Adventurer by Fate

Carmen | questioning that whole gender thing but she/her for now | bisexual Avatar from @ohflint

[starlitsecrets]

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[sapient-simian]

Long live physical media.

[samirasystole]

fascinating how in season one robby outright said “i wasn’t thinking about those girls, i only saw a sad boy and wanted to protect him” admitting his misogynistic biases and that he cared more about a mentally ill guy than several girls that could be murdered. and yet people are still soooo convinced he isn’t misogynistic in the slightest. just because noah wyle thinks robby isn’t biased doesn’t mean you have to think that way too. form your own thoughts with what you see on screen.

and it’s even funnier when we see fandom also care more about a mentally ill guy than several women being treated badly. one can only laugh. art imitates life and vice versa ❤️

[femmedefandom]

Adding in the comments of @samirasystole and @hatosyscurls because they are so right! And to that point, Robby acts vindicated when the kid is revealed to not be the shooter, as if that makes him safe now for any woman…like McKay…to be around?

[mortalfaerie]

some people fail to realize that the big issue with what langdon did was not that he had an addiction to benzos but that he was skimming them from patients in a way that compromised the efficacy of their treatment, even down to emergency situations (re: the lorazepam vials that were tampered with and put back), and it shows

[saffrondawn]

#like as a medical professional speaking: he risked their lives. he chose that it was worth it to risk their lives #and if it wasn't their lives. it would have been brain damage. trauma. additional discomfort or awareness during procedures #lorazepam isn't just a funny medication. that is important. very important (tags via @samirasystole)

[leblogestunmonstre]

i'm not even trying to defend Heated Rivalry with this, but when people react to a new gay drama / thriller / horror that has dark or challenging themes with "that hockey show could never", i just...you don't sound like you have elevated taste, you sound like you don't understand the concept of genre. that show is a sports romance???

[saffrondawn]

#you don't have to like HR to understand that it was never aiming for “toxic and / or twisted and / or shocking” #especially baffling to see this being said in relation to Half Man #like these shows are so fundamentally ridiculously different that comparing them is like comparing Matilda and Abigail #and i say this as a (queer) lover of challenging fucked up queer stories #i find it very disingenuous to see people act like these shows could scratch the same itch or pretend they're incapable #of the basic empathy exercise that is “other people might enjoy a sweet romance even if i don't and i'm not a superior human bc of it” #also i think it's unkind to act like you're eating fancy adult food and other people are eating bubblegum ice-cream at the kids table #we all crave different things at different times (again i say this as someone who generally prefers not to eat the proverbial ice-cream) #i tend to skip over 'feel-good' mainstream queer releases but when i was younger they were SO important to me (and much rarer to find) #and i'm sure i'll ride that wave again one day - our needs and tastes change #but i don't think 'fair critique' and 'smug pretentiousness' are the same thing (and yes you can fairly critique HR i'll be the first) #you can just say “that's super not for me!” and move on...it's free (tags via @leblogestunmonstre)

[canidykes]

feel free to use liberally

[vaguedisapproval]

As someone who used to be on my schools debate team, and is now a brown woman, doing her gen surgery residency, this made me so happy, I was blinking away tears for a second.

[systlin]

One of the contractors at work is a dude who recently moved here from the Bay Area. He is used to Northern California, which is to say that he is NOT used to the general Tornado Alley attitude towards Thor dragging his dick across the plains and causing massive destruction on a semi-regular basis.

Namely, the fact that we get them at all, and the fact that the general Midwestern response is to wander outside to see if we can see it.

We have bad weather forcasted the next few days and I had to talk him through the site tornado plan and storm shelter locations (we have six on site, my office is actually inside one) to head off the poor guy's anxiety and also I had to admit that yes, I also share the general Tornado Alley brain damage and go outside to try and see it when the sirens go off.

