Hulk in a Teacup

Cis white queer girl. Scorpio sun, Virgo moon, Cancer (most likely) ascendant. (Feel free to take that as a warning.) This blog is divided among lots of meta thoughts on various stories, images that I find comorting beautiful and challenging, reblogs of posts on bigotry & oppression, some personal thoughts, and librarianship thoughts. Please consider all the above when deciding whether to follow.

[waterthedirtflowerslastforyou]

dont make me tap the sign

[utopians]

[a-dumb-fuckin]

who needs bottom surgery when you have 80 interesting bear facts: #7

[manonamies]

I think that cardassians should lay eggs actually

[tkkatherineblog]

Inst @fondoambiente

[16927]

mental health status: need to look at the sea for hours and stay quiet.

[holybeings]

If you already purchase body products online, switching to purchase buying soaps, body oils, lotions, etc from Native elders who have been making natural body products for generations is really easy. I usually hop on Beyond Buckskin when I want to buy a gift for someone or myself, they have a Buy Native List directory here. I just bought three of my close friends (who all have just had a birthday or are having a birthday soon) soaps from here and here 

[roboticchibitan]

I believe fat people are beautiful but I think there should also be a focus on liking your fat body for reasons that don’t tie into physical attractiveness. Like for example I really like the sensation of drumming softly on my fat belly. It’s silly! It’s fun! And I find it satisfying for some reason I can’t put into words.

I’m definitely not gonna seduce someone or be on the cover of a magazine because I’m a huge dork that enjoys this part of being fat. But it’s still important.

Or another example, also relating to my fat belly. By some miracle of the universe, my fat belly is the PERFECT size and shape for resting my arthritic hands. The way hands curve when relaxed sometimes makes my pain worse but perfectly flat hands also hurt and by some miracle of fate resting my hands gently on the curve of my belly gives me brief respite from the worst of the pain.

So yeah my fat belly is nice for reasons that don’t tie into attractiveness or beauty and that’s good!

[cool-eevee]

As important as explicit gay rep is, nothing will ever be funnier to me than an entire fandom collectively deciding a relationship between two characters is gay without even a shred of subtext

[cool-eevee]

This post is about Tom Nook and Redd’s divorce

[tonystarkstan]

me, taking a nap to avoid all my responsibilities: I can have a little unconsciousness. as a treat.

[najiapowrimo]

poem #16/31 written for #StayInBailOut throughout the month of May to raise funds for National Bail Out! the vital work that NBO does in organising to end mass incarceration is especially pressing now, as COVID-19 endangers the lives of disproportionately Black pretrial jailed populations.

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[ororomunroedontpullout]

What is that soft thing doing the imprinting

[harpyhormones]

its called a pad printer! theyre very commonly used for applying patterns to non flat and irregularly shaped objects

[gemstone-enemas]

mwomp

[myrebloggingblog]

Dark crafting tiddy, give me the squoosh

[moominvalley-lifestyle]

Tove Jansson (9 August, 1914 - 27 June, 2001)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I need this movie ASAP

[cactus-pat]

[sistertaxon]

If you vulcan neck pinch data he takes a screenshot

[redlipstickresurrected]

Väinö Rouvinen (Finnish, b. 1932, Tuupovaara, North Karelia, Finland) - A Cat, 1995, Color Etching, Aquatint

[star-anise]

When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

#it’s so so important to remember that representation is not one-size-fits-all#what is empowering to one person might be exhausting and oppressive to someone else#some people need stories about having the strength to save themselves#some people need stories about being considered worthy of being saved#some people need inspiration for their independence while others need validation that they don’t have to be able to do everything themselves#before you lash out against something PLEASE stop to consider:#is this inadequate and/or damaging representation?#or is it just something I don’t personally relate to? [X]

[hedgehog-moss]

This morning I asked the postwoman (who is my local Google) if she knew of a valiant farrier who might be willing to trim the hooves of my wildly recalcitrant donkey (I already saw one farrier, who wouldn’t even try), and she said “I’ll give you the name of a good farrier. She’s a very, very strong woman. Very muscular. She can pick up your donkey and make him sit in a corner if he doesn’t behave” isn’t life marvellous sometimes