#through a margin note

[remembertheplunge]

pain integrates to insight via the margin note

The following is based on Meditations for Living in Balance: Anne Wilson Schaef. (A page a day for a year book)

March 6: Accidents

"Accident is veiled necessity" Marie Ebner Eschenbach

"Wheather the accident happened to us or to someone else, there is a learning there for us." Anne Schaeh

My margin notes to the above quotes:

Life is a riot of accidents and pause." 3/6 2021.

"The accident of existence. Enjoy it!" 3/6/2022

[shad0w-elemental]

Day 12: Tome, VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK?

would you want to know the Truth, even if it hurts to hear it?

[lemonwarrior]

i started reading his quantum leap book i got like a good couple of years ago and i swear to God this is like content made for specifically me and only me and mind.

they get into sam's relationship with the new body he leapt into, they never shy away from sam and al meaning everything to each other, PROJECT QUANTUM LEAP CONTENT!?!?, everything is going wrong literally because Tina disappeared, i thought there was she/he/it ziggy content but she hates it/its pronouns </3 they kept going back and forth between he/him and it/its within like the back to back paragraphs with each other like wowie, THE BEGINNING PUNCHES ME STRAIGHT IN THE GUT THEY PULLED NO PUNCHES he doesn't remember what home was but every bone in his body wants to go home?? him pleading asking the entity taking him to each leap if he's going home this time??? fuuuck dude (also interesting the entity looking at him like a bug under a microscope i fw that),

"At some level he needed Al, at once just his best friend, more than breath or vision or gravity,"

HELLO HELLO HELLO?!?, also there's a scene with al and this little kid which im always a sucker for it was so cute.

JUST LIKE FUUUCK MAN, if no one got me Ashley McConnell got me in 1992

[comebackali]

32 yr old babygirl getting rescued by the teen object of his affections 💕💕💕

[mistbornbaby]

This blog has been dead for so long, I know, but I gotta hop in here and share because I’m so thrilled✨ I fell off reading the second Mistborn era, and then a friend recommended I hop into the Way of Kings before getting too far in that second era. So I’m in the middle of reading that, and just read Tress of the Emerald Sea, which was so cute!

But I’m rereading Mistborn from the beginning again because… my family is reading it!! I’ve got my brother, mom, and sister all reading it together, and more family members are wanting to join the “book club”! I’ve graduated from a Mistborn Baby into a Mistborn Dealer 😆 and I’m excited to see who gets addicted with me!

[crimeronan]

hey u feel like the type of person whod be thinking abt this.. do you have a plan for not having like seventeen panic attacks on election.

i've taken steps in my personal life to determine where there are organizations that help marginalized people in my community, and i've made plans to do a lot of volunteer work to directly minimize harm caused by the federal government. my approach has always been, "okay, if trump wins, i need to know what i'm gonna do in the face of that." so. that's my main focus.

as for managing my emotions, i'm sort of leaning into the whole sociopath thing and have just kind of..... turned off my feelings. which i know is not feasible for everyone. so that's not exactly advice, that's just. something i Highly Recommend Doing if you have the capacity. (i assume if you're having uncontrollable anxiety then 'just stop doing that' is not super helpful.)

i'm surrounded by people who are very worried about the election & my own worry will not change anything about the election, so. it's more practical for me to just opt out of fear so i can take care of the people who can't opt out of fear. u feel me?

make your plan for how you're going to love and help those around you if the worst happens. over the next 48 hours or so, distract yourself as much as you can. stop refreshing your newsfeed and watching results trickle in.

it's completely normal to be stressed and upset and scared about the election, given that it's such a huge thing with such huge global implications, and nobody likes living in uncertainty.

so. control what you can by making your plans and getting in touch with your loved ones about what their plans are. the rest of it is something you're just gonna have to face and fight as things happen, like we did from 2016 onward. he may win, he might not. but assuming you already turned in your ballot, you've already done what you can re: the results.

[raelyn-dreams]

In light of fine's event announcement, I would like to formally welcome Eichi to the "Event 5-Stars Going Through The Horrors™️ (2024)" squad.

[hopefulgalaxytyphoon]

I have changed quite a few things on these tables so I thought I'd post some updated versions

Honestly, they are still mostly the same, but after watching the live stream through so that I could type up the stage directions for a script I could see, I realized that I was forgetting certain characters (Elpenor. I forgot Elpenor. I wish I was joking) and props and stuff. I think I also simplified the curtains a little bit since I last posted these, but I don't remember. I might take a stab at making some of the simpler props, I bought some more clay just for this, so when I have some free time I'll work on that.

