Edward: so now that I’m marrying Bella I’m finally going to be able to enjoy a night with her but I’m a little confused on what to do :/
Emmett who’s had a presentation prepared since the 1940s:
hi, different anon but re: recent ask you answered about seeing a gyno especially if you're sexually active, does masturbation count as sexual activity? i've done a lot, um, solo, but nothing ever with a partner involved..
ah, sorry - I should have been more specific.
masturbation is a sexual activity but not one that can transmit sexually transmitted infections. you should start seeing a gynecologist after you turn 18 or your first time having partnered sex, whichever comes first.
i would just like to add, if you’re sexually active and using a sex toy for masturbation separately and get chlamydia please wash your sex toy before you use it again and don’t use it during treatment because there is a possibility or reinfection
and if you’re sharing sex toys with someone wash them between sharing or use a condom with each use
so you dated the wrong person and learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major and had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going. you experience setbacks and you grow and it’s all okay.
yall out here saying tony isnt a good father figure but he went and designed - actually, sat down and specifically written lines of code for an ai in peter’s suit that (besides operating his suit) encourages him and talks to him about his highschool crush, thats some genius level dad of the year shit
It took Tony Stark only a few minutes to realize that Harley Keener, a total stranger and a kid, was being bullied at school. Tony took a piece off his own armor and gave it to Harley so that he could stand up to the bully.
Tony Stark picked up on those nuances literally hours after his house was blown up and he fell into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Later, he involves Harley in his little Mission Impossible reenactment but makes sure the kid stayed back in Rose Hill, where he’d be safe. Tony also entrusted Harley with keeping the Mark 42 secure, and repaid the kid’s kindness - especially when he helped him through that panic attack - with an extreme makeover of his garage, made him a new potato gun (because he had to take apart Harley’s previous one) AND replaced the limited edition Dora the Explorer watch.
Can you imagine Tony approaching his assistant and holding up the broken watch, going, hey I need to buy a replacement. Can you imagine Tony shelling out a few hundred or thousand dollars so that he could return some kid’s watch? People can shut the fuck up about Tony being a poor parental figure because it’s been repeatedly debunked in the MCU.
Matt Murdock: *does anything*
Me: *holding back tears* absolutely fucking superb you funky little blind Catholic parkour lawyer.
This post isn’t written in any known human language
Is this what understanding a newspaper political cartoon is like?
This is so cool put in your url or your friends and it gives an mbti personality type based on your blog.
taking regular breaks from tumblr is one of the best things you can do for your mental health.
there is so much ‘discourse’ and awfulness on this website that literally does not exist in the outside world and that you will never encounter outside of tumblr. there are so many “problems” people on this website get violently angry over that are not actually real and do not exist outside of tumblr.
getting away from this site for a few days or weeks or however long at a time seriously helps put into perspective how much of the stuff people on here take so seriously doesn’t actually matter.
u ever go take a piss at a party and as soon as u close the door u feel like ur in a different dimension
like tbh i feel like my problem with the “dark and gritty!!” trend in modern stories is this
there’s this idea in our culture that cynicism is realistic? that only children believe in happy endings, that people are ultimately selfish and greedy and seeing with clear eyes means seeing the world as an awful place
that idealism is— easy, i guess. butterflies and sunshine and love are easy things to have in your head.
but i’ve known since i was fifteen that idealism— faith in humanity— optimism— is the most difficult thing in the entire world.
i constantly struggle to have faith in humanity, because it’s really, really easy to lose it. it’s easy to look at the news and go “what were you expecting? of course humans behave this way.” it’s easy to see the world and go “ugh, there’s no hope there.” and the years when i believed that were easy. miserable— but easy.
it is hard work to see the good in people. it is hard work to hope. it is hard work to keep faith and love and joy and appreciation for beauty in my daily life.
and when moviemakers and tv producers and writers go “omg!!! all characters are selfish and act poorly and don’t love each other, nothing ever happens that is happy or good, that’s so much more realistic, that’s so much more adult”
no, it’s not
it’s childish.
it’s the most childish thing i can imagine.
This is why I love dark and gritty stories that also resonate very powerfully with hope.
