#oxyconundrum

[ysabe11a]

jazz, sheet mask, silver, wine!!!!!!

yeah yeah yeah sick let’s do this

jazz - “name a song that resonates with you and your emotions. explain the reason why.”

I am very easily affected by things, which includes music. the last song that I listened to over and over again and had Feelings about was moana’s know who you are. because my depression feels a lot like a lava monster sometimes and the idea of someone registering it and being like “bella, you don’t seem to be in a good place, but I care about you” seems so nice????? I love it.

sheet mask - “what’s your favorite lazy activity?”

i’ve been getting super into monster factory this past month. I’m about halfway done with the playlist now, and that’s a lotta content. I’m also a fan of mindless tumblr scrolling.

silver - “do you have any obscure hobbies? what are they?”

does staring at my ceiling and contemplating my value count? I also really like unfairly insulting @swananderson (I hate you.)

wine - “what kind of drunk are you (happy/affectionate, angry, sad, fun/wild)? if you don’t drink, what kind do you think you WOULD be?”

Happy/affectionate/cuddly/joyous. So basically just me.

[motherboxing]

i have never seen the bachelorette, i have little to no interest in seeing the bachelorette, but i just went to read the bios of the new contestants because your post made me laugh, and i am DYING at the two different desert island questions. what would it be made of? one person: chipotle! other person: man eating plants. ?????? is this show real

i take it back, i want to watc the bachelorette, IS THIS SHOW EVEN REAL

Listen, your mileage may vary here but I fucking LOVE The Bachelor Series Of Products and think it is completely worth watching for the amount of times you end up asking yourself if you actually watching a real show with things that are really happening on the screen in front of you or if you are trapped in some kind of weird fever-dream. Like, the show definitely did not start out like this, but in the years its been on (like I said, I think around 40 seasons, between The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor In Paradise, not to mention Bachelor Pad) it has taken on a super tongue-in-cheek quality and a campiness that is profoundly endearing. It’s constantly self-referential but it’s also just so consistently WEIRD that that never feels twee and obnoxious. Yeah, it’s a garbage franchise and there is a lot of really gross stuff that the people involved say and do and believe, and also they have had at least two dudes on these shows looking for love or whatever who are just CLEARLY abusers which is pretty upsetting - however, if you don’t want to see the guy who wants to be trapped on a desert island made entirely out of Chipotle and the guy who thinks if he was trapped on a desert island it would DEFINITELY be made of flesh-eating plants like in Life Of Pi have a guitar playing contest for a date with a girl (who is definitely too good for both of them) I don’t know what to say to you, except that we’re probably very different people. 

[allthegoodmonsters]

sooooo 2.5 years later I think I am going to start using this sideblog again for extra bitchy/work-details-y/existential-crisis-y posts because I refuse to change my main username on here or on twitter and just should...probably not be such a bitch in places I’m theoretically super findable 

tagging people who I’m p sure read/respond to those posts but feel free to ignore me obviously 

@professorspork @grangerbutstranger @homeontheburrow @miscellaineeous @tanyaturnblad @oodlyenough @gallifreyburning @oxyconundrum @theseerasures @forcedrhyme @anonymouscatt @rootsandshoots 

[autumn-in-fandom]

HP tag

I saw @samsstories5 post this the other day and they didn’t tag anyone, but well… now you have a Tumblr friend ;)

What is your name? Autumn 🍂

How old are you? 31

What House(s) are you in? Ravenclaw and Thunderbird 🦅

What kind of blog do you run? ⚡️⏳🐍 Harry Potter, where you will find plentiful fan art, Cursed Child support, Scorbus love, contrary Drarry-ness, Fantastic Beasts findings and general HP.

Your Patronus? A Nightjar 🐦(little nocturnal bird, big eyes, big mouth)

Your Pottermore House results? Ohh a separate question, fancy! Gryffindor and Thunderbird 🦁

Which book is your favorite? Prisoner of Azkaban and Halfblood Prince don’t make me choose!