[nest-being]

i love art!!! i love comics!!! i love poetry!!! i love prose!! i love music!!! i love animation!!!! i love fashion!!!! i love creative expression!!! i love seeing the beauty and brutality and complexity of the world explored in so many different ways!!! i love knowing there is a human being behind every creative work- driven to create and tell stories as a form of communication and connection!!! art is life!!! art is humanity!!! art is existence!!!!!

[caffeiiine]

hand writing reveal when?? :3 /hj

this is a hilarious ask to get once you’ve just opened ul tumblr up btw good job anon

Anywasy take some of my wips and doodles and c&p margin notes

[midwesternfields]

BOOK REVIEW 📖

Last year I kept track of the series & films I watched; this year I've decided to keep track of whatever books I read! So this one is for the month of January – I'll share these sometime after the month is over, or if I read more than one book during the month, I will do their reviews as soon as I finish the book :)

[invinciblerodent]

Some lines of dialogue from my notebook that I happen to kinda like, just because 🙂

"Of course I've heard of you, [Blade of the Frontiers]. You were my father's favorite son, and he hadn't even sired you."

"I've never chosen anything for myself- not before meeting you. But now, it's... it's you, only you that I want. Messy, mortal, majestic you."

"I thought maybe, if I got my shit together enough to be able to tell you who I am, there could be a chance that you might like that person enough to kiss her."

"Darling, you know I accept compliments face-to-face-- going behind my back for it is such a waste of perfectly good praise."

"Delightful conversation, this. I certainly can't think of a topic more pleasant than my violent death."

"You cannot truly be so arrogant as to believe yourself the first man to break my heart."

"It would be the single greatest kindness you could ever do me, if you promised -this time truly promised- that if I am to go, if I am to change, it'll be you sinking the blade of mercy into my heart."

"I wish I had your kind of confidence. But I've said those same words enough times-- I unfortunately know very well when they're bullshit."

"I'm willing to lie about a lot of things, to a lot of people, but to lie to the pig about how the sausage is made as it is being led to slaughter.. sounds especially cruel."

"I feel that after so long roaming unclaimed, my heart is one that... yearns, for a cage now."

"This person you speak of in such disgust is twice, thrice, a thousand fucking times the man you could ever have hoped to be in your pathetic, hateful, narrow little chickenshit life."

"When I said I'm in love with you, when I said that I choose you, I meant every breath, every syllable, with my being entire. Gods know why you'd choose me in return, but make no mistake, my dear-- the very prospect of my being allowed to love you, it is nothing short of pure euphoria."

"Over a hundred lifetimes, over a million possiblities... there is not a world in which I wouldn't have fallen in love with you."

"Why do you so crave the forgiveness of a goddess so spiteful that she'd deny it to you while you still live?!"

"Oh, darling, I've merely whetted my appetite for you." "Then devour me."

"Wherever you are when your mind is so far, I'd like to go with you someday."

"Aw, were you worried about me?" "No, but I'd have hated to carry you back to camp with your liquefied innards oozing from your every orifice." "See, I was trying to make a joke, and you ruined it." I'm sorry. Does it help if I say I'd have carried you in my arms like a pretty, pretty princess?"

"If I threw myself into the harbor in despair every time I felt guilt over what I've done, the coast would be littered with my corpses."

"I can show you my skill if that is your desire, Saer- or you may also believe me, and stop looking the heavily armed gift horse in the mouth."

[communistkenobi]

A newborn baby girl will have to go through life with the wrong sex on her birth certificate after a registrar’s error, which her parents have been told they cannot change. Grace Bingham and her partner, Ewan Murray, were excited to register their first child at the Sutton-in-Ashfield Registration Office in Nottinghamshire last week. But, after nights of broken sleep, they failed to notice the registrar had written the wrong sex on the birth certificate until after it had been submitted. “We were horrified but assumed that, as we saw the mistake just a few seconds after it had happened, correcting it would be an easy matter,” said Murray. “But although the registrar apologised for her mistake – and the area manager also apologised – it turns out that birth certificates can’t be changed.”

this article is interesting because it demonstrates that cis people can very easily apply structural thinking to sex assignment - this couple immediately identifies that their daughter, having mistakenly been assigned male at birth by the registrar, will have administrative problems in employment, education, travel, and so on. they pretty adeptly identify the foundational role that sex assignment plays in the administrative and civil functions of a state, and how incorrect sex markers effectively produce a ‘rational’ reason for discrimination within these administrative and civil arenas:

The General Register Office (GRO), which is responsible for administering all civil registration in England and Wales, and the Home Office have both confirmed that Lilah’s birth certificate cannot be reissued, although an amendment can be made in the margin of the original document. But Bingham said this is not enough. “People reading a birth certificate might easily miss a tiny note in the margin – which means that Lilah could be regarded as male when she applies for school, her passport, for jobs – for everything that she needs a full birth certificate for.”

