Birds and the bees and the monkey babies

My favorite distractions. Multifandom. Featuring sky delinquents and grounders, FBI agents and aliens, sex researchers and lesbians, some a capella weirdos, and one dysfunctional South Side Chicago family. Plus art, space and elephants.

[falastinniya]

you’ve gotta start romanticizing your life. you gotta start believing that your morning commute is cute and fun, that every cup of coffee is the best you’ve ever had, that even the smallest and most mundane things are exciting and new. you have to, because that’s when you start truly living. that’s when you look forward to every day. 

[naturaekos]

“When it’s time for souls to meet, there’s nothing on earth that can prevent them from meeting, no matter where each may be located. When two hearts are meant for each other, no distance is too far, no time is too long, and no other love can break them apart.”

— Jaime Lichauco (via naturaekos)

[satchp]

#you

[michaelsheen]

I found a very long interview with Virginia Johnson from 1997, presumably for the upcoming tapes she was planning to do for the Virginia Johnson Masters Learning Center. I think her intelligence and knowledge about sex in terms of culture and society comes across very strongly in this interview. I often wondered what Masters and Johnson would think about the sex climate today with all the hypersexualization and availability and she makes some pretty astute observations that still hold true today. At the start, it’s hard to connect this Virginia Johnson to the one in private who was immensely bitter about Bill and their work. At about the 14 minute mark, while talking about the start of her work with Bill and how they were there at the right time, she pauses/hesitates and then apologizes by saying she got marred down in the question. She then goes on to talk about their work for a few minutes.

Later on (around 43:30), the same thing happens when she’s retelling a story of her two grandmothers and about how one grandmother became angry towards men and sexuality and “let it be known in rather cutting little ways” and that’s when she asks to stop for a moment. When they cut back again, the interviewer asks how a couple can take steps to prevent that and to stay interested, etc. Her answer? VJ: “A couple who wants to continue to be exciting to one another and excited by one another has to allow themselves to be themselves in relation to the time and the place and the circumstance. For instance… [pause, she sighs] I really…I’m so wound up in this stupid stuff that I’m not sure I can continue…” Interview: “Do you want to cut for a few minutes?” VJ: “No, it really won’t help, other than to…[long pause]”

Once they cut back after a short break, it’s here where she talks about things like cheating, true love, couples who live in arrangements, chemistry, etc, and I strongly suspect that on some of the topics she’s speaking from the experience of her and Bill’s marriage (to paraphrase: “if a partner has an interest for somebody outside of the marriage, even if it’s not acted upon, then the relationship will die”)

She’s clearly as educated as any doctor but this independent venture would fail because a lot of her credibility came from Bill (combined with the fact that their practices became obsolete with the invention of pills like Viagra), which is incredibly sad when you think about it. How do people get their doctorates? By writing a dissertation. How do people write their dissertations? By conducting research. Virginia did all that and more but because she didn’t have a formal piece of paper from a university saying she did it, she wasn’t seen as a real doctor. She had no reason to be embarrassed or ashamed of that.

[kim-jisoo]

I’ve never related to something as much and felt as personally offended at the same time.

[drst]

This is hilarious.

[ekjohnston]

Accurate.

[that-edm-life]

[chokkilissa-nahollos]

im the dj screaming w laughter

[bienergy-deactivated20180719]

I think about this at least once a day.

[tacomel420]

working in customer service be like

[wnq-unknown]

Unknown | @wnq-unknown  

[lesbianreviews]

NEW LESBIAN MOVIE COMING OUT SOON GALS THIS IS HUGE

[thegaylists]

the miseducation of cameron post (directed by desiree akhavan) based off the book of the same title written by emily m. danforth

it’s really important to support this movie because it was directed by an iranian-american woman and written by two women! too often our lesbian movies are directed by men. This film is released august 3rd 2018!

[sharkchunks]

[arborstreetthuggin]

[gillianaofficial]

The end of this story is we got to work together & she’s the coolest, loveliest chick ever. The crush is reciprocated! 

@latelateshow #KateMcKinnon

[lettersiarrange]

I’m tired of house hunters. No more white people choosing between 3 equally nice houses in the suburbs. Instead, I want a show about average millenials trying to find apartments in major cities. Give me a 25 year old trying to find somewhere habitable in NYC for $1k a month. Give me a grad student looking for a flat in San Francisco on their shoestring budget. Give me a young adult who just got a starter job in Paris and now has to figure out how to move there. Will joe choose the place with a couch for a bed, or will he go for the closet-sized crawl space? Will Kat manage to find some place in the city, or will she end up with a 2 hour commute? Will Chris go for the barely renovated warehouse or will he start sleeping in the break room at work? Find out next week on I Don’t Want to Be Homeless

[teamrocketing]

i get heated when people feel the need to go out of their way to tell me astrology/tarot etc are fake. yes i know. here’s a concept though.. literally everything in the world is fake. Everything. Things only work because you believe in them. Money? fake. The government? Fake. businesses? fake! your name? fake! nothing is real except life and death so let me have fun with my Magic Cards™

[quotemadness]

I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)

[wordsnquotes]

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth.

Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Don’t say maybe if you want to say no.

Paulo Coelho (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Theodore Isaac Rubin (via wordsnquotes)

[gillianaofficial]

#TheXFiles #TakeAKnee