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If you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I can't write this Cool But Impractical thing into my story, it's just not realistic", here are a few perfectly realistic reasons why people and even whole cultures would rather do something in an impractical way rather than the sensible one:

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religious reasons

religious weird flex (someone decided that they are So Religious that they consider the practical method Sinful, and people got competitive about it)

tax reasons (some ruler put a tax on doing something the sensible way and people started doing the impractical alternative as a legal loophole)

someone wildly powerful and popular preferred doing it that way, and everyone adapted to it in order to look cool

someone wildly unpopular suggested doing the practical thing, and everyone went out of their way to avoid doing that in order to not look uncool

it just genuinely never occurred to them that there is a better alternative, and their current method has been honed to perfection/adapted to the infrastructure so deeply that at this point altering it wouldn't be sensible

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my name's cougar but my friends call me mountain lion and my mama calls me puma and today's my first day at big cat high. i'm so nervous i hope they don't realize i'm not panthera >ܫ<

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adding to say that i also want to write horny fanfiction. no work only play

i don't want to be a productive professional i want to goof off and look pretty

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a stud in black leather on a black motorcycle just revved their engine at me and thank god I tore my demonic uterus out ages ago because I think that would have finally knocked me up

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Nisha in "My Bewitched Love" for Pap Magazine by Paula Dizmar

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Quiet Time (Fabric print and oil on canvas⁠) Ibrahim H. Bamidele ⁠

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i don't want to be a productive professional i want to goof off and look pretty

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Evans Ikechukwu by Rasaan Wyzard for Dsection Magazine October 2023

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the world would literally be a better place if cis people could just get trans surgeries "by mistake" rather than forcing trans people to jump through ten million hoops to get it.

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🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.

🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.

🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.

🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.

🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.

🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.

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this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

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Mannequins of a lesbian couple designed by Pierre Imans for the “Streets of Paris” exhibit at the Moulin Rouge 1920s 

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Coolin off below deck

I was going to share more lore/beasties I swear but I needed another hit of drawing them sleeping to get me through this work week.

Uncropped version is below the cut. Every time I tried to ‘censor’ it, it ended up looking more suggestive than it actually is :T

Kraw would probably have better luck just jumping into the ocean to beat the heat.

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Drag Kings, East Village by Efrain John Gonzales 1990s

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Congratulations to Marcille DungeonMeshi for achieving Pathetic Little Man status on tumblr, a hard glass ceiling for many female characters to break. I look forward to calling you my sopping wet beast and poor little meow meow for fandom days to come. Keep trucking babygirl, you'll bag Falin one day

#dunmeshi

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Björk, by Viðar Logi for Vogue Scandinavia, 2024

Styled by Edda Gudmundsdottir.

Björk tweeted:

'i am so honoured to be wearing this margiela dress !!

i got super mushy at the fashion shoot when i slipped on the prosthetic hips , it seemed such a full circle since the mannequin margiela-pieces i was wearing in the early 90́ s.

so wonderful how galliano threw away both of his and margiela ́s luggage and tapped into both of their beginnings .

i could see silhouettes of 1920 rooftop jumping irma vep vampires merging with margiela ́s first bellmer inspired poupée moment with a dash of duchamp ...

but then brought truthfully into 2024 by being all AI zombie like . is perhaps even jimbo there !? i wish .... such a profound thing ! i am so honoured to have gotten to wear this garment . i wore margiela for my first debut cover ( tinyurl.com/bjork-margiela ) so it is sentimental to me .

i would like to thank the wonderful viðar logi for the photos

and a special shout out goes out to edda gudmundsdottir and james merry for being my fashion team for my cornucopia tour , the outfits are chosen by me , refined and perfected in their hands . i couldn ́t do it without them .

thanks to andrew gallimore and olivier schawalder and sverrir páll sverrisson

photographer: viðar logi

words: liam hess

stylist: edda gudmundsdottir

makeup artist: andrew gallimore

hair stylist: olivier schawalder

masks: james merry

manicurist: cam tran

set designer: sophear van

executive production: directors lab

local production: lotti projects

maison margiela artisanal designed by john galliano @Margiela

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a selection of photos for vogue scandinavia @voguescandi

photos: viðar logi

stylist: edda gudmundsdottir

masks: james merry

makeup: andrew gallimore

hair stylist: olivier schawalder

manicurist: cam tran

set designer: sophear van

assistant: sverrir páll sverrisson

executive production: directors lab

local production: lotti projects

portal dress: KWK by KAYKWOK @KayKwokFashion

bodysuit: thora stefansdottir

full outfit & quill: robert wun @RobertWun

ophrys ring: james merry

hand embroidered dragonfly in petri dish: rahul mishra @RahulMishra_7

black dress: henrik vibskov

"fascia" mask: james merry

lace bodysuit: sinèad gorey

shoes by jean paul gaultier haute couture by simone rocha @JPGaultier

sequin embrodiere sculptural top, knit flight suit and latex straytukay boots: rick owens @RICKOWENSONLINE

bodysuit: CRITTER

"ophrys" handmade ring: james merry

harp: camac harps @CamacHarps