The Only Way Out is Through

Nova's taking a bit of a break. not sure when or if she'll be back. need to remind them to change this when she is.

[wolfdragonsrequiem]

This may just be late night thoughts talking but I miss the days where I didn't feel like I had to know the plots of things as soon as they came out

The days where I could go read a book or play a game and talk to people about what was going on in them

I remember a conversation with a former coworker where I was starting to get into a popular dnd podcast that he was already familiar with... and I got the distinct impression that my ideas and interpretations of the plot as far as I'd listened were wrong.

I stopped listening to that podcast shortly after and never picked it back up, nor have I listened to any other dnd podcast in the interim

I hated that feeling and despite the fact that that conversation was ~7 years ago I clearly still think about it.

But if I get into things that no one's heard of I won't be able to talk to anyone about it.

And the indecision prevents me from getting into anything, old or new.

[sunflorally]

I hope you find your way back to yourself. to the version of you that you miss, to a version of you that you recognize and identify with. I hope you meet happy again.

[robs-your-robins]

The Riddler probably has such an up and down relationship with the Robins because they all tend to tackle things differently and he’s always so thrown by how they handle his riddles.

The Riddler: To free Batman from my trap, you must answer this riddle, little bird. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

Dick, eight years old and freshly Robin: *thinking really hard*

The Riddler looking at Batman dangling upside down: ?

Batman: He just needs an extra minute.

The Riddler:

Batman: English isn’t his first langauge.

The Riddler, feeling a little bad: oh, that’s… take your time, buddy.

Jason, twelve years old: *lifting a hand*

The Riddler: -uh, yes?

Jason: Can you repeat that? The riddle?

The Riddler: um, yeah, sure. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

Jason: Yeah, you’re a map but when you’re talking about multiple species of fish, which you probably are, you can say fishes. If you’re using fish, you’re only talking about one species.

The Riddler:

Jason: I just think you should know that. You know as a “genius”

The Riddler: The more you take, the more you -

Tim: Footsteps, where’s Batman?

The Riddler: No, you have to let me-

Tim: Nuh-uh

The Riddler: The fuck do you mean “nuh-uh”? Who raised you?

Tim, on two hours sleep, with two essays due on this fine Thursday night: *fucking launches himself at The Riddler*

The Riddler: I have-

Damian: *launches himself at the Riddler*

The Riddler: Batman, fuck, FUCK, he’s fucking biting me-

[starlingsongs-deactivated201608]

When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

[starlingsongs-deactivated201608]

I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.

[tittyinfinity]

The US is crazy bc like so many people have intense conspiracy theories about the government like "I think there's a secret elite group of people who control everything" and you can tell them "actually you're not completely wrong, it's just not a secret group of people, it's a bunch of rich people and lobbyists who are doing it all out in the open" and they'll be like "hmmn I don't think it's THOSE people though. I prefer my racist & antisemitic theories"

[tittyinfinity]

They'll be like "I heard there's a powerful ring of pedophiles who are influencing the country" and you'll tell them "I mean yeah that's what the Epstein files are about" and they'll say "no I'm pretty sure this has to do with The Queers actually"

[neovid]

Conspiracy theory no one will ever accept: What if the people secretly controlling the world are the same people obviously controlling the world?

[daughter-of-sapph0]

[tpwrtrmnky]

So much of the history of physics is just "it turns out the underlying rules are pretty simple, it's just that we happen to live in an environment composed entirely of complicated special cases"

Objects in motion don't stop moving unless stopped by a force (we are surrounded by Gas That Stops You at all times, and our gravitational field pulls us down to a surface with friction)

Heat capacity and phases of matter are normally pretty simple (the most common fluid on our planet has Weird heat capacity and Weird phases)

[thefallingtears]

What if Meridia fuckin partied

[lakemojave]

You don't have to feel bad about your voice; there's women who don't voice train and they're totally valid. You don't have to wear makeup; there's women who don't wear makeup and they're totally valid. You don't have to dress feminine; there's women who dress masculine and they're totally valid. You don't have to transition at all, actually; there's women who don't ever transition or even come out and we have no choice but to respect that.

Why must you change yourself to make yourself happy? Isn't it enough to be valid?

