#and it goes without saying

[asfhkjd]

comment by @lamiradora

Love to be on a website where I can join such hit 2022 fandoms as "century old public domain novel being read very slowly" and "half-century old mafia film that does not actually exist."

[quinloki]

I think it's interesting that you don't seem to get many requests for Law on your kinky op thing. In most fics I've read of him that have smut he's kind of a freak (affectionate). I wonder if there's any bias, either in the fics I've found or the people that make the requests? Anyway, just something I noticed. I love how many Marco asks you get though, he's my favorite blorbo

Yeah, I haven't gotten that many for him or Kid this go 'round (two years ago though I think those two were the bulk of the asks =O )

That's another thing that's fun about these events, is seeing who does come into my inbox. Sure people will toss me a bone or two for my favorite blorbos, and I appreciate that =3

I can't believe I've only gotten ONE ask for Buggy, honestly XD (I think I have a second one in my inbox though, I'm going to knock out a couple more of these before bed tonight =3 )

As for Law, I've noticed two distinct versions of him (in terms of head canons), and I think both are valid. He's either experienced and open to anything, or he's an awkward virgin. There's some variation between those - just because he's experienced and willing doesn't mean he isn't always socially awkward.

I like to think his desperate need to hold onto control means he's at least coming across as Smooth and In Control in the bedroom, but I think that's just until you get to know him. Once he relaxes you start to see the dork he is.

[jazzzzzzhands]

Men don't get told enough that they are cute and I am on this earth to fill that void

[frenchtwistresistance]

The way I justify Suzanne’s whole deal in the pilot is that she is really going through it. There is something happening regarding her mental health—maybe she’s depressed because of her most recent divorce. Or she’s still grieving her brother-in-law’s death. Maybe they were close because he was a safe man who didn’t want to have sex with her, who was nice to her, whom she never had to flirt with but could if she wanted to just for the fun of it with no expectations.

Further, she’s not feeling like she’s fitting in at Sugarbakers’ because Mary Jo and Charlene are long-standing best friends and Hayden’s death hit Julia really hard and she’s empty-nesting and she’s kind of taking it out on Suzanne.

So Suzanne’s like… fuck it this is my sexpot era. There are (I’m being generous here) maybe four times through the run of the show that she expresses anything like genuine attraction to men, and the other instances are markedly different than how she implies she and Ted have a lot of sex that she enjoys. For example, the time she and Charlene are into that poster guy. It’s very “he’s so dreamy” school girl crush, and she seems to enjoy the camaraderie of gushing about him with Charlene more than the actual looks of him, which she actually says nothing about.

Yes, she’s seen flirting with men but it’s always very polite and appropriate, no real innuendo except a little with Dash Goff and Jack Dent, both of whom she was married to.

So that pilot and a few references and comments sprinkled throughout season one and two where everyone is working under the assumption that she’s slutty is just so jarring because she just demonstrably is not. Even in the pilot when Mary Jo remarks that Suzanne must’ve been engaged to a lot of men and Julia counters that yes and she’s married them all. Not slut behavior. And then! In the episode about Julia’s son’s girlfriend, Mary Jo says her son heard from a girl in his kindergarten class that if you see somebody naked you have to marry them, and Suzanne says that’s always been her policy! This is early in season one! She’s only been married three times so if she’s having sex with all these men she runs around with, it’s all clothes-on and how likely is that?

Anyway, her whole demeanor is different in the pilot—overtly sexy rather than just attractive and vain and harmlessly flirtatious. Everybody is just a tick off from later, more fully formed characterizations, but she’s the most different and my retcon head canon for it is that she was in a bad place emotionally and not really acting like herself.

I’ve mentioned this in a tag rant before, but one explanation could be that she’s just recently moved back to Atlanta from wherever she was living with husband #3 J. Benton Stonecipher and throwing herself back into Atlanta society to feel normal again and overdoes it and gets a reputation for a while and just kind of goes with it until she gets back to being comfortable with everybody and herself again, especially after becoming better friends with Mary Jo and Charlene (and setting them up with men they really like!).

[nadsdraws]

Five Things Tag Game

Tagged by @tawnyontumblr It's been a while since I've done one of those so why not 🙃

Name the first five movies/tv shows that you like that pop into your head (& I've seen recently):

Fallout

Dune: Part Two

One cut of the dead

Hamilton

Carnival Row

Name the first five songs (by five different artists) you like that pop into your head:

Flower Face - Spiracle

Paris Paloma - Norte Dame

KALANDRA - Bardaginn

Crane Wives - The Moon Will Sing

Billie Eilish - Getting older

Tagging @starryfull13 , @sweveris , @schmirius , @ewelinakl , @vexbatch

[sage-hendricks]

I hate the thing where leftists kind of collectively all at the same time decide a genre of (admittedly usually bad) leftist post is the target for jokes this week

And then I see 18 humorless parodies of the same thing from 18 different OPs who I've never once seen post anything that got traction, useful or otherwise.

Like yeah ok I get it, lots of people haven't read theory and like to give bad advice. You're also just on the fucking bandwagon. Say something useful or shut the fuck up and just reblog stuff man. The point doesn't need to be made that many times and you're just a hypocrite who's also chasing clout.

[dorothylarouge]

[mammalidentifier]

Well, that’s length-wise rather than height-wise, but yes! That would be the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), fellow countrymen of mine!

In fact, saying they’re 170 cm (5’7”) from head to tail is lowballing it a little. Some individuals as long as 180 cm (5’11”) have been recorded! Which is longer than I am tall 😔

You might have noticed that giant otters have a bit of a big cat-like look about themselves. That’s the origin of their name in Brazilian Portuguese, ariranha, which is a term from the Tupi-Guarani language and means “river jaguar”. And, just like ground jaguars, giant otters are apex predators as well: they mainly eat fish, but will hunt anything from snakes, turtles and even small caimans if given the opportunity!

Besides their size, giant otters have other traits that set them apart from their smaller cousins. For one, unlike most mustelids, they’re social animals who live in familial groups of up to twenty individuals, which whom they communicate constantly through a variety of different noises. Also, unlike other species of otter, whose tails are thick at the base and pointy at the end, giant otters’ tails also start out with a thick base, but they end up flat, which helps propel them through the water. The interesting thing about it, however, it’s that it’s not flat in an horizontal way, like the tails of other semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and platypuses. It’s flat vertically, not unlike the tail of a newt!

Source of the 2nd image: @resgateariranha on Instagram

[icarusdiesatdawn]

getting a good grade in girl talk

[akanemnon]

Going from Ace Attourney to Mortal Kombat... FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[kaipassedgo]

every day i wake up and am mad at the end of steves storyline and the full and complete lack of people who GET IT

[duckysprouts]

if you were at your worst, if you’re a villain or a screwup or whatever, there is a goth man dressed as a giant bat who keeps coming after you, bothering you. he sabotages your journey of self destruction over and over. ur ready to give up but he won’t let you. you think, today he won’t come. today he will give up on me too. he never does.

[mobius-m-mobius]

The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you.

DANIEL CRAIG and DREW STARKEY in QUEER (2024), dir. Luca Guadagnino

[eliotbaum]

The Siphoner 🩸 A character class for The Hidden Isle. You can preorder the TTRPG here

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

in this house we love the artists and engineers and actors who worked on arcane so much that we will not share the leaks

remember that the people who really suffer from leaks are regular people like you and me who worked hard for weeks, months, and years to make this show a reality

[radlymona]

I’m so fucking glad that Zverev lost but I hope the renewed attention on his domestic abuse allegations, means that he’s finally suspended and his internal investigation is released with greater transparency