[pinnacleofnormalcy]

Hi everyone, I am an undergraduate student who is conducting a research project on Hannibal (TV) and Killing Eve. I want to explore how queer shows and their online fandoms use taboo topics such as violence, cannibalism, trauma, etc. as a metaphor for other taboo topics such as queer love, queer intimacy, etc. My hope is that by understanding how fans and shows use these topics as metaphors for sex and sexuality, it allows further insight on how people from online and queer communities have begun to understand how romance and sexuality should be shown in media in order for it to be deemed acceptable to the general public

I am looking for people who would be willing to let me interview them for my project. Interviews can be done on Tumblr through messages, everyone will remain anonymous for the project itself, and interviews can also be arranged through email, phone, or zoom depending on your comfort level. You must be 18+ in order to participate

There will be discussions on sensitive topics such as violence in relationships, relationships often seen as toxic, etc.

[pinnacleofnormalcy]

Hi everyone,

a small update for this project. I was in the middle of reaching to some of you about the interviews but as I was doing so, Tumblr flagged my account and thus removed my ability to see and respond to messages (they got rid of the messaging ability entirely). Luckily, I am still able to message on my other accounts. Because of this I am going to reach out to you from my other account, @thefeministlesbian (it is still me, pinky promise).

As I was trying to tell you all individually, I am still in the early stages of this project and I received more interest than anticipated. I can only interview a small number of people now, but I hope to interview more in the future. If you are still would like to participate knowing that I may not be able to interview the bulk of you until later, please let me know (I will be eternally grateful)

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[angustully]

katie telling greg that if he ever finds a woman who thinks his e-bike is cool he can never let her go.... and then dylan says she thinks its the coolest thing ever stoppp

[annabelle--cane]

[coughing up blood] please, I require... media that will make me feel as bad as is physically possible...

[annabelle--cane]

what kind of five act tragedy is befalling the national hockey league

[hockeyheritageposts]

Hockey Heritage Post

[achillesinhighheels]

"When Harlem Was" by Eric Bowman.

[pinkcdraws]

Does Markiplier exist in Rylands universe?

[homunculus-argument]

Driving game concept: A game where you're driving the truck that hits all the isekai protagonists. They become highlighted in a special colour when you get close enough. You lose points for missing them, and also lose points for hitting someone who was not destined to become an isekai protagonist.

[kermit-the-hag]

I just know Ilya loved to troll Shane with Ram Ranch when it became viral

[isthisroselandry]

"What the- Where did all your cards go?!" Shane exclaims.

Yuna watched as David put down multiple X 2s, resulting in a whining Rozan- Ilya. Now, Ilyas stack of Uno cards in his hands is slightly smaller, only enough for someone as competitive and overly serious about children's cards games like Shane or Yuna to notice.

Yuna and David had only met Ilya officially yesterday when David had an awkward run in with the boys at the cottage. They spent a dinner together to clear things up, now a significantly calmer lunch at Shane's cottege and a game of cards, a Hollander classic.

The air is still a bit awkward and the boys are both still slightly tense. Give them time, Yuna reminds herself, repeating the words David said to her in the car before they arrived.

"Ah! No looking at my cards, Hollander! Is cheating." Ilya says back dramatically, not denying that he himself has cheated but putting on an innocent act.

"Oh and fucking smuggling away cards isn't cheating?! Dad just made you pick up a shit ton." Shane responds, mouth like a sailor.

Yuna has always played card games since she started dating David. Shane was just as competitive as her and it's one of the only times Shane drops his sensible, media trained act he seems to wear even off cameras. But it's never much.

Yuna opens her mouth to interrupt their old married couple bickering. I guess the 10 years of them... 'Seeing each other' is quite evident. But Yuna is cut off when Shane suddenly gets his hands on Ilya, who let's out a ridiculous noise and shuffles deeper in his seat to get away from the wandering grip.

"Hey! There in your pants." Shane hisses, sounding angry but he's got a big fat smile on his face once he officially catches Rozanov cheating.

"Ah- pervert, hands off! Is your parents house!" Ilya retaliates, receiving a groan from Shane when he's made out to be a pervert.

Suddenly the boys are up, practically tackling each other as Shane attempts to (innocently) shove his hands into his squealing boyfriends pants, retrieving many cards that he picked up earlier.

Yuna watches as they play fight, calling each other names and declaring who's a cheater and she realises she hasn't seen Shane like this in years, not with her or David, not even Hayden or any of Montreal, he doesn't even look so full of joy when skating. It's childish and loud. Shane has a handfull of cards Ilya had hidden in his pockets and waistband, catching him red handed as Ilya tries to insinuate that Shane had set him up and placed them there. Yuna and David share a glance, speaking without words- a language learnt of many years of two people being in love, something she noticed Shane and Ilya have picked up together as well.

They are both thinking it. Shane has found someone. The one- as cheesy as it sounds. Yuna would always tell Shane one day he'd find that person, who makes him feel wild and crazy and someone he can just be himself with and Shane would groan, faking disgust in all his teenage dramatics. But it happened.

Yuna and David realise that Ilya is now a Hollander. Not legally sure. But it's official. He's here forever.

