rlly embarrassing when ppl act like topping/bottoming has any bearing on anything beyond how you like to fuck. grow up
you’re like, inches away from asking who’s the man and who’s the woman lol
I haven't talked enough about force-unmasking recently.
I think a lot about the degree to which "humanity" is constructed. Did you have to learn how to perform facial expressions? What are you stopping yourself from doing for the sake of propriety? Do you have to stop yourself from biting a little too hard? Are you following along a script? Is your body language derived from reflecting my own? Are you hiding your discomfort under practice? Are you nodding along even when nothing fits? How hard is it for you to meet my gaze?
To me, there is an eroticism to be found in the destruction of this. In the point where you can no longer pretend to be normal. The point of discomfort where I've put something in the way of your performance, and the point of release where it breaks and I get to see You.
It can be very cruel, I think. The point at which the sensory discomfort becomes unbearable. The point at which you lose the ability to mirror my body language. The point at which I break your script. The point at which the eye contact becomes too distressing. When you have to let go and find release. When you have to come up to breathe. When you break at the edges.
It can be casual as well. Sometimes it doesn't take much. Sometimes I can be subtle with it. Just need to show you that this is a safe space. Let you see that I won't punish you for trying to breathe. Disrupt your script well enough and it's less crash and more credits warp. There's an art to it, as with all performances.
But, it's intimacy. Stolen intimacy. But still intimacy. How do you react? Like a trapped animal searching for an exit? What if there is no exit? What if I keep you here? What if I force you to play along? What if I take off my mask too and you see how much of this was exactly as planned? Will what I see understand? Sometimes it does, and that's the most special place.
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
> sees nihilistic depiction of human nature
> looks inside
> hope :)
i’m not kidding we need to stop conceding the point that it’s weird in the first place for women to be into gay romance/porn/etc. it’s driving me up the wall that every attempt i see at thoughtful/nuanced Social Commentary on the matter begins with “lots of people don’t understand why women would be into this, BUT here’s a list of Special Reasons that this appeals to the Feminine Gaze” as if this is not just reinforcing the premise that there is some fundamental & universal split between how men & women experience desire. imagine how much more productive our conversations could be if we instead started with “lots of people don’t understand why women would be into this. why? what assumptions are those people making to begin with about women?”
everyone draw ur ocs like it's 2009 NOW
DO IT DO IT NOW I START YOU GO
Octopuses can fit through any gap larger than their beak.
What a beautiful octopus.
Common misconception! This is actually a fuck!
@misidentifying-animals-in-posts May you tell us what this creature is?
Eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). Unless the gif is in reverse, in which case it’s a Western fence lizard (Sceloporous occidentalis).
that’s probably not a fishes. At least according to my expert analysis
ok, thanks? I didn’t ask you?
as far as mad scientists go, it's hard to be accepted when you're just "extremely intelligent & capable" when you also have the downside of "being completely conceited and obnoxious" to balance it out. most mad scientists balance this out by simply being a man, which makes them more societally palatable by virtue of being a man, as men are just allowed to do things. not so much for women. if you're a mad scientist, extremely intelligent & capable, but also conceited & obnoxious and a woman, they won't let you into the mad scientist club. that is, of course, unless you tick the box of "sexually available woman," which is more societally palatable than simply "woman." this is why the agnes tachyon wife industrial complex must be dismantled at its foundation
when I was like 14 I used to reblog these posts on here that were like "YOUR 20S ARE NOT AN IMAGINARY RACE YOURE DOING JUST FINE!!" just to be positive towards my older mutuals even though i didn't really get what they were abour and I'd be in the tags like "#so true!! #everyone does things at their own pace!!" and now im 24 I'm thinking back to it and it's like Oh of course the imaginary race. Which I'm losing
I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay for writing to be a HOBBY that you do because you enjoy, and that you don’t want to do when you’re not enjoying it. No one’s up in the business of knitters telling them they have to be willing to SUFFER and SWEAT or they’ll NEVER FINISH THAT SWEATER and they can’t expect good things to come to them. I don’t know why our current culture around writing is so intense, but I’m here to support your casual, relaxing writing habit. If people can glue pompoms together or knit a scarf or watch hours of streaming shows with their spare time there’s absolutely no reason writers can’t waste time writing just for pleasure, without any expectation that they’re going to Achieve something Amazing and Important or make a bunch of money or whatever.
I stand corrected: According to a great many who have piped up in the comments, apparently people ARE up in the business of knitters. What the hell. Get out of the business of knitters, people. May we all enjoy our hobbies without pressure to professionalize.
This sadly holds true for so many hobbies. My boyfriend has been expressing guilt that he has so many unpainted minis, my brother has been doing the same but about the board games he’s purchased but not played. We’re busy people! Sometimes the busy nature of our lives makes our leisure time activities an added stress and we shouldn’t be made to feel BAD for taking a break. No matter how extended.
““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””
— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)
In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Lindgren spoke against corporal punishment of children in a speech entitled Never Violence! After that, she teamed up with scientists, journalists and politicians to promote non-violent upbringing. In 1979, a law was introduced in Sweden prohibiting violence against children in response to her demands. Until then there was no such law anywhere in the world.
What a legacy. We’re so lucky to have had her.
he’s underwater
it appears he's adapting well to his underwater home!
the fierce wolf in the natural habitat