fascinating to me how people negotiate the age of the main character(s) of a work with the intended audience, and how it relates to 1) whether those mcs are processed as people or characters 2) how seriously we take the perspective of a child

Romeo + Juliet the best adaptation idc idc. Mercucio and Tybalt stole the entire show for me like are you joking look at them

"Bring me my Longsword, Ho!"

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

big fish butch (Numa) (She/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🫍🌊

Traditional publishing isn't a meritocracy in the slightest. A book being "good" doesn't translate to sales or promotion.

Universal Basic Income is ethical and humane and any push-back against it is a sure sign of greed and boot-licking.

when you know all the horrible private deep lore about someone but you can't prove it, at least not without sacrificing hours of your life and sanity, so you just sit there and shut up like alright then. guess you get to harm people and then exist without social consequences

makeup by daniel sällström for the rick owens fw26 show

...I need this so bad now actually

can bsky shut the fuck up about AI and just give us locked accounts already

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

*taps the sign* Let people dislike you. You don’t want to be friends with people who don’t like you. People block for completely random reasons. Authenticity threatens certain individuals & insecure people need a common enemy to talk smack about - genuinely, who cares what they think.

I dug this up to say that I can confidently tell you all this changed my fucking life. My breakouts still happen every month around my cycle but they're not huge and devastating. I don't get ANY acne on my neck anymore, even. It really was that easy all this time lmao

video: easy quick updo tutorial! me: oh okay video: first take your curling iron-- me: NO

Transgender people will soon be banned from teaching at any level in Kentucky. As a reminder, Germany did the same thing to Jewish teachers in 1933. But, it can't happen here. Because democracy and good people or something. transitics.substack.com/p/kentucky-b...

Porn addiction isn't real. What is real is people with religious and/or societal guilt around viewing pornography. People who label themselves porn addicts don't quantifiably watch more porn, nor does their viewing impair their daily lives. They just feel guiltier about it than others.

Systemic oppression has literal, quantifiable health effects on the oppressed.

This changes you completely

"Clue" is the closest you can ever get to making a Muppet movie with no Muppets.

tapping the sign

LRP no see I'm fine with flies existing I just want them OFF OF ME

People hate flies, but don't realize getting rid of flies would get rid of - chocolate (pollinator is a fly) and other plants - poop and decaying corpses everywhere (bacterial decomposition slower/smelly) - deweeders and pest parasitoids

If they think a condition has a chance of recovery, how do they expect those people to be able to recover if they can’t afford to eat or heat their home?

I stopped feeling shame when I looked at the bigger picture. Also that there’s billionaires who don’t deserve what they have but society thinks they’ve worked for it so it’s okay. Our society is obsessed with connecting worth to work and if you don’t fit that then you’re deemed bad. Fuck that.

It appears Tim Sweeney and Epic have laid off an employee with terminal brain cancer, cancelling his life insurance. This should be a big story. Any journalists who follow me want to write this one up? Maybe contact Epic for comment? I'm not writing for any outlets right now so can't spread this.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Lilith is close to death. PLEASE. You could be the difference between life and death for her. If you claim to GAF about trans people, put it into action to save lives. Lilith deserves to live, and Black trans lives matter. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

LRP yes. I've never seen it put more eloquently. YES transphobia stems from misogyny which hurts cis women too but Society As A Whole will absolutely still prioritize cis women, particularly cis white women - because women of color and black women especially are ALREADY masculinized by default

I'm gonna be blunt: despite the fact that the current oppression of cis women is clearly due to transphobia, it's equally plainly obvious that cis people collectively are going to negotiate it to a position where they feel they're safe from anti-trans oppression while still oppressing trans people

It’s that time of the month where I ask my fans, friends, and community to help with rent 🥺💕 Every dollar goes a long way and helps me focus on building out my new career! One day soon we won’t have to worry about rent 🙏😭💖 ko-fi.com/acvalens/goa...

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

first drawing of Julian vs recent one

I know you wont believe me but this is a real sign near where I live

okay this turning out to be actual concept art because the real actual concept art - being internal and not for public use - WAS IN FACT a paintover of ninja gaiden 2 art, is incredibly, incredibly funny. now that's real gamedev

[been in the expac for practically 5 minutes] when does he go freakmode im sick of waiting

UwU #emetwol #ffxiv

I wish we'd just start remembering that there are bad actors in every possible marginalized community because turns out we're all human and pretty equally capable of being bad actors

‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say

[oc] dead fish eyes

one time i studied to draw wuk lamat #hamhammedia

🖤 Retro manga style commission for @/mimicatbats on IG 🎀 If you want a fashion portrait in retro shoujo style of yourself or your OCs, check out my Ko-fi for more info! #eglfashion #eglcommunity #gothiclolita

Some trans!Gale being a good puppy for @pixelclaw.bsky.social 🙂‍↕️🙏✨ #bg3 #nsfw

finally posted my canon compliant #nerobaster glory hole fic #basilwrites archiveofourown.org/works/78517816