“No one remembered my birthday-” Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?
“I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I’m fine-” Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you’re doing?
“I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-” Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?
“I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-” Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?
“No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-” Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?
“I miss my friend but they haven’t texted me-” Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?
Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn’t care!
Having someone who knows you on such a deep level that they see past your mask, or sense you need a check in is such a deep satisfying fantasy. It’s up there with living in a cottagecore farm, or buying all your friends houses when you win the lottery. But you have to make peace with the fact that this is also a fantasy. It is unfair to expect people to “just know” when to respect your boundaries or to push them.
Being cared for is not a fantasy. But you have to let people know you need it. And you have to understand that sometimes they will let you down. Just like you totally could live in a cute farm, but you still have to shovel shit, and the crops sometimes die anyway. Or maybe you win the lottery, but you still have to manage your money and learn real estate law.
The fantasy isn’t the caring, the fantasy is not having to do the work. And it sucks. It’s embarrassing. But like the meme says, it’s not rotten if it’s YOU. So do it for yourself.
“The fantasy isn’t the caring, the fantasy is not having to do the work”! Thank you for that addition. Because it’s not a naive expectation to want someone to care to treat you right. But it requires communication and mutual effort to actually get there
never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn’t worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
the reviews are in… glad everyone’s enjoying song of the worm
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Holy fucking shit this is one of the most incredible things I have ever read.
I am dead serious. I PROMISE you that you want to read this, and you’re going to immediately send it to all your weird friends who you also know will love it.
If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.
Anyway, here’s a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don’t be shamed into not asking questions, and it’s alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don’t let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.
Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.
yeah okay ill reblog that :]
Listen. I’m a little disappointed in the kids who can’t read a clock, but it’s not their fault if no-one taught them. But I’m *appalled* at the *schools* whose solution to this problem was to *remove the clocks*.
Oh and if literal grass-touching IS viable, I also advocate for touching invasive grass. Many parks in the US have invasive plant removal volunteer work days. You get some air and some exercise and you can talk to other volunteers if you want or you can just march off into the trees on your own and start wreaking havoc with various hand tools. If you want to do something that is both useful AND destructive, I have found nothing better
funnily enough i did this for the first time today & yeah, i highly recommend, it rules hard
you just show up & they give you a bunch of pre-sharpened loppers & are like “here’s what an invasive blackberry bush looks like, go kick its ass”
and then you just get to hack and maim and wreck for FREE for as many hours as you so desire??? good as HELL
Removal of invasive species is one of the best things you can do for the environment. The task can feel overwhelming, you impact may feel small. But each plant you remove stops thousands and thousands of additional invasive seeds from wreaking havoc on our native wildlife.
I do this regularly and can confirm its the best. Go be in nature, go godzilla on some honeysuckle and open up huge swathes of forest to native species that support failing bird and bug populations!
New discourse: it’s actually predatory to date someone with a different star sign than you, because the differences in your personalities means you’ll never be able to have exactly the same life experiences, thus leaving a knowledge and power gap between the two of you which will inevitably lead to an abusive relationship!
also if you’re a Sag and you’re dating a Taurus, that means you’re secretly seeking a May-December relationship, which is age gap coded!
Also, humanoid signs like Aquarius, Gemini, and Virgo absolutely cannot date animal signs. That is interspecies erotica codedfuckoand animals CANNOT CONSENT.
Aries, Capricorn and Taurus dating each other make me sick, they’re all bovidae it’s so obviously incest I– 🤢
New discourse: it’s actually predatory to date someone with a different star sign than you, because the differences in your personalities means you’ll never be able to have exactly the same life experiences, thus leaving a knowledge and power gap between the two of you which will inevitably lead to an abusive relationship!
also if you’re a Sag and you’re dating a Taurus, that means you’re secretly seeking a May-December relationship, which is age gap coded!
Also, humanoid signs like Aquarius, Gemini, and Virgo absolutely cannot date animal signs. That is interspecies erotica codedfuckoand animals CANNOT CONSENT.
