cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.” - Brennan Lee Mulligan
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
I was sad, but a drag queen lent me her violin for a while, and I started playing it. I got quite good at it despite the fact that I didn’t really know exactly what I was doing, until I played it a little too hard and it broke. I cried, until she later came up to me and comforted me, saying something like, “All that matters is that you played,” and then I woke up.
btw. being kink positive means ALL kinks even the ones you think are “immoral” or whatever the fuck. “but what about-” especially that one. no sex act between consenting adults is immoral actually. kill the cop in your brain.
of course that doesn’t mean you have to be comfortable with every kink. it’s fine to have limits for your own personal stuff. but if you judge people based on what they do with their consenting partners, I cannot stress this enough, you are being a bad person.
Steps to judge if a sex/kink thing is okay:
1. are all involved parties adults? (including planned observers)
2. did all involved parties give informed consent while able to give consent meaningfully (including uncoerced)?
3. did the actions stay within the bounds of said consent, not adding on new things while someone was unable to meaningfully consent?
if yes to all three: IT’S FINE
if it passes all three conditions and you still think it’s morally wrong: you’re judging based on your own sense of disgust, not any reasonable moral framework!
if you are trying to say “okay but what if…”: did you read what i just fucking said??
you don’t have to like it. you don’t have to interact with it. you don’t have to look at it. but you do have to tolerate it and not condemn its practice based on your personal feelings!
bringing this post back with my lovely gf’s addition in case any of y'all haven’t seen it yet
things that this post is about: ageplay, fauxcest, consensual nonconsent, petplay, somnophilia, intoxication kinks, and much more
things this post is not about: fanfiction, any other kind of fiction
I actually want to address the 2nd tag here because it’s very important: several of my kinks are illegal. every time I (allegedly) slap my partners’ ass during sex, it’s technically domestic abuse. it used to be illegal to be gay. WV is currently trying to make it illegal to be trans. legality ≠ morality
muting this now. stop derailing my post to talk about fiction. this post is about real people having real sex.
it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.
What are the Americans going to do to Yemen that their best friends in Saudi Arabia haven’t already done? How are you going to bomb them into submission when there’s nothing left to bomb? America and the UK will not win. They might succeed at opening the canal for a while, at a horrific human cost and while dramatically escalating the risk for a full-scale regional war, but they will not win. They will have to fully occupy Yemen, because bombing will not work for what they want, they will not open the canal that way, and they will lose that war. It will take years, but they will lose, just like they lost Iraq and Afghanistan. This will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the Americans won’t even achieve their long-term aims. The death-throes of Empire will crush many under it - we can only hope and pray (and work towards) that it dies faster.
jerry was in my elder scrolls online guild, and he’s one of the sweetest guys I’ve ever known. i feel sick every time i come across his image online because it’s almost always the exact same baseless derision and shitty implications about him because he’s fat and wearing a fedora for a photoshoot. the photoshoot this image is from was leaked from his private facebook. the harassment that he’s faced from his memeification is worse than anyone knows.
If anyone wants to donate to his GoFundMe towards his recovery after being put in a coma and losing most of his mobility due to COVID
I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link
someone actually studied the falling Rick Roll rate for their Ph.D dissertation recently and published the paper
okay but this made me wonder if there was actually any academic literature on rickrolling and YES THERE IS this is a paper about rickrolling WITHIN academic literature. As in, studies that attempt to rickroll the people reading them. Best part is no one is going to believe me and click that link even though it’s 100% true.
My friend’s book is mentioned in this paper!!
There is no earthy way of convincing anyone that the rickroll study link is real. But for what it’s worth. It is
[romcom movie trailer voice] hes a doctor who cant diagnose his own feelings… hes a photographer that cant quite see the bigger picture… can they break the chains that are holding them back from each other… this summer… Saw….
we should legalize polyamorous marriage for all the other reasons we should but also because I wanna see what polygamous divorce looks like
as a family law attorney i can tell you that the one time my family law class in law school got Absolutely Lit was the day our professor came in, dropped the casebook on teh table, looked at all of us, and said, “tell me why polygamy is *il*legal in the united states.” and a bunch of people came up with answers (monogamy is the cultural preference, christianity, etc) and she swept her hand and went “WRONG! it is because if you have polygamous marriages then the family and trust & estates law systems as we know them today would DIE A HORRIBLE PAINFUL EXCRUCIATING DEATH” and i think about that class every day
There these seemingly contradictory societal double binds that are used to enforce conformity.
