozen Frogs

Blanket permissions: If any creators who enjoy my stories wish to create their own art based on them, I welcome you to do so. This includes translations, podfics, fan art, fanmixes, icons/banners and verse sharing should I ever create an AU. All I ask is that you credit the story it's based on by name. Love you nerds 💞

*nsfw fic

[existennialmemes]

Your cats are not "manipulating" you they are communicating with you. They do not understand why you're limiting their food supply or keeping them indoors or preventing them from ruining your furniture or whatever.

When they meyowl pathetically for more food, it's not because they're trying to "trick" you into feeding them again. They just want to be fed, and they're smart enough to notice the correlation between certain sounds they make and the responses they get from you.

They've figured out that if they want to communicate to you that they want more food, if they make those pathetic sounds, you're more likely to behave as if you've understood what they're trying to communicate.

When your cat waits for you to look away then yoinks food off of your plate, it's not because they love crime. It's because they're social colony creatures who instinctively share food with each other and they don't understand why you're not sharing the best foods with them.

Your cats are very intelligent, social creatures who see you as their Very Strange sibling.

They've learned how to make intricate sounds just to communicate with their humans. When the sounds they make elicit the responses they want, they learn that those sounds are the most effective way to communicate their desires.

Not because they're scheming about how to control you, but because they don't know how to communicate with you any other way.

[nochd]

My cat has a bad habit of headbutting your hand just as you're shaking food into his bowl, with the result that you spill more than you meant to and he gets more to eat.

Which sounds like the act of a scheming manipulator, but of course to cats a headbutt is a gesture of affection, and there's no proof that his mental process isn't "when I show [nochd] I love him, he feeds me more! win-win!"

In fact I think that is the more likely explanation, since if you happen to be feeding him wet food out of a tin with a spoon, he headbutts the hand with the tin, not the hand with the spoon.

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

[phaeton-flier]

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[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[reggiemess]

Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?

[reggiemess]

[monarobot]

Some people are even censoring words like “disease” and “sick” on Instagram now

[mcsiggy]

COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS IS THE MOTIVATION MIND KILLER!!! WHAT YOU MADE IS GREAT BECAUSE YOU MADE IT AND YOU CAN AND WILL GET BETTER! NEVER STOP!!

[aimee-maroux]

ALSO:

[morriganwarrior]

[americiumam]

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

[crunchsomebones]

kill la kill is insane because it is, at its base form, a show about teenagers fighting in lingerie. but it also asks the question "what if man's original sin was not transgression, but shame. what if it was not Adam's nakedness that was immoral, but his need to cover himself in the eyes of the divine. what if our bodies are not sinful, but our horror and embarassement is. what if that horror and embarassement is being co-opted and molded by the most powerful people in society, and the ultimate form of rebellion is to accept your naked body as morally neutral." and this message is completely inextricable from the teenagers fighting each other in lingerie.

[aleshakills]

*getting too in the weeds of the worldbuilding of a horny tumblr post* Okay I get that you're saying princess, but honestly the dynamic you're describing here seems more like you want to be a duchess or even a lower noble

[aleshakills]

You wanna be the villainess in an otome anime

[aleshakills]

This has nothing to do with historical accuracy by the way. It's about the genre conventions and the internal logic of the scenario. If you wanna be a princess getting kidnapped by a dragon or running of to faerie, go for it. If you wanna be a prize locked away in a tower, or an aspiring despot, be a princess.

If you want to have an intense homoerotic rivalry with another girl you met at magical boarding school, you're the daughter of a marquis at best.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[frontmansdefender]

I aspire to be as passionate about something as this guy and the orcas are passionate about hating the sunfish

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

[goatstrogen]

GIRLS THAT'S FUCKING TERRIFYING,, PLEASE FACTORY RESET YOUR PHONES GET NEW ONES IF YOU HAVE TO GET AN INDEPENDENT SIM card WHAT IS HAPPENING

I'M BEGGING YOU

THEY CANT DO THIS TO YOU PLEASE

[lady-viccy]

that is stalking

[the-kill-all-tmes-lady]

its stalking when it happens to children also btw

[bucketofdeltav]

"My mum won't let me" Okay I am 30 goddamn years old and I still have this thought so let's walk through it together.

What's the worst that can happen if you do it anyway? Genuinely. The literal worst. Catastrophise about it with me for a sec.

Will your mum yell at you? You're an adult. Yelling at fellow adults is Not Okay Actually. (Yelling at kids is also not okay but let's take this one step at a time.) If your mum is yelling at you, a fellow adult, she's the one being weird and out of line. You asked your friend and they said so too (me. I'm the friend.)

Will she cut off your phone plan? That would be a problem. Can you look into whether you can afford to switch to a new plan she doesn't have access to? Most phone companies will let you port your number over pretty easily.

Will she cut you off financially? Run the numbers again. Can you afford for that to happen? If the answer is no, that's okay, I believe you and I know you're making the best decision for your own well-being that you can in the moment. If there's anything you can do to make it more affordable, I do suggest doing that, though.

Will she be physically violent, inclusive of breaking stuff that belongs to you? That’s assault. That's a crime. It's not okay for her to do that and she almost certainly knows it.

Will she stop talking to you? Honestly I gotta say at this point that's not sounding like a bad outcome. It sucks. It really really sucks and I'm sorry if that's a choice you're having to make, but take it from someone who's been there and done that: when someone who is being abusive to you (stalking is abuse! Yelling at you is abuse! Threatening to cut off your funds if you don't do what they want forever is abuse! Breaking your stuff or physically hurting you is abuse!) decides of their own volition to cut you off, it hurts for a hot minute, and then you suddenly realise that you can breathe, and it feels so. Goddamn. Amazing.

Delete the tracking application. Live where you want to live. Change your name. Join or leave the religion. Get the piercing or the tattoo or the surgery. Live your life, because it's yours and not your parents'.

We'll try together, okay?

[sleepy-bebby]

[aint-love-heavy]

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed

[thenextdraft]

Heaven on Earth

[not100bees]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[napoleononthebellerophon]

i dont know who needs to hear this but no sex is not "up there with food and water" i hate when people say this

[petitelappin]

This child who came to my house tonight is literally the funniest human being on the planet. She complimented me on having both lollipops and mini Three Musketeers available because "a lot of houses these days don't give you a fruit flavor option." She was very solemn about this.