#<-but like. recreationally.

[memento-mariii]

Speaking of the fae, what gets me about those "dark fae romances" that seem to be so "in" right now is that they don't do anything interesting with the fae lore. Like. Why even call your MC a fae if he never speaks in riddles and can just straight up lie all the time. Why call him a fae and make him impervious to cold iron.

Look. I know that "fae lore" is actually just a disjointed and often self-contradicting collection of completely individual folk tales and mythologies and that no such thing as the Definitive Fae Lore™️ exists, but c'mon. At that point he's just a guy with pointy ears. He's a tolkien elf with an attitude problem. You're allowed to write a yandere legolas fic if you want to write a yandere legolas fic.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

we let the ocean drown out our voices/enjoying the bitterness/in the chaotic light, I close my eyes and see

[liorlen]

my first five star hiiro had this outfit :)

[idontmindifuforgetme]

every time i walk into my local library i make sure to look at the receptionists with big wet eyes before heading to my corner to study bc i really want them to hire me as a part-time aide

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

i drew this!

[discordghost]

[transcript:

they wasn't lying

that pearl end of 2024 stream can out of context shiny duo

/end ID]

[asthedeathoflight]

My favorite part of that article where Assad and Eric say that the editors are part of the devils minion agenda is that Eric goes on to say that his strategy for acting as Daniel Molloy is to. Not. Hes like yeah no im not good enough at acting to actually act. I just sit there and watch Assad and Jacob and have genuine reactions. Those guys are really good at their jobs so they actually think about what they're doing. But not me. He just sits there and channels Daniel Molloy into the real world.

[weirdplutoprince]

[ voice of a person who's just hit a new kind of low ] what if I was a cute little bunny

[sludgekludge]

what even was the point of wanting to make helluva about 'messy romance and complex characters' if they can't commit to that at even the most basic level. the narrative will just decide that a character has done wrong without explaining what or how, it'll completely ignore or justify legitimately dubious things, it's so desperate to tell you exactly how to feel about certain characters...

stella's dialogue is so cartoonishly on-the-nose evil and she has no actual motivations. none of stolas' mistakes are acknowledged until now, 2 seasons in (and even then, they're trying to justify them), half the stolitz-related conflicts are almost comically childish. blitz yelled at stolas, which is mean. instead of looking at this with nuance, blitz is in the wrong, and stolas is not. there is a wrong party and a right party, every time. there are no shades of grey.

where's the complexity? these characters range from cardboard to slightly thicker cardboard with maybe a drawing of a frowny face on it, except the frowny face changes colours every time you look at it because the writers worship inconsistencies.

[apas-95]

small reminder stalinism isn't communism, there is no such a thing as "socialism in one country" + stalinists are often queerphobes helping bigotry + you're still an environment killer

surrendering 100 years of successful revolutionary practice and theory to the immensurate wisdom of your 'vibes-based analysis'. I'd suggest you go read desert and then kill yourself but I guess reading isn't your forte so like. idk live a long life and watch as your ideology does literally nothing, just like it's done literally nothing so far in history. btw the people's republic of china just reached peak greenhouse gas emissions and has been installing more green power than the rest of the world combined. it's weird you only learned the word 'han chinese' when the US started its "Pivot to Asia" and funneled billions of USD into "countering Chinese influence", but hey, no need to think about that when you know 'stalinists' are homophobes

[menlove]

the best part abt paul is he's a notorious liar who lies for fun and also bc he actively thinks it's funny & he's been doing this since the 60s (along with all the other beatles lbh lying was a hobby and game for them & I'm being fully serious there's quotes from all of them about how much fun they had fucking w interviewers)

and yet a) he consistently gets by w this bc he's paul mccartney and no one is questioning paul mccartney and b) there's people on this website that earnestly and honestly believe the only things he'd never lie about are his sexuality and relationship with john as if those aren't two of the most volatile and career ending things that could ever come up for a man concerned about his image

[fungh0u1]

the start of a beautiful friendship <3

[thekingofcrochet]

“idk the mc is so mid and he makes bad financial decisions”

the man is literally actively dying and has anxiety and depression

like he finally doesn’t have to pay loan sharks anymore AND is running around town with people who actually care about him and while sharing a hobby together.

