#fuckin genius

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i know hes probably already thinking abt the next question or just how he likes her in general but i still think this cut is so great hes like yes :D

[idiot-bagel-photog]

[sk8rambler]

yeah happy berfday to u lee la

[pokkop15]

Thalergy

The opposite of Thanergy (AKA “Death Energy”) in the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.

So you say, “ok so it’s just life energy?” to which you are mostly correct. Thalergy is exactly that but what’s interesting about this to me (and soon to you all as well I imagine) is the etymology of thalergy!

The etymology?

The Etymology.

Thanergy as death energy derives its name from Thanatos, the greek god of death (technically the personified spirit of non-violent death but modern perception of the name is usually edgier than that lol). So it would be normal for those unfamiliar with the myriad of divinities within the Hellenistic pantheon to justly assume the ‘thal–’ in ‘thalergy’ comes from an opposite divinity of Thanatos that was a personified spirit of life. Except that doesn’t exist. Reading the first two books I knew that thalergy as a word wasn’t derived from any greek or roman words meaning “life” but I didn’t really dig any deeper on where it did come from because I didn’t think it was overly important. I Was Incorrect.

Because you see, the context for me to really connect the dots had gone over my head up until I had read Nona the Ninth. (I recall some meta posts pointing out that the Themes™ had in fact been present in the previous books just less obvious.)

What Themes? And Who The Fuck Is Thalergy Named For??

Thalassa.

Primordial Goddess Of The Motherfucking SEA!!!!

So yeah! Remember all those posts talking about the importance of all the themes regarding the sea/ocean in the Locked Tomb series? Yeah so here’s more fuel for that lmao

Edit 11/20/2022: also many people have brought up other examples like Thalia (the muse of Festivity whose name also means blooming) as another more direct connection to life and @adurna0 who actually speaks Greek has pointed out that thaleros is in fact a word that means "lively" so even if the Thalassa connection is a thing it is more likely a double meaning than the lone one.

[itsbenedict]

the von blitzengaards have their priorities in order

[phoenixyfriend]

The first nap Gilgamesh Wulfenbach took after the timeskip is legally* a coma. Man hasn't slept in three fuckin' years. Millions of lives depend on him handling their problems. He's so heckin' tired.

Pls vote for Gil he deserves it.

* hyperbole, but his babysitter knocked him out and then he stayed asleep for three days straight

[slymanner]

we're in a peak era of sonic right now causE

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND

THOUGHT OF SHADOW WITH WINGS

AND WHO IS IT SO THEY CAN GET A FUCKIN RAISE.

[willowser]

All of your posts about girl dad bakugo I’m crying 😭😭😭😭😭😭 he’s so soft and quiet with her. I always imagine him going to get her from her crib in the morning and he always says, “good morning angel” so lowly because he’s really just saying it for him and her, now one else… and she really is HIS Angel even if she’s a total terror 😭

omg YEEEAAHHH 🥺🥺 in the really early mornings before he goes to work, he's stopping into her room to check on her 🥺 making sure she's not too warm, that her mobile is still on, that she's not flipped on her tummy 🥺 he's very adamant about keeping her in her room bc he doesn't want her to get used to sleeping with yall, but that doesn't mean he isn't always checking on her akfbdjskaka

and sometimes she is awake that early, just being his quiet, good baby and when she sees him, she coos at him all loud and he has to shush her, doesn't have the time to waste but he's picking her up anyway 🥺🥺 asking, "what're you doin' awake so early, missy ??" WAAAHH HOW CUTE 🥺

and he maybe changes her or bottle feeds her, burps her, ignores the call he's getting from kirishima. when he lays her back down with her chupie, she's just blinking up at him softly and slowly 🥺 falling back to sleep already 🥺 and he just watches as she fiddles with the hand he rests on her little belly 🥺 and he wonders how he got such a little angel for a baby !!!!! akfbdhskalal

[possiblyawesometmblr]

i am never going to stop thinking about the parallels between young percy being afraid to swim in the pool and sally asking him to trust her vs percy now being afraid at the bottom of the mississippi river and poseidon sending a messenger asking him to trust him

[slythereen]

no but if you think about it this WME deal is so damn clever like… aside from the political clout of building his personal brand and really capitalizing on his fame outside of f1 and ferrari, when within f1 he’s always been so intrinsically tied to ferrari it’s almost a given to everyone that he’ll never leave and therefore isn’t even a contender for contract negotiations?

charles is giving himself bargaining power with ferrari at a time when he really needs it to impose changes with his next contract (if he signs) whilst simultaneously giving himself enough personal distance from ferrari that if he ever moves, it won’t be as shocking or hurt his image. sure, all of his big personal sponsors also sponsor ferrari — that gives him power within the team, to an extent. but they’re still ferrari’s too. one could argue that he got them from ferrari and they’d stay with ferrari instead of him if he left. expanding his sponsorship and brand image beyond even just his current sponsors gives him market security.

and he’s doing all this (making the announcement) right after a disaster weekend where a) “he” lost another pole position and b) ferrari publicly fucked him over royally. this is simultaneously a time when he wants to move on from the negative f1 press and capitalize on the sympathy / general feeling of “wow it sure would be great if charles had some more support”. he’s showing up with that support, so people can rally behind him and WME at an opportune moment, and distracting from “bad stats”…

the fact that all this is right after being linked so heavily as a commiserating spirit along with lewis hamilton, the blueprint of global fame beyond f1?

it’s genius.

