I’ve been walking around the trailer park and along the woods taking pictures of mushrooms I find and attempting to identify and catalogue them and I just want to say. it’s not fair that i’m not allowed to just cook and season and eat whatever mushrooms i find on the ground or on the trees or on a stump without a significant risk of having a bad trip or getting super poisoned. I should be able to eat whatever I find in the woods with no consequences.
She was the Black Queen of the troll’s session, who was overthrown in a coup and exiled to Alternia.
Do you remember why that happened? Why the trolls and the four archagents who later became the Midnight Crew were able to defeat her, the Black Queen, one of the final bosses of Sburb and one of its most powerful players?
Because she didn’t wear her magic ring, the magic ring that transforms carapacians into deadly, super-powered monsters based on what each player’s sprite was prototyped with.
Why?
Because it was prototyped with a frog head. Because Araida prototyped her sprite with a frog head, a creature reviled by Dersites. So reviled, in fact, that the Black Queen gave up all of this power at her disposal because she just couldn’t bear looking like one.
So that’s all well and good, but what, you may ask, is the funny part?
Well.
In this panel right here, Doc Scratch appeared and gave her a “new purpose.” To become Sn0wman, to join The Felt, and, on a larger scale, to become the universe.
That’s right. Somehow, through some weird first guardian magic, Scratch made her the literal universe.
And do you remember what the universe is? What the universes are, in Homestuck?
BIG FUCKING FROGS
So to recap: The Black Queen, due to her vanity and her hatred of frogs, gave up a source of power that probably would have saved her from being exiled. But then, after her exile, she became the biggest frog in the fucking universe.
Oh, and it gets better.
Remember these assholes? Yeah, sure you do. You read the intermission. Of course you read the intermission. What kind of asshole would skip the intermission?
The Felt, the gang Sn0wman ends up as a part of, is made up of fourteen leprechauns, who are repeatedly referred to with such descriptions as “amphibious, froglike, frog people.”
Despite, and in some ways because of, her refusal to wear the frog-prototyped ring, Sn0wman ended up as a representation of a giant frog, living among a gang of frog people.
who would win: one extremely critically acclaimed author who had one of his stories turned into a beautiful stop motion animated movie directed by henry selick OR a 22 year old girl who makes jokes about putting people in death traps and self published a novella about a robot being shot into space that one time
Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it
‘Six AM’, 1930 - William Wolfson
Hi, I’m a janitor. The facility I work in had its first floor flooded with sewage and while a restoration company came and sucked up all the water and placed fans everywhere to try the place out, I still cleaned the entire floor and threw away all the contaminated furniture. Same thing happened last year, but only a couple of rooms flooded on that floor and it was only water from a sprinkler system. This year was so much worse and I feel like no one in management gives a shit. The entire upstairs was absolutely going to shit because I was focused on the downstairs. Despite the work I do, I have to beg folks to spread around my little bear commission posts every month because I simply can’t afford to live on what I’m paid lol
So, truly thanks to everyone who makes and shares posts like these recognizing sanitation workers. It’s really a thankless job.
every day I get on here and see some post going “do not make an account on ZYLPPHONE, the hot new social media! it turns out making an account gives the creators (who are nazis) instant access to your bank account and also causes your pets to explode!” and this is all very baffling to me because I cannot believe anyone is actually fucking around with new social media platforms that shit sounds exhausting. if tumblr ever gives up and goes all the way under I will simply turn into a crab and go back to the sea you will not be finding my on zylophone
[Image description: an image of the new polyamory pride flag with high transparency, layered over a photo of a small black and white kitten touching their paw to a human’s extended index finger. Macro text in white all caps reads: Reblog this if you love polyamory or Hate the Government. Description ends]
So, apparently, there’s a new polyamory flag. And, apparently, this is how I learn of it.
Description: the main field is a tricolor of three equal width horizontal stripes; from the top down light blue, magenta, and dark purple. At the hoist (flagpole side) is a white, asymmetrical, chevron pointing to the fly (flapping-in-the wind side); the point of the chevron is at the boundary between the first and second stripe. Inside the chevron is a gold heart, with its pointed end aligned with the point of the chevron. Description ends.
