Fannish things, writing, other stuff. Often NSFW. My pronouns are they/them.
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Alex Schaefer on instagram
Painter Alex Schaefer paints banks on fire using a “plein air” technique. Plein Air is the act of painting outdoors in the open air, and in Alex’s case, he paints directly across the banks.
silhouette of tree branches under a starry sky
![Ralph Fleck (German, 1951), Stapel 27/VII [Stack 27/VII], 2013. Oil On Canvas, 120 X 100 Cm.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/95000203bf9f80683f740d2bf056bb25/a14de9efe5165582-67/s500x750/c48a042a7118f7d7f8bbbb4adc3063acbc65dd82.webp)
Ralph Fleck (German, 1951), Stapel 27/VII [Stack 27/VII], 2013. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.
Something that I like in Deadloch is how men sometimes find Eddie kind of terrifying
Frilled-neck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii), defensive display, family Agamidae, NSW, Australia
photograph by Rob Valentic
[Image description: two images of an adorable ferret and text reading, TIL that Fermilab used to clean its particle accelerators with a ferret named Felicia, who would run through the tubes with cleaning supplies attached and be rewarded with hamburger meat /End image description.]
the one thing thing funnier than this caption is that the only reason they stopped doing it was that the ferret shit in the tube
Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - The Passage (2022)
Farmhouse for sale in the Netherlands. This is a complicated route.
I was walking down a sidewalk once in Berlin and this dazzling butterfly wandered over and landed on my sleeve. It was so beautiful and I just stood there looking at it for a few seconds. Then there was another human walking toward me, going the opposite way down the same sidewalk, and I didn't speak hardly any German at that point but I just sort of looked at them visibly and they noticed and looked at me, and then noticed the butterfly, and we stood there both admiring it for a minute, until it flew off. Then I tried to say something to them in German but it came out in French by mistake and they frowned and said something back in Mandarin and then we both just stared at each other in bafflement for a second and then both laughed and walked away in our opposite directions But it had been such a cute interaction that as we walked away from each other we both, in the same moment, glanced back over our shoulders at each other, and saw each other looking back, and made eye contact twenty feet apart, and both giggled self-consciously, and it was so good This was years ago but it still gives me life
Sometimes I just really like us
do you ever see someone in some quiet intimate moment and suddenly love them so desperately you feel like you’re dying
#like when they pass a mirror and make a face and mess with their hair a little #or when you hear someone singing in their car with the windows rolled up as they drive past you #i don’t know how to express this i just. people are people and it makes me so sad and filled up sometimes
[“When we are able to access our “body memories” through the felt sense, then we can begin to discharge the instinctive survival energy that we did not have a chance to use at the time of an event. Regardless of what your particular situation is, you can learn to discharge and transform this energy. The discharge can be dramatic and visible, or subtle and quiet. It can be an intense shivering or the slightest sense of inner trembling; or it may be a changing of temperature between hot and cold, between warmth and coolness. Afterwards, you might notice that things fall into place a little easier, or that you’re calmer and more relaxed. Perhaps things that once upset you won’t seem to bother you as much, and you are significantly less critical of yourself. Or, you might experience a subtle deepening of your sense of well-being. It’s also entirely possible that the change may be more profound. Chronic pain may disappear. You might be able to do things that you’ve never before attempted. Your relationships with loved ones and others might become freer and easier. You might experience a surge in your feelings of passion and personal power. When trauma is healed, shift happens.”]
peter levine, from healing trauma, 2008
[First image description: text reading:
Rogers himself was often labeled "a sissy," or gay, in a derogatory sense. But as his longtime associate Eliot Daley put it: "Fred is one of the strongest people I have ever met in my life. So if they are saying he's gay because...that's a surrogate for saying he's weak, that's not right, because he's incredibly strong." He adds: "He wasn't a very masculine person, he wasn't a very feminine person; he was androgynous."
In a 1975 interview for The New York Times, Rogers noted drolly: "I'm not John Wayne, so consequently, for some people I'm not the model for the man in the house.
In conversation with one of his friends, the openly gay Dr William Hirsch, Fred Rogers himself concluded that if sexuality was measured on a scale of one to ten: "Well, you know, I must be right smack in the middle. Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive.
