bravery is by far the kindest word for stupidity

Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does

This is a really good writeup.

What would you do in this situation? ;3 

Honestly this whole Pedro Pascal thing is getting out of hand it's scraping insanity. One thing is to tell your friends that you want to fuck him or thirst over him in your personal tumblr blogs like the rest of us common mortals do. Another completely different thing is to have people on his Instagram and other platforms calling him daddy and commenting what they want to do with him very explicitly and to have interviewers calling him the daddy of the internet or whatever the fuck. That's harassment. It is not okay. The man is clearly overwhelmed and tired of being called obscene things everywhere he goes plus online. Like what the fuck is happening. Can we collectively chill and start condemning this type of objectifying behavior please? People need to learn to keep things to themselves. I've seen literal grown ass adult interviewers telling him this shit directly and filming his reaction. Enough

Put bluntly, there are a lot of women in the world who need to examine their own internalized ideas about the inherent passivity (and therefore harmlessness) of female sexual objectification of men. It’s fine to joke around or even let people like this in on the joke when they’re in a position to consent to it (i.e. Buzzfeed thirst tweet situation), but it’s not okay to continuously bombard men with sexual comments and behaviors without their permission. While we can acknowledge there are certain different dynamics at play, there is a point where people cross the line and show they really don’t understand boundaries. There’s a disturbing amount of women in fandom spaces who don’t seem to realize these rules of social decorum that men are criticized for violating also apply to them.

These celebrities are not your friends. They don’t know you. They don’t know what you can or cannot do to them. They are human beings with feelings. Especially if you are a woman in these spaces, I am begging you to stop for a moment and gender reverse that shit in your head for a moment. Would you be okay with a strange man saying shit like this to you? If not, check yourself.

Dear Tumblr Staff,

How much do I need to pay you for the option to permanently turn off Tumblr Live?

Best,

Bee

I love dusky pinks. this too is an earth tone, to the evolved mind 

the meaning of life is….dipping carbs into liquids ….bread into soup…biscuits into tea…that’s it

[guy experiencing the first stage of grief voice] damn i got through the five stages of grief pretty quickly 😄

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

OP this is EXCELLENT

The Joker comic I talked about is finally here!

I can't lie, I was pretty disappointed with how the reunion with Joker went in ME2. Out of all the characters, his should have been the most emotionally impactful (he saw Shepard die!!) yet all we got was "Sup?" as though Joker wouldn't have spent the 2 years dealing with insane survivor's guilt. Well to that I say pthhbt. My Shepard would have been beside herself seeing him again for the first time, so he's getting hugged whether he likes it or not.

Also while this is technically part of my ongoing Shakarian comic, please feel free to interpret this as romantic as well as platonic.

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gamers are acc funny when they take time off from misogyny ?

shitty city, my beloved

what emotion is this

"I got what I wanted ... but at what cost?"

There are so many things I *could* be writing about and instead all I’m thinking about is the desire demon from the Circle Tower quest who absconds with a Templar (assuming you don’t attack them, killing them both)

Call it sappy, wishful thinking but I like to think they make it okay

I mean – succubus form aside, desire demons aren’t vampires. She’s not actually *feeding* off him or really hurting him in any way. All she wants is to experience the mortal realm, a mortal life, and she can do that through him. And in return, she makes him happy.

I like to think she takes him off to some remote mountain cottage, with breathtaking scenery and a nice cosy hearth laid in the fireplace, a garden full of fruits and flowers, until some time later he looks at her and says

“Darling, can you believe our son will be turning fourteen this spring? He’ll be a man soon.”

“Mm, has it really been so long?” she sighs, wrapping her arms around him and leaning into his chest. “It feels like only yesterday.”

“Darling, can you believe our daughter will be ten years old in the autumn? That means we’ve been together for, what, fifteen years?”

“Something like that,” she agrees, since time is still a hazy concept to her.

And he’s quiet for a moment, then turns to face her with a smile and says:

“Darling, it’s been fifteen years; don’t you think you can be rid of the illusions now?”

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Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

Silicon Valley’s ‘Startup Castle’ is looking for roommates, and the requirements are completely bonkers

good thing i listen to exactly one song with explicit lyrics every day

I’ve been saying this for a while but Startup Bro is the new and terrifying lovechild of the brogrammer and the business major and he is somehow even more self-centered and bigoted than either of them

No, no, guys, look closely.

This house is looking for extremely physically fit young men (No drugs, no makeup, no special diet, exercise 15 hrs a week) who are passive and docile (no protests, no music lyrics with swears) who, most of all, will not be missed if they disappear (very little social media presence, not rich enough to own expensive luxury items, no need to constantly be in contact with their parents over bills/gifts, few identifying markings like tattoos)

This is obviously an organ harvesting operation.

Actually it turned out that the guy who was running it wanted to create a quasi-paramilitary organization.

There were so many horror stories about the place in the news that the landlord evicted everyone.

(Gotta say, though, that I like the organ harvesting scheme better.)

“It would have been better to have found out this was an organ harvesting scheme” is not a sentiment I expected to see today, and yet.

(looking the whole proposal over) Jeez, same.

May he plow the Lord’s fields in heaven

Dave Brandt was probably the longest running no-till farmer in the state; he'd been running his land no-till since 1971. He experimented with fertilizers, cover crops, and different irrigation techniques and he'd been doing all of that for a very long time.

The guy was an institution all on his own; look at this.

shoutout to the lord of the rings lighting directors. bold move to let the audience see what's going on in nighttime scenes. i miss that.

Still livid over the lack of Netflix promoting The Old Guard 2. They literally just slipped its release announcement in a list of other announcements. WTF.

For those of you who want to lock all of your works with all the silly AI scraping of AO3 (which AO3 is recommending you lock your works, as stated in this post)

Here is a quick and easy guide of how to edit ALL of your works at once.

From your Dashboard click on “edit works” on the far right. This will bring up all of your works that you can select.

Select all the works you want to edit, then hit “Edit” at the bottom right.

Scroll to nearly the bottom of the page where you find “Visibility” and select “only show to registered users” and then update at the bottom.

That’s it, all of your works have now been locked without having to go in and edit each fic individually.

I hope this helps!