#and very easily...

[maddie-grove]

As someone who’s living with a middle school social studies teacher, all the posts along the lines of “why did we never learn about this historical event in school” just make me go “because your teacher was supposed to cover all of US history in one year, and they didn’t get to the Revolutionary War until Halloween because they were urged to slow down the progression of the lessons because a more senior teacher was running behind, and they didn’t get to the Civil War until Valentine’s Day because the school kept scheduling every special event during social studies because there’s no end-of-grade testing for that subject, and they didn’t get to WWI until May because they were sick for a few days and the substitute couldn’t do much more than babysit, and now they’re having to do the entire Cold War in two days, so that’s why you didn’t hear about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut. They would have loved to tell you about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut!”

[bloodysparklez]

guys help the protagonist isn't supposed to like me, what did i do??!? ;-;

[trans-androgyne]

Something left out of conversations about trans oppression is that times change quickly and the way trans men and trans women are treated today is very different than how they were treated 100, 50, or even 20 years ago.

Maybe 50 years ago a trans woman could practically never get a legal job or housing if people knew they were trans, but today there are plenty of trans women who hold down jobs and homes just fine. As much as conservatives are trying to change this, they can no longer be legally arrested for wearing women's clothing either. And in 1950 maybe trans men and mascs were out of the public eye besides the occasional freakshows and shocking newspaper articles but by now we're heavily fearmongered about by conservatives in a way that genuinely influences policy and trans rights. When the book coining transmisogyny was written in 2007 claiming transmascs were never ridiculed for their masculinity, there was practically no representation of transmascs in media whether positive or negative, and that is very much no longer the case now in 2024 where there are books and documentaries calling us delusional little autistic girls.

Knowing trans history is important, but if you only ever evaluate trans community dynamics through the experiences of historical trans people, your transfeminism will forever be outdated.

[prokopetz]

I mean, treating yaoi as the opposite of yuri just doesn't make sense mathematically: boys are not the inverse of girls. The actual opposite of yuri would somehow have to involve fewer than zero girls, and that's not an easy thing to characterise.

[beybuniki]

nosy

[contactlessdrivethru]

there is something unique and deeply special about monkey d luffy as a protagonist. he’s overwhelmingly ADORED by the fandom. he’s consistently the most or at least top 3 most popular characters in the whole series. peoples takes about him are gushingly positive. and that’s… really uncommon.

a LOT of fandoms i’ve witnessed or been in have a tendency to favor characters other than the main character. especially in anime. the main characters are often written as a blank slate for readers/watchers to project onto, but that makes them not as interesting and so they don’t get the fan attention.

but luffy is so far from that. and he’s ALWAYS been this way. we love him so much. he’s the heart of the story and the heart of the fandom in every single way. and i think that speaks to how well-written he is as a character. he’s fun and charming and complex and interesting and he makes us laugh and cry and cheer and hope and love. he’s able to inspire so much joy in people, both in his world but also in this one. and i think that’s really special. i feel so grateful to have found this story that means so much to me, and i’m so grateful that luffy exists.

[frogfacey]

swinging a bat at a hornets nest and all that but I can't believe some ppl will see a character who, when you look them for more than two seconds, was in the text assigned male at birth and because of this spends the entire narrative being miserable as a man and feels failed by and is accused of failing at the expectations of masculinity and is trapped in a set of unspoken societal rules that he feels he has no hope of escaping and their first thought is "I think he's transmasc!"

[kennahjune]

ALRIGHT BUT

I’ve been having flustered Steve thoughts.

The Party has NEVER seen Steve flustered. Steve’s always the one flirting and no one ever flirts back anymore so Steve’s never actually flustered.

But then Eddie Munson comes slithering along and he flirts with everyone just cause he can but nobody’s flustered by his attempts because he’s not trying to actually fluster them.

But for some reason he really flusters Steve.

Eddie uses this to his advantage and actually puts forth effort when he flirts with Steve.

Steve is flustered, bashful, embarrassed. He’s twirling his hair and giggling and he does this thing where he taps his fingernails on his front teeth when he gets distracted.

The Party was NEVER seen Steve like this.

Not even Nancy when they were dating.

Steve has described what he was like when he was flustered to them, calling himself stupid and saying he acted like an idiot to try and get them to just lay off.

All anyone sees is an absolute sweetheart.

Steve blushes really bright, starting with his ears and it just travels down from there. And also he’s really bad at hiding his smiles and he smiles so BIG when Eddie flirts with him. Like you can see every tooth and his eyes crinkle so much they basically close and his nose scrunches up.

And Eddie fucking THRIVES in it.

Because NO ONE else gets Steve like that.

Eddie’s witnessed Steve flirting with the girls of Hawkins. Has seen them all flirt back with varying degrees of bluntness.

None of them have gotten Steve nearly half as flustered as Eddie has.

UNTIL.

