Not to middle-age post but the concert last night ran FOUR HOURS late and I am extremely tired lmao.

they're right and they should say it

God: in my book I created the golden calf as a cautionary tale American evangelical pastors: let me be clear, this is not the golden calf from the book Don't Worship The Golden Calf

NOPE I swore never to go Japan in August again I have made that mistake TWICE but jesus this is pretty.

As with most Anne Rice quotes I'm like "look, I agree with what you're saying, and I think there absolutely is an intersection of classism and sexism when it comes to purity politics, but I still kinda get the vibe you're being a little condescending here without meaning to be."

This reminds me of when an academic friend and I were gonna put out an edition of Frankenstein where everyone's name was Frankenstein and we were gonna include essays about why it's stupid to be a stickler about who you can and can't call Frankenstein when talking about the characters.

I know it's easy to dismiss things like pop groups as totally frivolous, but last night a nonbinary person got to joyously tell a genderless performer about their two mothers, and I think that's worth a lot in 2026.

If there is an adaptation between any media better than the Fun Home musical, I have yet to encounter it.

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

I met xlov and they were ABSURDLY pretty. Nomia told Wumuti they were there with their two mums and gestured to Lisa and I and he smiled.

forever in love that keisuke haunts the narrative like it doesnt matter if ur not on his route he is the catalyst for akira to open up his heart

when you start to go for a little treat you got yourself on your trip to the grocery store to cheer yourself up a bit when feeling sad but then remember you gotta save it in case you get sadder later and end up never eating it because like a special rare item in a game what if you need it more later

Then Frog ran back to Toad's bed. “Toad, Toad, wake up! It is May now.”

anyway they should make a new blackula because blackula fucking ruled and I wanna see a cool black vampire fuck up racist cops

These two books made a huge journey across the ocean from Australia and made their way to me! :D Thank you SO much @sharpestrose.bsky.social for these books! I will cherish these and look forward to reading them! Now the dilemma of which one to read first... :P

going the full madonna lmao

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This is how every other country imagines life in America

Toad woke up. “Drat!” he said. “This house is a mess. I have so much work to do.” Frog looked through the window. “Toad, you are right,” said Frog. “It is a mess.” Toad pulled the covers over his head.

spiritually I am Canadian possibly

I'd rather the manga I care about get released with really great loc by people who are paid well and make a great product, not people who are given a pittance, if anything, and then also encouraged to buy stock in a company which has failed before and robbed people of the licenses of their own IPs.

I was recently talking to a friend about someone I used to know but whom, as I put it, "would hate me for my gender now" -- the friend was like "no, she wouldn't hate you, she'd be, hm, condescending" and I was like oh right, I forgot, afab people are just confused when they're not cis.

At the risk of burning bridges in loc: Tokyopop does not pay its English loc freelancers well and doesn't hire freelance letterers at all, instead outsourcing that skill to an agency. Tokyopop was destroyed by its own hubris in this market once before and it's likely to happen again.

the new self care vampire tester survey asked what your current otp was and I said songxuexiao so I apologise to the devs for giving them the most toxic homework possible

Taking my stupid little walk for my stupid little mental health.

really don't think it is that hard to connect "it's dangerous to allow gov't bans on expression on only the basis of personal disgust" with "right now the people who make the decisions on what is disgusting are the horribly bigoted reactionaries who are disgusted if a woman wears pants"

twice in the past two days I have seen "mm must read" lists with heated rivalry and captive prince. as I said the last time I saw this, this has some big "if you liked our flag means death you should watch black sails" energy. Ilya would be fine in Vere but Shane would... not.

nail-rings for xlov tomorrow.

I did QA on this lmao

Happy Monday!! #pottery

Xue Yang as a betta fish is perfect that kid does NOT know how to share his enclosure

rooting for poly in a yuri manga is like losing chess to a dog except that sometimes, very rarely, the dog will look at a move you made, push their glasses up, and then make out with two other dogs. this is considered a poor move in dog chess, but it CAN happen so its where the expression comes from

I know I still joke about The Academy Is leaving comments on livejournal fic almost twenty years later but Pete Wentz made an official t-shirt for his favourite lj comm, bandom was built different. Regular degular actors going about their lives should not be subject to tinhatting on their own socmed

I would actively cross the street to avoid bothering every member of the HR cast at this point. Those people are braver than any US Marine.

If I have contributed nothing else to this world, at least I contributed this.

I don't care what the age of consent is ANYWHERE if the people in question DID NOT CONSENT. Raping a sixteen year old is illegal even in England, genius.

It is now eight degrees and we have gone outside and she has smelled all the things and peed on some of them, so she is content.

I wish I could find it now but @zackdavisson.com posted a panel from Brain Damage a few months ago saying he was proud of translating the line "you may have forgotten your grandchild's name, but you're not gonna forget this ass!" and reader, I was Not Prepared for the context.

to be clear i do not think therapy would fix shen jiu. it would make him worse. he would learn all kinds of new terms to throw at other people. he would take it as a gaslighting how-to manual.

I just started watching this -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tb... -- where the commentator says if he had a partner with children he'd want to be a step and he's surprised the people featured don't, which just made me think of how quickly my father's partner shut down any notion of being a step lmao

No, fifteen year old dog, we are not going outside, it is wet and six degrees (43 for americans) and your bones are creaky.

2007 is a state of mind

Okay it's a long way out from Halloween but genuine question, can a white person dress up as a jiangshi, or is that cultural appropriation? It's a pulp movie monster, but it has folklore roots, and I don't want to end up doing something insensitive.

I have forgiven my bullies because I didn't want to be an adult who had beef with eight year olds, but being mocked for being overweight as a child was absolutely ruinous in so many ways. I will never be without those scars, they run to the very core of me.