Something that’s always baffled me is so many antis being into really violent or dark media and that’s totally fine for some reason, but as soon as anything is suggestive or sexual it’s evil.

Sex isn’t special. It doesn’t have some special power to corrupt people more than violence. If watching horror movies or playing violent games isn’t going to make me into a murderer, then making or consuming sexual content isn’t going to make me a predator either.

Putting sex on this pedestal as something sacred or special is a big problem. It’s just another activity a human can do like eating or sleeping. The sooner people can just be normal about sex, the sooner all this Puritanism will stop I think. Easier said than done tho…

“Grief “

Stories of her dear brother's passing echoed through the ancient woods of Doriath,

Finrod the beloved perished against his enemy to save another’s life,

Too distant was she from her beloved brother in his hour of need,

Now all that remains is sorrow and a whispered vow of retribution against those she deems responsible.

Shen Qingqiu didn’t understand.

“I thought you weren’t coming”

hope is a skill

It’s finally happened.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.

just messed around with some screenshots, they're so funny, I can't 😭😭

i literally cannot stop. will reblog with the link once i’m done.

Celtic Silver Mounted Lapis Lazuli Studded Bronze Sword. 6th Century BC?.

Right in time before the end of mermay, here is my third prompt for SVSSSAction and donated by lxchelthegodess on twitter! As you may know I absolutely adore mermaids, so I definitely had to give my all for the Bingqiu Little Mermaid AU. One day too, Luo Binghe shall be part of prince Shen Qingqiu's world...

The Eugene Guard, Oregon, July 8, 1958

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing

The thing about fanfiction after writing original fiction for so long is that it feels like taking weighted clothes off. If I wanted a cool plot twist or a reveal or a mystery I had to set up all the expectations myself. I had to set up the red herrings, the clues, the boundaries of what was reasonable.

In fanfiction I drop a name from canon I never referenced before and it will carry the weight that a hundred pages of set up would carry in original fiction.

Do you have any fucking idea how intoxicating that is.

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

liu qingge is not a snake charmer [svsss fic]

Fandom: Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, SVSSS

Relationship: LiuShen, Shen Qingqiu & Zhuzhi-lang

Premise: Liu Qingge's meditation gets interrupted when Shen Qingqiu accidentally transforms himself into a kitten.

Tags: LiuShen Shenanigans, Liu Qingge is Smitten, Shen Qingqiu is a Kitten, Zhuzhi-lang gets bitten

Note: This fic is written for the SVSSS for Gaza event on Twitter which raised over 18k$!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55299001

Preview:

Liu Qingge closed his eyes and meditated as Shen Qingqiu went about tinkering with a talisman. It had become somewhat of a routine now — him visiting Shen Qingqiu for most of the day as they worked in each other’s presence, separately but together. It was comforting in a way Liu Qingge did not intend to parse or investigate. All at once, he heard a sudden poof sound, as if a small balloon had deflated. He opened his eyes slowly, surprised to see a misty vapor swaying in the air where Shen Qingqiu had been sitting. Liu Qingge blinked and lowered his gaze, his brows jumping up to his hairline in alarm when he saw, not his shixiong, but a small, white cat with a soft, green collar ribbon. “What?!” Liu Qingge jumped up and hurried to the little animal who remained unfazed by his presence before looking down and letting out a startled mewl on seeing itself. “Shen Qingqiu!?” He knelt and peered at the cat warily.

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

This is my piece for “Fragrance of Orchids,” written by the lovely @/femqiu 🌸 for our part of the Bingyuan Minibang!

Read the Fragrance of Orchids here

Fic Summary

As Emperor Luo Binghe’s Prime Minister, Shen Yuan faces many difficulties and humiliations on a daily. He knows the Emperor rose to his position quite young, but shouldn’t he be more politically savvy?! Every morning he has another crazy, expensive idea that Shen Yuan can only deal with in one, totally normal way: threatening to kill himself if the Emperor doesn’t reconsider!

Then, one day, this tried and true method suddenly fails when the Emperor refuses to see reason and announces that if Prime Minister Shen is so concerned with Emperor Luo’s lack of a spouse, he may well fill that position himself! Suddenly Shen Yuan finds himself as Emperor Luo’s Empress — someone pinch him, please!