Note one: I do love polyamory. I do not hate the government.
Note two: to the new Reddit refugees, memes that come to people in dreams is part of Tumblr culture. See also “BODE,” “adult form teletubbies,” and “There are many benefits to being a marine biologist.”
one of my cousins has one of those wretched sequined nicolas cage pillows and today the rest of us received this photo of perhaps the most upsetting thing i’ve seen all year, slugolas cage
They’re sending him to fight in the Hundred Years War
Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.
Cool community classes and community art shows.
ESL tutoring.
Tax prep and forms.
tbh fuck anyone who says a single bad thing about libraries
Not content I normally reblog but libraries are super important and our world would be diminished without them.
The library was how I was able to read so many books as a kid that my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford.
Libraries are one of the only places on Earth that treats people the same no matter how much money you have. We can’t lose that.
And nowadays many libraries also rent ebooks, movies, and some even have tools. Many libraries have computer basics classes (I knew someone who taught those to older adults and every class, she would sit on a keyboard at one point, just to remove some of the fear of ‘messing up’ from her students).
There’s a library near me that uses their old card catalog for a seed library (you don’t literally return the seed that you borrow, you collect seeds from your plant and return those).
Some have rooms available to non-profits for meetings. Does your philatelist club need a place to meet? What about your caps for preemies group?
Some sponsor lectures, on information like local history. There’s a couple near me that have ‘meet the artist’ days where an artist sets up shop to show how they do their art. A crocheter friend of mine takes hooks and yarn to show kids how to do a chain.
Remember: WE PAY TAXES to support them. Use them.
I was a poor kid. Did not have access to much. But my parents got me a library card early and I spent my whole childhood there. Every dino book, every science book, heck - even VHS tapes on dinosaurs and science. I devoured them.
Libraries are gateways. I would not be a scientist without them. And the better they are - the more we fund and support them - the more doorways open up for everyone.
Protect libraries. Fund libraries. Knowledge is power, and libraries make knowledge available to ALL.
I did not grow up rich. I never had much pocket money to run around with. Public parks were the best place for me to hang out when I was young, but once I got too old for them, I had almost nowhere to go.
My sibling is alt-right and extremely hateful about his beliefs. He goes on tirades about liberal agendas and screams and insults me and our other family members when we attempt to debate with him. I live with him and being around him negatively impacts my mental health, especially with me being part of some of the groups he hates so much. I don’t know what to do. I feel so much hatred for him, but he’s my brother and we used to be close.
Members of the so-called “alt right” or “manosphere” actually bear very strong similarities to cult members - they become increasingly rigid in their beliefs, they have decreasing tolerance for ambiguity (everything starts to become either right or wrong, with no room for grey areas), they become increasingly preoccupied with “purity” of thought, their beliefs start to become the core of their personal identity, they accept the word of thought leaders without question or critical thinking, their relationships with family and friends deteriorate, and they often experience negative consequences at work or school as a direct result of their beliefs.
Dealing with a friend or family member who has joined the alt-right is very different from dealing with a family member who is dabbling with the idea of voting Conservative for economic reasons, or dealing with a family member who erroneously believes that Game of Thrones isn’t very good. Reasoned discussion and laying out your point of view will not work here. The tactics that you need to use with him are actually the tactics used to deprogram cult members, which includes things like:
Do not debate him. Never debate a cult member under any circumstances. It’s a complete waste of time for everybody involved, and it only serves to further entrench him in his toxic beliefs. Cult members do not approach debates in good faith - they are not open to having their minds changed, and they have no intention of ever listening to the other side. Cult members use debate as a tool to recruit people with possibly like-minded beliefs, or as a tool to gather evidence that the “other side” is delusional. The more you debate, the harder he will fight to come up with justifications for his beliefs, and the more satisfaction he will get from feeling like he is defending his “side” from attack. Shut down all debate with him. If he tries to start a debate, redirect immediately. If he makes an inflammatory statement at the dinner table, respond with something non-committal ( “hmmmmm”, “is that so?”, “okay” ) and immediately change the subject. Don’t get sucked in. No matter how hard he tries to open up a debate, deflect, shut him down, or walk away.
