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Personal blog. Notoriously bad at tagging. Current fandoms are One Piece, Naruto (just the sns really), Dragon Ball (when I need my muscle alien fix)

[thesaurus-with-no-words]

Whoa I wrote something. Would ya look at that.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Luffy falls in love.

The world trembles accordingly.

[inbabylontheywept]

my roommates car is named barff. it was originally bought from a dealership called garff, but then she tinkered with the g on the license plate thing so it looks like a b and now the car is just called barff.

my wife once asked our roomate where she was parked in a group chat. but she messed up the word "parked" and instead spelled it as "garked". and then me and my roommate just started referring to parking as garking because its just really fun to give my wife shit. its just part of the professional little brother playbook.

but also, at some point it stopped being ironic and we just started calling parking garking.

then today me and my wife were looking out the window and we saw our roommate struggling to do a three point turn into a parking space. and as fun as it is to give my wife shit its also really fun to give our roommate shit. so we ran outside and we ran around her car while chanting GARK THE BARFF. GARK THE BARFF. GARK THE BARFF. and then she did, eventually, gark the barff. theres no moral to this its just a surreal part of my life that i really enjoy. maybe tease people more? find your barff and gark it and never ever stop?

[inbabylontheywept]

@bashircore downloading "getting spoofy on the bloot" to my vernacular.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

heres how to fix it

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Y'all.

I did some digging.

The word that led to all this was "scry".

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Shit be wildin on threads this week

[hyperactivehedgehog]

You should also be able to figure out what a text is saying without understanding every word. 90% of the time you'll do just fine even if a word is unfamiliar. You should be able to understand the meaning of a word through context, or at least the meaning of the sentence or paragraph. There are some rare instances where the specific word is crucial, but most of the time it's not necessary to understand the text.

This is a skill you are taught in foreign language classes btw. When you get to a certain level, they give you texts with words you probably don't know yet, and you have to summarise the text without looking any of them up. It really helps with your literacy skills. I can really recommend picking up some books with unfamiliar vocabulary and trying to understand it without looking up words

[functionally-immortal]

@unashamedly-enthusiastic

your tags are very correct and also read like poetry to me

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Gerard P Donelan

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

I love the notes saying this femme knows exactly what she's doing and it's all part of her flirting technique. You get it.

[kyrianne]

More of his stuff and about him

[kyrianne]

[kyrianne]

[laslloronas]

My absolute favorite of his work

[smulnsander-deactivated20251211]

[strawberryamanita]

Lest we forget "The Quilt" (not as funny, but worth a mention)

[prokopetz]

"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

[xeansicemane]

Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.

We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.

[vexwerewolf]

[missmacfire]

[hamkittens]

[varxne]

[pmamtraveller]

Vitaly Makarov - Fresh, 2020

[apolladay]

What constitutes a “fridging”?

* a character is brutally killed OR maimed for another character’s development

* A character is brutally killed for another character’s development

* a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed OR maimed for a MAJOR character’s development

* A MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed for a MAJOR character’s development

* A character is killed in general for another character’s development

* A MINOR/SUPPORTING character is killed off in general for a MAJOR character’s development

* Some other definition/it depends on a case by case basis

* see results

Context: OP has seen people argue that Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke “doesn’t count” as a fridging because Barbara Gordon/Batgirl is a more important character to the Batman mythosis than her father and she doesn’t die in the story

What constitutes a “fridging”?

a character is brutally killed OR maimed for another character’s development

a character is brutally killed for another character’s development

a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed OR maimed for a MAJOR ones*

a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed for a MAJOR ones development

a character is killed in general for another character’s development

a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is killed off in general for a MAJOR character’s*

some other definition/it depends on a case by case basis

see results

Voting ended onMar 16

*development

Context: OP has seen people argue that Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke “doesn’t count” as a fridging because Barbara Gordon/Batgirl is a more important character to the Batman mythosis than her father and she doesn’t die in the story

[lizardsfromspace]

It's female characters. How did not one option mention that it's specifically about the treatment of female characters. It's about women being seen as disposable for a man's motivation. Has fridging really been diluted into just the concept of "a character dying"

[creekfiend]

iirc the killing joke is specifically used as an example in gail simones original women in refrigerators post. it's nonsensical to argue that it "doesn't count" lol

[madronasky]

Happy international women’s day.

