#I'd still be pissed

[blue-b-bro]

Actually, I'm still pissed

[a-rabbit-obsessed-queer]

Aspec men deserve much more respect and recognition in the aspec community than they receive. They often face a different form of aphobia specific to them ("men are naturally sexual they can't be ace" "all men are unromantic that's not unique") this rhetoric is spouted by many, even members of our own community and I hope for a day where that is no longer the case. As an ace and demiro woman (demigirl but that's beside the point) I want to encourage folks to take the time to give the aspec men in their lives support and to the aspec men reading, you are who you say you are no matter what people say and you deserve the world. I'm sorry for the ways in which toxic masculinity has harmed you. You are a valued member of the aspec community and the queer community as a whole. No ace or aro person is broken and neither are you. I'm sorry if anyone has ever told you otherwise.

[screwpinecaprice]

Some warm up connverse

[vinniecorp]

Putting down the roses, picking up the sword 🌤️

[messymoonmad]

I need to see poseidon adopt polites as his son

He be like "hm ur my child now" and just carry polites away

This but with Eurylochus and Perimedes

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

zolf smith is so relatable actually

today a friend of mine was really rude when i mentioned having read a romance book over the weekend, implying that it wasn't "intellectual" enough and judging both me and the book despite not even having read it

and now i completely understand zolf's decision to leave the london rangers after hamid critiqued harrison cambell's novels

[mintygreencake]

Mfs be asking me what I'm listening to in class and I gotta pull something out my ass because I'm not gonna tell my professor that I'm listening to a blonde rat getting choked out by an emo bitch with a chain

[theauvergne]

imagine u havent spoken to ur dad in years and then he publishes a book about gay vampires that sells millions of copies and u decide "hey maybe he's gotten his shit together from his recent successes since the last time we spoke" so u meet up with him for lunch and he brings this 27 year old with him that he says he met in dubai. and ur really uncomfortable and trying to warn him that this kid is gonna steal all of his money as subtly as u can without ruining lunch. and at the same time ur trying to figure out why he's wearing colored contact lenses and acrylic nails and he's also like extremely cold and ur like "okay maybe he's just trying to find himself and it's kind of cold in here ... he's old ... old ppl are sensitive" and then u find out he's a fucking vampire and the 27 year old isn't the sugar baby but instead the sugar daddy

[oneshotgremlin]

Up and Down

Thoughts on how beings generally perceive their world one spatial dimension lower than the dimensionality of the space they inhabit:

In the flatlands, the way people perceive the world around them is through lines, and so visual receptors HAVE to be on the edges of their shapes

Otherwise by all accounts the person would be effectively blind

So Mrs.Red and Mr.Blue have this strange yellow boy

Who appears to be born with no eyes

(It’s directly in his center, but without tests and doctors nobody can see it)

And for all intents and purposes, the boy is blind

He has to feel his way around buildings and people (in his hand a black cane that his parents bought to aid him)

And he doesn’t know what his parents look like, and only knows them by their voice as they guide him

They love him all the same, regardless

(Meanwhile, he stares up at the infinite expanse of the night sky. But the thing about infinity is that it makes where you stand so infinitesimally tiny in comparison, and no matter how far you run side to side the stars do not move an inch for you. And if they’re all someone sees, the only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that where they are is unspeakably, claustrophobically small)

(It doesn’t matter if the kids at school bully him and the adults look at him with pity and disdain that he can’t even see, because don’t they know how SMALL they are? Don’t they know how small EVERYTHING is?)

And so, with years and years and nowhere else to go, Bill reaches UP

(And no-one else has tried before, because why would they? There is no up or down to conceive, only forwards and backwards and left and right.)

It takes unimaginable amounts of energy to punch a rift into a dimension. In a time and space unmeasurably far away, a six fingered man and his five fingered twin would learn that lesson well

In the flatlands, it’s less of an interdimensional portal looming ominously in a metal room and more of a calculation

l is for length. w is for width. h is for height

And like a computer told to divide by zero, everything falls apart

Did you know that when energetic particles that erupt from the stars collide with a sufficiently nitrogen rich atmosphere, it produces the color blue?

Did you know the only reason the flatlanders didn’t drift off into the freezing cold yet boiling hot void of space, despite not having a planet with the volume and mass needed to produce a gravitational field, is their dimension’s lack of third dimensionality?

