practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

the thing about the aubrey-maturin series is that if you enjoy star trek tos largely but not exclusively for spirk reasons and you also like jane austen, then it was specifically written for you. come join me on my heterosexual dad literature journey

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there

Please god it would be so funny

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

the way the inquisitor hunts dragons is almost too on-the-nose as an encapsulation of everything wrong with the game thematically

they had a character say, “mankind blunders through the world, crushing what it does not understand; elves, dragons, magic...the list is endless.” in the game. in the game they said that. in the game where they let you hunt dragons just for sport with no consequences while leading an andrastian army while being the unambiguous good guy. in that game they said that

i was just thinking about villainquisition and i was like, if i had the inquisition antagonists seek out dragons to kill them for sport, bearing in mind that these are the magical creatures who famously just recently returned to the world from extinction from being killed for sport too much, and then they also had josephine put the dragon corpses on display for nobles’ enjoyment and support, i would be like, “harker that’s too on the nose. you have to represent that these people are the enemies of not just magic but of all hope this world has of recovery from its history of violence in a more subtle way.”