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3 components of worldbuilding:

1. The author’s kinks

2. The author’s power fantasy

3. The author’s political agenda

Plot and logic optional

I love lesbians. I love lesbians who have prescriptions for hormones (any kind). I love lesbians who use pronouns (any kind). I love people of lesbian-adjacent genders and sexualities (any kind). I love lesbians who are into kink and BDSM and leather. I tap my "this is a lesbian pervert blog" sign. Love u, cherish u, get freaky with it

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

did you guys know that it’s free to daydream about vampires they can’t stop you

ok now draw him writhing around on the floor whimpering and bleeding

do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

You just gotta unclog the pipe. Are you dumb now? No. The water was sitting stagnant because you were busy doing other things (100% fine btw). If any 'dumb' got in the water then it will quickly leave once you let the water start flowing again. Go get all the stupid out into a doc that doesn't matter. Even several of them. It might take a good while, especially if you're returning to writing after years or after a period of intense burnout, or both (waves). But you're just rusty, and letting that stop you will only ensure you stay stuck! Go forth and write some nonsense!

this applies to art as well btw

not everyone is either butch or femme actually. That's a false dykeotomy.

“magic isnt real” — plants just grow out of the ground. for free. everywhere.

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

-Terry Pratchett

The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.

That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.

Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.

Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”

[image transcript:

Voting as Fire Extinguisher

When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:

there are children inside.

—Kyle Tran Myhre. end id]

i’m reading Realm of the Elderlings for the first time (PLEASE IF YOU COMMENT ON THIS POST NO SPOILERS PAST LIVESHIP) and whatever Fitz and the Fool have going on in Fool’s Errand is sooo fucking funny

in Farseer Fitz spends the whole series being like “this is my weird little freak the Fool. he is a bizarre mutant who speaks in riddles but he’s my friend so be nice. :)”

then the Fool leaves for a decade and when he comes back ALL of Fitz’s internal monologue is like “the Fool… my bosom companion with eyes that shine like the life-giving sun. i missed his breedable hips and angelic features so much that i almost died. every second his statuesque frame was parted from me was pure agony. i am so lucky to have such a funny intelligent and also devastatingly beautiful very good friend by my side. hopefully forever”

old German lady gave me acupuncture today

she lifted up my shirt, saw my top surgery scars, and immediately went "WHOA! What caused THIS?"

my fellow comrades, it took every atom of my strength not to just say the funniest lie I could think of on the spot.

Frankly some of you should be hornier over weirder shit. The fear of being too genuine is the enemy of art. Be a bit of a pervert. It's good for the health. Doesn't have to be a sexual thing just own up to being a bit obsessed in some cringe shit it's fine.

File this under "phrases from Tumblr that didn't have to go that hard but totally did".

The [Mosaic Mania] throw complete

If you don't crochet, you can tell how beautiful this is. But, I want to explain how you construct a mosaic project:

Depending on the technique, you're either working two rows of the same color, then switching colors and working back over the rows you just made to get the raised areas.

You might also work a single row of the background color, then switch to the foreground color (which you know from using a chart that has these things marked), and you build the design by working background and foreground over and over.

This means that any mosaic project takes about twice the amount of effort as you might expect because everything has to be doubled to get the proper look.

And to switch up patterns like this? Holy shit.

The masc carabiner and the femme chatelaine.

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