You know, there’s the motif of the light in the darkness - picture walking down a street in the pitch black of night, and you’re frightened because you don’t know who or what is around you - you know the world is full of (human) monsters and it is terrifying as shit. It’s cold outside, and you’re scared, and you feel a sort of desperation clawing up your throat, find yourself wondering why your life is the kind of life that has you stuck outside in 30 degree weather at 2 AM, all alone.
Then you round the corner, and there - your friend is there, completely unexpected, driving down the road in a warm, bright car. They came for you, so you wouldn’t have to be alone.
I just feel those stories so much more powerfully, you know? Ones where the human spirit perseveres through the absolute worst, and that beauty is resilient. Not social beauty, but life beauty, comfort and happiness and love. No matter how bleak things are, they can be bright, too.
Those are the kinds of stories I love best.
Hey, @batmanisagatewaydrug, I feel like this is a post you’d appreciate~ ♡♡♡
you’re very right! I think this is why the theme of found family resonates so hard with me - no matter the genre or setting, its built on the idea that anyone can find a group of people to love and look out for them, regardless of where they’re coming from. optimistic, loving stories are Good, and important, and deserve to be recognized as such.
Ya’ll can try and tell me that Tony Stark isn’t a diva but all I hear is James Rhodes yelling for his best friend to hurry up already and Tony screaming that he needs to moisturize, dammit.
Rhodes: COME ON WE ARE LIKE AN HOUR LATE
Tony: stop yelling at me I can’t find a tie that matches
Rhodey: we’RE GONNA MISS THE PREVIEWS AND THEN YOURE GONNA BITCH AT ME ABOUT IT LATER YOU DO THIS EVERY TIME
tony: IF YOU EXPECT ME TO WALK OUT OF THIS HOUSE WITHOUT MY SHOES MATCHING MY OUTFIT PERFECTLY YOU DONT KNOW ME AT ALL RHODES
Rhodey: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS
tony: WHY DONT YOU WANT ME TO LOOK NICE
rhodey: ITS JUST THE MOVIES WE’RE LITERALLY GOING TO SEE A MOVIE TONY
tony: YOU THINK ITS ACCEPTABLE TO WEAR SWEATS AND SANDLES TO EVERY EVENT THAT ISNT PROFESSIONAL, YOU WOULDNT UNDERSTAND
Where is the lie?
Rhodey : YOUR SOCKS DONT NEED TO MATCH YOUR JACKET
Tony : *hysterical gutteral screeching*
movie tropes that will never get old to me:
- a thing happens + two people exchanging money in the back
- fourth wall breaking
- “give up all your weapons” and that one guy that spends the entire evening taking his weights worth out his pockets
- *a terribly loud crash* meowing/ car sirens heard offscreen
- alternatively: a terribly loud crash and one of the characters going “oops” in the most casual voice
- “fuck you” “well if you insist”
character being all “you expect me to do X?” Gilligan Cut to character doing X
- the squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they’re all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies
- people completely missing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them
- alternatively, people absolutely seeing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and just not giving a shit
- bonus points if it’s a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like “yep same shit as always”
- someone pretending they don’t know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of the scene that they know (*leaving* “tell tom that he can come out now” *tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*)
- choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character
- the “hands go down” trope
- example: “any questions?” *everyone’s hands go up* “…that AREN’T sarcastic?” *everyone’s hands go down*
how could all y'all forget “ACT NATURAL!”
These are all great but let’s not forget two characters giving extremely biased flashbacks to the same event that each paint the other as an incompetent loon
i would like to respectfully add: scenes where a character walks into a room, sees something scary, and turns around and walks out with no reaction or change of expression
I dunno these books but I’m glad they’re trying!
Those two books under the A are all the current rage in ace book circles, so good picks there.
I tried to pick up How to Be ANormal Person at that bookstore last year, but they didn’t have it. They did have The Invisible Orientation and Understanding Asexuality, though!
i did read it last year but im pretty sure the charters in everything leads to you are lesbians not bi? dose someone want to ad an alt bi book rec?
viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams
This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.
dont ignore me ?? i despise being ignored ?? i mean im ignoring like 8 ppl right now but still ???
Some Poor Lesbian, probably: I hope other lesbians will see me in this Flannel™ and approach me
My Oblivious Ass, seeing her: God I wish straight girls would stop wearing flannels that’s OUR THING
GUILTY HOLY CRAP









