A Fandom Is Just a Bunch of Esoterica.

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

Here's the thing about the Laios-vs-Kabru mind games: Laios isn't stupid. Far from it, I'd say he's really smart: He knows a lot about monsters by memory, he's able to take in new information and figure out things no one else knew yet, plans he makes tend to work out well (especially the short-term ones), and IIRC most of his victories come from cleverness rather than brute force. The reason he never gives Kabru the battle of wits the latter expects is because he just doesn't care about social manipulation or maneuvering for power over other people. Kabru isn't stuck playing mental tic-tac-toe when he wants to be playing 5D brain chess because Laios is unable to match him, oh no, he's stuck there because Laios could match him but can't be bothered to.

Writing a pwp longfic Tolstoy style. Every arc of fucking and sucking will have a multi-chapter interlude reviewing what exactly makes something "perverted" and covertly reminding the audience that we can't definitively say what makes these characters cum because no model of attraction proposed by historians, psychologists, or anthropologists can ever grasp the true emotional mechanics of sex until they admit that divine providence plays a role.

#you jest but I just read an anthology of 19th century french erotic novellas and half of them are like this#for one i had to go through a 50-page diatribe on the nature of sex the nature of art the divine feminine vs. the evil masculine the way#that the bourgeoisie has corrupted and misunderstood sappho's tenets and a discourse on whether lesbian love is better when it's vulgar and#carnal or pure and wholesome before I got to the lesbian fucking and sucking#it was very insightful actually because I learned that the tradition of upper class racist gold star lesbians who frequent literary salons#and read each other mid poetry they wrote to explore their connection to the divine before getting into insane polycule drama is a tradition#that has existed longer than I imagined - via @mala-taste

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

I love birds. Reasons for living. Little earth choir everyday are you kidding? Beautiful. Indebted and lucky for it.

I always know its getting toasty out in the world because girls start reblogging this post like crazy