[takethelx3]

Tim I'm sorry I keep drawing you like an anime boy (and also accidentally)

[boringkate]

I watched Lena Dunham's Sharp Stick (2022) with a babe last month. Which I absolutely loved!!!

It's never explicitly acknowledged, but the main character is clearly supposed to be (despite the producers claiming otherwise) in some way neurodivergent. Or something. She's meek and impossibly sexually naive (to the point where me and the girl I watched it with had initially assumed the character was intended to be a child). Apparently they had approached an autism sexuality advocate to work as a consultant for the film before backpeddling.

Trans girls tend to be autistic.

The main character also had a hysterectomy (as did Lena Dunham).

Trans girls tend to be infertile.

She's shown taking estrogen.

Trans girls tend to take estrogen.

She becomes obsessed with porn and begins having one night stands with random men from the internet in hopes of finding validation by proving her sexual desirability.

Trans girls tend to do that shit.

It ends with her realizing and leaning into her impregnation fetish (while getting fucked by the one black guy she knows who had just brought over some 40s and called them homies and also while her black step sister's hands unexpectedly drift in from off screen to hold her because even when she managed to push it off to the last second Lena Dunham is incapable of being chill and normal about race).

Trans girls can't go ten seconds without making the same joke about how if you don't think you can get a trans girl pregnant then you just aren't trying hard enough (and the frequent fetishization of black men in trans and especially neighboring sissy communities can't really be denied).

Also the bartender is played by Tommy Dorfman (a trans woman) with it being her first time playing a character with a girl name.

But I'm not trying to suggest it's intentionally a movie about the tgirl excperience. That would be silly. Really the takeaway should be that (no matter how varied women's lives may be) we (trans women and cis women etc) can still always find common ground and shared excperiences. We're all in this together.

But anyways I was looking at Lena Dunham's Instagram yesterday (I've been off and on again rewatching Girls, so she's stayed on my mind).

One post features the music video she directed starring famed trans girl Hari Nef.

Another post shows that she recently read trans boy Elliot Paige's memoir Paige Boy.

Another post shows a conversation she had with Jon Bernthal (on his podcast) where she explains the word cis to him and talks about having also explained it to her husband (this is the only clip from her appearance on the podcast that she chose to post).

BTW did you know that she was an executive producer for the 2021 show Genera+ion (which I recall featuring a trans boy actor playing a cis boy character who gets a girl pregnant).

Fascinating!

Meanwhile. Ten years earlier. In 2013 (a year into my transition and a year before Time declared that we've reached the trans tipping point) an episode of Girls features a doorman telling one of the titular Girls that "a tranny walked in last time and he was just walking around the floors, but it was nothing." (lmao)

UPDATE: s05e02 features a "did you just assume my pronouns" bit. (in a way that felt reactionary and gross because the theyfab saying it was an absurd hipster barista that the audience isn't intended to sympathize with)

UPDATE UPDATE: s06e02 features the leader of a group for women entrepreneurs saying "For those of you asking on our Facebook if the group is open to trans women: The answer is: We don't know. Okay?" (which I thought was fun)

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: s06e03 (the literal next episode) "I even went to a couple of hookers and one of them had a dick."

[jabberwockprince]

warm up doodle with medicine pocket bc i love feral little shits who break the hippocratic oath and who will commit atrocities for the sake of science and medicine

[soullessjack]

i think jack and mcu peter parker could probably bond over having their entire character be reduced to the precious smol bean lovechild for a popular ship

[hanjisungs-bigtittyg0thgf]

Speed run Lee Know pulling my hair while fucking me and smacking my ass and also having a firm grip on my throat any %

Mandatory overtime at the warehouse in the heat with no A/C does wonders to my monke brain

-🛩️

sorry about the overtime but your monke brain is genius babe

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minho absolutely would. he’s 100% the type and i’d love for him to manhandle me into submission as if i wouldn’t submit the second he got my clothes off ugh and his hands— they’d look so good choking you out. the prettiest necklace fr

[therewillbenoromance]

havent been posting much. take these thdph jashes (im normal btw)