This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!

everything Seth Dickinson is doing in baru cormorant re gender and lesbianism is so special to me, for ursula le guin “show the society’s traditions and then show how people break traditions” reasons but also for sex reasons. like. I love love love how he portrays cultures outside of the empire doing gender and sexuality differently from the empire, it feels very grounded in historical reality. but I especially love how we see how people inside the empire resist and evade the empire’s strict doctrines of cisnormative heterosexual marriage: third-gendered people pass as man or women to access the empire’s power structures, the rich or connected can get away with more-or-less public gay relationships, people geographically or practically far from the empire’s spies and jails do whatever they want, people like baru who are conditionally allowed into the empire’s power structures are more careful.

also he just portrays lesbian desire really well. ive read too many other unsexy descriptions of tits to not appreciate how baru looks at women and wants them for their strong shoulders and easy confidence and stomachs padded with fat. she’s allowed to want fierce old warrior women and pursue Tain Hu’s old lovers and have fucked up daydreams of sex with beautiful brainwashed Clarified operatives whose consent would be meaningless. he lets her get a little weird with it and i love that about these books

Does anyone with a minors dni tag actually think people are blocking it

losing my mind as per funking usual

Was looking at my old aesthetic blog (lmfao) and saw steven universe background scenery which i had reblogged before the show reached peak popularity on here, before id watched it ... thinking about simpler times ... aesthetic blogs, people unabashedly revealing that they like steven universe, these things are obsolete now ..

the death of 8tracks made you all so bad at making playlists i fear. good ship or character playlist is max 16 songs and devastatingly perfectly crushingly curated. it should make sense musically, if not across the playlist, then at least from song to song. GRADIENTS of genre. think about this before you make a 200 song ship playlist that includes both maroon 5 and mitski. Think on it

Sometimes I make the stupid fucking decision to stop masking and I regret it so much n cant stop reliving the T’RAUMA of actually being myself to someone but then I sometimes remember its not necessarily me whos the issue but rather the lack of confidence I have to support my antics

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

Found out my pal had sex in some ww2 bunker in europe 1) do you not care about ghosts 2) everyone should be celibate

Really though, like we've made our cities so uncomfortable even for housed people, just in an effort to hurt the homeless. Parks and beaches close at night so homeless can't sleep there. Loitering is illegal so homeless can't sleep there. No bench at the bus stop because someone might sleep on it. No overnight parking because someone might sleep in the car there.

These laws aren't even beneficial to housed populations of the city, and they purely exist out of a) hatred for the homeless and b) an attempt to make your city look "presentable" to tourists. And it just sucks all-around.

by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

JEAN LUC’S BALD HEAD SPOTTED IN DISCOVERY !!!

I lost my virginity when a cruel philosopher ontologically redefined virginity

NOOOO I'M SO SAD THIS SHOT IN THE ANIME GOT RID OF MARCILLE KSJHJKDHF THIS FRAME LOOKS SO MEMEABLE IN THE MANGA

i open and close tumblr like im sisyphus with that stupid rock