• Dress.
Date: ca. 1886-1887
Medium: Silk and lace, trimmed with lace.
Basement, spare room, whatever. We need out of here and I’m willing to pay up to 800/month for this for the three of us. As long as it’s within an hour of work, approx.
Alternately, someone to loan us the fees to get the apartment because that’s literally all we need to get out of this roach infested hell.
Loan agreement/lease agreement can be signed on request.
Work is in Norcross GA USA
No longer is this about the rights of students to access books. It’s now about the rights of private businesses to sell books. Anderson suggests this is a new avenue for parents to fight.
“We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” he said.
Holy shit this is a BIG FUCKING WARNING SIGN. Challenges to school and public libraries aren’t cool obviously, but they’re not unusual and we have a framework for handling them. This is something new and alarming in a whole new way 😬😬😬
Republican "free speech" y'all and don't you forget it.
This is a direct challenge to the freedom of the press and if it isn’t struck down at the first hurdle we need to make sure it never sees the second one.
On the miniscule off-chance that anyone who sees my reblog might be thinking “oh, it’s just queer books that they’re trying to ban” - A Court of Mist and Fury is a het romance. It is a het romance containing het sex scenes, written by a straight white woman.
People have been warning all along that the right-wing thought police were never going to stop with queer lit or ‘woke’ lit, and that every time they got an inch they were going to take a mile until they’d banned absolutely everything that didn’t conform to their strict right wing fundamentalist Christian views. If you were waiting for proof of that, here it is.
no one writes love stories better than aromantics send
The amount of care and detail aroaces put into writing steamy romances is unreal.
The thing is we can’t rely on “love at first sight” or “it just is” logic because we don’t have that button, so instead we build relationships up and up and up, realistically, the only way we could imagine love happening
us 👏 aro 👏 aces 👏 make 👏 it 👏 happen 👏
Aroaces writing romance:
listen asexuals have written some of THE kinkiest hot shit and i can testify that that is because they do not find the mechanics of sex interesting in and of itself, so they look at the scene and say “how can I make this spicy”
…You know, it just occurred to me now that one of the pieces of advice I absorbed early on for writing sex scenes was that it’s a bit tricky to write your own deepest kinks, because it will seem hot to you no matter what, because it’s Your Thing, and you will not be able to accurately gauge how well it will work for anyone else.
And, uh, I guess by that light, yeah. If an ace writes a sex scene of any kind that seems sufficiently sexy to them, it must be fucking sexy.
I have read so many books by pro authors where the steamy bits are just “and then they did the frick frack. They did it lots. Stuff went in and out, but, like, repeatedly, sometimes with force. It was hot.”
Maybe this works on allos?
Ace doesn’t means sex-averse, but yeah… the basic mechanics of sex, in and of themselves, aren’t much of a turn on, IMO. That being said, as an ace person, I do not understand love at first sight or other stuff like that, either. I’m with the person above that says relationships have to be built on a proper foundation that isn’t straight-up lust. In any case, I find those types of romances so much more enjoyable to read. Guess I need to find more ace, aro, or aro-ace authors.
This also applies to slowburn. A really good slowburn is one where they don’t just stay stuck in a status quo rut for forty chapters; they’re moving forward and building emotional intimacy and trust and connection and physical comfort with one another the whole way, getting past each other’s defences and learning to let each other in and overcoming any doubts or fear or past hurts, but only at they end do they officially define the relationship and smooch because that’s the least important part. The smooching and official romantic bond are just putting a ribbon on the actual bit that matters, which is the development of that close dynamic in the first place.
i hate this weird sense of internalized queerphobia of like. being visibly and really loudly queer is somehow immature and childish and one day you’ll grow up and fall into cishet line and stop
#conforming is not synonymous with maturity
I love you so much for saying this
this sucks so i went looking for some gnc adults
Love Bites by Della Grace
Trans dream portraits by Landyn Pan
Tears for the Dying (Adria Stembridge)
Téa Campbell Ada Juarez and Edith Johnson of Meet Me @ the Altar
Dorian Electra
Princex Vidal (Vidal Francisco)
Beautiful Boy by Lissa Rivera (BJ Lillis)
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Getty Images (yeah)
Sheena McGrath Mars Ganito Joe McCann and Jade Payne of Aye Nako
most of these people are still relatively young so here’s gorgeous fae trans icon Alexander James Adams
OH THANK YOU
You don’t age out of queerness, you don’t have to “grow out of” it either.
