#greatest hits (real)

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

[qvincvnx]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

#is this a crazy person post? maybe. but also i genuinely think this. #i would love a little guy who'd eat the food in the back of my fridge before it goes off. he's real. that little guy's name? is composting. #he's slimy. #also i love the mikveh spirit who inspires women to be rude after coming home from the mikveh. LET HER SPEAK #little guys #greatest hits

[alexanderpearce]

ship ask game 😁1 Who would be first to to bite down anc consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood 2. who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus? 3. who is the dog and who is the master? 4 when the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bulletwound? the phallic blade? strangulation? 5. Cocaine or Heroin? 6. who licks up the other’s cigarette ash? 7 who is julius caesar and who is brutus? 8. who is jesus and who is judas? 9. did jesus want it? did julius caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud? 10. who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans? 11. did they ever kiss and why not? 12 if they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails? 13. and if the coin was the holey dollar? 14. And if the dog bit back? 15 and if the dog bit back? 16 and if the dog bit back? 17 and if the dog bit back? 18 and if the dog bit back? 19 and if the dog bit back? 20. Who buys the other flowers?🥰

#feel free to proliferate this as either poetry or a real ask game it is both. And if you follow my sideblog you know who this is about #the latin participles mean who is facefucked/facefucking and who is sodomised/sodomising #my poetry #my writing #idr if theres any more posts in that tag maybe i should write more. this was fun. #it IS entirely inspired by and about ollie and malcolm the thick of it. for posterity. #its giving hannibal and will as well tho #shut up ulrike #shipping #fangirl #ship ask game #drug tw #popular #greatest hits #cordyceps

[adobe-outdesign]

I was thinking about what social media, Tumblr specifically, would be like in the Pokemon universe. conclusion: not that different

#pokemon #pkmn #team plasma #unown #pokemon worldbuilding #outdesign posts things #disclaimer: any resemblance to real tumblr users/usernames is coincidental #greatest hits

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

#rambling #disclaimer this isnt about individual christians im speaking about the religious trauma i experienced in my own life etc etc #these are just a few examples that I've noticed but they're definitely something #the part about sex in particular shocked me bc sex is pretty much viewed as actively evil in a lot of christian denominations #like you should only do it to create children and if you take pleasure in it (even if its with your own spouse) youre a dirty sinner #there arent as many examples like this nowadays but if you read puritan laws about sex it's like #you're allowed to have sex with your wife basically 10 times a year but you have to be fully clothed with the lights off #and you cant have sex on a holiday or a sunday and you cant touch each other and you have to try as hard as possible to hate it #literally WHERE did that mindset come from?? like for real #in judaism having sex with your spouse is basically considered a celebration of everything holy #and if you have sex on the sabbath (the holiest day in the jewish calendar—above every holiday) #its considered TWICE as holy #make it make sense #this is one of the things people mean when they say that lumping judaism in with christianity as 'abrahamic' religions is meaningless #theyre literally nothing alike #the only similarity is the torah but thats only half of the christian bible and one third of the jewish one #AND christianity interprets most of it completely differently from how judaism does #im tired #greatest hits #hall of fame

[ballisterboldheart]

absolutely HILARIOUS that ballister boldheart the guy who literally just had a limb accidentally amputated got really Squeamish about One arrow that struck nimona. god he's such a Dad.

#s.txt #nimona #nimona spoilers #god i wish fathers were real #quinn's greatest hits #1k #2k #3k

[umbrellainkart]

I swear it

#wendell and wild #eye strain #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #fanart #sketch #had to bust something out for Halloween real quick #kat elliot #greatest hits

[transboysokka]

i know halloween was yesterday but enjoy this cheesy fucking Sok-Ken based on this

#im so sorry i have no idea what this even is lmfao #atla #sokka #fanart #mine #im gonna be real i spent less than an hour on this and DID trace #greatest hits #100 #500

[dumbbitchawards]

