#i mean it is. but. highly suggestive

[peridhot]

Anan-san wa Deatte 3-byou de Gattai Shitai! by Yuu Matsubayashi

Anan, an office worker who’s only experience with men comes watching porn, tries to win over her boss and love interest, Dept. Chief Kitazono, but fails at every turn. In fact, Kitazono is also a virgin with zero romantic experience. This is the start of a wild AV romantic comedy.

Read through Chapter 10.

Very funny story. I find myself rooting for Kitazono and Anan and hoping one day they'll get together, since they seem to genuinely like each other for more than just sexual reasons. I'd like to read more, but I want there to be a lot more to read (since I'm currently caught up with translations, it seems, as this seems to be a new series) before I pick it back up again.

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I think I accidentally made Wriothesley AuDHD. fuck

[saucy-mesothelioma]

Happy Birthday to Jim Nabors!

This man means a lot to me especially as a queer Southerner rip king

[hcppyhotel]

why did i do this for a/lastor and not like... really any other muse.

[themyscirah]

This is technically a Diana's age poll but I framed it partially around Julia's rescue because that's the event I need to contextualize and whether or not Diana is a thing yet is p important for my purposes. I would keep the Pérez run and postcrisis continuity in mind when answering this bc that's when this is relevant but I'd keep in mind that even though Diana is very young there (like early 20s) we don't know I don't think if she ages differently as a child (esp as a themysciran AND being made from clay) and in some versions she is older than she looks and was made earlier

Edit: I accidentally logic-ed this out in the tags lol 🤦‍♀️but feel free to still vote however you want. Going to publish this anyway bc I think I made some good points later in my tags

[apollos-arr0ws]

❝Happy Anniversary.❞

[qprstobin]

Maybe i haven't been reading the right fics but I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more like, pre-season 3 steddie aus where steve buys drugs from Eddie and eddie trip sits for him. Oh the possibilities

[gloopdimension]

I might be a little pretentious.

[statementlou]

OH I really need your opinion about Louis being so emotionally intelligent, I think it's barely even talked about it here

ARE people not talking about it? What a funny thought! As a post-hiatus fan, I'm accustomed to thinking of myself as something of a newcomer, even though it's been years now, so it's weird to realize I've been here long enough to see patterns and trends come and go and come again. It's even weirder the way trends in fandom can be completely forgotten and erased when the boys, in contrast, eternally exist in all times at once, everything they've ever said considered to be equally valid to their current lives whether they said it 12 years ago as teens or just yesterday as whole ass adult men! Anyway my point is, there was certainly a time when Louis' emotional intelligence was discussed a lot, AS IT SHOULD BE. For sure so much when Walls came out it was... those LYRICS!! Yes, without that gift he's still gorgeous and smart and embodies a unique and bewitching gender presentation and has a beautiful and captivating singing voice… I guess there are a lot of other reasons people might like him. But to me the thought of that not being the top of anyone's "why Louis" list is bananas, it feels so absolutely central and necessary to understanding what makes him special!

It's certainly a lot of what makes his songs resonate with people- he's a skillful lyricist, he could craft clever little twists of phrase and metaphors regardless, but it's his emotional intelligence that sets him apart imo. He describes it as honesty, and yes- the willingness to be vulnerable and reveal your feelings is special, but what I don't know if he even really realizes is that for so many people it's not just an unwillingness to open up honestly like he does, it's that they are genuinely unable to identify and understand and name what's happening inside them like that. I think it comes so naturally to him that maybe it can be hard for him to recognize that that experience isn't universal.

I really appreciate that you used the words emotional intelligence specifically, I love that phrase; I think framing it as a form of intelligence is correct and important. It's a skill set that is dismissed as "feminine" and so less important or easier to access than intellectual intelligence, but it's none of those things. And it's a minority of people who, like Louis, are both intellectually and emotionally very very sharp. I'd say it's a reason he was been able to stay such a good person in the face of things that can easily ruin people (being rich and famous from a young age, trauma and loss), and it's certainly what enables him to be so good at his job. It elevates his songwriting above the ordinary, but also it gives him the tools to do the dance of giving the public something to connect with and making it feel like he's completely open and present without actually giving away too much, which would be absolutely impossible without emotional intelligence- if you don't know your own boundaries or can't intuit on the fly what people respond to, it simply falls flat and seems forced. We've been seeing him exercise those skills close up and in person over the last few days in the signings, making everyone feel special and held and like they got a personal special moment without actually telling anyone anything much or going overtime or getting sucked in to any weird interactions! Again, something that would be nearly impossible without those kind of people skills.

