How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cringe

Call me Jewel, She/Her, Just a young adult wading into the world of artistic expression and appreciation. Not a fandom blog but occasionally post original fanart and fanfics. (Age=20s)

[thejeweloftheworld]

Jewel of the World

Been working on this one for a while. Got a new laptop with better art features and was able to use a stylus rather than a mouse.

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[ninewheels]

As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

[nepenthean-sleep]

can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia

[homunculus-argument]

Did you have a happy childhood, and can you cut onions without crying?

I had a happy childhood and I can cut onions without crying

I had a happy childhood and I can't cut onions without crying

I didn't have a happy childhood and I can cut onions without crying

I didn't have a happy childhood and I can't cut onions without crying

I emerged from a ditch already fully grown/I've never been trusted with a knife

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

No nuance, if you had to hesitate at all, the answer is "no".

[thetomeoftatteredthoughts]

i am waiting for the context behind this one, because its always the most esoteric thing ever

[homunculus-argument]

There's a specific way of pacing your blinking frequency that you can learn to do to prevent tears from welling up if you can anticipate what, when, and how something is going to make you want to cry. I thought the correlation between knowing how to do that, and having an unhappy childhood, would be stronger than that.

[fracturedbabel]

I feel like you're always running some lowkey human science experiment with the polls whenever you end up on my feed.

[homunculus-argument]

I mean technically the biggest difference between "science experiment" and "fucking around and finding out" is taking notes.

[piosplayhouse]

"why are you following a pro shipper" so I can get better at shipping? How am I supposed to improve my meta if I'm only watching amateur plays. I'm trying to hit nationals next month

[pennywords]

X

[alexaloraetheris]

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.

[wholesomepostarchive]

8/11/2026

[merletka]

[william-snekspeare]

is that comfortable

[william-snekspeare]

attempt at a diagram for those confused by his puzzling topology

[william-snekspeare]

Steve the ferret was diagnosed with back pain today.

[toomanyf4ndoms77]

“Oh, Steph forced her way into being Robin!” It’s called taking initiative in a male dominated workplace.

[orcarriagesthatwork]

I think about this cake every day

[tizzymcwizzy]

sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

[microsuedemouse]

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[helenarth]

one time me and some pals spotted one of those big cookie cakes in a store. it was done up with red icing and little X's for kisses and in the middle it said

No One Like You

now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"

for ages after when we'd wind each other up we'd declare "NO ONE LIKE YOU ☹️👎"

[itseasytoremember]

I just feel like it's important to post the Sacred Texts

[shofarsogood]

[ekjohnston]

The Cake Wrecks blog is one that I miss.

[crystalldragon]

technically it would make sense for rocky to be very busy once they arrive on erid. even when factoring out adrian, he sure as hell has got to answer to a lot of curious/shocked/relieved/judgmental eridians and help out with all kinds of stuff.

but i think it would be much more likely (and funny) if rocky is just like. a very scared cornered kitten that just got placed in a new environment. sure, erid is his home but at that point he's not been there for like 50 years and he's gotten so used to human behavior, to grace's behavior, that he may as well be the equivalent of an autistic eridian, struggling with eridian social expectations and norms, questioning every stupid rule he's grown up with, using human phrases and quirks, etc. idk i just like the idea of giving rocky a sprinkle of homegrown autism

and he is still constantly at grace's side, not just for grace's comfort and sanity, but for his as well. grace is there for him, he chose him over earth after all, the only familiarity amongst a huge planet that has probably long declared him dead, the only one anchoring him to this crazy new reality they're in.

[curiouslyhigh]

[feinseld]

i missed this post

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[pietriarchy]

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[joey-wheeler-official]

[piss-bong]

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[journeymanfool]

[dowereallyneedthis]

[favoritefightingfrenchgoth]

[disorderfaking-deactivated20200]

[goofballproximitysurveyor-deact]

[wilburian-deactivated20221116]

great job everyone lets hit the showers

[testosteronetwink]

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

Not again

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[pics-that-make-you-go-hmm]

[fluff-a-fluffs]

Omg this looks like some sort of Fairytale Horror; like, a town with trees that have missing pets or people etched into them- coming off naturally enough to be dismissed as bark/tree discolouration

[questions-within-questions]

The framing of this image is just perfect subtle horror. 

[squareenix-official-deactivated]

Chill it’s a pole

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

you missed the tree entirely didnt you buddy

[squareenix-official-deactivated]

HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[starlightomatic]

i’ve invented a new microwave its called microwave 2. it randomly makes your food colder 9% of the time. don’t worry i’ve already entered your home and replaced your old microwave with it. im very good at technology

[starlightomatic]

this is about google’s ai overview

[finnglas]

gonna be real i thought this was just about normal microwaves

[wyrmwould-star]

a well written story has no one correct interpretation

[artefarte]

If you notice it looks more scuffed than my usual art that's bc I did this during the Ipad-less period. As in I sucked it up and did some fingerpainting on my laptop :,)

Idea stolen from @echo-loves-flowerboy's post

[spicymochi]

sitting animal friends

[spicymochi]

matching tail squad

[spicymochi]

semiaquatic secret agent