Which film is your favorite?  1, 3, 6 🎞 Which book is your least favorite Maybe Chamber or Order. I don’t know. I do love them all. 📗

Which is your least favorite movie? Goblet of Fire 🔥

What is your favorite quote? “I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.” - HBP

Favorite Potter? Harry ⚡️ (I’m sorry Albus 🐍)

Favorite Weasley? Fred 💥

Favorite Malfoy? Draco 🐉 (I’m so sorry Scorpius ✨🦂)

Favorite Black? Sirius 🐾

Favorite Marauder? Lupin 🐺

Favorite Golden Trio member? Hermione 📚

Favorite Silver Trio member? Luna 🌙

Favorite Female character? Tonks 🐽

Favorite male character? Neville 🌱

Favorite Professor? McGonagall and Lupin (agreed) I also have a soft spot for Flitwick and Slughorn 🐌

Favorite House? Hufflepuff! 🐝

What character do you dislike the most? Umbridge 🎀

What ships are your favorite? Scorbus, Drarry, Wolfstar 👬

Is there a movie that you liked more than the book? No, but I am often surprised by just how enjoyable Order of the Phoenix is. Love the music and Umbridge montages. 🎶

If you could make your own House, what would be the traits? Wisdom, Creativity and Tolerance (agreed) 📖🎨🕊

What would your Amortentia smell like? 💕 Woodsmoke on crisp cold air, cedar oil, petrichor (the smell of earth after rain) 💦

Which do you prefer: Owl, cat or toad? - 🦉Owls, especially barn owls. I love their heart shaped faces!

Which is your favorite Harry Potter Era? Golden-Trio-Era ⚡️📚🦁 but I love all of them (agreed)

I tag: umm @abradystrix @accio-hogwarts-a-history @bazwillendinflames @bounding-heart @callme-snuffles @coe-lilium @demixian @drarryking @erisedsubrocs @emeraldbluexx @fennethianell @flintxwood @gxnnyweasley @ginnywheezy @hp-heart @hufflepuffpan @ilvermourn @infinitequirk @jacbrandon @jijikaa @knockturnalleys @kirstynhippe @laurenfairweather @lumosweasley @mollyywobbles @mrsellacott @nevillesplant @neverendingscorbus @oxyconundrum @ohscorbus @platinasi @pazithigallifreya @queenofthyme @queer-coffee @rowanthesloth @randomfinny @scorpiiusmalfoyy @simplycouldntbehappier @torestoreamends @thankyou-killian @unnecessaryjames @upthehillart skipping v because I don’t recognize anyone @wizardingsociety @warning-fangirlapproaching skipping x and y as well, wow that’s a lot of porn blogs @zoey–chen and anyone else who wants to do this and course if I tagged you and you don’t want to do it, that’s cool too ;)

[professorspork]

Rules: Using only songs from one artist, answer these nine questions and tag ten people.

Tagged by @nimmieamee​. HAYYY. I’m going with Toad the Wet Sprocket because why not!

What’s your gender? All She Said

Describe yourself: Little Heaven

How do you feel? I Will Not Take These Things for Granted

If you could go anywhere? New Constellation

Favorite mode of transportation? Walk on the Ocean

Your best friend?  Hobbit on the Rocks

Favorite time of day? The Moment

If your life was a TV show? All Things In Time

Relationship status? Butterflies

Your fear? Amnesia

tagging @banrions, @falsealarm, @ratherembarrassing, @swashbucklery, @theseerasures, @youngbloodbuzz, @oxyconundrum, @firewithfirewood

[beingfacetious]

oxyconundrum replied to your photo:Hey, I have an Xbox now! Friend me or whatever the...

not at all what you ask for but HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED PORTAL

I haven’t but I’ve seen it talked about in ways that make me think I would probably like it??? I’m a Gaming Baby, I literally got this xbox so I could play a snowboarding game that I used to play on my roommate’s xbox in 2012 and have been missing ever since, I need all the help I can get

[ysabe11a]

@oxyconundrum thank you pal! They're so handsome. It's definitely a point of pride for me. Once I actually read everything I have, then I'll add more to the family. (Except friends works of course. Speaking of which... @impossiblewolves I keep forgetting to get the physical copy! First thing I'm doing when I get paid this Thursday, ma'am. I need to brag that my dear Mary is an authoress.

[motherboxing]

oh my god i just wanted to say THANK YOU for the blogging re: jason pargin wank!!!! i fucking HATED his article about the election, i don't know if you read/hate read it, but it's sO CONDESCENDING, and he's so fucking racist and transmisogynistic and fucking gross!! so so so so gross!!!! i mean i know this is a very side-eye-y criticism of a white bro who writes dick jokes for a living but mY GOD. anyway john cheese is A+ jason paragin is T for Troll and you are also A+, thanks for listening!!

