mascula-sappho:

Aren’t plushies beautiful? They were created so a sick child had something to hold. They were created so an adult living alone might have a friend to keep them company. They were created for a teenager to clutch to her chest as she cries. They were created to accompany a college student to his geology classes. They were created not for any material benefit, they don’t change tires, but to be loved.

They were created for the purpose of love.

thingsihavecrochetandknit:

ALT

I’ve been watching so much Batman the Animated Series. They try very hard to make him spooky™️ and I’m loving it so I designed a quilt square based on the end credit image!

lordofallpacs:

I’m still alive and so are you. Enjoy that, for a moment. The act of existing, in spite of whatever may dislike you for it. Then continue, and do so with the pride of one who eslxists in open rebellion to inevitability.

meltedwax87:

chaithetics:

THE TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL IS BEING PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE TOMORROW!!!!!!!

EDIT: Here’s a link with more info on the Bill and it’s contents and breaches!

This matters to EVERYONE in our country! If you’re Māori this is about our LITERAL existence, if you’re Pākehā, tauiwi, tangata Tiriti this concerns you because Tiriti is what gives you the privilege of existing on this whenua! The Waitangi Tribunal has already said this Bill will be the biggest Waitangi breach ever. YOU have a responsibility to do something.

ACT, our coalition government, and the Ministry of Justice have been intentionally keeping this bill under the wraps. Mad mihi to the MoJ analyst who leaked that draft though (I’m sure they got sacked if not massive repercussions).

What we know so far is that Te Pāti Māori, Green Party, and Labour WILL NOT be voting for this and that ACT, NZ First, and National WILL be voting for this tomorrow. NZ First and National have said that they WILL NOT support this Bill after its first reading so it will go to Select Committee and then die at first reading.

National and NZ First have said they’ll only support this Bill to first reading (thankfully) but there is always the chance of closed door promises & favours and we still need to advocate for this disgusting bill to die.

I’ll post more about submissions when they open for Select Committee but I’m happy to help answer questions or help with that and the process.

But the racist idiots to email and drill in that you DO NOT want this Bill are…

ACT MPs

1. David Seymour (Email: David.Seymour@parliament.govt.nz ) (the one bigoted brain cell behind this bill)

2. Brooke Van Velden (Brooke.Vanvelden@parliament.govt.nz)

3. Nicole McKee (Nicole.McKee@parliament.govt.z)

4. Todd Stephenson (Todd.Stephenson@parliament.govt.nz)

5. Andrew Hoggard (Andrew.Hoggard@parliament.govt.nz)

6. Karen Chhour (Karen.Chhour@parliament.govt.nz)

7. Mark Cameron (Mark.Cameron@parliament.govt.nz)

8. Simon Court (Simon.Court@parliament.govt.nz)

9. Parmjeet Parmat (Parmjeet.Parmat@parliament.govt.nz)

10. Laura Trask (Laura.Trask@parliament.govt.nz)

11. Cameron Luxton (Cameron.Luxton@parliament.govt.nz)

AND

- Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz)

- Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters (Winston.Peters@parliament.govt.nz)

If you’re able to participate with any part of the hīkoi please do and please be safe!!!!

Toitū te Tiriti! Ake ake ake!

foone:

absurdly-useful:

foone:

dumbtrannybitch:

foone:

foone:

villainessbian:

foone:

Two ideas and I don’t think I have time today to write either of them

1. Video essayist trying to summarize the career of a local supervillain slowly realizes they’re Tumblr mutuals.

2. Polycule that runs on highlander “there can be only one” rules but with collars instead of beheading

In what sense do you mean the second one? Because this can read as both “only one can collar everyone” or “only one can be collared by/for everyone” and the way things are going I’m plummeting towards the second one very fast

No I mean they play The Game that the Highlanders play, but with D/s instead of murder.

It starts with everyone a dominant. Their goal is to be the last dominant standing: this is The Prize.

The way you win is by collaring other dominants. This makes them into a submissive.

Submissives can’t collar people, but they add their support to their dominants. So each dominant and their personal set of submissives have to try to collar other dominants, through persuasion or force, until there is only one neck without a collar, ruling over a polycule of their submissives.

(and when you collar a dominant, you swap all their submissive’s collars for your collar, as you take their “power” when you defeat them)

I can’t believe I wrote all this without saying the key word “highlandercule”.

turning domming into a competitive game suddenly makes me want to be dominant, and if I lose I win I see no downsides

Yeah that’s the point! It’s a polycule of “switch” girls who all want to be subs. By appealing to their Gamer Instinct, they want to Compete, and Win!

