Perpetually tired.

I am an inclusive feminist & fanfic enthusiast, who loves Sailor Moon, and cries over DnD characters. I co-produced a fandom podcast called Merlisten. I collect picture books. I'm over 30, but not telling you how far. Come say hi, I'm usually nice and only bite when asked. He/him.

[sovietnam]

[trans-kafka]

Happy pride month to these guys and no one else.

[mapsontheweb]

The Pacific Ocean is huge.

[ofthefog-deactivated20241127]

If they make an earth flag it should be of this angle to piss off the most amount of people

[evilscientist3]

None Earth with South New Zealand

[crankynerdgirl]

The amount of time you have to spend on this website to still remember the Deep Lore like None Pizza with Left Beef, only to apply it to this post. Truly, boggling.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[nope-the-weeb-deactivated202408]

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the "how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there"

[prof-grace-aspen]

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

[askinfresh]

These tags were too perfect to not include

[etiennelux]

the queen of Oz is a trans lesbian and she’s dating Dorothy

[etiennelux]

reminder that Ozma and Dorothy were Special Good Bedroom Friends

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

You mean she was a… friend of Dorothy?

[space-feminist]

this illustration from The Road To Oz has already shown up in the notes but i dug out my copy to take this photo and i feel like i have to share that yes this is in a physical book i owned and read as a child:

(dorothy left, ozma right)

[onvochn]

Apparently, she’s also a socialist queen

[loveallthegays]

Ncuti Gatwa by Tim Walker

[yuumei-art]

Moonset 🌙✨🌟

Starting out the new year by coming down with bad cold haha...🥲

[heaven011]

[rococo-the-clown]

Can't quite cope with how much this looks like me and my dad

[rococo-the-clown]

It begins

[rococo-the-clown]

Photo credit to the exceeding bemused sound technician we bribed with two cans of Carlsberg to permit us access to his gazebo.

[thedreadvampy]

you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

[backofthebookshelf]

This is what's so goddamn terrifying about the Internet slowly collapsing into the same 3-5 websites--if Facebook deprioritizes you for saying "sex" and TikTok shadowbans you for saying "suicide" and Twitter X locks your account for saying "racism" we've lost a lot more than just the culture of the old weird internet

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Biggest fucking mood.

[sinnahsaint]

They’re also meant for hiltops, not small rooms. Cant get the right reverb with all that echo.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

they’re also meant to make you fight the english. don’t forget that part.

[fool-errant]

My fav bagpipe player was a dude who would go out to the middle of a soccer field near my college apartment on Sunday. No one was using the field and he’d just be out there playing his heart out and the sound were just spread out over the plains. I’d be working on art for class so I’d open the window and listen. I still have fond memories of the day a kid biked up to the edge of the field, ran over to the bagpiper and the music stopped for a moment and as they talked. I couldn’t hear it but I had assumed the worst, that someone had decided to tell him to stop playing. Instead after the pause the musician seemed to nod, readjusted his bagpipes and started belting out the Star Wars theme. 

[budgiekazoo]

[angry-cajun-lady]

Holyshit that is the most interesting thing I’ve heard in awhile

[froborr]

Holy shit yes

[technicolordreamgoat]

I would also like to offer this because this artist is really cool and if you’ve never known the joy of a Celtic/Punjabi mix, you’re missing out.

[johannas-motivational-insults]

Also consider anything by Delhi 2 Dublin

[diet-poison]

this kind of thing is exactly my shit

[tapsiful]

OMG

THIS

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Job interview tip I got from a tiktok but it's genius:

If you were unemployed for a while, they're going to ask if you can explain the gap in your resume. Unless you were actually doing something cool & relevant, this is hard to answer in a way that makes you sound like a good corporate cog. So here's the best and infallible answer -

No you cannot, because you signed an NDA.

You now sound mysterious, desirable, worldly, experienced. They can't even really ask you more about it! Perfect.

[weird-mcgee]

This tip isn't genius.

You can give general details even after signing an NDA, and the interviewer can absolutely ask about them. What type of work were you doing? What references can you provide for that time period? What sector was the job in? What skills did you learn from it?

If you're going for a non-office job, claiming to have an NDA will sound weird at best and might make the interviewer decide you're not worth the drama. If you're going for a professional job, the interviewer will be familiar enough with NDAs to be suspicious.

There are plenty of reasonable excuses for a resume gap that won't raise any red flags. You had a family situation which has now been resolved; you took time off to explore starting your own business but found you preferred working in a more traditional employment structure; you had a baby; you took classes; there was a fucking pandemic on. Your interviewer doesn't care too much, they just want to know it's something that won't be a problem during employment (so no "I sent bomb threats to my workplace and that was when the case was ongoing").

Please don't learn professional skills from TikTok. Most of them are coming from teenagers who have no idea how interviews actually work.

[deheerkonijn]

[wirwerdensiegen]

Gong Jun for 时尚芭莎 09/2023.

[wirwerdensiegen]

Gong Jun Studio Weibo Update 2023/09/26 p01/02.

[wirwerdensiegen]

Gong Jun Studio Weibo Update 2023/09/26 p02/02.

[upkayac]

[whos-this-lisa-person]

Environmental sustainability is such a turn on

[pinklovehearts]

one of my friends said Mansfield park just sounds like a football club name and she’s so right. Mansfield park v northanger abbey

[izacore]

You know what it's like when you don't know anything at all, and yet you're totally certain that everything would be better if you were just near one particular person?