it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010
Y’all need to stop harassing kids for drawing poorly. It’d like to see your artwork from when you were twelve and into anime. Before you can comment on akid’stiktok you should be forced to relive all your cringe childhood memories. Leave the kids alone
As someone who was a kid artist on the internet during the height of cringe culture I cannot say this enough, no we do not “need to bring back bullying” it’s very clear people saying that have never lost anyone to that kinda behavior, it’s not ok to do to anyone especially not kids
•many many violent meltdowns very often very inconvenient and very disabiling
•if you write an nonverbal charecter then if they can they should probably have high tech AAC and not sign language (unless Deaf or other specific circumstances maybe,
but remember sign language like BSL and ASL is part of Deaf culture,
its not a quick fix its an entirely new language
and it requires good fine motor skills
most nonverbal people struggle with atleast one of those)
I noticed something really REALLY cool about Legends arceus while looking up references, and it’s so little, I don’t know how many other folks have noticed it!!
The pokedex you get at the beginning of your journey;
Perfect, crisp and brand new! So many pages to fill! Untouched by anyone ever, the first to ever exist! The original pokedex.
But at the end, with a completed pokedex;
The title of the book is all ripped and damaged! It’s been through so many surveys and treks out in hisui’s wilderness! The edges of the blue cover are faded and dulling, maybe got wet a few times with run ins with outbreaks, being jostled around in a pack exploring around the region. The black binder holding it together after all this time is equally as banged up, probably barely keeping the stuffed pages inside safe and tucked away, but still doing its job.
This is the first ever pokedex, this is the one that began the understanding of pokemon as we know it, bringing humans and pokemon together as friends in the distant future. Before technology advanced and made the pokedex we were first introduced to in Kanto so many years ago.
It’s falling apart and has been waterlogged a few times, it’s recorded so much and survived raging lords, hordes or pokemon, alphas, an exile, gods of time and space, a banished deity, and faced almighty sinnoh.
And it was written, filled out, carried and protected all this time, by a kid who did their best to help the professor who first met them in Hisui.
gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you’re charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.
i just want the vast majority of media to be by and for trans lesbians, ok? the rest of you can have other stuff sometimes i guess.
stoppp posts like this are why the TERFS hate us 😭
I really need you to understand this, because I say it from a place of care, and one of understanding: there is no shape you can make yourself into that will make them accept you.
They don’t hate us because we’re annoying, nor because we ask for too much. They hate us because they are bigots, and we face discrimination because transmisogyny is a pervasive and dominant force within our society. The amount of space they want us to take up is Zero.
We cannot make ourselves small enough to please them, and trying will only make you miserable, I know, because I spent a long time doing it.
Friday, November 29th: Hello, everyone. I’m Gem, a bi, mentally ill, and disabled woman in desperate need of help, as I am struggling to pay my bills in time for Christmas!!
I apologize for asking for help again; as most of you know from my previous posts, I have been struggling quite a lot to make ends meet while on welfare benefits and due to my rent arrears and ever-increasing debt. And to be quite honest, these past few months have been absolute hell for me, and with no other income, I’ve been relying on the kindness of others to get by.
However, I desperately need that kindness again because, due to avoiding creditor calls and red notices, my debt has been steadily piling up. It is now to such an amount that I can’t possibly pay it off on my own, which has left me in desperate need of help.
In the next 30 days, I owe a grand total of £570.85 (Zilch credit £256.07 + credit card £314.78). These balances are due just before Christmas, and if I can’t clear them, I won’t be able to pay my rent in time for Christmas or get groceries to last me until my next welfare payment in January!!
Again, I know this is a lot to ask, but if anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much.
Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source
But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there’s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer’s face would be uncovered. The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was “magically” changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?
WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT “STAGE NINJA” WAS JUST A CUTE THEATER TERM FOR CREW. THERE WERE LITERALLY GOD DAMN STAGE NINJAS
AS A FORMER STAGE NINJA I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS BOTH A THING AND AWESOME.
