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"For anyone who doesn't know what a Bacon number is, it is the degrees of separation a person is from the actor Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon's number is 0, Someone who has worked with him directly's number is 1. Someone who has worked with that person's number is 2, and so on. (Here is a link to the Wikapedia page on Bacon numbers for more details.)

If you don't know your Bacon number, you can check it on The Oracle of Bacon by putting in the name of the most famous person that you or someone you know have met"

(Submitted by @lucybianchi)

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We have always loved kitty yawns. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

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I have a final caitvi kinktober update. They have rebranded to caitvi nsfw month and moved it to November.

The last dispatch... Thank you, soldier 🫡

I'm not naive and/or stupid enough to think that we would have been spared all of the discourse if they'd launched it this way, but I do think it probably wouldn't have exploded enough to get us clowned on by the wider fanfic community.

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“The clearest metaphor I had for my own gender identity in college was the image of a scale. A huge weight had been placed on one side, without my permission. I was constantly trying to weigh down the other side. But the end goal wasn't masculinity - the goal was b a l a n c e.” ― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir (Affiliate link)

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welcome to the Murdersex zine, a zine celebrating all things sex and murder. but um. we don't want to romanticize it or anything so don't make your submissions too murdersexy. we will do extensive background checks on all applicants and if we decide a past work of yours has too much sexy murder we'll have to remove you, sorry. we have limits, you know, we want a tasteful gory spread you could put on your coffee table, and having the Wrong people in it would kill the vibe (and we condemn all killing! wholeheartedly!)

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Arctic and Antarctic Murals by MacDonald Gill 1884 -1947. Mapmaker, Graphic Designer, Letterer & Architect

The Polar Museum: Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge

credits: x x x x

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The Golden Girls – 7.02: The Case of the Libertine Belle

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the deeply personal thing that specifically grinds my gears about that absurd kink meme rules post though is this little line:

the whole thing is ridiculous and it feels kind of silly for me to specifically be squinting at this but it comes back to my whole bugbear about the way fandom often talks about kink as being all about the needs of the submissive, with the dom as sort of an afterthought without a lot of interiority of their own. the aftercare is for the submissive, specifically, only.

what I'm kind of saying here in a less serious way is. my kingdom for more topdrop fics honestly

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Well, well, well... how do you like them comments?

it’s true!! you can now like comments on Tumblr posts. you know those little replies under posts? you can heart them now.

why did it take us so long? well, we’ve been busy letting Instagram catch up on reblogs (sorry—reposts). now they’re finally up to speed, we figured we could borrow one of their features 😏

it works exactly how you think: see a comment you love → tap the heart → bask in the mutual validation. check out the comments section of this post to try it out. 

go forth and like those comments responsibly!!! or, yk, generously, abundantly, and with all your heart. you know how this goes.

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Seeing a lot of new people show up in my notes with like "proship dni" or whatever so RENT LOWERING GUNSHOT: IM AN ADULT WHO DOES NOT CARE IF PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMATIC SHIPS, IM OLD AND BELIEVE TABOO FICTION IS SAFE AND HEALTHY, IM AN OLD MAN WHO THINKS IT'S FINE TO HAVE SHIPS THAT WOULD BE BAD IN REAL LIFE, I BELIEVE IN TABOO KINKS AS HEALING PLACES, I DO NOT DO SHIP DISCOURSE, I THINK IT'S OKAY TO WRITE ABOUT BAD THINGS HAPPENING TO GOOD PEOPLE WITHOUT CONDEMNING IT IN THE NARRATIVE, I THINK IT'S OKAY TO GET OFF TO MAKE BELIEVE BAD THINGS!!! THANKS

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You shouldn’t say ****

girl give me a hint at least