#but i respect her intensity

[cedarwrought]

the crash out from wreck is so justified miss juan i respect and fear you the homosexual anguish you have caused is wild

but also. the fact that even villains are manufactured to drive ratings and views shifts my entire thought process. of course tbhx's perspective on heroes is incredibly reminiscent of idol culture and drama but the fact nice and wreck came from the same company is horrific. we don't even know how the structural damage done by them is paid for (though i guess they have enough money to fix it?? they did god knows how many advertisements and promos, surely its enough to pay for property damage), but they are quite literally destroying homes and damaging the lives of everyday citizens because of marketing and publicity.

[blackbearmagic]

a coworker who I very much admire and respect, and who I am very much a little bit very afraid of, watched me do a tour today

I did not do well.

I did my best! But there was so much room for improvement.

At the end of it, my coworker said she had some feedback for me, "but only if you want it, I know that some people feel a certain kind of way about getting feedback from people who aren't their managers, and you and I are equals here", and when I told her I would love to hear it, she led me off to a private part of the museum and spent a solid half-hour talking with me about how I could have improved

She had written notes. Like, her copy of the day's schedule was covered, front and back, in notes. Which she happily gave me when I asked if I could have it.

I forgot about this part of working in education. The part where we all want each other to succeed, because we have a mission together, and the more we build each other up, the more able we are to put that mission forward.

[studentbyday]

2025.

Please be good.

[thirdset]

AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL 2015 | Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapov 6-3, 7-6

[xmintpiex]

today’s thoughts are of chigiri having a crush on his sister’s friend

[uncanny-tranny]

I think all trans people ought to voice train in general like...

I keep getting wonderful trans women who share tips about voice training and now it's like... How cool would it be to have a secret Girl Voice locked and loaded. The sheer power these women possess will be my own Icarus situation istg

[heynhay]

using my credentials as a top .1% mitski listener for two years in a row i have brought you mitski KL classifications

recommendations/strong matches are bolded

Laurel Hell // Be The Cowboy // Puberty 2 // Bury Me At Makeout Creek // Retired from a Sad, New, Career in Business // Lush

Keith

Everyone

Valentine, Texas

Stay Soft

Love Me More

A Pearl

A Horse Named Cold Air

Blue Light

Washing Machine Heart

I Bet on Losing Dogs

Thursday Girl

I Will

I Don't Smoke

First Love/Late Spring

Humpty

I Want You

Strawberry Blond

Wife

Door

Lance

The Only Heartbreaker

There's Nothing Left For You

Working For The Knife

Nobody

Me and My Husband

Lonesome Love

Remember My Name

Fireworks

A Burning Hill

Texas Reznikoff

Townie

Francis Forever

Carry Me Out

Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart

Brand New City

Abbey

Both/either/interchangeable

Heat Lightning

Geyser

Come Into The Water

Pink in the Night

Two Slow Dancers

Once More to See You

anything not listed has been given careful consideration but would be too much of a reach to apply to them and/or is too personally about experiences of the human condition mitski herself has lived

Im open to healthy debate on any of these but just know i come armed with explanations for all

[yardsards]

just read this part of the adventurer's bible and

do you think toshiro was originally attracted to falin (whilst still being irritated by many of her same traits in laios) because he thought his father would find her interesting???

[strikeslip]

So given the Internet Archive is in the process of losing their court case, I figured I should go read the copy of Cyteen they have available before I lose access. I didn't click with Downbelow Station, so I wasn't expecting to click with another Alliance/Union book either. I had plans for today which reading part of a book could fit in. But it turns out Cyteen pt1 is a thesis entitled "Here's A Scientist Called Ariene Emory. She Is Completely In Control And Also The Worst," and anyway, now my entire day and a significant part of tomorrow is going to be reading Cyteen.

