Den of desperate dreams

Hi I'm Kartal, he/they. Music lover, melodramatic Artist, open-minded idealist to bitter realist in less than five seconds OR YOUR MONEY BACK!

[antique-symbolism]

the cold hard truth about being a writer is that every song you hear while you’re working on your wip automatically becomes about your characters, no exceptions

[sartorialadventure]

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

At the annual Houston RenFest we’d always get one or two furries that walk around and every time the general reaction from the medieval roleplayers is akin to  “BEASTS? BEASTS THAT WALK LIKE MAN? FOUL!” 

Last time I went a furry volunteered for an impromptu conversion/exorcism and a guy dressed as a monk gathered a bunch of people and using a Gatorade bottle performed an entire catholic christening while reading off the instructions on his Ipad. When the furry was fully “converted” he removed the head of his costume and everyone in the crowd pretended to freak out and say shit like “GlORY BE HE IS SAVED” “CHRIST HAS BROKEN HIS CURSE”

[patchoulism]

[transformattion-blog]

You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Louise Hay (via transformattion)

[demigender-positivity]

Tip of the day:

You do not have to wait until you’re SEEN as your gender to LIVE as your gender.

[spocks--cock]

Christopher: A woman? Kirk: A crewman.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

OH LOOK AT THAT THE 1960S

[neil-kumiko]

AND SHE’S IN COMMAND GOLD FUCKERS.

She’s not in Medical blue, a caretaking, feminine role.  

Those in Gold were either OFFICERS, NAVIGATORS, PILOTS, TACTICAL OFFICERS, or WEAPONS SPECIALISTS.  

[wetwareproblem]

This is the Kirk everyone likes to forget.

[jazzchordravepiano]

Y’all, if you care about feminism, then you ought to care about the history and context of the miniskirt. The 60s were an era of rebellion against the 50s, and the skirts were part of it. They were literally cutting edge fashion, and a statement that women made against the more housewifey style of skirt from the decade before. It was Grace Lee Whitney herself who suggested to Roddenberry that they wear them, and Nichelle Nichols has said she never had a problem with them. They are a product of their time yes, but the women chose to wear them because of the context of that time. 

[socialistexan]

Also some men in Starfleet ware miniskirts and dresses:

And some of the women wear pants:

They’re given the power of choice, regardless of gender or sex.

[artofquartz]

Shit ‘-’ None of this even clicked to me - Thats fucking glorious :D

[duckbunny]

Picard in that dress is so good. Look at him! He looks formal and serious and dignified! He looks like he’s captain of his ship and he’s got some important business to do. And he’s in a dress and tights. And it’s not a joke. It’s not a joke about a man in a dress! It’s just, you know, a man who is wearing a dress, and that’s normal and appropriate. It’s part of the uniform. It fits him. It’s totally unremarkable and that is so rare and I’m so happy.

[dollsahoy]

Technically, what Picard was wearing was not a choice–that’s the TNG era Full Dress Uniform.  It’s what all Starfleet officers wore to formal events.

[ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosauru]

@excessively-english-jd

[excessively-english-jd]

Yep! The Starfleet minidress is a unisex uniform, and as mentioned, Picard is wearhing a formal Full Dress uniform. I have a book about TNG that shows their concept sketches of the uniform options, and they mention that the minidress is unisex.

[talonsandruffledfeathers]

Mom: I have a really hard time referring to you using he/him pronouns because you're just so feminine, not masculine at all

Me: you use he/him pronouns for our cat

Me: so are you saying our cat is the pinnacle of masculinity

Mom: ...

Me: just think about that for a while

[colemckenzies]

you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it

example: you absolute coat hanger

[ggiornojo]

as well u can just add ‘ed’ to any object and it’s sounds like you were really drunk

example: i was absolutely coat hangered last night

[colemckenzies]

#i was gazeboed mate #i was absolutely baubled

[animatedamerican]

Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).

[nentuaby]

Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.

[animatedamerican]

… huh.  I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.

I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.

[thepioden]

Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.

“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Something is

Something is wrong with our language

[rooksandravens]

Is it a glitch or a feature?

[cranberrybogmummy]

Feature

[s-peak-in-tongue-s]

this neat feature is called collocative substitution, and it occurs when certain words are strongly linked to certain context and/or phrases. when you read/hear a pair of words that usually wouldn’t go together, your brain fills in the context with what would normally be inferred, given the originally phrased pairing. thus, finding out that there’s a term for this phenomenon may indeed leave you utterly sandwiched. lesser known or less strongly linked phrases and pairings may not be able to translate substituted words to appropriately fit the inferred context, so you were not utterly floorboarded at the club last night, but rather you were absolutely floorboarded, and as this explanation continues to drag on, you may by the end of it find yourself completely coathangered from read it all.

[lizawithazed]

I, like all linguists I have met or even heard of, have a deep intricate love-hate relationship with the English Language because of complete and total coathangering like this

[stargazing-enby]

Hey I was just studying this last week! It’s also a thing in Spanish 😂

[slimetony]

I love my friends and refuse to speak with them

[thingsthatarebetterthansex]

Things that are better than sex

Looking at fanart and then drawing fanart

[academicssay]

[mockwa]

[assgod]

oMg????????

[wintersmitth]

[godlyantonella-deactivated20191]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

[radiotroph-deactivated20180625]

me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass

my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!

me: 

[orphanblaque]

when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit. 

[persistentmanlyagitation]

[mpregwizard-deactivated20260125]

anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow

[captain-trash-cannot-deactivate]

Anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow

[kukuandkookie]

Whenever someone asks me how to write a good essay, my go-to piece of advice is “you have to bullshit it”—and it’s been the advice I say since high school.

But honestly, yeah, bullshitting within itself is a form of analysis because you still have to justify what you’re claiming, and if you’re making things up as you go, you can add new insight to a topic your professors are probably pretty familiar with. You’re still writing good things that feel enlightening, even if you feel like you’re just pulling it out of your ass.

[itsagifnotagif]

dogs with jobs

[naamahdarling]

WHAT. GOOD. DOGS.

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.

[thedoctorknits]

He stops and looks both ways?!?

[bettsplendens]

You wanna know what makes this better?

Crows normally walk. This one seems to have both legs working, so he’s not hopping out of necessity, he’s doing it for fun. Corvids can sometimes be seen doing things like this for no evident reason other than enjoyment.

[thelilnan]

he’s just havin a good day

[stfudiscoinfernoed-archive]

It’s pretty evident that people use gender conformity to determine which bi people are “actually gay” or “actually straight.” A bi man wearing a crop top and makeup will have his attraction to women dismissed because it’s “obvious” he is gay. A bi woman who is more traditionally feminine will have her attraction to women dismissed because it is “obvious” she is straight.

Gender conforming bi people aren’t straight.

Gender nonconforming bi people aren’t gay. Even when they are really gender nonconforming.

Believe people when they say they are bi.

[talonsandruffledfeathers]

May I add ‘please believe people when they say they’re pan and not suggest they’re bi please?’ Like please. I called myself pan. I trusted you with that information, don’t tell me I’m not what I say I am. Only I know that.

This could obviously apply to any identity too.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[paper-shield-and-wooden-sword-d]

me, writing: *makes something sad happen in character’s past*

also me, feigning innocence: oh no they just tripped and fell into a tragic backstory completely by accident oh this is so sad my poor child if only i could help you

[writersloth-old-deactivated2021]