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[Smut MDNI 18+; Established relationship; fem!reader; 3k words] BackwardsCap! Stiles Stilinski didn't mean to worry you. Don't worry, he'll make amends.
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“You could’ve gotten shot?!”
You slapped the table, standing up as Scott spouts excuses. All “I didn’t even want to go in!” and Stiles counters with “Scott found the key! And he wasn’t gonna shoot me!”
You shake your head, trying not to overreact and deciding between if it’s okay now that they’re here and safe or if you should freak out. “Are you kidding?”
Stiles followed your unsure train of thought, “Look, we talked to him, and we left. He was never really gonna shoot us.”
You brushed him off and uncomfortably kept your eyes out the window into the dark. Imagining a gun pointed at your boyfriend and his best friend was already scary, given how often it could happen. He didn’t seem to understand your anxieties being on the outside. He thought the fact that it was over would calm you down. You did, too.
Your big issue was that he didn’t tell you he was about to enter a dangerous situation. You knew what you signed up for in being his girlfriend, but that was one of your requests. That he at least told you so you weren’t left with nothing. He promised you would never be in the dark if he could help it. It was a mutual agreement that you could help, so he’d trust you, and you’d trust him You weren’t mad, but you couldn’t articulate just how you felt. You figured you’d be able to after a night's rest and then some.
“You guys need to get home. It’s late, and your parents are probably worried and clueless.”
Scott nodded and grabbed his coat, but Stiles stood firm in front of you.
“C’mon, can we talk?”
He stepped up to you, hands sliding around your waist and asking for your attention.
You ignored the ploy, “Did you drive Scott here?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, get him home. It’s too late to be out in this town. Please.”
“Okay, okay,” he noted the frantic tone in your voice, emphasized by how much you knew about the supernatural in this town from him. Stiles grabbed his keys and walked with Scott outside. “Love you, honey.”
“Love you.”
And then he came back. You were lying in bed, taking deep breaths and winding down when he knocked. You shot up, sifting through what you know about the supernatural for something that could mimic his knock. You padded over the cold floor to the door and looked through the window at the top. It was Stiles. Of course, it was Stiles.
You opened the door, and Stiles stepped inside without hesitation. As you were closing and locking the door, he pulled you by the waist into him. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. Don’t be mad at me.”
“Stiles, I’m not mad. I just- I wish I weren’t left so clueless. I hate looking stupid, and then you come to me with something like this. I would feel much better if I had known you were going into that, I could’ve been prepared.”
Stiles smoothed your hair behind your ears, “I know it was stupid, and you should not have to suffer because of it.”
“I’m not saying you can’t go out and do whatever you want like you did before. I won’t ever want to change that. I don’t want to be the overbearing girlfriend who mothers you. I’m just– What if you go out there and get shot or hurt or worse, and I’m not there to help? I don’t want to be clueless and helpless when it comes to you. You know I’ll always be here for anything, and I can try to chill out, but-“
“Listen, you don’t need to do anything. I didn’t text you. That’s my fault. I agreed to let you know if I had planned anything stupid and failed. I wish you wouldn’t have to worry, but I’d do the same thing if it were reversed. I’m glad I have you on my side, okay? I’ll do better, I’m sorry.”
You huffed, not satisfied with him taking the full weight of shame that comes with an apology. “I just care about you. And Scott. I guess.”
He smiled and kissed your cheek, “Thank you.”
Another kiss, followed by several more peppered around your face, punctuated with, “Thank you, thank you, thank you-“
You cracked a smile and limply attempted to push him away. He shook his head, languidly walking you back from the front door into the kitchen. His lips followed in pace, listlessly pressed against your temple.
“I should’a known better. Should’a known you wouldn’t be satisfied with that.” He mumbled as he guided your hips to the counter. “Not my girl.”
“Well, it’s your girl’s bedtime.”
Stiles kissed behind your ear, just where he could reach, while he spoke in your ear. His voice was the same tone he used when he spoke up an innocent excuse, just a few octaves lower and so, so close. “Is it?”
“Yes, and you know how I get without sleep.”
You could practically hear him bare his teeth in a grin, his fingers tracing just beneath the hemline of your shirt, “How do you get?”
