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a featherbrain with a writing habit

@willowbird / willowbird.tumblr.com

will ~ he/they ~ 30s | primary fandoms: aftg, murderbot, trc | ao3: Willow_bird
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Kinda wanna be a girl but I'm 6'4" and built like a linebacker. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can be a girl you can always be a girl there’s no kind of body that unable to be a girl you need to become a girl

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6' 2, built like a linebacker girl here. Just take the estrogen.

I’m formerly 6’4” (6’2” now) and 250lbs, former professional dancer.

You’ll just be more girl for them to drool over, trust me.

6'3" I was literally an offensive lineman (center) in high school.

Take. The. Estrogen.

They moved on but I haven't

We've got a bunch of people who have been in this fandom for a while and it can be easily to find those works then look to find that author's older works. But you have to go digging to find some gems of authors who are no longer active in the fandom.

So here are some of my favorite stories from authors whose last work in the fandom is from 2017 or earlier.

Weird how “masturbating and falling asleep in the late afternoon” isn’t regarded as a cherished summertime tradition

Whoever lives like this….. we live in such different worlds that i don’t even want to know you

every sunday afternoon this gets like 4,000 additional notes

My sister got a new kitten and it immediately decided to loaf on a watermelon and bless us with this picture.

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Can I just say, uh, I’m pretty sure noticing you’re asexual is harder than noticing you’re gay, straight, pan or otherwise. Like, I just read someone’s desciption of hitting puberty and, like, there’s nothing like that. There’s no sudden ‘boob’ moment, no sudden ‘fuck, I’d fuck that’ moment, not sudden anything. You just, like, plod on through life as usual going ‘oooh, that’s pretty, I’d like that hair’ or ‘oooooh, they’re nice, I’d like to be close to them’ but there’s no like, ‘oh, someone would want to fuck that but I don’t’, you know? You just- you don’t notice, you don’t realise everyone else has ‘had a moment’ but you haven’t, you just- keep going as you always have.

And then, much much later, you start to wonder why people are getting so caught up in drama for romance or sex, like, why bother? It’s not worth it, they’re not worth it, why are you doing stupid things for something that’s so- and then you wonder if there’s something wrong with you, start mentally over compensating. Like ‘uh, okay, um, who should I date? Who can I stand to date? Who could I stand to fuck?’ like- it’s not, it’s not something you want, but you want to fit in, to be normal.

Sometimes you don’t even know that you’re doing it.

Sometimes you don’t even know asexual’s a thing.

I dunno, I guess, I just feel like, uh, people should understand more?

idk sorry thank you for listening to me

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demiwritersblock

Thank you for perfectly describing it.

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yourfictionmyreality

It’s way more difficult to notice the absence of something, especially when you’ve never had it in the first place??

It’s like being born without a nose and then being expected to understand what things smell like because everyone ELSE has a nose.

I thought everyone was exaggerating.

I thought everyone was making it up as a social thing.

Oh yeah his … Eyes? Are very sexy. I like their Legs? Her boobs? Yes… Sex?

Oh yeah his … Eyes? Are

very sexy. I like their

Legs? Her boobs? Yes… Sex?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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will book 2 in the Time of Iron series have Key, Lia, and Cobra povs instead? or will there be more than three?

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There will be more than three POVs in All Hail Chaos.

I won’t be changing POVs though! I did that in the Demon’s Lexicon, my very first series, and it would take very compelling story reasons for me to do it again. Rae, Marius and Emer will all continue to have POVs. They were my first eyes into the world, and the conflicts in their hearts are the conflicts at the heart of the story.

But Time of Iron is a love letter to epic fantasy, among which I’m thinking of A Song of Ice and Fire and Robin Hobb’s The Liveship Traders. (I’m trying to talk more about inspiration on a granular level, though people ((people generally, not you, dear readers!)) never believe writers when they talk about inspiration, so this may be a mug’s game.) POV changes in epic fantasy deepen and enrich the world, and let you cover more ground in it, too.

Several readers have been very surprised about the other POVs in All Hail Chaos. I told one reader at the London Comic Con about a POV (if you get me in person I’ll tell you anything…) and I’m pretty sure they still think I was joking.

I wasn’t.

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Explaining to straight adults that much of queer history happened within their lifetime and they were unaware of all the extremely important events and how many laws there were to prevent us from thriving because they werent part of queer circles themselves is like...

-leans in close-

How would you like to know about the war in Ba Sing Se?

My dad LOVES learning about the Cold War. It's full of drama. Backstabbing, cross-double-cross, spy gadgets, secret identities. It makes for great stories and as a journalist he loves a good story.

Me: oh yeah, I was just watching a documentary on the Lavender Scare. Fascinating that it was so recent in our history.

Dad: ....the what?

Me:

Me: -explaining that the moral panic of the 50s slowed down in the 70s only to start back up again with the aids epidemic in the 80s-

Dad: I remember that. It was scary times because no one knew how it was spread.

Me: what if I told you... that they could have slowed the spread of it, but chose not to because it seemed like only queers were affected by it and the government didnt see any problem with all of us dying.

Dad:

Dad: okay heres a simpler question for you- what's with drag queens and Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand? I feel like every drag queen I've seen has a Dorothy costume in their lineup.

Me: -deep breath- okay so let's go back to that lavender scare for a minute and how it intersects with the golden age of hollywood...

Me, ten minutes later: and that leads up to that famous picture of a drag queen dressed as Dorothy protesting in front of Trump Tower with the sign that says 'surrender donald.'

Dad: that's a pretty recent photo though.

Me:... uhhh... 1982.

Dad: ... you've been hating that guy since before you were born, huh?

Me: oh man, wait until you hear about my opinions on Reagan.

Me, ranting about queer history:

My dad, just excited he can learn something new:

Violence set to happy music will never get old to me. Blood splattering to an 80s pop song is like a sister to me because I'm not allergic to fun.

I would go so far as to say we need MORE of this. Give me a well coreographed slower paced fight scene to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". I dont need the fastest punchy punchy to action music. Give me the fun stuff.

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One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro

I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.

Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.

After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.

This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

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