And given that this was published in The Guardian, this article makes zero mention as to why it’s impossible for this couple to receive an updated birth certificate with correct information (something the author notes was possible to do a year ago), but the reason is obviously transphobia. 

Now one might ask why there’s no exception for cis people whose birth certificates were recorded incorrectly at birth, but this reveals the instability of cissexualism. How would you determine who is a cis person with a mistaken birth certificate, versus a trans person who wants to change their mistaken sex assignment record? Sure, you could say well, this is an infant, of course she’s “really” “biologically” female (something the parents argue in the article as grounds for having their child’s birth certificate re-issued), but 1) that certainly can’t be argued for in all cases, 2) 'biological sex' is understood by medical doctors as alterable through hormones and surgery, which trans people are often required to undergo in order to change their records, and 3) binary sex assignment is already imprecise and discretionary, particularly if infants have sex characteristics that don’t conform to binary F/M assignment standards (which is part of how the category of intersex emerges, framing this failure to conform to state census categories as a biological defect - and in fact, many intersex people do not discover they are intersex until the onset of puberty or later, at which point they are even less in luck if they want to change their sex assignment - and if they don’t, if they are cis but have sex characteristics that do not conform to cis standards, they will be discriminated against anyway). 

Even setting aside the issue of transgender and intersex people for a moment, states fuck up all the time in administration! you've probably either experienced this directly or know someone who's had some kind of record fucked up by the government at some point in their life. If you get married they could fuck up changing your last name, fuck up your disability status, record your social insurance number wrong, print the wrong address on your driver’s license, fail to acknowledge you as a dependent when filing taxes, incorrectly mark you as having graduated when you’re still a student, fuck up your immigration paperwork, record your name wrong during immigration, etc etc into infinity, and this is not even getting into errors that occur when different levels of government pass information between one another. This level of administrative rigidity is purely to punish people who fail to perform cissexualism correctly, and in the case of this couple's child, the administrative error of the state is imputed to them as a personal failure that she and her parents will now have to deal with for the rest of their lives. 

I think the ultimate analysis is not that transphobia will become less precise and hit more "wrong" targets as it expands its reach, but that this is the exact same operational logic as all other liberal state measures - if you encounter a systemic issue, it’s your fault for not avoiding it, fuck you, go away. You’re poor because you’re lazy, you’re unhoused because you’re lazy, you’re disabled because you’re lazy, and your daughter is now administratively transsexual because you’re lazy. In this case, we don’t even need to assume the intentions of the state - they outright say it:

The family complained to the GRO but was told the mistake was their responsibility and could not be fully rectified. “The duty to ensure that information recorded in any particular entry is true is the responsibility of the person providing the information and not of the registrar general or the registrar recording the birth,” the GRO said.

[skrunksthatwunk]

i put kaiji up on my wall as motivation

[hanasnx]

ᯓ★ “ I WANNA FUCK WITH THE LIGHTS ON ” — clark kent.

MINORS DNI 18+ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ NOTES: this movie isn’t out yet but i can’t wait that long to take advantage of my superman kick and fuck this man. unfortunately i don’t know much about his characterization other than the trailer content. WARNINGS: fem reader ノ established relationship ノ explicit sexual content ノ size difference ノ dick riding ノ objectification ノ p in v ノ praise ノ clark has huge dick syndrome.

“Just… take it slow.” CLARK KENT encourages, but it’s said more so for himself than you. A large, flattened palm emphasizes his instruction, gesturing for you to relax without grabbing you to take over your actions. You stop, his eyes flickering to meet yours questioningly, until he takes a shot in the dark. “Please.” It’s delightfully endearing, and it loosens you up a little.

“It’s not that, Clark, I’m just—you’re just so… you know,” Big. You try to hint at it without blurting it out. Hovering over his lap too long, a tremor builds in your thighs, and you bite down onto your lip as you let it pass through you in a shudder.

