Latest Posts by marywillowfae - Page 5

i would make an excellent goon. i’d be like ”on it boss” and then i’d fuck it up instantly.

Windmills and lighthouses are cousins

Remember that you must allow people to love you, to be kind to you, to help you. Not everyone is going to be toxic for you, some people just genuinely want to be a part of your life, but you to feel all this love coming your way, you have to believe you deserve it. Let people love you. Let them look out for you, care for you, don't push them away. Let them stay.

fear and loathing in C major

Christ this is so fucking cool

floating down the river styx on an inflatable donut and high-fiving all the lost souls i pass. i'm on vacation

Hashima island

punk doesn't have to be expensive!! here are some tips for cheap punk fashion:

steal

I don’t think music has to be good. I think it’s enough to just take a circumstance, a feeling, a thought, and recreate it for the listener. Big or small.

I mean, on one hand, yes, but on the other, I used to reliably find a player-written and heavily upvoted "trap ahead" message in front of Gwyndolin's corridor, which was.. unenjoyable to say the least

Genuinely love that the entire Elden Ring fandom learned the final boss was canonically transgender and their reaction was just "his second phase needs less health"

just like it’s important that we let people embrace and be flamboyant with their gender, we must allow people to have gender be a nonimportant part of their identity. a cis woman can love being feminine and claim her womanhood loud and proud, just like another cis woman can just be ‘whatever’ about it. a trans woman can be hyperfeminine and proud, while another can just say ‘yeah i’m a woman’ without it being a gigantic deal to her. a non-binary person doesn’t have to be constantly torn up about their gender identity to be non-binary. all experiences of gender are unique and valid in their own way.

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Most of the trans people I know (very much including moi) are obsessed with shit like video & tabletop games or alt music or obscure media. Call that the Left Hand of Dorkness

Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a big deal in feminist science fiction for being one of the first widely popular and critically acclaimed works to do cool shit with sex and gender (which was certainly nothing new, but previous such works had rarely "taken off" the way LHoD did). It was criticized for referring to the genderfluid characters with the indefinite "he," which was a la mode in style guides at the time, instead of using alternating or gender-neutral pronouns. In time Le Guin came to agree with this criticism; she considered her decision not to take things further one of her biggest literary regrets, stating that "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns."

I tell you this only because the phrase "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" is one I think about a lot.

she took the moonlight greatsword in the divorce

brb going outside to wistfully observe the reflections of the shop lights in the wet streets

I need y’all to understand that cults are like addiction. Anyone has the capacity to become an addict. Your drug is out there, and given the right circumstances at the wrong time, you can end up addicted to it. The exact same is true for cults. Your cult is out there. Given the right circumstances at the wrong time, you can end up a member.

The metaphor goes even further. Addicts are still people, they deserve support and assistance. People don’t get addicted to something because they’re stupid or didn’t try hard enough. Terrible circumstances simply reached a point where being high was less painful than being sober. Nobody is immune to that.

Cult members are still people, they deserve support and assistance. People don’t get into cults because they’re stupid or didn’t look for red flags. Terrible life circumstances make one vulnerable to cult recruitment tactics, these groups are predatory, and actively seek to use from vulnerable people. Nobody is immune to that.

If you think you’re too smart or too educated to join a cult, you’ve already lost the first battle.

Autogynothalassophobia

equal rights for women will never truly be achieved until we have more female noir detectives

Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

the problem is that going to bed at night feels like a chore whereas lying down for a forbidden nap at 4pm feels like the pinnacle of decadence

LOL'd into a false sense of security

logging on to the mycellium

Grumpy