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charlie; some kinda punk. here i mostly talk abt what i read, other stuff goes on other social media lol. they/she/he are all ok. i write and draw sometimes. i don't bite, you can say hi.

[arsenicinshell]

Impressive work !

 Leto the high priestess of the Kormic Order.

Costume by Les Légendes d'Azcor

Photo by Gary Gréteau 

Congrats both !

[ficsex]

Just as a reference, these two posts are written by fanfiction loving gay cis men, who have a lot of great first-hand knowledge of the kinds of sex that two people with penises have! They are (used to be?) really well known, but I know a lot of younger folks may be writing fic and have never come across them! Minotaur A well known classic, incredibly informative website with tons of information. Rather dated at this point with regards to the cultural descriptions, but the mechanics are spot on! Gay Sex is All Wrong in Fanfic More recently written (2014), and addresses a lot of misconceptions that tend to pop up in mlm fic written by afab people!

Enjoy!

[three--rings]

Writers of m/m smut should definitely read those links.  I try not to preach about how other people write, but sometimes it’s very obvious who has what level of sexual experience/sexual experience with men/anal sex.

I can speak a little about how we got here as a fanfiction community tho.  Back in the 90s when writing slash was still not really the fandom mainstream, there were a lot of women writing m/m sex as if it was just m/f sex.  And there started to be a lot of call-outs written about how necessary things like preparation and lube were for anal sex.

And it at some point went overboard.  To the point where if you DON’T write extensive finger-preparation you will almost definitely get people commenting on it negatively.  I often will include this kind of stuff just to avoid anyone getting upset with me.

But the most important idea to keep in mind when writing sex is that EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT.  Someone might need a huge amount of time to ease into anal and someone else might need zero prep.  Some people orgasm from something and others don’t, etc. 

Real sex is FAR less formulaic than fanfiction sex and I would like to see more representation of that. 

[waterhobbit]

Oh gosh it’s been an age since I went to Minotaur’s site.

[thebibliosphere]

Oh, man. Minotaur :( 

I still miss him.

[punkerbullet]

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

Juvenile punks are brightly colored as a form of protective visibility, allowing their parents to find them easily and preventing injuries such as traffic mishaps and accidental mosh pit squishing. As they mature, punks develop their darker, studded adult plumage.

[bat-snake]

That was…not the description I was expecting, but it’s perfect.

[1dietcokeinacan]

“3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks”

[opinatus-papaver]

FINALLY, SOME GOOD QUALITY EXPLANATION OF WHY “I DONT LOOK LIKE I HAVE ADHD” BECAUSE ITS NOT REALLY CANT SIT STILL FOCUS NONE DISORDER ITS SOMETHING A WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLEX

[dysfunctionalfocus]

Actually yeah. I just reblogged this silently without any acknowledgement of it, but this is hones to god one of the best explanations I’ve seen.

[birthdaypigeon]

could u imagine if ppl talked about catholicism the same way they talked about like… indigenous ppl’s religions….

[birthdaypigeon]

girl in horror movie holding a bible open: “according to legend, a mob tortured a half-man, half-god, and nailed him to a wooden cross, leaving him to starve to death. But days later, on this very night, they found he had clawed his way out of the grave. Now those who believe lie in wait for him to rise again, To honour him, they have weekly gatherings where they chant and sing, and at the end of it they eat his flesh and blood.”

girl’s friend: “wow.. thats so creepy…”

horror movie jock: “it’s only a myth, don’t worry”

[birthdaypigeon]

Happy Easter guys!!!

[hayleyolivia]

I just had some...thoughts... about sticking animal heads on human shoulders. Bear with me.

I think the reason some anthros look really strange (I’m looking at you, Skyrim) is because animal skulls don’t attach to their spines the same way ours do. Our spines and skulls are very vertical, but many animals’ are closer to horizontal.

Some people solve this by giving the animal skulls a human skull shape on the back. But, to me it makes them look somehow bald(??) and just kinda weird in general. If, instead, you change their necks to curve so that the spine still connects where their four legged counterparts’ do, they no longer look yucky! (And also don’t need a hair-do!)

This seems especially applicable for animals like big cats, cows, and lizards — animals whose spines attach very horizontally to their heads.

Anyway, enjoy some more art I did while having these very specific thoughts.

[tanuki-kimono]

Textured modern obi by Homsue.

This smocking technique was used in GoT by Michele Carragher to create Daenerys’ dragon scales textured dress:

[kuutamosonaatti]

Tao Okamoto photographed by Greg Kadel

“La Garçonne” for Numéro #147 October 2013

[gattsudiberserk]

[sundathe]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQIZGzXAIzE/

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.

[gardnerhill]

There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.

[three--rings]

Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil.  Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again.  (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)

[waterhobbit]

I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.

The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.

[three--rings]

This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life.  The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.)  There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors.  Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime.  And yes, so much of it is of the personal type. 

[theimpossiblescheme]

#Holmes is more compelling as someone who cares about the people and cases that Scotland Yard said idgaf about#than he ever is or was as a strung out asocial genuis

[ovid]

I Contain Multitudes And They Are All Incredibly Annoying

[brainmoss]

and sexy

[ovid]

and sexy.

[modelsof-color]

Ashley Radjarame by Kenny Germé for Dirty Magazine , March 2021

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

Indian beauty

[bynine]

tug o’ war (thanks to @docninjj for the idea!)

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[queeranarchism]

It really boils down to three simple things:

Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)

Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for. 

Credit. Give credit and if possible, buy from the original creators so the money goes where the credit should be.

[weirdo-with-a-nametag]

This is really useful to me personally because I’ve definitely caught myself losing sight of what cultural appropriation actually is, and why it matters, so thank you, and everybody else pay attention too

[luxlightly]

Sending out this beauty tomorrow.

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

Hold up where? Which comic op?

[luxlightly]

Marvel Presents #5. The whole comic is basically the Symbiote trying to get Eddie laid(because they're low on phenylethylamine), then realizing that what he's actually attracted to is the Symbiote itself. Eddie agrees to a trip to the Bone Zone with it and there is a "tasteful cut to black" as Eddie says "watch the teeth'.

[Buy this shirt]

[a-shipping-life-deactivated2023]

Wait what?? Did this really happen?? Links and Sources op pretty please?

[luxlightly]

Like I said, it's in Marvel Presents #5. You can get it anywhere you buy/read comics online. I do have some screenshots though.

[apprenticenanoswarm-deactivated]

every time i see someone go ‘THEY DID??!’ my heart grows three sizes 

yes, they did! they did!!!

[peggy-carters-hat-maker]

everything i learn about venom, i always learn against my will. not in a bad way! i just get a little shaken every once in a while and go about my day after.

[zandraart]

a criminal #untitledgoosegame