I Wanna Sleep

Feminism, Fandoms, and Food : What could I need?

[smokedrac2004]

[cykelops]

the platelets in my body when I rip off the fresh scab they just spent hours working on

[sleepynegress]

Okay... so this is right up my alley. More weird whimsy and quirk in the romance genre... and more jaded suffer-no-fools women, instead of the creepy age-gaps, please and thank you

[umber-cinders]

I WILL WATCH THE FUCK OUT OF THIS! Monster romance books prepared me for thiissss!

[elizmanderson]

just FYI it's based on a short story called The Wicker Husband which I read here despite the small print because I could only find the opening elsewhere (the place it was originally published online is gone, but the author, Ursula Wills-Jones, says she hopes to see it in print soon!)

[catgirlmimikyu]

Why White People Are Bad At Interracial Friendships (And How To Do Better)

There's a reason why white adults have so few genuine friendships across racial lines.

Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions

When I met my fiance’s African-American stepfather, things did not start well. Stumbling for some way to start a conversation with a man who

[sadclowncentral]

i am half blind. on my eighteenth birthday, a freak accident left me with a slashed retina, a temporary eye patch and a permanent loss of 86% of vision in my right eye. i don't talk about it much, and apart from the inability to drive a car, placing my notebook next to the desk instead of on it once in a while, and making me truly abysmal at beer pong, it has not impacted my life much.

except for the bittersweet fact that i can never show people how breathtakingly beautiful the world looks when you eyesight is fractured straight through the middle. i close what my opitician calls my good eye and the world explodes in colour, every pinprick source of light spreading out into iridescent flares into all directions culminating in bright circles at the edge of my vision. every star, every streetlight, multiplying into a tenfold symphony of colour and light. it's so overwhelmingly beautiful. how can i ever explain this to people? that when they find out and look at me with pity they should be envious instead. what an immense privilege, to be able to look at the world and see it too.

[hairscare]

comic ive been wanting to make for a while now! hope it resonates with people since i know my past intersex posts seem to have <3 being intersex and trying to figure out what gender im "allowed" to be has been an interesting journey but currently im learning to embrace being agenderfluid and having the potential to be anything i feel like no matter what body i have (something i havent seen talked about much through an intersex lens hence why i wanted to make a comic about it!)

[ladyignatius4]

Mentally making a cup of tea and giving a gentle forehead kiss to every struggling writer on my dash right now.

Your story matters, your ideas are good, and someone out there is going to fall in love with your world.

[alientitty]

a few indian brutalist buildings

[gayvampyr]

me checking out 4 books from the library: surely this time i will be able to complete all of these full length novels within 3 weeks despite never having succeeded in the past

[gayvampyr]

ok i really mean it this time

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[i-restuff]

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

[iwontknowyouanymore]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

[chaoticevilspacewitch]

"Believe women and the marginalized" does not replace the value of empirical data.

[andromaex]

people: why does everyone act like ao3 is for queer people???

because for a very long time queer people looked at mainstream media, saw the crumbs they were being offered, and said "fine, i'll do it myself."

fanfiction became one of the few places where queer stories could exist in abundance instead of as a side plot, a joke, a tragedy, or a character who mysteriously disappeared after one season.

ao3 isn't a queer-only website. anyone can use it. but it was built out of fandom spaces that were heavily shaped by queer creators and readers, so of course that influence is everywhere.

it's not that ao3 belongs only to queer people.

it's that queer people helped build the house, decorated half the rooms, and have been hosting the party for years.

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[philhoffman]

"Being around Phil is a reminder of how rich and great life is." –Amy Ryan

"He gave life and honesty and breathed fullness into all his characters and work in the way only those who have been uniquely gifted and talented could chose to challenge and pursue the responsibility of possessing such a gift, with love and kindness." –Tom Hardy

"Phil is still with all of us who were blessed to know him (and/or his work)—forever." –Steven Schub

"Isn’t it worth grieving? Isn’t it worth destroying yourself in order to move on? Isn’t it worth going through whatever you need to go through in order to move on? Isn’t it worth loving somebody even if this might happen to you? Just a communal understanding that love is worth it; grieving love is also worth it and that it might be this interesting, this colorful, or this odd." –PSH "Everybody on the planet, if looked at closely enough, is worthy of being loved with the most love that you could ever give." –PSH

Happy birthday, Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014)! ❤️

[victusinveritas]

[lakevida]

it doesnt make sense that a penis would get bigger if yoiu jerk it off youre literally compressing it. go crumple a can rn and tell me its bigger im not buying this narrative

[pinene]

Okay So .. This is What Casual Misandry Looks Like Everybody

[lakevida]

im trying to go pro if anyone has any tips

[cloudabserk]

when men are like “women need to be nicer and more complimentary to men” i CRINGE! why don’t MEN get more complimentary to men. start telling your friends you want to fuck them. don’t make women pick up YOUR slack

[cloudabserk]

people are commenting like “yeah we need to support healthy friendships and boost men’s self esteem” i don’t care about that tbh i just think everyone should be gayer