You laughed and pulled his hands away from your stomach, holding them in yours. He looked down at you, barely hiding how his eyes flicked to your lips every few seconds before ducking his head down into your neck. He subconsciously leaned into you, pressing your lower back into the counter. You felt him inhale deeply, his lips pressed into a spot just under where you applied your perfume. He went after the scent, however faded it was, and you felt him push his face deeper. His nose, his broad smile, his eyelashes all against your neck. He licked that spot on your throat before kissing it gratefully. His head dipped with each movement of his jaw, sucking at the point where he could feel your pulse on his lips. His fingers aimlessly tangled with yours on the counter behind you.
You had to give it to him. He could be reckless. Sometimes, it was hard to be his girlfriend, but he always made it up to you. He’d realized how little he’d been getting a hold of you and spend the next few days and nights with you, making sure you could see how much he loved you. He was erratic, but he wasn’t inconsistent with that part. He wasn’t on and off checking texts or stopping by; he was always committed to that, and it never stopped, but there were exceptions. Of course, you knew what you signed up for. He was worth it, you trusted him, and he was really good at making it up to you.
You brought your hand to the back of his neck, knocking his baseball cap sideways on his head. “M’sorry.”
Stiles bent slightly, hooking his hands on the backs of your thighs and lifting you up to sit on the counter. His smile hooked at the side, making every look of insane emotion sort of playful. He reached up, taking the hat off when you stopped him, “Keep it on.”
“Yeah?” His smirk grew more confident, a look you didn’t often see on the genuine side.
“Mhm. It’s hot.”
Stiles’s smile broke into a grin, although he was sort of distracted by the hickeys he’d left on your neck. Repeating what you say as fact, he let his eyes wander, “It’s hot.”
Your laugh pulled him back in, along with you grabbing a fistful of his flannel, “Very hot, sweetheart. Can you please fuck me now?”
It took him a second to think of a response, of course, after every thought he had was replaced with your words. “I can definitely do that.”
You helped him take his shirt off, repositioning the hat backward on his head after his shirt hit the floor. He smiled as you kissed his cheek and hooked your thumbs under his jeans, Mumbling against your lips as they traveled across his face and down to his neck, touching down every so often. Mumbling about how he’d wear whatever you told him if you liked it. Stopping you from doing any heavy lifting, he gently withdrew your hands from his waistband and led you to crawl into your bed. Instructing you to just sit there and look pretty, he slowly stepped out of his jeans and kneeled on the bed to help you with your shirt. At the pace he had going, by the time he had his eyes glued to your chest, you were already pushing your shorts down. When he saw your impatience, he chuckled and watched you struggle to maneuver them off underneath him. You huffed and gave up, moving your arms out of the way.
“Atta girl.”
Your interest in his new look made him cocky. The attitude that came with it was no doubt attractive. You found yourself searching for more openings for him to use his confidence and for you to encourage it. You started by humming at the praise, watching him drop your shorts off the side of the bed. At the same time Stiles leaned down to kiss you, your hands flattened against his lower stomach, against his happy trail. You both let out respective sounds of need, and Stiles’s hips lowered between your legs. With the feeling of his dick through the thin material of his boxers came your hips bucking softly. He opened his mouth and closed his eyes slowly, huffing out what was going to be a grunt. “Shit, honey. You make it so easy, don’t you?”
You hummed in response, letting him press himself into you and tell you fondly exactly what a guy like him should do to keep a girl like you happy. “I didn’t just know what I should just do with you, y’know. I thought about it a lot.” Stiles’s mouth turned up when he saw you weren’t really focused on his words. He leaned in, “Like a lot.”
“Mhm, just—“
“Alright, I know. You like it when I talk to you, though, right?”
“Yeah, honey. I like it.” You smiled up at him, the gears turning in his head. Stiles slowly dipped his head to your chest, sucking another mark into where the skin got plush. His eyes tracked yours, doing as much as he could while keeping your eyes on him. You’d been so frustrated lately, not just with Stiles. School issues, problems at work. The stress was irritating, but you couldn’t imagine what Stiles was going through. That understanding was a bare minimum in your mind, but for Stiles, you were the most considerate person in the world. He didn’t want to make you feel like he was just using you because you were available. So, he made sure to check every box he could for you.
