[only-alter-idem]

thinking about how, when adam and blue were going out, they argued because adam didn’t talk to her about things

which is exactly why blue ends up with gansey, who calls her at ungodly hours just to talk about mundane shit, and adam “i don’t want to talk” parrish ends up with ronan “the fuck would i talk about” lynch

[thememedaddy]

[liarambles]

2010’s ya fantasy book girls’ Barbenheimer

[thatgaybitxh-deactivated2025062]

why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

[somekindaspacecadet]

[mht-ea]

School assignment where we had to redesign book covers for books in a specific genre. I picked American gothic!!! I love experiencing New World horrors!!!

my chosen books were the House of the Seven Gables, We Have Always Lived in a Castle, Clock Without Hands, and Blood Meridien. I inked everything by hand, hand lettered, and colored digitally.

[conversation16]

hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously

[conversation16]

hey it’s march again let’s get this post circulating again

[rubenniall]

there’s something about a mmf sibling trio

[shadowhunter9210]

RISE SHADOWHUNTERS’ FANDOM

THE DATE

IS HERE

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

[darthkayde]

Women in Video Games♥️ (thats it, thats the post)

[wovi]

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susan sontag

[my-dailydreams]

[hatterandahare]

Oooo I see. I don’t need “enemies to lovers” I need “two people so comfy with one another they are constantly bickering, but it’s witty as heck and so warm that everyone around them sees how in love they are”

Howl’s Moving Castle (book!!!)- the grand daddy of them all and my gateway drug

Good Omens tv adaptation

Sorcery of Thorns

Emily Wilde series

Bad Buddy (the series)

Edit to add- Lovely Complex manga

Edit to add - Sorcery and Small Magics

Send more recs please

[operae-pretium-est]

*screaming into the void* HELLO??? ARE THERE ANY TANA FRENCH FANS OUT THERE??

[dullyn]

Going insane writing an essay on comparing the Marquise de Merteuil (Dangerous Liaisons) and the Vicomtesse de Beausésant (Père Goriot). I want to talk about so so much but I do not want to subject my poor professor to like ten pages of writing about women's roles in society and how they are villainized.

Cause Merteuil deserves her villainization, as she is quite literally a sadist in the barebones definition of the term, however, she is in fact a product of her society. Just like how Beausésant has the opportunity to turn bad and rebuff against society, in fact all of Parisian society comes to the ball to watch her be humiliated by her lover's marriage, yet she is seen as noble because instead she retires to the countryside forever.

It really is giving: you are given two options when forced to exist in such a society. With one character turning bitter against the system she is forced into (shoutout to stabbing yourself with a fork to control your facial expressions), and the other accepts her humiliation and decides to suffer from what society has done to her (d'Ajuda count your days bro).

Meanwhile Merteuil is the main figure in Dangerous Liaisons while Beausésant is just a background plot while Rastignac is realizing his girlfriend is actually the worst.

[our-queer-experience]

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

[the-gummy-worms-have-me]

I think I found the article!

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

[mikkeneko]

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

[aethersea]

Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.

I also thought this part was cool :)

[genderqueerdykes]

PLEASE read this article, this information is incredible for everyone looking to unlearn bioessentialism

[anti-terf-posts]

official anti terf post

[headspace-hotel]

man i meant to save this to drafts but it posted instead. anyways I was going to say that this article is GREAT but i especially love the illustrations because it shows how popular ideas of "men's" and "women's" biological strengths are made up by culture rather than biology.

the stereotype is that women couldn't be built for hunting because women tend to have more strength in their hips/legs and less upper body strength, whereas men's upper body strength would make them better hunters.

Well the illustrations show a woman hoisting a deer she just killed against her hip and a man carrying a baby on his back, showing how these different areas of strength don't match to stereotypical activities for their gender. It's cool

[vniehr-deactivated20251119]

When a RC character is super male, and tends to want to have everything under control in the sense that I'm going to be responsible for everything because that's the way it should be. I know he's Capricorn as fuck.

And guess what? Killian, Zain and Hodge are Capricorn xd

*pretends to be shocked*

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