#brilliant post

[dream-with-a-fever]

romance strategies by ginny weasley (according to harry potter books)

write future boyfriend a singing get well soon card that doesn’t shut up unless kept under a fruit bowl

blush so much in his presence that your face glows like a setting sun

send future boyfriend a valentine’s day poem likening his eyes to a fresh pickled toad

romance strategies by harry potter (according to harry potter books)

get six bludgers to the head in one practise because you can’t stop staring at future girlfriend

imagine scenarios of future girlfriend crying over your injured body and confessing undying love for you

not notice future girlfriend until she’s older, moved on and in a relationship

[localcanadiancreature62]

THE ONE WITH A FUCKIN PERSON THO??. HELP ME-

My current favourite tiktok trend is the one where people wrap presents to look like something they’re not and some people get ridiculous with it

Like:

✨The dedication ✨

[asinglebluefeline]

He works alone.

[thesnadger]

I have a question about this image of Xanathar's Thieves Guild.

Why does he have sexily lounging elf boys?

I ask because I cannot imagine a beholder being attracted to anything other than itself. Does he just understand Sexily Lounging Elf Boys to be a status symbol, and he wants anyone who visits to know he can afford Sexily Lounging Elf Boys?

Maybe I'm the asshole here for assuming. Maybe these boyfriends are master tacticians here to advise Xanathar, they happen to like wearing leather pants and no shirts and I should be less quick to reduce them to sex objects.

I don't care, I love it, this is all I can think of every time I see it:

[juniemunie]

CW/TW: Blood and Amputation

@tenebrius-excellium's post got my creative gears turning, its just a rlly good idea and i just had to draw it out a bit hehe

[rosieofcorona]

hm so it turns out the love was there and it mattered so much that it saved them, actually! yeah actually they’re alive and well today. and the love is still there

[infinityinakiss]

brittany loves to make sure her girls look like they come as a pack:

she's such a styling genius. god, i love her.

[breeberrypies]

the most underrated friendship I REST MY CASE

the clip Ever

[soldiersgirl]

a pogo stick got nothing on me with the way im BOUNCING on it

[rox-of-iu]

to no ones surprise more of my special guy

[deerest-deer]

homoerotic bath scenes in film and tv you are so special to me <3

[junemo10]

Merlin: *Sneaks into the castle at 2am after fighting a magical evil*

Arthur: *turns around in a swivel chair* care to tell me where you were?

Merlin, hiding magical object behind his back: uh I was… with Gwaine!Tavern nights you know…

Gwaine: *also turns around in swivel chair* Care to- *keeps spinning* wait- help I can’t stop-

[shapeshiftersvt]

A Transition

Okay. Deep breath. Here we go.

I started Shapeshifters when I was 28. It was the spring of 2014, we were at a Transgender Tipping Point, and I wanted a binder covered in scales. I had been trans and out for two years and I felt right. I felt queer. I felt like an alien: beastly, monstrous, fantastical. Powerful. I connected with other queer and trans people feeling similar ways. I wanted to give them my best feelings; I wanted them to feel what I felt when I put on my homemade blue-scaled binder.

Tomorrow I will turn 40. It's 2025, and putting on a binder feels more like armor. Like protection. Like: this is a container that holds who I am, still, always. Like: I am connected to my queer folk. I am connected to my found family and my greater community and to over twelve thousand people who we have clothed with binders just like these.

Shapeshifters has borne my partner and I through eleven years. We got married, moved to our dream town, bought a house, had a child. I have put everything into this enterprise and it has given me everything back. I am so grateful for this job and this career and this life.

And I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to begin a new career, to make a few large changes in my life for my own mental health. Somehow, by luck as much as hard work, this company grew out of the aether, and, honestly... it's outgrown me. I never really meant to run a business, or employ people, or manage a supply chain. It just sort of happened along the way. I've done my best with it, I've made it what it is. And I know that someone with a different kind of energy and organizational capacity and drive could make Shapeshifters into so much more.

So, this is my notice! I am selling Shapeshifters.

Not right away, and not to just anyone. I want to hand this company over to someone who will do right by it; who will keep it as this local, community-focused business known for customization, acessibility, and genuinely compassionate customer service.

We are the high-end tailored option for a highly niche market. We need someone who knows the field and can bring love to the work. Preferably someone who is near or can relocate to southern Vermont. We need someone who can manage a small team, who can approach every week as a new challenge, who can organize tasks and processes on multiple levels.

We have helped thousands upon thousands of people go out into the world as their authentic selves! It's wild. It's wonderful. It's fulfilling. And, sometimes, it's a lot of finicky detail work involving layers of spreadsheets, pattern math, hands-on sewing, and machine repair. Sometimes it's road trips to Pride festivals and sometimes it's filing taxes. All this too is part of the work.

If that's the kind of work you want to be doing, reach out to me. Shoot me an email at eli@shapeshifters.co with the subject line 'Biz Transition' and let's talk. Tell me about yourself and what you want and what you can do. I'm open to all the financing options. I would love to train the right person from scratch and seller-finance a long-term sale.

If you know someone who you think would be a good fit, please send them my way. We have relied upon word-of-mouth from the very beginning, and I suspect that's how we'll find our new showrunner going forward.

So. Do you want to run an established, successful business that pays trans people to make things for trans people?

Hit me up.

[vendimeyers]

Y’all ever think about the scene where Martha goes to the woman who betrayed her in an alternate timeline and gives her flowers and tells her there’s no hard feelings even though that woman had no idea who she was or what she was talking about?

That’s what it’s all about dude

[l-e-i-n-t-h]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The internalized misogyny in our culture is fucking showing!!!

question!

what's an example of a loving relationship between two female characters (platonic, romantic, familial, whatever) that's a central part of a tv or movie franchise that's not targeted more toward female audiences?

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in a promotional photo for their Macbeth

...in honor of this week's cinema screenings on February 5th and 9th - maybe I'll see you there

For Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)