Aries, Capricorn and Taurus dating each other make me sick, they’re all bovidae it’s so obviously incest I– 🤢
You guys I just realized that what I’ve always wanted out of werewolf fiction is a story where lycanthropy isn’t a purely human condition
Like this dude wakes up from his wolfbender and his room is full of all these fucking chickens from local farms that he initiated into his pack. They all start clucking and crowing at the moon and when it’s full they all transform into these tiny little weird bipedal wolves with wings.
I don’t remember making this post but it’s going around again and I’m losing my shit
Imagine becoming a werewolf because you got attacked by a fucked up chicken
A wildlife rehab centre discovers that one of its patients is a lycanthrope when the full moon hits and their wolf transforms into a slightly different wolf.
imagine you go out to watch something completely bad and unenjoyable. something like the emoji movie. imagine watching the emoji movie for the first time. and you walk out of the theater like “wow that was absolutely terrible, they completely bombed that film. lol i can’t believe they thought anybody would like that”. anyways you go to any social media on the car ride home and you see at least ONE 30 year old posting like “i’m really fixated on the emoji movie rn🥺 this is my fanart for my emoji movie au including my emoji movie ocs”. that’s my tumblr experience every day
*waves a wand and grants you the teeth and claws to fuck your evil step family up*
Good luck kid you’re in a reverse beauty and beast situation. Do not let that princely motherfucker fall in love with your inner humanity or the spell will fail and you’ll turn human again
Good news if you bite his ass you can start a pack together. Go forth. Enjoy the ball
You can bite a princess too if you want. Or a milkmaid, or a butler or whatever. Go nuts. The more the merrier
#misread as feral hogmother
That’s my girlfriend, she’s rooting for you too
#investing at 70 notes
That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about a post of mine that wasn’t an addition to a post of someone else’s XD
#posts that will become Tumblr heritage
I wish. I don’t think it’s even gonna crack 500 notes
25k and counting, Feral Godmother. We love you
Almost as many notes as I have teeth well done
Wow, that’s a lot of teeth
Thanks. I got them from my other, other girlfriend, The Toothfairy.
this post seems to have broken containment and if anyone’s interested in what they were telling me to stop, i found the og post with this song and was mass reblogging it at an alarming rate. ive done this multiple times but i think this was the instance i reblogged it 64 times in a row
*begins violently shivering in terror and whispering*
I need to be careful what I say lest the gods hear me oh God oh God oh fuck oh shit
Say more powerful people die, please you have to use this power for good
Uh fuck ok uh Donald Trump dies of a UTI and Ben Shapiro gets his teeth knocked out by a drag queen and uh uh uh Ron desantis gets run over by his own car send post
*begins violently shivering in terror and whispering*
I need to be careful what I say lest the gods hear me oh God oh God oh fuck oh shit
Say more powerful people die, please you have to use this power for good
Uh fuck ok uh Donald Trump dies of a UTI and Ben Shapiro gets his teeth knocked out by a drag queen and uh uh uh Ron desantis gets run over by his own car send post
*begins violently shivering in terror and whispering*
I need to be careful what I say lest the gods hear me oh God oh God oh fuck oh shit
Say more powerful people die, please you have to use this power for good
Uh fuck ok uh Donald Trump dies of a UTI and Ben Shapiro gets his teeth knocked out by a drag queen and uh uh uh Ron desantis gets run over by his own car send post
Worth noting, this is actually more Nazi than the swastika itself, which has significance to Buddhists, Hindus, Slavs, Balts, and others that massively predate its appropriation by facists.
This thing, by contrast, has only one meaning.
I WAS LOOKING UP PUNK PATCHES AND SAW ONE WITH THAT FUCKING THING ON IT WTF
no, but close. remember history, they put the star of david on, then came the slums, and then came the camps. so im just waiting for the lgbtq+ exclusion zones of poland to come here and we’ll be good to go for recreating the holocaust.
(people will unironically be like, well you can’t compare that to the holocaust because they haven’t gone to the next step yet how do you know it’ll end up there. idk i think it’s just something we shouldn’t fucking RISK?)
A while back my psychopathology class did a basic overview of gender terms because we need to understand it to understand what the statistics we’ were given mean, and all I could think of was that xkcd quartz comic.
A guy said sex was “biological gender,” another guy said that a sex that is neither male nor female is nonbinary, and another guy said that a person who’s gender does not align with their sex is “gay.”
no, but close. remember history, they put the star of david on, then came the slums, and then came the camps. so im just waiting for the lgbtq+ exclusion zones of poland to come here and we’ll be good to go for recreating the holocaust.