His expression adjusts as the realization dawns on him, “Ah,” he exclaims thoughtfully, and he tests the waters, bringing his hands to your body to rest in comfortable places. Your waist seems appropriate, and your fingers fiddle with the muscle in his shoulders as you keep chewing your lip. “Do you want me to take over?” the question is punctuated with a shift of his hips, arranging himself in a better position to begin, but even the marginal movement has you whining with need. It alerts him, tensing up instantly as he freezes while your pretty face twists in pleasured agony. You’re still wrapped around his reddened tip, and it’s a burning kind of stretch that makes you wish you could just shove him in all the way—at the cost of ripping you in half.

Through your heavy lids and thick eyelashes, you manage to meet his gaze with darkened pupils that don’t want to cooperate. You hum a pitiful “uh-huh” while you nod your head, signaling to him that he’s right. His thumbs on your torso stroke at your skin comfortingly, big hands clamped around you as he raises you. The lip of his head catches on the rim of your pussy, and you suck in a breath as an emptiness replaces what used to be filled.

“We’re gonna take it nice and easy,” Clark talks you through it, but even his exhale hitches when cold air hits his slit. Carefully, he lowers you back on, feeding his dick back into your silken walls before taking it away again—all to introduce your hole to his size little by little. The method chips away at your tightness, and you try to follow his movements with yours even if you’re weak in the knees. “Wanna look at me, duchess? Let me see your eyes?” He tilts his head, his curls falling over his forehead as he chases your gaze. You do your best to peel your eyes open one-by-one, granting him his wish as you pant through your open mouth taking his cock one agonizing inch at a time. The sight of you barely holding on when he’s not even halfway in, stretches a smile onto his face, and if you were more coherent, you’d say it’s one of pride as well as endearment.

One hand cautiously releases your side, while the other takes your weight entirely, bobbing you up and down as if you were no heavier than a fleshlight. His other slides between you two to seek out your pretty bud, resting his thick fingers on your thigh while his thumb comes to stroke at that clit. The new sensation slicks you up as quickly as it occurred, and you gasp at how elevated it all feels from a simple action like that. “That’s what you were missing. Right, baby? It’s hard to loosen up without it. You’re so tight…” You know he didn’t say it like it’s a compliment, but it makes your insides jump anyway. Your muscle contracts and suddenly he can fit a lot more in. “Does that feel good?” he asks, his thumb leisurely circling your bud as your pussy drools around him.

Desperately, you nod your head with a couple of “mm-hmm’s!” that lead him to speed up—introducing you to more of his length as he picks up the pace on petting your clit. Your hands abandon gripping his shoulders for stability and instead overlay his. Yours are dwarfed by him, but he takes your guidance, absorbing how you’re putting pressure on his knuckles and replicating it against your poor pearl, getting puffy from the stimulation and the lack of getting railed. It all lights a fire under your ass, and your body moves for you, bouncing in place to try and force more of his cock into you. You can’t overpower the Superman, but he does let you take it all down to the hilt—his strength making a sex toy out of you.

[prlssprfctn]

Robin!Jason, who constantly references different books at random times by quoting them and joking about characters, except Bruce doesn't have much time to read everything that Jason goes through. Of course, he understands some nods towards classics, but Jason is an avid reader, so it is hard to keep up with him sometimes. Jason tries to drag him to watch some movie adaptations, but he falls asleep in the very beginning of it.

And then Jason dies.

Bruce goes through all his library obsessively to the point he remembers the page of every little bookmark Jason left, and he knows his little notes on the margins by the heart. He watches movie adaptations, too, even though Jason only ever watched it to hate on them. He finds new books, books he thinks Jason would like if he was alive, and reads them, imagining what kind of analysis would Jason finalise by the end of it; his opinion not always matches with Jason's, but that doesn't matter. Bruce just likes to imagine.

Years pass, and Jason returns to Gotham. Not as a boy Bruce missed so much. Or, at least, he thinks so.

But then Jason does some bitter, irritated reference, comparing them to characters of one of the books he had on his shelf, and Bruce catches himself thinking... well, they still think similarly, but the conclusion they drew had always differed from each other. It is a different situation, of course, but... but maybe he could try to make this work.

Because, if anything, Bruce is tired of imagining. Especially, not when he finally has a chance to get everything back.

On the next day after their fight, someone sends Jason a copy of a new book from his favourite author - the one that he still hadn't read - his old set of colourful bookmarks, and a little note.

Let me know what you think.

Bruce gets the book back in a week, full of frantic notes, a bunch of bookmarks, and a short note explaining what each colour means (a mystery he didn't resolve years ago, after he passed away).

And, oh, God. He completely forgot how fast Jason read sometimes.