Poor man thinks everyone in tornado Alley is out of their minds and as one of those people I can't even deny it. 'I seek shelter if it's heading this way' did not reassure him, he's convinced we are mad.

[systlin]

To answer the question in the notes, @what-about-second-tmblr ; when I visited Sacramento and LA some years ago, the sensation of a minor earthquake shifting the ground around just barely enough for a human to feel it had me freaked out and basically lying flat on my back outside going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA while the Californians looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

So yes it is reciprocal.

[saffrondawn]

I grew up in California so earthquakes are a way of life. When I moved to Texas, the tornadoes were wild to watch on TV. Thankfully, only one tornado got really close and even the former storm chaser/head meteorologist was freaked out. Like everyone in the news station had to go to the basement and we lived about two miles away from the station.

I'll take an earthquake over a tornado.

[toocoolforhole]

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 💀

[carys-the-ninth]

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

[moniquill]

The problem is the insane bisexuals are not interested in commercializing. They write for free and publish their works on AO3.

[theotherpacman]

not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

[misselaney]

Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 

The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!

[smallrevolutionary]

YES! BOOSTINGGGG FOR MY FOLKS WHO WANNA/NEED TO KNOW HOW

[hillbillybubbeleh]

You can learn, absorb, and utilize all of the leftist, egalitarian, revolutionary jargon in the world, but if you won't treat marginalized peoples and people of color as your equals, if you won't treat them with decency and respect, if you won't accept criticism from them, if you willfully misrepresent them and paint them with generalizations and stereotypes, if you won't hear them and choose instead to dismiss them, then it does not matter how you dress it up, you are still upholding and contributing to white supremacy.

[crazycatsiren]

There's no calling yourself an ally, an activist, an advocate, a progressivist, a democratic socialist, if you're still treating people of color like dirt.

You can ACAB, BLM, End Wars, Stop Genocides, Punch Nazis, Land Back, until the cows and mules go home, but you're still racist if you don't feel the need to treat the nonwhite members of your communities with basic human decency.

[callsignhyena]

“Have you seen Twister?”

“the one with glen powell?”

NO THE ONE WHERE THE HEALTHIEST RELATIONSHIP IN THE MOVIE WAS BETWEEN THESE TWO SIDE CHARACTERS

[kittenwriter]

I'm surprised there isn't any Dusty/Melissa.

No, seriously, hear me out.

Dusty is the one who seems most inclined to look after her as the movie goes on--while Bill is initially at least somewhat mindful of the fact that Melissa does not do this regularly, as he gets more caught up in the hunt he gets progressively less mindful of that until it's shoved in his face at the drive-in. Dusty has an overabundance of enthusiasm--it really doesn't register to him that Melissa doesn't find this awesome until she shouts at him about "you people are all crazy!"-- but he does make significantly more of an active effort to include her than anyone else does. Including Bill, who keeps running off with Jo. (Granted, Dusty's idea of including her is explaining all the cool tornado concepts and experiences and telling her how awesome the view is through his camera and how she has to take a look, but he's trying.)

Dusty is also the one who notices Melissa's reaction to Bill's anguished declaration of love being caught on the open mic--you can see him immediately start actively holding the umbrella up, something that is definitely purely for her benefit, and his attention is entirely focused on her even if neither of them are saying anything. And she does seem to notice that he's noticed.

Like, I think there's a story here where he goes to apologize for not realizing sooner just how much she wasn't enjoying it and she's touched by the fact that at least someone noticed enough to come check on her afterwards and they talk about what people get out of storm chasing but in a more rational fashion around a dinner table where there aren't storms immediately bearing down on them.

[saffrondawn]

#this is so so so real #melissa deserves someone who passionately cares about her #and if thats a silly adrenaline junkie who looks out for her? #girl GO GET HIM !!! (tags via @stairswarning)

[econocaos]

[babieswrld]

Twister as text posts 2/???

[spockvarietyhour]

Twister (1996) + CRT TV