The Duck is a Metaphore

21/bi/walking disaster  

[theonion]

Woman Wearing Jacket Indulging In Forbidden Pleasure Of Having Pockets

[computersloth-blog]

I’m blowing u a kiss it should arrive in 3-5 business days

[prozdvoices]

games where only the cutscenes have full voice acting

[purplehawke]

i know Sera gets criticism for some of her fashion choices but she pulls them off so well and her armor is fucking gorgeous and you know what??? she’s the only one in all of Thedas who can make plaidweave work. Sera is amazing.

[defectivegembrain]

I love emojis because they fill the holes where my conversational skills should be

[chinon]

my wife: actively pushing out our baby

me: holding my phone with cafeastrology[dot]com open in the browser and staring at the clock, ready to calculate its birth chart any minute now

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

my wife struggles to keep the baby in for just five more minutes at 11:55pm on april 20th just so we can avoid having to raise an aries

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

The amount of parents I’ve met who’ve told me, as a soon-to-be father, how much kids ‘ruin your life’ makes me so fucking sad.

These are all people who had kids because it was ‘the next logical step’. Like they have this mentality of ‘Marriage? Check. House? Check. Well, guess we better have kids!’ And then bring small dependant humans into the world…and get upset when their lives are inconvenienced or changed as a result.

It really saddens me because there’s this damaging culture of children being part of the standard. So people who shouldn’t be parents (and I mean that in the simplest of terms - not in a judgemental way, but a ‘it’s just not for you’ way) feel pressured to have children and regret it. And then the poor child grows up feeling like a burden.

It’s not fair on anyone. The parents, the children.

As a post on this site once said - children and the decision to parent should be ‘hell yes or hell no’. If you think for any reason at all that you might not be big on raising kids, do not actively go out of your way to have kids. Having them won’t magically make you want them.

All the people I know who wanted - really wanted - their kids and to raise kids have said ‘it’s difficult but I LOVE it. I love being a parent.’

Can we please eliminate the idea that parenting should suck? And that having children is a necessary part of adulthood?

And can we please eliminate the idea that people who don’t want children are somehow lacking? And that those who do want children are doomed to misery?

Signed, a very excited father-to-be who understands it’s not something everyone wants or should want.

[ithelpstodream]

[gothfortress]

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@mandal0rian

[kiera--b]

[d0nn0]

Just a reminder to check if you are accidentally using your data and not your wifi so you can swap back over

[mylifebeyondlogic]

For the love of god reblog this to be a decent member of society

[thehumaneleague-deactivated2021]

[moopl13]

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IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU HONESTLY (x)

[wishingformemoria]

[akosijennnn-blog]

reblogging ‘cause it sounds like a background music in a fantasy novel/movie.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

i am crying

[thisiswhatmylifehasbecome]

@trhmns

[cyber-spinosaur]

[corvidkusnos]

I feel like the “Contact the Hero of Ferelden” war table operation is basically just this scene from X-Men: First Class

[serialtroller]

Is definitely this scene.

[yfipdragonage]

YFIP: Cassandra Pentaghast

Talks about f!hawke like she’s a literal goddess 

Admires the shit out of a f!quizzy

Idolizes Andraste and the Divine

Hates being a girly girl

Is not a butch lesbian???

Not even a raging bisexual??? 

Why Bioware? 

Just let Cassandra love tough women

Let my gay ass romance her

[violetephemera]

[The older generation of writers who had established the rules for modern fiction under the assumption that their experience was “universal”] gained the ability to write stories where they could “show” and not “tell" … They had this ability not because they were masterful stylists of language or because they dripped with innate talent. The power to “show, not tell” stemmed from the writing for an audience that shared so many assumptions with them that the audience would feel that those settings and stories were “universal.” (It’s the same hubris that led the white Western establishment to assume its medicine, science, and values superior to all other cultures …) Look at the literary fiction techniques that are supposedly the hallmarks of good writing: nearly all of them rely not on what was said, but on what is left unsaid. Always come at things sideways; don’t be too direct, too pat, or too slick. Lead the reader in a direction but allow them to come to the conclusion. Ask the question but don’t state the answer too baldly. Leave things open to interpretation… but not too open, of course, or you have chaos. Make allusions and references to the works of the literary canon, the Bible, and familiar events of history to add a layer of evocation—but don’t make it too obvious or you’re copycatting. These are the do’s and don’ts of MFA programs everywhere. They rely on a shared pool of knowledge and cultural assumptions so that the words left unsaid are powerfully communicated. I am not saying this is not a worthwhile experience as reader or writer, but I am saying anointing it the pinnacle of “craft” leaves out any voice, genre, or experience that falls outside the status quo. The inverse is also true, then: writing about any experience that is “foreign” to that body of shared knowledge is too often deemed less worthy because to make it understandable to the mainstream takes a lot of explanation. Which we’ve been taught is bad writing!

— Cecilia Tan, from Uncanny Magainze 18 (via violetephemera)

[stellakowalskis]

a helpful guide

[binary-bird]

stop saying that!