“Fuckin’ love you.” He bit the breath coming out into his lip, and his eyelashes fluttered. He was doing everything to keep his eyes open and watch you. You mumbled it back, eyes squeezed shut as he thrust steadily, but he leaned his way into kissing your temple. “What was that? I’m sorry, honey, I can’t hear you.”
You cracked a smile; that’s all he wanted, but you ventured to use your hand buried in his hair to push his head back down so that his ear was by your lips. You held down a moan, replacing it with, “I love you, too.”
It came out with the same needy tone, though, and he found your mouth to kiss his smile onto yours. While he took a second to hold himself up and take a deep breath, your cheek rested against his wrist. When he felt you gently take his wrist between your teeth jokingly, he looked down and chuckled. “I deserve that. I’ll be a better boyfriend, promise.”
“Honey—“ You began, not wanting him to wallow in self-created guilt.
“I know, but still. Just let me…” Stiles’s smile opened as he moved his hips forward, hand molded around your thigh. He pushed himself deeper into you, eyes erratically trying to find something to focus on. Your face, your chest, your hands, down to where you took his dick so well, his eyes got overwhelmed. But he wasn’t going to close them. He’s not an idiot. He couldn’t figure out which would make him cum first. Closing his eyes and imagining you doing the thousand other things you had talked about, or keeping them open and watching you try to smile up at him through the haze, also struggling to keep your eyes up. It didn’t help that you tend to whine for him, showcasing how blank your mind really was. His thumb was less circling your clit than just trying to savor how messy he’d gotten you. He fed into his curiosity, which he would’ve done regardless of how good it made you feel, but especially because you arched your back off of the bed and pushed your hips up, meeting his thrusts, letting him bury himself deeper.
He encouraged you, feeling the need start to deepen, pushing him harder. He was driven, you’d told him, thank god he didn’t gamble. Anything verbal was hopeless. He just mumbled emphatically at each movement. He opened his mouth, a clue he was almost there. He just needed a little more. Just having him like that made you clench yourself around him, moaning when he almost lost his hold of himself above you.
“You gotta…” He almost ’woofed’ out his breath. “Fuck, honey, y’take it so good.”
His voice cracked on ‘honey,’ and you could see it sort of shook his confidence. He’d never really said anything like that with you. He was the first in the relationship to be vocal about most things. He said he loved you first, despite all the inner turmoil, even if it was sort of an accident. It was your encouragement that made him say it, your reaction to his confident demeanor. You saw an opening to make him feel good about himself; you took it. His eyes closed, gears turning and undoubtedly overthinking what he just said, but you said his name, prompting him to open his eyes and look at you.
With a sort of assured grin, you nodded at him, “Keep going. Wanna hear how well I take it.”
He mirrored your smile, getting shy about it, but his next thrust had him to the hilt and holding it there. You yelped a little at the feeling of him holding you, of him driven into you and bracing you while you squirmed. You moaned, and he twitched, hearing it sound like he’d knocked the wind from you. “Look at you. Fuck, you’re doing so good. Just like that for me.”
Mewling his name, extremities limp, you let him see exactly how much you liked seeing him try new things. He liked the way you tightened around his dick when he pushed himself inside little by little until you started to reach for his arm, and he’d stop there. You strained a little, taking deep breaths, the muscles in your stomach contracting and squeezing your cunt around him. You came around him, cursing and fawning. Stiles let out a groan that turned into useless and incomprehensible praise. His hips slowly retracted, slowly met yours again, speeding up until he found the release he was chasing. He struggled to keep the pace, though. He’d revert back to his other method, get restless, and try to keep up with his needs.
When Stiles came, his chest was pressed down against yours. All he had to do was turn his head, and he was kissing your neck again, breathing harshly. He built up the strength to roll over beside you and rest his head on your shoulder. He looked up at you with a little exhaustion when you sat up and brushed your fingers through his hair, the baseball cap forgotten for the time being. His fatigue was clear in his voice when he spoke, and he let his head roll off of your shoulder. “I’ll be better.”
