#ending the epidemic.

[arkhambug]

you were staring. very unabashedly so, too. just… oogling your boyfriend, watching as he lounged on your couch, his black shirt fitted around bulging arms, the hem riding up around his tummy to reveal that line of thick black hair that dipped below his plaid pants.

oh my god, those stupid plaid pants. they made you wonder what the hell the hype was about grey sweats, when those existed.

and it’s not like you had anything to be ashamed about, either. he was your boyfriend, all six foot something of him, for fucks sake. all the thick muscles, and short cropped hair, and scars, and fuck, those eyes. you could look if you damn well wanted to.

you’d tried very hard to convince yourself all morning that you were fine, and definitely not ovulating, and fine.

but in that moment, watching your boyfriend literally just sit there, eyes shut and head tipped back, this was not you. it was some evil entity, possessing you and in full swing. you were ready to jump him, and it wasn’t even ten in the morning yet.

your gaze kept dropping lower, toward those pecs, all soft and plush beneath the fabric of his tee, and you could feel yourself start to salivate.

it wasn’t even anything provocative either, but the sight of his tits in a black shirt, tight over the unflexed muscle, was driving you up a god damned wall.

you curled your legs up beneath you, arm perching you against the back of the couch, the other pressed between the low of your thighs to physically retrain yourself from grabbing him like a deranged person.

because, no matter what you did, it was almost impossible to stop imagining just throwing yourself at him, and doing some entirely unspeakable things. things you know you’d never do unless it was this god forsaken time of month.

“you good, ma?” Jason asked, finally breaking the tense silence, and drawing your attention away from his torso. he was staring back now, one brow raised quizzically, and his scared lip curled up in questioning.

“your eyes are dilatin’ and shit.”

yeah. you got up, wordlessly, and walked toward the kitchen.

[morningmantra]

Navigating Life with HIV: A Journey of Resilience and Hope

Navigating Life with HIV: A Journey of Resilience and Hope

Understanding HIV and AIDS HIV, or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system, the body’s defense against infections. Over time, HIV can weaken the immune system to the point where it’s unable to fight off infections and diseases. This weakens the overall health and increases the risk of developing serious infections and illnesses. AIDS, or Acquired…

[tobeabatman]

Here’s a quick reminder to all the thin people out there: stop talking about fatness and fat people as if fat people didn’t exist and we weren’t literally right here.

Mostly I see this done whenever thin people talk about ”the obesity epidemic” or ”childhood obesity”. You are a bunch of thin people, a bunch of thin news anchors, a bunch of thin researchers, a bunch of thin commenters online…. Where are fat people’s opinions? Where are fat activists’ opinions? Is it proper journalism to only acknowledge the thin people and their words and their research?

Thin journalists and public figures and news anchors and what have you, milk money out of people by fear-mongering with fat bodies. Famous media doesn’t even want to talk about research that contradicts current ideas of fatness, or fat activists’ words, because readers’ (or watchers’/listeners’) hatred and fear gives them more money (and also less criticism). It pushes this one-sided narrative of fat people’s bodies onto us that thin people control almost completely.

Was the man who on public television said that fat people should try the diet of concentration camp victims, a fat person himself? F*ck no. But we give voice to people like him instead of giving voice to actual fat people (…reminds me of something called oppression).

Whenever you talk about fat people or fatness or weight, remind yourself that we fat people are literally right here. Your audience will never consist purely of thin people.

[aangular]

I kinda hate when people act like Aang is this naive kid who doesn’t know what’s going on or what he’s doing, especially at the beginning of the series.

For example, in “The Southern Air Temple, " he shows Sokka and Katara around, acting excited and playing around. Do you think that he doesn’t know what’s going on? Do you think that Aang, someone who grew up in that temple doesn’t know what is supposed to look like?

In his timeline, he had been gone for at most one week. Do you really believe that he would think it is normal that the place that was filled with people a few days ago is now completely empty Do you think that he would find it normal that the entire place is run down and poorly kept?

