hey nonbinary parents u kno how there’s shortened terms for mother and father but no good shortened terms for parent?? well i have the solution foryou!!! instead of “parent” u can call urself “guardian” which can be shortened to “guard” and then when ur kid says things like “sorry i can’t go my guard says no” they sound rich and mysteriously important and u dont get misgendered and everyone wins
Additionally, when your kid has a bad influence trying to get them to do something they know you would be against they could say “Sorry, I don’t want to let my guard down” which is both mysterious AND a pun
My lamb’s name is Faustitas, Faust for short. When captured for that final sacrifice, Faust was shaved of their wool. It took a while to grow it back. They have scars from the manacles that fade over time, but the neck scar from their first death, stays. Originally, the design of their fleece was the normal one you see in game, but they quickly decided it was basically a curtain that just got in the way and opted for sleeves. Dagger or claw preference in weapons.
Narinder gets to have a jumpsuit. As a treat. It’s easier to do physical work in them than the cloak that he spent the first five years of his indoctrination wearing. He has chain-rub shaped scars on his chest, wrists, and ankles. He spent the first decade or so absolutely despising Faust before he finally began tolerating them. In this time, Faust’s personality changed from bubbly (and thirsty for revenge) to withdrawn in the wake of his hatred. He was their dear friend before and Faust doesn’t quite get why he hated them so after being friends for well over a hundred years with him being The One Who Waits. So they feel hurt and betrayed. That and Narinder wanted to kill them for the Crown-
The plan is that, instead of the Lamb trying to woo babygirl, babygirl realizes he fucked up a bit and actually wants to get their friendship back.
“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic
lotta people reblogging this post this morning with the most straightforwardly romantic ships alive
this is not about straightforwardly romantic ships get some taste. Straightforwardly romantic ships are not underrated, they are everywhere. This is about relationships where pinning an easy definition on what it is would be an exercise in futility
Do you ever start bullshitting a paper, and then look over it halfway through and think, ’…Wait a minute, I could be onto something here.’
this is the definition of college.
Literally I was writing a paper on Asian salt water crocodiles, like a simple about them paper for a college class, and I started noticing some inconsistencies in the scientific papers I was sourcing and I accidentally discovered that the crocodile has been misdiagnosed as least concerned on the endangered species list when they should be classified as endangered and now my professor is having me write a formal report to the international Red List to have them reclassified and all I wanted to do was write this paper on an animal I thought was cool and now I’m considered an expert on this species…
this is how it works half of esteemed biologists trip and fall into their specialty while pursuing something else. one lecturer i just went to started as a biochemist researching antibiotics and discovered that crocodiles change colors based on environment and now he has 30+ crocs in his yard for research purposes and he’s just like… “wait… i’m a chemist…”
How did so many people end up with crocodiles on accident?????
you just go into science and after a while, crocodile…
the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked ‘why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe’ he said 'i didnt really think it mattered’. autistically i exploded his head in my mind
when your pumpkin loaf or banana loaf is not delightfully moist and soft and sweet like the pillow of a cherub and instead is like a dense fruitcake brick of misery we will see who is pretentious then. beast
Remember all those “This Thanksgiving and Christmas, you have to talk to your conservative relatives” speeches libs used to give? I think it’s time us leftists start having those conversations with our Liberal relatives because it turns out that *they’re* the conservatives that need convinced to no longer be bigots.
This is the single hardest maxim for liberals to understand. Don’t come out of the gate swinging, talking about policy or goals or material dialectics. Start with gentle philosophy. Ask them questions.
Yes, if you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds, but during most conversations I have with liberals, they agree with me on a lot of points. Healthcare is good, abortion rights are good, immigrants shouldn’t be deported, war is bad, etc. etc. But the thing that traps them in liberalism, the mental prison that’s been constructed around them is the idea that there’s an “Ideal America”. An America where Truth and Justice and Equality prevail. A kind of Aaron Sorkin’s America. Democrats are good guys, Republicans are bad guys, and we have to work to defeat the bad guys to Make America Great Again. And it’s in that moment that the bars of the prison slam shut.
