tsou tsou tsou, fix your hearts or die!

Ashley, Ash, Smash, Ma'am, fine shyt :) she/her <3 extremely Irish/Scandinavian/Egyptian <3 20s :) real-life-working-journalist, Shaylinne on AO3 my icon is by Alessandra Meniconzi and my banner is Grace Lee \ I will actually genuinely kick ur ass if u make shit weird. that's probably all.

[strobingthingsfoundindumpsters]

i have a lot of shit going on, most of it bad, but i'm comforted by the fact that i have a friend from california who's going through a lot of the same shit and he just got into his uncle's stupid scammy real estate business in satan's asshole, florida, so at least i'm not doing that crap. i'm getting real good at pilates and very into defending my segment on strava instead. godspeed. so to say fics have obviously slowed down because thinking's put on the backburner to worship the altar of leg muscles and/or grief. appreciate the patience.

[strobingthingsfoundindumpsters]

it's been eleven months since i wrote this & pinned it to my blog so everyone who followed me for the porn i wrote could know that i was having a miserable fucking time. some things have improved, friend got out of the scammy real estate biz & i got to cuss out the uncle, some things have not improved, such is life. i'm hilariously behind on my book proposal lmao. i still have the strava segment, eat shit and die nikolaj. i can plank for forty-four fucking minutes & did it for #plankformecfs please don't actually just do a plank longer than like 5 min for shits and giggles that's a really easy way to get injured. uhhhh what else??? my partner is doing stupid expensive stem cell treatments in germany starting next week and it's one of the first times i've really felt hopeful about his health in almost two years. they'd fucking better work. if not, i could've bought myself a new boat motor with a whole lot less human misery involved. so there's that

[hollowboobtheory]

so my confusion about peta is like, what exactly do they propose we do with fully domesticated animals that are biologically adapted to depend on humans, just let then go extinct? or do you want a pigeon situation

[hollowboobtheory]

do you really want a pigeon situation with dairy cows

[hollowboobtheory]

they WHAT hang on I gotta do some googling

[hollowboobtheory]

everybody stop their trains of thought this post is now about cows in india

Stray cattle in India - Wikipedia

I knew cows were sacred in Hinduism and that a lot of Indian people don't eat beef but I had no idea it was this much of a capital T thing which is silly bc in hindsight yeah conflicting interpretations of the dominant religion have always been a huge source of political conflict. but yeah no I did not make it to the logical conclusion that beef is a political issue in India.

like I didn't realize there was this much of it as a topic

seriously I recommend these they were fascinating. learning so much.

[nondelphic]

a lot of people’s strong female character is just a hot girl who punches things and hates other women. let’s unpack that, maybe.

[thejewellerybox]

Gannet Diving necklace by Rie Taniguchi

[strobingthingsfoundindumpsters]

in honour of posting a new Turtle Island chapter and because I love my freaky titles, have some upcoming freaky chapter titles (not necessarily in perfect order) and one description of its contents that may or may not be a good description:

Speculative Fiction (Irina Rozanova's Spanish dictionary!) The Klondike Gold Rush (Catastrophic consequences that could've probably been forseen.) Smilodon (Like the animal.) The Continental Shelf (Like the scientific theory.) Wet Work (Like the slang.) The Preacher's Daughter (Sergei Vetrov is a swinger.) Hockey Romance (They're not very realistic in the sex department.) Proprietary Blends (Spicy BBQ! Yay! We Love Spicy BBQ!) The King of the Cannibals (Named after a phenomenal article I read on Sam Altman in the WP, has absolutely nothing to do with Sam Altman, but is still very fitting.) Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle (Cool.) Amekaji (Casual, but elevated. A lot of white people get way too into it.)

[swallowtail-ageha]

I like how when people claim to be reincarnations of someone they always turn out to be reincarnations of royalty and when its royalty they are always cleopatra and never random stillborn hapsburg baby no 4729

[strobingthingsfoundindumpsters]

got assigned to do a hit piece on kalshi. god bless

[persianmom]

melancholia follows me around like a dog begging for something I don’t have

[ongreenergrasses]

the only thg character who would truly feel fulfilled as a stay at home parent is Finnick. you cannot change my mind

[verdantachillean]

Someone said “anthro” and I woke up like a sleeper agent… turns out it was different type of anthro than anthropology, and I was super excited for the anthropology

[assiraphales]

I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive

[strawberryglasses1]

I love you d13 katniss finnick siblingism

[misguidedtreestump]

Post Mortem

[thebellekeys]

adolescent boarding-school girl-toff emerald fennell developed a fantasy about falling for one of her father's stable boys after she read wuthering heights and now we all have to suffer for it because the marlborough college dorms had fanfiction.net blocked

[homunculus-argument]

Autism is some monkey's paw sort of shit, you've got the power to give people the most devastating rip-your-scalp-off level insults that will haunt them for life, with a completely straight face, but the catch is that you don't do it on purpose and also have no idea that you're doing it at all before people get mad at you for no apparent reason again.

[eternity-chaos]

Dykes on b/w by Chloe Sherman

[frostedmagnolias]

Monsheeda (Dust Maker), and his wife Mehunga (Standing Buffalo), of the Indigenous Ponca tribe, posed together in their wedding photo

c. 1900