Why is it that the best lines comes from the most random fics? Absolute gold right here
(Fic name: If you give a bat a burger by Cielle_Noire)
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Why is it that the best lines comes from the most random fics? Absolute gold right here
(Fic name: If you give a bat a burger by Cielle_Noire)

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The worst part about living with other people it that you can't just chill naked at the kitchen table eating chili.
I miss doing that.
Whatās stopping you? Get a genuine conversation going and ask if theyād be okay with that. From experience, living with housemates that donāt mind you being naked is the best thing in the world, but you never find out if you donāt ask.
I live alone now and am practically a nudist at home but at the time I was living with my Older Sister and her much older partner. Casual nudity would very have very much not been well received. Anybody else and I might've asked tho.
Ah, that makes sense. I guess the word-choice above made me think āroommatesā not āblood relatives.ā Odd how commonplace and easier casual nudity can become between friends/acquaintances/roomies, but how much that barrier to entry steeply rises when itās family. Also it totally sucks when you have to get dressed.
Yeah I was being purposefully vague. I try to keep stuff ambiguous online generally unless more details become necessary. I definitely find it more comfortable to be partially or completely nude in front of acquaintances and friends instead of family. I think it stems from the fact that I feel like family might be more judgmental? Like I know my friends dgaf but my family? If they're judgy i still gotta see them all the time. Clothes suck, tight and all the worst places, itchy seams and tags, and a lot of them have weird textures. Like no thanks. Clothes are for work and public wear lol
The worst part about living with other people it that you can't just chill naked at the kitchen table eating chili.
I miss doing that.
Whatās stopping you? Get a genuine conversation going and ask if theyād be okay with that. From experience, living with housemates that donāt mind you being naked is the best thing in the world, but you never find out if you donāt ask.
I live alone now and am practically a nudist at home but at the time I was living with my Older Sister and her much older partner. Casual nudity would very have very much not been well received. Anybody else and I might've asked tho.
When you understand that kids and teenagers being salty about literary symbolic analysis comes from a very real place of annoyance and frustration at some teachers for being over-bearing and pretentious in their projecting of symbolism onto every facet of a story but you also understand that literary analysis and critical thinking in regards to symbolism is extremely important and deserves to be not only taught in schools, but actively used by writers when examining their own work to see if they might have used symbolism unintentionally and to make sure that they are using symbolism effectively:
When you understand that a lot of the reaction against literary symbolism is because we donāt educate aboutĀ symbolism as a communication form (people have historically used x symbol to mean y) and instead is taught as a fact (x symbol means y) so it strips analysis of any relevance to the world or other texts AND we donāt teach tropes/archetypes/genres from a young age so students are being exposed to literary analysis for the first time as 13-16 year olds and rightfully feel like itās been made up
Delicious. Finally a good fucking addition.
When you become a teacher and you realise that the reason teenagers donāt like literary analysis in English class is because theyāre forced to try and decode theĀ ārightā analysis that exists in their teacherās head and are spoon-fed small, language-based points that can easily fit into an exam answer because teachers donāt want to risk allowing multiple, sometimes imperfect interpretations in their classroom that might foster a love of reading because theyāre too concerned with teaching exam technique:Ā
When you realise that the system is set up like this because so much pressure is placed on exam results as the only metric of school success and frequently determine the amount of funding a school receives, which means that poorer schools which are frequently low-performing desperately double down on the teaching method above:Ā
When you realise all of this is supported by a Conservative government because they havenāt bothered to read any pedagogical research published in the last fifty years and think that school should beĀ āhardā in order toĀ āweed out the clever onesā because they canāt imagine a classroom functioning in a way other than the shitty private schools they went to in the 70s:Ā
FINALLY. ANOTHER GOOD ADDITION. DELICIOUS.
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*to the tune of I'm a little teapot*
I'm a little mushroom,
short and stout.
Here are gills and there are my spores.
If you tip me over I will die,
why did you do this oh god whyā½ā½ā½
Breakfast today is Green Bean Caserole. Except I subbed in Kraft Dinner for the green beans and sauce and just topped it with crispy fried onions.