It’s a backdoor into dominance, and they get to enjoy it.

I can’t decide between the possible joke about “the last dom will be enjoying their backdoors” and pointing out that you’ve just invented a form of feudal vassalage for the modern (kink) world.

So I guess I’m doing both.

Look if you’re not replicating old structures of economic dominance (but sexy) in the bedroom, then I don’t know why you’re even in a polycule.

foone:

absurdly-useful:

foone:

dumbtrannybitch:

foone:

foone:

villainessbian:

foone:

Two ideas and I don’t think I have time today to write either of them

1. Video essayist trying to summarize the career of a local supervillain slowly realizes they’re Tumblr mutuals.

2. Polycule that runs on highlander “there can be only one” rules but with collars instead of beheading

In what sense do you mean the second one? Because this can read as both “only one can collar everyone” or “only one can be collared by/for everyone” and the way things are going I’m plummeting towards the second one very fast

No I mean they play The Game that the Highlanders play, but with D/s instead of murder.

It starts with everyone a dominant. Their goal is to be the last dominant standing: this is The Prize.

The way you win is by collaring other dominants. This makes them into a submissive.

Submissives can’t collar people, but they add their support to their dominants. So each dominant and their personal set of submissives have to try to collar other dominants, through persuasion or force, until there is only one neck without a collar, ruling over a polycule of their submissives.

(and when you collar a dominant, you swap all their submissive’s collars for your collar, as you take their “power” when you defeat them)

I can’t believe I wrote all this without saying the key word “highlandercule”.

turning domming into a competitive game suddenly makes me want to be dominant, and if I lose I win I see no downsides

Yeah that’s the point! It’s a polycule of “switch” girls who all want to be subs. By appealing to their Gamer Instinct, they want to Compete, and Win!

It’s a backdoor into dominance, and they get to enjoy it.

I can’t decide between the possible joke about “the last dom will be enjoying their backdoors” and pointing out that you’ve just invented a form of feudal vassalage for the modern (kink) world.

So I guess I’m doing both.

Look if you’re not replicating old structures of economic dominance (but sexy) in the bedroom, then I don’t know why you’re even in a polycule.

moldavite:

turned down a date because i want to go swing my sword at a tree later tonight. alone

bloodybellycomb:

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

ratcity:

We need to be going door to door telling men about bisexuality. We need to start standing outside grocery stores

unusual-pybro:

lumsel:

There’s an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can’t miss it, that says “Beware!!! Spikes!!!”

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it’s their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they’re walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn’t be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still… for a while there it looked like it might have worked…

prokopetz:

1. The author’s poorly disguised fetish
   
2. The author’s proudly displayed fetish
   
3. The author’s fetish you’re pretty sure they don’t realise they have
   
4. The author’s fetish which they’re firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise
   
5. The author’s non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing
   
6. The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves
   
7. The author’s fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding
   
8. The author’s utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they’ve got shit to work through
   
9. The author’s seemingly innocuous recurring trope they’re going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road
   
10. The author’s fetish you missed on a first reading because it’s so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

hellsite-testing-ground:

˙ʇɐqʇᴉnɹɟ ɐ ǝɯoɔǝq oʇ pǝpᴉɔǝp ǝʌ,I

franktheslutiero:

never let anyone tell you you’re delusional. sometimes ur just being gaslit by 40 year olds from new jersey that think it’s funny to edge gay people

gothicwoadie:

whoa! you displayed some creativity there. are u high O_o? people with creative minds usually do a lot of Drug’s

prttyboyjude:

fallout new vegas is actually the best game of all time because it’s the only one where you can give jackoff advice to a robot. objectum win

queer-as-city-folk:

Opinions on this art piece

I like it

I have complex feelings about it

I dislike it

See Results

If you know the story behind this piece, do not share until the poll is over, I want to see the opinions of people who do not know the context behind it

idonknowwhoiam-deactivated20240:

Mutuals I would chew on

questionableresponses:

questionableresponses:

You know what angers me about the inhibitor chip arc? Fives is constantly referred to as ‘Clone Trooper Fives’ instead of 'ARC Trooper Fives’ like he usually is. Palpatine is a huge perpetrator of it and it just makes me upset because Fives worked hard for that rank and to see it stripped from him, in his most important arc, in his death. It’s kind of heart breaking. Same goes for his armour. It was blank, like he was gone, never existed. His paint job that showed his individuality, his pauldrons and kama that showed his rank, gone.

i audibly heard the pieces click in my head. holy shit. yeah it makes sense 😭

lakevida:

lakevida:

lakevida:

lol he doesnt even know

terribly sorry sir it wont happen again

lmfaooo dude

the-haiku-bot:

patricia-taxxon:

pennysaved:

patricia-taxxon:

pennysaved:

patricia-taxxon:

i was briefly on the train of “pluto is a planet and so is EVERY DWARF PLANET” when i was little, but thinking back, it was definitely just an excuse for me to name all the dwarf planets i knew so ppl would be impressed with me for knowing all the secret ones like ceres and haumea and quaoar.

out of curiosity… did you make this post as an excuse for you to name all the dwarf planets you knew so people would be impressed with you? because if so it worked.

no, if that was my aim then i would have also named Eris, Sedna, Varuna, Makemake and Gonggong.

