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I love Ao3. The tags make me smile sometimes. You know it's gonna be good when it looks like this:

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How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles is m/m historical romance at its finest—featuring a con man and his target. The yearning! (Oh, the yearning.) Dealing with manners and societal expectations! The fascinating facts interwoven throughout! There are secrets and schemes, fashion and dastardly villains, and so much more. Did I mention the yearning? Or what happens when they give into said yearning? WHAT’S IT ABOUT It is 1821, and Titus Pilcrow, a simple seller of paints, finds himself suddenly bestowed with a great fortune. Titus becomes a target of every scammer in London...including one Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte. When Titus offers Nico a space in his household, it's the perfect chance for Nico to exploit London's newest golden purse—until he falls in love with the man he needs to cheat.

#Booklr #How to Fake It in Society

binart

BPJ Part 156! (First) (Previous) (Next)

hi welcome to the BEST PART LOL

#OMG the klance here is top tier #klance #vld lance #vld keith #vld #binart #best kiss scene ever

Which do you like best, dark or light mode for this digital piece? I can't decide which is my favorite!

I traced an anatomical diagram to get the basic lines for this piece, then added my own interpretation for it. I had fun adding light and shadow to both.

#digital art #my art #randomart #heart #anatomical heart #leaves

starsoupart

dump of vld explorations that i prolly won't finish

#lance mcclain #keith kogane #vld #voltron #soupsart

clearlightwired

sorry for the random question but what's your opinion on transmasc people?

They should install Firefox with UBlock Origin and start using a password manager (I recommend bitwarden)

#advice

mildmayfoxe

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

#affirmations

yaldabaothadeez

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a slapping,

As of some one gently flapping, flapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some fairy,” I muttered, “slapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

wintersoldierfell

Quoth the walrus, "Are you sure?"

its-your-mind

Took this as a challenge and queued this for two years from now

hongjoongpresent

ID: tags from livingnotetonote that reads: in 2 years this will be incomprehensible. End ID

#poetry #fairies #walrus

neverwonderneverremember

sleep is stolen time. don't let them take it from you anymore. tonight. we are staying up. til one billion o clock.

#sleep #yasssss

Breakdown

A submission for @whumpers-monthly's prompt, the whumpee breaking down. I think this qualifies 😄

My OC, Sean, is having a panic attack in this rough draft animation I haven't finished. I just discovered I can animate on Procreate!

#issue no 53 #whumpers-monthly #whumpers monthly #whumpee breaking down #nervous breakdown #panic attack #anxiety attack #panic #gif #my art #my OC #procreate #animation

whumpers-monthly

Issue no 53:

Breakdown

Whumpee is having a breakdown. That's it. That's the prompt.

Tag your posts with #whumpers-monthly and #issue no 53 If you make a gifset for the prompt, please also add the tag #whumpedit

If you already made a post that fits this prompt, reblog that post and tag @whumpers-monthly

Please add the name of the whumpee and the movie or show your content is from.

whumpers-monthly

New month, new luck. Sadly the last prompt didn't see much attention, but I was also very late with reblogging it. So lets see what you come up with for this prompt.

If you want to be tagged every month as well, please react to this post here. If you don’t want to be tagged anymore, please let me know.

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pencil-line-deactivated20241029

method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

and yeah i believe it. ^ this is the face of a guy getting shot at by arrows

lysenkoite

weaselle

abz-j-harding

i can't cope

lagoonhag

A CRITIQUE OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND THE DSM

Bonnie Burstow

bioethicists

The place where even “trauma informed” care fails is that it assumes safety can be “reestablished”, that safety after a traumatic event is primarily internal (e.g stopping dangerous coping behaviors or reducing the peaks of emotions), and that the world is a fundamentally safe place and your trauma was an aberrant blip. I feel that this is inseparable from the fact that PTSD was coined for and modeled off of veterans whose trauma was first and foremost foreign to their life- that is, they quite literally were transported away from that trauma and were expected to subsume back into their Safe Normal American Life as Heroes and could not (how can you expect someone to see and commit the blood tithe required to maintain an empire and not come back wounded?). The political context of this experience are erased (your imperialist country sent you to suffer and die to maintain its power and now you’ve returned feeling the immense burden of what you’ve done) and it becomes merely an issue of falling “out of time” and being “unable to realize that you are safe”- something which may ring truer for some veterans, particularly those with no qualms about the role they played in imperialism, just the pain they had to suffer to do it, but still conveniently ignores (by design! because the military had a hand in this!!!) the political contexts.

For many traumatized people, the world is not a safe place- for women, for trans people, for disabled ppl, for BIPOC, for really even the most privileged person under capitalism… this isn’t a cognitive distortion, it’s a truth. It reminds me of being in eating disorder therapy and being told that we’re not fat, it’s all in our heads- but what about those of us who were? Who know what society thinks of and does to fat people? Who have been ordered to and encouraged to develop the exact behaviors that we performed too well or too literally? Even some of the best trauma care wants people to believe that all fear and danger is a product of a diseased or broken mind, rather than a very reasonable adaptive response. I’ve spent so long trying to berate myself for continuing to feel terrified and worthless in a world which is both terrifying and committed to telling me I am worthless. We have to find ways to live and thrive within this danger, to feel out the boundaries of danger and carve hideouts within it, to create livelihoods where we are naming it + confronting it + destroying it, rather than finding a way to slip back into the unconscious illusion of a safe, picturesque American life.

randomlifeunit

"The underlying assumption (...) is that the world is essentially a safe and benign place."

I love that they point this out!

The message that the world is safe and only disordered people don't agree with that message, is so damaging.

#PTSD #trauma

nikfromtheinternet

common grackle and red-winged blackbird best friends forever!!!

hometoursandotherstuff

What’s encrypting your internet surfing? An algorithm created by a supercomputer? Well, if the site you’re visiting is encrypted by the cyber security firm Cloudflare, your activity may be protected by a wall of lava lamps.

Cloudflare covers websites for Uber, OKCupid, & FitBit, for instance. The wall of lamps in the San Francisco headquarters generates a random code. Over 100 lamps, in a variety of colors, and their patterns deter hackers from accessing data.

As the lava lamps bubble and swirl, a video camera on the ceiling monitors their unpredictable changes and connects the footage to a computer, which converts the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.

Codes created by machines have relatively predictable patterns, so it’s possible for hackers to guess their algorithms, posing a security risk. Lava lamps, add to the equation the sheer randomness of the physical world, making it nearly impossible for hackers to break through.

You might think that this would be kept secret, but it’s not. Simply go in and ask to see the lava lamp display. By allowing people to affect the video footage, human movement, static, and changes in lighting from the windows work together to make the random code even harder to predict.