Me, my grandma and Oreo, my Hampshire pig. Circa. 2005.
If you’re wondering how we ended up with a pig, one of my friends was given him by her aunt as a gag gift on her 4th birthday. This was obviously intended to upset her mom, who was, no offense intended, a neat freak. The baby piggy sat in a cold cardboard box on their porch the entire rest of her birthday party. My mom is a kitten rescuer and had no experience with pigs or knowledge of how big Hampshire pigs get (huge meat breed, 550 to 750 pounds) but couldn’t bear the thought of this tiny piglet being left in the cold. So she took him with us when she left.
He was an exceptional pig with a fantastic piggy personality. He stayed with us for a year and a half until he officially outgrew his enclosure and became a breeding boar at a local farm (this is not a “we sent him to a farm upstate” fairy tale, we saw him often afterwards and he escaped and returned at one point). He liked eating my mom’s tulips, he tucked himself in bed under his blanket every night and by the time he was rehomed, he had somehow figured out how to open doors and let himself in the house. He was clever, dramatic, extremely stubborn and very affectionate.
Don’t give animals as gag gifts, especially intelligent, beautiful, huge creatures.
Powerpuff Girls was actually a show about a group of small children crushing the patriarchy and no one will convince me otherwise
Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise obviously wasn’t watching the same show.
reasons why i love this show so much
I love that the most tiny feminine delicate sweetheart of the three does the traditionaly masculine chores. Kinda makes me wanna see a teen Bubbles change a tire in a pretty dress and hair bow.
honestly i think my fav part of this gifset is the fact that those last two are probably supposed to be Their Chores but only Bubbles is doing them like that is peak sibling energy, flawless execution
Didn’t PPG have a villain that was specifically meant to mock feminists as man haters that use feminism to harm others?
They did and if you watch the whole episode you see the PPG get tricked into letting the villain committ crime out of female solidarity.
Then several women step in to talk to the PPG about how the villain is using feminism as a scapegoat to get away with toxic and criminal behavior. And how what the villain is doing isnt actually feminist at all.
Like that episode was very good about addressing toxic behaivor from people who are supposedly woke or whatever.
An episode a lot of Tumblr should watch given the rampant radfem and terf ideology that gets spread on here.
in conclusion
stan powerpuff girls for clear skin
Additionally: look at Bubble’s smile and pure joy when her sisters bring up her role. That’s not a child who’s getting shunted with the sibling chores, that’s a child who decided one Sunday morning “I’m going to wash the car, it sounds fun!” and no one has stopped her since.
there’s a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.
if you don’t know, there’s a very popular 3d printing model out there called “benchy”. this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it’s a difficult print and will help test it out.
this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.
of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?
i try to avoid making predictions. but i will make one for 2025. i suspect the surveillance state goes into complete hyper drive starting next year. it’s always been here, obviously. sometimes obfuscated poorly, sometimes not. but this definitely feels like things are evolving and not in a positive way.
i think it started with the campus protests. Luigi accelerated it to break-neck speed. and now, watching some of this New Years Eve coverage has me convinced that we’re moving into an even more advanced, new state of normal regarding perpetual, heavy-handed state surveillance.
this is not meant to be doom posting or conspiratorial, by the way. as i said, it’s happening already here and elsewhere in the world.
Seattle turned down Shotspotter but then turned around and implemented “real-time crime center” software, CCTV cameras on street corners and automatic license plate readers.
and it’s not just big cities like Chicago and Seattle. Glendale, California (pop. ~200k) is getting a 6-person “crime control center” that “takes live streams from hundreds of city and police cameras scattered throughout Glendale and routes them into a six-person control room at police headquarters.”
