our tiniest and most pathetic cat approached me while I was sitting on the kitchen table and stood up on his hind legs to put his little paws on my leg and meowl pitifully at me for attention and I got completely overwhelmed thinking about how cats have been living with us for so long and how I just had an experience that people going back like 10000 years could relate to. wow.
he got in my lap do you think he knows that he’s the latest in a lineage of billions and billions of kitties who have been so small and perfect
leave me alone
man alright
here’s the whole thing
and here’s the back
that doesn’t look like a very stable place to put something
we keep a lot of art up there and nothing has ever fallen!
Is that the Flatwoods Monster
I checked with the friend who painted it and it’s actually this
can we go back to the kitty i feel like we’re getting off topic
Did a little revamp on this to make it nicer- also thank you @grapplemace for letting me borrow your boy Brock!
Hey there! I’m currently between jobs, so to help pay the bills I am open for commissions! Humans, monsters, furries, anything in between I’d be happy to take on!
listen to me. listen. your actual job in life, and it sucks that your 5th grader teacher didnt explain this adequately enough, is to ask for help when you need it and to accept charity when it would take a weight from your shoulders. Otherwise you end up like Sisyphus- or even worse, Walter White
This is legitimately a very good example about how game design is often a magicians trick. It is smoke, mirrors, and presentation. The right amount of lie and truth to put someone into the same mindset, evoke a mood, encourage a type of behavior…
itp: a lot of people who have never played SMB1 but are pretty confident they know how it works
Anyway, because I’m already seeing conspiracy theories going around, Spotify Wrapped dropped today because it’s Wednesday. Last year it dropped Nov. 30th. A Wednesday. December 1st 2021? A Wednesday. That’s why it was the 29th this year. They drop it on Wednesday. You’re welcome.
I need you guys to understand that spreading posts around that claim Spotify Wrapped launched early to derail posting around Palestinian Solidarity Day directly fuels antisemitic conspiracies that claim Jews control the media. Whatever your reason for reblogging those posts, if you are not actively debunking them, you are absolutely 100% fueling that conspiracy. You are doing real harm. Whether you like it or not, you are doing real harm. And you are doing real harm because there is a part of you already that believes that specific conspiracy. You are actively engaging in an act of antisemitism because you actively have antisemitic beliefs. Full stop.
I don’t want to see people in the notes going, “Oh, yeah, someone pointed that out but I already reblogged the other post and I’m keeping it up because it’s helpful.” It’s fucking not. Do your own post about Palestinian Solidarity. Share orgs that are helping Palestinians. But make a post about Palestinians, not about how the Jews that control the media are concealing secrets they don’t want you to know.
And for God’s sake, work on yourself. I shouldn’t have to tell you why this is antisemitic. If you were listening to your Jewish friends, you’d already know.
Hi! Some of the people who submitted some photos talk about how they have a negative-ish gut-reaction to insects, I have it too sometimes, but I'm also working on it. (I even pinned some pretty bugs, a local species that I found dead beside the road or in our garden.)
Sometimes your posts make me very interested in researching the different types of insects, but when I look at pictures of spiders for example I have to consciously "step over" that same feeling when I want to touch my phone screen:D
I'm not freaking out about it, I was just wondering if you've ever had problems touching insects, or if you've ever experienced this "second-hand" reaction to touching pictures of them? (It feels a bit silly tbh but also quite interesting how my brain can't really tell the difference:D)
Hello! And yes, I definitely used to have that reaction to photos of spiders and centipedes. My mother is terrified of both of those, so she passed her fear along to me as a kid and I had to do a lot of work to get over it. But now I don’t have any sort of negative reaction to seeing either in photos or in person, unless they happen to startle me, but that’s more a reaction to something unexpected than it is a fear reaction to a bug specifically.
Unexpected connections happen in two places: the Ships list and Feeld—a dating app for the curious. On Feeld, finding like-minded people is as fulfilling as finding yourself. In celebration of ships, here are this year’s iconic connections.
Dinluke-33 Din Djarin & Luke Skywalker, the Star Wars universe
Rhaenicent Rhaenyra Targaryen & Alicent Hightower, House of the Dragon
The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded ships weren’t on the list last year.