Yeah, I really appreciate a lot of the stuff John Cheese has written about addiction and also creativity and writing and stuff! I hope my dislike of Jason Pargin doesn’t come across as totally grudgey, I dunno, like… look, I have family who are also from really rural, small-town, working-class communities in Illinois and South Dakota and etc, it is not a part of my family that I grew up immersed in but it is a part of my family that as an adult I’ve kind of struggled to understand because my mom really DID grow up in that kind of environment and obviously, she raised me, and like, whatever. I am not unsympathetic to the idea that a lot of rural poor and working-class white americans have a specific cultural experience and that in order to understand the current global situation we need to understand why and how these communities have become such a contested space in public discourse and etc. I just, like… I dunno, what I said to my girlfriend earlier I think was something along the lines of like, he seems to want everyone to understand the plight of the working-class white American man, but he doesn’t seem to want that guy to have to understand anyone else. Which definitely leads me to believe that he hasn’t unpacked NEARLY as much of the racism and misogyny and transmisogyny and xenophobia and, yes, even classism! and etc etc etc that he was brought up in as he thinks that he has.

Like, the mere fact that when people told him they were uncomfortable with him having built a career around a pseudonym that clearly conveys a cultural/ethnic background that is not his own, he responded with, basically, a bunch of stuff about how he’s colourblind or whatever and he felt totally comfortable just adopting this online persona of, essentially, an Asian man, without even THINKING about the implications of that, and then when his writing provoked violent responses from racists he was like “oh I must be doing something right!!!!” but like… obviously he was never going to be at immediate risk from those racists! Because they could ultimately just look at his face and realize that he is not an Asian dude! So he always had that out! But ACTUAL Asian writers do NOT have that out, and the racist sentiments that his writing stirred up made a lot of their lives more difficult, and he just like… clearly didn’t think that was a problem? I dunno. It makes me feel pissy. 

Several people I know have talked about how people who are white and not multiethnic or anything - like, those kind of WASP types, you know - often have this freedom to move around in these cultural spaces, because they don’t experience the real minority stress that actual racial and ethnic minorities experience… like, it’s a documented fact that someone like Jason Pargin stands to gain from pretending to be Asian, while, for example, an actual Asian writer who writes in the same genres and field(s) as Jason Pargin might SEEM, on a surface level, to have the same advantages as a white guy pretending to be Asian, but ultimately their experience of ACTUAL, real life, interpersonal discrimination and racism, the ways minority stress and racism and etc manifest in their lives, etc, put them at a disadvantage to someone like Jason Pargin, who can reap all the benefits of tokenization without any of the adverse effects. And. I dunno. It just makes me angry! I really dislike that guy! I see his actions as indicative of this white/straight/dude/etc/etc idea that being marginalized in some way is ultimately just a bargaining chip and nothing more. Like all those of us who are marginalized in whatever ways (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, you name it) get is ~~~~diversity scholarships, and not ALSO a lifetime of being told we are basically dirt. It’s a super fucked up understanding of the politics of difference and the Other that does not take into account cultural, social, etc power dynamics, and I think that’s offensive and dumb because obviously without those power dynamics, the Other does not really exist! 

ANYWAY this turned into a whole rant, whatever, my point is fuck Jason Pargin, I do not like that guy, and John Dies At The End was overrated anyway. 

[autumn-in-fandom]

Song titles tag

Rules: Using only songs from one artist, answer these nine questions and tag ten people. I was tagged by @oxyconundrum Thanks! So, I've done this before on FB with Tori Amos songs, this time I'm going with Mumford & Sons. What’s your gender? "Awake My Soul" Describe yourself: "So Nearly" How do you feel? "Not with Haste" If you could go anywhere? "Thistle and Weeds" Favorite mode of transportation? "Hopeless Wanderer" Your best friend? "Sister" Favorite time of day? "After the Storm" If your life was a TV show? "Wilder Mind" Relationship status? "I Take Your Hand" Your fear? "Blind Leading the Blind" I tag: @abradystrix @albvsxscorpy @amysnowmusic @bounding-heart @coe-lilium @erisedsubrocs @jijikaa @lumosweasley @rarity-kasket @torestoreamends

[professorspork]

oxyconundrum replied to your post “Wow okay eye test thing I'm not a robot just because I know how to...”