Example: A Lesbian is told that “everyone is actually bi” while a bisexual woman is told to “pick a side”. Seems contradictory but really they just want us to be straight lmao.
Another one: A woman who does not perform womanhood to society’s standard is not a real woman vs. You can never change the gender you were born with. One is butchphobic/anti gnc women, the other is transphobic. Clearly both enforce transmisogyny.
The insidious thing is that these double binds also foster inter community division. Its easy to hear one side of these, for example: “everyone is a little bi” and assume that means bisexuality is more accepted. But on the other side bisexual people are getting the same shit.
None of these are contradictory when you realize that bigots simply don’t want lgbtq+ to exist at all.
i think im in the minority on tumblr in that i actually LIKE driving but every time i see a semi truck my life flashes before my eyes stay away from meeeee
crying and creaming and throwing up because an 18 wheeler is behind me
u ever just think abt the fact that since mainstream western news media did not broadcast the south african case of the trial at the hague and since the white house press release did not explain why yemen was blocking shipping in the red sea and since all western leaders have downplayed and outright denied both the genocide and their complicity in it that there are millions of people out there who are just walking around with a completely distorted view of the world. like people who straightforwardly have no idea why pro-palestine protests would even be happening. like most zionists are simply just unmoved at the image of palestinian children dying and the knowledge that they keep palestinians subjugated but a good chunk of white americans and europeans over 35 don’t even have the facts at all. most of them just don’t want to know idk the thought makes me crazy lol
it’s important to me that people know the original “he would not fucking say that” was in response to a tiktok where someone said eric cartman would thank you for asking for his pronouns. Like it just doesn’t hit the same without context.
everytime someone uses “he would not fucking say that” for something he would absolutely fucking say given slightly different circumstances or has already fucking said i immediately become indignant cause you can’t waste a joke like this on mild characterisation nitpicks. sorry. it has to be on par with Any Pronouns Cartman.
You might see friends today suggesting you support Hard Drive on Patreon today. You know, the funny video games version of The Onion? As a journalist, I will firmly tell you DO NOT GIVE THEM A DIME.
The CEO has pushed out all former staff that have built the site up to its current greatness and has been pushing the use of AI. The staff begged to have a Patreon before basically all being pushed out, but the idea was refused until now, when it will only line the pockets of a single person instead of hard working writers.
I know they might have provided laughs before, but Hard Drive is a shell of what it was once. Let it die and support the people who actually made those moments of joy possible.
Don’t believe me? Check out what former employees are saying below:
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.
So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great
this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.
so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.
Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah
ID: Instagram post by mirna_elhelbawi. The text reads:
We only have 300 e-Sims left…
We connect more than 1000 to 1200 everyday..
Donating e-Sims is literally life saving.
Donate a QR code to gazaesims@gmail.com
“Connecting Humanity” is in handwriting at the top left corner, and “Connecting Gaza” is written in a different handwriting font near the bottom right.
you just gotta figure out how to do the mitten thing! (everybody does it differently, so whatever works for you)
make a little mitten shape, a bump for the big thumb muscle, a line for where you want to knuckles to be (and where the fingers end), and you can work out how the hand does hand things~
you can make them more simple or more real, however you want! hands are weird, so don’t worry if they keep looking wrong for a while, once you figure out what works for you, it’ll click. If you practice like 10 or-so basic hand shapes, you can make slight variations on all those, and 10 turns into 20 different hand poses~
Good luck, you can do it, practice until you find your groove, hands are stupid, don’t worry if they don’t look right!
you are a fucking saint x2
I haven’t got a single speck of artistic skill in me but I will reblog for any artist that might find this useful
there actually needs to be something like shinigami eyes but for tumblr users who supported russia invading ukraine and it needs to be built into the tumblr app so everyone stops reblogging posts about israel/palestine from those freaks
i cant tell if its funnier that theres an overlap between “tonetag user” and “person who uses slurs derogatorily”, or that you had to specify it was negative
basically i had a thought. it’d be cool to be a galaxy. so i made an oc out of the milky way (who goes by the name milky, milky way is far too formal)
weird little galaxy that observes and has odd mannerisms (it’s the humans their constant observation of the stars has altered it the lifeforms inside a galaxy have some kind of influence over how it acts. also the autism ray).
talks to it’s lifeforms despite that kinda being frowned upon in galaxy culture because it just loves learning stuff and observing stuff and it’s wowed by how much the humans have done in a relatively short amount of time