(people will unironically be like, well you can’t compare that to the holocaust because they haven’t gone to the next step yet how do you know it’ll end up there. idk i think it’s just something we shouldn’t fucking RISK?)
xkcd fans are the only fandom I’ve had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles
like I’ve never heard anyone just say “the simpsons season 7 episode 21” without also saying the episode title but I have heard people say “xkcd 2501” without also saying the title of the xkcd
Yeah, we shouldn’t expect everyone to know every comic by heart. The average internet user probably only knows 1053 and 936.
In our system, 86.4k seconds go in a day. In the French decimal (not metric time! That was never a part of the metric system!) timekeeping, 100k of their seconds went in a day; thus 1 of our seconds is 0.864 of theirs.
Even if decimal time was part of the metric system, in the end that’d be kind of like saying metric units of length are bad because 1 centimeter is equal to 0.3937007874 inches. It’s simply a case of one set of units not matching the metric units.
If methods of measuring time hadn’t been standardised among scientific minds in 18th century Europe, unlike all other types of units (length, area, volume, etc.) then decimal time would not be unusual at all.
What the hell is this doing on my tumblr dashboard in 2021. What’s happening. None of you know what this is. Nobody even heard of this when I was on it in 1998.
“Palace Chat” was a chat program that worked like club penguin except it came out almost ten years prior and it was meant for adults. When I got addicted to it in 1998 I had to be in the 1% of users under 30.
The smiley faces were default avatars you had if you didn’t make a proper account. Once you had a username you could import any image files you wanted into Palace “Props” you could edit, share, mix up and reposition to make your own avatars.
I grabbed this screenshot off google but I have literally been in this very room. Milton’s avatar looks cool, does anybody know what that’s from?
People made palace chat servers that were like elaborate exploration games with free props hidden around like items which was cool but none of the users seemed to care about that stuff so they’d just hang around the main entry room and talk all day about their sex lives or whether or not Bill Clinton ruined America.
I originally watched the world premieres of Futurama and later Invader Zim in real time with a bunch of people on “The Anime Palace.” I had a “TV Card” in my desktop PC allowing me to watch television on my computer and take screenshots. I made an avatar out of a screenshot from the intro. I had possibly one of the world’s first Invader Zim chat avatars. Then I had an argument with someone who thought it was going to be trendy just because Jhonen Vasquez made it and they didn’t believe me that I actually hadn’t heard of him before.
Sorry I re-reblog more often these days (nobody sees edit additions and nobody knows what I’m talking about if I make a whole new post??) but here are other funny memories of this obscure internet chapter:
Positioning yourself where your avatar overlaps or touches someone else’s without their permission was considered so rude a mod would step in.
Making exactly the same avatar as someone else on purpose, even if it’s just a popular video game character or whatever, was even ruder.
Every time you moved or you changed avatars, the server had to process it for everybody. Being too fidgety could lag or crash other users.
You could assign favorite avatars to hotkeys. If you mashed those keys quickly enough it would lag everyone so bad that doing this often got you a permaban.
You were able to move by either clicking or using the arrow keys but using the arrow keys or “sliding” also lagged everyone, like everyone’s chat would freeze until you stopped moving.
So a troll could just hold their arrow keys and hotkeys simultaneously to glide around the room cycling through their avatars non-stop and basically giving everyone blue screens of death.
Mods had the ability to lock you into the default avatar, which people
thought of as “stripping” you, and they could trap your avatar in place
which not only “stripped” it but displayed chains and padlocks over the
smiley face.
EVERY troll would say “….kinky” whenever that happened.
Lots of couples would make complementary avatars or avatars that could fit together.
It was possible to position yourself so your username was off screen and some people would then wear an avatar made from a piece of the room’s background image, perfectly camouflaging themselves.
