It’s okay to not want to have sex ever. It’s okay to never even try it.

I was 23 before it even occurred to me that not starting with sex ever was an option. The feeling of relief was so great I actually cried. 

You don’t have to if you don’t want to. You can have a fine live without ever having sex, I promise you. 

Also, it’s okay to never date anyone ever. It’s okay to never even try it if you don’t want to. 

I wrote a master’s thesis on intentionally single people, and the number of them that said in various ways, “I didn’t know not dating people was even an option at first” was absolutely tragic. They honestly thought they had no choice and it never occurred to them that opting out was even a possibility available to them.  

People honestly believe these are life experience you are required to have AND THEY ARE NOT.

You can just not have sex. You can just not date people. You can completely by-pass one or both of those things. Neither of those things are required to be healthy, happy, normal, mature, fulfilled, or any of the other bullshit notions that get attached to these things. 

I just realized that the kanji for bone, 「骨」, looks like a little skeleton fella, and I can't get over it...

Both of these

I’m sorry, it had to be added

Every single discussion about a good villain/hero dynamic ALWAYS comes back to these two

gameshow called 'pride or prejudice' in which the contestants are presented with a gay joke and have to guess if it was made by a queer person or a homophobe

the contestants are all vaguely liberal straight people who are desperately uncomfortable with the entire concept

Alternative: contestants are all LGBT having a great time with drinks (pineapple soda is the best) and the host is a straight liberal who has to read everything out so we end up with some great pained face gifs.

First question:

[ID: a tweet from mason the gay i'm gay please leave me alone @/mildlymildtv reads, "every time i lose to an lgbt+ player online i immediately go to chickfila and buy a large combo" / end ID]

I stand with my cancelled wife

chai tea (tea tea)

naan bread (bread bread)

sharia law (law law)

sahara desert (desert desert)

lake tahoe (lake lake)

el camino way (the way way)

pendle hill (hill hill hill)

soviet union (union union)

mississippi river (big river river)

the los angeles angels (the the angels angels)

hula dance (dance dance) dc comics (detective comics comics)

shakira (shakira)

If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it

That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes

I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded

like to charge reblog to cast tbh

Something feels inherently wrong about seeing a big burly army dude eating gluten free dominos. Like I feel like coeliac disease isn't something they allow in the military??

in mesopotamia there were no 'cover letters' or 'curriculum vitaes'. there were just, pots.

And copper ingots. Very high quality ingots from a very reputable merchant

#tumblr's dedication to dragging ea-nasir from across history is one of my fave things about this hellsite

#somewhere in the afterlife #ea-nasir is gaining power #and he has no idea why

Y’know, that’s a really good point. Are we sure we want to be giving the worst businessman in known history more power in the afterlife?!

Yes, because when Trump dies and thinks he’s going to be king shit in the afterlife, ea-nasir is going to one-shot him with a shitty copper ingot upside his empty orange fucking head

Each Reblog adds another copper ingot to ea-nasir's afterlife pile. Each like improves his aim.

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

Here, have a study (x) showing that mothers underestimate their daughter’s physical capacity from as young as 11 months old (though in reality it’s identical to that of their son’s at the same age). And if you think that parents acting on those expectations won’t alter their children’s development, then I have a sloped bridge to sell you.

#people always massively underestimate just how good even very young children are at reading social expectations#long before any kind of intellectual understanding has the chance to develop#and so a lot of “oh but you were so normal as a child”-nonsense is like#yeah i was “normal” because i could tell what you expected of me even if i didn’t know why#even small children learn what’s “taboo” for them really fucking early on#but people keep pretending like it’s all nature#but it’s not#there’s so many things i wanted to do as child i never did because i knew on some basal level *weren’t allowed for me*#i never even asked#i knew it wasn’t allowed#something something “playing seal” for those who get the reference#expectations have real physical effects#bias has its own gravity#and most people have a choice between orbiting or crashing#because it’s very hard to leave it altogether

screw it im not leaving this as tags after all

Bond girls are out. Blanc girls (underprivileged women who screw over rich assholes with the help of this silly detective) are in.