[lakemojave]

Oh no of course I don't have a problem with you being visually and explicitly transfeminine--I just want to be the first to remind you that it's valid not to be

[lakemojave]

I'm not goddamn tme I am transfeminine and made this post to articulate my frustrations at the coy and insidious ways people in my life have encouraged my staying closeted I guess I have to spell everything out for you people

[watermelon-but-awesome]

[najsigt]

I've been feeling a little art-blocky lately, so decided to self-indulge 👭🏻

[najsigt]

She so thought Miss Pauling was another robot at first

[najsigt]

Miss Pauling has teleporter trauma. (She will have to get over it quick.)

[najsigt]

So sorry tumblr I completely forgot to post the kiss on here, please forgive me!!!

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

What do normies even think a revolution entails? Blowing stuff up? What are we blowing up and why? The collapse of capitalist society is not "everyone stops doing stuff and the statue of liberty explodes"

Where will you get your medicine? From the pharmacy and hospitals! And either for free or much lower price! Because in a revolution, we do this funny little thing known as seizing the means of production. Not "blowing up the means of production". If you do not understand these basics, why are you sharing your opinion? And why are you making it communists problem that you are stupid?

[frankendykes-monster]

To a degree this is the end result of anarchists along with the miscellaneous adventurists and "I don't read theory" types having control over all discourse and organizing for decades on end.

[marxistlesbianist]

Imo this is also largely a result of production shifting from the imperial core to the neo-colonies during the neo-liberal turn. "Seize the means of production" is a natural refrain for industrial and agricultural workers who experience capitalism as the theft of the fruits of their labor, but the first-world proletarian is increasingly a retail or service sector worker who experiences capitalism as an endless stream of products which they are forced to distribute unequally. For a truly productive (in every sense of the word) communist movement in the US to occur, the majority of proletarians here would need to start seeing themselves as part of an international prodictive system which begins with third-world workers—and seeing third-world workers as people has been a consistent stumbling point 🙃

Until we see this kind of consciousness emerge, though, people will be deeply anxious to poke the delicate status quo and its mysterious thing-pipelines

[sunhatred-deactivated20220531]

Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”

[ardatli]

This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.

“Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?”

[unclothed-i-shall-return]

#I read an article a long time ago about a woman who was raised in an incredibly repressive conservative christian community#where all that mattered was purity and virginity etc #She talked about how for a long time rape fantasies were the only way she could derive any pleasure from sex #because she couldn’t feel safe exploring the idea of wanting sex #it wasn’t really ABOUT rape or eroticizing assault or whatever #it was about creating a scenario where she was free from the shame associated with wanting #i think this is true of a lot of icky-seeming stuff in romance and erotica #it’s an imaginary scenario where nothing you don’t really want actually happens #but you can’t be blamed or feel guilty for it #you didn’t do anything wrong#anyway that article changed my perspective a lot #i think there’s also something to be said for people who have felt ugly and undesirable their whole lives #enjoying fictional scenarios where a hot alpha werewolf or whatever is so attracted to them he ‘cant help himself’ or whatever #because it can also be really shameful to want to be desired #when you feel like youre ugly and gross ( @headspace-hotel )

[sindar-princeling]

Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

[perihelions-babyteeth]

I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have “fairy blood” which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who’s unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don’t hve extra pointy ears and elves don’t have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother’s side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents.

Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.

[english-history-trip]

Gandalf's attitude towards Pippin just took on a whole new layer.

[professor-of-himbology]

Gandalf just "This must be my circus, cuz these are certainly my god damned monkeys."

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[thatnoulguyorsomething]

The only correct way to play that tbh

[waitingforthet]

[dumbpuppyfag]

2d shapes have no sexy mystique to them. imagine being hopelessly enthralled by a triangle. preposterous

[dazeylily]

the things you don't know could fill my vast and cavernous ass

[dumbpuppyfag]

i stand corrected

[hagiomoto]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Low-key hilarious how 95% of Dragonborn end up with a Hoard. Absolutely peak intersection of narrative and game design. You consume ONE dragon soul and next thing you know you’ve got 175 wheels of cheese. You learn like 3 whole words in Draconic and you’ve got poor Lydia pack-muling candelabras across the fjords. I personally mostly Hoarded precious metals and gems, but I’ve seen people who Hoarded books and pelts and, like…there is No mechanical reward for this. Players just love to Hoard shit in that game. Absolute Dragon behavior.