As a civil engineering student who’s getting into slashers I’m fascinated by the House of Wax 2005. I love the film so much but the concept of a wax house is stuck my brain because how in the ever loving fuck did Trudy get planning permission for that thing. Because like, it’s Trudy’s world famous House Of Wax, so it was probably her that built it, and it’s definitely built for human usage so it’s still bound by the relevant construction legislation. How on earth did she explain that to the construction team? Did they do it like concrete and pour it into formwork and she just carved up the finer details? Were they prefab walls she made and just like hired a crane and a really big blowtorch to weld them together? I’d give my left arm for those specifications, if she made any at all instead of just shipping over like ten trucks worth of wax and going at it herself. Did she claim it was just a really big sculpture to get around the Building Regulations? Or was this totally a thing that could happen in the 80s and I’m just overestimating their safety precautions?

Wait. Hold on. Wait. You mean to tell me that Rocky brought his special clothing for celebration when he moved in with Grace, just in case? Pardon me while I go sob in a corner. The quantity of hope still packed into that little carapace, after everything that happened to him (or, perhaps, the quantity of hope that blossomed anew when Grace arrived...).

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

I was in a long-term relationship that fell apart partially because I was ace and my partner was very much not, and every time we looked for relationship help we got told that I was the problem. Not just that a significant mismatch in sexual desire could be a problem in a relationship, but that it was My Fault, Specifically, for not being willing to suck it up and have a bunch of sex I didn't want. To my ex's credit, he cared about consent much more than any of the professionals we talked to and refused to pressure me even when my (lesbian, billed as progressive and pro-LGBT) therapist was actively telling him to.

I was dating someone who wanted to be accommodating and work with me to figure things out but lacked the EQ to do so in any effective way. It was my first relationship and I was still figuring out what being ace meant for me. It’s been eight or nine years, but I still remember very clearly the moment I realized we’d been approaching the entire discussion as if my orientation was the problem to be solved, and that it would be equally as valid to say that hers was.

Everyone knows the first day of Friend Grace’s class is nickname day. It’s the day when every pebble is on their best behavior to try and make sure they get a cool nickname, something unique that they can brag to their friends and classmates about.

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.