You tilted your head, about to comment how what he just did was pretty damn good, but more than grateful he could recognize how stressed his being in danger made you. You leaned down to kiss his nose, laughing when he tried to croon his neck so that you met his lips. You reached over the side of the bed, your fingers finding the soft material of Stiles’s shirt and pulling it over your head. You managed to find his boxers as well, frowning when a hand took them from you. Stiles put them back on, still lying down and tired. You moved to sit on your heels next to him on the bed, your hand softly tracing shapes into his chest. Stiles tried really hard to keep his eyes open, but you ran your hand over his torso and up through his hair in a way you knew would put him out. He tried to keep talking, but every “mhmph” felt like a monumental effort from his entire body. He ended up letting you trace the veins on his arm while he listened to you, being soothed to silence and held just over the edge of sleep by your voice and your hands. When you finally lay down next to him, Stiles had fallen asleep. He liked waking up to find you had slid yourself into his arms after making him so pliable. Of course, you got a notification and had to check it before you went to sleep for the night, and, of course, it was Scott. He was asking why Stiles hadn’t been responding to his calls or texts and that he had a few ideas they could look over with Derek. You messaged him back that he’d been busy. That you both had been busy with heavy implications in the message. You sent a picture of Stiles fast asleep to help explain how you had put him to bed. Scott’s plain reply of “oh” was enough closure for you to put the phone down for the night.
#stiles stilinski x reader#stiles stilinski#teen wolf#teen wolf stiles#fem reader#dylan o’brien#dylan obrien#stiles stilinksi fanfiction#backwards hat stiles#smut#stiles stilinski x you#stiles x reader#✰lucky writes
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not to be aggressively southern on main but ppl who think that singing with a twang and saying yeehaw to whatever beat they threw together automatically makes it a country song or even a country fusion………… this is simply not the case
#also making fun of country music is just not it man#like yes absolutely most mainstream stadium country artists are embarrassing bootlickers pandering to the least common denominator#but the genre as a whole has a very rich and diverse history and the way ppl throw it under the bus is the exact way they throw#all southern folks under the bus for the fact that they think we’re all backwards and bigoted#and I’m just. I know I’m not articulating this well but like#country music is an art form as much as any other genre and throwing on a cowboy hat and butchering an accent you’ve never heard irl#is just hollow and comes across so strongly as one big joke where the punchline is ‘some people sing like this unironically!!#and those idiots actually like it!!’#and I’m not even much of a country fan but it’s so clearly malicious towards southern and rural cultures that it’s just#come on. be better than this. be better than them.#personal
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the other day i walked around the golden lake w my love and the sun was setting hot and orange and we watched a brown duck preening through the weeds, ducking her head under the dark water. the cool lake swallowed up my tired feet to the ankles and we counted the dog walkers with their curly panting doodles and their handsome german shepherds and their whip smart little terriers and we admired the careful construction of a sand castle whose moat held determinedly against the lapping of the waves. we could feel in our chests the persistent thunderous thumping of celebratory music at the finish line of the lakeside 5k, welcoming each gasping runner across its bounds. and i felt like crying. i felt like curling into myself and crying. we walked through the swamp of the bird sanctuary afterwards and listened to the woods sing and croak and groan and then we went and got ube and yuzu gelato and devoured it suntired and sweating on the couch in our living room. and i was so overcome w a deep and true unshakeable happiness and a sort of confused grief that i wanted to sob and sob and sob.
#i am so happy for the first time in my entire life#a consistent and true joyfulness#i am in love w my life#i want to stick around to see it#and i mean that w my entire being for the first time in my whole life#and to say that means confronting the first 24 years of my life where that wasn’t true#where i was miserable and heartbroken and unkind and dishonest and cruel#and i didn’t want to be alive#even when i was doing well i still didn’t want to be alive#for 24 years.#i had no fucking idea being alive could be so easy. i had no idea.#i want to hold myself and tell them i want to wrap myself up and say it will be BETTER#it will be so so far from perfect but it will be so so good you just have to hold on#i am so happy but i am mourning#i don’t know how to articulate it at all i just feel#happy but grieving#i LOVE this new city we live in i LOVE it here#i like my job enough to stand it for enough hours a week to get by#i have the time and the energy to throw myself into hobbies like knitting and cooking#i watch one or two good movies a week#i eat delicious food i’ve made and from restaurants we want to try#i’m IN LOVE. with my girlfriend in a way that’s so overwhelming and unlike anything i’ve ever felt that words don’t do it justice#i have friends who are gentle and patient with me when it’s hard for me to reach out#i am fighting agoraphobia tooth and fucking nail and i’m seeing the world and experiencing it#i laugh every day!!!! every single day!!!!#i have a goofy wonderful dog and an incredibly sweet cat#i talk to my baby brother all the time and he tells me he loves me and he’s graduating college soon and i’m so fucking proud#i wish i would’ve known how good it would all become#i wish i could’ve known#personal
