Normalcy is overrated

Anjali|Looks 22 acts 15|Hopelessly obsessed with Zuko and Eowyn|Heroines are my Heroin

[ruinedchildhood]

[stream]

[niuniente]

Also

sflix.to (movies, TV series, also rare international movies)

hianime.to (anime only)

kissanimes.et (anime)

kimcartoon.com.co (cartoon series and movies)

www.iq.com (Asian dramas)

[ineffablecho]

Netflix has gotten way too greedy.

[ruinedchildhood]

[writingf3]

Lesbian horror— Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

[phaedraismyusername]

Happy International Lesbian Day! Here's some super brief book recs to celebrate

Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment

This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.

Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.

Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.

Body horror galore

Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.

To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.

Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.

Flawed character studies

Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.

The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.

Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.

Fantastical wlw books

Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.

All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.

Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.

Translated novels

Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.

Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

Paradise Rot is about an international student studying in Australia and her growing obsession with her housemate as they share a space that allows no privacy. I've never read anything that feels stickier.

[paper-mario-wiki]

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Notify you if a website you're on has employees that are on strike

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Automatically remove trackers from URLs

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Feel free to add any other firefox extensions you think are slept on.

[rongzhi]

Making 秋梨膏/Autumn Pear Paste according to olden methods.

English added by me :)

[m-ushroomtale]

秋梨膏 Qiuli Gao, also known as 雪梨膏 Xueli Gao, is a traditional medicinal diet. According to legend, it began in the Tang Dynasty.

Autumn pear paste used to be a special medicine used the court, and it was not spread among the people until it was passed out of the court by an imperial doctor in the Qing Dynasty. Because it has been prepared with autumn pears in the suburbs of Beijing and sold in the capital, it had become known as a traditional Beijing specialty.

Autumn pear paste moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is used for cough and asthma, fullness of chest and diaphragm, dry mouth and throat, irritability and hoarseness due to yin deficiency and lung heat. It is especially good for those who suffer from lung heat and cough for a long time.

[hunterschafer]

JANE AUSTEN LOVE CONFESSIONS. Sense and Sensibility (1995) Emma (2020) Persuasion (1995) Northanger Abbey (2007) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Mansfield Park (1999)

[euclase]

Do you ever think you'll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you're supposed to grow out of. I'm just curious what your plans/goals are since it isn't exactly an art form that people take seriously.

Ah, fanart. Also known as the art that girls make.

Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it’s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it’s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it’s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they’re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.

That’s the art you mean, right?

Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.

It’s interesting though — the culture of shame surrounding adult women and fandom. Even within fandom it’s heavily internalized: unsurprisingly, mind, given that fandom is largely comprised by young girls and, unfortunately, our culture runs on ensuring young girls internalize *all* messages no matter how toxic. But here’s another way of thinking about it.

Sports is a fandom. It requires zealous attention to “seasons,” knowledge of details considered obscure to those not involved in that fandom, unbelievable amounts of merchandise, and even “fanfic” in the form of fantasy teams. But this is a masculine-coded fandom. And as such, it’s encouraged - built into our economy! Have you *seen* Dish network’s “ultimate fan” advertisements, which literally base selling of a product around the normalization of all consuming (male) obsession? Or the very existence of sports bars, built around the link between fans and community enjoyment and analysis. Sport fandom is so ingrained in our culture that major events are treated like holidays (my gym closes for the Super Bowl) — and can you imagine being laughed at for admitting you didn’t know the difference between Supernatural and The X Files the way you might if you admit you don’t know the rules of football vs baseball, or basketball?

“Fandom” is not childish but we live in a culture that commodified women’s time in such away that their hobbies have to be “frivolous,” because “mature” women’s interests are supposed to be marriage, family, and overall care taking: things that allow others to continue their own special interests, while leaving women without a space of their own.

So think about what you’re actually saying when you call someone “too old” for fandom. Because you’re suggesting they are “too old” for a consuming hobby, and I challenge you to answer — what do you think they should be doing instead?

[talesfromthemek]

#I love the fact I’m ‘weird’ for writing fic but some guy painting a team logo on his beer belly is normal

[destielhiseyesopened]

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[takaraphoenix]

This whole modern approach is also seriously undermining just how important fanfiction is - from a historical standpoint.

The concept of fanfiction formed and forged the earliest stages of literature in Europe. Because the majority of authors in France, Germany and Great Britain looked at that funky little Celtic dude Arthur and thought “hey, he’s neat. I wanna write about him”.

The entire concept of a book outside of religious purposes was born out of fanfiction in my country.

There is no “first canon” for Arthur where he came as the prince of Camelot, with his sidekicks Lancelot and Merlin and his endgame love interest Gwen.

