Trying My Best

I'm Ross. 28, autistic, trans, queer. I love queer romance stories, DND, and cats. Passionate about mental health. he/him

[inthesensethat]

[hexthelex-deactivated20250420]

This is true btw

[letmeliedown]

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really

[depsidase]

[dasswerke]

How to Set Fence Posts That Won’t Rot.

[tropylium]

have a bunny kiss them for luck. got it

[seren-starlight]

Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin

[thecatstolemypen]

cosine

[anik]

i love this guy

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

[mushroominawaterbottle]

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

[theredscreech]

Cryptogeology is also like "Yeah, that mountain likes to move around. Nobody's seen it do it. But I've been tracking it since Saskatoon."

"There are no mountains in Saskatoon."

"Not anymore, there aren't."

[astercrash]

Cryptogeography: didn't used to be a France there

[tryingmybest3]

Name something totally benign that someone can do that inexplicably gives you the ick. For me, it's people typing out "hehe" (haha is fine)

[pyrrhiccomedy]

So I've been learning French for a while and 'faire' is actually an incredible word. Like what a fucking breakthrough in economy of language.

Faire is a verb that is usually translated into English as "to do/to make," but it covers way more actions than that, which is very confusing for new speakers. because (I have realized) that's not really what faire means.

Faire is actually a word that just gestures vaguely in the direction of the object of the sentence and goes "you know." "Je fais du velo." "Je fais du courses." "Je fais mes valises." I'm biking. I go grocery shopping. I'm packing my bags. You're just sort of pointing at a bike and going "you know, the obvious thing you'd do with it."

English: "You mean RIDE it??"

French: "Sure whatever."

Like idk I just really enjoy the concept of a catch-all verb that you can just slap onto almost anything because who fucking gives a shit, you get the idea. There's a bike. what do you think I'm going to do with it.

[sashayed]

yeah man that verb does everything! you could even call it. you could call it a r. a renn. you could call it a renais -- a renaissance f --

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

It is not wheelchair accessible unless it is accessible to non-ambulatory users in the biggest non-foldable powerchairs that cannot be lifted a single wheel a millimeter off the ground.

(Feel free to add on if there are other things wrt wheelchair-accessibility I am unaware of)

[theconcealedweapon]

[obligatebureaucrat]

Very funny that the King of the Hill revival avoids the question of who Hank voted for by sending him off to an Aramco base for the past few elections, a move nearly identical to the Minions being trapped in Antarctica during WW2

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[nighthamcollege]

[doingbad]

The plot of A Scandal in Bohemia is Irene Adler orchestrating an elaborate escape to get away from her abusive ex (the king hires people to stalk her, confront her, break into her home, steal from her, etc.). AND SHE ESCAPES! SHE'S FREE!

So every time an adaptation includes her as a criminal, love interest, or femme fatale who loses to Holmes it's not just missing the point, it's genuinely so fucking disrespectful.

[doingbad]

Exactly, exactly @skyriderwednesday

#SHE WINS!!!!!#THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF HER#she makes holmes see that he was the being used to do evil to an innocent woman because he didn't bother questioning the motive of the king#that's why he keeps her photograph imo#to remind him to keep his eyes open and question all sides of a case#it's a 'norbury' if you ask me#to open his desk drawer and see ms adler looking back at him#is to ask the question of himself ''am i in the right here?''#''am i aiding the correct party in this case?''#sherlock holmes