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Jess/Bexley, 44. They/them. 🧴Started T 11/22/25. A place to be feral. I wouldn't call this an NSFW blog, but I do post/reblog Adult Content from time to time. Current fixations are Red Dwarf, Psych, Murderbot, Taskmaster, Briish panel shows, and Sad, Wet, Middle-aged Men. I read/ship problematic, dark, and distasteful things sometimes, and I tag accordingly. You can blacklist and block if you'd like. Sidebar pic by makowka @ piccrew. Profile/account icon by me.

[strange-and-off-putting]

Changed the user name on my main, so likes/replies will come from @nobeautysansstrangeness from now on  ✌️

[strange-and-off-putting]

....this was also on there??? When did I make these, lol

[strange-and-off-putting]

...I found this in my drafts this morning, is this anything

[thatdoodlebug]

Red Dwarf Titan concept art (?) taken from the latest Titan video

[mingemuncher40k]

I’m curious about red dwarf fans on here

Are you lot

From the UK

From somewhere else (tag if u like)

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[emonica11]

[beggars-opera]

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[formerlyanon]

and we need that! keeps us humble. 

[dabouse]

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

[tomboy014]

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

[dabouse]

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

[tomboy014]

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

[digitaldiscipline]

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

[kabretoss]

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[penny-anna]

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

[apollosfallen]

The only way forward is to stop treating masculinity as synonymous with harmful, monstrous, or dangerous.

[apollosfallen]

There is a fundamental difference between "men are dangerous" (wrong, bioessentialist) and "the patriarchy allows dangerous men to exist unchecked" (true).

[janamelie]

Any outfit of his which only features in one episode. Versions played by Craig Charles only.

Favourite One-Off Lister Outfit?

The pink sparkly "Tongue-Tied" suit (Parallel Universe)

Rich Lister's sunglasses, suit and Flintstones T-shirt (Timeslides)

High Lister's silky white robe (Demons & Angels)

Sebastian Doyle's swanky suit, coat and jewellery (Back To Reality)

Brett Riverboat's cowboy outfit (Gunmen Of The Apocalypse)

The pink frilly dressing gown Kryten wants to dye (Ouroboros)

KK2's Lister's 90s rave version of a Hawaiian shirt (Ouroboros)

Holo-Lister's smart black outfit with leather patches (Ouroboros)

The Trojan "snug jumpsuit" (Trojan)

The 1950s suit and hat (Twentica)

Posh Lister's casual blue dinner suit (Skipper)

Other (feel free to say)

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[lastoneout]

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

[mentohol-blog]

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

[direhydroid]

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

More from the notes:

[tosety]

Oh, no, tsundere isn't the right term because we aren't trying to hide anything.

We're not about to leave you stranded but we really do think you're an idiot for getting yourself into the situation.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

[alex51324]

Dang, it sounds like Bostonites are my people. Maybe I should move.

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

we must try to find some small joy in this life because it is actually all we have

[thatfriendlyanon]

reblog this and put in the tags what kind of content you watch on youtube

[strange-and-off-putting]

Regarding testosterone puberty, Suzy Eddie Izzard said "tufts of hair will grow on your face -- not in a sexy stubble way, but in a continuing plague theme," and oh boy, was she right

[strange-and-off-putting]

Taking my son to visit my mom today and was hoping to set off while it was still coolish but I slept in and blahhhh.

It's only a 20 minute walk but the humidity has been gross lately.

Also, been on vacation since Friday and the cessation of a normal routine means this was the first day where I got up and put my T gel on right away and not with a sudden panicked realization at 3 pm. Don't realize what a creature of routine you are until the routines stop existing.

Thankfully I don't do that with my blood pressure meds... been remembering to take those just fine.

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