UsualThree

Words that describe something about me, probably

[idionymon]

You can't cut soft cheese in thin slices or wedges because it just gets squished, but you can with hard cheese, cause the protein holds it together. Casein point:

[catboyvasectomy-deactivated2024]

Hold on, I gotta google something really quick

Ok yeah, this is funny

[fatsoupy]

did your grade school do any of these safety drills?

fire drill

tornado drill

earthquake drill

hurricane drill

nuclear drill

active shooter drill

two or more of these

none of these

other!

see results

Voting ended onApr 30, 2023

if you rb pls tag where your from and which ones you did! i live in texas and we did fire, tornado, shooter, and nuclear (there is a nuclear power plant near where i grew up and the plan was to hide under our desks and clench)

[usual3]

Wisconsin and we did tornado, fire, active shooter, and bomb threat

[lostcauses-noregrets]

hello lost! how are you? i feel like there’s been some rly solid fics written in the past year at least, but are there any favorites you’d like to rec? ✨

Hello Anon! I'm fine thank you. Endlessly busy, as always. I'm going to hijack your ask to apologise to all the people who've sent me asks over the last couple of months that I haven't managed to reply to, I'm so sorry. I have loads of really interesting asks from when the last episode aired that I'm dying to get round to answering. I really hope I'll be able to answer all of them eventually.

I have managed to read a few new fics recently, not as many as I would like, my to-read list is even longer than my inbox 😔 Some of them have been excellent though, here's a few of my favourites.

The Blue by bowowline

When in doubt, use violence by no_tengo_porque 

The Flap of a Butterfly's Wings by DrButtons

The Captain and the Courtesan by Dragona

The Rotten Streak in Me by welcometoyourworld

Almost Heaven by levislattes

Nachtkrapp by LaikaBoss 

Scorpion Grass by Dragona

Dragonfly in Amber by JustRaven

Bodywork by Laszlo (RookSacrifice)

[pinetoyles]

I'm here, I'm here with you

TELEGRAM | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM

[valtsv]

woman in a victorian novel: *develops a fever from worrying too much*

me, shivering and sweating with stress-induced anxiety: wtf that’s so unrealistic lol

[obiwhat]

doodles of a new style im trying out ☺️

[kim-poce]

If my body wanted water that much it would get it on its own instead of asking me to go to the kitchen

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's trying to go to the kitchen and get some, you're not letting it

[what-even-is-thiss]

I reject the idea that kindness and gentleness and love needs to involve a bunch of gentle flowery language

[what-even-is-thiss]

I help you move, I bake you a pie, I sit next to you on purpose. How are you not getting the message yet? What do you want? A love poem? I don't know how to write those. Here, take this rock. It's your favorite color.

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of my dad's close friends reads online newspapers constantly and he always texts my dad articles that he thinks that he would enjoy. Where's the romanticization of that kind of behavior?

[dear-ao3]

trans rights

[dear-ao3]

trans wrongs

[dear-ao3]

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

[funnytwittertweets]

[lewiathans]

kings

[thyrell]

just came up with a really good 4 word cooking horror story but idk if you guys are ready for it

[thyrell]

2 cups vanilla extract

[jackalopiel]

I love people with obscure knowledge or useless academic insights. I want to hear your analysis of lighting in Ratatouille. Tell me about the history of soda pop or the references to classical mythology in Macbeth. I want to know about the underlying homoerotic context of that 1930s sci-fi paperback. I think all knowledge is worthwhile knowledge. Explain to me the ecosystems that komodo dragons inhabit. Don’t be afraid to learn for the sake of learning.

[lemon-embalmer]

fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

[lemon-embalmer]

this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

W H A T

[slumpyspaceprincess]

@rogha

[thewhisperingescapes]

[mirkwoodest]

In moments like this I always fall back on the fact that they also aren’t speaking English because they don’t have England or the many languages and conquering peoples that contributed to the creation of the English language and therefore the work musr be a translation into recognizable terms in our world’s terms. Call that Tolkien Brainrot.

[lurkerwithcomputer]

It’s called “Translation Convention” but “Tolkien Brainrot” is funnier.

[studentofetherium]

lol. lmao even

[studentofetherium]

i wonder how many people immediately canceling their subscriptions it took for them to pull back on this

[intersexelphie]

it’s so funny to me when terfs and other transphobes talk about “biological pronouns”

you realise there is nothing about a vulva that means you have to call someone who has one “she”, right? and nothing about a penis that means you have to call someone who has one “he”? like that is literally a socially constructed idea based on the perceived gender of a person with a certain set of genitals.

you cannot be actually critical of gender if you are not critical of the ideas about it that society has created, you fucking clowns 💀

[adoratato]

Honestly. If pronouns were biological then why are they different in every single language?

[intersexelphie]

^^^^^^^

My second language is German, where “she” and “they” are literally the same word.

And I swear there are languages where there is literally no gendered pronouns at all.

Just shows how UK and US centric TERFs are that they say this shit 💀

[spacelazarwolf]

iirc there’s an african language that has no gendered pronouns, which is why people who speak it as a first language will sometimes use gendered pronouns interchangeably when speaking english bc to them they all mean the same thing. i think there’s a scandinavian language that does this too.

[spacelazarwolf]

i had to pull this out of the tags bc this is so interesting! this makes me wonder how a language not having gendered pronouns affects the way gender is seen sociologically.

[soydepensamientostorcidos]

I definitely think it does! We use words to construct thoughts, and we interpret and interact with the world with said thoughts, so the language we use to do that has an impact on everything. Some spanish speakers are currently having complete meltdowns over inclusive speech, because spanish doesn't have neutral pronouns, and the concept of them doesn't even register on some people. And meanwhile other languages don't have anything but neutral pronouns or no pronouns at all, so the whole thing about mentoring other people's gender all the time seems funny and unnecessary to us, but okay I'll remind you that my best friend is a girl in every sentence, sure!

[shyocean]

Chinese doesn't have gendered pronouns.

Korean doesn't have gendered pronouns, but they are always mentioning how fancy you think the person is.

57% of languages don't have gendered pronouns.

"In 10,000 years they will know you are a woman" For real, they will be speaking the same English we got now? In 10,000 years? The word "woman" is less than 1 thousand years old, my fine fellow, and the entire semantic field is profoundly different than it was 400 years ago.

English is not a biological reality.

Language is a construct. Gender is a construct. Nothing about it is innate.

The level of ignorance about language that you need to say the words "biological pronoun"s reminds me that these people wouldn't know a part of speech if it spit on them.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

[umbrella-hr-department]

[doubledecks]

“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down