The Pitcher Cries for Water to Carry

Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. -"To Be of Use" by Marge Piercy

[guzhufuren]

if Kinn and his nong had an interaction in the show

KinnPorsche + text posts (pt. 52/57)

[asliceofoceanmist]

how about you pete? how do you like it? 

[cannibalchicken]

[juliawvicker]

kinnporsche anniversary - week 3 -

favourite outfits pt. 2

[guzhufuren]

KINNPORSCHE ANNIVERSARY WEEK 6

Favourite quote

[pitchercries]

Lol if someone told me this scene was real I wouldn’t believe them

[ravenqueensspecialboy]

I feel like people have heard about the time Bram Stoker sent his tinder bio to Walt Whitman but haven’t actually read the tinder bio so in honor of Dracula Daily’s return (and me finding my copy of Dracula that actually had the correspondence between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman), here’s Bram Stoker’s pass at Walt Whitman:

I am not Shelley and you are not Godwin and so I will only hope that sometime I may meet you face to face and perhaps shake hands with you If I ever do it will be one of the greatest pleasures of my life. If you care to know who it is that writes this, my name is Abraham Stoker (Junior). My friends call me Bram. I live at 43 Harcourt St, Dublin. I am a clerk in the service of the Crown on a small salary. [’How did I get the impression that he was still in college?’] I am twenty-four years old. Have been champion at our athletic sports (Trinity College, Dublin) and have won about a dozen cups. I have also been President of the College Philosophical Society and an art and theatrical critic of a daily paper. I am six feet two inches high and twelve stone weight naked and used to be forty-one or forty-two inches round the chest. I am ugly but strong and determined and have a large bump over my eyebrows. I have a heavy jaw and a big mouth and thick lips - sensitive nostrils - a snubnose and straight hair. I am equal in temper and cool in disposition and have a large amount of self control and am naturally secretive to the world. I take a delight in letting people I don’t like - people of mean or cruel or sneaking or cowardly disposition - see the worst side of me. I have a large number of acquaintances and some five or six friends - all of which latter body care much for me. Now I have told you all I know about myself. [’And a mighty graphic picture it is too: I seem to see you not as in a glass darkly but as in the broad day lightly: I do, I do!’]

Bram Stoker originally penned this in 1872, but only sent it to Walt Whitman along with a second letter in 1876 after attending a meeting at Dublin’s Fortnightly Club, where he had, in his words, participated in a “hot debate” over Whitman’s poetic “genius”

[pitchercries]

My god lolol

[thebestoftumbling]

[freezer-full-of-icecream]

This cat is too fluffy for me to comprehend in slow motion

[goodinthestacks]

wow continuants wow

[continuants]

WOAHHHHHHHHHH

[adulthoodisokay]

Me: “Do you guys want to see the fluffiest cat?” Coworkers, immediately and loudly: “YES SEND IT NOW.”

[atlinmerrick]

Cat cloud. Cloud cat.

[pitchercries]

temptation tuesday

rules: share something about an idea you have/something that’s speaking to you/an au you’d like to see and are considering writing/etc. etc. Basically anything that is tempting you away from your current wips!

Tagged by @saturnskyline! OMG it’s been so long since I’ve done a tumblr meme, thanks for giving me the excuse to ramble about fic!

So I was just recently thinking that I’ve run out of ideas for fics and really need some more lol but the truth is there’s a bunch of ideas that are floating around in my head but just don’t seem very feasible??? Basically begging anyone reading this to send me Kinnporsche prompts, any pairing lol

1. Post-canon, Porsche is the head of the minor family and he’s cool with Vegas, like really he’s fine, he believes Vegas has changed and is good for Pete and it’s all good, but underneath that he still fundamentally doesn’t trust Vegas (like, if shit went bad he’d suspect Vegas first and Pete kind of points it out to him and Porsche is annoyed by how true that is. 

So basically I had this idea for Porsche being like “you know Pete, you’re right, I don’t trust him, and I should” and they basically decide to do a kink scene together (Porsche and Vegas), non-sexual, as a trust-building exercise?? LOL

And of course once Porsche shares this idea with Kinn, Kinn is like “I don’t approve of this in any way, but if you’re GOING to do it I will ABSOLUTELY be there, there is no way that’s happening without me in the room” because Kinn also doesn’t trust Vegas enough to leave Porsche in his hands to that degree (and Kinn has no issues about that). 

Anyway, so it’s like, non-sexual submission/kink with Porsche and Vegas and also Kinn present and maaaaybe also Pete because why is he the only one getting left out?? 

2. Parachute verse Pete/Vegas! It’s an a/b/o verse and they’re both alphas in it, and it would just be about them trying to figure out a relationship post-canon (even though canon would unfold differently in that verse) when:

A. Vegas grew up steeped in so much toxic alpha bullshit he literally cannot imagine how sex could work when penetration is somewhere between very very difficult and impossible, and yet he’s in love with Pete and wants to be with Pete??? and the mindfuck of trying to make it all make sense/work is doing his head in????