Treat him with detached politeness. I know that it is very difficult not to get visibly upset when someone is insulting the very core of who you are as a person and what you believe, but but you have to stay calm and detached here. Do not let him see that he is upsetting you. When he is going on rants about his beliefs, treat him like a child who is explaining the rules to a video game that you don’t particularly care about - have an air of detached boredom, and no matter how hostile he gets, respond only with politeness. Remember, part of the core beliefs he’s being fed is that people outside of the alt-right are “emotional”, and that his beliefs are “triggering” to those people. Give him no evidence to suggest that is true. Stonewall him. Give him nothing but bored stoicism in response to his outbursts. No matter how much he escalates or how horrifying his beliefs get, always act as though you are having a polite conversation about the weather with a stranger at Starbucks. If he tells you that women should should be property and gays should be killed, respond only with a polite “Well, I suppose that’s one perspective”, or “Yes, I believe you have mentioned this before”. Nothing takes the wind out of a cult member’s sails faster than being treated with calm politeness when they are expecting a fight.
Do not insult him or the people who share his beliefs. The glue that holds cults together is a persecution complex. Cults absolutely thrive on being persecuted for their beliefs, and they depend on it to keep members from leaving. “People outside this group hate you and they will treat you much worse than we will” is the message that keeps people from leaving hateful cults, all the way up until the Kool-Aid is served. He is being fed the message by his fellow cult members that he is hated for who he is - a, presumably, straight white man - and that “Liberals” hate him so much that they want to take away the things he is “owed” (money, power, security, etc) and give it away to undeserving minorities who haven’t really “earned” it. Give him no evidence to suggest that this is true. Refrain from insulting him, or insulting the people he views as thought leaders or role models. You can definitely express your political opinions and make it clear that you are not buying into your brother’s worldview, but keep things direct and refrain from personal attacks. If he is gloating about the president to intentionally get a rise out of you, a simple “I disagree with his policies” is all you have to say - launching into attacks about the president’s looks, family, mannerisms or intelligence is fuel for your brother’s hateful beliefs. Remember that when it comes to your brother, you are not acting in the role of a left-wing activist facing off against a dangerous right-wing activist with a platform. You are a concerned family member dealing with a family member who has gotten involved in a cult.
Ask polite questions, but do not engage directly with his beliefs. Do not read any of the reading material he recommends, listen to any of the podcasts he puts forward or view any of the videos he asks you to watch; it might be tempting to do so just to prove that you are engaging with him in “good faith” and that you have given his views an “honest try”, but this is a mistake. There is no such thing as “good faith” or intellectual honesty when it comes to cults, and there is nothing to gain from engaging in their propaganda. Do not treat anything produced or recommended by a cult as if it has value, because it does not. When he provides you with something he wants to you read, behave as though a young child has just handed you a live earthworm - thank him for the gesture, but decline to accept. Engaging with propaganda just legitimizes it, and gives him more ammunition to hunker down in his beliefs. When you do ask questions of his beliefs, be detached and polite. If he is ranting that all women are whores, ask him what the basis is for that belief. You are not looking to debate him or get a rise out of him - don’t fire back with counter-points, but make a polite, disinterested noise of acknowledgement, or ask for further clarification. You are merely looking for holes in his reasoning, or gaps where he doesn’t have evidence to back up what he says. You don’t need to point these holes out to him - there will be many. When he is unable to be specific, once again, make a polite acknowledgement ( “Interesting.” ) and move on.
