There Is Such An Otherworldly Quality To This Video. It Hardly Looks Underwater, The Fish Here Look Like

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

cuddles~

Bot accounts are such an integral part of the tumblr ecosystem. Haiku bot and its ilk often show me interesting semi-popular stuff in niches I wouldn't even think to look for. They beat the algorithm due to their sheer randomness, which makes them a much better way of finding cool new things. Once an algorithm has decided what type of person you are, it will keep channelling you into a stagnant pool.

God, I hate this. Though this also applies to the way the books themselves are advertised, which are festooned with quotes from reviewers which tell me nothing, which all read like

"A stunning menagerie of life, this book is thumpingly alive."

What happened to the teaser on the back cover?

I was gifted a book in which the cover, the first two pages and the back cover was just uninformative praise from prominent critics. Like, great, now I know the cultural gatekeepers of the Wank Street Journal love it. What an endorsement.

I have noticed also that authors from South Asia, Africa, Latin America tend to have the words "kaleidoscopic" and "magical realism: applied to their work, as well as "emerging voice". I mean, wow, they sure do have a different culture.

y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

take my hand. come get tgirl pregnant with me.

Y’know, I’ve seen so much farcille fanart that when I ask people about dungeon meshi, I realise I have this utterly warped impression of the show.

cuddles~

some recent portraits of butches of color. via butchisnotadirtyword

Yeah, this is pretty good. I’m not strictly butch, but I don’t try to be feminine anymore, as I “pass” and have moved places quite a lot, so almost no-one has seen me pre-transition.

I was more feminine pre-transition than after, my family never discouraged that. My first coming out was before transition, which was false bisexuality. I thought I had to be attracted to a man, considering the feelings of femininity I had. Then I realised I didn’t like men, and I figured out I was actually a girl by backward induction, lol.

It is sad not always being able to relate to cis lesbians, nor do they fully understand. I acted almost hyperfeminine at one stage, because I wanted to be seen as one of the girls and I have always been a rebel, but I also feared I would be perceived as a predator.

Though I have had a great number of things other trans lesbians have not, it is still a difficult thing to handle. But I definitely do feel the dyke solidarity!

I feel like being a transfem dyke is different in a loooot of ways that cis dykes and even transmasc dykes don't begin to realize

I've seen this character in books, and occasionally in real life. They tend to appear when they are among a hypocritical group of people who have a very strong sense of decorum and manners.

I am a strong advocate of bringing back that guy who messes people's lives up just a little bit, especially if they have their priorities in the wrong order.

Ahem, *coughs* 🤓. Don Quixote never succeeded in killing a windmill in the books. He was defeated.

Just so you know… There is no “the queen”. Why? 

There are so, so many queens.

They make up half of the human population.

We call them “women”. 

In reality, I will be walking away with a reasonable fee, all under the table of course (wouldn’t want the ethics committee to find out), and the lucky patients will eventually notice they don’t bleed when they get a papercut.

I’d be 100% a necromancer if possible. But I wouldn’t be the type that brings back mindless hordes of zombies. There are plenty of other ways to be…ethically ambiguous.