I can’t give you a script and tell you what to say, but I can tell you that a lot of Liberals are doubling down and becoming more conservative, but a lot of them are also going through a crisis of faith. Give them something to believe in.
Remember all those “This Thanksgiving and Christmas, you have to talk to your conservative relatives” speeches libs used to give? I think it’s time us leftists start having those conversations with our Liberal relatives because it turns out that *they’re* the conservatives that need convinced to no longer be bigots.
This is the single hardest maxim for liberals to understand. Don’t come out of the gate swinging, talking about policy or goals or material dialectics. Start with gentle philosophy. Ask them questions.
Yes, if you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds, but during most conversations I have with liberals, they agree with me on a lot of points. Healthcare is good, abortion rights are good, immigrants shouldn’t be deported, war is bad, etc. etc. But the thing that traps them in liberalism, the mental prison that’s been constructed around them is the idea that there’s an “Ideal America”. An America where Truth and Justice and Equality prevail. A kind of Aaron Sorkin’s America. Democrats are good guys, Republicans are bad guys, and we have to work to defeat the bad guys to Make America Great Again. And it’s in that moment that the bars of the prison slam shut.
I can’t give you a script and tell you what to say, but I can tell you that a lot of Liberals are doubling down and becoming more conservative, but a lot of them are also going through a crisis of faith. Give them something to believe in.
a man with his phone in his hand just said to me ‘hey i don’t have my apple watch on me can you tell me what time it gets dark today’ and i was like i have no idea sorry and kept walking and i heard him say to his siri ‘what time is darkness today’ ????????? ???????
actually the funniest thing that could happen right now would be Biden up and dying of old man disease so Kamala is a lame duck president for two months and technically the first woman president so they have to add a bunch of qualifiers like “first woman ELECTED president” when Hawk Tuah Girl wins in 2032
hey everyone! back up your works on ao3, because project 2025 is probably going into effect. porn will be illegal.
BACK IT UP OFFLINE. the cloud will not save you here.
also, make sure you’re current on your vaccines. and that all your ID and documents are up to date. Renew that passport.
because the fda, cdc, and state department are about to go to hell, too.
how are we even in this position again? insanity. pure insanity. but protect yourself, and be ready to protect your vulnerable loved ones. shit is about to get real bad.
western cat twitters are like “HoOman” and japanese cat twitters are like “Today I will consider the state of things.”
you forgot russian cat tumblr
Russian cats are right in the middle of the two
actually japanese cat twitters sound verbose to us because the translation loses a detail: it’s all written in katakana, which is considered childish or illiterate!
so japanese cats are really saying “today i wiww conshidah the state of fings ^owo^”
Also the only reason the Russian sounds semi childish is because of the lack of definite or indefinite articles (the, a/an), which Russian just doesn’t have in its language anyway
The corrected translation with English grammar would be “I am a wave” which is neither childish or verbose its just factual and simple
Love the language specific additions
Philosophy in this thread:
Silly little potatoes can be found in every language and culture
Artists and poets can be found in every language and culture
Artists and poets
can be found in every
language and culture
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Illustration for a chapter for my fic The Rehabilitation of Death (that I have yet to post as of typing this, whoops.) Didn’t like how this art turned out, so re-did it. Got carried away and I think I found a new painting method I like
Shout out too all who watched me paint this live on Twitch, I’ll try to make a speedpaint of it :D
A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here’s preventing you lot from making it worse.
Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one’s way out of consequences.
What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.
Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the “hero” or the one who cheers them up.
What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.
Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one’s own narrative.
What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.
Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.
