I will love you without any strings attached 🧿

wesley - he/they - twenty one queer IG: wjjam mcr/uk

[tenderlvr]

happy bday me

[tenderlvr]

sum bday pics !

[greelin]

haha i like you. I’ll be growing on you like moss now if that’s alright

[tinsnip]

When we’re new to adulthood, it doesn’t immediately occur to all of us that you’re almost always allowed to leave a situation, because growing up we’re forced to stay in situations until someone dismisses us and/or takes us home, or if we do leave on our own accord there’s someone waiting at home to say “we don’t quit in this family!” Boring party? You can leave. You don’t like the lecture? You can walk out. New doctor not working out? You can end the appointment, you don’t need to wait for them to dismiss you. Bad date? You can just go home. Leaving a situation prematurely might have consequences, but unless you’re under arrest or serving prison time, it’s pretty much always allowed.

–commenter Allison @ askamanager

[obstinaterixatrix]

[copperbadge]

A while back, I called for a Lyft ride home from the airport. The lyft pulled up, he called my name, and I opened the door and climbed in. While I was climbing in he was getting out, which I didn’t realize until he opened the back door on the other side.

Him: I’ll put your bag in the trunk. Me: Oh, there’s no need.  Him: I’ll just put it back there.  Me: I prefer to keep my bag with me.

I was also still holding onto it so he couldn’t just grab it, and when I said “I prefer to keep it with me” this cloud of rage crossed his face.

Him: Then get out.  Me: Excuse me? Him: Get out, I don’t want your bag fucking up my upholstery.

Now, this was a weekender – essentially an upscale duffle bag. Small, almost brand new, easily fitting on the middle-seat beside me. I don’t know if he was just really intense about his upholstery or if he was running some kind of scam, but either way I now DEFINITELY was not going to let him separate me from my bag.

So I said “Okay,” and I picked up my bag and got out, took out my phone, and cancelled him as my driver.

He looked at me like I’d grown a second head. There was this moment of total disconnect in his face, and then he started ranting about how someone had damaged his upholstery and they needed to put their bags in the back and he wasn’t going to have me getting his upholstery dirty. 

I said, “I’m out of your car. Drive on, I’ll get another,” and held up my phone.

This had clearly never happened before – it looked like plenty of people had thought “This guy is crazy” but went the “so I’d better let him do what he wants” route instead of “so I’m getting out of his car”. Which is totally normal! We’re socialized to prioritize “not making a scene” over personal safety. But when you do call that bluff, when you defy the social convention that the other person is counting on to make you do what they want you to do, they don’t know how to react, which gives you time for a clean getaway. And maybe he thought I was a dickhead but what do I care what an asshole thinks of me? 

Anyway the moral of the story is yes, you should know that you can almost always leave a situation and often it’s in your best interest to do so. 

(Right after I called for another car he picked up a fare using Quick Match or whatever it’s called, peeled out of the Lyft lane, and hit another car well nigh immediately.)

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

[ID: The Benefits of walking away. (Illustration of the back of a person walking away. ) 1. Makes bad things disappear quickly. 2. Gives everyone optimal view of your back. 3. Answers question, “I wonder what would happen if I just walked away”]

[dailymoviemusicals-blog]

Moses Supposes

[randomslasher]

Running into this on my dash was like running into an old friend

[pyromanicdaydreamer]

Thats just what theater kids are like

[prokopetz]

What I’ve always loved about this bit is

a. this musical number comes completely out of nowhere, with no greater context than what this video captures; and

b. the language instructor clearly can’t hear the music. He’s not from Musical Theatre Land. From his perspective, a couple of twinkle-toed weirdos just randomly decided to physically abuse him for three solid minutes. This isn’t reading anything that’s not intended into the scene – it’s literally the central gag.

[rocketplane]

@thebibliosphere in case you need some ridiculous Singin’ in the Rain on your dash.

(P.S. I imagined you making the faces at the instructor and it was hilarious)

[thebibliosphere]

I can but aspire to the level of expressiveness Cosmo Brown has with his face.

[sharkselfies]

[awkwardpenguinproductions]

NEVER not watching Moses Supposes

[buriedsecrets]

Two gay men taunt a speech therapist with tap dancing.

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 2, 2023 - Two fascists set themselves on fire trying to burn down a Servicio de Inmigracion building in Bakersfield, California.

