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From The Female Man by Joanna Russ (1975).
shitty bush propaganda posters (part 1)
here's a list of programs/sites/whatever that were helpful to me when i was moving away from using spotify & back to downloading music:
soulseek - peer to peer downloading program, has most music you'd want. there's "rules" to it though and the UI is a little confusing, but you can figure it out. there's tutorials. i believe in you
cobalt.tools, ytiz.xyz, yt-dlp - mp3 downloaders, for the songs that you can't find on soulseek
musicbee - music player, extremely customiseable. reminds me of when i used itunes back in the day. has a lot of good features, including syncing music over to your phone
lastfm & listenbrainz - sites that keep track of your listening stats. i'd recommend this even if you still choose to use a music streaming service
syncedlyrics - cmd thing that gets you timed song lyrics, like the ones spotify has. there's no UI but it's easy enough to use. just grab the lyrics and timestamps it spits out and paste it into musicbee
music presence - program that shows what song you're listening to in your discord status, in case you use discord and enjoy the thought of other people seeing what you're listening to, which i do for some reason
i'm not going to lie to you and say that switching away from spotify/streaming services is an effortless task, it took me half a whole day of nonstop Work to get all my music downloaded and sorted out, but i will say that it was worth it!! and you should do it 👍 if you want to
something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else
I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.
"But!" she said:
People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.
Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

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“Every year we’re learning more about what women are capable of, physically. The myths about female weakness—that our reproductive systems are fragile and dictate that we not be too active, that we have no endurance, that we can’t do anything requiring upper-body strength—have slowly but surely been shot down during the last century. But that doesn’t mean people don’t buy into those myths. They do. Girls are still treated differently than boys—in the classroom, in the gym, and, eventually when they grow up, in the boardroom. They’re not expected to be as competitive. Aggression is frowned upon in girls, yet lots of jobs require a certain amount of aggression. The whole notion of “femininity”—which is really just a way of acting and thinking, not some God-given quality—requires girls to put unhealthy restraints on themselves. It disempowers them. It keeps them from really going for it. When it comes to their bodies, it makes them fear getting “too big,” or “too strong.” So they prevent themselves from developing fully. They actually stand in their own way because they’re taught that they should. Who’s teaching them? Read The Frailty Myth and find out.”
— Tiffeny Milbrett & Colette Dowling, The Frailty Myth: Redefining The Physical Potential Of Women & Girls [Foreword].
Bathroom floor is a mini pool.
It's real! Here's a video and more photos over on Instagram, and the artist, Clotilde Ponroy, also has a website!
Karla Ortiz, “The Death I Bring”
graphite on paper, 2016 / giclee print, 2023
Happy #FemaleBirdDay! You can buy this print as a poster.
Science has long ignored female birds, which has implications for their conservation. For example, female warblers often use different habitats during the non-breeding period than males, so conserving just the males’ habitat doesn’t work! And female birds sing, too. Getting to know them will make you a better birder. Thanks to the Galbatrosses, the Feminist Bird Club, and everyone who’s working to make birding fun for all.
not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"
I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.
I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"
And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"
For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

