#them examining themselves??

[saints-who-never-existed]

"In Moby Dick, Ishmael tells of seeing the skeleton of a sperm whale assembled in a grove of palm trees on a South Pacific island. "How vain and foolish," He says, "for timid untraveled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton... Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out."

But, as the survivors of the Essex came to know, once the end has been reached and all hope, passion, and force of will have been expended, the bones may be all that are left.

- In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick.

[zoloftsexdeath]

There are three ways to feed an immortal,

I finished How to Survive Camping and I am utterly enamored with it, and especially enamored with CupKate. Those two are really the couple of all time huh. Love confessions more heartwrenching than any allo romances I've probably ever read, a relationship that bopped back and forth from spouse ("spouse") to QPR to guy trying to kill you, but always always they were tied together at the soul.

Even now I can't really wrap my head around Beau not loving her the way she loved him (romantic or not, that was a love deeper than anything). Some things are not for me to know though.

[llycaons]

the shower pee tags are extremely divisive btw

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

Of my 2% capacity to be attracted to anyone, my type is like 90% women, 5% pretty men and 5% men you would swear are super fucking manly, and never questioned being straight and cis, but are now suddenly *stressed* that they can't figure out why their attraction to me [fully socially interpreted as a woman and labelled that way up until relatively recently] feels incredibly fucking gay

[cartoonchaos]

“gee i wonder why there’s still so much more fanfiction about male characters” “we need more morally complex female characters” “i love relationships that are doomed by the narrative” “more stories need to treat mentally ill characters with compassion and respect” “all his problems could’ve been fixed if he only went to therapy” you fuckers can’t even handle the ending of fionna and cake

[tombware]

astarion's arc mentioning redemption doesn't make as much sense as it seemed it was going to in EA. like Ulma mentioning he might achieve redemption doesn't make much sense now since she's talking about victims he got while being almost literally puppeteered.

Originally it seemed pretty clear we were going to find out some heinous shit he did to the Gur as a magistrate out of his own free volition.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

no but im thinking about how 4halo could be together while keeping their dynamic intact. forever asks bad on a date and bad is like yeah :D friendship date. several dates later bad's the one to propose and he says "will you merry me" as in like. be merry with me. feel joy forever for we're together and we have 11 children aka all of the eggs we have forcefully adopted from the other parents and i dont know what life would be like without you. you changed my life for the better. besties 4evar, forever

[lliquidllyrium]

As someone who also comes from a culture that perpetuates some toxic familial structures I think there’s a strange urge to—because the Dellamorte family structure is rooted in a specific culture’s practices—leave it be because it’s harder to understand the roots of it if you haven’t lived it yourself. But like, I promise you there are younger generations working to break the toxic generational practices in black families because I’ve seen it, so I can only assume it’s the same for other cultures.

It’s not that you should leave it be, and it’s not that Lucanis is automatically immune to desiring certain changes because he grew up in this culture. There are just certain things that need to be written about with more care and tact than other things. Do your research like you would with anything else.

[stag-bi]

what a whiplash going to see my 2016 tumblr dash (as linked in that last post) and getting slapped in the face w full blown ace discourse 😭😭😭

[overclockedopossum]

Two Things You Should Know About Stonehenge

It turns out, cornflour really doesn't magically dissolve rock! Even the suddenly-vaunted lichen is unharmed, due to the simple expedient of what sounds suspiciously like it was just a leafblower.

There is, however, a plan being rammed through to build a road tunnel through nearby unexcavated archeological sites. This plan has been condemned by Unesco. If you care about the site for reasons other than opposing environmentalism, this is what you should be angry about.

[absentmoon]

do you guys know how fucking weird it is for me towant to be like ohh bennys super special to me and i actually don't always want to share him except with my friends because i trust them lots and lots Do you know. Because I also hate this man. But he's important to me. But I

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

this is kuron to me.. i dont have a specific au in mind, this is just kinda how this guy always is(or at least how he is in my head lol)

You are so fucking right!!! Kuron is like, "I can either deal with clone identity crisis or gender identity crisis and honestly? I am going to ignore both of them right now"

[filthforfriends]

How are ya pookie?

I swear you guys have a spidey sense for when my mood takes a deep dive.