B. Pete has zero attachment to fulfilling his assigned alpha gender role and is basically just happy to be with a person he’s in love with, though he is still processing being in love with a guy who tortured him

LOL basically distant and dear Pete & Vegas except they’re both alphas I guess lolol (no I kid, in Parachute verse Vegas would be way less fucked up I feel lol)

3. Honestly the Tankhun/Tay/Time fic that I refuse to write but already basically lives in my head lolol where they’re trying to work out their issues with monogamy and Tankhun is sort of the perfect solution? Also all three of them know it’s going to drive Kinn up the wall and at first it’s just a naughty joke and then it’s like....... a lot less of a joke????

(but like, I wrote Tay/Time in Parachute and I wrote Tankhun in All The Trees in Bloom Again and I feel like I can’t do ANOTHER fic with them with different characterizations all around)

4. Something based on 99_9′s A Wholeness verse where it’s post-canon Vegas/Pete and Porsche/Kinn but also Pete and Porsche like making out together sometimes? And Kinn and Vegas are into it? Basically I’ve just been obsessed with that since I read it lol and I really want more and I feel like I’ll need to write it myself??? But IDK what actual story to tell there lol 

Tagging: @leahazel, @lollygirlpops, @caralunafeels, @peppersheart, only if you want to of course!

[guzhufuren]

KINNPORSCHE ANNIVERSARY WEEK 4

Favourite romantic relationship: KimChay (pt. 48/53)

bonus:

[kittenchomp]

[burnedgirlrising]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[guzhufuren]

KINNPORSCHE ANNIVERSARY WEEK 5

Favourite platonic relationships: brothers + "The World at its Beginning" by Dustin Pearson

[regicidal-defenestration]

Character in Black Sails asked to tell the truth 50 dead 89 injured

[guzhufuren]

KINNPORSCHE ANNIVERSARY WEEK 4

Favourite romantic relationship: VegasPete (pt. 47/53)

bonus:

[theonion]

Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure

[labassecour-deactivated20180423]

Would that I could turn back the hand of time and warn the onion staffer who penned this piece. “Is it worth it,” I would ask. “Is it worth it?”

[j3ssk1mo]

truly a cultural reset

[guzhufuren]

KINNPORSCHE ANNIVERSARY WEEK 4

Favourite romantic relationship: VegasPete + Heather Havrilesky, "Ask Polly"

[bamsara]

This is a real broadcast they are doing. Calling men 'babygirl' has stumped them

[fuckterfs-reactivated20252412]

[dollsahoy]

People who drink coffee: why did you start?

I don't drink coffee and I've never wanted to, but that's obviously ~not normal~, so I'm curious why most people do start drinking it.

[dollsahoy]

Additional question: People who don't drink coffee, why?

For me, it's because, as a child, I was incredibly cranky, and as soon as caffeine-free Coke was introduced, Mom had me start drinking that, and, hey, I got a lot less crabby, so that made me want to avoid caffeine. I also never really cared for the smell of coffee, either, so had absolutely no interest in drinking even decaf.

(and yes I am very aware that "it makes me feel better" and "love the way it smells" are top answers in why people do drink it XD)

[pitchercries]

Most people who know me now know me 100% as a tea drinker, but I actually had a very dramatic stopping point with coffee. 

Growing up my parents drank black coffee, and I had some occasionally. I mostly liked very cheap, vending machine, made-of-powders lattes though, which I could get at school or the library or the places where I spent most of my day (by the time I was in high school my school day ended at 4pm, or 6pm, or rarely at 10pm, and I wasn’t into drinking real coffee late when I got home)

Then the military, where there was no coffee for breakfast, and no cheap lattes. We did have a coffee-and-tea corner in our room, but I usually got up 10 minutes before work or whatever and worked 14 hours a day and mostly got my caffeine from soda (which you could buy easily). 

Then when I was discharged I did start to get into drinking coffee, but then less than a year later I was on a trip abroad and I had a tooth ache, and I went to a highly recommended local dentist who basically did an X-ray and told me terrifying things about my teeth (my whole life dentists have LOVED my teeth, I was extremely unprepared).

Anyway, that dentist told me if I wanted to save my teeth (which she claimed were basically about to crumble in a matter of years) I had to: (1) cut out sugar (2) stop smoking (3) stop drinking coffee. 

I was terrified, and abroad without much ability to consult anyone back home, and I just... did all those things. 

The sugar thing didn’t last (though I drink my hot drinks unsweetened since), but I did quit smoking (I’d been a casual smoker since age 12) and I did quit coffee and switched exclusively to green tea. 

Scare tactics work, kids!