You don’t age out of
queerness, you don’t have to “grow
out of” it either.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
good bot
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1524224285082066953?t=AW-7wEu820f0TP0xImVRMg&s=19
Just me crying in the bathroom so I don't wake my partners with this, fuck.
So to sum up: CT and DC have passed laws making it illegal to extradite someone to another state if they are being charged in that other state for crimes pertaining to abortion or trans health care, and makes it legal to sue and get your money back if you are targeted by a TX-style "bounty" law. DC also includes "crimes" of consensual adult sex, gay and interracial marriage and cohabitation and providing or using contraception.
This is, as the thread explains, basically legal interstate warfare. CT and DC's laws bar compliance with such laws.
This is, on one hand, kind of terrifying, because this is where we are now. It's going to get worse long before it gets better.
On the other hand... holy shit, someone fucking did something.
Someone fucking did something real.
When I hit shuffle, I want the EXACT RIGHT SONGS in the EXACT RIGHT ORDER to play. Why is this so hard for music players to achieve. Sure I dont know what songs I actually want to listen to, much less the order, but if computers are so smart they should be able to figure it out.
The normal amount of pain is zero. I don't know what to say here. The standard abled person amount of pain without injury or significant exhaustion is so low that it will not register to most of you. It's the slightest twinge. I am so unequipped to explain this to y'all but of you experience regular pain you have chronic pain 😭
I thought 1 to 3 was normal. Ummm. Hm. Uh oh.
Nope! 1 sometimes but that's it. Pain means that something is wrong, it's why it exists. Healthy people exist at 0-1 unless something causes pain.
Yeah I remember going to physiotherapy after I messed up my shoulder and as we were starting the first session she asks me about my pain level. And I go "My shoulder or like the general day to day stuff? And if its worse then my base level my I'd count my base level as 0 and go up from there right?"
And the look on her face as she very patiently explained that that 0 is always no pain, the start of the scale, and is what day to day should be.
Then she went through what each level was with me to figure out where I was, apparently my day to day is arpund 4-5 when I would have said 2, with my shoulder an 8 vs. my initial guess of somewhere around 6, which was eye opening.
Apparently I'd been under reporting my pain to doctors for years because I've had arthritis my whole life and no one thought to actually explain that the normal level of pain is none or how a pain scale works.
So yeah if your above a 0 on a regular basis you've got chronic pain and honestly you're probably underestimating the amount of pain you have.
The narrative that a "real" trans person would have shown "signs" of being trans at a young age really needs to die. How do you even measure that? A lot of kids didn't have the opportunity to experiment outside of assigned gender roles, sometimes because they didn't know it was a possibility, sometimes because they weren't allowed to. Even if a child expressed discomfort in their assigned gender, a parent or other adult may have forced them to suppress it, or may deny that it ever happened at all. A good number of trans people also lean heavily into gender stereotypes and gender norms prior to coming out in attempt to suppress it themselves, even if no one in their life has forced them to do so. Also...people change. Gender can be fluid. Maybe as a kid you felt content with your assigned gender at birth, but grew uncomfortable with it as you grew older. There is no way to measure or prove that someone is trans.
Good post
all true but in my case i genuinely just did not pay attention for nineteen years
These tags are very important - yes this post was made with trans people in mind, but it really does apply to all LGBT people, and this is a perfect example.
There's a million reasons why many of us didn't realize our sexual orientations or genders as a child, and it doesn't make us any less ourselves.
just stop supporting harry potter. just stop. “but i like magic school-” tales of earthsea. wayward children. “but i like sorting characters-” watch atla. become a warrior cats stan. “but-” percy jackson
fuck it become a sonic the hedgehog stan that’s what i did. instead of sorting characters into lil groups you give them a fursona and occasionally a superpower. it’s that easy
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