Hey pookie♥️ Thank you for your thoughtful response to my last post (& thank you to the other thoughtful responses). Your perspective educates me.

Honestly, I was surprised by how the expected, uninspiring rebuttals enraged me this time. It's that horrendous napalm/Vietnamese joke. Even coming from devils advocates I can't fucking stomach it. Days later, I'm still too pissed to craft a productive follow up, but I feel compelled. Even though, in the case of "Napalm Girl," the U.S. didn't drop the bombs, they supplied the napalm. The American curriculum barely touches on the subject, despite the U.S. war on Vietnam being the most infamous use of napalm a.k.a. Agent Orange. (388.000 tons in a decade). Perhaps other people are ignorant, not hateful.

"Napalm Girl" is a real person

Her name is Kim Phuc Phan Thi. In 1972, at nine years old, she was severely burned by napalm bombs dropped by South Vietnamese forces. Nick Ut photographed Kim Phuc fleeing with her brothers & cousins - all young children. The photograph is called "The Terror of War" & has been widely published. Not included here because the image is very disturbing & Kim Phuc is completely naked. She'd torn off her burning clothes & is screaming in pain. Luckily, she survived because Ut drove her to the hospital.

 "I started to see people come out of the fireball...First there was a grandmother carrying a baby who died in front of my camera. Then I saw through the viewfinder of my Leica, the naked girl running...I saw her skin coming off and I stopped taking pictures. I didn't want her to die...Kim kept screaming, “I’m dying! I’m dying!” Her body was burned so badly."  - Nick Ut

Kim Phuc Phan Thi & Nick Ut (photographed by Mark Edward Harris)

What's the joke?

Context: ravidememe gives irreverent dating/sex advice. If he's deciphering texts, then presumably the person asking is at least sexually interested in the source.

So with that context, he's asked about "Chinese girl" emojis and thinks of Kim Phuc in "The Terror of War." There is something so fucking twisted about that.

Why did he think of "Napalm Girl?" Because her nakedness is relevant to the undertones of this post? Because when he thinks of Asian or Vietnamese women, this is the first thing that comes to mind? Their suffering as a clever cultural reference. Because when he wants to slight Asian or Vietnamese women and this was an acceptable option? There's no acceptable option. It's all racism.

[gothmiqote]

saw a post the other day (im so sure i put it in the queue god knows when we can expect to see it again because its huge) re: thancred & y'shtola's respective reckless tendencies (self loathing vs borderline hubris) & that got me thinking about varha's own recklessness.

because she definitely doesn't seem like someone who hates herself. like, not even close. there is hubris there, because she knows she's dangerous & good at her job. but the self preservation is missing entirely. she's showing off & being cocky, and that ups her chances of actually being hit. she'll step in the line of fire, not necessarily for the glory but for the rush of it all. she's an adrenaline junkie who's so passively suicidal she'll never actually see it for what it is, because she's generally happy in her day-to-day life & she doesn't self-isolate or actively (read: intentionally) hurt herself in any way. hell, she doesn't even drink that often. she's got a lot of things she likes about herself, and the idea that she might be putting herself in harm's way on purpose so someone else can take responsibility for finally giving her a chance to rest? kind of insulting, in her opinion.

but there are some days where you can catch her moving a bit slower if you look hard enough. where footwork that's normally perfect muscle memory gets tripped over. where she doesn't double-check ammunition before firing off the first shot. her post-battle smiles are still easy, but they're more of a struggle than the fight itself was. some of them might even hold a tinge of disappointment, but that might just be your imagination.

she's not trying to get herself killed.

she's just... tired sometimes.

& that's definitely not the same thing.

[laikinz]

when your entire brand as a youtube personality is going after fat people who just want to live their lives and maybe change the climate for other fat people existing in this stupid world i think youve just become the most embarrassing person in existence

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

tbh will never forgive radfems for appropriating 'why don't you think about why you feel that way :)' as 'do it until you're Fixed and don't feel that way anymore'--especially when often they use it for conversion therapy in particular 🙃--because as a genuine, good faith, open-ended question to guide a toolset of other questions, it has brought me not only a lot of insight but SO much peace in processing things my brain would eat itself over otherwise