Explore your desires on Feeld. Within a safer, inclusive space, you can feel free to connect more intimately to yourself and others. Choose from over 20 gender and sexuality options and explore solo, or with a partner. Curious? Learn more!
In fun new “tumblr’s tag search is a literal fucking nightmare” discoveries, apparently using the word “Malik’s” twice in one post is enough to make it disappear. The name itself is fine, but in the possessive it’s apparently illegal to use more than once
(For those following along at home, that means the other post that had issues a couple months ago? the issue might not have been the word “weapon”, it could’ve been just using one of the leads’ name in the possessive more than once what the *fuck* tumblr)
my favourite thing about large discord servers is when they make an announcement post and all the reactions on it are like. POG FACE. TRANS HEART. E. CONFETTI EMOJI. FLAG OF PERU. SNAKE. Q. EYES. FIRE. MISCHEVIOUS DEVIL SMILING EMOJI. ANOTHER POG FAGE. PREGNANT MAN. HOT DOG. THUMBS UP. VRISKA.
This is better than I’d ever hoped for, I bet a rat could kill you with that thing by firing a laser back in time and electrocuting your grandfather
Just look at this thing
The rat gun is hereeeeee!
This is getting notes again so I will admit that “rat gun” was an autocorrect error and it was supposed to be “ray gun.”
But it’ll always be a rat gun to me.
The most expensive thing in these pictures was the cat, and he was $60.
I’ll be honest–I forgot that the pump organ desk/bar was visible in the background, and it was NOT under $60.
It was actually $75.
The chairs, however, were paid for in human life. I inherited them; they were originally my great grandmother’s. But they’re not particularly rare– you can find these exact chairs without a lot of effort, in reasonable shape, for not that much money. They made a lot of them.
your gazelle has a pearl choker
That’s Hadrian. He’s a bush buck and he loves fashion.
Hi you asked this question and I immediately went to the pottery studio to make a calcifer to put in my woodstove.
Will update if he survives the kiln.
i am still on tenterhooks vis a vis calcifer 🥺🥺🥺
I just brought him home from the pottery studio and wired him for light. He lives!!!!!
OP just wondering do you like have the closet to Narnia tucked in there somewhere?
Dude, c'mon, these things take time.
Give me a couple hours.
Okay!! We have doordrobe! It’s not quite done but after nearly turning myself into an hellpancake while carrying this in from the garage to the house, I feel like I should call it a night.
Right now it’s not going into a secret room (but the Angel of Death (And WiFi) behind it does have a secret compartment for my router? Does that count) but Malice and Vice are still exploring it like it’s a whole new world.
The House of Horrors continues to be…well, exactly what it is.
Oh, no, all radioactive materials go in The Box.
please explain. Do you actually have a lead lined box for radioactive objects, or are you just talking about the router behind the painting?
The Box.
Doxxing this person:
whoah hey man don’t give out my address to strangers on the internet they’re gonna mess with my schemes.
and anyways I’m not sure yet if I want to install a lightning effect ceiling. It’s cool but it would be hard to dust…
the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the “greatest writer of the English language” being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say “that’s literature”
just…imagine it’s 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn’t even been preserved, it’s literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they’ve been republished more times than the Bible
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so toxic the constant mixed messages i am receive in this relationship
so, today we, russian queers, may become “extremists” by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don’t know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about “gay propaganda” and transgender people, now I’m just numb. I don’t want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.
please hear us.
They banned transition in July. Today they’re banning LGBTQ+. They declared LGBT+ an extremist movement. All the people who are themselves are now a “movement”, and the organizations that help them are “extremist”. There’s no way back as they already banned it.
My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him “In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple ‘pro and contra list’ we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate.”
and my dad didn’t really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: “I am having a bad time at the conference”
I too am having a bad time at the conference
Reblog if you too are having a bad time at the conference
every time I hear someone say “we should just get rid of physical shops and have everything online” I get a bit angry because
a) physical shops are important for those who don’t have access to a computer/ internet/ ect
b) those “weird” and “niche” shops I love so much don’t have the same vibe online, they turn into just another website
c) I hate paying for shipping
d) it is in fact often impossible to assess the quality, appearance and just how accurate the dimensions of the item are if you want to buy from just an image
e) people lie on the internet even and perhaps especially when they want your money
f) some of us actually enjoy being shopkeepers and picking out inventory and helping customers and making fun little window displays and also we fucking hate doing online sales so SO much
Imagine being a black, gay drag queen in the 1800s after being born into enslavement AND having the style and cachè to throw soirées that the girls had to come to! That’s why I don’t want to hear this “we’re not our ancestors stuff.” You’re right!