Arthur was some random hunter when he started out.

Someone’s fanfiction made him a prince.

Someone else’s fanfiction gave him a round table.

Someone else’s fanfiction gave him Merlin at his side.

Someone else’s fanfiction gave him Morgana, gave him Gwen, gave him his swords.

And, to this day, we still write Arthurian fanfiction. Literally last year there was a movie adaptation that is, by all intends and purposes, fanfiction, because it wasn’t even close to a literal adaptation of the source material (The Kid Who Would Be King). Heck, BBC’s Merlin, itself an Arthurian fanfiction, remains one of the biggest fandoms that people today write for on AO3.

You were a joke in the middle ages if you tried to write your own stuff. Who’s interested in your stuff? You were only a respected author if you wrote fanfiction. The most famous medieval German authors are famous because they wrote fanfiction about some knightly OCs they created who served on Arthur’s court. That is the literary legacy of the middle ages. Arthurian fanfiction.

Yet somewhere along the way, this concept of “I find x story/element cool and want to elaborate on it more, shift the focus onto an aspect of this original source material” has gotten this “eh, it’s fanfiction” connotation and lost respect.

Even though this very concept is still being used - even outside of the actual medium of fanfiction - and it is still being used for the very same purpose it was used for in medieval times. Original movies often don’t get as much recognition as adaptations of existing source material that the audience is familiar with. People see a movie about a character they’re familiar with and seem more inclined to buy a ticket to see the 10th new interpretation of Batman or Superman or Snow White. How are these new interpretations of familiar source material that usually add to the lore, reinterpret characterizations and dynamics, any different from fanfiction?

But heaven forbid we call The Dark Knight Nolan’s Batman fanfiction. No, fanfiction is that silly thing that we can’t take seriously, but that new Joker movie, that however is high-end art.

[stufflizleelikes]

SO IMPORTANT

[kyraneko]

This. Fanfiction is variations on an existing theme, simultaneously making use of and satisfying people’s existing love for a story that they’re happy to consume more of, and cultivating the synergy between an existing story/mythos and a new author who, in interacting with characters they’d never have created themselves, creates something that neither they nor any of the story’s previous tellers could have made all by themselves.

Fanfiction is the new whole being greater than the sum of its parts, and fanfiction is the story being made limitless, retelling by retelling, and it is wonderful.

[amuseoffyre]

It’s also worth noting that Batman himself only came into being because of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a series of books about an extravagantly rich foppish playboy by day, daring hero in disguise by night (I mean, loosely. He also fopped by night and heroed by day, but you get my drift). Written by a woman no less.

Batman is a transformative work with a modernised crime-fighting SP but also borrowing strongly from earlier comic books, and yet it is seen as definitive.

[zara2148]

Coming back here to say that I think the derision for fanart also has some of its roots in our capitalist hellscape.

It’s the age old “If thing not make you money, why you care about thing?” that’s so prevalent in the system. Of course some people do make money with their fanart, but I think that is still part of the scorn. 

It’s supposed to be something you do not just for fun, but for practice, people like this think. Once you’re good at it, you can drop it and make money by focusing on your OCs and original work!

[yespolkadotkitty]

**smashes reblog**

[tuxedoelf]

Couldn’t agree more. Fan art and fic are absolutely valid. We really need to stop putting an age limit on fun as well!

Funnily enough, my Mum sent me this just today. It was in the front of the Doctor Who book she’d just purchased. (My Mum’s in her 70btw… tell her she’s too old for fandom, I dare you…)

[theheroofheroes]

Fandom, fanart, and fanfiction is for everyone.  No, it isn’t something you “have” to grow out of.  If it brings you joy, then who cares?

[stargirl-judooz]

Always reblog

[selfactualizeddisaster]

Just wanted to add that ever since I studied literature my whole experience of what fandom and fanfiction changed so drastically. Because like literally everyone who's obsessed with the Bible? Is in the Christ fandom! If they're obsessed with the King James version then they're canonizing fanfic and getting obsessed with that instead. Basically everything is fanfiction and barely anything is original (Shakespeare's plays were also mostly fanfic) so it really does not make sense to go around judging people for just wanting to create and add some beauty and value to something that means a lot to them

[googifs]

I can’t stop watching it.

[frosty3thefrostening]

For fans of chocolate and fans of Particle Annihilation Beam technology

[dumplingcatho]

this is by stopmotion animator Kevin Parry!! (who has worked on, among other things, kubo and the two strings)

his youtube is here

[oak23]

I hope im not just a blog you follow but also the only person with 100% correct opinions about the little mermaid

[balljointsandlace]

Dish those opinions, let's hear it

[oak23]

My biggest issue is the absolute ice cold take of "Ariel gave up her life/voice for a boy" when the film repeatedly shows Ariel was preyed upon by Ursula. She was exploited and stalked by the literal antagonist of the film into making a really bad decision, especially when Ursula knew Ariel was at her most emotional and the least unable to reach out to her support network.

