bathroom graffiti

t*rfs eat shit and die. don’t touch my post

Super quickly drawn doodle comic of a very important realization. *UPDATE: This boob comic has become my most popular post on tumblr, surpassing things that took me months to make. Who would have thought touching your boob at 3AM could bring such glory

official boob post

I drafted out an absolute banger of a post this morning but I did it in my head and didn't write it down so I've now forgotten it. So just pretend this post is something super witty and relatable.

Are tourists from the West unaware of how currency conversion works in other countries? They come to Eastern Europe and act surprised by how cheap everything is. They rent an apartment with 5 rooms, 2 bathrooms and a good view for 1500 euros a month and think that's the average Eastern European experience because it's "cheap". Bro, the minimum wage in most of these countries is under 500 euros a month!!! You're not having the average Eastern European experience, please stop with this shit.

what does /hj mean again

Elle Argent as Jesus Christ: Heartstopper art analysis.

Yesterday, I made this post where I wordlessly compared Elle's art piece for the Lambert School to the painting that draws her attention at the Louvre, Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus, a depiction of Jesus breaking bread for his disciples after his crucifixion and subsequent rising.

Elle's perspective on the painting / a full view of the painting (source)

The first thing I noticed that helped me draw the connection between these two paintings was their composition, the basic triangular lines that guide the eye in each painting; from Jesus and Elle in the center to the innkeeper and Tao at the top.

Heartstopper also clearly wanted us to make some connection between Elle and this Caravaggio: they focus on her face before they show us the painting, so we wonder what exactly it is she's seeing, which increases its narrative importance. I assumed she recognized herself in a painting; she did, but not in the way I expected.

the way darcy is SO out and loud and proud at school and with her friends but hasnt even come out to her parents yet... the way shes so brave and wonderful and still literally a child who needs her mom to love her in order to feel whole and so she can be a guiding light for tara... the way she says she doesn't think she'll ever come out to her parents but is still able to find happiness with her girlfriend and her friends... the way this show gives me hope

I finally had an intelligent thought about Heartstopper and I wanted to write it down and share it.

I think Heartstopper season 2 was even better than season 1- for me, at least- because of how it felt like a more expansive look at the queer experience, and how it made me feel a little less like I’m falling behind as an almost-eighteen-year-old who has no romantic experience whatsoever.

With most of the main characters coupling up with one another, Heartstopper could easily be a show that says little more than ‘love is love’, which- while a sentiment i agree with- often fails to include people whose queerness has nothing to do with who they love, or does not involve sexual and/or romantic feelings. So, having Isaac’s storyline involve him coming to terms with being aroace as well as grappling with the isolation he feels in a friend group full of couples offers a different aspect of queerness. I’m someone whose never had my first kiss nor have I ever been in a relationship- and at the moment I have little desire to change that right now beyond the pressure of feeling as though I’m running out of time- so to see a character who feels such a similar sense of alienation feels really cathartic.

I also really appreciated Mr Farouk and Mr Ajayi’s relationship, and I felt especially comforted by Mr Farouk’s character. I’ve been aware of my queerness since I was around the age of 10, but I relate to Mr Farouk’s quiet mourning of the queer teen experiences he never had. I think it’s really important for this show for and about queer teens to say ‘it’s okay if you don’t get what Nick and Charlie or Tara and Darcy or Tao and Elle get at their age. You’ve got time.’ I’m only 17 (18 this month) so I’m not exactly like Mr Farouk, but there’s something a little saddening watching a show about teens younger than you who have something part of you wants.

Perhaps this is very much a ‘me problem’, but Heartstopper is something very bittersweet for me, because it makes me mourn for the teen experiences- queer or otherwise- I’ll never have. I don’t hang out with my friends more than a few times a year, I don’t have a queer friend group who can relate to my struggles and I’ve never had my first kiss or had anyone have feelings for me. At times, its made me feel like I did the whole queer teen thing wrong, because I knew I was queer the whole time. But, having a character whose storyline involves realising that romance isn’t essential, and a character who realises it isn’t too late to live his life as a queer man makes Heartstopper a much easier and much more cathartic watch for me. I can finally watch it and say ‘I’m not doing it all wrong, and I’ve got plenty of time.’

