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I Might Be Stupid

@solis-flare

~ 24 ~ bisexual disaster ~ she/her -
The dog above is mine. I love her, and she is evil

will probably post a longer review once im done but all you horny freaks (affectionate) should pre-order @natalieironside s new erotica novel In The Court of the Nameless Queen if you like rugged transfemme girlbosses and can stomach said girlboss getting dicked down by a big spider lady. bonus points if youre into it.

Oh hey i actually still recommend this to my friends all the time so ill go ahead and give it a brief follow-up like i said i would.

I came to this book for the monsterfucking but actually quickly fell in love with the relationship dynamics of the characters. Better than anything else I have yet read, ms. ironside here writes the joy of messy queer relationships and Gender Shit without lingering too long in the expected and drawn out heartache.

I'll quit dancing around the point: Freydis fucks a lot. she fucks her friends and the woman who comes to be her partner and also becomes a consort for a big eternal spider queen, and deftly navigates the bundles of insecurities that come from that. It's a book that's erotic first, but doesn't forget its characters in the process. Even big strong warrior ladies get dysphoric, get anxious about what they mean to their partners. And even a central love interest in a book about getting pumped full of spider eggs can look at that and say "well, thinking about that too long will make me throw up but im so happy for you sweetie."

One last hurrah for the Nameless Queen, a book that genuinely helped me a ton with being more comfortable in my sexuality and navigating my own relationships, and also takes itself lightly enough that even if you arent into piss you'll appreciate the setup for a cheap joke.

oh golly <3

reading a textbook for class and i’m going insane. why is this just poetry. what. this is a STEM class what’s going on.

HELLO????? HELLO?????

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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities. If they are not there, science cannot create them. If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry. - Rachel Carson (1952)

no one can write truthfully about evolution and leave out the poetry, etc.

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"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.

We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.

In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more "wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the 'download now' overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately)." This should literally be illegal to do.

Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my "reasonable request" I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.

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alton brown: contestants, you have precisely one hour to assemble a dish using only one ingredient (he takes the cover off of the sliver platter to reveal a sad looking bag of pepperoni)

bald chef jeff: ok, so right away i’m thinkin pepperoni pizza. so i go to the pantry to get myself some bread, but there was a rabid dog waiting for me within, so i instantly closed the door before i was mauled and killed by this rabid dog. so my second idea was to assemble a favorite of mine: a pepperoni geyser. now in order to make a pepperoni geyser, you need a floating point unit and a pepperoni propulsion device, which can easily be assembled by [REDACTED BY US GOVERNMENT] so right away i grab the ice cream machine and [REDACTED BY US GOVERNMENT] and that should do it.

alton brown: 3, 2, 1! time’s up, chefs! chef dianne, what have you prepared for us today?

chef dianne: well today, i have prepared for you a dish we always used to make back home in louisana. it’s called “stacks”

(it’s just a stack of pepperoni)

alton brown: revered food columnist Vito Scaletta, what do you think of the “stacks” chef dianne cheyenne has prepared for you today?

revered food columnist vito scaletta, without taking a bite of his stack: i like it. it brings me back to my poker days, makes me feel like i’m winnin’ big!

saw someone refer to not knowing how to keep track of your money as "girl math" ......why are we in this weird era of treating women like idiots but repackaging it to sound cute and quirky. We All Need To Stop