when you are so so so focused on appearing normal in a conversation that you completely blank on the content. the information. that you started the conversation to get.

The secret to a peaceful tumblr experience is that every once in a while you gotta be deeply fucking cringe on main so only the strong will keep following you.

i feel like something that’s missing from some people’s understanding of kink fiction and fantasy is, like… in fiction and fantasy, everything is in-scene.

when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera… but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don’t exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple’s roleplay exist. that couple doesn’t need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that’s a conversation that’s already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you’re into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they’re in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that’s okay.

so like. when fiction does kink in a way that would be unsafe or harmful irl… just keep in mind that you’re not watching actual people neglecting check-ins or ignoring their set contract or genuinely harming each other. you’re watching a scene without the behind-the-scenes bits, and that’s okay.

this has gotten a couple replies along the lines of “yeah, you can just assume the characters worked all the important consent stuff out when you weren’t looking!” which is true in some cases, but not the point i was trying to make, so please bear with me while i try to rephrase myself.

when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.

if someone went up to their partner and said “hey, wouldn’t it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?”, and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that’s a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?

now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons… that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.

kink fiction doesn’t have to be about characters consciously and conscientiously Doing Kink. kink fiction can be stories where the kinky things people fantasize about or roleplay (but wouldn’t want to happen in real life) do happen in the universe of that story. because the story is a scene.

Some strange villagers have touched down recently

The Greyjoys are another case where there’s something for everybody. you’ve got: 1) mean dad, 2) ghost mom (not yet dead), 3) an evil serial killer wizard pirate who takes evil wizard acid and should BY RIGHTS!! have an evil wizard electric guitar that shoots lightning or something but unfortunately there are no electric guitars in this book so he’s made do with an evil horn that kills you when you play it, 4) a meathead jock with exactly two brain cells ricocheting around his skull and every time they touch he gets cognitive dissonance so bad he kills someone, 5) former party guy NBA center, current stick-up-his-ass John the Baptist impersonator, pirate edition! 6) the ghosts of many brothers, 7) the coolest woman on earth is forced to grapple with misogyny YET AGAIN, and 8) the annoying tenor from your university choir that always shows off his watch and his shoes and asks rage-bait questions in your econ class and who got kidnapped by your econ professor’s psycho son two weeks ago but no one has asked after him yet because you’re all just kind of relieved at the thought that he’s dropped out.

The maugetar stone was interesting and peculiar

The maugetar stone was interesting and peculiar

face down ass up thats the way we like to get our shit kicked in by heretics 😊

wanted to say Sweet Cake is off to the side cheering, but no Sweet Cake was absolutely getting her shit kicked in.

Getting our shit kicked in by heretics. #ourshit

Sweet Cake, sadly obscured by pile of goop

Kitty Tsui (born 1952) is an American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder. She was the first known Asian American lesbian to publish a book Words of a Woman who Breathes Fire, published in 1983

read her books for free Breathless: Erotica (1996) and Sparks Fly (1997) (nsfw content)

face down ass up thats the way we like to get our shit kicked in by heretics 😊

hey because I am curious. what’s your weirdest hobby?

I am really enjoying going through the tags on this post. I know a lot of you asked what constitutes “weird”, or prefer the term “niche” but I did say “weirdest” for a reason, because that’s for you to decide - of all the stuff you do, what do you think would classify as “weirdest”?

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that’s it. any more than that and i am Stressed

looks inside procrastination -> it’s anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it’s fear -> looks inside fear -> it’s shame

Surely these circumstances will improve with additional shame

Longtail, an eshin-rat that with tail too long and limbs too stubborn that decided to use skryre technology to help with assassination (kill everyone he saw on site), to chase his dream of becoming an assassin mentor, learn from him-him! Never give up, yes-yes! (Yeah it’s a commission)

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Dominus Arpeggia, Architect of the Infinite Symphony, devotee of Slaanesh

and a big dangerous gurl ready for kick some Butt ~

Traveling merchant and his assistant.
[ocs: Rouillense and Dorothea]

by Morgan Jai

reblog to bap prev with your paw

Curious Free Tailed Bat 💜

When an author writes a raptor Nightlord crawling around the inside of a ship I imagine this when they pop out

when you’re talking shit and make a devastating insult but it must stay in the dms. 😔

Things that will never make me think less of someone: Enjoying media, entertainment, or aesthetics with ideologically reactionary elements

Things that will IMMEDIATELY make me think less of someone: Insisting that the ideologically reactionary media, entertainment, or aesthetics they enjoy are actually Le Hecking Epic Wholesome Leftist Praxis

To draw upon a semi-recent Discourse topic, if you encounter a claim along the lines that, idk, for example, the imagery and cultural idea of Knights as it exists in pop culture is entrenched with a long history of islamophonia (due to how much of this cultural imaginary comes directly from the narrative of the Crusades) and your response is “I still think knight imagery is cool, I don’t enjoy things based on how ideologically correct they are” I’ll respect you infinitely more than if your response was “Actually liking knights is leftist because there’s nothing more leftist than protecting those weaker than you”

“I don’t engage with this thing to have my politics parroted back at me” will always be 1000x more graceful and productive than trying to argue that everything you like is Fundamentally Leftist, Actually.

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Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

Subscribestar quietly updated their TOS yesterday to ban a load of previously allowed content at the behest of payment processors. There are no safe platforms. This will keep happening and we have to fight back.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they’re cracking down on art, Substar, itch, Patreon, etc)

This is your chance to tell them directly that you don’t want to be told how to spend your money:

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details

✨ Guidance on submitting an effective comment per the Free Speeh Coalition via ECR News:

“YES it’s a good idea to comment on this as ero creatives. the FSC is also submitting a comment. Summarized advice from the FSC (from their lobbyists) was that you should tell your story/explain why the issue is important to you, and – most importantly – clearly say what you want the Fed to do about it. In this case, eliminating "reputation risk” from the Board’s supervisory programs.“

Before anyone suspects this is only going to benefit republican institutions, remember that last year the OCC specifically named adult industries as a sector facing unfair debankment.

Please leave a comment as so many others have done already! Artists need you and you’re going to need you too because they never stop with what you personally find distasteful. They are insatiable and you will watch your livelihoods, what you love, disappear too.

In 1997, local television in Kharkiv accidentally filmed one of the most iconic rave moments in history.