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btvs fandom how do we feel about transfem oz reconnecting with willow post-canon

not. not saying i'd write it. i am neck deep in other fandoms right now. but. i just rewatched @marigoldbaker's willow/oz video and thought "wait what if i made oz a girl" because trans women are great and so are lesbians.

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Yeah, Eliot, you do.

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all that said the guy with my car insurance company who answered the phone was so fucking funny. he had a heavy Georgia accent which endeared me to him immediately and he was sooo worried about me and apologetic that there was no one to send to my aid and I said "that's okay. if i end up missing though they're gonna interview you as the last person who heard from me. what if there's a documentary?" and he said "ooooooo, can I start drama?" I said, "well, what kind?" And he said, "I'm gonna tell them you said you saw a green flash in the sky over the field and I heard strange voices then the line went dead."

genuinely obsessed with him to this very day.

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rare vent art from a few months ago

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From a state hearing in Texas

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Zeus, I know we've argued a lot before and I don't endorse a lot of the shit you do...

But this would be really funny.

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"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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Dumbass RPG character idea:

A roguishly handsome adventurer who otherwise doesn't seem to much care for maintaining his rugged good looks, but is comically particular of his iconic ridiculous hat, which he never takes off. Like, ever. He sleeps with the hat tilted over his eyes, won't remove it indoors even at a dining table, bathes while wearing it. Nobody wants to know how the hell he washes his hair. Telling him to remove the hat is an absolute dealbreaker - if any place demands that he removes the hat before stepping inside, he'll rather wait outside by the door while the rest of the party does their business inside. It's obnoxious but what are you gonna do.

Then, when trapped in a situation where the party must either sacrifice one of its members or all will die, the guy volunteers, on one condition: the party must take his precious hat, and give it to someone worthy. Ideally someone spectacularly handsome who will look good in it, but he'd rather have anyone at all wear it, than nobody at all. Nobody in the party, though - none of them are allowed to wear his hat. Baffled but grateful, the party agrees to his conditions.

Some time later, once the rest of the party has escaped, they slap the hat on the first person they encounter and deem sufficiently fitting. The person freezes in shock, blinks twice, and suddenly shifts their stance to a familiar posture, sighing "oh thank the gods, you actually fucking did it", in a new voice but a familiar style and intonation. The character was never The Guy, it's a demon bound to the hat, who possesses whoever is wearing the garment.

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are you ever scrolling through tumblr and you have a thought and immediately lose it so you have to scroll back up to give your brain the conditions under which it originally created the thought so you can bring it back

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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Guy who has heard other guys refer to their wives as "ball and chain" and "battle-axe" and wrongfully assumed you can refer to your wife as any medieval weapon: oh there's my beautiful Lucerne hammer

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I received a message today that spurred some thought:

I’m trying to get my gf to be a sub she says yes but doesn’t respect and understand that she’s for my pleasure and my needs. How do I get her to obey and do it. She’s new

Repeat after me: No sub is there for your pleasure and your needs.  I get it, Tumblr often paints a picture of “perfect” doms and “perfect” subs in non-stop kinkery fuckery; but that isn’t reality.  I don’t exist to take what I want from my sub and they don’t exist to solely provide for my pleasure.

My raison d’etre as a dominant is to lead, support and guide my sub; not to take, never to take.  I do what I do for my sub, I’m their rock, I quiet their storms.  I take my pleasure from seeing them accomplish their goals and grow under my leadership.  

Being a dominant is a massive responsibility. It sure as fuck isn’t about being able to use your sub to get your jollies off and then put them back in the box when you’re done.

Sure, we dominants get to have our kinky fun, it’s the great side-perk of the lifestyle.  We get to “use” our subs, we get to enact these wonderful scenes that we’ll both remember for ages.  But it’s a side-perk, nothing more, it sure as hell isn’t the point of the relationship.

If you think d/s is about turning someone into a sub so you can just use them without any responsibility, just do everyone a favor and stop.  Back off, cease, desist.  Go do a TON of research, find out what d/s really is, and come back in 5 years when you’ve grown up.

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I am literally fucking BEGGING people to stop saying "ax oh lot uhl." That is absolutely the WRONG way to pronounce that word.

I know the song about the axolotl on the stairs is very cute, but it is teaching kids how to pronounce a Nahuatl word VERY VERY WRONG. Can we all please spend like 30 seconds watching this very nice person show y'all how to say it right? Please?

(Yeah, I used to say it wrong too, and then a friend was kind enough to correct me on the way the word is pronounced in their ancestral language and so now every time I hear it wrong it's like nails on a chalkboard & makes me embarrassed.)