Customs & Border Patrol are engaged in a massive surveillance campaign at the Mexican border and have looked to “drastically expand its surveillance capabilities with new towers, artificial intelligence, drones, and even four-legged robots.”
meanwhile, don’t forget to look up. because in the north, Canada is getting ready to start it’s own border surveillance crusade in response to Trump’s bloviating, which “includes expansions of border technologies, including RCMP counterintelligence, 24/7 surveillance between ports of entry, helicopters, drones and mobile towers.” as the article linked outlines, this will increase the number of deaths of asylum seekers.
and naturally because we’re living in the late stages of a capitalist hellscape, as you should already know: law enforcement are not the only ones engaging in mass surveillance. the FTC is (was with Trump taking over) investigating vendors for “surveillance pricing.” essentially, credit card companies sell your personal information to vendors who use it in order to ultimately increase the amount you pay at checkout.
this is just scratching the surface. i can also give you recent examples from some places that perhaps you’d expect - Russia, Pakistan, India.
conspiracy theories are more prevalent than ever and it’s important to be wary of them. this, however, is not one of them. every last one of the stories that i’ve linked above are from the last year. there are going to be a lot more like them in 2025.
Earlier I was scrolling Reddit and I come across a post in r/shrooms, a sub reddit dedicated to psychadelic mushrooms and frequently featuring entries from users who are posting during a trip.
A guy posts, freaking out, that the delivery person who dropped off his food had a huge snake wrapped around his neck and the snake was talking to him and tripped him out.
He shares a picture ne sneakily took of the delivery driver.
The delivery driver actually does, in fact, have a live 7 or so foot long boa constrictor draped across his shoulders.
Can you fucking image. Being blasted out of your gourd on hallucinogenic substances, getting a random knock at the door and the guy has a live gigantic snake just chilling. Your head would explode
generally speaking when it comes to mental and physical health, if you’re asked “do you struggle with this” and your answer is “no, Because I Have A System,” then your answer is actually yes
Also, for ADHD symptoms specifically, if they ask something like, “Do you have trouble waiting your turn in conversations?” and your answer is, “No I’m a grown up I don’t interrupt people,” but you are constantly finishing sentences for people in your head and have formulated three replies before they finish talking…. the answer is yes, yes you do.
And if you can stay in your seat but are constantly bouncing a leg, clicking a pen, tapping out a rhythm on your thigh, or otherwise fidgeting, the answer is, yes, you do have trouble staying in your seat.
Neurotypicals do not require iron clad self control and three coping techniques to sit still during a meeting.
What if your answer is “No, I don’t have trouble waiting my turn because I can’t tell when it’s my turn so I never take my turn.”?
Seeing a marburg virus outbreak in 2024 on the heels of a global coronavirus pandemic reminds me of reading a seanan mcguire interview in 2012ish where she discussed how our societal approach to quarantine is a joke & the individual desire for freedom & autonomy over safety gets people killed. I have to wonder what going through the early ‘20s as someone well educated in viral mutations and infection vectors must’ve been like. Prophets screaming from a crumbling parapet
Seeing a marburg virus outbreak in 2024 on the heels of a global coronavirus pandemic reminds me of reading a seanan mcguire interview in 2012ish where she discussed how our societal approach to quarantine is a joke & the individual desire for freedom & autonomy over safety gets people killed. I have to wonder what going through the early ‘20s as someone well educated in viral mutations and infection vectors must’ve been like. Prophets screaming from a crumbling parapet
Seeing a marburg virus outbreak in 2024 on the heels of a global coronavirus pandemic reminds me of reading a seanan mcguire interview in 2012ish where she discussed how our societal approach to quarantine is a joke & the individual desire for freedom & autonomy over safety gets people killed. I have to wonder what going through the early ‘20s as someone well educated in viral mutations and infection vectors must’ve been like. Prophets screaming from a crumbling parapet
Seeing a marburg virus outbreak in 2024 on the heels of a global coronavirus pandemic reminds me of reading a seanan mcguire interview in 2012ish where she discussed how our societal approach to quarantine is a joke & the individual desire for freedom & autonomy over safety gets people killed. I have to wonder what going through the early ‘20s as someone well educated in viral mutations and infection vectors must’ve been like. Prophets screaming from a crumbling parapet
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