Emphasize how much you miss your former relationship with him. Tell your brother that you miss him. Be specific - talk about the things that you used to do together, and the ways that he used to be involved in your life. If he tries to deflect and start talking about his beliefs again, or how he can’t be involved with you anymore because of your own beliefs or identity, don’t engage. Go back to talking about how you miss the relationship you used to have with him. If he insults you, pretend you didn’t hear him and remind him of a happy memory or a fun thing that you used to do together. It can take a really long time to have success with this tactic, but your brother does remember the relationship he used to have with you, and it is possible to remind him of what he is missing out on by continuing with his hateful beliefs. The idea is to take his beliefs out of the equation as much as possible - make him miss the relationship that he used to have. Any attempt at mending the relationship on his end will necessarily require that he get less extreme in his beliefs - it’s difficult to pursue a close relationship with someone and still insult them.
Remind him of normal life outside the cult. People in the alt-right - and other cults - tend to become hyper-focused only on issues that concern the cult, and begin to forget about normal life. Your brother is likely spending a lot of time and focus on things like the “sexual marketplace”, abortion rights, refugees, gay rights, female superhero movies etc. Bring him back to earth as often as you can with reminders of things that are outside the scope of the alt-right, and are minimally politically charged. Start a conversation about a new restaurant that is opening up in your town. Show him a funny cat video. Ask him if he’s seen a minimally controversial movie. Constant reminds of normalcy can gradually help him realize how hyper-focused he has become on a few small issues, and remind him that his worldview and priorities are incredibly skewed.
Protect your own mental health. Living with a cult member is exhausting. The combination of fending off the insults, being bombarded with hate rhetoric and missing the person they used to be is exhausting. Make sure you are protecting your own mental health. Take breaks. Leave the house and spend time with other people. Lean on friends and other family members for support. Take care of yourself. Getting someone out of a cult is a marathon, not a sprint, and it’s important to conserve your energy. It can take up to five years to get someone to fully leave cult beliefs behind. Be patient.
One of the hard parts about dealing with alt-right family members is that people make the mistake of approaching them as a political movement, when it is more appropriate to address them as a cult. The way that they operate is much more similar to the dynamics of a cult than the dynamics of a mainstream political movement, and deprogramming techniques are your best bet for getting your family member back. I highly recommend that you and your family read up on cults and the tactics used to get people out of them. It is especially helpful to read testimony from people who have escaped cults or successfully been persuaded to leave them - if possible, look for materials from people who have left the alt-right, and try to present this material to your brother. This is an incredibly difficult thing for a family to go through, and I highly recommend that you seek out other families who are dealing with similar situations - you are far from alone here.
its so fucking embarrassing joining a discord server like hii im a random asshole and heres my stupid attempt at assimilating into possibly years of injokes and personalities that i have to blind read and hope i mesh well with but for now ill just fucking talk to myself publicly in front of everyone i guess because nobody cares about what i have to say
NO NO NO TUMBLR I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WANT TO SEE WHAT MY MUTUALS LIKED. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY’VE REBLOGGED. IF IT WAS WORTH SEEING THEY’LL PUT IT ON MY DASH 37 TIMES
Thank you, everyone, who’s reblogged this 37 or more times in a row and my apologies to your feeds.
Tumblr glitch made me double post this, but it fits so it stays
NO NO NO TUMBLR I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WANT TO SEE WHAT MY MUTUALS LIKED. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY’VE REBLOGGED. IF IT WAS WORTH SEEING THEY’LL PUT IT ON MY DASH 37 TIMES
Thank you, everyone, who’s reblogged this 37 or more times in a row and my apologies to your feeds.
Tumblr glitch made me double post this, but it fits so it stays
NO NO NO TUMBLR I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WANT TO SEE WHAT MY MUTUALS LIKED. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY’VE REBLOGGED. IF IT WAS WORTH SEEING THEY’LL PUT IT ON MY DASH 37 TIMES
Thank you, everyone, who’s reblogged this 37 or more times in a row and my apologies to your feeds.
