The announcers are going to have to be VERY specific when saying “Staal” this series

They managed a whole series with two Sebastian Ahos, hopefully this is a cinch in comparison

I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more

We’ve all had times like this.

You’ve spent too much time learning to be a writer to lose it so easily. Keep a light in the window for it. It will be back.

please be true.

So there’s a poll going around about soda pop with some rather odd options. I decided to make a more representative one because it’s fun, why not. Please note I said “American soda pop” because while many of these exist worldwide, I know there are also literally hundreds if not thousands of local/regional sodas I couldn’t hope to even begin to represent. Please know it’s lack of space and knowledge, not lack of love, taking them off the list. <3 If your local favorite falls into one of these categories (say, you enjoy a Mexican cola or a Chinese fruit soda), feel free to vote it into that category.

Parasite in chief in his idiot hat

literally never been so tempted to blaze a post

someone please tell me why he is wearing one glove like Michael Jackson

"he put his body inside me."

Sexception.

just for the sake of giving another perspective and question on this (lol)

i have OCD and Synesthesia, and one of my triggers is "not liking" some words, especially if i find them disgusting.

and "penis" is one of those words LOL

since ive recently been seeing a LOT of people saying that they don't like the whole "his member"/"his organ" thingy, what are some words that i can use instead?

Sighhhh.

Okay, here are the categories of porn reader:

You will never make all of them happy.

"cock" is the only one that works for me. I can stand an occasional "dick," but other than that, all of the others put me off.

I absolutely adore the lighting in this scene. It's so bewitching & beautiful.

How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”

“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”

@trainwreckgenerator why did you hide these in the tags

This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.

I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.

American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.

The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.

So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.

To be fair, the US does have shortnose trucks as well, they’re just a breed kept mainly for very local work where, like the above says, they are working in places with lots of turns, shorter drives, and plenty of stops. I see them used for garbage pickup a lot, where a longnosed Mack wouldn’t be able to fit much less maneuver, and the short nose prevents them from getting rubs (raw skin or even open sores) on their snouts.

I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen

As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.

As to the aggression, while the mack longnose LOOKS aggressive, they’re generally gentle giants (although please do give them space on the road! not seeing you in their blind spot is NOT the same as aggression!), it is actually the smaller house truck that is often trained by their handler to be aggressive: the keyword being TRAINED, they are also not naturally aggressive. The only time I have seen a mack be commonly aggressive is when they are pulling 2 gravel trailers, and I would be cranky if I was being overworked, too. If you see them hauling that kind of load, just give them space, and you’ll be fine.

I feel like somebody should add something about the Australian variants.

From my understanding of Australian wildlife:

Does anyone know if/how American School Busses are related to trucks? 

Pics for reference:

The classic long-nose schoolbus

But short-nose varieties exist, I remember when they first started appearing in my district!

@dreorzen While school buses ARE in the automobile order, they are actually part of the Van family, not the Truck family, due to their passenger capacity. As you can see in the photos, they have no cargo bed or hookup, and are not really built for object transport. But they DO excel at carrying passengers, particularly children (although certainly not limited to just children)

They’re known to be exceptionally protective of any passengers, and if you look closely on that second image you can actually see a specialized appendage that is (I think) unique to school buses- a small, red, octagonal fan, which they extend when there are small creatures around them that they are acquiring or releasing. Much like an angler fish’s bioluminescent bulb appendage, this fan (along with several bioluminescent patches on top of their faces and on their hindquarters) works to mesmerize any other vehicles in close proximity, to where those vehicles will cease movement until the bus lowers the fan. It’s super fascinating behavior, and little wonder why we trust our children to these gentle, protective giants.

Don’t forget about the bus trucks.

While these vehicles can sometimes be bred by accident (after all, who hasn’t accidentally left the gate open when your school bus is in season), they are usually bred for specific purposes.

These hybrids are bred for both their cargo capacity and their gentle temperments. Especially in a farm setting, there’s a need for many different kinds of vehicles, some of which sometimes don’t get along. Having a vehicle with both the strength and capacity of a large work truck with the amiable nature of a school bus can be a real benefit.

It’s a little unfortunate that these hybrids tend to be sterile, though, since it would be easier if they’d breed true. Also, something to keep in mind… bus trucks are bred from a bus.

Truck buses are bred from a truck and… tend to not be quite as useful as bus trucks, although some people do like keeping truck buses for companionship and as show vehicles.

At first I was like meh, a post about trucks, who cares. BUT THEN IT GOT INTERESTING

Thinking about Jack Zimmermann and how he probably grew up going to upscale restaurants with his parents and not necessarily loving or hating the experience because it was just ... normal. And maybe they weren't his favorite thing because going out meant dressing up and remembering his manners and looking people in the eye when they spoke to him.

Jack can do all that, of course he can, but it's a lot. In the aftermath of his overdose, especially, he's convinced the people at other tables who are sneaking looks at him and his parents are talking about him, about how he messed up.

And anyway, Jack is a creature of habit. It's nice to go out and have a nice meal, but he'd be just as happy with his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or chicken tenders. They're safe, and comforting, and part of his routine.

