I think this is my favorite post on the Internet right about now!
Edit: And I just needed to Edit this Photo 4 TIMES till it worked here… #youarewelcome #tumblrnoob #learnhowtotumblr
A family
Honestly, I saw samus and took a screenshot, because that was sweet in its own way. And then I got to DeeDeeDee, and saw they did it again in reverse and I was like “Relationship GOALS!”
Look at these people, how quick they are to agree and see each other.
Look at these people,
how quick they are to agree
and see each other.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“Kill them with kindness” Nah, fuck that, CRICKET BAT 🏏 🏏🏏🏏*SMACK* 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏
my favorite way to frame this has been in the context of boundaries.
a boundary is not about someone else’s behavior. it’s about mine. i find this to be particularly helpful when folks want to argue with me re: respecting me as a trans person vs. “free speech.”
instead of saying things like, “You WILL call me by my name,” for example, my boundaries sound like, “If you continue to deadname and/or misgender me, I will no longer give you access to me.”
of course, some folks have inevitably argued with me anyway, usually by attempting to make me feel guilty for “punishing” them for what they perceive to be a “difference of opinion.” my response is the same every time:
I remind them that they’re correct. They do have the freedom to speak to me however they like. But freedom of speech does not = freedom from consequences. In this case, the consequence is that I will remove people from my life and/or cease communication with those who insist on denying my humanity. this is a no tolerance policy — because, wouldn’t you know, I have the freedom to do that.
it’s essentially the social equivalent of the Scientific Method: fuck around and find out.
my favorite way
to frame this has been in the
context of boundaries.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Reblogging again because I got an anon last week whining cause they did this to one of my unfinished series and the bot killed Y/N so now they want ME to give them a happy ending. Like. No. Suffer, bitch.
AI is the death of creativity. Anyone who does this to my stories and is stupid enough to brag about it will be blocked from ever reading my work again, AND I’ll let everyone on tumblr know that you do this. We’ll see how much fic you get to enjoy when every author blocks you forever.
Fic is a gift. I’ve said it before. Don’t shit all over your lovingly handcrafted gifts, m'kay? This should be fucking obvious, but apparently for some of you it’s not.
If anyone does this to me, I’m going to delete the story
I won’t hesitate
If anyone does
this to me, I’m going to
delete the story
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
people who are afraid of snakes are fuckin’ WILD, like dude, just carefully step over these fat babies’ sausage bodies and gently move the burmese python chillin’ against the door, then you become unfathomably rich. i would do this for $10. i would do this for FREE.
Folx, if you want to not accidentally reblog TERF posts (which people have asked me about before), here’s a quick list of how not to do that:
Go to your ‘blocked tags’ and add: terf safe, terfs please interact, gender critical, radfem, rad fem, tims, tifs – these are all common TERF tags, and if the OP has tagged the post that way, it’ll show up as ‘contains the tags’ and block you from seeing it unless you click through. Yes, even on mobile.
Slow down for a sec and look at usernames. I know, we don’t do that when we’re scrolling, and I am guilty of that too. If the username contains overt references to labia, vaginas, pussy, etc., if it contains matriarchy, if it contains ‘critical’ or ‘rad’, maybe click through real quick to see if you’re about to reblog something that’s coming from a TERF.
Look for the dogwhistles. This part has gotten long, so it’s going behind a readmore.
Folx, if you want to not accidentally reblog TERF posts (which people have asked me about before), here’s a quick list of how not to do that:
Go to your ‘blocked tags’ and add: terf safe, terfs please interact, gender critical, radfem, rad fem, tims, tifs – these are all common TERF tags, and if the OP has tagged the post that way, it’ll show up as ‘contains the tags’ and block you from seeing it unless you click through. Yes, even on mobile.
Slow down for a sec and look at usernames. I know, we don’t do that when we’re scrolling, and I am guilty of that too. If the username contains overt references to labia, vaginas, pussy, etc., if it contains matriarchy, if it contains ‘critical’ or ‘rad’, maybe click through real quick to see if you’re about to reblog something that’s coming from a TERF.
Look for the dogwhistles. This part has gotten long, so it’s going behind a readmore.
Getting the USA out of South Korea (and Japan!) is a trans rights issue, too, by the way.
Many trans people, of all gender spectrum, in South Korea and Japan both, find themselves doing sex work (as is true with cis ppl and is true in much of the west of the world). What makes this exceptionally a trans rights issue is that esp in case of South Korea, the big area for LGBT+ activities is right next to one of many the U.S. bases in Seoul.
This creates an environment where a lot of soldiers will abuse trans sex workers, and the governing bodies that are supposed to protect the South Korean citizens, already unwilling to intervene on behalf of trans people, doubly turn them away because they aren’t willing to mediate disputes between U.S. soldiers and South Korean citizens.
This has created an environment where trans sex workers I work with in my irl activism in South Korea have all pointed to the U.S. soldiers as the most dangerous and worst customers for their work. What’s more, they say that the soldiers know that they can really get away with all of this, much than with cis sex workers, and target trans sex workers.
I have literally seen people that are supposedly trans-safe get mad at me for pointing out that the U.S.A and its legacy in South Korea is toxic in every avenue (the discussion was about the environment a few days back), and, like, please fucking get a grip. You’re abandoning your international siblings that are victims of your awful empire.
