most of the best yaoi is written by sadistic lesbians

or straight men who don't know they're writing yaoi

Fascinating. Who writes the best yuri?

also sadistic lesbians

i like xie lian bc he's on a sherlock holmes level of deriving a whole exposé from random shit no one else noticed and is constantly tricking ppl and seeing right through everyone, but he also does things like attempt to perform cpr on a ghost who wasn't even unconscious and dming ling wen to warn her about ling wen turning evil. complex character

guy who is scared of growing up with the miraculous of aging 2 years in 6 months

I'm, above all else, a tangentgirl. always saying shit like "sidenote," "oh also," "by the way,"

whatever you say beautiful

first base is ripping each other's throats out second base is fucking and then pretending it didn't happen after it's over. third base is falling unconscious from blood loss in the other's arms

fourth base is talking about your feelings

I’m not gonna lie it’s borderline embarrassing how long I’ve worked on this that I’ve spend 2 days tryna figure out how to caption it to make it less embarrassing but oh well. It also made me realise the banner says exy ncaa instead of ncaa exy but at this point that’s none of my business

Short of being inside Nora’s head here is a (mostly) (I think) biblically accurate and to scale model of the Foxhole Court and Nora I have a several questions.

Also rendered so many images of this I had like 50 cameras in the scene would y’all care if I just did a photo dump.

God I have so many things to say about working on this I had to restart like 8 times it was a mess but if I start I won't be able to stop Imao though if anyone's interested in a breakdown of all the sections and materials I would be more than happy to make a post yapping about it.

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“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:

“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating”

Omg y'all Y'ALL

3 years ago, I wonder if they have gone through all that rice yet…..

There was a day in 2021 this post was on my dashboard three times a page

As an American, when they said truck load I was imagining an 18-wheeler style truck so I’m not too surprised by the final picture. There has to be like 200 - 300 bags of rice on that truck at LEAST. OPs BIL was incredibly lucky he only had to take 23 bags of rice from that thing.

THE RICE TRUCK STORY HAS PHOTOS

Someday their great-grandchildren will ask why there are so many bags of rice at home and a story will begin, “Well, your great-grandfather was tired of going to the store every day for rice…”

men make it absolutely impossible to practice humility

what you say: “I think this is the case”

what men hear: “I have no idea whatsoever, but here’s a totally random guess”

what you say: “I’m not an expert on this subject”

what men hear: “I don’t know anything about this subject and need its bare fundamentals explained to me”

what you say: “I could be better read in this area”

what men hear: “I have never read anything in this area”

like okay fuck it nevermind I’m actually an expert in every subject I’ve ever read or heard about. in fact I know everything.

If anyone's ever wondering why I come across as such an arrogant bitch on Tumblr it's because I used to work in science with a lot of men and never readjusted my communication style afterward.

This is one of my biggest seemingly low-stakes feminist soapboxes. Women are often encouraged to take hedging, consensus-seeking, and checking-in phrases out of their speech in order to seem "more confident". And listen, of course you do not need to say "I think" when you actually know for pretty damn sure, or double-check every little thing you say, or apologize for things that are out of your control.

But there are men in my life who I respect, who I think are generally good communicators, but who have admitted to me that if they do not know the answer to something they will just state their best guess in a confident tone of voice, with no hedging or clarification to warn the listener that what they just said was pulled from their ass.

I once asked my high school boyfriend what noise a platypus makes and he confidently told me "oh they quack" and I said "really? that seems like they'd have different noise-making structures than ducks since they're not birds" and he said "oh yeah you're probably right. I was just guessing." And had no idea why I was mad! I was like, so if I ask you a question you might just bullshit me?? What if I had believed you and gone and repeated that to other people? I could have looked like an idiot. I could have spread misinformation to a ton of people! But I have told that story to other men and had them say "oh yeah I totally do that."

This is so much worse communication than just saying "I don't know but I think..." There shouldn't be campaigns training professional women to sound "more confident," there should be campaigns training professional MEN to stop doing whatever THAT is!

[ID: Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place saying “okay, but that’s worse. You do see how that’s worse, right?” End ID.]

[ID: TGCF fanart of Hua Cheng and Xie Lian. First, Hua Cheng looks forward with his right eye closed; overlaid is the glowing gold outline of his saber E'ming, whose eye is positioned directly over his eyelid. Second, Xie Lian looks forward with a somber expression; overlaid is the glowing gold outline of the sword Fangxin cutting his face in half, while the outlines of a cry-smiling mask and his cursed shackle also float over his face and neck. End ID]

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A PORN BOT UNFOLLOWED ME?

not that i care

There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:

A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.

A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.

as of today (6/30/2025) this post was made over 1.2 million minutes ago. a billion minutes ago was still the height of the roman empire

Look sometimes you give blorbo a kink and it’s an headcanon. and other times it’s just a fact

i bring a sort of "i enjoy realistic queer yearning with no payoff" vibe that the "i'm mad they didn't kiss" crowd doesn't really like

feels so good to perceive rinezha as a lesbian ship. i just think that they have the level of toxic rivalry that only angry, unforgiving, gay women are capable of. extra points if nezha is on the trans spec