From The Very Black Project Page- William Dorsey Swann was a gay liberation activist. Born into slavery in 1858, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a “queen of drag”. Imagine the queenery of this icon.
He was a slave in Hancock, Maryland and was freed by Union soldiers after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. During the 1880s and 1890s, he organized a series of balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the “queen of drag”. Most of the attendees his gatherings were men who were former slaves, and were gathering to dance in their satin and silk dresses. William was arrested in police raids numerous times,including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation in the United States, on April 12, 1888. In 1896, he was falsely convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail for “keeping a disorderly house” (running a brothel). After his sentencing, he requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland. This request was denied, but but he was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community’s right to gather.
He was known to have been close with Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall, two men who had also both been slaves and who formed the first known male same-sex relationship between enslaved Americans.
When William stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in his drag balls.
Imagine how intelligent and ambitious this man had to be to come up with drag balls in the 1800s! Imagine how many terrible concepts he had to unlearn by himself to be a confident gay black man who does drag in the 1800s! Imagine how courageous he had to be to fight for lgbt people as a former slave in America in the 1800s!
William Dorsey Swann is the original queen, the original drag mother, the original activist. Tell his story!
I assume these have been posted, but friends, you HAVE to see some more photos from this shoot:
another day another post claiming to give information about transness in history that literally only brings up transfeminine people. can we please stop using “trans” to mean “only transfems because i either can’t be bothered to research transmascs & others or don’t think it’s important to point out the absence of information on transmascs & others”
I’m obsessed with Leonide, btw. I’ll probably write more coherent meta-thoughts later nominating her as a new take on the Antagonist Human Ally Who Has a Point archetype, but for now I’m just gonna say: wow. queen. I stan. she did nothing wrong, ever, except for the part where she’s inextricably complicit in colonial/imperial/capitalist atrocities and personally benefits from the enslavement of whole groups of people. she will never learn that what she does is wrong, because the cushy life that provides her beautiful cosmetic surgery and a comfortable life is based on never confronting her moral bankruptcy, and because admitting that she was wrong would be tantamount to admitting vulnerability, and everything in the cutthroat life she’s led up to now has taught her that showing vulnerability is an invitation to become a target.
Leonide is a hashtag girlboss. slay. she made herself strong at the expense of all the bodies of the people she stepped over to achieve her goals. Leonide effectively utilized girl power when she tried to trick the hidden colony into enslaving themselves. i support women’s rights AND women’s wrongs.
BP did hire PR firm Ogilvy & Mather in 2004, and coined the term ‘carbon footprint’ as well as creating the 'carbon footprint calculator’. This gave the impression that climate change was primarily the fault of the individual consumers.
From a New York Times opinion piece on carbon footprint (via the Wayback Machine): 'In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image, in part by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities.’
From a BBC Future article on 'how companies blame you for climate change’: 'Similar criticisms have been levelled at terms like “carbon footprints” – which was first coined in a 2005 TV advert from BP. The advert appears to show members of the public being stopped in the street and asked what is “their carbon footprint”.’
From an Irish Times on individualising blame: 'In 2004, it unveiled a “carbon footprint calculator”, so that individuals could assess how much their daily activities were polluting the planet. The marketing campaign, led by Ogilvy & Mather, fostered the false idea that climate change was the fault of individuals rather than fossil fuel companies.’
Learned some current events by opening tumblr. NOT via the Destiel confession scene. Fucked up and terrible. I need to learn this at the same time as Cas
I tried to make the post but I fucked up. I fucked it up. Oh god.
Yeah I’m aromantic, asexual, and agender, but you know what else I am? I’m aerodynamic. Anxious. Angular. Aromatic. Alien. Aimless. Aching. Ancient. I’m not a triple A battery, I’m an elevenfold A battery and counting.
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