[caralikesgay]

new headcanon: at some point during the post-cottage pre-ottowa year, they get roped into some gimmicky press event where they have to play one of those newlywed-esque games where they're competing to see which cap/alt duo knows each other best, ilya and cliff vs shane and hayden.

except, immediately, they can't help also answering for each other. ilya starts it. he's supposed to be answering a question about cliff while hayden answers a question about shane, and he just knows that pike is going to get it wrong or at least less specific than what he knows shane is going to say. he knows he shouldn't but winning a competition while also dunking on pike is just too good for him to pass up.

and then shane is supposed to be answering a question about pike while cliff is answering about ilya, and shane has to get ilya back, and also he definitely knows this answer for his boyfriend. he knows the exact phrasing he's going to use.

when they're asked why they know all these answers about each other, they're able to mostly pass it off as "know thy enemy" but they also try to toe the line with "we've known each other for like a decade, i think we proved at the ASG last season that we can be in the same room without murdering each other."

by the time they get to the final round, the producers have given up with trying to make anyone answer questions about cliff or hayden, it's just cliff vs shane on who knows ilya best, and ilya vs hayden on who knows shane best. they start getting weirdly specific, when asked about shane's favorite drink, hayden's feeling smug writing "ginger ale :)" while ilya's writing "ginger ale, canada dry, 2°C, NO ICE." when asked what ilya's favorite swear is, cliff writes "blat? (russian for fuck)" while shane writes "blyat" and then tries to write it in cyrillic underneath and gets it *almost* correct.

when they announce the irina foundation, it helps back up that they're friends, maybe they haven't hated each other for a while, actually. when they later get outed, it gets extremely brought back. "how did we not see it back then? right in front of all of our salads??"

[yarn-knot-serious]

Companies on June 30th vs. companies on July 1st

[sapphicslapshot]

lessons from the washington capitals (25-26 season)

words from "if a dog were your teacher" from anonymous (link)

[washingtoncapitalsbara]

(IDs:)

[#1: Three separate photos of Rasmus Sandin, Tom Wilson, and Jakob Chychrun wearing suits and holding puppies to their chests. Caption: "If a dog were your teacher, these are some of the lessons you might learn."]

[#2: Justin Sourdif, Cole Hutson, and Ryan Leonard celebrating during a game. Caption: "When loved ones come home, always run to greet them!"]

[#3: Dylan Strome and Alex Ovechkin smiling at the camera while holding up takeout bags from Subway. Caption: "Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride."]

[#4: Two separate photos of Brandon Duhaime and Tom Wilson fighting other players. Caption: "Let others know when they have invaded your territory."]

[#5: Three separate photos of various Capitals celebrating so hard during games that they are falling onto the ice. Caption: "Run, romp and play daily."]

[#6: Ryan Leonard patting Justin Sourdif's helmeted head while both are sitting on the bench. Caption: "Thrive on love and attention,"]

[#7: Two separate photos of various Capitals hugging during games. Caption: "and let people touch you."]

[#8: Two separate photos of Capitals celebrating during games, including a scene of Logan Thompson joyfully swinging his arms and legs up into the air. Caption: "When you are happy, dance around and wag your entire body."]

[#9: Group photo of the entire team and staff on the ice. Caption: "Be loyal."]

[gallusrostromegalus]

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is the axe

My knuckle rests exactly in the triangular plane just above the orange intrusion, and my thumb on the plane with the white patches.

How many hands held it just like that? How many generations was this passed down? Were you lost? or did you fall into disuse when technology improved?

Do you still desire to be held?

[skweebs]

This was the axe that made me ugly cry in the museum. It was created half a million years ago by either Erectus or Heidelburgensis, and was passed down from person to person, long enough that somehow a neanderthal picked it up, and passed it down to their family.

It has now felt 3 generations of human species hands, it's smooth but still sharp except where the very tip has been broken off, but it shows that this axe was loved and taken care of. And it is still being taken care of! It was used to teach archaic children to build, to carve meat, to break bones, and now it is being used to teach us about all those people who came before us and put their hands right where we put ours.

The fact that @gallusrostromegalus and I put our hands on the same place and felt the same rush of emotions only days apart is amazing, but its not new. People loved this axe, it belonged to their loved ones and it's full of all those emotions. And if there's anything to take away from humanity, new and old, it's that we love a good rock.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hello! You and I never met, but I feel like we've held hands now, the same way that we held hands with everyone else who's held that axe, and I think that's lovely :)

[sheheatedonmyrivalry]

Cliff teaches Ilya the prayer he says to St. Anthony when you lose things (Tony Tony please come down something’s lost that can’t be found) and now ilya walks around the house like

“TONY, you motherfucker, I need my KEYS! WHERE ARE MY KEYS TONY”

[paper-lilypie]

subscribed to the yearner Simon agenda

[dogmotif-deactivated20240505]

the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

[chillyfeetsteak]

man people really just say stuff on here huh

[lame-kid-on-couch]

Noooo haha don't spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands

[brehaaorgana]

People have been living in the downtown area of Tucson, Arizona for at least 4,500 years. The greater Santa Cruz river valley has been occupied by humans for 12,000 years.

You see this?

That's not a river. That's the South Canal in Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).

This is a view of the East and South canals. At least half of all the Phoenix metro canals were originally built by the Hohokam (from roughly 200-1400 CE), and are still in use (restored) today.

Phoenix, Arizona actually has more miles (kilometers) of Canals total than both Venice and Amsterdam. No, really. Phoenix has about 180 miles of canals, many of which are built on ancient canal foundations.

below is an aerial view photo taken in the late 1930's of one branch of Phoenix's canal systems:

Also have the "Montezuma Castle," if you need a castle:

I don't need to look at some 12th century European castle to see age.

[fakepsuedonym]

@isuggestlandback

[isuggestlandback]

I HAVE A SUGGESTION

[i-am-a-lazy-mess]

hate when I type :) and this 🙂 fucker appears. Go away you evil soul