I know all the posts about how to stockpile hrt come from a good place but yall. Stockpiling T on purpose is a felony and its not one i judge you for but…STOP admitting it out loud on your blogs frankly and with none of the “teehee THEORETICALLY” shoplifter blogs used to have. Im seeing people talk abt the stockpiles they already have AND their plans to share it and my guys… this website WILL give your personal info to the government if subpoenad. Idk that its LIKELY but I know itd be embarrassing as hell to go to JAIL for felony possession of controlled substance w intent to distribute bc you couldnt stop yourself from YAPPING on a fucking tumblr post and then mr hammers gave your email and login ip to the cops. I KNOW youre all not using secure enough burners and vpns and shit 4 that Cmon now
Seriously though, shutting up is vital but I’d also highly recommend not fucking around this way. Pharmacies track this. Insurance companies track this. I look at people’s prescription info every day I work. It goes back years, and it’s very detailed. If I saw something suspicious, no I didn’t - but not everyone with this information is trustworthy or on our side.
It’s not fair or right that T is controlled and E isn’t, but don’t risk that heat, not with things as they are currently.
i dont consider myself a ‘fashion guru’ by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo’ vs 'boot cut’ or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping
this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top’ is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top’ is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back
additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you
useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)
ya being kafkaesque isn’t about turning into a bug it’s about how if you turned into a bug your boss would still be like “ok but we’re short staffed can u still come in”
while i understand that this is meant to be a joke about hellish capitalism, again, we cannot erase an important dimension to his work: franz kafka was a jew. he and his families were jews during a time period where traditional, religiously-based jew hatred was being replaced with a new pseudoscientific belief that jews were to be hated and oppressed because they were a subhuman race. this transition to race-based hatred of jews meant that even assimilated jews- who considered themselves citizens of states before they were ever jews- were now being irrationally targeted and hunted.
the term “anti-Semitism” was created specifically to name this new racial hatred of Jews. it was coined in 1879- 4 years before Kafka was born.
in “the metamorphosis”, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a “monstrous vermin”. in kafka’s real world, jews woke up one morning, in their country that they were told was now enlightened and accepting of all people, and found out that they were now considered “monstrous vermin”. and then 6 million jews of his generation were exterminated.
i am giving the simplest analysis to this right now, but we need to understand that you cannot just blanketly universalize his work. you cannot remove the context of kafka’s jewishness or that he lived at a time when antisemitism became fervently racial. yes, discuss how his work comments on capitalism, society, etc. but to only use ONLY these lenses and to ONLY universalize his work is dishonest, whitewashes his work and life, and further exhibits how little non-jews know or care about the jewish history and the how antisemitism has impacted jews for over 2000 years.
Mario creepypasta fundamentally doesn’t work because you know what Mario would actually do if we saw some dimension-warping hundred-handed cosmic horror? He wouldn’t lose his mind; he’d take one look at that Shin Megami Tensei looking fucker, pull out his dorky little mushroom-shaped cell phone, hit the fourth number down on his contact list, and go “hey, Kirby, I think-a one-a your boys got lost”.
“Or he’d just fight it himself” no, he would not, for two reasons:
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of Mario’s central plot structure. Mario always gets his ass beat in his initial encounter with an outside context problem, then spends the bulk of the game going around gathering allies and kicking the legs out from under the outside context problem’s support structure.
This sort of thing clearly falls into another protagonist’s idiom, and Mario is a union man – he’s not going to scab on Kirby. Perish the thought!
“I wouldn’t take-a the food from another video game mascot’s plate!”
Since nari has cat mannerism you know how cats meow when they want attention would the equivalent of that be Narinder walking around just repeatedly yelling lambs name
I hate watching Internet horror because it results in my recommendations being filled with “analysis” videos (actually just a plot summary) with thumbnails that look like this:
The worst thing is that there is so much potential for exploring the horror of psych wards from the angle of medical abuse, ableism, forced treatment/drugging, loss of autonomy, power imbalance, demonization, dehumanization, etc, and YET the horror genre keeps defaulting to “insane asylums and psych wards are scary because there are mentally ill people in there”
I just got described as an “ad hating commie” by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
