The Creative Failure of Habits @theklicker - Tumblr Blog

My gift to the community:

Pastel Pride flags because my eyes hurt.

I recolored them all stripe by stripe on Photoshop because I'm a *perfectionist*. You can't just lighten a color, you need to adjust the saturation too.

Want to support me? I just published a novel, it's a sapphic western, check it out.

berlynn-wohl

a marriage of humankind's two greatest design achievements: the illuminated manuscript and the cool S

dragon-in-a-fez

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

halfeatenmoon

BDSM

pangur-and-grim

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

suzirya

I got permission from this friend to post this because holy fuck I can't stop laughing

raelemond

on love

or, a decade of intertwined lives.

There is a point in a long term relationship where love is less defined by ardor and more by how well one knows and tolerates their significant other's faults. This is frequently played out standing over dishwashers, muttering sarcastic comments about how the other is not using efficient space and immediately bending to rearrange them once the space is surrendered—or, in my case, by complaining loudly and pointedly whenever my partner folds a bath towel before it has dried, giving it a scent not unlike a ferret-breeding hoarder: musty. He counters by reminding me of the frenetic sprawl of suitcases and toiletries dominating my living room, or the Homealonesian death trap known as my back yard via my most unwise facebook marketplace purchase, a planterbox (no longer; its bones are all out) held together by hope and tetanus.

As the case may be, neither of us have murdered the other, but continue to wage a cold war across two apartments, folding and unfolding. There is a wonderful solution known as a towel rack that might achieve a perfect compromise (neatness and olfactory pleasantness), but to do this would deprive us of the stimulation of harassing one another for sport. No, if I were to make an effort to change one thing about my partner, it would be to get him into birdwatching. Not to help him practice being in the moment, nor to soothe his anxiety, but simply to begin to educate him as to basic bird physiology. The man refers to the parking lot grackles as crows, and I can see him burying his disagreement with a "you might be right" when I exasperatedly point out each and every detail that makes the Great-tailed Grackle not a crow. Or, in Florida, when he misidentified the Lesser Tern as a juvenile seagull and I, in a moment of baffled dismay, considered catching one just to show him the very, very obvious differences. He is entirely capable of learning either thing, given he is able to differentiate between the ducks that have taken over a complex's pool. "That's a different female," he remarks over a sunbathing couple, and when I ask him how he knows, he cites the size, as though I were capable of mentally comparing bird length. No, if I make a birder of him, I will create a monster: we will spend our time arguing as to whether we are hearing a chickadee or whippoorwill; we may possibly be more obnoxious with one another, given we both have a particular kind of stubbornness that means we must be Right and Correct, and exasperate my poor metamour (his wife) even further than we normally do. But at least he will understand the difference between a grackle and a crow, and I will not go through several stages of despair as I recognize I still love him and want him more than anyone despite his avian blindness.

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

I apologize to everyone whose grammar I ever corrected before I learned not to be a tool.

rakshar

your forgiven.

myboyfriendpetebuttigieg

You’re… really sweet to do that. Thanks.

sliversoakley4

jami-c

has entered the vault thank you

dndmultiverse

Maybe too many things digital

correctopinionhaver

so many mental health issues these days are due to the fact that we no longer put the gargoyles on buildings that used to scare away the evil spirits that cause mental illness

storm-of-feathers

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

storm-of-feathers

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

phantomrose96

I think it's funny world-building how like, so at the center of Life we've got Water. Arguably The most important resource. Colorless transparent substance that molds to any container and we die without it and quickly. And all organic functions of society hinge on its availability. Could fight a ton of wars over this thing.

And well beyond organic life, modern society's great human invention is the Electronic Magic. Our greatest minds invented the Electronic Magic and it sends information around the world instantly. Our infrastructure our economy our modern life, minute by minute by minute, hinges on utilizing the great Lighting Technology.

BUT ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ DO NOT. DO NOT EVER. get the magical Elixir Substance of Life and Living and Healing, Water, IN the Electronic Device. The water keeps you alive critically but it KILLS the Electronic Device instantly and catastrophically. This Says something.