It's actually really funny the way the discourse recently (speaking of changing tides in fandom) has been focused on the idea of Louis presenting himself as masculine (is there a relationship between that and the lack of chat about his EI? hm), when I feel like in the past he was the most feminized by fandom, and not because of his mannerisms or look, but because of his willingness to embrace his emotional intelligence- to cry/ talk about crying openly, to share readily about his feelings and be vulnerable, all these things coded as feminine. He himself has said that he doesn't think he's anything special in this regard (or especially feminine, I think is part of the subtext to that) because Northern Brit men are just like that. I'm from the US so I'm not the one to really respond to that, but it seems to me that does contain some truth- I have seen a willingness to cry openly, to talk about vulnerabilities, etc, in other men with public personas from up there- but I think that again, what we're saying is that's he's showing more than just that, that we're talking about his emotional intelligence quotient being unusually high, which is not a regional characteristic, but a personal one.

[hamartia-grander]

Whenever I had a slightly more deranged sense of humour than someone else they always demeaned me or made me feel like I was fucked up, so now whenever I meet someone with a slightly more deranged sense of humour than myself I always make sure to encourage them and build off of them, even one-up them, thus further developing my own deranged sense of humour until I level up and outrank them

[primordialchoice]

Lilith would never inflict damage on anyone unless she was pushed into doing it. (Either in self defense, or after losing her cool when she feels extremely slighted) This rings especially true when someone is faced with a decision. She will bridge the events needed to get someone to a particular destination, but she will not guide them there. It is ultimately their decision to take that path even when she accompanies them. For instance, she would smear a sharp object with her blood and gift it to the person who shows interest in becoming part of her flock. She won't carve her sigil in their flesh though. That's something they should do on their own and of their own volition.

This shouldn't be mistaken for a sentimental thing because she doesn't offer the space to make a choice from a place of kindness. It is her way of denouncing responsibility for the person who's signing themselves up for the consequences.

[ayyponine]

two months into volunteering at the museum and a guy who works there permanently goes “you know theyre looking fr people in communications right” wwyd

[permanentreverie]

just a quick lil rant before i head to bed

[arckhaic]

taking a philosophy course in my free time and it makes me want to reread parable of the sower by octavia e butler so badly

[a-chaotically-small-lunta]

Okay so I wanted to try something and this something was taking a normal photo, then taking a color palette and sorting the colors from light to dark after putting everything into grayscale, using the newly sorted colors to color the OG photo (while still in grayscale) THEN after finishing the photo, reverting it back to the OG colors to see how it turns out.

So here’s what happened

I took this classic photo of a toad and decided to only color over the toad.

I took this color pallet and did the sorting and grayscale stuff with it (sorting it from darkest to lightest)

While still in grayscale I used the colors on the toad

Which made this

But once you turn off the color filter

You get this beauty

I think he looks neat, a bit rushed but still neat

If anyone has a color pallet they want to see this done to it, you can send it my way or try it yourself

[bookwyrminspiration]

Pointedly ignoring your ask but do you have any books about writing

This is absolutely heart breaking I'm going to cry about it forever and ever my tears are carving the mountain in half and allowing for improved travel and exchange of resources between the two communities divided by this huge fucking mountain in the middle of nowhere.

Do you mean like, books about writing that teach you how to write better? Writing advice books? Because unfortunately I do not and everything I've learned is through trial and error and the people around me, I've never read any writing advice books. I wish I could give you recommendations though, my apologies (oh actually Neil Gaiman has a book called Art Matters and its about writing in an inspirational way? it has nice reminders about the value and purpose of art, about creating, but not in a technical way as much. it tells you to create badly to learn and how to deal with failure, but not how plot structure works, if that makes sense)

Or do you mean books that involve writing, because if so oh boy do I have the perfect book for 9 year olds for you called the Princess and the Page