i think one of the funniest emotions a person can go through is finally getting to a classic novel or film and discovering that it is in fact a masterpiece just like everyone said because you can’t help but be a little mad. you’re in awe of something truly beautiful but you’re also like goddamnit

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

Just throwing this out there. Mass Market or Pocket paperbacks are the ideal book formats. Every goddamned time.

Two nickels

I’ve completed another rewatch because I needed to feel joy today

Ilya is trying to adopt quintuplets to prove that Shane is more fertile than Jackie Pike send post

Hey. No one is secretly mad at you. Go have a snack. You’re beautiful. You’ve got this.

I need this tag populated with all the pure chaos that would happen if/when anyone finds out how long Shane and Ilya have been together in any capacity. #hollanov

Blows my mind when people complain about the Scott/Kip storyline in Heated Rivalry. Have you just never heard of a narrative mirror or foil? It’s such great storytelling! I’m obsessed 😍 1/5

Look what came! @asisherright.bsky.social I love it! Just as beautiful in person.

Lithograph by Peter Brook from his Twelve Months of the Year Series 1976-7 ‘January Pennine Valley’ Dimensions 51 x 71 cm.

But my whole clock’s run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.

Tiny monsterfucking

It’s you #GoodOmens

if you’re trying to go against homophobia i’m afraid you can’t yell “queerbait” every time a celebrity who isn’t openly queer does something you consider fruity

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

when i search "butch calendar," for reasons that should be obvious to all, i receive "lingerie calendar" and "aspca calendar," as well as "moon manifestation" and "witchcraft" calendars. never change, algorithms.

Heated rivalry stopping in it’s toxic yaoi tracks to give a healthy yaoi as a contrast to the two main love interests is actually genius

One recurring theme I like on this show is that people who love you are people who *see* you, e.g. Scott clocking very early that Kip is into art, while somehow one of his friends thinks he's into science.

The thing about not sharing your weirdness because of fear you will be rejected is that you sort of just end up surrounded by people you don't feel understood by, because they're attracted to the Normal performance. You have to just weird everyone out and see who fuck with it

I've reached my lifetime quota for "interesting times." Give me bland times. Boring times. Normie times, one could even say. Times that are both dull and unexciting. Load me up with times that feel stale and uninspiring. That's the good stuff right there.

one of the less-obvious things you lose with book bans and censorship is how many kids bored by English class first fall in love with reading due to the sheer exhilaration of getting away with something dangerous by checking a Grown-Up Book out of the library and realizing books can be Like That™️

It's much easier to encounter Romance in the traditional way. Stumbling upon paperbacks at your grandma's house when you are 12.

Oh this is good. This is very good.

We're going to invent time travel and find out the surviving version of the Epic of Gilgamesh was from the Sumerian version of AO3. Travelers from our future are gonna watch MCU movies and be confused that Steve and Bucky aren't fucking.

Moonlight I (Måneskinn I) 1896 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1158148

My fastest block is for people who complain about other people’s preferences in fiction. A bit because it’s dumb but mostly because it’s boring. I’ve never met a person who does this who wasn’t incredibly tedious.

something i really love about the pitt is that, while it is extremely brutal, it is also wildly compassionate

"Yeah, sure, I mean there are hot women everywhere. A thing I, Shane Hollander, definitely know about."

I laugh every. single. time. this part happens. Your captain is a goddamned comedian.

My fastest block is for people who complain about other people’s preferences in fiction. A bit because it’s dumb but mostly because it’s boring. I’ve never met a person who does this who wasn’t incredibly tedious.

We'll Huff and we'll Puff #Kaseyart #penandink

maybe he’s just tired?

I HATE cartoon covers for romance novels HATE THEM i know ppl are "ashamed of having shirtless man and bodice ripper covers" now, but I'd be way more embarrassed to be seen reading "Clip Art, the Romance"

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

This is a bit of a reach but maybe someone can help? My mom's house caught fire last month and she lost pretty much everything. While most things aren't important and easy to replace, her favorite painting is really hard to find. It was a reproduction of Helen Frankenthaler's Sunset Corner

When I love a rarepair so much but there are less than 10 fics so I just read everything, even the stories that contain my squicks

fortunately,

Soothe my aching

Congratulations to hollanov specifically

this comment made me choke on a piece of chicken

Gotta love how my new version of "pregame" in my 30s is basically the short lil nap I take on the couch at night before I move to the bed.

me to myself every hour: unclench your jaw bitch!!!!!!!!!!! relax!!!!!!!!!!

every time non fandom people recommend a book by saying it’s “REALLY SPICY” it ends up being a heterosexual couple having the worst sex you could think of

Is it even coming out if your mother doesn’t say something bizarre and off putting?

Reminds of some graffiti I saw in the 1970s: someone wrote "My mother made me a homosexual." Someone else wrote: "If I give her the wool, will she make me one too?"