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
Someone who says they don't care if dudes wear dresses and makeup is a better ally than someone who says they're a safe space for women and non-binary people. I am not joking.
yeah I went to a gay bar recently with my husband tumblr user beemovieerotica, and a VERY confused capital S Southerner straight man in cargo shorts and a trucker hat showed up
apparently he (who through my drunken memory I remember only as Earl) liked some woman, and she told him that he wasn't cultured enough and needed to attend his first drag show (she also flaked on him)
Now I'm reasonably androgynous and was wearing makeup, a short leather skirt, and black heeled boots, but still when this guy came up to me when I was standing off alone and asked "So. Do you come here often?" with a very earnest expression, I thought. Surely not. This guy doesn't think I'm a straight woman does he????
Anyway I start talking with this guy and he has no idea what the fuck is going on but he is just a very kind and earnest dude and asked a lot of questions (while asking if it was alright if he asked those questions). I track down my husband and friends and I'm like y'all. We need to make sure that Earl has a Good Fucking Time tonight.
Man was completely out of his depth. At one point they put on a puppy auction to raise money for Pride, that started with a 6 ft drag queen in all her glory leading a leather pup out on a leash to the tune of that damned RSPCA "in the arms of the angels" song
We look at Earl. Nervous. He squints, laughs, and then goes "I was wondering why people were dressed like that!" He turned to me and asked "So they're like dogs?" And I said yeah pretty much. And he just chuckled and went "Yeah I thought so with the tails! Never seen this before!"
When the first drag king came out, Earl looked at me wide eyed and went "There's a dude version too?!" And I said yeah they're called drag kings. And he said, low, "Drag kings."
During one of the queens performances, he frowned, shook his head and told me, "Your legs are better than hers." in a tone that implied he thought there was some travesty taking place and I should also be getting paid
When he found out I was there with my husband (and that I am not a woman) he profusely apologized and said "I'm so sorry, it's dark in here and I thought you were a hot chick! I wouldn't have said nothing if I knew you had a husband, I'm so sorry about that."
When beemovie invited me to the dance floor with him later and I still had a drink in my hand, Earl said "Oh don't worry about that I can hold your drink, you get on out there and shake your ass with your husband!" Then before we left, Earl bought me drinks for "Putting up with me all night and answering everything. Y'all helped me have a great time tonight."
like. You gotta recognize there's going to people who have never had interacted outside of their of their own community. This includes you. And just because your community is familiar with all the right vocabulary and how to correctly say something, it doesn't mean they're actually going to support you. If someone like Earl shows up, confused and out of their depth but kind and curious and earnest, you gotta have patience and truck through the small things, so when he goes back to his friends and his coworkers and they snicker asking how the drag show was, he can genuinely talk about how included we tried to make him feel and that he had a great time
The person matters more than the language
I may have let my imagination run my life a bit too hard. How do you style a black almost buzzcut with chin length green bangs?
I am... stumped? Befuddled? Slightly panicked? Help
Guess who's got some itis in their bronchs? This idiot. Shit sucks. My insides are tryin' real hard to be my outsides rn.

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imagine you start watching this new show and itās a silly little show about space set in the future then they announce the next season so you wait excitedly for five months and finally itās here⦠you all sit round the tv and suddenly one of the main characters who is known for being unemotional starts going mad because of ābiologyā¦ā and you slowly realise that he needs to have sex or heās going to die so the other main character risks his entire career to help him out then they start āwrestlingā on the sand and the one going through the mating fever ends up killing the other guy which ends the fever but now heās depressed because he just killed his best friend but wait heās not actually dead the unemotional one is overjoyed everythingās fine and then they go back to work like nothing happened⦠you look at everyone else sitting in stunned silence thinking ādid any one else think that was a little⦠yknowā then you accidentally start modern fandom and shipping culture
very much enjoying the tags thank you everybody
Wait till they all actually watch it and see the unnecessary titty window situation.
[ID: A collection of tags that read:
#THAT was the plot?? #and they wanted us to believe the guy didnt have sex with the unemotional guy?
#star trek is so so gay
#ive seen some posts. but i did not realize it wasā¦.. that gay.
