UnstableQueerBitch

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you

the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript 

reblogging one of my most underrated posts: the dying dog test

I’m gonna make my medical school advisees do this on their application essays too I think.

Warning: advice that "you have to leave your comfort zone to grow" is meant for people who are IN their comfort zone the majority of the time. If you rarely/never feel comfortable and safe, you actually need to get more comfortable and safe before you can grow 👍

you need to oscillate between your comfort zone and your discomfort zone, like going between a sauna and a icy lake

Polyamory is safe for work. Polyamory is safe for kids. Polyamory is safe for day time tv. Polyamory isn’t more sexual than any other relationship and it can be just as romantic, sweet, and healthy.

Aggressively reblogs.

And what if rap WAS only about sex, violence, and drugs... what then? Would you be justified in looking down upon it as not being "real" art? What would your justification be? Sex is immoral and taboo? Drugs should never be mentioned outside of D.A.R.E programs? Songs about violence turn children to it? Would you turn that standard to other genres as well? I know you wouldn't, I know you haven't, because it's never really been about the topics explored.

rap is often about politics and punk is often about sex and drugs but tumblr users wouldn't know because they listen to neither

Put your clothes back on. We going to watch all the seasons of m*a*s*h and talk about Margaret’s character development

MASH really is the ultimate "love didn't save them but it was there and it mattered" media to me, because love couldn't save Hawkeye's sanity or BJ's temper or Margaret's marriage or Charles' music or Henry or anyone else. Nothing can save them. But also the love was there. It was there in the squabbles and bicker and the still and getting spareribs from Chicago and the red party and BJ's wedding anniversary and taking care of sophie and Radar's pets and the Life magazine with scenic pictures from Maine. It was even in drugging CIA men and unnecessary appendectomies and barging into peace talks and blowing up tongue depressor towers. And the love mattered so much because it gave them a semblance of living and not just surviving, a life to fight against war and destruction of life. It was the one thing that kept them human despite it all. I truly think nothing mattered more than love in MASH.

And this is why I will always love mash.

do you think hawkeye , radar , and klinger or even frank and margaret sometimes forget that henry isn’t there anymore . do you think that hawk sometimes wanders all the way to the door of potter’s office , tired from a long surgery and thinking he’s gonna get a few drinks in with henry and then he remembers . do you think klinger puts on a dress he knows henry always liked with a big smile because he can’t wait to hear henry say something about it and then takes pause mid dress ? do you think radar absentmindedly signs henry’s name to a document without really thinking ? do you think margaret comes into potter’s office , frank in tow , and starts with “ colonel bl — “ and then corrects herself ?

Rewatching M*A*S*H is like looking at knife and going “well it can’t hurt that bad this time” and stabbing yourself again. It still hurts. A lot. Also everyone is visibly younger and so you hurt yourself again thinking about that

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.