feel every second my teeth ache

my gums throb and my tongue is scraped dry

[rot-pith]

call me: rot

pronouns: they/them

years i've lived: 2 decades and 1 year

i talk about books in the tag #oh how i adore thee

i post my short fiction in the tag #original writing

main interests: mcr

all-time fave books: the long walk by stephen king, the road by cormac mccarthy

i have a spacehey!

and here's my ao3

[ahmed-00-khalil]

When a young child, not yet 5 years old, contracts smallpox after surviving the horrors of war, injustice, and hundreds of deadly nights, amidst the sounds of planes and tanks, this is not a passing or simple illness

[ahmed-00-khalil]

Imagine your child contracting this disease?! I'm writing this because my brother Ahmed was diagnosed with it on July 30, 2024, and his cries and suffering broke my heart. We searched every pharmacy and couldn't find any medication to ease his pain.

[ahmed-00-khalil]

And so a new chapter of suffering has begun, a suffering I don't want to become a habit. Some of the same pimples have started to reappear on my brother Ahmed's back, and I ask you to stand with us and donate. Instead of money coming in to buy food, we're now spending it on medicine and displacement expenses. Your donation, however small, is a candle in the darkness, especially after donations to our fundraising campaign completely stopped. Donate to us via PayPal or GFM

[a-shade-of-blue]

Vetted! shared by @/90-ghost (also here), #77 on @/gazavetters vetted list, shared by @/gaza-evacuation-funds, shared by @/el-shab-hussein!

I have been in regular contact with Mohammed for almost 2 years now. Please help him and his family!The money will reach him quicker if you can donate through Paypal, which is managed by my friend who regularly sends the donations to Mohammed.

Donate to Help Ahmed Khalil's family evacuate to safety, organized by Mohammed Khalil

Hello, among the hundreds of tragic stories, I am sharing my painful sto… Mohammed Khalil needs your support for Help Ahmed Khalil's family

Donate to sanae harika

Help support sanae harika by donating or sharing with your friends.

[ruinedchildhood]

[grimamethyst]

Today's Daily Dracula is another example of how I think a lot of the film adaptations have failed to capture the true horror of Dracula because this scene is SO upsetting. It is quiet and cruel in such a beautiful way.

Harker believes he has successfully squirreled out a few letters to a camp of travelers who will post them for him.

Then our man the Count comes in with the letters and is so expertly and subtly impressing upon Harker just how fucked he is, just how little power Harker has. This, as though past moments haven't been, is the time at which I would lose ALL hope.

Stoker ends the chapter with another banger line:

"Despair has its own calms."

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, transl. by Edward Snow, from a poem titled "Annunciation (II)," featured in The Book of Images

[d4db0ddyk3]

[demolitionlovers]

fuckit broadcast starstruck gerard

[unwavering-devotion]

. . .

It is… coming?

What is this? Who is coming?-… No, no, it is my imagination. Flies, spelling something out, talking to me! What madness! Haha!!

. . .

Ohh, tell me, tell me!! I know this is not a trick of the eye, and this voice in my head is not mine this time. I see it. I see, I see!!

[voivode-dracula]

So! another comes to my call.

And what is it in you that hears me? Would you take the freedom, ay, and the extraordinary power which I shall provide, if you worship me as Lord and Master?

[unwavering-devotion]

Freedom?… Power?…

. . .

Hahah!!! I should not. Nobody would be this generous, you must surely be deceiving me. You-…

Oh, but look at what you have done already! I have never seen such peculiar things before, nor have I heard such a glorious offer. Worship has never done me any good, yet among all those I have served, none has come to me as you have.

You… did reach out to me, didn't you? You sought me out? Of all the souls in this world, it was me you came to, it was I who heard your voice!! Am I special in some way? There must be something within me that belongs to you, if I hear you now.

I was worth nothing before. Less than nothing. Cast aside by man and God alike. Yet now, at last, someone has seen value in me! Someone has looked upon me and found me worthy of freedom, worthy of power, worthy of everything necessary to drag me out of this horrid place!!

Yes! My Lord and Master, yes, I accept!!

[eatkura]

funpoison pilled atm

[jam-campasta]

happy gotcha day to mcr's weird dog

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[gerardtweets]

[mcrbois]

Watch this video if you want a reason to smile today.

[quietwingsinthesky]

did i tell you guys i failed at being sexually harassed at work today?

[quietwingsinthesky]

okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”

and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!

his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.

So I Answered It.

and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-

i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.

anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.

[i-speak-graffiti]

🫵 HEROES in the tags

[kenshitty]

can i get a fucking ETA on “this too shall pass”?