what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.
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what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.
~Â Etiquette for Ladies; A Manual Of The Most Approved Rules of Conduct In Polished Society, For Married and Unmarried Ladies, by A Lady of New-York, 1845
A man with poor hat etiquette should always be shunned
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I wish this feeling upon everyone who wants to wear a dress, its really the best
this makes me so happy as a fat hairy guy who likes skirts and dresses i never get to see guys like me in dresses itâs always skinny twinks this makes me so happy đĽşđĽş
My name is Pink and I'm really glad to meet you You were recommended to me by some people Hey (uwu) is this illegal? Hey (OwO) this feels illegal
Coworker I mildly dislike who happened to be walking out of the building at the same time as me: WHAT is that woman wearing?
Me, looking over: Uhh, a costume?
CIMD: Yes, but we're in the MIDDLE of the CITY on a WEEKDAY.
Me: Yeah but that's a Disney character, right? There's a Disney show at the Arena at the minute.
CIMD: Well, I still think she should get CHANGED before she goes in public.
Me: I mean, it's a pretty rad costume though.
CIMD, sensing I'm not going to bitch with her: ...I suppose.
I absolutely blame Facebook for this shift. Words cannot describe how freaking WEIRD it was in the mid-00s when there was suddenly this popular website where you were required to use your real, brickspace name and encouraged to post photos of yourself. Every single bit of Standard Internet Safety prior to then said that you should never ever ever do either of those.
Myspace just so fucking dead it's not even remembered
I think we are focusing on the wrong thing when talking about mainstream romantasy adult books, instead of shaming straight cis women for reading kinky books, we should tralk about how most of the newer books aimed at that demographic are just conservative propoganda, rebranding patriarchy as a kink.
There's nothing inherently wrong about liking the types of kinks that are present, control, power imbalance, dark themes, but when you really look at the top performing novels (which they are mass prodicing at questionable speeds) it's hard to ignore the ever present morally grey man, who's posessive over the heroine who starts off as otherworldly different from the 'regular woman' aka damsel in distress), is cruel to everyone except her, and the fantasy world revolves around the control of women, especially when it comes to forced pregnancy.
I'm seeing a lot of responses to this saying "this is why I read queer stories" but you're missing the point! You can relate to queer media because you're queer, cis straight women should also have material that aren't turning their opression into kinks in almost every. single. book. If they want to choose to read those stories, that's absolutely fine, again nothing wrong with exploring those dynamics, but the concerning part is how fast they're being made with the rise of booktok, and the looming threat to women's autonomy.
Remember when all mlm stories were borderine assault stories in the early 90s-2000s? and how long it took for other queer stories to be made? we all used our voices to make a change, it didn't magically stop we fought for it to not be the only type of story.
And the solution to this, for people who are wondering, isn't to try to suppress romantasy books because they're not "good for women." That's an old, old game and never goes anywhere good. The solution is not less kink and less porn. The solution is more kink and more porn.
Because when you think about it, the problem isn't that you can go to your chosen bookseller and find a story where Sparklia Special gets semi-forced to have babies for Broody McDarkenfay (it's okay, she's into it). The problem is that it is unnecessarily difficult to look a little further down the shelf and find a vampire princess domming the hell out of the hunter who knows he shouldn't love her. Reducing people's choices always serves the reactionary agenda one way or another. Expanding choices. That's where it's at.
(If this sounds like I am making a pitch that we should write porn to defeat fascism, that'sâŚnot entirely a mischaracterization. I mean, of course it won't defeat fascism, but I do feel that while we work to defeat fascism, we should at least have diverse and satisfying porn.)
I absolutely agree with a lot of this and it addresses many of the concerns I have with romantasy as a whole.
However -
Romantasy isn't romantic fantasy.
It's dark romantic fantasy.
And the things that are mentioned here are tropes that are present in dark romance. The being controlling, the obsessiveness, the 'only soft for her' are all genre tropes of the mobster romance, the serial killer romance, the monsterfucker book. These books are usually read by women who want the MMC to be a controlling, borderline abusive jerk and the girl to be naive and corruptible. That's part of the appeal - the what would I do if I was coerced into being bad?
I think the question is less "why is the romantasy formula ONLY dark boys and naive girls" and more "why did a very specific genre about extreme power imbalance (where the man is the one with the power) become popular?"
"Romantasy is just stupid porn and you should feel bad for reading it."
Yeah, yeah, we get it. Comics are good, barbies are stupid and makeup makes you look like a whore.
hate that I was understanding when I shouldâve just been a cunt
OMG that's hilarious. Someone just came onto my comment and tried to lecture me and when I called them on it, they blocked me.
Trash taking itself out lol
My student: Miss, there's a math question we can't do.
Me: Okay, what is it?
My student: There's a shape with six sides -
Me: Hexagon
My student: ...Hexa... that. It wants us to find the length from one point to the point on the other side. We can't work out where to put the line to make the right angle triangle.
Me: Is it a regular hexagon?
My student: A...
Me: Are all the sides the same length?
My student: Yeah.
Me: How long is a side?
My student: 5 cee-em.
Me: It's 10 centimetres.
My student: ...Huh?
Me: Regular hexagons are made up of 6 equilateral triangles, dude. Corner to opposite corner is side-length times two.
My student, eye twitching: Can I throw my book?
Me: I fully understand but no. No, you can't.
i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom
as well as the three laws of fandom:
Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship
đŁ Purity culture kills fandom! đŁ
NO ONE LIVING hasn't been squicked out by something. There's over 7 billion of us, my delights and disgusts aren't universal. So I move on. Don't like the ship? Move on. Don't like____? Move on.
I am not an exception. Neither are you. I don't like it I move on and shut my gob about it because everyone everywhere is squicked out by something and they need to put the thing down and justâŚmotor.
This but also:
Frames this entire post and hangs it over the fireplace.
Ahh yes. My job. The job that I was headhunted for. The position that was made for me because the school wanted me.
The position where I had to teach a teenage boy what "edgelord" means today.
That job.
ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artistsâ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. Itâs SO COOL, I donât think Iâve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at. https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic
Check him out heâs so cool
I'm not saying it's impossible.
Indeed, it's highly possible.
I'm just saying that if you have a character who can't move their legs in your period piece 1970's book...
...maybe dedicate a sentence or two to how they're actually able to use a pedaled vintage sewing machine.
I need to send a "per your last email" email because the person I'm dealing with gave me conflicting information and is now trying to make me the problem.
They even had the audacity to screenshot their own email, so I've screenshot their most recent email in the same email thread that counters that other email, and now I'm trying to find a professional way to say, "this you?"
Fun times.
"My apologies, I was under the impression that we were moving forward on the information here [include most recent screenshot] - is that incorrect? Please clarify which is most accurate."
things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:
the city of los angeles
the city of new york
sex
how drinking alcohol works
how getting high works
how a child of any age speaks
how nuclear physics work
how [my job] works
how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is
how hypothermia works
things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:
what french toast is
read through the notes on this one trust me
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
Seattle to London Flight time author is living in a world where Concord didn't stop flying and they made a faster one.