#ya know!

[wolfxplush]

Max used to gain “crushes” on any authority figure that treated him with decency.

[ultravioletbrit]

Do you have a rare pair that you like? Will you ever write a fic for them?

Oooo…. that's such a good question!!

I’ll split my boys up and put each of them in a different pair. Even through it breaks my heart to split them and I will always still want endgame Jeggy, but they can have fun with these guys for a little while!! 😉

I am really liking Reg and Kingsley. I think they work so well together, and I love their dynamic. I honestly don’t think I would’ve thought of them together, but after reading a few fics with them (and some very delicious fanart), they are really good together and I have very quickly become a big fan!  

But I have to say my favorite rare pair is James and Evan. I love them together! And I wish there were so many more fics with them!! I also love me some rosestarkillerchaser… But there is just something about solo James and Evan that I love. I’m reading 2 wips right now that have them together and they’re just so cute and so sweet and so kinky and so smutty and I just want to squeeze them! James calling him Evy melts my heart every time 🥹 (I am nervous because neither of those wips have endgame tags and one of them I want endgame Rosechaser (is that their ship name?) and the other I want Jegulus but everyone keeps switching partners and it is so stressful.)

As far as writing them… I would love to write them eventually, but I don’t think I can yet. Or at least I don’t feel like I can. I definitely don’t think I know Kingsley enough to write him yet. I know I can make him whatever I want, but I’d be nervous if I wrote him right now, he would be very James-coded, and I wouldn’t want to do that. And I feel like I ‘know’ Evan a bit better, but I’ve only had him as a side character so far, and I think the same thing might happen to him and the ship would end up just feeling like Jegulus or Rosekiller.  

I haven’t written much other than my microfics and when I was writing a longer fic, I struggled a lot with finding Reg and James’ voices, if that makes sense. I kept bouncing all around different personalities that just weren’t them in that particular fic. And it was very hard for me to keep them consistent through the entire fic. And that was with Reg and James, who I write all the time, and thought I understood very well.

I think it would be even harder for me to write Evan or Kingsley as a main ship right now and be able to give them their own voice and personality and characterization. I have a feeling it would turn out looking more like I wrote a Jegulus fic, then just changed the name. And I don’t want to do that. (I hope that made sense and was all okay to say. If not, please let me know.)

I think once I get more comfortable writing in general, I’ll feel more confident to branch out more. (I’m just a baby ☺️)

This was such a fun question to answer! Thank you so much for asking!! 💜 Sorry if I rambled a bit more than necessary and sorry if anything didn’t make sense. 

[mmmthornton]

i have no idea who Eth3l C4in is, but something something that post about how terminally online someone has to be to react like groups of marginalized people posting online together is like, equivalent to Societal Opression. "A bunch of women get on here and scream 'male moment!' whenever a male has a moment!" yeah? And what of it?...

[pixel-bloom]

Firefly: Make a short video sharing your truest self. Whatever that means. Apparently it was our first assignment but uh, I missed out on it due to other...commitments.

Gnat: Yes, I remember. You ditched and dragged your brother along with you. Sounds like you better start digging up. And DO NOT ask your father to do this for you either. He’s already been warned.

Firefly: You can’t dig up, that’s impossible. You went to that fancy lawyer school, and for nothing Mom. For shame.

Gnat: Start your project. Now.

[jazzypizzaz]

This job... I went from super tentative about being annoying or bothering anyone, to completely obnoxious (in a polite professional sense) about following up with everyone about everything “do you have that thing I asked for yet? how about today? it’s been two days how about now?” Squeaky wheel and the grease and all that.

[lo-fag]

idk man. i just think itd be really cool if sign language classes were mandatory throughout primary school. yeah because it would make communication with deaf kids and autistic/nonverbal kids much easier. and those kids would be accessible to the others so they could make friends and have healthy relationships. yeah. and kids would eat that shit up man. like their own little secret language? they love that.

[napping-sapphic]

take your clothes off and get on the bed what no we aren’t having sex right now we’re cuddling and pressing every inch of skin together as close as possible for the next six hours

[mroddmod]

they are like puppies. 2 me

[jelly-fish-wishes]

I'm ignoring the part of the internet who is going "Oh no" at this.

