you are a sword.

elena / xxvi / nyc escapist fantasies & emotional intimacy

[romancednpc]

revamping my tumblr to gain serotonin so here’s a brief overview of my socials:

shitpost sideblog / misc sideblog / instagram (mutuals can ask <3)

[steveyockey]

no no no put me back in the loop I almost did it perfect please put me back just a few more tries and I think I could really nail it please put me back

[cerusee]

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

[songsomi]

One of braindance's most gifted editors and a skilled techie

[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[pengosolvent]

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent

[onecells]

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

GET LOVED!!!!!!!!!!

[frankendykes-monster]

[foxxology]

Why do you care?

Follow up to this from November

[tarydarrington]

I think Julien has his hand on his rapier hilt this entire time and is fighting every impulse. But while he's hearing all this and glancing here, he's glancing back at you.

[aphrostiel]

star trek (tos) studies

[tarydarrington]

"Well, I'm sorry if that doesn't make me want to follow you. I am going to go and I'm going to get the one of two people that care about me in this world."

[m4--k11]

no it's fine. it's fine. it's fine that he died probably hours after telling vaelus he'd live to see the elves' dream become reality with her no matter what. it's fine. it's fine that he'll never get to have the children he wanted so dearly. it's fine. it's fine. it's fine. it's fucking FINE.

[tarydarrington]

"I already said my piece." I'm gonna go ahead and follow behind him kind of in step as he begins to approach.

[petvampire]

I’m still over here rotating julien ‘I refuse to acknowledge caring about anything or anyone because everything I care about keeps getting destroyed’ davinos and occtis ‘I need to be explicitly told that I am cared about and not as an object, a tool, or anything else that is about my usefulness and not merely my existence because literally only two people have ever offered me that’ tachonis around in my head forever sorry not sorry

[turkwriter]

"I'm sick of you trying to kill me," Occtis says, as Julien continues to try to convince him to get away from Obrimus Manor so that Occtis survives.

"I'm tired of pretending that I give a shit about you," Occtis says, as Julien continues to put his hand on Occtis's back and his arms around Occtis's shoulders to comfort him.

"There's only two people in the world who care about me," Occtis says, as Julien is softer and gentler with Occtis than he's been with anyone but Aranessa so far.

"Just leave me here and go," Occtis says, as Julien stays.

[tarydarrington]