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Fat people, you are allowed to be lovingly touched. You're allowed to be pleasured, to be focused on. You're allowed to do any position you enjoy. You're allowed to have the lights on and your body seen by your partner(s). You're allowed to be cuddled and kissed. You're allowed to be in public with your partner(s) and hold hands. You deserve love and affection no matter your weight.

Fact: Today (September 23rd) is bisexuality awareness day. Be aware of bisexuals. They are dangerous.

all i can think of

[ID: a cute white dog sitting behind a fence with a sign reading “aware of dog pleas pet dog”. End ID.]

tumblr i did it

an actually accurate “what greek god are you” quiz

Nah, because God pretty much commands Muslims to break various Islamic rules for the sake of survival, lest it be to harm someone who is innocent. To avoid consuming pork despite your life hanging on it, is haraam.

There is also Taqiyya, which is a tactic Shi'a Muslims have used throughout centuries to survive. The idea behind Taqiyya is for Shi'as to hide their religion with the purpose of protecting their own lives against any form of oppression or life-threatening circumstances. Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula practiced this form of dissimulation during the reconquista.

There is no penance for doing any of these things, since the situation is understandable.

There's a similar concept in Judaism! I don't remember the name of it (I did not retain much from Hebrew school) but it's the same idea of "preserving life takes precedence over adherence to scripture"

Calling 2000 years of persecution against the Jewish people a "trend" is kind of a weird thing to say, also the Reconquista, follow by the Spanish inquisition was led by the Catholic Church, not a bunch of USAmerican cultists.

"Did Spanish Catholics in 1492 do something problematic?"

next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

"rowan if you hate james patterson how come you know about a book of his that's coming out seven months from now?"

I Must Keep The Scope Of My Sniper Rifle Trained On The Beast At All Times

Okay, I feel the need to explain just why James Patterson is so hated by librarians.

See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.

It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.

It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.

No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)

And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.

And that is why we hate James Patterson.

I was wondering about this when i saw the first version of this post

she's sooo fucking mad that we stop her from running into the garage to huff sawdust and poisons

He's genderfluid, he's a transman, he's transfem, he's actually cis and gnc, he's a transwoman but look the exact same as in canon, he's transmasc and wears feminine clothes, he's nonbinary

attention all bg3 players who have also played any dragon age game!! (which is probably everyone, let’s be real)

im conducting an experiment, so if everyone could please reblog with their romance choices for both games

regards

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

i love counterspell. "i cast fireball!" no you dont

Note: this is only funny when I do it. If an enemy counter spells me I want to commit mass murder