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“I feel that feminism, more than anything, teaches women how to respond to all crises and challenges with wisdom.”
- Shen Shen, Chinese feminist activist
The socially relaxed city sees a cautious feminist revival in the face of growing alarm by authorities towards women who shun traditional ro
It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.
to this day "who is allowed to be angry" has been an incredible benchmark for teasing out who, in abusive situations with mutual accusations and DARVO happening, is being abusive and who is being abused. one of my favorite resources about this, the Creative Interventions Toolkit, phrases the question "who sets the weather?" in the relationship and I think about it so so often when I think about my own childhood. I was parentified in a way that set me up for future abusive relationships, because I had to soothe my parents' anger while not being allowed to feel angry myself. I am extremely grateful to everyone outside myself - friends, therapists, partners - who's gotten angry on my behalf about how I'm treated or let me know something I'd been excusing or blaming myself for was actually Not Okay. I guess the good news here is that it's possible to learn how to access anger again in a healthy way, it just takes support, like doing physical therapy for a muscle that didn't develop quite right.
I relate so strongly to this.
This is not to say that feeling anger is abusive; it's human to feel anger. But if you've ever felt like your anger was "unjustified" or were afraid to express it outwardly because you expected it to be dismissed ... ask yourself how you would react if the roles were reversed. I find that a lot of folks who were The Grown Up in a relationship with their parents hold themselves to much different standards than they hold other people.
I've seen plenty of situations that involve two or more people hurting each other and not admitting any fault because they want to protect their own egos. But. Notice when you think you're not entitled to be upset about something. When someone tells you you shouldn't be upset. There's a difference between taking your anger out on other people and just. Being allowed to feel angry.
oh i'm going to misusle and straight up fuckle this knowledge so badly
drop your women written fantasy and sci-fi recs. no YA pls 🙏
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIIIMEEEE! EVERYONE READ WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME!!! 📢📢📢📢
Woman only societies:
-Daughters of the Great Star series by Diana Rivers
-When Women Were Warriors series by Catherine M. Wilson
-Ammonite by Niccola Griffith (fantasy/sci-fi blend)
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Other fantasy and sci-fi:
-Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor
-Octavia Butler novels (the Parable series or the Patternmaster series are great starting points with her work)
-Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
-Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
-Fires of the Faithful and Turning of the Storm by Naomi Kritzer
-The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
-Spear by Nicola Griffith
-The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood
-The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
-Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
-A Prayer for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
-Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
-Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk
-Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
-The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
-The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
-An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
-The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
-My Real Children by Jo Walton
- Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
- Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine
- Magic of the Lost series by C.L. Clark
- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
- The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
- MURDERBOT DIARIES by Martha Wells pls read them I love murderbot
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
- Sultana's Dream extremely short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein
I'm not good at content warnings but some of these should definitely have them.
Just going off the many Lists saved in my phone:
-The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jeminsin -The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers -The Farseer Trilogy (and the rest of the connected series in Realm of the Elderlings) by Robin Hobb -The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty -The Winterlight Trilogy by Katherine Arden -Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country by Emily Tesh (connected novellas) -The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell (a personal underrated fave of mine) -Or What You Will by Jo Walton -A River Enchanted and A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross -A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (pretty sure it isn't YA? But I'm not certain) -Piranesi by Susanna Clarke -The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck -The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (significant horror elements) -Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (and presumably its sequel(s?) but I haven't read beyond book 1 yet) -The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke
Female centered, matriarchy for some, wlw :
Comics/graphic novels :
- Monstress by Marjorie Liu
- Absolute Wonder Woman by Kelly Thompson
- Wonder Woman Historia by Kelly Sue DeConnick
- Carmilla by Amy Chu
- When I arrived at the castle by Emily Caroll
- The Queen Marble by Anna Kopp
- The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich by Deya Muniz
- Nightmare in Wonderland by Kat Calamia and Phil Falco
- The beast and Snow by Kat Calamia and Phil Falco
- The little mermaid and the pirate queen by Kat Calamia and Phil Falco
- The witches of Oz by Kat Calamia and Phil Falco
- Mermaid Huntress by Tiana Warner
- Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
- Now no one looks beneath the snow by Aneido
- Aneido's Anthology 1 and 2
- Vampire Blood Drive by Mira Ong Chua
- Spell on wheels by Kate Leth
- Moonstruck by Grace Ellis
- Mooncake by Suzanne Walker
- Forgive-me-not by Mari Costa
- Princess princess ever after by Katie O'Neil
- The tea dragon society trilogy by Katie O'Neil
- Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neil
Books :
- the Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo : Shadow and bone trilogy, Six or crows duology, King of scars duology, language of thorns, demon in the wood, the lives of saints
- Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong
- The lotus empire by Tasha Shuri
- The Isle in the silver sea by Tasha Shuri
- The lady of the Lake by Jean Menzies
- So let them burn by Kamilah Cole
- Girl, serpent, thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
- The river has roots by Amal El Mohtar
- Where shadows meet by Patrice Caldwell
- The afterwards by Emily Kate Johnston
- Where Shadows blooms by Catherine Bakewell
- We are the song by Catherine Bakewell
- The Queen of Leflaria by Effie Calvin
- Daughter of the sun by Effie Calvin
- The Barden by Emma Denny
- Brighter than scale, swifter than flame by Neon Yang
- The fireborn blade by Charlotte Bond
- Sapphic Lady Knights by Mariah Rae Birch
- Tarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart
- The starving saints by Caitlin Starling
- A ballad for slayers & monsters by Rita A. Rubin
- Female General and eldest daughter by Qing Jung Mo Xiao
- The veiling of the moon kingdom by Caitlin Zura
- The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter
- Gwen & Art are not in love by Lex Croucher
- Not for the faint of heart by Lex Croucher
- Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman
- She who became the sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- The deathless girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Wild and Wicked things by Francesca May
- A long time dead by Samara Breger
- Spear by Nicola Griffith
- The maiden and her monster by Maddie Martinez
- Of wisdom by Hannah Bashir
- The librarian's gargoyle by Evelyn Shine
- A sin so pure by Gabs Bancroft
- I am you by Victoria Redel

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When people say "whimsy" they mean like. Rococo mentality
For those unaware, rococo is characterised by priorities aesthetics and rich adornment in art, accomodating to tastes of the often out-of-touch french aristocracy
While the technique itself was often remarkable, the purpose of the majority of secular rococo art was to entertain. It usually used images of greek gods, especially love stories, as a topic, was often very openly sexual, homogenised women's features to portray them as ever-joyful, paper white and almost childishly small. The idealisation and sexualisation of "pastoral" lifestyle with countryside being portrayed as a plays where jolly serfs in frilly dresses bake fresh pies and fuck in the pig sheds was also incredibly popular among the rich. The religious art aimed to portray the joy of salvation and even darker topics were explored in a very sterilised, bloodless manner, meanwhile previously violent scenes in western religious art were very common.
It is a deeply saccharine, almost purely hedonistic artstyle. It's art for the sake of art, made often by and for the people who lived in a pink pony world, ignoring real world issues, while the french revolution was brewing as aristocrats were painting cherubs blowing bubbles and played hopscotch in Versailles
I am holding your hand when I say this, if you always assume people are out to get you or that opportunities will suck, you will be miserable.
Yes. The world is scary and there are people who have bad intentions. Yes especially if you’re a woman or otherwise marginalized. No, you should not stay around people or situations that hurt you.
But if you don’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt and decide that actions that could just have been oversights or miscommunication are actually signs of malice or rudeness, you will isolate yourself and chase off people that could be amazing.
I think a lot of people see advice to give others the benefit of the doubt for others’ sake, so you don’t come off as rude, etc and I think that’s true but it’s also true that you should give the benefit of the doubt for your sake!! If you are scared of the world the world becomes scary but if you are open to the world she will open herself to you!! You will still experience harm because that’s a fact of life but you will experience so much beauty as well and you will be happier for it.