alive, and drunk on sunlight

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

people are starting to character tag so i’d like to state upfront that this is part of a new branch of pop feminism i’m pioneering called despotette and as such is specifically advice for women trying to break into the world of tyranny, so if you must character tag it’s really only appropriate to do so if the character is a woman, thank you

you have GOT to get over god abandoning you when you were 2 like its not even uncommon

[Image description: Photo of a fancy oreo milkshake served in a wine glass on a plate. The plate has a written message, edited to say: "Will you Be my Nothing". End image description.]

omg also crazy timing, happy International Horseshoe Crab Day !!!! Celebrate the wet arthropods with me!

i’m just having fun. hatred is involved but i’m just having fun

having a favorite oc is so embarrassing like hey guys heres a drawing of them. here’s another one. bet you can’t guess what the next drawing is about. here they are again. hey check out this scene i wrote about them. haha drew them again. you won’t believe who i just drew

“my friend is ALWAYS sick and cancelling our plans” it sounds like your friends life suuucks and you should check on them

So I think that there's a lot of room for nuancing medieval gender but also every single time I see a "women actually, actively fought as a commonplace thing/were knights in the Middle Ages" post my eye actively twitches because (1) they're always usually based on flawed at best sources and (2) if our way of giving medieval women interiority and agency ultimately comes down to "look! Swords! Aristocratic privilege!", there's basically no hope. Pack it up, it's over, feminist scholarship since the 80s was fun while it lasted, we had a good run, but we failed.

Hang on let me back read *experiences everything humankind had ever said or done up until now and when I come back eons have passed* OK I'm here is anyone else still alive?