Tumblr glitch made me double post this, but it fits so it stays
Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it
‘Six AM’, 1930 - William Wolfson
Hi, I’m a janitor. The facility I work in had its first floor flooded with sewage and while a restoration company came and sucked up all the water and placed fans everywhere to try the place out, I still cleaned the entire floor and threw away all the contaminated furniture. Same thing happened last year, but only a couple of rooms flooded on that floor and it was only water from a sprinkler system. This year was so much worse and I feel like no one in management gives a shit. The entire upstairs was absolutely going to shit because I was focused on the downstairs. Despite the work I do, I have to beg folks to spread around my little bear commission posts every month because I simply can’t afford to live on what I’m paid lol
So, truly thanks to everyone who makes and shares posts like these recognizing sanitation workers. It’s really a thankless job.
Literal FANFIC art. Art of FANFIC. I love this so much!
This could use another go round.
(laughter) “MESS ME UP.” :)))))
Wondering what the difference in fruit means…
@dropdeaddropout It’s an older way of rating the sexiness of a fic, essentially. Orange (the sweetest) is family friendly; hand holding, chaste kisses, and so on. Lime is Teen/PG-14, Lemon is Mature/R.
Grapefruit is not an escalation in rating, but rather where the story “jumps the shark,” so to speak. If your OTP is visiting a BDSM club every other chapter and indulging in public sex and watersports in between and it’s all described in loving and graphic detail, that’s still a lemon. But if your OTP gets drunk on magic sex wine and bangs their way through the entire cast of the Lord of the Rings trilogy including Sauron the Giant Flaming Eyeball, that’s a grapefruit.
unmedicated artist with adhd drawing until overstimulated because their favorite media is making them hyperfixate too much that they have barely done anything but look at their favorite media and doodle
Hey OP. OP. Listen to me. This comic Means SO MUCH TO ME. This is quite literally how I view the first part of their future father son dynamic with each other, and I just fjxmdmdmmxmxmdkdmd. The fact this fits SO WELL. Bless you
Sometimes I really just want to shake people and go, “Consider the astonishing possibility that you and your circle of voluntary social contacts do not actually constitute a representative sample of what most of humanity feels, wants or experiences.”
And no there is no demographic that is exempt from this.
One of the reasons why Donald Duck comics are so popular in Finland is because of the impressive creative effort that goes into the translations. The expressive language of the comics is distinct, there’s this specific kind of goofy tone that the finnish versions have, to the point that if you grew up with them, it feels weird to read them in the original language with that iconic element missing.
I have completely forgotten which individual comic it was from, but there’s one line of a certain comic that still lives in my head rent-free. I can’t recall the full context, but in it Donald has once again spectacularly fucked up something - a dinner date? - with Daisy, and is lamenting his inevitable fate of having to face her fury.
The way his lament was in finnish was “Alkupalaksi pajunköyttä, pääruokana ankka omassa liemessään, ja jälkiruuaksi muutama korvapuusti!” which naturally just looks like someone beating their head against the keyboard to my non-finnish readers, but I’ll need to have the original line to fully translate it in finnish context. Literally translated it goes “Some willow rope for an appetizer, a duck in its own broth for the main course, and for dessert, a few cinnamon rolls!” Which makes varying amounts of sense.
But in finnish, the expression “to feed someone willow rope” means to lie to someone, deceive them, to blow smoke up someone’s ass. I have no idea why. The word liemi (sauce/broth/stock) is also used for “trouble” - finns can say that someone is “in a broth” in the same way that in english, one could say that someone is “in a pickle”. And the finnish word for the finnish type of cinnamon roll is also used to refer to an open-faced slap in the face - the shape and spiral of the cinnamon roll very vaguely resembles an ear, and that kind of a slap also gets your ear.
So while the lament itself, which could have just been some bland expression of “oh dearest me, I am in trouble”, is an one-sentence avalanche of food-related puns which can be interpreted as “first I will lie to her, then she will eat me alive when she realises the mess I’ve made, and as the final note she’ll probably slap me.”
