sine lucro friget ludus

The oddest rationalization in the perpetual 'why is Ao3 mostly m/m shipfic' discourse on here is definitely 'writing about women is such a downer because you have to consider misogyny and sexism and shit, I'm just here to have fun!'

#hearing my cousins (one a straight (?) girl and one a genderweird sappholopod) talk about Jennifer's Body was interesting#cause they both knew that women wrote and directed it but they said it felt like a man created it

In a study published July 2023 in Nature, researchers at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University calculated the risk of forced labor across all aspects of the U.S. food supply, excluding seafood. They found that most forced labor risks came from animal-based proteins, processed fruits and vegetables, and discretionary foods – products such as sweeteners, coffee, wine, and beer. They also found that 62 percent of forced labor risk came from production or processing that occurs on US soil. The study notes that characteristics such as poverty, language barriers, and uncertain immigration status could render individuals at higher risk for forced labor in the US.

Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.

the fact that "bargaining" is a stage of grief. + the fact that when I'm in extreme pain all I can do is lie on the floor and say "please please please" = we are such social animals. we really really really just have a brain that is wired for "surely there must be a way I can interact with someone else that will fix this" even under the most extreme of circumstances, where any rational thought will see a total absence of guys, such as when one is alone in the woods dying of exposure. humans have such a big hole inside us that's for "Someone Else" like a social placeholder such that we keep engineering stuff like religion in a million different ways in a million different places and times. we gotta have

Besides being My Childhood Cringe and the reason i made my first tumblr account in 2011, code geass is still one of the craziest, most genre confused pieces of media i’ve ever seen.

Was thinking about that thread about new covers of Jane Austen books that people were calling fanfic-y (admittedly from months ago), and then about the posts assuming that fandom = m/m, and am putting together the dots and there really are a lot of people here who are completely unaware of the massive mainstream fannish majority that solely consumes het content, huh? The Bridgerton and Outlander tv series -- let alone the original wildly popular books -- fully passed them by without leaving a mark? Totally unaware of the fact that people claw each other to death online over opinions on Jane Austen adaptations?

how do i get people to care about my art??

everytime you see this post, slap yourself

“Trans men don’t make good music it’s all cringey ukulele indie pop” name a trans male musician who makes music like that other than cavetown

i dont want to derail from op's original point, but there have been a lot of wonderful reccs on this post, and i DO think we as a community need to do more to uplift trans men/transmasc musicians instead of stereotyping all transmasc musicians as "cringy". so, i sat down and went through every comment, tag, and reblog on this post (at least, all of the ones that are visible to me) and compiled a list, and i included some of my own favorites that i didnt see mentioned!