cross your thoughtless heart

larken. xxv. she/her. hopeless romantic.

[rosemacclare]

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

was your pet expensive to get?

yes

no

not the most expensive but not the cheapest either

for free

it was a gift

found it outside

traded for something

results

Remaining time: 1 day 15 hours

[ashoss]

id like to introduce some people to my good friend the Keep Reading button

[psych-is-the-name]

i will not clip my own wings for your momentary convenience

[innerchildabortionclinic]

getting kicked off love island for just swimming in the pool and not talking to anyone

[wizardshark]

So fun fact from when I worked on multiple reality shows, names redacted for NDA purposes.

Gay people are INCREDIBLY ANNOYING for production when they are on reality shows cause they always do shit like this. Reality shows pick their cast specifically for people who will create drama, so it tracks that bringing in some gay people (in the era that I worked, 2013-2018, this was considered to be new and interesting) would diversify people enough to create some conflict. To a degree, this was true.

But what actually happened was that the gay person, or worse, people, would end up estranged from the other people because Straight People Who Are Fucking Nuts in a way that would be ideal for a reality show are very different from Gay People Who Are Fucking Nuts.

There's one particular instance I remember in which our Gay Person tm wasn't getting into drama and no one could figure out why. Any time anything happened it would just defuse almost instantly. Eventually we prodded during a solo interview and one of the guys said something along the lines of "Mayn gay marriage just got legalized n shit if I yell at this guy I'm being a homophobe". This meant that our gay was COASTING along in this reality show cause no one would vote him out!!

But you know what the PINNACLE of this was?

DATING SHOWS.

One... Very popular dating show I worked on (you know the one) has an unofficial, unwritten rule: you can only have 1 queer woman in the cast of ladies. This is because for a solid few years, if ever there were two bisexual women in the show, they would ALWAYS abandon the man and run off together instead. You can't have contestants saying shit like "this guy has no personality and sucks ass. I prefer this girl I met who actually listens to me". Like this was an actual epidemic in the casting. It happened over and over for YEARS and they couldn't find a way to stop it without literally separating the women from each other, which obviously wouldn't be good for the show. They also couldn't show this was happening because that. Uh. Would be pretty bad to reveal to audiences.

Eventually they just decided to subtly prod and see if women who were going on the show were gay and then avoid having two on the same season at the same time. To my knowledge they still do it this way.

Anyways the summary is that gay people are fucking crazy in a way that heterosexual tv just does not know how to handle

[askthegrandhearthmother]

I love(hate) how their first solution was to be blatantly biphobic

instead of getting men that don't suck

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[childsacrifice]

(no beers in) So how do you perceive me in the privacy of your thoughts

[czesca]

can't believe we've all been here since we were 14 and now we're all 20000 years old

[ohmovie]

Emma. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

[totallysilvergirl]

#fanfic#I mean#what’re y’all thinkin’ the E means out there#Expressive?#Excellent?#Energetic?#and ffs#do you return a book you buy the moment it has smut?#y’all think that just because you’re given the mode to communicate#it gives you leave to say ALL THE THINGS#don’t. just. DON’T.

@ishipanarmada these are too good to leave in the tags

[pochayun]

spin the wheel and assign an animal to prev

[jorolle]

"Someone who loves you."

CARRIE FISHER as PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA in STAR WARS: EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) dir. Richard Marquand

[assyrianjalebi]

Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace (1956)

[sulietsexual]

"If you're going to let one stupid prick ruin your life … you're not the girl I thought you were."

Legally Blonde | 2001 Dir Robert Luketic

[didanagy]

COLIN FIRTH as MR. DARCY and JENNIFER EHLE as ELIZABETH BENNET

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995) dir. simon langton

[bumblebeebats]

How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton

[treecitysessions]

This is actually sending me

[anatombombatallhours]

i think the resounding "who????" in response to this dude kind of says it all, really

you don't even have to like Halsey's music to know she is in the right here. wow

[morepopcornplease]

fake Goncharov fans don’t even realize that Scorsese did NOT direct the 1973 cult classic. he was executive producer. 🤦‍♀️

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

[onstoryladders]

It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)

[official-lucifers-child]