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the line between vengeful brutal catharsis and gay sex is very thin so be careful out there

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Wake Me Up Inside has become a real joke but you all are lying if you say that you wouldn’t have loved lyrics like “bid my blood to run before I come undone and save me from the nothing I’ve become” if it was presented in a folk song on Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell.

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So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.

They arrived today, and…the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There’s over 100, and they’re not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I’ve found so far) through to 1915.

Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I’ve ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don’t approve of them and how he’s desperately awaiting the day they’ll be married.

I haven’t found the latest of the letters, but the fact it’s up until 1915 and then stops…doesn’t give me hope for a happy ending.

This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there’s some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can’t wait until they have a little house together and can ‘please each other all day’…

There’s. So many.

I’m going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie’s love story.

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you can differentiate me from weevilwizard via subtle variations in our proboscis

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i distinctly remember the first time i went to a holiday inn free breakfast bar while on a family trip to the border and i got so fucking upset and confused that the food looked like this 💀

the distressed mexican parents of a melting down undiagnosed autistic 8-ish year old: don't worry white american breakfast food isn't real and cant hurt you

white american breakfast food:

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A cliff, a choice and a bit of bickering.

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(commission info // tip jar!)

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cant stop thinking about this video

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today's warm up: people should put up warning signs or somethin'

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"I'm just a girl☺️🥰💖💞💅🌺🌷🦄" when you were eight and the teacher said she needed some strong boys to carry something you used to be furious, and when you convinced them to let you help, you carried twice as many chairs as the boys with the righteous anger of a girl who knew she was just as capable as them. Where did that go?

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the trio of all time 🦖🦖🦖

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One of my pet peeves is when people describe cave-dwelling homo sapiens or even late hunter-gatherers with only names like 'grug' and 'ogg'. They're homo sapiens! They have the same brains and mouth and vocal cords that we do.

The earliest name we know from oral history is an Egyptian king named Iry-Hor, the earliest name we have written down is a Sumerian accountant called Kushim. The earliest known author is a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. Another name we have from that period is Enmebaragesi. I probably forgot some other beautiful names in this directly-from-wikipedia list. We can't look further back, but there is nothing to suggest that we were less capable of giving each other beautiful complex names.

Why does this matter? Because the idea that we as a species are constantly becoming superior is bullshit and is tied up closely with a lot of very harmful ideologies (capitalism, eugenics and fascism, to name a few). We're not becoming a superior species. We're passing on information and inventing more stuff and figuring out how to live longer, but those are social processes, they come from humans taking care of each other and valuing the preservation and free exchange of knowledge. They don't come from being fundamentally better than our ancestors, we're not.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS The Return of the King

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I love mean Viktor as much as anyone but. Jayvik stories where Viktor is sweet. He is a bit shy. Viktor who feeds strays and even adopts an elderly cat with a disability. Viktor who is actually proud of Jayce's success and relieved that he is not in the spotlight. Viktor who is grateful that Jayce deals with galas and admires Jayce's confidence. Viktor who doesn't like Mel just because she hasn't done anything in her power to help the Undercity, and not out of jealousy. Viktor who changes his mind about Mel when she votes in favour of Zaun's independence. Viktor who brings small handmade gifts to Ximena Talis. sweet Viktor. is this thing on