What are you: Man or Superman?

Emily. 30s. Multifandom, mostly cdrama. Currently watching: Fated Hearts. Just finished: Solo Leveling. Writing blog: squidsinspace

[mossworm]

I discovered Matthew Forsythe’s art this week and I’m obsessed so I had to make a little forest with rainbow mite in it

[microwavethief]

"average small seaside town has 3 curses on it" factoid actualy just statistical error. average small seaside town has 0 curses on it. Widows Bay, Located in New England & who’s residents experience the horrors everyday of the week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[a-book-of-creatures]

I didn't realize that pirate has referred to unlawfully copying someone's work for a very long time and did not in fact start with the internet.

Here's Samuel Johnson:

The OED gives a quote from J. Hancock (1668):

Some dishonest Booksellers, called Land-Pirats, who make it their practise to steal Impressions of other mens Copies.

And Defoe's (1703) complaint:

Its being Printed again and again, by Pyrates.

References

Oxford University Press. (n.d.). Pirate, n. In Oxford English dictionary. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/2094938967

[iconuk01]

A more recent (ish) example is Gilbert and Sullivan, who were so sick of American theatre companies essentially stealing the copyright of their works and performing them without paying any royalties (because US copyright law did not protect foreign creators) that they decided, in 1879, to premiere their next operetta on Broadway (before London) so they could control it's release themselves. with a less than subtle nod towards their views of the American theatre industry, it was "The Pirates of Penzance"

[damianimated]

At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.

[spring-ephemeral]

me when i like the 2-3h movie: directors should never have to compromise their vision to appeal to something as fickle as people's "patience". anyone complaining about the movie's length is simply a tiktok-addicted philistine.

me when i don't like the 2-3h movie: once i become god emperor of earth anyone trying to make a movie longer than 90 minutes will be shot.

[forepop]

CUNT MANEUVERS <3

[naye-et-cetera]

雨霖铃 | Zhan Zhao Adventures, Yulinling Trio Firsts: Bai Yu Tang/Huo Ling Long - First time taking care of Zhan Zhao together

[bannock-and-biopolitics-deactiv]

A lot of adulthood is shouting “AUGH MY LAUNDRY” hours after you put it in the washer/dryer and running to go fetch it

[curlicuecal]

oh shit my laundry

[mishafletcher]

reblog to save someone’s laundry

[tingedorange]

https://m.weibo.cn/status/5326012997960181?jumpfrom=weibocom

[sweatermuppet]

closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

[tiredyke]

[ID: a picture of an article that says, “Hopefully gay liberation will continue to raise confusing issues until the world at large becomes so confused and befuddled about sex and gender and all that people can finally stop worrying if "it's a boy or a girl" and get around to being free to be and to love people.” /end ID]

[the-uncanny-dag]

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[rosslynpaladin]

I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.

[ivyithink]

they hate each other ❤️

[chau-draws]

REGULAR YAOI ISN’T ENOUGH!!! I NEED THEM TO SPIRITUALLY MERGE AT A COSMIC LEVEL!!!!!!!!!

[huariqueje]

Morning Coffee - Paul McCreery

American b. 1970s

Watercolour on paper , 26 x 26 in. Framed.

[rainydaydecaf]

I never saw people say stuff like this enough when I was a teenager, so I’m saying it now.

I’m in my mid-thirties and I have never had sex. I’ve thought about it and could have had one or two opportunities if I put in more effort, but I always decided against it because I just wasn’t into it at the time.

I can safely say that I do not feel I have missed out on anything. I was perfectly capable, by myself, of learning about my own body and boundaries without anyone else there to muddy the waters. The immense pressure that was there in my teens/twenties to Have Sex Just Do It is basically gone. I’m vibing. I’ve got my routine by myself in bed that I enjoy, and that’s enough for me.

And in the unlikely event that I ever decide to have sex with someone in the future, I don’t feel at all like I’m lacking some essential Knowledge or Skill that would “make it good” for someone else. I fully expect to ask my partner out loud what they like and to receive an answer clearly communicated and to relax and have fun. And if it’s a disappointing experience, I’m fine with that too. It is what it is.

Sex is just not that big of a deal. I suspected it as a teen, and I’m more sure of it now. It’s fine to have it or not have it. It’s whatever.

[riverlarking]

honestly love his whimsy