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!)

It’s a really old meme but “You fucked up a perfectly good [noun] is what you did. Look at it. It has anxiety.” Is still like a golden phrase to me

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

asked my almost 50yo slur-using father who watched house every night during its original run if he thinks house and wilson had a thing and after a 10 second pause he shared "they didn't have a normal friendship" and didn't elaborate. so

genuinely the way taylor clearly falls hard and fast and hopelessly in love every single time is very endearing. writing "this happens once every few lifetimes" and "no one's ever had me, not like you" on the same album that covers the breakdown of two relationships that were also seemingly destined and life changing and unmatched by anyone else is exactly what makes her so good at writing about relationships. if a songwriter doesn't feel everything with their whole chest and throw their whole being into it then I don't want it

you know i have never heard a convincing arguement as to why AO3 should not moderate the content that is posted to their website and i think a lot of the arguement against moderation on AO3 boils down to, terminally online people thinks community moderation is the same as government censorship and personally sending the cops to someone’s house to arrest them irl/

What’s your favourite line from good omens?

The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.

Every time I like or reblog a post, I leave a little bit of man residue on it

Every time I reply or add commentary to a reblog, that’s five times as much man residue

Me following your blog means your whole blog has man residue

I’m spreading it everywhere

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

i was listening to loml in the car today (bad idea) and it really hit me how fucking crazy it is to lead someone on like that when they’re at their lowest point and then just say nevermind??? taylor’s better than me i would’ve committed murder

made some affirmations for my fellow grocery shoppers out there

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

It's kind of funny how X-MEN '97 has flipped traditional character archetypes on their heads to where the nice guy/boy scout is telepathically cheating on his wife while the guy with a reputation of being a total whore is endlessly devoted to a woman he can't even touch. lol

Only in comic books...

Jubilee

rip Gambit, you would've loved hearing Rogue passionately refer to you as her man immediately after dropping someone off a building

I wasn’t exactly fan of X-Men ‘97 adapting elements from stories that appeared in the comics after the 90’s, like it did in episode 5 with elements from the storyline “E is for Extinction” that was originally published in New X-Men in 2001.

Putting aside that I haven’t really been fan of a massive number of the storylines published in X-Men comics during the 2000’s and 10’s, the primary reason why that troubled me is that it felt like it ran counter to the stated mission and intention of the show: Being a faithful revival and continuation to the X-Men 90’s animated series.

However, I guess it was inevitable that the writers would take some story bits that appeared in the comics later than the established time period of the show. After all, there has been more than 25 years of stories between the end of the original 90’s series and the present day. It’s just too tempting to pull from subsequent comics rather than limit the range of the source material strictly to anything before the current century.

That being said, most of my objections and concerns actually evaporated in episode 7, once it was revealed who was the mastermind behind the events in Genosha and what storyline they were intending to adapt afterwards (and indeed, spent the entire season building up towards as the grand finale). I have to say it’s actually even clever, considering that storyline was published precisely on 1997.

All in all, the show has honestly been fantastic so far. Not only a worthy continuation of the original animated series, but overall just one of the best X-Men TV shows. If they manage to stick the landing in the final arc of the season, it might actually become one of the best Marvel adaptations ever produced.

It’s just clear that everyone involved in the production has genuine respect and love for this particular rendition of these characters, and that definitely shows in their work.