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violently forcing myself to have better days
#everyone’s different and this isn’t true for everybody of course:#but a lot of the time we have more control over things than we can see in a difficult moment#like for example#a negative thought is inevitable and not something you can just stop. however you CAN decide from there how you let it effect you#it’s way easier said than done but you genuinely can be like hey I’m going to have a good day today#I like to set my intentions for the day and not allow my trauma nightmares to dictate how my whole day goes#but in order to do that I have to consciously decide that I deserve better and then create that for myself#does this make sense?#do things you know you enjoy/ things that make you feel better. take care of yourself. create little healthy routines to do each day#even if it’s just for 5 or 10 minutes#you have to act to make a genuine positive change in your life and circumstances#tried to say this as well as I could but I struggle w articulating exactly what I mean#like my thoughts are too complex to translate into words#anyways though I just wanted to add this- this post is not to make anybody feel bad whatsoever.#if you struggle with certain disorders and such it genuinely might be close to impossible for you to actually be able to have that control#and that’s okay. it doesn’t make you any less of a person and it is not your fault that you experience those difficulties#I just wanted to remind people that it is possible to control certain aspects of your life and it is possible to snap yourself out of it#I know I need to remember this as often as I can#that’s why I shared it#I hope this makes sense I do not know if it does lmao#(the tags)#my thoughts are so jumbled up. idk what other word to use lmao
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There has been so much excellent discussion on my dash this morning, especially musing on the privacy vs secret thing, and once again thinking about how strange it must be to go from thinking “I must shrink myself and avoid public sightings for the sake of my sanity and personhood” to realizing that perhaps you are shrinking yourself in public specifically because the person you’re with doesn’t (or people you’re with don’t) want your personhood to infringe on their peace of mind 😵💫
#I don’t know if I’m articulating this well#but it’s like#thinking that hiding is what you need to do to be ‘normal’ and facing the limelight makes you and your life abnormal#to realizing that the hiding isn’t being done for your benefit but for the other person’s#even if it exacerbates your own shame idk#(and yes I know the flip side is that the publicity can make the other person feel uncomfortable)#(but then at that point it’s figuring out ways that you can both enjoy your lives without feeling like you’re slicing up yourself)#(or going your separate ways because it’s an impasse)#(the worst outcome is the person making you feel bad for making the choice)#idk it’s the ‘is it your anxiety that’s stopping you from giving me everything or do you just not want to’ of it all#possible ttpd insight lol
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sighs. thinking about bare again…..
#bird noises#bare: a pop opera#been a MINUTE since i thought about that musical#currently have are you there on the brain……#DO YOU KNOW WELL OF COURSE YOU DO WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE AFRAID#THAT NOTHING WILL BECOME OF ALL THE PLANS THAT YOU HAVE MADE#SO I WATCH THE GIRLS SURROUND HIM AND HE SAYS ITS JUST A GAME#I GUESS THAT I BELIEVE HIM BUT IT HURTS ME JUST THE SAME#AND IM ALL ABOUT THIS STUPID ACT SO WHO AM I TO BLAMEEEEEEE#ARE YOU THERE? ARE YOU THERE? DO YOU WATCH ME WHEN I CRY#AND IF ITS IN YOUR POWER HOW CAN YOU SIT IDLY BY#IVE TRIED TO FIND THE MEANING GOD YOU KNOW HOW HARD IVE TRIED#BUT I DONT KNOW WHERE IM GOING AND I DONT HAVE ANY GUIDE#sigh#i love bare soooo much#i’m firmly agnostic but that musical does make me feel a certain type of way that i cannot articulate at 1am#my favorite bootleg got taken down years ago and i have NEVER recovered#it was a very good show & the bootlegger put in silly commentary at times#which was alarming to see as we approached the end/the play performance and the notes got Real Ominous#and i was seeing it for the first time#speaking of which 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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#let his show die I hate how he be talking to the women who guest on there#he tried to do it to katt Williams as well but he had to let him know that he wasn’t the one#I feel like he’ll probably try to be a perv/freaky old guy towards her as well#all of these dudes do#Megan no 😭#rambling#Shannon also isn’t the best interviewer and ask really stupid questions and tries to argue with his guests about their OWN experiences a#lot as well especially if he’s interviewing a woman so this is going to be annoying af#I’m dreading him bringing up the assault… he’s not the most articulate when it comes to stuff like this (not to sound antiblack but he’s 🚬)#he’s just an old nigga with a white partner who laughs at black women so#well not laugh but he doesn’t take them seriously#Amanda seals is… but the interview that she did with Shannon was hard to watch bro he really does not know how to interview women who don’t#bow down and suck it up#I haven’t seen the Monique one but I learned that he kept on trying to over talk her and stuff as well and even more so#all he does in his interviews his buck dance for white people and gaslight the people he’s interviewing especially black women so I’m not#looking forward to this I kind of hate this for Megan sm omg#who decided this… I hope she walks out if he starts asking her dumbass questions
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i cannot keep quiet any longer. i just gotta say please it is 2024 we have come so far you guys have gotta learn more about dinosaurs and quite frankly a ton of prehistoric lifeforms beyond the mostly outdated shit in Jurassic Park and other cheap sci-fi films. like i say this as a huge Jurassic fan you have to understand that the movie franchise is based in “rule of cool” what can be a marketable toy and what makes a fun action sequence. paleo nerds: stop arguing about what is and isn’t “accurate” in the films; they are not supposed to be accurate they are supposed to make money your arguments are by nature pointless, redundant, and annoying as hell. non dino nerds: please do not have a movie made 30 years ago be your source of knowledge for real, previously living animals, in the same way you shouldn’t have Jaws be your source for sharks. pirate both seasons(?) of Prehistoric Planet, check out books at your local library, read peer-reviewed scientific articles, visit your local museums and ask questions. if i see one more thing about t. rex being unable to see movement, velociraptor being six feet tall, dilophosaurus having frills and venom, humans loving alongside dinosaurs, or spinosaurus looking like that i am going to lose it. like i know a lot of modern animals have misinformation spread about them and people who study them or just care about them work hard to educate people ig i am just extra passionate as someone who’s spent their whole life being as up to date as possible about not just dinosaurs but an incredibly wide variety of mostly Mesozoic creatures it just hurts to see how many people just don’t know or care about them outside of how cool they look on screen. like there were so many people arguing against the feathers (which doesn’t even apply to most dinosaurs) because it was ruining their childhoods and making dinosaurs uncool when that’s literally just what they looked like, like this isn’t a shitty sequel or reboot this is new information about real life animals you can’t argue against it. they get treated like kaiju that paleontologists are designing rather than animals we’re learning more about.
#dinosaurs are my one and only special interest#like everything else you see me post about are just regular interests that come and go#but i have made these creatures (specifically ceratopsids)#my entire life since i was like four#learning about life that came before us and the evolutionary paths these animals and others took helps is better understand ourselves#and modern animals as well#understanding the patterns around extinction help us know what was more ‘inevitable’ and what is directly caused by human interference#knowing what kinds of animals have been around for millions of years largely unchanged vs what’s completely ‘new’#we talk about learning about the past in terms of human history but we should also include the millions years before humans and even mammals#i should not be doing this rant ag 2:30 in the morning cuz i’m not as articulate but it needs to be said#cuz i am genuinely sick of seeing such severe misinformation go largely unchallenged#dinosaurs
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it drives me nuts how it feels like you can’t talk about certain feminist issues anymore without inevitably getting called a TERF even if you’re not one. like I hate TERFs and I think the pushback against them is fully justified but sometimes it feels as if, in our efforts to make bigots unwelcome, we’ve unintentionally ceded ground to them and made it so people think of TERFs when they think of feminists. which is the opposite of what we want.
your feminism has to be intersectional but like, that means acknowledging that not all women are going to have the same kinds of problems. gay women and straight women have lots of issues that will never overlap. same with women of color and white women. I don’t think it should be controversial to recognize that the same is true for trans women + AFAB people and cis women. I think it’s okay for some conversations to only focus on one or the other.
idk this is mostly a problem I see in left leaning spaces bc the conversation in broader society already mainly focuses on feminism in white cishet terms but the answer isn’t to do a whole 180 and shut down conversations about issues that primarily impact cis women and AFAB people and make people nervous about talking about those issues, the answer is to continually affirm that trans women are women regardless of AGAB.
#idk if I’m making sense I just catch myself feeling on edge whenever feminist topics come up#bc even if I know the person isn’t a TERF my brain has started to make that association#I’m not even sure if it’s ultimately a matter of cis and trans issues#it may just simply be a matter of like. people have become oversensitive to TERF dog whistles and rhetoric#to the point where they think it’s TERFy to talk about like. FGM or forced birth or other issues that only AFAB ppl will face#most of whom are women statistically speaking#anyway take this with a grain of salt I’m v tired and not articulating well#personal#erika's blog and bar
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#I’ve realize I am likely an outlier in this regard and I want to confirm#also it’s hard for me to even answer cause like I talk to myself in public with other people present but like.#my volume depends on the conversation. also how articulate I am depends on the conversation#cause like. idk I won’t think in words very well unless I vocialize it or write it down#and if im on the go or just like existing that usually means talking to myself#I’ve realized that like 99% of other ppl I know don’t do this or at least don’t do it as brazenly as I do#and it makes sense why random ppl sometimes act like I’m off putting or weird or think I’m mentally ill (they’re not wrong lol)#but I didn’t really realize other ppl didn’t do this until recently and I’m like oh#but I wanna know how many ppl DO do this but mask it better than me vs how many people just… don’t#vs how many ppl just don’t#polls#tumblr polls#mental illness#neurodivergent#talking to myself#talking to yourself#googoogajoob
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Not to get Sad but like. I miss not knowing what’s going on with gymnastics in a way lmao? Like I peer pressured (complimentary, pat-on-back celebration worthy 😎) some of my normie friends into getting bama szn tix and I brought them to a meet last year and they were so so jazzed about like. ALL of it.
In a way I do understand bc it’s all just so impressive to Normies who mostly can’t even touch their toes let alone do a passable cartwheel etc so like EVERYTHING is awesome by default. And that’s not true of basketball football etc like most able bodied people can do the basics of those sports even if their performance is terrible. Most people can throw a ball or dribble it even if they suck, or carry it and run at some speed. But yeah ykwim
Like one of my friends, his favorite skill is a double pike on floor. He just thinks it’s the most impressive thing and he loves watching it every single time, he doesn’t know shit about difficulty ratings he’s just watching what’s in front of him and in a way I’m extremely jealous of him 😭😭😭😭
#I got kind of into diving in Tokyo and part of me wants to Learn about it but another part of me knows that might ruin the magic#and it makes me fucking sad ???? idk how to articulate this#like I’m an Informed Person I do NAWT like to live in ignorance. but there’s the adage ‘ignorance is bliss#FOR A REASON UNFORTCH#re: my friend with a double pike kink. I showed him a video of trin’s DLO (ncaa goated) (generally goated as well)#and explained the difference btwn the double tuck pike and LO. like the difficulty ratings and why#and he was like. I get what ur saying but I still just like that one [the double pike] more. it’s so cool#like…. god I wish that were me.jpg
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also sabine calling ahsoka “master” in the trailer mmmmmmm don’t know how i feel about that. don’t think i like it. it’s a trailer so things are obvs spliced together in a certain way, but implying that they’re trying to make sabine as a jedi??
now i love that at the end of rebels, ezra left his lightsaber with sabine and she still uses it. but introducing formal training for her?? idk it feels like they’re sidelining her mandalorian heritage, and if they make her force sensitive istg. like if they wanted to have ahsoka walk away from someone again, jacen or ezra was right there (ezra more in the sense of abandoning him in wild space, which still happened :/ ). idk trying to give ahsoka an apprentice and it being sabine is just meh. like reducing sabine to the role of an apprentice also just makes me feel like dave didn’t trust her to be interesting enough otherwise for more casual viewers, which is so disrespectful of the rebels source material
#i dunno if this is articulated super well#but i just don’t know if i like this#i mean i don’t have high expectations anyway. but this is just mmm. no#dave. I’m gonna hunt you for sport btw#the rebels disrespect already is not surprising but extremely disappointing#sabine wren#swr#star wars rebels#ahsoka series#ahsoka spoilers#star wars
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Not crying and being guilt ridden again :))))))
#tgdposts#personal#when I can’t articulate to people around me so it results in my mind confronting me#(confronting is a strong word here but I digress)#about me struggling to make any decision regarding my future#and on a lesser note being guilt ridden when I’m unable to meet with people because I’m trying to be productive but then I’m unable to be#productive and oh why weren’t we able to meet up but if I share it it just seems like I was being fucking lazy and fuck I hate this#and fuck it’s hard to talk to my dad like he’s a nice guy but I know he doesn’t really understand and sometimes it’s just hard to explain#things with the weight they have in my heart you know?#it’s so hard to explain that I’m not just procrastinating or being a jobless useless bum I don’t even know how to bring that up#and even if doc gives me ideas things to help me those are still things I need to implement myself and that too is hard to initiate#and talking about all of it just makes me feel like a guilty useless shithead#and I know it’s not true but that doesn’t make me feel it any less#from the outside of my brain it just seems like I’m making up my own problems#how do you even talk about that#anyway#I’m going to bed now I’m tired#if you read this I appreciate you for listening to me#you guys are great#<3#mental illness#I guess might as well tag it as this#rant#vent#vent post#summer is lowkey my worst season mentally lowkey which is kind of sad if you think about it
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I find it really interesting that in the “anger” playlist intro she says that the common thing about all the songs was that she wrote them while she was feeling anger. This particularly intrigues me about the folklore and evermore songs, because they’re the more clearly fictionally-cloaked songs (other than maybe mad woman). Because it makes me wonder what, ahem, personal situations from her past she was drawing from to write those that made her feel that anger (again other than mad woman, which is pretty obvious). Like, yes they are characters and inspired by other stories but they’re clearly… infused.
#Like what was making her feel that at that particular point#and I know that some of them are pretty easy to guess#(eg would assume illicit affairs would be about situation where she’d been treated like a dirty secret by any of the men she’d been with)#(Tolerate it again could be about many of the men in her life who have belittled her)#(Mad woman is likely the masters situation)#(exile is… more nebulous)#(but again other than mad woman which was still so fresh at the time)#(I’m just curious if anything else… triggered feelings)#i'm not articulating this well i know#ttpd playlists
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shadow having days where he’s more kid than adult, and more adult than kid
but also days where he’s more maria than shadow
#on account of having her soul and all#it’s not so much a matter of her soul having its own consciousness and influencing his decisions#so much as it’s just him deliberately tending toward things She liked instead of prioritizing his usual preferences#and by that i primarily mean the easiest way to tell he’s having one of those days is by the food he gets#he doesn’t Dislike any particular food but he does tend to find sweets boring#so if he’s ordering sweet/fruity things then it’s probably One Of Those Days.#shadow who would normally order a hearty breakfast instead getting something like a strawberry/banana crepe for example#but then stealing a cherry tomato off his friend's plate (with permission) and having his usual Fancy Coffee#because even if he’s having One Of Those Days#he still knows it’s more of a compulsion and he’s not actually being influenced in some physical sense with altered preferences/behavior#at the end of the day he himself still prefers those more complex earthy flavors#but treating that maria side of his soul is what feels Right at that moment#sacrificing a tiny amount of his own comfort for the memory of hers#that kind of thing#idk if i’m making sense it’s a weirdly difficult thing to articulate#and i don’t think he’d be able to explain it either#it's just something about him that no one would even necessarily pick up on#unless they knew him INCREDIBLY well#second chance au#shadow the hedgehog#sea talks
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i’m feeling soooo nervous for my assessment monday. we’re going to review my answers to the questionnaires i was given and i’m worried i’m going to clam up on the spot and not be able to justify myself at all
#which is why i wrote 300 pages of notes in preparation#but what if she doesn’t believe me because i can’t articulate myself well#i was talking to my bf about this earlier and how i’m worried i’m not going to walk away with a diagnosis if i can’t communicate myself#to her in our meeting. and then realized wait. why am i so worried about not being able to communicate#LOL i’m probably fine. but like what if i’m making it all up and/or i can’t get her to believe me#idk she does. bc she asked if i’ve had staring spells and i said yeah since like 1st grade#and my dad said he hadn’t noticed me doing that. and then she was like ‘well she must have done a really good job hiding it.#which is what she wanted.’ so she KNOWS i’ve been masking#idk. it’s just wild. this is the most insane thing i’ve ever gone through
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