The business helps immigrants work with the immigration process and pay their income taxes. The fire didn’t spread and was quickly put out by the fire department. [video]

[flagellant]

This is the magical cure your migraine fuck fascists post. Reblog a gif of two fascists setting themselves on fire and failing miserably to do anything other than that and your migraine will be cured

[shitpostinguniverse]

[tetheredstrings]

From The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time, edited by David H, Lowenherz

[naberiie]

[text id:

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to yo in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this – But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”

-Vita Sackville West to Virginia Woolf

“Look here Vita – throw over your man, and we’ll go Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads – They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”

-Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville West

/end id.]

[smellslikebot]

laughed out loud at this tag on an art post where the OP was deactivated .

[punkjabi]

[butchniqabi]

[myownprivatcidaho]

whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)

[keychainjar]

[gettingintoknives]

mirror traps by hera lindsay bird

[selkielore]

negative space

[mslanna]

But everybody knows that the REAL reward for finishing a side quest is to have it off the quest list and its markers removed from the map.

[mryarra]

#we play video games to enjoy wildest fantasies#and mine? is to cross shit off my todo list

[taylors-a-goblin]

Here's something new to know about me. I'm a Murramarang woman from the south coast of New South Wales, and an Aboriginal Artist. I'm learning and trying to bring Dhurga (my native language) back to life after it was nearly destroyed during colonisation.

Here are a couple of my paintings.

The first is a Giriwa (goanna), the totem of my tribe, painted in our traditional x-ray style. This type of painting was used to illustrate and educate, to teach biology and anatomy.

The second is a warigal (dingo) painted in a more decorative style, with a fusion of our more narrative style of art and my own modern style.

If you've stumbled upon this post, I hope you learned something from it! I love sharing my culture ❤💛🖤

[uglywizardhat]

[image id: the first image, of a girawa (a large lizard), is a painting done with thick lines and vibant colors against a black, starry background. the main body of the girawa is red, with visible organs layered on top - the lungs, heart, and intestinal tract are black, the kidneys are yellow and filled in with smaller yellow circles, with a black and white striped outline. Overlaying the lungs in a highly concetrated white are the ribs. other textures in bright yellow and white indicate pockets of fat and muscle.

the second image is a warigal (dingo)'s face, painted in the center of a large medallion. it is also rendered in thick lines, but they are white and filled in with many smaller light yellow circles. the warigal's face is made of a variety of geometric shapes, reminiscent of a patchwork quilt, and the patterns used in each shape are symmetrical and highly textured. the eyes are more realistically rendered than the rest, giving it a striking gaze. the background is a series of small concentric circles, in yellows, reds, and greens. the word "warigal" is painted in the upper left. end id.]

[accessible-art]

taylor, the artist of these pieces has a commission post up now! please click the link [ here ] if you want to check that out.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Context: there is a homeless encampment across the tracks from this unmanned train station

[loving-n0t-heyting]

“It might seem outrageous we are forcing you to own abd use a portable computer equipped with a gps and no root access for reading our clubhouse password in order to pee but consider that the alternative is ppl with no indoor plumbing being able to use this restroom”

[ms-demeanor]

Hey if you're a "be gay, do crimes" kind of person but you think shoplifting is scary please remember that you can usually block the locks on bathroom doors like this with a thin piece of plastic (like a shopping rewards card or a strip cut off of a laminated sign) and duct tape OR you can likely remove the locking mechanism in about 3 minutes with a Phillips head screwdriver and some practice.

Also remember that scanning random-ass QR codes is dangerous and laminators are cheap. If you see a service that requires the use of a qr code that could have been taped to the wall by anyone, you should 100% call the people in charge of that service to complain and you should not scan that code. Whether you put up a matching sign with a different qr code and write below it "one of these could be a virus, don't scan unknown qr codes" is up to you.

[neurospicy]

Neurotypicals will be like “I know you have a disability that affects your ability to stay organized, manage your time properly, socialize, or control what you’re able to think about or focus on, but that’s not an excuse to have trouble staying organized, managing your time properly, socializing, or controlling what you need to think about or focus on.” And then demand that they aren’t ableist. I’m tired.

[guerrillatech]

[sealinne]

same moment different angle

[bonnibeldam]

[whitmerule]

The bullet bandolier over the skirts is a look. 😌

[brownbearbutch]

I have a theory that’s not really a theory but I think that there are a lot of people using canes that should be using walkers or rollators and there’s a lot of people using walkers or rollators who should be using a wheelchair. And there’s a lot of people using manual wheelchairs that should be using power chairs. Because ableism in short.

[kelpforestdwellers]

i think this is extremely true and i would even advise to anyone who uses a mobility aid, to consider whether you would benefit from the 'next tier up.' if the answer seems to be even vaguely yes, it's probably actually very yes.

remember how much stigma and internalized ableism is working against you. if you have even a glimmer of a thought that you need a particular mobility tool, you have probably already needed it for a long time