oh hi!

I'm an actor, fight choreographer, Podcaster, hiker, and budding author :)

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[emma-dennehy-on-ice]

Maybelle down

[wrigglygreig]

denae benites in the inaugural wpbl game, 1.08.26

[croszukis]

we’ve been robbed of seeing women in pinstripe baseball uniforms for too long

[pwhl-mybeloved]

The first thing Maybelle said to me when I saw her today was, “We did it Kels, we made it, we’re here.” We sure did Maybelle ❤️

[pwhl-mybeloved]

Denae Benites cranks one to center to claim the first-ever homerun in WPBL history.

[shestabsshit2inchestotheleft]

Ok, so I saw someone on here looking for specific queer representations and spice levels in books, but they also wanted to avoid certain tropes. Comments were turned off so I couldn't share with them, but the tumblrinas all deserve to know about the website:

Romance.io

You can select SO many different things, from main characters genders, to how spicy you want it. You can select that you do or don't want to see specific tropes or kinks in the book. You can tell it what triggers you do or don't want within the text. And it will give you customized book lists. It's human powered, no ai involved, and it's super helpful if you're struggling to scratch a specific itch.

Anywho, enjoy! Go read a book!

[marinella-ela]

[cognitiveinequality]

[beholdingslut]

this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

[beholdingslut]

“why did i start this list” pleaseeeeeee this is so funny

[caracalliope]

his descriptions were extremely on-point, and frankly inspiring when writing a hurt/comfort scene

Instagram poets could never!

[lobautumny]

For those who want it, here is the entire list:

Anyways, dude's 1,000% a huge masochist. Nobody just describes pain like this unless they're enjoying it.

[onehundredandtwentyfour]

Schmidt sting pain index - Wikipedia

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[shestabsshit2inchestotheleft]

I... love this

[terminally-unlikable]

Actually upon further inspection that shit really hurted my feelings

[homunculus-argument]

Besides the obvious like having financial security, being able to support your community and take care of friends and family, the whole "money doesn't bring happiness" bullshit is still bullshit because even if we only look at it from "buying frivolous trinkets" point of view, there's so many fun things I'd get myself commissioned just for shits and giggles.

For one, I'd get my dental layout scanned and then use the 3d model of my teeth to commission a giant pair of pincers where the cutters are replaced with a life-sized metal recreation of my teeth. I would use these to press bite marks on all sorts of things that a human being physically could not bite into, and emotionally would not want to.

For no other reason than to fuck with people. Just so they can see a very obviously human bite mark on something and wonder how the fuck did someone bite a goddamn brick wall, and why would anybody do that.

[andrewrnease]

I do feel like 'money can't buy happiness' has a good point somewhere, but it's such a hamfisted way of making it that it's just total crap. Like... okay: if you have a fundamentally joyless outlook on life and can't meaningfully connect to the people and world around you money won't fix it, and rich people can still be unhappy, but that isn't what the damn saying said.

Also, I remember there was a Monk episode where they did that tooth thing with a dog and that was the murder weapon.

[shestabsshit2inchestotheleft]

The original phrase was from Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Money buys everything, except morality and citizens." Like most adages, we've lost the original meaning through over-simplification and misinterpretation. Take from that what you will.

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[shestabsshit2inchestotheleft]

I had a conversation with a representative of a local women's org last week and at one point in the conversation, she spiraled into talking about how neat it was that we, who work in a theatre, were so in touch with our "feminine, artistic" sides because she grew up playing sports and whatever and had to find that softer "feminine" side later in life. I had to bite my tongue, because I'm a goddamn professional.

5 mins later she asked about our work and while I'm an actor... I'm also a fight director. I choreograph staged violence. With weapons, or without. And I got to watch the realization dawn that she had no idea what she was actually talking about.

Also. I watch a lot of women's sports. I'm a season ticket holder for our closest soccer team. None of this shit is "masculine" or "feminine." It's human. It's all human and we need to stop making people feel weird about that.

(To add onto this, Trans women belong in women's sports at all levels, fight me)

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