Like insects pinned underneath glass, yet the glass protected their corpses from falling apart?

They scream. He cries. He laughs. They die.

It’s an old saying: “When gravity falls and earth becomes sky beware the beast with just one eye”

And when little Billy looks away from the stars, looks down to finally see his tiny, minuscule home

For the first and last time, he sees a blue triangle with a hat, and a red triangle with a bow.

[jackawful]

Y'all have got to realize there are ways to protect older teens from sexual predators without insisting that teenagers don't think about sex or sexuality until the magical moment exactly 18 years from their birth. Trying to reduce harm to teenagers (especially teenagers online!) is a good and valid goal but pretending none of them have ever viewed porn or fucked isn't it. You've gotta acknowledge that if they don't have safe ways to explore their sexuality with peers they are going to explore in unsafe ways & that secrecy, shame, and censorship are what open the door to predators & allow them to normalize unhealthy power dynamics.

Shit like (professed) minors allegedly being on ezra's site is most likely the result of that community being the only thing they could find that treated them as like, humans with autonomy and desire, and that's a pattern that plays out with adult exploitation of teens in-person too (the "you're so mature for your age" routine). Of course teenagers exploring sexuality for the first time fell into a community that told them they weren't bad for being attracted to adults or having sexual desire in the first place! Thing is, an "Adult Attracted Minor" is like, the default state of teenagerdom.

The shit that's actually been demonstrated to help with this isn't carceral whackamoling of bad actors - it's giving teenagers education about healthy relationships and power dynamics and safe sex and yeah, kink, and also giving them the autonomy to make their own decisions about sex. Specifically, you let them know that it's normal to be attracted to adults but that adults trying to date or fuck them are in a position of power that means those relationships can't be healthy. In absence of that, teens are vulnerable to the first adult that appeals to their need to be taken seriously. And for fucks sake, using "minor" to equate teens with young children in these cases makes this tactic easier for abusers to pull off, not harder, because it is self-evident to teens that they have more capacity for autonomy than the average 8 year old. Sure, it makes the people you're targeting in your callout Sound Worse, but it also immediately loses you credibility in the eyes of teenagers themselves.

And for fucks sake, don't let a handful of bad actors using a leftist framing for that old song and dance lead you to believe that's what youth lib is about OR take away focus from all the times the right wing has systemically & institutionally done this.

[lazy-toad]

Can't wait for the day current day Base Mikey and Edgar go to get married in a few years time only to realise that they can't as they are very much already legally married thanks to the OVER team

[venacoeurva]

It's the little things to make your day, when I was at the store everyone in the checkout lines and the cashiers were small talking and some guy walks in to talk to one of them about someone they both know. A lot of people know each other around there so you do the little look over to see if you recognize them, so a lot of us defaulted to doing that. It was like you could feel the jovial mood sour and curdle in real time in silent midwestern disgust when we realized he was wearing a trump hat and doing so very smugly and proudly, love the community response of "Man, fuck this guy" across all age demographics tbh

[my-name-is-apollo]

The similarities between Apollo - Hermes and Apollo - Heracles friendship is honestly kind of delightful:

- Steal something from him: Hermes stole the cattle; Heracles stole the tripod (well, tried to)

- Indulge in his favourite activity to build friendship: Hermes played music; Heracles built a city with Apollo

- Get their titles and some gifts from him: Hermes was appointed as the messenger of gods and given his rod; Alcides was renamed Heracles and was gifted a bow

- Try to get a share in his oracles but fail to do so: Hermes asked Apollo to share the secrets of his divination; Heracles tried to create his own oracle using Apollo's tripod

- Share a celestial object with him: the planet Mercury was called as Apollo in the daytime; the constellation Gemini were believed to be Apollo and Heracles.

All of this can't be a coincidence. Hermes must have shared his notes with Heracles.

[stripedsilktie]

As much as I hate to admit it, I'd suck Naoya off not just because he's hot but also because of his personality like yeah I'd let him come down my throat because he's so pretty then bite his dick bc why not

idk he just looks like it'd be easy to be mean to him

[let-it-rip-bear]

yknow i think we're really glossing over the fact that carmy straight up said "i basically told [claire] i thought the relationship was a waste of time because i am who i am" to everyone's face and they all just went

[mechazushi]

None of the voices are what I had I'm mind. . .

YOU AINT GONNA CATCH ME COMPLAIN' THO.