They’ve removed the Women from the Fridge.

This feels deeply unsettling and vaguely misogynistic.

[tzikeh]

How in the motherfucking hell did someone take "fridging" and remove the "HERO FOUND HIS DEAD GIRLFRIEND IN THE FRIDGE" source of the name of the trope.

"Women in refrigerators" is a term coined by Gail Simone in 1999 to describe a literary trope which involves female characters facing disproportionate harm, such as death, maiming, or assault, to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, an event colloquially known as "fridging". Simone's original list of over 100 affected female characters, published on the "Women in Refrigerators" website, sparked discussions on sexism in pop culture and the comic-book industry. The trope's influence extends beyond comics, with critiques of its presence in film and television franchises. Notably, author Catherynne M. Valente, inspired by Gwen Stacy's portrayal in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, wrote The Refrigerator Monologues, addressing the trope's impact on female characters in superhero narratives. The term was coined by comic book fan (and later writer) Gail Simone in 1999, named after an incident in "Forced Entry", Green Lantern vol. 3 #54 (1994), written by Ron Marz. The story includes a scene in which the title hero, Kyle Rayner, comes home to his apartment to find that the villain Major Force had killed Rayner's girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, and stuffed her into a refrigerator.[1] It describes a trend that Simone had recognized in comic book stories where female characters would be killed, maimed, sexually assaulted, depowered, or would experience other "life-derailing tragedies"[2] disproportionately more often than male characters.

It's about killing female characters to advance a male character's development. Jesus Christ, it already has a definition. What are we even doing here.

[little-grey-dowitcher]

So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show

[little-grey-dowitcher]

“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.

[breelandwalker]

Addendum:

"But it makes me uncomfortable!" The world is an uncomfortable place and complete strangers are not required to fix that for you. Learning to endure harmless discomfort is a life skill for existing in public.

"But I don't like it!" There's plenty of things in the world and not all of them are fun or enjoyable or For You. This applies to everyone and we all have to deal with that in a mature fashion.

"But I want to do the thing!" You can't always do what you want. Most people learn this in preschool. Wanting something does not entitle you to be inconsiderate to the people around you.

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[kingcatnine]

reminding everyone to wear sunscreen because the sun is a deadly laser: 😁😊

having to spend 10 minutes slathering yourself in grease just to safely be outside in the sun for 20 minutes. because the sun is a deadly laser: 😐👎

[shelleybel]

no idea what has her making this face

[shelleybel]

she remembered shes a little cat and has nothing to worry about

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

it pains me that they’re still folks who don’t know about archive of our own 😭 babe come join ao3. it doesn’t have an app and it doesn’t need an app. but!!!!!! it also doesn’t have ads. it doesn’t have algorithm. it doesn’t have censorship. it allows the most filthy smut without plot. it allows the most shockingly dark and taboo fic (even if the fic glorifies and romanticizes dark and taboo things). it allows writers to write whatever they want, however they want. it has excellent tagging systems, anybody can search for or filter out any pairings, any characters, any tags they want. it allows anybody to download as many fics as they want to read offline. it’s completely free. it was created and is run by fans, for fans. with the main purpose to host fics that were banned on platforms like wattpad, and be completely against censorship. it’s a place of complete freedom. it’s a safe haven for all writers

[sologatos]

51026

[jadetheamazing]

@wishem cat with bug antenna. Maybe wings?

[wishem]

these count as bug anntena right?

[firesurgeon]

[sleepnoises]

"You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore," 54" by 54" quilt by Robyn Gragg of Lee's Summit, MO

The artist's description of the piece:

In the language of flowers, many species relate to grief, sorrow, and remembrance. My husband enjoyed surprising me with fresh flowers, but he has gone to Glory and I am lost in my grief.

Hand pieced, machine appliqued, longarm machine quilted, original design.