I’m just confused. Since episode one, the narrative has made it obvious that Aang has avoidant coping mechanisms, where he outright ignores what’s happening around him because he cannot deal with it. It’s an integral aspect of his character (since it’s the reason he ran away after finding out he was the avatar, which quite literally sets off the plot). I get it if people don’t necessarily like that aspect of his personality (wrong opinion, btw), but understanding that it’s there and how it affects how he interacts with the world is important to getting ATLA.

Yes, he did know what the being avatar meant to an extent, and he knew he had to learn the three elements, but the reason he didn’t go to the North Pole straight away was because he didn’t want to. He wanted to put it off for as long as possible, going on adventures and “eventually getting to the NP”.

There was literally a 2 part episode (The Winter Solstice) to tell us that Aang couldn’t just mess around that entire season because it introduced a time limit to defeat the Fire Lord. Ever since then, the gaang pretty much beelined for the NP, plus some detours, but that’s the magic of worldbuilding.

I would talk about his reluctance to learn waterbending from Pakku, but that’s a different post altogether.

Obviously, he didn’t understand what it was like growing up in the middle of a war (because he didn’t). Still, no one understood what losing their entire people and being the last of their kind was. And no one calls other characters naive or stupid for their constant insensitivity throughout the series…

The bottom line is that he knew; he always knew. It was just easier to pretend he didn’t.

[edwardnebula]

i realized how short surge is compared to lano like wow... itty bitty

"so this is how drippy feels"

she sure is itty bitty.

Not sure she enjoyed that fact at first.

[mia-does-nonsense]

Mashle Memes, Devil's Quintuplets Edition

(Oh, geez, this was long overdue...)

Divine Visionary memes coming soon!

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[joeyclaire]

i’ll believe adhd is real when someone who isn’t bisexual has it

[hopecomesbacktolife]

oh man, reading a book about an incredibly transmissible and highly mutational virus with overworked+understaffed medical personnel and lots of illness-related-deaths and general societal strain in the year of Kahless 2025 was… certainly A Choice TM

at the same time though. the dichotomy of 1) the inherently higher stress of the book’s plot due to its’ unfortunate continuing relevancy to real life, vs. 2) the wish-fulfillment of people actually working together and taking the vaccine and working to eradicate the virus through every means and unlikely alliances being formed and also the very definitive, guaranteed cure for the virus being found before the book ends and a promise that it’ll all be okay…

o u g h

[megaclubdiolis]

Michinaga's costume evolution

[teraluceo]

Rika is having a godparent arc now, none of you traumatized kids are safe

[alwaysenea]

Tumblr reels is a fucking joke I ain't using that shit

[mlentertainment]

editing team i HEAR you reusing mice and murder music in the best possible ways and i am kissing you on the mouth about it

[mortiflyer]

people saying it's "personal bias" against that man when someone says something about him WELL YEAH

[spookyscaryreviews]

It Comes At Night, 2017, Dir. Trey Edward Shults

Plot: paranoia and mistrust brew as two families shelter together from a highly contagious and fatal virus.

Is it Good?

Dude, yes. A24 delivers again.

Is it Fun?

Nope! It's delightful but TENSE and HEAVY. Not so much that I would struggle to rewatch it though.

Is it Scary?

Sure! Definitely more on the psychological and horrific end of the spectrum, but not shit-your-pants scary. Scary in the sense that the characters and circumstances feel very real.

Triggers and Potential Spoilers in the tags

[lesbiancarat]

TWS : 1st Mini Album 'Sparkling Blue'

Track List

🫧 2024.01.22 6PM (KST)

🫧 2024.01.22 4AM (ET)

[untitledgoosegay]

i grew up with a bunch of folk CDs from people my parents either knew or went to concerts of

& at one point i was listening to one of them for the first time in a while, and i realized all at once that this song i'd known since i was a kid was about the AIDS memorial quilt