BUT OMG BOWSER YOU HOPELESS ROMANTIC. YOU LOVE PEACH NO MATTER WHAT SHE TURNS INTO BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Bowser really is the type to love you if you became a worm lol

[cringefailprincess]

he just likes being included

(now with a part 2)

[spookberry]

Shhhh theyre thinking

[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

[sunlit-mess]

silly lil guy

[disease-n-death]

[inkskinned]

the thing about some men is that they want you to remember, at all times, that you are underneath them. that with one word or look or "joke", you will stay beneath them. that even "exceptions" to the rule are not true exceptions - the commonly cited statistic that one in eight men believe they could win against serena williams.

women's gymnastics is often not seen as real gymnastics. whatever the fuck non-euclidian horrors rhythmic gymnasts are capable of, it's often tamped down as being not a sport. some of the most dominant athletes in the world are women. nobody watches women's soccer. despite years of dancing and being built like a fucking brick, men always assume they're faster and stronger than i am. you wouldn't like what happens when they are incorrect. once while drunk at a guy's house i won a held-plank challenge by a solid minute. the party was over after that - he became exceedingly violent.

what i mean is that you can be perfect, and they still think you're ... lacking, somehow. i hope you understand i'm trying to express a neutral statement when i say: taylor swift was the possibly the most patriarchy-palatable, straight-down-the-line woman we could churn out. she is white, conventionally attractive, usually pretty mild in personality. say what you will about her (and you should, she's a billionaire, she can handle it), but a few things seem to be true about her: 1. she can write a damn catchy song, and 2. the eras tour truly was a massive commercial success and was also genuinely an impressive feat of human athleticism and performance.

i don't know if she deserves the title of "woman of the year," i'm not debating that in this post. what i am saying is that she was named Woman of The Year, and then an untalented man got onstage at the golden globes and made fun of her for attending her boyfriend's football games. what i am saying is that this woman altered local economies - and her dating life is still being made into a "harmless" punchline. the camera panned, greedy, over to her downing a full glass of champagne. congratulations taylor! you are woman of the year! but you are a woman. even her.

fuck, man. write better material.

a guy gets onstage at a college graduation and despite the fact like half the crowd is made up of women, he spends a significant proportion of it warning these people - who spent possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars on their education - that they were lied to. that the "real" meaning of femininity is motherhood. that they shouldn't rest on the laurels of that education-they-paid-for but instead throw it away to kneel at a man's heel. imagine that. sweating in your godawful polyester gown (that you also had to pay for!), fresh out of 4 years of pushing yourself ever-harder: and some guy you've never met - who knows nothing about you - he reminds you this "win" is a pyrrhic one at best. you really shouldn't consider yourself that extraordinary. you're still a woman, even after years of study.

god forbid you are not a pretty woman, but if you are pretty, you must be dumb. god forbid you are not ablebodied or white or cis or straight or good at swallowing. you must be beneath a man, or else they are not a man. the equation for masculinity seems to just be: that which is not a woman or womanly (god forbid). anything "feminine" is thereby anathema. to engage in "feminine" things such as therapy, getting a hug from a friend, or crying - it is giving up ones manhood. therefore women need to be put in their place to ensure that masculinity is protected.

this is something i have struggled to explain to terfs - they are not doing the work of feminism, but rather the patriarchy. by asserting that women and men must be (on some secret level) oppositional and in conflict, they also assume that being a woman is akin to being another species. but bigotry does not stem from observational truths or clarity - that is what makes it bigotry. there was nothing in my childhood that made me fundamentally different from my brother. we are treated differently nonetheless. to assert there is some biological drive that enforces my gender role is to assert that women have a gendered role. men do not see women as equal to them not because of biological reality - but instead because the core tenant of the patriarchy is that women aren't full, realized people.

we are told from a very young age to excuse misbehavior as a single man's choice - not all men. it is not all men, just that one guy. all women are gold-digging bitches who belong in the kitchen - but if a man is mean, bigoted, or violent to you, it's just that particular guy, and that means nothing about men-as-a-whole. it is only one guy who got mad when you gently rejected him. it is only one guy who warns her this trophy is heavy, are you sure you can hold it? it is only one guy who smashes her face into the cake. it is only one guy talking into a mic about hating our bodily autonomy.

i have just found that they often wait until the moment we actually seem to be upstaging them. you sit in a meeting where you're presenting your own findings and he says get me a coffee? or you run to the end of the marathon and are about to finish first and he pushes your kids out in front of you. you win the chess game and they make some comment akin to well, you're ugly away. we can be the billionaire and get the dream life and finally fucking do it and yet! still! they have this strange, visceral urge to say well actually, if you think you're so great -

it's not one just one guy. it's one in eight.

[mangozic]

michael shelley I would die for you