you know ;)

starting a collection

subjective perspective =/= unreliable narration

like. i am holding you gently by the face. listen to me. all narration will reflect a subjective experience. this is not the same as an unreliable narrator. the unreliable narrator lacks credibility for a specific reason - they’re an exaggerator, they’re insane, they’re a joker, they’re an outright liar. a character whose view of things is merely coloured by their backstory and experiences is not inherently unreliable, simply subjective. an unreliable narrator is intentionally or significantly altering the truth, to position the audience deliberately. it’s a specific literary device, not a default in POV storytelling.

adding to this to say that a subjective narrator (most narrators fall in this category) is the conduit through which the reader discovers the story. it will never make sense for the subjective narrator to have ALL the information immediately — as they discover things, so does the reader. yes, the reader may realise things before the narrator, and that’s okay! it still doesn’t make them unreliable. remember that you (the reader) are not within the narrative, and are able to step back and view all the details in a way the character can’t.

in some cases, this is totally intentional! when the reader/audience knows something that the narrator (or other characters) doesn’t, that is called dramatic irony. it is a device most often used in the theatre, but can be used in books as well. again, the use of dramatic irony does not mean the narrator is unreliable!

in identifying an unreliable narrator, ask yourself if the character has an agenda. what would the character gain by manipulating the way the story is told? if there is no agenda at play, then the narrator is merely subjective, not unreliable.

This might be harsh but I think those who equate “good character design” to “character I would fuck” and express outright disgust at designs who dared to fall outside their conventional beauty norms should be trapped in the amulet for a thousand years. minimum

i had to add these and i’m sure there are more

Oh… so THAT’S why I love Hockey.

Bonus: That weird phenomenon when dudes will grab a buddy to keep people on the other team from interfering with fights on the ice.

god these guys are so gay

Dude, hockey is so fucking gay.

the stanley cup playoffs said happy pride month

gotta add these because what is more beautiful than nathan mackinnon winning the stanley cup to defend his longtime crush sidney crosby’s honor and THEN attributing the win to staying in a hotel room that contains sid’s jersey number. who wrote this fic? (also: nate eats ass and sid is The ass of the nhl so…)

ok but sidney crosby looks like this:

and has an ass like this:

so i understand the thirst

Are we not even talking about the actualfacts kissing going on or…?

The rituals are intricate 😌

Memorial Cup 2013: Halifax Mooseheads’ Stefan Fournier kissed Jonathan Drouin after a goal, defies people to chirp him about it

more:

Fun Fact: The Halifax Mooseheads went on to win the Memorial Cup

(other notable players on the team included Nathan Mackinnon, Mackenzie Weegar, and Martin Frk)

And here’s Travis Green & Ziggy Palffy:

oh man @zambonding that article is such a gem this is the kind of sports journalism we need

btw can i also add that straight out of a romcom/bollywood movie moment where two hockey player’s laces get tangled up mid-game

While we do love men’s ice hockey, let’s give it up for the ladies with actual, adorable rivalry romances.

the nhl could never get on the level of women’s hockey. could hockey men do THIS:

(and now they have another daughter together LOOK AT THIS BLISS)

also if we thirstin’ about sidney crosby on this giant post, i have also got to point out the Power carly jackson holds…

in honor of the nhl’s “whole lot of fucking” november, here’s more tenderhorniness

and this extremely wholesome fight turned prom dance:

nicholas hoult photographed for GQ Hype

The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.

In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ as they adopted the word as was used by homosexual men, except that society also used it as an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The wider queer community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.

The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.

The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities. 

Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism. 

In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedan, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.

In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals. 

Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym. 

GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis. 

Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+. 

In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community. 

ghost rider what you did to that iguana was fucked up dude

way to go jackass

More importantly, given that Ghost Rider can canonically only scourge the souls of sinners, what sins had that random-ass lizard committed?

lust

Juvenile crested pigeons in my mum’s yard

They’re just so shapes

wizords

*plants mint directly in your dash* heehee :3

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fuck it: tom servo tuesday is starting early.

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

Just so you know

1) This isn’t a real talk show, it’s a satirical program called Groland. Sadly our real journalists don’t really understand anything about the trans community

2) a more correct way to translate the last sentence would be “shut up”, or maybe more “shut the fuck up” (“ta gueule” is the most vulgar way to tell someone to stop talking in French)

the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line