Eddie has Steve come over to the trailer to hang out. Steve by some turn of events ends up cooking and making grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Wayne comes home right as Steve is playing everything and Steve is DISTRAUGHT. Like “no Wayne it’s alright, really. I can make you some to it’s ok I like cooking you’re really doing me a favor.”

So Steve makes Wayne a grilled cheese to and refuses to let Eddie eat until they can eat together.

So they’re all sitting and then they start eating. And obviously it was a damn good grilled cheese— Eddie knew Steve could cook but good GOD.

And then Wayne puts his grilled cheese down, looks between Steve and Eddie, and tells Eddie “If you don’t marry ‘im I’m adoptin ‘im.”

And Steve BEAMS.

It’s that same smile he gets when Eddie flirts with him and Eddie is only somewhat livid.

Cause he totally gets the rush of having Wayne compliment you for the first time. He’s just such an honest man.

And it goes from there that the only people who can fluster Steve are Eddie and Wayne (Eddie romantically and Wayne platonic-fatherly).

They both go out of their way to compliment him constantly just to see him smile like that :)))

Aaahhhhh this makes me so happy!!!!

[bamsara]

Bit of a extreme situation happening to family friend right now, dude doesnt have a tumblr so I'll be making a GoFundMe post on his behalf In a few hours

[contact-guy]

MORE...I said I didn't like this story but there are many charming bits, including new besties holding hands and Holmes backstory lore. Also I love how absolutely DONE Mary Morstan is when talking to Sholto...the thinnest veil of politeness drawn over exhausted bitchiness. Watson really vibes with a certain type.

This is part four for THE SIGN OF THE FOUR, (Part one), (part two), and (part three)

(This is part of the Watsons sketchbook series!)

[forgetriestowrite]

kinda love how Nick and Taliesin are playing their characters and reminding us that Pelor is not just "Don't fucking look into the sun or you'll blind yourself" and droughts and stuff, he's also the thing that warms the earth and the thing that reminds people to keep going and daylight after a long moonless night

and Melora is not just the thing that saved Fjord and makes trees grow and is loving and kind, she's also the kind of ocean that breaks boats and she is quicksand and poison ivy and natural selection and she does not (usually) pick favorites because nature waits for no one

[stil-lindigo]

motherhood.

[pensbridgertons]

2.08 | 3.04

[cloverthirteen]

creatives at pixar will be tasked with developing a straight couple and be like yes sir one girlboss and malewife coming right up

[cannibalisticlove]

hiii im darling, on anon bc im 👉👈 so happy i finally managed to find you!! i wonder if you've found my little secret blog yet (if you haven't yet, it's @yan-letters, there's your treat for being so cute) i was waiting for you to go to bed before sending this, hope you don't mind! i definitely didn't forget about you i love how obsessive you are, it's so cute to me i promise!! im the same way, just a little bit more shy about it </3 im a little rough around the edges, im so sorry you had to pick up the pieces!! even though im a little shy and don't talk much, im always checking in on you!! ive got notifications on for you on just about every platform, im always keeping tabs and that's a promise please text me constantly! please be clingy and ask for things!!! im always so low energy i have a hard time start conversations, but i love talking to you so much!! i love you so much!!!!! lots of kisses!!!! (ps: i do deliberately leave things public or "accidentally" send more sensitive info to the server just for you <3) (pps: id also definitely send you pictures of myself just for you to see wink wink)

HI DARLING !!!! :im jumping up and down: hi hi hi hi im glad you found me !!! ive been waiting for you teeheehee and i have !! ive had it for awhile !! ill admit i went looking for it back when it was still supposed to be a secret, i just didnt say anything because i knew i wasnt supposed to have it qvq

i just woke up and seeing this made me squeal and kick my feet im so happy !!! i dont mind picking up the pieces or anything else, id do anything for you my love !! i think your shyness is cute, youre just really cute !!! it makes me wanna squeeze you into a cube half the time and/or just eat you up the other half. i have notifs on for you too !!! i always check your accounts right as i wake up and throughout the day, ive even (slightly) memorized your schedule time wise so im always prepared for when you wake up !!

i love talking to you too !!! i always want to talk to you but i can never think of anything to say, its so unfair !!! im going to resort to just sending you things at this point honestly. but yay !!! i love you so much too !!! im giving you so many kisses !!! now i can stop posting in the tags so all my posts are just for you <33

(also teehee i figured, i soak up everything you post and store it away for later <3 and EEEEEE !!!! PLEASE DO !!!! youre so pretty i love looking at pictures of you it makes me want to explode i always get so flustered, even now while im typing this my heart feels like it might burst just thinking about it !!!)

edit: ill also admit that ive posted things on my main on purpose just for you and your reactions because they always make me giggle (ie. all my posts about my vent and the posts ive made about my ex fp) im so in love with you :giggling and twirling my hair: