your life is not meaningless, you just haven't seen the sea in a while

Actually I’m not gonna do work the normal way, I’m gonna go work for this guy, which is totally safe and not a scam 👍🏻 thanks for recommending me this eight time in sixteen posts Tumblr!

I theorize the reason "bottoms" appear more prevalent than "tops" on these types of spaces is that it is simply easier to be funny about being a bottom than about being a top without sounding like a sex offender

"uuuuu 🥺 pls cock me aaaaaaaa *runs into wall like Wile E Coyote running into his own tunnel painting*" easy as shit comedy

"I want to put my DICK in someone" whoa dude calm down, take it easy

No that's literally it. Kink is stigmatized in such a specific way that it's actually much more acceptable to say "I want to be stepped on" than it is "I want to step on them" or even "I want them to ask me to step on them."

Like it's much easier to find people talking openly about wanting to be submissive (which will be errantly called "bottoming" because being a sub is Ew Gross Kink) but once there's someone to available to actually facilitate that, it's Creepy.

it's coy and demure to be wanted, but it's violative to Want and that's normal and good and hasn't annihlated the ability of so many people to even communicate the fact that they can desire. God help you if you're queer or neurodivergent in that cultural attitutde.

There's also this idea that while of course kink is Wrong and Icky and means you're Damaged, submissive urges must mean that they're some poor abuse victim trying to recover from trauma and dominant urges mean that they're an abuser looking for an excuse. (Some people do use kink to process trauma, but people use all kinds of behaviours to process all kinds of things. That shouldn't be like, the assumption, and shouldn't be expected to carry moral weight.) It's not acceptable to express dominant desires because the only acceptable form of that kink is as a slightly reluctant therapist for helping your beloved process their trauma.

There's a Childish Gambino routine I can't seem to locate where he says something along the lines of "if you meet a woman who likes being choked during sex, well sure, she's been abused. But if you meet a man who likes choking women?!?!" And that basically sums up the public perception I think. Subs or bottoms (the public perception treats them both as the same thing, or at least acts like they're coincident enough that any other match is some weird edge case) are women or small gay men who have been kicked around and are trying to heal, doms or tops are predatory men looking for an excuse to hurt someone.

This year has been quite trying, but I'm happy that I discovered a love of making these horse animations in 2023.

Lowland Anoa (Bubalus depressicornis)

The Knight of the Flowers (1894)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

my pitch: Larry the Chief Mouser

13 years of experience working at No. 10 and much more trustworthy than any current candidates

I meant to put Larry the cat!!! I can't believe I forgot

all software should be open source wtf. u expect me to run this on my own computer without knowing what its doing???

car manufacturers dont weld the hoods shut to keep ppl from copying their engines. books arent written with a military-grade cipher to avoid plagiarism. and we dont let food have "secret formulas" anymore bc too often one of the "secret ingredients" was fucking lead

when ur distributing a product to the public u forfeit the right to hide whats inside it, u dont get to hand out a black box and expect ppl to just trust u when u totally swear it doesnt have a microphone inside

"Intellectual property" is the latest, and so far the most absurd, form of enclosure.

car manufacturers do emphatically do the equivalent of welding the hood/bonnet shut by having proprietary computers run shit now so you can't repair it yourself, the workshop has to pay to have the special software - oh and some of it you have to pay extra to enable stuff the car is already set up to do

(the same thing applies to some medical equipment and mobility aids too ffs)

Painted Pebbles, 2nd to 9th Century CE, Burrian, Keiss and Jarlshof, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

James Tissot (1836 - 1902)

Eurovision 2004 - Number 62 - Linda - "Aria, sole, terra e mare"

Linda Valori is a singer having a bit of a moment. Her career had been escalating slowly since she started out in the mid 1990s. She'd won singing competitions, auditioned for the Italian Popstars series (although she missed out on being part of the resulting band - Lollipop), and won prizes.

In 2004 she got the big call up - singing in the main competition at Sanremo with her own song. She'd not even been in the Giovani competition prior to this, she had no albums out. That was probably because there had been a change at the top of Sanremo. There was a new artistic director in Tony Renis and a new presenter in Simona Ventura. There weren't many big names competing which gave new opportunities (even though it led to unprecedentedly low TV ratings).

Linda grabbed one of those with Aria, sole, terra e mare (Air, Sun, Earth and Sea). It's a song about experiencing everything and more. Grab it all, drink it all in, dance with joy, and have no regrets. Quite apart from it's celebratory intentions, it's a showcase for Linda's magnificently soulful voice. Although every source I've looked this up on claims that it's either pop or europop, it ain't that. It's got a lot more about it than that. Pop-soul at the very least.

Her status as being an outsider didn't stand in her way. She finished third - which as far as her career went was exactly the right place to finish in. She didn't want to become the new Jalisse. Within two months of Sanremo, she was asked to perform of Pope John Paul II.

She went on to perform at papal invitation five times and for three different Popes. Collaboration with other musicians began, notably including Massimo Ranieri. She was a regular on RAI music specials, and she's recorded songs for Benetton and Disney. She's also recorded four of her own albums and toured extensively to this day. Most recently she's been touring alongside Musicamdo Jazz Orchestra as a new project called the Soul, Rhythm and Blue Explosion

also on a similar line of boycotting eurovision, is anyone else holding like "boycott eurovision" parties on the same day at the same time?? not only am I gonna boycott eurovision I'm gonna trick my friends into doing it too bc they'll be at my v fun party (aka a few bottles of wine & horror movies)

It will be so funny if the arena is half empty