tumblr puritans have never spoken to a kinky person and you can tell this because they talk about ~scary~ kinks like a child who thinks their teacher sleeps at school. they have a 1700s “actors cannot be trusted for they engage in obscene behavior” mindset. yes lil buddy people can in fact roleplay situations and then exit that roleplay and have different thoughts and actions 🤗 adding sex to performance does not actually cast a magic spell that turns you into a monster incapable of morality <3
Kink is just LARP that makes you cum.
…Hear me out.
If I say “Nooooo don’t kill me!!!” while LARPing, my friend is still gonna whack me on the head with their foam battle axe bc that’s what I want them to do. If I actually didn’t want to get hit on the head, I’d say “WHOA WHOA WHOA TIME OUT TIME OUT” so they’d know I’m serious.
In the same way, if I say “Nooooo don’t spank me!!!” and my partner still spanks me, THAT’S FINE. I want to get spanked, and I’m just playing along. It would only be a real problem if I were to say the agreed-upon safe word, the word that actually means no, and still get spanked.
See? LARP that makes you cum.
& to add on to that:
Your friend enjoying pretending to kill you in a safe and consensual enviroment where they know you are also having a good time does not mean they actually want to axe murder people.
And in the same way, your partner enjoying safely spanking you in a safe and consensual enviroment where they know you are also having a good time does not mean they actually want to beat you up
Having spent two years with people asking daily why I wasn’t posting GO2 content there’s something marvellous about being able to post daily GO2 content.
Okay but platypus venom is actually one of the weirdest things about them.
So like, everyone knows how famously weird platypuses are. Semi-aquatic egg-laying mammals with duck bills and beaver tails, but too few people mention how strange their venom is.
First of all it’s only found on males. I’m no scientist but from my (limited) research, I can’t find any other example of a vertebrate where only one sex has venom. Venom in mammals is rare enough already anyway, but sexual dimorphism in the venom in a mammal is all but unheard of.
Next, platypi primarily use their venom on each other. The males produce venom from their leg knives year round, but venom production goes in to overdrive during mating season, leading scientists to believe that they mainly use it on each other to compete for mates. As an additional not here, not only is it injected through their legs, but they use their legs as a vice, trapping their victims between them and repeatedly stabbing.
Now, what the venom actually *does*. It will temporarily paralyze other platypa, but will quickly kill other small animals. There have been no recorded deaths on humans from platy-venom, but if you get stung by one, you’ll wish you had been thr first. The pain is “immediate, sustained, and devastating”. Fortunately, there have been so few examples of humans being stung that the results are not very well-researched, but what has been seen is enough. It will cause the afflicted area to swell up with extreme pain for days, weeks, or even months. Without end. Even 25 years later there have been reports of continued stiffness and pain in afflicted areas.
I’ve saved the worst for last though.
It’s immune to painkillers.
That’s right, even morphine is inadequate to stop the pain from these guys. You get stung? Debilitating, inescapable pain for months on end with lifelong aftereffects.
Tl;dr: you’re right to be wary of their venomous knees. Never go near a platypus unless you know for certain it’s female.
(Edit: clarified the bit about sexual dimorphism in vertebrates)
Yes the ones I’ve assumed were gay my whole life. People online are saying you confirmed it and I wanted to check if it was genuinely canon
It’s been genuinely canon since I wrote the book. Why would anyone think they weren’t a couple?
The degree to which the people who do not like seeing queer people represented will STAY in denial about otherwise completely obviously queer characters being obviously queer is astounding. Therefore, queer audiences have become conditioned over decades of this denial being shoved in our faces (and being used to call us delusional for even considering the possibility of a queer character ever existing) that at this point, many people refuse to even THINK it may be possible without Word Of God confirmation and/or onscreen tongue kissing.
Which means that unfortunately, authors like Gaiman who try to put queer characters in their story without making a big flashy statement about it (because queer people are just people who happen to exist in the world along with everybody else) are going to be bombarded with well-meaning but very skittish people hoping against hope that they are indeed seeing what they think they’re seeing.
jk rowling’s new reputation will never not be funny to me. when you see her name now you dont think “oh yeah thats the chick who wrote harry potter” you think “oh lord, this TERF bitch again” like bro how do you fuck up so bad that your fuck ups overshadow writing the third most read piece of literature in existence
“You can’t be a lurker on tumblr.” Yes, you absolutely can. I’ve been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven’t interacted with anyone in years.
Unironically I think this site and queer spaces in general do a lot of good for appearance anxiety. To be a daughter who grew up in the stranglehold of the Aéropostale mid-2000’s era, to now wake up in 2023 and throw on some absolute bullshit in the morning and go “yeah, a lesbian somewhere would find this super hot.” Affirming. Soul-healing.