Orcus is displeased

look, if i pulled up a list to copy then it wouldnt be authentic

look, if i pulled up

a list to copy then it

wouldnt be authentic

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

itisiives:

tamberella:

I realized I never shared these - free Bakery Dragon coloring sheets for anyone who wants to color them!

comradesummers:

comradesummers:

One of the things I love about Buffy is that it presents knowledge and research as an absolutely vital part of the process of world saveage. So much of the show is dedicated to the characters sitting around doing research. And that’s pretty rare. Usually if research is a plot device in these kind of shows, it happens off screen. Which does kind of make sense on a storytelling level - it’s not usually that interesting to watch people look stuff up. But I really like that BtVS finds a way to make it interesting, not only because it leads to a lot of great group scenes, but also because it foregrounds the value of educating oneself about something before engaging with it. Which, you know, is an excellent value to foreground.

This post was very much inspired by this tweet.

kakita-shisumo:

la-vie-en-lys:

bronzetomatoes:

the “canon isn’t real we make our own rules” to “i am begging you people to revisit the source material” pipeline

#you have to know the rules so you can break them with intention and precision#otherwise your work will never be truly transformative

literally the first step in jazz is to get the original piece down, that’s the only way you can riff in a way that works

atlinmerrick:

covington-shenanigans:

liz-squids:

thelittleblackfox:

xenosaurus:

I turn 30 next month so here’s what I learned in my 20s:

—don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.

—keeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.

—those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money

—overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them

—you can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and they’re a godsend for hot cocoa

—people don’t care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them

—try to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in

Also drink water and eat a plant

This is all GREAT. I turned 40 last week, so permit me to add what I learned in my 30s:

• keep on not working for startups
• sometimes there comes a point where the thing (fandom, hobby, friendship, romantic relationship) you loved no longer brings you joy. And that’s okay. Try to mourn the loss, take joy in the memories, and don’t burn any bridges in case ten years go by and you find yourself back in that fandom/hobby/relationship again
• it turns out that (ugh) moderate regular exercise is (spit) good for you. The sooner you make it part of your life, the easier it’ll be
• related: if you throw yourself into a new exercise regime too hard and too fast, without stopping to rest or consider whether a particular move is good for you … well, shoulder injuries are painful and consults with orthopedic surgeons are expensive
• knees are bastards too
• don’t even get me started on ankles
• there may come a time when your digestive system is too fragile for ibuprofin. I’m sorry
• one day you’re gonna wake up and realise you no longer give any fucks about some things that used to bother you
• on the other hand, you might be alarmed to realise what you still give a fuck about
• never get down on the floor without an exit strategy for getting back up

I turn 50 this year. what I have learned in my 40s:

• “loving yourself” is less of a feeling and more of an action. you can start doing it any time and it will make your life better and better as you go on
• this will happen incrementally - be patient
• along those lines, if you haven’t started making an active effort to quit shit-talking yourself, suck it up and do it
• no, shut up. do it. “but it’s haaaaard!” don’t care. do it.
• whether you like it or not, you are mortal and you need to go to the doctor for an annual checkup
• stretch regularly - your future self will thank you
• at some point you will encounter people much younger than you arguing passionately and incorrectly about history you personally remember and experienced
• this will be infuriating and annoying
• otoh, most other things just… will not matter to you as much
• at some point you will shift from wanting to go out to being like “eh” and deciding to stay in. this is okay.
• you will have absolutely no idea what The Youth are talking about and you will not care
• but if you keep your mind open to new ideas you’ll never be irrelevant
• your company still doesn’t love you - don’t give them more than they pay you for
• get a fucking hobby, especially a hobby that involves physically creating/handling something and/or moving your body in physical space. it will do you more good than you can imagine

Just turned 60 and let me say:

