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Finally caved (it's been maybe two weeks) and decided to work on a sewing pattern for an inuyasha cosplay

I have never once touched a sewing machine and the con I want to go to is in like two months probably a little less and also the only craft store I have around here is a small hobby lobby

Wish me luck

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Sometimes, like an idiot, my brain will say, "no, you're better than blorbos" and then, again, like an idiot, a will become utterly obsessed with the little gay men in my spread and remember that, no, no one is above having a blorbo

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Hmmm. Kind of fucked that “gender neutral” is almost always associated with being masc.

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a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women's historical roles in europe is "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it's not a trivial omission.

it's not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women's work in geneal, but i do think there's a special kind of illusion that is cast by "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear that and think "well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is" and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.

i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women's work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women's work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men's work. i feel like women's connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.

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A headcanon of mine.

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I've never watched 5 guys and for over half of this post i thought this was real

au where eberytjings the same but they have to go to five guyd

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The masculine connotation of a bow tie and the feminine connotation of a bow on the top of the head implies a nonbinary bow style placed directly over the nose

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No but the Hunger Games really said "what do you hate more- the atrocities or the people who commit them against you? Because like it or not there IS a difference. If you hate the people who commit acts of pure evil more than you hate the acts themselves, what will stop you from becoming just like your enemies in your pursuit of justice? What will keep you from commiting those very same acts against THEM when the opportunity arises? And what then? The cycle of pain and suffering will never stop. Round and round it'll go. Nothing will ever change. But. BUT. If you hate the atrocities. If you hate the vile, senseless acts MORE than you hate the people who did them to you. If you are able to see that evil is evil regardless of who does it... The cycle ends with you. No, you may never get justice. But you will never be responsible for making others, even your enemies, suffer the same crimes you have. The atrocities will never be committed by you, never by your hand. And that's the way you change the world. It's the ONLY way" and that's why I am sure it will never stop being one of the most relevant works of fiction ever created

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something i keep experiencing

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more people need to be aware of the term alterous attraction (a desire for a close emotional connection with someone, but it's not completely romantic or platonic) and use it instead of calling everything a qpr. because by calling everything a qpr you are turning that term into a label instead of what it actually is - an umbrella term for many non conventional types of relationships.

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They/them pussy

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It is. So disheartening. For the only comments on my fics to be spam comments of people asking me to commission them

(You should totally go read some of my fics I'm currently working on that storm will break that explores Kakashi's life before the events of Naruto and its KakaIru. I also write for other fandoms)

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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Cuddling is so weird to me as an aroace because as a concept I really really like it I like the idea of being close and the touching and the gentleness and all

But also

It's just. ALWAYS. Seen as a romantic thing. And that is just an uncomfortable thought. But I'm also just not used to physical contact so I'm super awkward and don't know how to initiate it so it doesn't help

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While I will agree with anyone that says boomer memes are mostly awful... some very notable exceptions to this rule DO exist:

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