#apologize for that)

[firesnap]

Genuine question - is what George did really that bad? People generally don't ask for verbal consent to cuddle, especially not when the other person has positive body language that shows they're into it... I mean fuck, I guess that would mean I've assaulted my boyfriend hundreds of times at this point because I just go up to him and hug him or cuddle him

// tw sa

You know your boyfriend. You know what his level of comfort is and your relationship. I'm assuming the first time you met your boyfriend in person you did not immediately start touching him without asking him.

I'm assuming your boyfriend was not also incredibly intoxicated and in a hotel room at a convention. It doesn't matter if they have "positive body language" when they're drunk.

I'm assuming you also didn't put your hand up his shirt and rub and tickle on his bare skin that first time you met him.

It was not just a cuddle. It was groping and tickling. It was the fact that she was young person who had never been around these people, in the hotel room of the two most famous people at the convention, and drunk. Any one of those things should have been enough for him to realize he should keep his hands to himself.

[icicleteeth]

I am. So sorry I’ve been gone for a really long time and missed some stuff...

[amartworks]

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

[astronnova]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[tododeku-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[depressed-trashbag]

Minecraft movie trailer was just a bad dream.

[agnesandhilda]

shoutout to the woman from my high school martial arts class who liked to get me in joint locks and then joke about how I was easy to catch. you cannot comprehend how psychosexually formative that was for me

[getrope1]

You cant make this shit up

[virtualplushy]

being traumatized is so embarrassing sometimes like oooogh my mom was mean to me when i was little so now i want to eviscerate myself anytime i think i’ve done something wrong. fuck you

[beaft]

i went to get my t-shot yesterday and it took me an hour and a half to get to the clinic and as soon as i got on the bed the nurse dropped my t-shot and it broke and now they're trying to make me pay for the replacement. i think the fuck not lmao

[hyperrbole]

Hi <3

[moonrpg]

I said mid not bad

[tadpole-art]

Little turtle duck :)

[dr-rato]

THE FEELS Inspired by this scene in the Journal, which has not left my mind since i first read it:

Specifically, this part!

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.