I think they should make a completely unserious arrested development style comedy sequel show to succession about tomgreg running waystar and getting into comedic hijinks. Season one has occasional appearances from sarah snook because shiv has had the tomshiv baby left tom and theyve gotten stuck in a custody battle for the entire first season. Neither of them want the baby they just don't want the other to have it. Greg is the only one who the child actually like seems to like, which drives tom and shiv insane. Season 1 finale is tom somehow winning the custody battle with waystar's lawyers and the baby finally says its first word, which turns out to be "greg"

#i can see the vision. we can make this real #succession #tomgreg #tomshiv #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #shiv roy #mine #dumbbitchawards #goose's greatest hits

[wlw-cryptid]

#having a real one #why. the hell. would one school 2 states away give me a 13k grant for being smart. but the one an hour away. wants me to pay them 13k #after grants. #i would like. to know #i just. i hate it here #she speaks #i dont want to move two states away. thats horrifying. im a wheelchair user. like. are you insane #but. it would be a free ride and id probably get to live w my childhood best friend #but also. id have to apply for state insurance again and id be stranded away from my parents and have to find a real caretaker there #id be away from all my doctors appointments and My Bed and it feels like no one appreciates how fucking risky and scary it would be #greatest hits

[manichewitz]

if i was in nope and angel torres took me back to his shitty apartment after we narrowly escaped a cosmic horror together i would’ve fucked him

#wouldve been a real ‘theres only one bed’ moment #nope 2022 #angel torres #nope spoilers #film #brandon perea #fav #1k #greatest hits

[i-hate-block-men]

It is so funny to me that the end of Tango's final episode is being compared to the Flower Husbands epilogue because the fanservice was completely accidental. The text in the black screen at the end is a reference to the post-credits scene in Ferris Bueller. Mans was just trying to make a funny and accidently broke an entire fandom

#tango tek #tangotek #team rancher #double life spoilers #double life #op #im not sure how many ppl in the fandom actually realize it's a ferris bueller reference LMAO #TO ADD: i adore the dramatic interpretations #im totally on board with that interpretation #team rancher brainrot has been real #i just think it's hillarious that this was all from tango making a ferris bueller reference #accidentally made it dramatic because it was white text on black screen after he deadificated #also i am ashamed bc someone had to point out the reference to me bc i LOVE ferris bueller #i am a failure of a movie-quoter #greatest hits

[blowingoffsteam2]

“What are you so afraid of?”

“Sora, let’s take the raft and go! Just the two of us!”

#soriku #yes I am implying that Riku overheard the dock scene #the expression he makes here is so particular like trying to push aside a bad memory #and the question only reinforces exactly what I believe I was remembering #the night his greatest fear became real to him #his canon answer here is ‘’losing what’s precious to me’ and his next answer confirms its Sora that’s most precious to him #and overhearing what Kairi said would be like confirmation of everything he feared #that Sora would leave him and he’d be alone #I think all three of the locations where the questions are asked are important and correspond in some way to the question #but this one hits the hardest #ddd #dock scene

[adobe-outdesign]

"Twitch Plays Pokemon turns 10 years old today"

#pokemon #pkmn #twitch #twitch plays pokemon #outdesign posts things #THERE IS NO WAY IT'S BEEN THAT LONG... #happy birthday twitch plays pokemon you were a real one #greatest hits

[burymeinblack2022]

FUCK WHAT ANYONE SAYS - SUMMERTIME IS FOR THE SWEETIES IF YOU HATE MY GIRL FUCK YOU THAT’S WHAT 

#why don't you say that into my mouth...... #wow anna said something #Mcrraleigh #mcr #return era #return #my chem #my chemical romance #Welcome to the circus #greatest hits #Feeling the love for my babygirl in the tags #Y'all were so real and based for that glad we all have exquisite taste...

[shoesofthefishermanswife]

kyle! <33 @gothham

#this is so messy but it has been a Journey #but that's what i get for just going off a planes of the head model and not a real reference #also not a green lantern connoisseur (one day maybe) so i have no idea if this actually looks like kyle lol #but yeah <3 i think i'm getting better at color :) #kyle rayner #green lantern #my art #dc #art: greatest hits