If you found a slice of serotonin - just a dollop of dopamine (and you were trying to forget the whole dying thing) wouldn’t you buy the best fishing rod money could buy?

[theodysseyofhomer]

it's certainly true that odysseus doesn't know telemakhos as a person; until he comes home he can only ever love the idea of him. but i don't honestly believe that it makes it less real/convincing when telemakhos walking into the room strikes him dumb for 80 lines, or when he describes hearing him speak as a wound, or when odysseus spends years at war naming himself as beloved telemakhos' father rather than laertes' son. those are all expressions of love and longing. mid-thought-vomit counterpoint: i still read the odysseus-penelope reunion as one where being loved is being known/recognized/understood, which is impossible with telemakhos... but it's also to be searched out, right? and telemakhos can participate in that (both the literal attempt to discover odysseus in the telemachia and the process from odysseus' reveal->working together to clean out the house).

so, so, so. penelope has to be able to recognize odysseus, so he can't just tell her who he is. telemakhos can't recognize him even after he's told. but maybe it's less that knowing-and-being-known is impossible with telemakhos and more that it requires testing out, which could make both reunions different shades of the same belief the odyssey holds about the nature of love[/whatever else you want to call it; i know that "love" is a modern and to some degree fandom-brained reading, but sorry, i love estranged families]

[lady-harrowhark]

tired: all of g1deon’s cool qualities are actually from pyrrha

wired: all of pyrrha’s cool qualities are actually from g1deon

[trans-axolotl]

Do you know of DIY psych meds or any writings/info on it, DIY meds in a similar way to DIY HRT, cause I noticed you can buy some psych meds on some of the same shops you source diy hrt, I haven't found any thing on it but I figured its just not a very popular topic because being forced on meds is usually a more pressing issue, the legal grey-ness of buying "prescriptions" with out an offical prescription, and the if-y effectiveness of a lot of psych meds but I feel like I can't be the only one who's ever thought about it

so i don't really have anything I can link to because most of what i know about this is what i've learned from my experiences with DIY HRT distro. and so there's a lot of stuff that I only feel comfortable talking about vaguely on tumblr or other public facing social media.

long story short: there are already some DIY HRT collectives out there that are also distributing psych meds in a similar way. not going to name specific names for obvious reasons, but there's around 3 or 4 DIY hrt collectives i could name in the northeast US who are already doing this. there are some challenges with distributing psych meds that are slightly different than distro for DIY HRT. part of it is due to the need to be able to keep up an ongoing supply of psych meds that might cause withdrawal. if people are relying on you as a supplier for psych meds that can cause life-threatening withdrawal if you're off of them, that is a much more severe consequence then temporarily being unable to supply someone with hrt. and so that might impact the resources needed to be able to offer a consistent supply. i think another challenge is the lack of easily accessible information about psych drugs and how they actually work in our bodies.

and like--i think about psych drugs the way i think about all drugs. they're substances that are going to have both desired and undesired effects. that is going to vary from person to person. and everyone has the right and autonomy to make those decisions for themselves, regardless of their diagnosis or whether they are seeking "treatment" or "healing" or whether it's just for fun or connection for any fucking reason. so i think it is really good and important to find ways for people to access psych drugs outside of psychiatry.

and at the same time, i also think that in the current climate, where so many people are forced on psych drugs against their will, where so much misinformation is purposefully spread by psychiatry, where so many of the undesired effects of psych drugs are hid from people, it also feels important to be able to share accurate and helpful information about how psych drugs work and what to expect, as well as information about dosages, withdrawal, tapering, etc. so i think that anyplace that is sourcing and supplying psych drugs does have a responsibility to make sure that they do know that information and can help their community find and share that kind of information.

in terms of practical information, it sounds like you're already probably familiar with how to find sources online. all i'll say on tumblr is that if you're familiar with how to use tails and tor for browsing that it's not super hard.

it's not the exact same focus, but Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a lot of projects for different types of autonomous healthcare.

Inner Compass Initiative is not a perfect website but does have a lot of info on psych med dosages, tapering, effects, etc.

there's some other zines i'll try to find in my room and take photos of at some point if i'm able to.

biggest takeaways for me is that it always comes back to autonomy and informed consent, and figuring out ways to make that possible in our communities outside of psych authority is something that feels important and possible to me!