• Find joy, every kind, it’s always worth it
• I’m talking that massive, never-ending Discord chat with your bestie? The one that makes you giggle through the day? It’s not a “waste of time,” it’s what time was made for
• If that’s fanfic for your favorite characters who never even met on screen celebrate that!
• If that’s building a tiny fleet of snake villagers for your snake town and they just cover your mantel hell yes!
• If that’s collecting pillows and making a fort of them every weekend I’ll be right over
• Feeling and sharing joy is the whole point

itsnickoma:

Keep reading

opiumvampire:

cool so red carnations mean everlasting love and devotion and babys breath means new beginnings. btw

rimonoroni:

rimonoroni:

rimonoroni:

three person poly relationship made up of two people who are already dating trying to coax someone with horrific self worth issues into a loving relationship. stray cat style

they’re all laying together in bed and the couple are both thinking to themselves like good, he stayed the night to cuddle and talk when we offered, he should know that we genuinely care for him and want this to be more then a handful of one night stands. and the stray cat guy is like wow this sure is nice i think i’m falling in love with them. it’s really too bad that they don’t actually give a fuck and hate me and probably want to kill me with hammers for no reason

it has been like. two days

nokiisland:

the white house is such a stupid name. if i were president the first thing i would do is call it the pussy pavilion. the second thing i would do is unleash the bugs of the night

mbari-blog:

Wake up, babe. New MBARI species just dropped. 🤩 

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean’s midnight zone and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence.

With a voluminous hooded structure at one end, a flat tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other, and colorful internal organs in between, the team initially struggled to place this animal in a group. Because the animal also had a foot like a snail, they nicknamed this the “mystery mollusc.”

The team first observed the mystery mollusc in February 2000 during a dive with the institute’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon offshore of Monterey Bay at 2,614 meters (8,576 feet) deep.

They leveraged MBARI’s advanced and innovative underwater technology to gather extensive natural history information about the mystery mollusc. After reviewing more than 150 sightings from MBARI’s ROVs over the past 20 years, they published a detailed description of this animal.

Learn more more about this dazzling new denizen of the deep on our website.

official-penis-posts:

captain-starskull:

sometiktoksarevalid:

@official-penis-posts

You now what to do, boss.

Official Highly Elevated And Steeply Penis Post

kyoukorpse:

bunch of leshy and narinder from my sketchbook this week!! (feat. chirin)

drew these on my breaks at work and am using them to rediscover my love for coloring over sketches in clip !! i have a huge soft spot for leshy and narinder’s a given hehe

nicijones:

Ao3 version that lets you open the ‘director’s cut’ where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

catchymemes:

ruinedchildhood:

i-am-a-fish:

ink-likesquids:

i-am-a-fish:

could someone please put me in a .zip file? I think it would be really cozy in there

sorry only got space in the .webp file :/

NO

adhdoofenshmirtz:

puppiesareperfect:

I think there should be a Perry the Platypus resurgence the same way there’s a Snoopy resurgence right now

He’s so cute, look:

carys-the-ninth:

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it’s written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

pfaugh:

omegasmileyface:

attackradish:

coolguycy:

Girlboy with a he/him pin on one sleeve and a she/her pin on the other. Two people sitting on either side of her aggressively correcting each other on his pronouns

*her pronouns

*his pronouns

crowthekiller:

red-umbrella-811:

emancipatedfailure:

an-aura-about-you:

donutcourse:

redpillwolf:

ninjaeris13:

bryanrl:

millennial-review:

That little girl is going places

I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit.
But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

Much of the ocean is a desert

You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.

Also AOC literally has a degree in economics. So anyone saying their highschool education gave them more economics knowledge than her really needs to rethink themselves.

Your whiteness does not actually create expertise.

also that idiot saying that “fish don’t know what a desert is” is fucking stupid. the point they’re trying to make is dumb, and that analogy is dumb because fish still live in the fucking desert.

hometoursandotherstuff:

catchymemes:

ginormouscobe:

i-am-a-fish:

may i please have a doctor pepper , p lease

ALT

Everything will be okay.

emilymoonglow:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

I love it when folks tag their friends by name when reblogging my posts, not just because of the gesture, but because the names involved are always something like “emilymoonglow”, “theothersteve”, and “dickmangler9000”. It’s seemingly always the third one, too!

(Also, I will point out that I explicitly checked that none of those three examples currently exist as real Tumblr users before I made this post, so if any of them subsequently show up, someone is doing a bit.)

FUCK the bit is ruined pack it up boys

skippyisntfunny:

damnfandomproblems:

Fandom Problem #6237:

Doing math homework, seeing the word “normalize”, and having flashbacks to the Discourse™.

fox-bright:

mars-gow:

fox-bright:

I am never going to be able to leave Reddit.

Miscommunication he meant high not high up

IF ONLY