CHEATER CHEATER PUMPKIN EATERS SHAME DO U HAVE NO SHAME DON'T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT ANIMAL U R NATURALLY SHAAAAAME DISHONOR ON YOU DISHONOR ON YOUR FAMILY DISHONOR ON YOUR COW

i took it again and got cat ARE YOU HAPPY NOW

[beingfacetious]

homeontheburrow replied to your post:welp today a coworker I was just re-warming-up-to...

Do you attract these people? Ugh. That said, living abroad sounds nice for awhile! But no one should tell you what to do.

In fairness, this was an older Southern woman, and it’s just in their genetic programming to ask younger married women when they’re having babies, she wasn’t trying to be rude she just can’t help it (I’m being facetious [!] but it’s also true)

tbh I would love to live abroad for awhile! but I...probably can’t...maybe someday, if I don’t have kids, ba-dum-tss

[autumn-in-fandom]

I was tagged by @drarryking which is the main reason I’m doing this, because I didn’t even know I was on their radar and I want to join the squad please.

Rules: Answer the following questions and tag 9 people.

• 1 Q: How old are you? A: Too old to be on here, 31.

• 2 Q: What’s your current job? A: “Homemaker” and I’m horrible at it, but I have major anxiety that I would be horrible at any job, so here I am.

• 3 Q: What are you talented at? A: Seeing other people’s typos and grammar mistakes? Getting up off the floor without using my hands?

• 4 Q: What is a big goal you are working towards (or have already achieved)? A: Umm… we’re saving up money to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but I need to contribute financially, see above. No, I don’t know about a big goal, I have lots of little ones.

• 5 Q: What’s your aesthetic? A: Copper and ivory (color not the material), old photographs, keys, hand mirrors, lockets and letters, amber, bronze statues and historic jewelry, Celtic knotwork, tartan fabric, simplified houndstooth, herringbone, hammered metal, black and cherry wood together, white woodwork and sage green walls.

• 6

Q: Do you collect anything?

A: Right now it’s Harry Potter Funko Pop vinyls. It used to be tea, tea tins and teaware, Lord of the Rings action figures. I tried charms but I failed. I tried chickens but the husband limited me and the neighbors were jerks, bringing on major anxiety so now I have no chickens. When I was a little girl it was Grand Champion toy horses, I had over 200. My husband is more of a collector than I. You should see his room. Oh! And we have a Dickens Christmas Village!

• 7 Q: What’s a topic you always talk about? A: Harry Potter, Cursed Child, Scorbus, fan fiction, gay things. So glad I could talk about all those things without judgement yesterday.

• 8 Q: What’s a pet peeve of yours? A: When people write the possessive form of Albus and Scorpius as Albus’ and Scorpius’. No, um… Yeah, I guess that’s all I’ve got.

• 9 Q: Good advice to give? A: Oh damn, everything that comes to mind is either really personal or self-deprecating or both. ‘Never do this embarrassing thing that will haunt you forever.’ But why would I leave a condom wrapper in my father’s office trash bin? I don’t know, but just don’t. You all are probably much savvier internet users than I, but just be careful what you mention on social media, not just from fear of predators or employers, but like don’t complain about you mom and her feelings about your half-sibling on FB, especially when you’re friends with your aunts and all your siblings on FB.

• 10 Q: What are three songs you’d recommend? A:  Pépère Lucius by Draco and the Malfoys, Penelope by The Hermione Crookshanks Experience and Don’t Let the Moon by Seen and Unforeseen. All of those titles link to Bancamp. Seriously, listen to them.

Hmm let’s do some newer friends: @whenmythoughtswagewar, @oxyconundrum, @amkatepet, @simon-snowman, @bazwillendinflames, @jc20fashion, @she-l-p, @isabelzimmer997, @ezzythehouseelf

[professorspork]

oxyconundrum replied to your post: “kxradnvers replied to your post: “lexstrasshittyblog replied to your...”:

try looking at some scripts for the underworld movies--i think they might rely more on guns but the fight scenes might help point you in the right direction?

ooo, yes, thank you

[professorspork]

oxyconundrum replied to your post “god help these poor heteros, for they cannot help themselves”

i'm over here in my corner of no-cable-tv/hearing-disability-so-need-captions land yelling at this i'm just.......yelling

HANG IN THERE ADRIAN