Some people did this in private rooms hoping to eavesdrop on people who didn’t know this was a thing or that you could check the actual number of users in the room with you
You had to download the official Palace color palette file and apply it to your chosen image in a paint program for it not to look like complete ass when imported as an avatar
People skilled enough at making avatars look at all decent would be rewarded with rare props, mod powers, whatever
There were private rooms and private chat function but accidentally broadcasting your text as a public announcement to the whole room was one misclick away
One time a moderator disappeared with their girlfriend into a private room for a while and nobody had ANY means of contacting them to tell them they were sending their internet sex as a stream of announcements to all 100+ rooms and 1000+ users on at the time for like an hour
Crucial to your appreciation of that last note, announcements were often set up to display as speech bubbles from the mouths of like, anime characters or the MST3K robots integrated into the background images
What the hell is this doing on my tumblr dashboard in 2021. What’s happening. None of you know what this is. Nobody even heard of this when I was on it in 1998.
“Palace Chat” was a chat program that worked like club penguin except it came out almost ten years prior and it was meant for adults. When I got addicted to it in 1998 I had to be in the 1% of users under 30.
The smiley faces were default avatars you had if you didn’t make a proper account. Once you had a username you could import any image files you wanted into Palace “Props” you could edit, share, mix up and reposition to make your own avatars.
I grabbed this screenshot off google but I have literally been in this very room. Milton’s avatar looks cool, does anybody know what that’s from?
People made palace chat servers that were like elaborate exploration games with free props hidden around like items which was cool but none of the users seemed to care about that stuff so they’d just hang around the main entry room and talk all day about their sex lives or whether or not Bill Clinton ruined America.
I originally watched the world premieres of Futurama and later Invader Zim in real time with a bunch of people on “The Anime Palace.” I had a “TV Card” in my desktop PC allowing me to watch television on my computer and take screenshots. I made an avatar out of a screenshot from the intro. I had possibly one of the world’s first Invader Zim chat avatars. Then I had an argument with someone who thought it was going to be trendy just because Jhonen Vasquez made it and they didn’t believe me that I actually hadn’t heard of him before.
Sorry I re-reblog more often these days (nobody sees edit additions and nobody knows what I’m talking about if I make a whole new post??) but here are other funny memories of this obscure internet chapter:
Positioning yourself where your avatar overlaps or touches someone else’s without their permission was considered so rude a mod would step in.
Making exactly the same avatar as someone else on purpose, even if it’s just a popular video game character or whatever, was even ruder.
Every time you moved or you changed avatars, the server had to process it for everybody. Being too fidgety could lag or crash other users.
You could assign favorite avatars to hotkeys. If you mashed those keys quickly enough it would lag everyone so bad that doing this often got you a permaban.
You were able to move by either clicking or using the arrow keys but using the arrow keys or “sliding” also lagged everyone, like everyone’s chat would freeze until you stopped moving.
So a troll could just hold their arrow keys and hotkeys simultaneously to glide around the room cycling through their avatars non-stop and basically giving everyone blue screens of death.
Mods had the ability to lock you into the default avatar, which people
thought of as “stripping” you, and they could trap your avatar in place
which not only “stripped” it but displayed chains and padlocks over the
smiley face.
EVERY troll would say “….kinky” whenever that happened.
Lots of couples would make complementary avatars or avatars that could fit together.
It was possible to position yourself so your username was off screen and some people would then wear an avatar made from a piece of the room’s background image, perfectly camouflaging themselves.
Some people did this in private rooms hoping to eavesdrop on people who didn’t know this was a thing or that you could check the actual number of users in the room with you
You had to download the official Palace color palette file and apply it to your chosen image in a paint program for it not to look like complete ass when imported as an avatar
People skilled enough at making avatars look at all decent would be rewarded with rare props, mod powers, whatever
There were private rooms and private chat function but accidentally broadcasting your text as a public announcement to the whole room was one misclick away
One time a moderator disappeared with their girlfriend into a private room for a while and nobody had ANY means of contacting them to tell them they were sending their internet sex as a stream of announcements to all 100+ rooms and 1000+ users on at the time for like an hour
Crucial to your appreciation of that last note, announcements were often set up to display as speech bubbles from the mouths of like, anime characters or the MST3K robots integrated into the background images
With a lead of nearly 2.5 lightyears, the race has been called for Uncle Iroh early in round 5. He therefore now moves on to his next potential victim, our very own heavenly news anchor, Castiel of Supernatural. Begin the suffering.