I felt super super flabbergasted when I saw this familiar image on here, on tumblr. Had to immediately walk out of my room to ask my sister to confirm
I’M NOT EVEN FUCKING KIDDING THIS PICTURE WAS MADE BY MY SISTER! SHE POSTED IT ON TIKTOK AND NOW IT HAS GONE THROUGH ONE LONG REPOSTING JOURNEY TO MY FUCKING DASHBOARD THROUGH SOME KIND OF MAGIC TToTT
just found the most fascinating anti-ai person who is only anti-ai because they make and sell the software that spambots USED to use to flood the internet with low quality SEO-bait garbage and chatgpt is putting them out of business. what a fascinating category of human to be. i had never even considered that someone had to be actually making the spambots and that they have feelings too.
everyone remembers the reply but no one remembers the bombshell it was attached to
that’s not even good hatemail. electroswing fucking owns and it always will and if anybody tries to shit on anyone for liking it then they’re asses. like “oh I bet you like eating banana bread, don’t you?” fuckin terrible bit
The intro cards for Futurama have always been one of my favorite parts of the show because people always talk about the old Simpson’s couch gag but this is just pure gold… I mean-
It goes from everything from
and then they made fun of how much everyone reacted to the the infamous ‘dead dog episode’ that I cried about…
Lion King (1994) explaining the importance of stylized 2D animation: Lion King (2019) and Cats (2019):
Kimba The White Lion (1965) explaining the importance of an original idea:
Lion King (1994) Lion King (2019) Cats (2019)
Shakespeare (1564) explaining the importance of an original idea:
Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):
Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1160 – c. 1220) explaining the importance of understanding that all creative work is inherently derivative once you study the oral tradition of storytelling and history and that’s okay because generations have always reformatted tropes and themes to make them relatable to their current audiences
Shakespeare (1564), Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):
Tyrannosaurus rex (Late Cretaceous) explaining nothing because he’s a don’t give a fuck
I love seeing list memes where someone makes a “le cool people vs le cringe” and they obviously skew it so they barely scrape by into the cool kids club
You just KNOW this dudes 5'11"
I’m 5'11, but in most casual conversations I’ll say I’m 5'9. I do this purely for the chaos that it creates. Because everyone assumes that men only exaggerate their height up, it makes me look like the only person honestly describing their height and thus knocks at least 2 inches off everyone else’s description. The panic that the 6'1 guys feel at the thought of being described as 5'11 is hard to understate. I have had people run back to their cars to grab tape measures.
If I could get away with describing myself as 4'6 I would.
you are the diametrical opposite of the aforementioned guy. you are a demigod walking among mortals
This is what was put to stone, a trickster god that dared to walk among men, came forth with a devout secret, one that would cause great conflict and panic. A simple lie, one to shatter the ego and hearts of men, bringing warriors to their knees and charlatans into light. They always say to pity the fool, but who is there to pity when the fool outplays their supposed betters. Who are we to stand against such tactics, one so potent as the snake’s venom. No. We would be fools to try, for the trickster god has already dug its roots.
I just can’t get over the peculiarity of Marcille’s outfit
Everything looks very practical and layered and comfortable. Sensible, tied back hair, warm overcoat with a hood, long dress that seems made of durable, dense fabric and heavy stitching, with a sturdy leather belt and at least what seems to be bloomers or longjohns underneath…
…. and then you’ve got these fucking cheap ass basic bitch sandals. No insulation, no traction, no padding, no arch support, not water proof, no protection from anything whatsoever. You’re going to run in THESE? You’re going to traverse rock and stone and slime and ice and tall grass in THESE?? You’re going to BATTLE FOR YOUR BLOOD SOAKED CHIMERA GIRLFRIEND, IN THESE!?
Straight women who don’t understand what top and bottom mean and refer to literally being on top of someone as topping is the funniest shit ever. You are so lost
okay context for the non-italians. long story short: it’s pretty much impossible from an engineering perspective. there are very strong and swirly currents that make it not feasible to just build a bridge where the coasts are the closest - it would have to be built in a spot where the distance between the coasts is wider, a little too much for a bridge possibly, but also, like, outside of the cities, which means it would still be quicker for people to step on the ferry than drive all the way to the bridge. the ferry is quick, cheap, also they’ve introduced sustainable non-polluting boats, so, literally no one in either sicily or calabria wants a useless bridge, even if it could be built safely.
on top of that… it’s a seismic area. you really don’t want to make engineering experiments there.
governments have tried to figure out a way to build that bridge at least from the 60s, afaik, but engineers have just come to the conclusion that nope.
also: people in sicily and calabria have reason to believe that if a project like that gets given the green light, it will end up fattening the pockets of corrupted politicians and mafia groups.
pretty straightforward right? yeah… NOPE!
the italian right has been waving the proposal of building that bridge for decades. every once in a while, when you think you’re free, BAM the right-wing politician genius of the moment comes up with the law proposal to build the bridge. it used to be berlusconi, now berlusconi is dead, recently it’s been salvini. they propose to build the bridge, the left says “what the fuck”, and the right goes see!! the left doesn’t want progress and development for the country!! they want the country to languish and die!!
(in the meanwhile taxpayers’ euros go into paying commissions that need to figure out how to build the bridge, ignoring that there’s been a billion commissions over almost a century that have all come to the conclusion that nope.)
(also remember what i said about corrupted politicians and mafia groups? well try to guess the reason it’s the right-wing parties that keep insisting on building this fucking bridge.)
it’s become a total national joke. mention the bridge on the strait to an italian, they’ll laugh as they go through the 5 stages of italian political grief.
This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.
This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.
obviously dietary requirements aren’t a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she’s up to today and she said extremely seriously “ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia”
this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia
If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don’t do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!
Also do NOT append “12ft.io/” before a URL ! Typing an URL like this https://12ft.io/<URL> will redirect to a site that would break the display of the page by removing the paywall !
Honestly it’s kind of prohibited to mash CTRL+P before some paywall windows can load in to get a PDF of the article. Really shouldn’t be done tbh very dangerous🤷🏿♂️ ❌️
