As a former camp counselor the fact that the head counselors in pjo had to PAINT each of the year beads is so funny to me. That is a stay up all night going crazy in the craft shack kind of activity. The beads from the beginning and the end of night are of vastly different quality.
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I’ve been thinking about my personal relationship with sexuality lately, and in hindsight, I can see how my asexuality manifested when I was a teenager. I remember my best friend lending me books, and being horrified when they had sex scenes in them. I bought one novel about vampires, and I was so upset by the one sex scene in it that I literally threw it in the garbage.
And I’ve been thinking, it’s funny how these things develop. Now, in my mid forties, I can read and enjoy well-written erotica without any of the disgust that I used to feel (and that my friend, though puzzled, never shamed me for and learned to choose her book recommendations accordingly). I even write it from time to time.
But even now, the idea of actually allowing someone near my genitals is utterly repulsive to me. I don’t mind the idea of getting a partner off--I think I could even enjoy it--but it’s just not the kind of intimacy I want reciprocated.
It’s not even that I don’t want intimacy. I do, very much, but the kinds of things I would ask for would probably seem very foreign to an allosexual. I’ve never had a partner, so it’s all an exercise in theory at this point, but I found my answers in such an unlikely place: fanfiction for a show I’d never even watched. The show was BBC Sherlock, which of course is infamous now for its queerbaiting (and batshit final season), but the in this fanfic series I found myself in its asexual Sherlock Holmes.
It was such a revelation for me. I’d never heard the word “asexuality” until about a year before, and I had spent the previous thirty-plus years thinking there was something uniquely broken about me. Unkissed on AO3, by @221b-hound, opened up a new world for me, one in which I could hope for a relationship someday in which my own personal needs could be satisfied and respected without sacrificing my sense of safety and comfort.
Anyway, this is all side-effects fueled rambling to say that Unkissed is well worth reading. There is explicit sexual content, but it’s easy to avoid and not stressful (for me) to read. The show itself can burn, but this series of fanfics, of all things, made me feel human for the first time, and I’ll love it and reread it as long as I have eyes.
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I don’t get the hate with MA I honestly thought it was so fun. Sure theirs the odd issue, but the boss battles are a blast. And Nat? I think the idea of her loving Elton John is so cute
the story got so good with all that dlc content, it was so fun to play!!! and god, i love ma!nat, the game did her so much justice. the writers really poured their hearts into those characters, its insane how many details there are that just are so in-character!!
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imagine being varun tho. your little sister calls you in the middle of the night, crying hysterically and asking for you to come pick her up, and when you scramble to go get her, more terrified than you've ever been in your entire planet ghost life, she just rolls her eyes and tells you that you overreacted and you're being so embarrassing oh my god varun all my friends are here and they're going to think you're like weird!!!!... I think I would be a little miffed too honestly
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I just need to inform you nerds about absolute madlad academic Joseph Brennan
most notably, he wrote a paper about a queer reading of Mordred in BBC Merlin which heavily cites his own (poorly photoshopped) pornographic slash manips
but he also edited a whole book about queerbaiting, including chapters about: Supernatural, Xena Warrior Princess, One Direction RPF, Supergirl, and the fucking Johnlock Conspiracy
all the rest of his work is about gay porn
I fucking love academia
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I need y’all to understand “only dating girls from now on ” or “going lesbian” or whatever cutesy way you want to say that this try guys cheating scandal has made you ~done with men~ isn’t going to save you from being cheated on. Women are just as capable of cheating. Queer women are just as capable cheating. No matter who you date it’s still going to be a relationship. Women aren’t magically perfect just like men aren’t magically evil.
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I don’t want to find out if the third time’s the charm
So, remember what I said about not having Covid? Yeah, turns out I took the tests too early and got false negatives both times. If you haven’t been vaccinated, please do it as soon as humanly possible. It sucked bad enough the first time. I’m exhausted.
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i love the thought of sig and moira being besties but it being like,,, them DESPISING each other bc moira is fucking insane and siebren doesnt agree with her work but he somewhat tolerates it (he supports womens rights and wrongs☝🏾☝🏾) but they’re the only two ppl autistic enough to b interested in their respective sciences and give each other feedback that they like. somewhat respect each other. they’re extremely hostile mlm/wlw besties but siebren actually tries to treat moira like a decent human being and she can’t handle positive human interactions so she like. short circuits.
siebren is the only person she’s ever considered the thoughts and feelings of before and moira is so fucking confused but accepted it at some point. sig is like “hey girl! maybe this isn’t a good idea 🫶” and she’s like “yeah i guess you’re right i’m still going to do it but i’m acknowledging your words.” and when siebren is right and it ends up in a huge disaster, he just gives her a look and it makes her so mad cuz she hates it when hes right 😭😭 he writes a ten page essay on why she’s wrong and she wants to shove the paper down his throat. they r literally girls that say “omg hiii haii :33” vs girls that say “bruh”,,, he is so nice and amazing she does NOT deserve him
despite their VERY obvious difference in morals and sciences, they find solace in each other when others in talon aren’t understanding the importance of their work. they find themselves quietly working side by side in a shared lab late at night quite often! sometimes, siebren will bring moira a coffee and even rarer, she’ll bring him one as well if she notices him nodding off.
they r sillay friends ^_^!
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