But then he starts dating Bitty, who loves food and cooking and getting dressed up to go out. Up until now Bitty's "fancy" restaurant experiences have been at chains like the Olive Garden or random steakhouses attached to the hotels he stayed at for figure skating competitions. Bitty is delighted when he looks at a menu and sees the executive chef named at the top--so fancy! He wants to order all the tiny, expensive appetizers and take pictures of each one. He plays footsie with Jack under the table and talks enough to distract him from anybody in the restaurant who might be looking at him.

And Jack still doesn't love fancy restaurants; he'd much rather be at home with Bitty eating chicken tenders and a slice of apple pie. But he'll put up with the fancy restaurants now because they make Bitty so happy, because everything is better when he's with Bitty.

Please reblog for a larger sample size.

reblogging this because I'm a USian and desperately want to see what the results are when the poll ends

Also boo, Northern Virginia should totally be part of BOSWASH

All the hyper specific polls remind me of the game Never Have I Ever. So guess what, that's what I'm doing. (Though I might include one that I have done so I can see the answers. Most being things that I would want to do.)

Seen the Mona Lisa in person; published a book (RIP Dreamspinner Press, you were the worst of us); met George Takei once; been to North America, Europe, and Asia

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oh gosh me me me my ex-writer ass, please

hey if you have a pet or pets you need to reblog this rn and tell me in the tags what their names are. bonus points for including what kind of animal.

fuck of a lot of you named your pets Loki

my instagram explore page loves showing me those like erotic dark romance novel tiktoks and i really have to wonder: why do all these straight women desperately want to fuck a mafia boss

Okay, let's try and break this down.

Sexual fantasies are, by their very nature, transgressive. Yes, even the fluffy, romantic ones. As long as general culture remains negative about sex and sexuality in any form that isn't cishet procreative sex within the confines of matrimony with the woman not as an equal actor but an object sex is performed onto, this is going to remain true.

And the thing about fantasies is that our brains like to take the things we crave the most and mix them up with our fears, anxieties, pain, and trauma into a melange of, sometimes, truly epic levels of fuckery.

But here's the secret - things we fantasize about, from the most wholesome to the bizarre to seriously fucked up? They are very, very often NOT what we literally want.

Being into dubcon or noncon doesn't mean you actually want to be raped or rape. Being into monsters doesn't make you a zoophile. And fantasizing about violent, obsessive men doesn't mean you wouldn't run as far the fuck away from a man like that the second one of them set their sights on you.

If you're really interested in the subject, I recommend reading My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday, a compilation of anonymously submitted women's sexual fantasies. And, as it turns out, women fantasize about a lot of really violent, uncomfortable, and just plain screwed up stuff.

And, for most of them, even when they don't actively realize it, it's about reclamation. Of fear, of trauma, of loss of power. It's about THEMSELVES and how THEY feel. As weird as it's gonna sound, the men featured in those fantasies don't really matter, they're just a vessel, a manifestation of the extreme version of what you're dealing with and/or crave. A safe, cathartic way to experience something profoundly unsafe, unwise, and terrifying.

For women fantasizing about criminals, villains, monsters, and anti-heroes, it's very often about the idea that someone like that - intense, violent, with single-minded focus, and immense power - would love her, want her, always put her first, go against all his instincts/training for you without a second thought and be a clear and present danger to everyone but warmth and safety for her and only her, and burn the world itself down for hurting her in even the slightest of ways. It's a sexual version of the fantasy of having a pet tiger, one that would never, ever attack you or hurt you in any way.

And just like the people who want to boop the forbidden snoot, the women fantasizing about their fantasy Mafia Boss Lover are very well aware of the fact that 1) men like that don't actually exist, 2) the criminal world of their fantasy has all but nothing to do with reality, and 3) that the thing they're actually fantasizing about is being loved, wanted, and safe... just in a REALLY intense, exaggerated way. And, let's not mince words, there's also often a more or less strong D/s dynamics at play in the scenario, too.

Now, you can choose to be judgy bitches about it (goodness knows plenty of you in the replies, comments, and tags are), in which case I would suggest you examine why you're feeling such a profound need to shame women for enjoying themselves in their own little world, or you can apply the YKINMKATO mantra and understand that straight women, living in the constant state of preyhood, sometimes consciously or subconsciously reclaim power over that situation through transgressive sexual fantasies.

Also, fuck this idea that queer people only fantasize about healthy and wholesome relationships, romantic, sexual, or otherwise, as if at least half of Tumblr isn't simping for, oh, for example, Hannibal fucking Lecter. Do you have ANY idea how many Mafia and Thug BL content there is out there?! FFS, Tom of Finland, a WWII veteran who fought against Nazis, drew art of exaggeratedly masculine men in Nazi uniforms in pornographic situations as a way to dissociate himself from those traumas and fascists themselves as far back as the 1950s!

So yeah. Less judgement, and more taking some responsibility for curating your online experience if seeing someone's kink truly offends you this much.

"Booping the forbidden snoot" is a good way of putting it

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this whole post is beautifully put