only barely keeping it together

the thing about fiber art that nobody tells you about is that every single kind of fiber art is a gateway drug to other kinds of fiber art.

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

As others have said, it was the canary in the coal mine.

eating would be fine if it was only a recreational activity. instead, its a horrible sisiphean nightmare and you need to do it every day without fail on threat of pain and death

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

You know, I am GENUINELY unsure that I understood the Pining While Fucking trope before Heated Rivalry. I'm convinced that it's 80% of the absolute crack cocaine infused into Hollanov. The other 20% is the rivalry and the language barrier and the forbidden eroticism of it all but mostly it's the pining. A fucking masterclass of the trope. Rachel Reid really sat down to write the sequel to her coffee shop AU and cooked the literary equivalent of crystal meth.

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

#like shane understands by that point that it's said fondly#but i feel like he would experiment with being 'exciting' just to try it out#and meanwhile ilya is >:( if you don't give yourself a curfew and organize your socks by day in the neXT FIVE MINUTES SO HELP HIM GOD-#also it's not even like. going WILD wild.#shane does one (1) shot when they're out with the team even though there's a game in three days#and ilya immediately is like You Should Not Be Doing That What Is Wrong With You#i just find it SO funny to imagine shane trying to be more what he imagines ilya would want in a partner#and meanwhile ilya is just the velma 'you stop that' meme @penandinkprincess

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

I think if you have the means to you should 100% shop at your local butcher, not just because the meat is better but also because I have never been in a butcher shop that didn’t have the most impeccable vibes of any store ever. My local butcher seems to exclusively hire the most hunky charismatic guys under 40 you’ve ever seen in your life. It’s like a bonds undies catalogue in there. They’re so nice and they give me dog bones for free because they’re charmed by the concept of my tiny little chainsaw dog

As a culture we moved on too quickly from Lori Lemaris, Superman’s Ex-Girlfriend Who Is Also A Mermaid. Just as a concept, she’s a beautiful encapsulation of the levels of comic book bullshit (affectionate) that you stumble across in superhero stories. Mermaids are emphatically real and one of them was a legitimate love interest for Clark Kent for most of the 60s

I don’t need an entire movie about her, I just need the Superman 2025 sequel to have a bit where Lois goes “Hey I have an assignment in Atlantis you want to come along” and Clark says “Ahhh eesh I don’t know my ex lives there might be awkward” and Lois goes “Your fucking what”