My Finnish favorite pun is still in one of the (I think) Don Rosa comics, but it could have been someone else’s too. Anyhow, the Ducks were in a museum and there were two “statues” of ancient people at the background, one with a sign ‘muimies’ and the other one with a sign 'muinainen’. I can’t remember which one of these you read first and I also can’t find images of the comic anywhere. Anyhow, an explanation follows next:
“Mui-mies” doesn’t mean anything, but it has a word “mies” in it which means “man”. So you assume okay, it’s a man from a (fictional) nation called Mui. And then you look at the other statue that says “Mui-nainen” and you laugh because 'nainen’ = 'woman’, so it is saying a woman of a nation called Mui, BUT “muinainen” also means “ancient” in Finnish but it just happens to have the word “nainen” in it without it meaning anything there. That joke is the one that lives in my head rent free all the time.
Ohrapirtelö ja Sihi-juoma on parhaita asioita Akkareissa :D
elves have 1 collective gender and its Elf, which presentation changes glacially over time. fairies have no genders they just do whatever. orcs have four or five genders depending on the terrain their families are settled. gnomes have 30 quintillion picogenders and they change every time their hearts beat
aita for not wanting to sacrifice myself to save the universe?
so, ok, its a whole situation but ill try to explain it. so i (21F, orchal) was born with these weird telekinesis powers BUT i was also the first orchal born on cantow so my parents (54F, orchal, 52F, orchal) thought it was just a side effect from the planets spores. anyways, so after the fall of illium and the assasination of asu-shu-namir my friend (20M, orchal) and i were forced to try to leave to pluto because were both trans and my friend was also a vigilante for asu-shu-namir so hes probably in line to get executed, so we stole a ship from the Tallarico family (and picked up one of their bodyguards (24F, human) that wanted to leave). we didnt make it to pluto but we did go to andromeda so thats nice (we also picked up an engineer (14MX, tsa'akak) from tsak). so anyway we did some stuff around andromeda for a few years, a lot happened that isnt really important here BUT after a while i found out through a thing haunting a friend we met on the way (???, concept and 8.14B M, t'eclean respectively) that im supposed to like. take over and be the god of reality and thats why i was born with weird powers. and everyones already resigned themselves to the fact that im gonna have to take on this great task (im not dying but its basically like dying cause ill be asleep for trillions of years) but i REALLY DO NOT WANT TO DO IT. ive been trying to work out a way to avoid this responsibility but i havent found anything yet. i know that if i dont theyll have to condemn someone else and if it takes too long reality could begin to crumble but i cant leave my friends. ive worked so hard for the life i have now i cant just give it all up. i know i wont die but this choice doesnt feel any different from just sacrificing myself. im scared, and i know i have to, and i dont want to, and im ready to do ANYTHING to avoid this responsibility, even let reality itself die. so, aita?
Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?
Posting hole
Lol
yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.
I came out as bisexual, and everyone started avoiding me. But I weaponized that repulsion, like magnets with the same polarity, I walked into crowds and people got pushed away by an invisible force.
genuinely, i think we’re heading for another video game crash. Triple A games are continually abusing workers while putting out lower and lower quality games at higher and higher price points. Consoles and gaming pcs are approaching the same price as a used car, for games that take up 90% of the memory because they’re so poorly optimized.
the constant grind for new games or new content for previous games is quickly becoming annoying and underwhelming, we already have constant complaints about the new day one patch system every game release seems to come with. more and more games are just endless remasters and franchise sequels instead of anything new.
and now unity wants to charge developers for every install
and now unity
wants to charge developers
for every install
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
this post is a hexed post. i think if we gather in large numbers we can kill one celebrity or political figure. who are we disintegrating, ladies?
BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF ELON MUSK
okay this is manageable i think if we focused hard enough we could get Musk we just have to really pool our resources and focus
Okay for our test run we’re going to astral assassinate Elon Musk via tumblr post. Everyone place your palms on the keyboard and type his name backwards
Question: what do we do if we are in mobile?
close your eyes touch your phone to your forehead, then type his name backwards. this is a collaboration between mobile and desktop users we can do this
