#im FINE!!! im SO! NORMAL!

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[kymsys]

fixing it for gege. 💔🩹

[corner-collects-rocks]

happy new year to neil josten who didnt sign it. he gave me a contract but i didnt sign it. he couldnt make me. this doesnt mean anything. im still a fox.

[puppppppppy]

these two are so interesting to me

characters belong to @canisalbus

[lamourt]

There will always be a quiet sadness in him, to know what they had had together, how precious it was– and to be the reason it was lost. A lump forms in his throat when Louis speaks. Some of it was beautiful the first time. It's in those moments that Lestat finds his solace, even now. It had been an interesting thing, acknowledging the ways Louis hurt him outside of the storm of his own feelings. For so long, he had swung wildly between blaming only Louis and blaming only himself. In those early years as it happened, he'd felt blistering anger, utter heartbreak. And then when Louis had spared him and he'd gone into the ground again, he could see no wrongdoing but his own. But while the decades stretched on, Lestat had managed a quiet kind of clarity.

Louis had hurt him. It was true, even if Lestat had hurt him far worse, far more often. Twenty years ago, he might have stopped Louis, insisted that he had never hurt Lestat at all. But in this moment, he has learned to accept the gray.

Something splinters in his heart when he hears the way Louis' voice quavers. He can't help, now, the way his hand lifts to rest gently against the familiar cheek. "It feels dishonest," he begins, "to promise you I will never hurt you again. Lovers have the greatest capacity to hurt one another, I think. But I swear to you, Louis; I will never hurt you like I did then. And I will spend every day proving it, if you'll let me."

It's tempting to believe him. Just hurl himself into this again, knowing how bad it can get. What does it matter now anyway? The first time around, he'd had so many hopes and expectations. He'd thought he knew what love must be about, what relationships must be like. He'd thought the two of them could add a child and become a family. He'd that that family could become an eternal version of the family he'd always thought he'd have one day.

Not now. So why is he still scared? Why's he searching Lestat's eyes for some confirmation that it really could be beautiful and not just a new kind of ugly.

"Some of it was beautiful the first time," he says, softly. Then, "But I don't want to hurt you again. And--"

His voice breaks, and he frowns at himself. He knows what Claudia would say. That he's being weak. Stupid. More than a little pathetic. "And I don't want to get hurt."

[chronicowboy]

eddie goes to see his top contender houses in person and the estate agent is just like "your husband couldn't make it?" and eddie runs all the way back to california

[side-of-honey]

LEGEND tells of a LEGENDARY COWPOKE… whose sharpshootin’ skills were the stuff of LEGEND

Sorry for this one. I really am. I kept mixing up the furious five and the feisty five and then I thought about it for a little too long

(Please DO NOT repost my art to other sites :) )

[kingprinceleo]

happy auau- old comic panel redraw for funsies

[soupdwelling]

“Hey, I’m right here. It’s- it’s okay, we’re on the train to Scotland. We’re safe, Martin.”

based on this fic by @arcadecarpetgay please read it i’m so normal about his writing

closeups below the cut !

[patheticrafeenjoyer]

s1 v. s4

[sunn-mechanic]

[ID in alt]

Guess that makes me Evil

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I could not stop thinking about how Vex is probably dead in DR, that shit makes me so unwell

Also, version without the lyrics below, bc I like both:

[ID in alt]

[weaselmcdiesel]

WELCOME BACK!!

[shepscapades]

What if. What if I said I was thinking about them again

[wilmvandrr]

just existing in each other's orbit is a form of love

[creekfiend]

God I'm so tired of people acting like not wanting to attract a lot of (often negative) attention is somehow Capitulating To Bigots like. The other day I was talking to someone about my strategic deployment of pronouns based on how much of an issue I think a person is likely to make about it and they were like "oh I just do what I want I'm done catering to cis people" and I was like BUDDY. I LIVE IN THE RURAL SOUTH WANTING TO NOT HAVE TO CONSTANTLY GET INTO IT WITH PEOPLE ABOUT MY PERSONAL GENDER IDENTITY IS NOT CATERING TO CIS PEOPLE I HAVE A RIGHT TO WANT TO MOVE THROUGH THE WORLD WITHOUT CONSTANT INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT

Or like I was talking about how I hate swimwear options bc they're all revealing but if you choose to wear like, a t shirt and shorts, people still stare at you because that's socially unusual so it sucks either way and someone was like "I just do it anyway and if people don't like it they can die mad about it" and like... okay. I want to be able to go to the local pool and not either be uncomfortable with what I'm wearing or have people treat me weird about it. I would like for my presence and clothing choices to be considered neutral and it's fine for me to state that actually. This is not assimilationist or capitulating to people. It's going "hm I would love if stepping out my front door didn't have to be a revolutionary act!!!!!" Agghhhhh

[albaharu]

remembering how the character developtment of anders dragon age is seeing him getting angrier and sadder and more depressed each time 👍