#Reopening School

[ningadudexx]

commissions i did last month!!! thank you so much to everyone ^_^ these were really fun to draw!!

[qiekzart]

day 59 drawing len until my preorder arrives

they should ban me from playing len burns down a school because not a week has passed by without me thinking about it at least once. bad phone art bcuz im a very sleepy little boy and need my nap time sorry!!

requests OPEN oops i accidentally said theyre closed . they arent. im so sorry

[propalitet]

[hyumjim]

Yes “All Men” have “Male Privilege,” whatever “male privilege” means. In my opinion, the reason many of you guys (ie trans man tumblr et al) want to get all hand wringy about this is because you have sort of a moral OCD-inspired approach to social justice and systems of oppression where you think that the more privilege points you have the worse you are as a person and the more “unsafe” you are to be around. This is an inherently flawed approach that takes the worst aspects of identity politics and makes them the arbiter of morality. But you have to understand that there is no such thing as a “safe person” and you cannot determine a person’s threat level by evaluating how much privilege they have access to compared to you. No bad people, no good people, no safe people, no unsafe people. Only people. People interact with systems. Systems can have qualities like bad or good or safe or unsafe. Your worth as a person exists independent of these systems and your position in them. Your guilt and shame over your position in society is not helping you and it’s not helping the people you feel so guilty about. If you are so stuck in fear and horror of harming others then it will be a lot harder for you to recognize and reconcile when you do eventually, inevitably, harm others. If you are at peace with your own potential to harm then you can check yourself without this moral paralysis and it makes it a lot easier to actually do good. I understood for example that when I was a woman I had the potential to harm other people the same as I do now that I am living as a man. It’s not like anything has changed fundamentally about who I am as a person, the core stuff that makes me “me.” I’ll never be a person who has lived the charmed life of a rich white cis straight man etc, but the same is true of most men, and men still have male privilege. “Privilege” isn’t an indictment of a specific individual, it’s not about personal circumstance, it is a simple way of understanding complex social dynamics. (And opinions are divided as to whether it is the best framework or even a good framework to use!) It really should not be a personal issue. Reopen the schools!!!!

[kaitaiga]

I’m starting to think university isn’t for me

[crystallakec]

ok last post for tonight... good night my fellas. pls know that even when i’m not online im’ still always thinking about him!!!!!!!! hang in there my fellow 3 thragg enjoyers we can make it through this cold cold days he’s gonna get so much content one day someday. you have to trust me

[a9saga]

do you ever wonder what max changmin and u-know yunho from tvxq think of yoochun being fired from jyj for using meth

[barkingbarghest]

New house new room new shelf situation. I'm really pleased with it, to the point where I'll just look at my shelves and my stuff and be pleased.

It's nice to look at all my little things and think about what has stayed with me. I remember times and people when I look at them. Like the tennis racket duck that my college roommate gave me, or how upset my mom was that she accidentally broke the TARDIS plate I made in high school. The Overwatch Nerf pistol that I shoot my roommate with.

[todayisafridaynight]

one day ill stop treating aoki like he was a guy i personally knew that died but todays not that day

[mermaidsirennikita]

I've been skimming over my favorite scenes in Thief of Shadows (as one does) and part of why this book is as close to perfect as a romance novel can get is that Isabel is honestly such a great heroine.

And that gets lost in the shuffle a lot, I think, because of course we all love WINTEEEERRRRR (I would kill for Winter Makepeace, don't worry) and he has so many attention-grabbing identifiers—he's a virgin, he's an orphanage master by day and a MASKED VIGILANTE by night, he clearly has a screw loose but is also a deeply good man, etc.

But Isabel is an amazing heroine. She's jaded and very aware that some people (including Winter) see her as a shallow, maybe even somewhat amoral woman, yet she lifts her chin and tries to ignore the times it bothers her, and still keeps doing good. Even if she pretends that she's doing it to accommodate societal expectations, versus because she's actually a good person (she is a good person).

She's almost "good against her own will" in a way a lot of romance heroes are. The woman is raising her dead husband's illegitimate child, and she CLEARLY loves him. And at the same time, she doggedly won't let herself be close to him, both because of the past trauma of her infertility and miscarriages, her knowledge that she can't ever give birth to her own child... and because she's very aware that his mother could take him back at any moment. And when she opens her heart to him, she's putting herself at risk of losing yet ANOTHER child, while also feeling intense shame about her infertility and just assuming it puts her completely out of the running to be with Winter, that it makes her NOT GOOD ENOUGH to be with him because she'd be "denying" him children.

And for all that she's all those deep things, she's also QUITE sexual and unashamed of it. She initiates sex with Winter (the immortal Best Blowjob Ever Written, Probably). She teaches him about sex. She's also extremely funny, with one of my favorite scenes for a heroine being the scene where she deflowers him in a moving carriage, not only because it's super hot and passionate, but because right BEFORE it she's like "WINTER I KNOW YOU WERE THE GHOST DO YOU THINK I JUST GO AROUND SUCKING ANY RANDOM'S DICK????"

And of course, her literally following up his orgasm, within 30 seconds, with "So this dude wants to kill you".

Hoyt is also such a good writer, because you get these details like "Isabel like interior design, and everyone thinks it's because she's flighty and only likes pretty things, and she DOES like pretty things, but it's also her love language because she wants people to be comfortable in her spaces". (And it's important that Winter sees this, because it's one of the first times he really sees HER for who she is, and she DESERVES someone who does that.)

Also, she shoots that guy and is all, "Did I get him? Did I kill him?"

And Winter has to be like, "YOU'RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE" about it because in fact, she did not get that guy, but he really wants to support her dreams.

Idk, I just think she's rather fabulous and doesn't get enough credit for contributing to how great that book is.

[macaronitoutgarni]

Sent an email to my advisor that's basically "Hi, life sucked in august so I'm not done with my work", wish me luck

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: KILLING FLOOR by Lee Child.

This isn't a genre I typically read; HOWEVER!: my dream agent was on an episode of the Writing Excuses podcast about beginnings, and they said this one is Very Good, so I borrowed my dad's paperback copy to give it a whirl.

I'm low-key hoping this will help me sort out some Genre Issues™ I suspect I'm having with a writing project, too, which is a nice added bonus! Excited to see how this goes.

[bunnyb34r]

Fucking hot outside fucking sweaty inside 😩

It's 76 rn inside and like 91 outside. I don't wanna crank the ac bc with my luck I'd trigger a power outage😭😭😭

Uaughhh I hate the heat

[carbonbasedmatter]

school is an escape from home, home is an escape from school

[iqmmir]

girls im feeling horribl

[may-the-gayforce-be-with-you]

What lead my brother to shave his eyebrow