What really hit me hard in heartstopper s2 wasn't any of the romantic relationships or individual relationships at all. It was the sense of community. The elder queers finding and offering their support to younger queers. The room full of queer people and allies that would've kept a gay relationship a secret without question. The different expressions of queerness in the art exhibit that went beyond world. Trans people at the art school open house finding each other, finally. The fucking. Street in Paris with rainbow flags. This is what I mean by queer representation. We're everywhere, and you're never alone.

Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.

It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.

the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have

Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.

One of the main reasons I love One Last Stop is that one quote from it actually made me finally ask out my best friend (now girlfriend :D ). It's too long for a wallpaper, and I won't do it the disservice of cutting it into pieces, so here:

“You have fallen into the homoerotic queer girl friendship. It’s all cute at first, and then you catch feelings, and it’s impossible to tell if the joke flirting is actual flirting and if the platonic cuddling is romantic cuddling, and next thing you know, three years have gone by, and you’re obsessed with her, and you haven’t done anything about it because you’re too terrified to fuck up the friendship by guessing it wrong, so instead you send each other horny plausible deniability love letters until you’re both dead.”

A map of Bulgarian embroidery patterns, created by Irene Velichkova-Yamami

A close up to the patterns of Northeast Bulgaria

A close up to the patterns of North Central Bulgaria

A close up to the patterns of North West Bulgaria

A close up to the patterns of Central Bulgaria

A close up to the patterns of South Central Bulgaria

A close up to the patterns of South Central Bulgaria

A close up to the patterns of South East Bulgaria

A friendly reminder as the RWRB movie approaches that none of the actors or actresses are obligated to share their sexual orientation with you. I don’t know if either of the two leads have come out or spoken publicly about whatever their sexuality might be, but let’s not have a repeat of Heartstopper and bully someone into submission.

*places an orange just outside a fairy ring to see what comes out* science is more of an art than a science

*the orange grows legs and skitters away*

Fascinating results *places a banana in the same spot*

*clawed hand reaches out of the ether and drags it into the ring, leaving ragged claw marks in the soil as it disappears, back into the ether from whence it came*

“let’s go to the extreme.” *places a pineapple in the same spot*

Real scientists would keep putting an orange in the same spot to make sure the results are consistent before moving on to other fruits or different spots.

The only valid response to this post.

We’re working up the complexity levels of fruit until we feel there is enough evidence to support the judicious placement of a volunteer twink

You sit down, we haven’t seen what’s happened to the pineapple

This is Tumblr; we’ve ALL seen what happened to the pineapple. O_O

The most bitter realization comes when I start thinking how many young lives were, are and will be ruined by this war. Of course, each and every life is valuable, no matter the age but when it comes to the fates of young Ukrainians defending our country, I feel like bursting into tears.

It's not an understament that the salt of the earth is currently dying for Ukraine. There were so many ambitious, sincere people who truly loved this country, wanted to change it for the better. But they won't be able to do it anymore, unfortunately. Activists, athletes, musicians, artists, journalists, writers, entrepreneurs, Ukrainians who simply know what they want to do with their lives - every day there's news about the death of someone like this. I can't get over the feeling of utter devastation when I imagine how many families are ruined or won't be created at all, how many children won't be born because of those deaths.

There are so many people who sacrifice their health, both physical and mental, for our sovereignty and freedom. It pains me to see them in wheelchairs or with prosthetic limbs. Their resiliance makes me proud but if only they didn't have to demonstrate it like that. It's not that I pity them, I just wish they could feel healthy again. No fanthom pains, no problems with mobility, no surgeries.

It's extremely heartbreaking to watch those young optimistic people change, lose the spark in their eyes, become fatigued and indifferent. So many of them won't be able to find themselves in life after the war. A lot of them will never come from the war mentally.

Of course, I believe in our victory. Nothing else is left to do. I just wish all of us could live a better life, with loved ones, plans for the future and trivial problems.

there’s no “more than 1/combo” option bc im curious abt whats your Go-To* - if you need this pain GONE asap what are u taking! your babygirl! your rock your everything. mine is ibuprofen though i do WISH i was a herbal remedy girlie

*if your go-to is ALWAYS a combo tho, like excederin (which is acetaminophen + caffeine + aspirin), choose “other”!

also: the last option = you take NOTHING and just suffer