Michael Horton, the voice of Neighborhood puppets and a close Rogers-family friend for decades, notes that he is always asked first about Fred Rogers: "Was he really like that?" End first image description.]
[Second image description: Fred Rogers in a red cardigan and patterned tie, smiling, with the bisexual pride flag photoshopped in behind him as backdrop. End second image description.]
ya’ll were really gonna let me live my life in ignorance thinking mr. rogers was straight???
10 Things for 10 People You’d Like to Know Better!
Tagged by @groovebunker <3
• last song: Origami by Totemo
• last book: I just finished Conflict is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman, and I really liked it. It gave me a lot to think about.
• last movie: Gosh, I really can't remember. I think it may have been The Breaker Upperers, which I liked very much. It was a while ago.
• last TV show: Severance. I'm on S1E1, no spoilers pls :-*
• favourite colour: It's all about context, for me -- the same color in one setting can be flat and boring, or grating, and in another setting can look so alive and lovely. I love that gorgeous dark cerulean that the other half of the sky turns, when the sun is setting on a clear night. Or I love neon red things on a bright overcast day; I love how they glow.
• sweet/savory/spicy: Savory. Give me all the mushrooms and seaweeds and seeds and nuts.
• relationship status: 100% single right now, and really into that.
• last thing I googled: Boston Public library reading room, on image search.
• current obsession: My country is struggling and I'm trying to figure out what else I could be doing to slow down the coup, take care of my people and move things in a better direction.
• looking forward to: Springtime is starting here and it feels really special. It's such a treat, to see the flowers start to bloom. I love the way the air smells and feels.
Join in if you want @vaguemylk @chainofclovers @toomanygh0sts @so-i-did-this-thing @disasterbiwriter...and also whoever else feels like it <3
aw hell yeah
goth manta goth manta goth manta goth manta goth manta
Link.
[Image description: graffito in scrungly handwriting, reading:
A TRANS WOMAN PEED IN MY MOUth HERE AND NO ONE WAS HURT
And then, in a different pen below: ☺ Yeah!
End image description.]
Graffitto in the stall of my local queer furry bar
[Image dscription: A simple line drawing of a human facing a mirror, looking pleased, with their hands on their hips. Caption reads, "Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels INSATIABLE LUST." End image description.]
what tv shows are you into atm 💕
Hey! Thanks for the ask! 💕 Until recently the answer was none. Deadloch sort of ruined me for other stories for a while. That said, I did watch the first episode of Severance last night, and I really liked it. The writing is good, the ideas are original. I love the comedy in it, like the tragic VIP section at Pip's, and the racecar bed, and Helly getting so furious with Mark that she tries to rip the binder out of his hands. I love the many mysteries. And I love the actor who plays Petey -- I love that when he appeared outside the house I instantly knew who he was, just because of the way he looked at Mark. He looked at him like I would look at my beloved best friend, if I knew that this version of them wouldn't recognize me. I also liked one particular thing -- how during the non-dinner, someone says something like "yeah, Mark's work is so sensitive that he's actually had the severance procedure done," and instantly the whole table goes completely silent, and everyone looks at each other to see how the others are going to react. It was an excellent way to show that there's been an enormous amount of very fraught public discussion about this. A clever way to build the world, and to tell me about the way people feel about this thing that Lumon is doing, that Mark is part of. I really like the set design and the costumes, all the fun little anachronisms. And I love the use of color, especially that particular mid-century green. I always associate it with the lamps in the Boston Public Library central library reading room, but in Severance it feels sinister. I'm not sure how they pulled that off and it's neat. I'm only on the first episode so far, but I feel like those elements are already doing so much to contribute to the story, and I think that's only going to get more interesting as it goes along. I do wish the casting weren't so white. I mean, I've seen whiter, it could certainly be worse; but in a show that's otherwise so great it's disappointing. I think my tolerance for that is lower right now because my country is overrun by nazis who are implementing horrifyingly racist policies. For me right now, seeing something like this feels like it pokes a spot that's already pretty tender.
My friend has a subscription to Apple TV, so I'll watch the rest of it at his house with him, bit by bit. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
