little miss venus!

♡ venus ♡ | musings, ramblings, and reblogs 💌 | 19 • she/her

[venus-is-still-here]

welcome to the directory!

hi! i'm venus. this is my main blog! you're probably here from one of my sideblogs - see below. this blog is only used for reblogging other posts. i don't really tag things, it's just to soothe the hoarding compulsion. if you want to contact me without having to follow so my uncategorised reblogs don't clutter your feed, dm me for my discord!

here's the link to my sideblogs, alongside other things:

@blackbirdsinmypie for poetry and other assorted musings

@littlemiss-venus for shitposts and ramblings (the closest to a "classic" tumblr blog)

@starsailorslog for my more academic articles (crossposted from my substack blog with the same name)

that's all the main stuff! thanks for dropping by. peace <3

[arctasy]

when the character is obsessive and desperate and guilty and scared and ashamed and traumatized and repressed

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[urandroidgirl]

The path of inaction will not lead me to the life I want

[wordfather]

[ryebreadgf]

1. should we throw a party should we invite bella hadid

2. you people can’t do anything

3. name one hobby you have outside of media consumption

4. I think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much

[ryebreadgf]

5. hard to remain patient with friends who focus solely on their own crucifixion. Get off The Cross, ladykins... we could use the wood!

6. name one toxin/hormone and its function

[kienava]

[bvbblebeam]

from @ceruleanfuckup

[pennywords]

X

[alexaloraetheris]

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.

[thats-a-cat]

that's a cat ✅️

[tolovaj]

THANK YOU

[dykepuffs]

Friendly unfriendly reminder that "Ovulation is like an animal being in heat and makes you stupid" has been a keystone of western misogyny pretty much since Europe worked out what periods are.

[i-wear-the-cheese]

friendly addition that if ovulation (or roughly the point where your oestrogen levels drop and progesterone starts to rise) is making you feel crazy, you might have PMDD and should get your hormone levels checked out because it isn't normal or healthy and can be an indicator that you have physical health issues related to your reproductive system. PMDD can be treated with SSRIs or hormones and will genuinely improve your life if it is handled correctly

this is not the same as saying "vaginas make people hysterical", it is about making sure people are correctly informed about their health and can separate the actual science from the misogynistic extreme interpretation

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

yeah it’s just like so uninteresting when it’s like penelope can only be interesting if she’s a tough girlboss badass strategist but not if she’s weeping herself to sleep. telemachus can only be engaged with if he is a young and optimistic bright eyed child and not the adult that he is certainly considered to be by the standards of the homeric epic (young but still very much an adult!) complicit in the murder of slave women and misogynistic toward his mother. odysseus’ love for penelope can only compelling if he’s never interested in other women. first of all like these are just very one dimensional views of these characters that are like not really honest engagements with them. and way less interesting. also if you have to go in and erase parts of the odyssey you’re uncomfortable with then eventually you are just no longer engaging with what it is.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

like do I think odysseus’ love for his family and particularly penelope is one of the most captivating and moving stories in all of ancient literature? yeah. do i think he was a good person and a perfectly faithful husband to her? well not necessarily at all. but the secret is that you can recognize universal themes that you like without erasing the parts of the text that make you uncomfortable

[strawberrydykke]

opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was

The Garment by Robert Cole

[xenarolla]

[erarg]

wheres the gif of the guy on fire but then he eats a watermelon and hes fine

[selkiecide]

[skelecola]

this is what summertime is like

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[milf--adjacent]

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

[lazzarella]

"Sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art. Sometimes being made uncomfortable is the point. Sometimes being repulsed by something is the point."

Simon Pegg in the Criterion Closet

[dasloddl]

op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands

[eepyenbyfox]

reminder that the books themselves also suck ass actually. there's an entire plotline endorsing slavery. the one character who advocates to end slavery is bullied and made fun of. the one slave who doesnt like being enslaved is bullied and treated as an outcast. the bankers are the picture of racist stereotypes of jewish people. the one asian character is named fckn Cho Chang. the worldbuilding SUCKS. fuck harry potter and fuck rowling. stop giving her your money.

[terracotta7]

Don't fucking go see this shit

[valtsv]

anyway i love nonlinear narratives, i love it when it's unclear where a story begins or ends, i love it when they're fragmented by recollection and perspective and record, i love it when no narrator is truly omniscient or objective or infallible however much they might wish to convince you otherwise. i love narratives that misremember their own details, that present them with equal consideration for others to evaluate and determine reality from fiction, truth from illusion; naratives that are themselves psychotic. i love narratives that double back on themselves, that go around and around in circles they can't break off from, and make no sense on a map. i love it when time is out of joint!!!