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MARIA ALEKSEEVA Dress if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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Hello! This is, yet again, a short story I'd written a couple years back from my Patreon and which is now free for everyone to read.

Introducing: Kid Sleuth, in which: a young boy returns home after a summer spent at his grandparents', and finds that his best friend has been replaced by a girl; what's more, everybody insists the girl is his best friend. What gives?!

Give it a read! I hope you'll enjoy it :)

And, if you like it, consider giving my Patreon and my other stuff a look ;)

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tumblr could really use a mute post notifications button

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Every time this post passed through my dash I get bodied by it.

Thinkin bout that time Ranma emotionally ruined me

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There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

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You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

#... fuck. #okay here comes the tears #(it's a good cry)

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If the door’s locked, try the wall

[by Geoff Manaugh]

a drywall knife

In one of the most interesting moments in his memoir, [jewelry thief Bill Mason] sees that architecture can be made to do what he wants it to do; it’s like watching a character in Star Wars learn to use the Force.

In a lengthy scene at a hotel in Cleveland that Mason would ultimately hit more than once in his career, he explains that his intended prize was locked inside a room whose door was too closely guarded for him to slip through. Then he realizes the obvious: he has been thinking the way the hotel wanted him to think—the way the architects had hoped he would behave—looking for doors and hallways when he could  simply carve a new route where he wanted it. The ensuing realization delights him. “Elated at the idea that I could cut my own door right where I needed one,” he writes, Mason simply breaks into the hotel suite adjacent to the main office. There, he flings open the closet, pushes aside the hangers, and cuts his way from one room into the other using a drywall knife. In no time at all, he has cut his “own door” through to the manager’s office, where he takes whatever he wants—departing right back through the very “door” he himself made. It is architectural surgery, pure and simple.

Later, Mason actually mocks the idea that a person would remain reliant on doors, making fun of anyone who thinks burglars, in particular, would respect the limitations of architecture. “Surely if someone were to rob the place,” he writes in all italics, barbed with sarcasm, “they’d come in as respectable people would, through the door provided for the purpose. Maybe that explains why people will have four heavy-duty locks on a solid oak door that’s right next to a glass window.” People seem to think they should lock-pick or kick their way through solid doors rather than just take a ten-dollar drywall knife and carve whole new hallways into the world. Those people are mere slaves to  architecture, spatial captives in a world someone else has designed for them.

Something about this is almost unsettlingly brilliant, as if it is nonburglars who have been misusing the built environment this whole time; as if it is nonburglars who have been unwilling to question the world’s most basic spatial assumptions, too scared to think past the tyranny of architecture’s long-held behavioral expectations.

To use architect Rem Koolhaas’s phrase, we have been voluntary prisoners of architecture all along, willingly coerced and browbeaten by its code of spatial conduct, accepting walls as walls and going only where the corridors lead us. Because doors are often the sturdiest and most fortified parts of the wall in front of you, they are a distraction and a trap. By comparison, the wall itself is often more like tissue paper, just drywall and some two-by-fours, without a lock or a chain in sight. Like clouds, apartment walls are mostly air; seen through a burglar’s eyes, they aren’t even there. Cut a hole through one and you’re in the next room in seconds.

~ Geoff Manaugh, A Burglar’s Guide to the City

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We gotta start describing patriarchy as a system of male supremacy again bc if I have to hear one more person droning on about how men are actually not benefited by patriarchy im honestly gonna lose my shit

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04/23/2024

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Me: *takes your trauma boy and makes him a trauma girl*

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Hello! This is, yet again, a short story I'd written a couple years back from my Patreon and which is now free for everyone to read.

Introducing: Kid Sleuth, in which: a young boy returns home after a summer spent at his grandparents', and finds that his best friend has been replaced by a girl; what's more, everybody insists the girl is his best friend. What gives?!

Give it a read! I hope you'll enjoy it :)

And, if you like it, consider giving my Patreon and my other stuff a look ;)

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Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Blackpink's Lisa @ Bulgari's Mediterranea High Jewelry collection

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Anne Hathaway for V Magazine (Photography Chris Colls / Fashion Gro Curtis)

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trans girl: so the patriarchy still benefits under-privileged groups relative to their social positions, for example whilst obviously oppressed, working class men obviously still have privilege over working class women, gay men still have privilege over gay women etc.

tumblr: right, that makes sense

trans girl: so naturally, trans men still have privilege over trans women, even if they are still relatively under-privileged in comparison to cis men

tumblr: shut the fuck up transphobe