Thorns with Roses

Alison. 34. Rio Grande Valley, born and raised. Mexican, Palestinian, white. Catholic & witchcraft practitioner. Libra. Bisexual. Icon by @ missxlisaxchan on Insta.

[glitchedlad]

reblogs were turned off for this one but i want it on my blog too

[tomatotext]

and, look, I’m not complaining, not at all, but this is why it’s very important to be abundantly clear and specific with your Etsy witch.

[bifauxnenarmand]

armand is so funny because there’s something so petty about the way armand says “lestat lays with his mother!!” like he’s a gossiping mean girl but he can’t say fuck like a normal person

[maidthings]

i really like how the milkman exists as an entirely fossilized character who now serves no purpose other than to fuck people's wives for the punchline

[thornswithroses]

Fandom has gotten less fun with how reactive they are to media that's not finished yet.

There's commentary, there's stating what you like, stating what you dislike.

But now there's this doom-and-gloom critique that drives me up the wall. Sometimes you have to just fucking wait and see what happens before you say something.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Voting ended onJul 18

[merinnan]

[fuzzyghost]

[stonefemmesiren]

a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn't cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don't change course

[thornswithroses]

"Biologic Chains"

a programming update, and thoughts on genre fiction under surveillance

Genre romance fans on the social internet are preoccupied with identity. It’s clear how we got here. Romantasy is the current punching bag that stands in for the entire genre. It’s sexually regressive, a panacea for the real world, arguments so broad they rely on a mass diagnosis of romance’s readership. This is so nakedly sexist that the old canard “for women, by women” is an understandable (yet inaccurate) rebuttal. So too, is the claim that romance is salutary. If the genre is moral and instructional, that means it cannot possibly be stupid and worthless. But the expectation that romance should teach is its own form of sexism. Women writers in the genre should be able to get their hands dirty, to create ambiguous and challenging art. As historical author Judy Cuevas (Judith Ivory) wrote in a 1997 letter to All About Romance: “To accept that we carry a moral responsibility to society is to admit we have nothing to give society in terms of art itself. Art is about honesty. It’s about an individual’s expression of her own, unique vision. You don’t tell another adult what she sees. She stands at a different vantage point from you.”

[maryfitzroy]

I think what’s getting me about this is that women have been having kids in their 40s for as long as humans have been living that long, it’s just that it was usually like, their tenth child. It’s wonderful that we live in a world where women can control when they have children.

[bisexualhunterbiden]

Proof that is all about the control of women. It's all "we have to panic about birth rates!! We need more babies!!" until a woman in her late 30s/early 40s announces a pregnancy. Then it's all "you're robbing your parents of grandchildren, you're supposed to be out to pasture by now you hag."

They bemoan the fact that we've almost eliminated teen pregnancy and throw tantrums about grown ass women having kids as adults.

[thornswithroses]

Majority of people rarely grow up with both sets of living grandparents.

And there are people that became parents when young and they still died prematurely. I'm sorry, but you have to accept that death will take the people you love. You just cherish them as much as possible.

[thornswithroses]

Cosmeticorexia: How girls are falling down a skincare rabbit hole

Fuelled by social media, the market for children's skincare is booming. Experts fear for the long-term impact on girls

[liarsblade]

It's so obvious that a lot of people on here are inexplicably convinced that bad books are a recent invention

[jewelrydocument]

Vintage spoon rings, source unknown

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[lesbian-moon-gf]

Girl you are an obligate carnivore

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

her ball

[ch40s0w1]

@yanguang

[perfect-jerry-blossom]

i genuinely can't fucking deal with the larger internet anymore holy shit what the fuck are you people TALKING about. i am at my limit with this stupid bullshit. who the fuck cares if a man is hired to draw medical diagrams for young girls jesus christ we're pearl clutching about medical illustrations now? next you're gonna tell me male pediatricians shouldn't advise parents on their kids' vulva issues? male surgeons shouldn't be in the room when performing a procedure where a woman's breasts or vulva might be exposed? male researchers shouldn't conduct gynecological medical research? sure. better for men to live in ignorance and NEVER ally themselves with us to expand access to sexual education and reproductive healthcare i fucking guess. Twenty thousand likes. i hate it here KILL ME

[perfect-jerry-blossom]

THIS is the post that got me my first ever anon hate. i'd like to thank the academy tbh

also not related but can ppl on this post being like "yeah STOP being mean to men!!" pls stop cuz that's not the point of what i was saying 💀 i'm not mad bc someone was mean to a man i'm mad bc feminism is being hijacked by bioessentialist conservative Christian moralist bullshit where the goal seems to be the complete and total segregation of women from men instead of like, the material improvement of women's lives. i don't care if some intsta commenter is mean to men i care that feminism is culturally turning into Nu Conservatism

[pasdetrois]

Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn