#and not concealing a lie.

[sunsetcurveauto]

"I don't know enough about Edwin's old life to know how or where to find him. But I must find him. He never would have left me of his own free will. We were happy."

Dead Boy Detectives x Stories - Edwin as Prince Hat and Charles as Gary, "Prince Hat Underground (East of the Sun, West of the Moon)"

@deadboyween day 9 - myths/legends

[drdemonprince]

Is it bad if I don't come out because the secrecy of being closeted turns me on?

people who dont come out because being closeted is hot 🤝people who aren't poly because it turns them on to cheat

[booksandteaandstuff]

“Look, someone I used to know would divide people into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie; those who prefer to lie rather than have nothing to hide; and finally those who like lying and concealing at the same time. I’ll let you choose which category fits me best.”

Albert Camus, The Fall

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9780679720225

[dukeofthomas]

The Jason Todd brainrot is real cause when I woke up today I spent an extra hour just lying in my bed and vividly daydreaming about Jason going to therapy

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

[titsthedamnseason]

we need to unpack that ben cobalt plays hockey aka the most violent of all the sports

[lemongogo]

[normalbrothers]

[wheelercore]

Ig i know now (maybe 🥲) what the lie designed to conceal a truth is

Outfits are even paralleled to hopper lying to mike about his nana 💀... and the weird trend of ppl lying about a sick family members

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

a very sad thought that just popped into my head, regarding Snake's comment about orphanages being horrible places... I was worried about it messing with my backstory for Snake, but actually it makes my headcanons even sadder

obviously he was in a terrible orphanage which probably abused and neglected their charges

that's not even the worst part, though, and he doesn't KNOW the worst part

after they were separated, Felicity looked for him everywhere she thought of to look

she never thought to look in circuses, because, well, the idea that her son was some freakshow to be gawked at never occurred to her

but she did look in orphanages, every single one in the area and traveling as far as she thought the people who took him would be willing to go

the orphanage where Snake wound up found his appearance off-putting, and the headmaster/headmistress or caregivers (such as they were, considering the God-awful care they gave) would make sure that nobody who came looking for children would see him

whenever someone came to the orphanage in hopes of adopting children, or in Felicity’s case looking for a missing child, these people would hide Snake in another room until the prospective parent left (with or without a child)

“look at yourself, boy. what parent would pick out a child like you?”

it makes my backstory for him hurt more, because he had a chance to reunite with his mother before he grew up

his mother was in the other room looking for her son, and he didn’t know it

she came looking for her child who’d been kidnapped, and the people who ran the orphanage hid him from her because they thought his appearance would drive people away

the people who took him were responsible for ripping a child away from his mother, but the people who ran the orphanage are at least as culpable for the fact that he went through hell in the following years, tortured and abused instead of with his mother

all because they couldn’t conceive of someone loving a child who looked like Snake.

[pregstiel]

the winchesters: does not contain misha collins tits, rejected en masse by spn fans

gotham knights: contains misha collins tits AND ass. third most popular streaming show on hbo max

[canongf-archive]

@lastgirl0nearth - ven you make it sound so EASY!!! i used to shape and fill in my brows but then i got tired so i just did the natural thing for a while... but now i think i might just stock up on eyebrow products and make the leap. i think you are single handedly convincing me.

[ask-attendant-mansion]

*She brushes off her dress absentmindedly, before staring at Kabocha with curious eyes.*

well, hi there! aren’t you similar? ooh, is that a second pair of arms? that face is a mask, isn’t it? what’s your favorite color?

-🍄

"No, this is my face. No, I do not have a second pair of arms. Yellow. Please vacate this room."

[windupaidoneus]

therapeutic to think about alisaie, nero & emet sitting on a bench together in revtoll waiting while alphinaud, cid & hilde are off to see rowena or rammbroes or some shit & at first the silence is awkward but eventually one of them makes a bitchy comment about Something & it sparks a delightful conversation in which they all both bitch alongside & against each other in a true bonding moment. they deserve at least this

[sapphicides]

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

https://x.com/writingpanini/status/1757447744908595300?s=46

What do you think about this

well, that sure is… a lot.

(it's a big long thread, folks.)

"what if [x] media was inspired by [y] mythology?" is a fun variety of speculation, especially with a series that has borrowed names for Significant Objects from various religions. (the adam & eve trees, the noah ark; the ancient weapons and their confusing trio of greco-roman god names; etc.) if oda's willing to steal names from these myths, why not story beats too?

but i simply do not buy what this person is selling. drawing connections between concepts as broad as 'snake person/god' and 'important tree' in a half dozen religions and taking a handful of lines of dialogue excessively literally, all to claim that the secret world ruler is Literally the Devil (Who Made the Devil Fruits for Some Reason But Only Half of Them) is just too big a reach for me, sorry.