#olive blogs

[oliveasaltylife]

So funny* to me when very loud disability “activist” type folx will angrily post about needing necessary accessibility accommodations and then turn around posting maskless selfies in public. Your lateral ableism is showing and it’s louder than you intended it to be.

*By funny I mean completely infuriating, but laughing helps me cope

[oliveaspitefullife]

I am so exhausted today and still have a horrible migraine, but I really want to make things today. I want to be creative and colorful and just let myself go

[pnt03prcnt]

coolmovie watched it 8 times ..

[wernerherzogs]

[xxx]

[sammygender]

girlcoded sam readings are like. his arcs are so tied up with control and bodily autonomy and sexual assault and otherness and cleanness and a desire for freedom and rebellion against oppressive masculine forces to the point where an examination of his show-long arcs looks like a thesis on The Female Gothic. he’s never afforded the respect or the power of characters like john and dean and is in fact narratively punished whenever he isn’t subservient to them. both the show itself and the fandom surrounding it treat him like dean’s bitch wife. he is textually compared to female characters multiple times, by the narrative and by dean.

and then meanwhile girlcoded dean readings are like. Eldest daughter core! (his father handed down ultimate control over every aspect of sam’s life once he died like a family heirloom)(he is THE patriarch). Yes he does the cooking yes he does the cleaning (which he doesn’t even…. and even if he solely did all the housework how does that make him Girl Coded unless it’s being delegated exclusively to him like its his role and he’s punished for not conforming to it… which is not happening…).

like girlcoded dean readings rely on stereotypes about women in real life. girlcoded sam readings rely on noticing how much the narrative constructed around sam falls into tropes used in fiction almost always about women. even things like his psychic powers! the way people are always swarming around trying to ‘corrupt’ him! the fixation on his purity and innocence! the two readings are very different things

[thefirstlivingart]

pain is not the only touchstone for growth

melanie martinez, womb / warsan shire, backwards / mary oliver, “blue iris.” devotions / jmfenner / nayyirah waheed / jenny slate, little weirds / @soapstore on tumblr / jenny slate, little weirds / ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous / sue zhao / @emmablowguns on twitter / jenny slate, little weirds / ottessa moshfegh, my year of rest and relaxation / @anariafortheendoftimes on tumblr / mary oliver, upstream / marya hornbacher, waiting / robert de flers

[aaronsinferno]

Need a “Hey handsome” “Hi cutie” exchange between Tommy and Buck in season 8 so bad, man. I need Buck watching Tommy and Maddie bond from a distance and then awkwardly interrupting because he thinks they’re discussing him. They say they weren’t. They were. I need a lot of dry wit/humor from Tommy that most people wouldn’t get but Buck absolutely adores. Buck finds one of Tommy’s hoodies/sweaters left behind in his loft and just claims it. Tommy notices him wearing it once and just smiles to himself. I want Buck wrapping Tommy up in one of the 118’s bizarre hijinks and him just rolling with it. I need them visiting each other’s work places. Buck dropping off containers full of Tommy’s favorite meals. I want Tommy getting into the most mind boggling logic defying completely batsh*t crazy accident known to man and have Buck completely spiral for an entire episode. Only for Tommy to survive and the emotional and psychological trauma binds them together forever because that’s how life works 🫶🏾❤️

[baby--vera]

"Smau: i think im in love with you"

content: fluff, foul language

characters: karasu, otoya, aiku, kurona, hiori

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[oliveasaltylife]

Going to go to a greenhouse this morning for a morale boost

It’s been over a year since I’ve been because I still hold so much grief for my dead collection. I had to unfollow all of my planty tags and groups and subreddits from all of my socials because I’m still devastated.

I lost my entire collection—over 400 plants and tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours invested in their care over multiple years—when my MIL couldn’t keep up her end of the bargain.

I will write about this more, but for now, I am very excited to walk around in some greenhouses with my husband as soon as they open.

[oliveaspitefullife]

I am heavily dissociated today and extra fuzzy with who's actually up here because it feels like a number of us but also none at the same time. There's collective feelings and sensations of panic and dread that want to consume me. But there's also a strange calmness that has us all trying to focus on breathing--a gentle and soothing whisper more comforting than a hand rubbing my back.

I feel safety in the warmth of her voice.

[arc-hus]

Villa Eden, Gardone, Italy - David Chipperfield

[agdreamtale]

Hello, although I know this isn't the topic right now with all the Error stuff happening, I wanted to ask more about Olive and the Twins!

How old was Nightmare when he meet Olive, and when did the "incident" happen to the twins in this AU?

olive and nightmare met before they were even in their teen years - but old enough to understand the world around them is flawed

the incident happened not too long before they could be considered of age to be king

[prince-sawgrass]

sawgrass enjoyers rise up

[poppletonink]

Best Quotes From 'If We Were Villains'

"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."

"You can't quantify humanity. You can't measure it - not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them."

"I don't know, it's like I look at you and the sonnets make sense. The good ones, anyway."

"Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?" The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can't help but suppress a smile. "I blame him for all of it."

'She says, “Were you in love with him?” “Yes,” I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. “Yes, I was.” It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.'

'I need language to live like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.'

'Below was the motto: Per aspera ad astra. I'd heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns to the stars.'

"We cracked up. [...] But we didn't really shatter until we were all back together again."

'The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and we stirred, one by one, like seven statues coming to life.'

'Actors are by nature volatile - alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.'

[keepingupwitholi]

2024

[aaronsinferno]

They hate him because of his dry sense of humor, he likes men, and because their favorite firefighter loves to bottom for him sometimes (they switch)