#only halfway through did i realise that this was star trek #i thought at first op was watching some freaky ass gay scifi and i was fully prepared to try find it #but lo and behold #ive already watched the damn show
#star trek #are they⦠you know⦠ššæāāļø
(In caps) #what #star trek invented fuck or die?????
#what the fuck is going on in star trek
#i have no idea what happens in star trek but uhm. #this is a little (long string of ellipses followed by semicolons)
#they didnt⦠they wouldnt⦠#you cannot be serious is that how all the startrek slash started? #spock went into heat???
#i would need to be lobotomized for my own health
#what the fuck is star trek about. End ID]
Based on some of the first-hand accounts Iāve read, fans already had thoughts in that direction but were very cautious about expressing them, because, you know, it was 1967 and they were nice suburban ladies. They referred to the idea of Spock and Kirk being in love as The Premise. One little housewivesā fan club in California wrote to Leonard Nimoy in the hiatus between seasons one and two, and he was very pleasant and agreed to come and meet their group and tell them about being in the show. They didnāt say anything about The Premise directly, in case it offended him, but of course they expressed their enthusiasm for the rapport between Kirk and Spock and how curious they were about Spockās background and inner life. And Nimoy, who was working on season two by that time, said that he couldnāt give away any specifics but there was an episode coming up that would focus more on Spockās personal life and the planet Vulcan, and they were naturally delighted and intrigued.
So when they sat down to watch season two, episode one, āAmok Time,ā they were primed for an important Spock episode, and then that played out before their widening eyes and I think itās safe to say it blew their beehives clean off their heads.
#lmao#star trek#lest we forget the literal binders of loose leaf paper with HAND WRITTEN FANFICTION being handed around#thank trekkers for fan fiction you literal babies
ā¦And this is exactly how some of us got onto the path toward getting into SO MUCH [GOOD] TROUBLE later in our lives. Handwritten fanfic⦠pages and pages and PAGES of it. Tens and hundreds of thousands of words of fanfic. In looseleaf binders.
Just remember: āThe first million words are for practice.ā :) After that⦠all bets are off.
And itās also worth bearing in mind that Amok Time was written by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon was a bisexual writer (according to his friend, gay author and academic Samuel R Delany) who wrote āThe World Well Lostā (1953) which may have been the first SF story about homosexuality to be published in a mainstream SF magazine, not to mention gay-coded stories like āThe Saucer of Lonelinessā. Ted Sturgeon was a brilliant writer about love, and he knew exactly what he was doing in Amok Time. Although he might not have known what it would spawn.
And if you are curious to read some of his fiction thereās a Selected Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon out there, and the novels The Dreaming Jewels and More Than Human appear to be in print.
holy shit neil gaiman is here everyone stay cool
Proving a point to my boyfriend.
PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry
Iāve never hit reblog faster or harder.
I as a guy have cried plenty of times and Iām 18. Idk how old he is but tell him to grow the fuck up and let himself cry
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Went to my local Pow Wow yesterday. Wanted to show off the gorgeous costers I bought from some amazing local Artists. The deer was designed by Rachel Ball but unfortunately I can't remember the name of the artist who designed the fox. And i can't read the signature on the art. Absolutely beautiful though.
Couldn't find an online store for them otherwise I'd tag it.
Can't believe I forgot but I also bought this book
For my niece. So excited to read it to her!
Went to my local Pow Wow yesterday. Wanted to show off the gorgeous costers I bought from some amazing local Artists. The deer was designed by Rachel Ball but unfortunately I can't remember the name of the artist who designed the fox. And i can't read the signature on the art. Absolutely beautiful though.
Couldn't find an online store for them otherwise I'd tag it.

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While taking a nap today I dreamt there was a hazard sign called "never found" which was used to indicate a location where people disappeared never to be seen again
it looked like this
The imagery and vibes of this were so visceral I had to do art about it
(Grayscale version under cut)
Been listening to this artist's discography, this song included, on repeat for two days. It's consuming my life. Something about their music just tickles the right spot in my brain, like i can think for the first time in my life.