#On The Cusp

[marejadilla]

Victoria Crowe, "On the Cusp", from "Another Time, Another Place”, exhibited at The Scottish Gallery", 2021. Victoria Crowe was born in Kingston-on-Thames on 8 May 1945.

[andellaheartz]

GUYS, GAY ZODIAC,S .....GUH🗣️GAY ZODIA

I have very fun plans with these queers ... 😼 (All of them go by any pronoun btw)

Other vers of sagittarius and aries 😁

[noodle1807]

I'm reading the BtB series for the first time and I'm currently on "On The Cusp", so how about a little drawing of Shikamaru's cone hat? (that's how I imagine it lol)

Eventually, when I have a drawing table and my skills are better, I hope to be able to make several fanarts of this wonderful story! ❤️

[onth3cusp]

The Anti-TBR Tag

(Shoutout to Nicole and Her Books for creating this tag!) 1. A popular book EVERYONE loves that you have no interest in reading? ACOTAR, also known as A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Her take on Fae and faery romance just doesn’t do it for me. 2. A classic book (or author) you don’t have an interest in reading? John Steinbeck. Not to knock his talent, but his works are…

[knightofleo]

Andy Stott | Away Not Gone

[lessdeath]

If u were an eevee-lution (eeveee evolution) what would u be ??? I can never decide

[shigussy]

how do u ask someone for their birth place and time without it sounding weird

[st-dionysus]

Gang, I am looking for a photograph I know exists, but I can not find. It is a historic black and white photo of a group of butches/transmen with a sign that say's "Who says there are no boys in Chaigao" (I believe, in reference to the draft)

[wuzeio]

new TV show coming out SOON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Swapping tips on how to be a bestie in the bath.

[morganbritton132]

Eddie post a Tiktok of an old home video. In the video, he’s twenty-one, messy haired, laying on his side in bed facing the camera, and he looks like shit. His eyes are glassy, his nose is rubbed red, and his voice is thick the way it always is when he’s sick.

“This is a message for future Eddie,” Eddie tells the camera. “If you decide to spend the rest of your life with a man that spends all his free time babysitting - and I know you, you do want to spend your life with him - get used to catching every virus in town.”

In the video, Steve pops up behind Eddie and wraps himself around him, looking just as sick. His eyes never open as he cuddles closer, resting his head in the curve of Eddie’s neck and his hand on his chest over his heart. Steve sounds like he’s already falling back to sleep when he asks, “Who’re you talking to?”

Eddie looks into the camera like, “Myself.”

“Say hi for me.”

[andellaheartz]

There was an annoying screaming goat outside and that reminded me of capricorn

[ruporas]

kisses of affirmation (ID in alt)

[onth3cusp]

Books I Read This Summer

What I Read Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli – my full review is linked here! An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Into the Forgotten Forest by River J. Hopkins Harrow the Ninth by Tamsin Muir – find my review here! The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett The Familiar by Leigh…

[alphabetcompletionist]

hey alphabet man which word has the most of the alphabet

uh. hm

[inkskinned]

you're grabbing lunch with a nice man and he gives you that strange grimace-smile that's popular right now; an almost sardonic "twist" of his mouth while he looks literally down on you. it looks like he practiced the move as he leans back, arms folded. he just finished reciting the details of NFTs to you and explaining Oppenheimer even though he only watched a youtube about it and hasn't actually seen it. you are at the bottom of your wine glass.

you ask the man across from you if he has siblings, desperately looking for a topic. literally anything else.

he says i don't like small talk. and then he smiles again, watching you.

a few years ago, you probably would have said you're above celebrity gossip, but honestly, you've been kind of enjoying the dumb shit of it these days. with the rest of the earth burning, there's something familiar and banal about dragging ariana grande through the mud. you think about jeanette mccurdy, who has often times gently warned the world she's not as nice as she appears. you liked i'm glad my mom died but it made you cry a lot.

he doesn't like small talk, figure out something to say.

you want to talk about responsibility, and how ariana grande is only like 6 days older than you are - which means she just turned 30 and still dresses and acts like a 13 year old, but like sexy. there's something in there about the whole thing - about insecurity, and never growing up, and being sexualized from a young age.

people have been saying that gay people are groomers. like, that's something that's come back into the public. you have even said yourself that it's just ... easier to date men sometimes. you would identify as whatever the opposite of "heteroflexible" is, but here you are again, across from a man. you like every woman, and 3 people on tv. and not this guy. but you're trying. your mother is worried about you. she thinks it's not okay you're single. and honestly this guy was better before you met, back when you were just texting.

wait, shit. are you doing the same thing as ariana grande? are you looking for male validation in order to appease some internalized promise of heteronormativity? do you conform to the idea that your happiness must result in heterosexuality? do you believe that you can resolve your internal loneliness by being accepted into the patriarchy? is there a reason dating men is easier? why are you so scared of fucking it up with women? why don't you reach out to more of them? you have a good sense of humor and a big ol' brain, you could have done a better job at online dating.

also. jesus christ. why can't you just get a drink with somebody without your internal feminism meter pinging. although - in your favor (and judgement aside) in the case of your ariana grande deposition: you have been in enough therapy you probably wouldn't date anyone who had just broken up with their wife of many years (and who has a young child). you'd be like - maybe take some personal time before you begin this journey. like, grande has been on broadway, you'd think she would have heard of the plot of hamlet.

he leans forward and taps two fingers to the table. "i'm not, like an andrew tate guy," he's saying, "but i do think partnership is about two people knowing their place. i like order."

you knew it was going to be hard. being non-straight in any particular way is like, always hard. these days you kind of like answering the question what's your sexuality? with a shrug and a smile - it's fine - is your most common response. like they asked you how your life is going and not to reveal your identity. you like not being straight. you like kissing girls. some days you know you're into men, and sometimes you're sitting across from a man, and you're thinking about the power of compulsory heterosexuality. are you into men, or are you just into the safety that comes from being seen with them? after all, everyone knows you're failing in life unless you have a husband. it almost feels like a gradebook - people see "straight married" as being "all A's", and anything else even vaguely noncompliant as being ... like you dropped out of the school system. you cannot just ignore years of that kind of conditioning, of course you like attention from men.

"so let's talk boundaries." he orders more wine for you, gesturing with one hand like he's rousing an orchestra. sir, this is a fucking chain restaurant. "I am not gonna date someone who still has male friends. also, i don't care about your little friends, i care about me. whatever stupid girls night things - those are lower priority. if i want you there, you're there."

he wasn't like this over text, right? you wouldn't have been even in the building if he was like this. you squint at him. in another version of yourself, you'd be running. you'd just get up and go. that's what happens on the internet - people get annoyed, and they just leave. you are locked in place, almost frozen. you need to go to the bathroom and text someone to call you so you have an excuse, like it's rude to just-leave. like he already kind of owns you. rudeness implies a power paradigm, though. see, even your social anxiety allows the patriarchy to get to you.

you take a sip of the new glass of wine. maybe this will be a funny story. maybe you can write about it on your blog. maybe you can meet ariana grande and ask her if she just maybe needs to take some time to sit and think about her happiness and how she measures her own success.

is this settling down? is this all that's left in your dating pool? just accepting that someone will eventually love you, and you have to stop being picky about who "makes" you a wife?

you look down to your hand, clutching the knife.