And the deal Ariel made was meant to be an impossible task that she was tricked into taking AND STILL Ariel was smart enough to almost achieve it if Ursula wasn't playing dirty and directly interfering in with it all.

Ariel was absolutely a victim of manipulation and circumstance, and people who use this as an irredeemable flaw in her character act like they got big brain energy when their brains are smooth as fuck.

[dollsahoy]

(not to mention she was 16)

[prismatic-bell]

Also?

URSULA is the one who says Ariel’s doing it all for the guy.

According to Ariel herself, what she wants is:

—to be where the people are

—to see dancing and walking

—to ask her questions about the human world and get answers

—to not live in the ocean

—to be part of the human world

—to explore the human world

WHERE DOES ERIC COME INTO ANY OF THIS?!

She wants to see a world she isn’t able to see! She wants to have adventures, not a boyfriend! What the hell!

[aqueerkettleofish]

I would argue that she was totally fine with the boyfriend, but Ursula was the one who forced it to be a priority.

AND ANOTHER THING

Her first impression of him is a dude who is both attractive, capable, and willing to jump back on to a burning ship to save his dog.

Later, dude climbs aboard a SHIPWRECK that's caught in a WHIRLPOOL so that he can RAM IT into a 150-foot-tall MAGIC SEA MONSTER in order to save her.

It's not like girl was settling.

[explorerrowan]

Ariel is a field anthropologist. That she happened to fall in love with a member of the culture she was studying isn't exactly a problem.

[wordswithkittywitch]

#Do people give Milo Thatch a hard time for giving up everything for a girl?#no because not enough people have watched Disney's Atlantis#but that's a secondary problem via @thebestworstidea​

Leaving gold in the tags agin, I see.

[selfactualizeddisaster]

Most valid take but also I am losing it at the tags

[dinotriple]

Greatest crossover in cinematic history

[selfactualizeddisaster]

This isn't something I ever thought I needed but I'm very happy it exists

[donniesdarko]

Ready or Not (2019) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Oplin & Tyler Gillett

[selfactualizeddisaster]

God I don't know who else to tell this to so I might as well scream it here but I think I'm in love with one of my friends??? Like not in an active way but in a way where I think about him when stuff is really good or bad and I wanna tell him things and get his opinion on things and he makes me laugh when I feel like shit and and and...wow am I fucked. And there's absolutely no way anything will ever happen because he is in another fucking country and has a girlfriend but just aaahhhhh what have I done I fucked up big time I think I should just change my name and identity now it's time

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[ykceb01]

Are you kidding me??

[selfactualizeddisaster]

Also... Since I can't stop watching this show... I just do not understand how the writer and producer of the reality show can be so malicious or wilfully ignorant. Like they're really acting like they're not doing anything wrong and the show is just "editing itself" To Geun Young's face but then behind her back they're fully just portraying her in the shittiest light possible and honestly I have no empathy for this kind of behavior no matter how "normal" It's supposed to be in the industry. At least have the decency to tell her to her face she's going to be portrayed in such and such manner and then maybe compensate her better for the actual trauma she has to go through at the hands of Who Joon's deranged fans???

[selfactualizeddisaster]

Can someone please just fucking explain what is love to Who Joon I cannot physically take this anymore

[flamingfoxninja]

So i’m just watching youtube, trying to chill out and whenever, when I get a Lego Movie 2 Ad for a video I was watching

do you see that timestamp at the bottom? Yeah, this is apparently 5 hours long.

And at first I was wondering, well is it the entire movie? No…this entire ad is for their newest “everything is awesome” type song. It is called “this song is gonna get stuck inside your head” and I am pretty goddamn sure it is going to repeat that one line over and over until my brain melts

So I am going to see if they really are playing it for 5 hours

[flamingfoxninja]

10 minutes in. No breaks from looping yet

[flamingfoxninja]

about half an hour in. I have been staring at what appears to be the child of Jack Frost and Edward Cullen wondering just how is he able to move in the cold if his body is dead

[flamingfoxninja]

It is only 40 minutes in, and I can’t tell if I am immune to the music, or if my brain has stuck it as background noise

[flamingfoxninja]

made it one hour and I swear I can hear them say the same line in two different ways

1) This song’s gonna get stuck inside your

2) This song’s going get stuck inside Joe

[flamingfoxninja]

hour and 15 minutes

I have now found that even if I mute it I can still hear the song on point to the video

[flamingfoxninja]

I have made a mistake. I paused the music for like one second. So the music that I hear now is clashing with the pace of the music I heard before

[flamingfoxninja]

“THIS SONG’S BURN AGAIN STUCK INSIDE JOE”

[flamingfoxninja]

almost 2 hours of watching a lego blob’s deep shoulder action. how does she do it? I will never know

[flamingfoxninja]

I keep forgetting that I clicked on a different video to begin with. Like every minute I remember that this was an ad, then I just forget again

[flamingfoxninja]

Is it possible for your ears to feel numb?

