Welcome to the void

Every time I come across the nefarious anglerfish he's acting infinitely more fucked up

Man showing his cat that it's safe to jump over puddles 😭🐱

my parents never came to anything I did.

I have so many memories about this, but one in particular: when I was away at camp with 89 other teenagers, and at the one-month mark the post was collected distributed to all the dorms. 89 other children tore open their boxes and, shovelling handfuls of sweets their parents had sent them into their mouths, read pages-long letters and handed around photos of their brothers and sisters.

I didn't. I didn't get anything, I sat on my empty bed watching them. The teachers had to call my parents and ask if perhaps the post had gone missing...? but my parents were surprised they were required to interact with me while I was away.

Well, today, my 3-year-old daughter had a fun-run. The childcare centre invited parents to come but stressed that if we weren't able to, it was alright. There was no fucking way I wasn't going. My daughter wasn't going to be the only child there without a parent watching.

I got time off work and stood there in the beating sun and plastered in greasy sunscreen waiting to see my little girl emerge from inside the centre and stand on the track.

When she did, her little eyes searched through the crowd person-by-person for me, and absolutely lit up like the sun when she spotted me.

Mine filled with tears as I waved at her and cheered.

I'm breaking the cycle.

Astarion expression sheet 🌟

3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

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Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

Video transcription:

My fellow cis ladies, here's three transphobic arguments I want you to know now so you don't fall for them later because this is the hot topic gateway into conservatism for women.

Just to be clear, it's-it's-it's the Nazi kind of conservatism as well.

Remember "divide and conquer" is the name of the game, so don't be divided!

First thing transphobes are is they're gender essentialists, so they will tell you "men are inherently bad and evil and it's in their DNA, and women by contrast are good and fragile and precious." And it's the same logic as like "oh, women are more sensitive and nurturing, which is why they should stay at home." It's bullshit because women are not inherently anything, women are human beings with free will and idolization is just dehumanization with better PR [public relations]. I, as a woman, have capacity for evil, which makes my choice to be good that much more important.

Number two thing, and you will notice if you listen to TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] long enough is that they hate being women, they have a lot of internalized misogyny, they think being a woman is about pain and suffering. The attitude that women are predestined to suffer and men are predestined to make us suffer is a very defeatist attitude, it means that you can never see a future without misogyny in it.

And the number three thing, and this is the stupidest argument: They will tell you that cis men are pretending to be trans women to go into women's bathrooms. Men just simply don't need to do all of that. This is stranger-danger rhetoric which is based around this fear of "oh, strangers are the most dangerous thing to your child or to you" when it's statistically not true. Abusers are more likely to be people that you already know, which is bleak, I'm sorry, but that is the truth. Abusive men simply don't need to go to that effort.

Trans women are our sisters, they're our allies, and a world where a trans women is free and safe to express herself and her gender presentation as she wants to is a world where all women get to do that.

i cannot emphasize enough that this is the most viciously fucking homophobic thing i've ever seen. this is a more hateful depraved and wretched vision of homosexuality than anything the westboro baptist chruch has ever said. anyone who sees this and doesn't immediately feel sick to the bone is an eternal enemy of queer liberation

something something Hozier saying "If I wanted to make a fucking pop song, I would." years ago, Too Sweet becoming his first #1, and then he hurriedly releases Nobody's Soldier (anti war-profiteering song) as a palette cleanser

I went to a Hozier show where he performed Jackboot Jump for the second time ever and he preceded it with a little speech about walking a fine line as an artist between subtlety & marketability of an idea versus being bold and explicit with messaging -> fast forward to 2024 and everyone completely misses the point of Too Sweet and bops along to "the coffee song"

The tragedy of Too Sweet is not that it's Hozier's first #1 despite being far from his best work. Yeah some of the lyrics are remedial by his standards, but who gives a fuck. I love that it got big. It's catchy and I bet it served as a gateway drug encouraging people to check out his other stuff. Fantastic, 10/10.

The tragedy of Too Sweet is that the nature of a song going viral through the clockapp led a whole bunch of listener's to believe it's a song about being too cool for complicated coffee orders. Too Sweet is as alive and layered as the rest of Hozier's discography. Too Sweet is about the trap of maximizing health and hygiene (sold to us with promises of extending your life, warding off wretched signs of aging) at the cost of getting the whole human experience.

It says "yeah, this hangover sucks, but you'll get it again and again because you'll be damned if last night's was your last-ever pint with the lads". The "coffee black" bit isn't about being tough for drinking black coffee so much as embracing the bitterness of life because it's what kicks your senses into the waking world after you've just barely dragged yourself out of bed. The titular line plays on the saying "too sweet to be savory". The song's an extension of the line from Nobody, "I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint / I wouldn't fall for someone I thought couldn't misbehave." It's about literally falling down and hitting your head. It's an acknowledgement that sometimes you can really like someone but their lifestyle just doesn't mesh with yours. It's this stupid tweet:

ao3 turns 15 today

reblog if youre older than ao3

(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)

Ok, hear me out - shapes.

Cat loves playing until he hears the automatic feeder

A CREACHUR

Move bitch it’s dinner time

HE YEET HIMSELF

framing is everything

you: wait, babe… we can’t fuck yet… you aren’t wearing protection…

your vampire lover: protection? what do you mean prote- oh ok so fuck you first of all

you, holding these:

you know that furry spectrum meme. there's an evil version of it.

i call this the taur scale.

there is an exact range of horse (or other animal) within which a creature is at its most uncanny and it is somewhere between 75-100%. outside of that range it is fine. within that range it is considered "nightmare fuel". i am unsure what the optimum point within that range is.

I was a student 📚 at the Rosary Sisters School, part of the Union of Churches. My school meant so much to me; it was more than a building 🏫. It was my second home 🏡, a place where I felt safe and happy 😊💛, surrounded by friends and childhood laughter 👦👧💫.

A newborn Vampire Spawn🩸

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I don’t think I ever posted these. Unfinished, but I don’t feel like working on them anymore.