#illusoriy

[butchspace]

Re: haircuts: you also have the Nuclear Option of giving yourself a really terrible short haircut, then going to the hairdresser and asking them to fix it. This functionally forces them to cut it short/the right way -- can't leave it too long if there's no hair to leave! Plus, then you can take a picture of it and use that as a reference for all future short haircuts. Like, this method is maybe not for everyone, but drastic times call for drastic measures, lol.

[positive-lesbian-vibes]

@ name change anon: GO FOR IT, first of all. I was in the same boat and changed my name to Jay and it's definitely in my Top 5 Best Decisions Made, I'm so much more comfortable now. "Unisex" names can be helpful because they give you plausible deniability(?)/probably get you misgendered slightly less but YMMV. Make sure to consider what your new initials will be so you don't oops yourself into being A.S.S. or something. Check out baby name sites and see what you vibe with, that's what I did lmao

omg ya i totally forgot abt the initial thing! also congrats on the name change bb <3

[ifeelbetterer]

IMO the new poirot mustache looks like a fancy window treatment and it's freaking me out

omg i AGREE and also it FREAKS ME OUT TOO.

[studyquill]

Thought some of your followers might want to know: for amazon's "prime day" they've got a discount running on the tombow dual brush 10-pack in "bright" for, like, $10.50 right now. I know those pens are both popular and expensive, so this might be a good chance to snag some if you have a prime account!

GO GET IT EVERYONE and please thank this kind soul ^^ for spreading the joy 

[academicsapphic]

I feel like being a studyblr and not being head over heels for the harry potter series must get pretty tiring sometimes... I'm mentally tallying the number of times I've seen something to the effect of "study like granger" on blog posts and wondering how you survive

honestly when i go to follow someone and see a hogwarts house or something in the description i leave….i just dont want it….also as a WGS major, people acting like Emma Watson is the pinnacle of feminism in the good year of beyoncè’s twins 2017 gets me so irritated….but that’s another discussion…

I HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD. i did read those books. i read all seven of them. ive seen all 10 or however many movies multiple times. i consumed the media cause of the hype and took the pottermore quizzes and everything, and tbh im just not a fan. i dont understand why its a worldwide phenomenon and permanently embedded into our culture. why cant it just float away. also j.k. rowling has tweeted some ignorant things, and she keeps coming out of no where saying things like “dumbledore was gay” and “remus lupin was a metaphor for HIV” like stop pulling these things out of your ass to win points with the Minorities™️ if you actually wanted to give us representation you couldve written it in the damn book. you could have explicitly said hermione was black. but i digress.

[fialleril]

illusoriy replied to your link “Opinion | Crucified man had prior run-in with authorities”

Alexandra Petri!!!!! She's my favorite Washington Post writer! Everything she writes is like this, it's amazing -- apparently the current administration put one of her articles in a "friendly news of the day" email because it had a pro-trump headline and they didn't actually read the rest of it

Amazing.

[spacebuck]

I'm really hyped for howitzer btw. I saw a hockey au once in an old fandom a long time ago and it was super fun, and I'm so excited that there will be MORE HOCKEY for me to read, this time in a fandom I'm in *and* a pair I like *and* an *author* I like, this is all of the good things... I know so little about hockey but I'm REALLY EXCITED for whenever you're ready to share!!!!

aaaaaaaa thank u!!i really hope it’s worth the wait omg

and don’t worry about not knowing anything about hockey!! bucky starts the same, so i’m sort of. encouraging people to learn as he learns and explaining terminology as i go, but i’ll also throw in a glossary if ppl think that would be a good idea haha

[fatenumberfor]

@illusoriy replied to your post “it kind of peeves me when non chinese people say “happy chinese new...”

its the "asia as one cultural monolith" thing again, im 100% sure its not just you

YEA you’re right haha when people say “chinese new year” to every asian they see celebrating lunar new year it’s pretty much them saying “hey you’re asian right you must be chinese”