[flamingfoxninja]

I can’t think anymore it took me 10 minutes to figure out that this was the half way point of 5 hours

[flamingfoxninja]

it’s true. Hell is a skrillex concert with no bass drop

[flamingfoxninja]

I’m losing track over what thread to use. I need to talk out loud to write or I would be writing the song

[flamingfoxninja]

I can time my blinks so every time I open my eyes I see the same scene over and over and over and over and over and over and over and

[flamingfoxninja]

i need to FEED

[flamingfoxninja]

this is how the CIA tortures people i hope you know this

[flamingfoxninja]

Everything I know is a goddamn lie. This movie this hellsite everything why do I even exist

[flamingfoxninja]

I am almost done with this nightmare. God I am so afriad I can’t remember what silence sounds like

[flamingfoxninja]

I am going to find the man that greenlit this piece of shit and shove legos down their throat

[flamingfoxninja]

I hate this movie so much

[flamingfoxninja]

IM SO FUCKIN CLOSE I,M SO FUCKING CLOSE

[flamingfoxninja]

IT HAS A FUCKING END CARD

MY FUCKING GOD

…….i need a nap I need to just be absorbed into the void and hope that I can succumb to the darkness and not dream of legos

[selfactualizeddisaster]

OP you're a goddamned hero and also I hope you and your brain are doing okay now lmao

[midshines]

Current Mood: Crying While Watching Blue’s Clues Pride Song

[midshines]

[personinthepalace]

It’s sung to the tune of The Ants Go Marching One By One song!!!

Another reason why Blues Clues and You is like the best reboot ever

[heartshapedguillotine]

some highlights from the notes 💖

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Stop.

Oh, my god. I’m already crying with asexuality included.

Now you’re telling me other groups feel the same way?

There’s legit tears down my face.

-fae

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

The more you look at it the more you love it.

The drag queen is holding a BLM sign.

There’s a Hijabi on the all races float (and if you look closely at the flag, I think the owl is indigenous).

One of the babas is disabled.

They could have just stopped at including all the flags.

But no. They said “I don’t care if they’re animals. I’m going to make it very clear we’re including all races and disabled people.”

And it’s such small details, but they’re there.

-fae

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Found 2 more hidden BLM flags.

And I consider myself pretty versed in queer identities, but even I don’t know what some of these flags are.

Which really shows that you’ve never had the opportunity to feel validated like this, and that makes me love it even more.

-fae

[nicnacsnonsense]

I already made my own post about this as well, but it seems like a good idea to add the info on this post too, since it’s really taken off. There are (at least) 30 different flags plus assorted other representation. They include:

Pride, Progress Pride, BLM Progress Pride, Lesbian, Gay Man

Trans, Nonbinary — Dolphin wheelchair user, Top surgery beaver

Gender Queer, Genderfluid, Intersex Demigender, Demiboy, Demigirl, Bisexual, Pansexual, Asexual, Demisexual, Gray Asexual, Aromantic — Blind bird

Bigender, Genderflux, Omnisexual, Neutrois, Maverique, Pangender, Drag — llama(?) with prosthetic leg

Trigender, Ally, Two-Spirit, and Gender Questioning — Hijabi owl and Native American owl

[crabdinners]

I’m so fucking happy for the LGBTQ+ kids that have things like this to let them know they’re valid

[moved99999999999]

This much representation including stuff I’ve never fucking seen before

and in a KIDS show, like that’s insane, people will finally grow up knowing it’s ok to exist

Blues clues did their research, said LGBTQ+ rights and fucking meant it bruh

[pulsinghurricanespell-deactivat]

Please like it to show your support. Conservatives are dislike bombing the video and the likes to dislikes ratio is 53:41. Earlier it was 51:39. If the ratio is too bad then Nik might not do anything like this again - bad for publicity. So please show them how important this video is!

[a-girl-with-sparkling-lies]

PLEASE like the video, the redneck right have dislike bombed to nearly 50/50, please support this amazing video

[1-800-i-ship-it]

this is so beautiful ahhh also if u dont want to scroll up again, 

heres the link!! currently at 59k:53k june 5, 2021

[selfactualizeddisaster]

This is so fucking amazing, I'm losing it!!