[rosebotrezi]

kidswaps that i'm making. dave plays the sims models them after his friends and mother and psychoanalyzes them and rose would have listened to 100 gecs if 100 gecs existed in 2009. thank you

[dioti]

caitlyn coming down to the cells, seeing vi and being like "oh yeah i had a feeling that your depressed starved sister who's been sitting here in filth for days would escape and lock you in there. btw on the off chance you wanted hot jail sex in there, i already sent all the guards away 👀" like GIRL YOU PLANNED FOR THIS??? caitlyn NOT beating the freak allegations im afraid

[council-of-beetroot]

There's something about say doing a whole bunch of laundry or hand washing all your dishes after cooking a large meal when you're twenty that brings me this strange childlike joy and sense of accomplishment when I do it

It's like sure, I did this stuff prior to adulthood, but that was out of obedience to my mother. Now I am an adult living on my own and now I am doing these things because I have to for me and only me and have to willingly choose to do them

And it's like wow I did it I'm so grown up!

[shiryawashere]

watched John Wick for the first time and words truly cannot express the whiplash I got seeing my teenage bdsm awakening Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell on the screen with my own two eyeballs in the year of our lord 2025

^you know. this one

[tanjir0se]

Why don’t we ever address how Hinata has scary dog privilege in like 5 different directions? Her team is made up of a feral dogboy and an extremely intimidating autistic bug enthusiast, she literally has a cousin who was born to be her bodyguard, and the Guy who contains the aura of a nigh omnipotent ancient fox spirit is allegedly her love interest. And if that weren’t enough, she’s the wielder and heir of one of the most powerful jutsus in the entire land???

Her dynamic with them is so fun, how it grows from either resentment to a genuine care and respect in Neji’s case, from a misplaced sort of ‘damsel in distress’ thing with Kiba and Shino to them just growing to love her and want to protect her, for Naruto a goofy childhood shyness and possibly a crush to both of them mutually willing to do anything to protect the other. That’s so fun and cool???? Why do we never explore that??? (I know the answer it’s because the writers hate women and are too busy making Naruto and Sasuke kiss on the mouth)

Why is it never ‘oh, Don’t Mess with Hinata. The four guard dogs that have essentially tied themselves to leashes at her feet will kick your ass. And if they don’t, she will’

[musical-chick-13]

Thoughts on toxic yuri?

One of my very favorite storytelling concepts, I love it when women make each other worse. <3

I do think it's important, for me anyway, to note the difference between a dynamic that's toxic in one direction versus something that is mutually toxic. The first one doesn't really interest me a whole lot, usually because it means one character suffers constantly without being allowed to do anything else--at the very least, it will come across as the more ""normal"" character not really being that into the relationship in question. I need BOTH parties to be unhinged.

The important thing for any fictional relationship (though we're specifying toxic yuri here, obviously) is that it's interesting. If there is no limit to what the women can do within a dynamic, then there are an infinite number of ways for that dynamic to go. And while you can learn a lot about a character through examining their values and positive qualities, you can learn just as much (if not more) by considering their flaws. And those flaws really come out in the case of toxic yuri; characters get to show the uglier parts of themselves in this context, which I am always a fan of. A fraught, complex relationship, when written well, can be a really great way to psychologically explore the characters: what inspires them to act this way? why do they think this behavior is acceptable? if they don't think it's acceptable, why do they keep doing it? what do they think about the concept of love as a whole? how far would they go for intimacy or to be understood? how do they view other people in general? and probably most importantly, what led to them developing the beliefs underlying their actions in the first place?

From a more "psychologically, why do people enjoy this" standpoint, mutual toxicity often goes hand in hand with extreme obsession, extreme jealousy, and a willingness to forgive a whole lot of horrible shit. Which, yeah, in real life you don't want to be in a relationship like that. But I think there's a lot of emotional resonance in exploring those feelings. The idea that someone will never leave you. That they think so intensely about you specifically that they'll break anything and anyone to stay with you. That even if you're the worst version of yourself, someone will still want you because that's still you. Someone knows exactly how to fuck you up because they genuinely understand you. Things in fiction that we would never want in real life can be incredibly interesting or even cathartic to witness from a distance. I think we all feel things that scare us sometimes (or even simply feel an innocuous emotion so intensely that it scares us), and looking at unpleasant feelings within fiction can help identify, parse out, process, and successfully cope with those feelings. And I think, at the end of it all, a lot of people want to matter to someone, in some way. It makes sense that some creators would take that concept-of meaning a great deal to another person, of affecting them deeply-to its absolute extreme through writing.

(And also, consider. That I am very gay. And that horrible women are very attractive.)

[himblebo]

Should I force myself to talk to women on hinge