actually made this before the election tho seems slightly more relevant after watching CA vote no on things like rent control and, like, Prohibiting Slavery
I’ve made this as a logo/seal thing for a body in a fictional country’s government. It would be helpful if you, the one reading this, could answer the following:
What do you think it could be a seal/logo for?
Let’s assume you guessed right. How could I improve it?
A restaurant named You’re Not Supposed To Be Here, where the whole point is that the vibes are unnerving. The lighting is weird, the whole place has a faint scent that’s not a bad smell, but it’s certainly not food smell and you can’t quite identify what the hell it is. The music is weirdly janky and you can’t quite tell what’s wrong with it, the vocals aren’t exactly garbled but sung in a language you swear you’ve never heard anywhere and couldn’t name if you tried. Only hiring staff who have anxiety and they’re 100% permitted to show how much your presence here stresses them out.
I went to a restaurant like that once, but it was just a local chain of steakhouses.
There’s a restaurant here in town that’s set up in a refurbished office building, but, like, they didn’t revise the existing floor plan when they moved in, so when you go there to eat you have to ride an elevator up to an aggressively beige reception area that looks and smells like the Ghost of Dot-Coms Past, where after a while a waiter will come wandering down one of the grey-carpeted hallways and lead you to an unmarked office door, and inside that door is a fully furnished dining room. I’ve been there twice and I still have no idea where the kitchen is located. The food’s actually not bad, but “unnerving” is one way to describe the dining experience!
“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women
also the former “epidemic” being taken up in pop discourse explicitly or implicitly as a pathological consequence of feminism having “gone too far” instead of actually doing the work to connect social isolation to existing material conditions….no no don’t worry about it just default to blaming women for men’s sadness and dissatisfaction bc otherwise you’d have to confront capitalism and misogyny and white supremacy etc. etc. and nobody wants to do that so. its somehow very aggravating and boring at the same time. whenever i see think-pieces that follow this script i instantly fall into a furious slumber
and you just know that half the incel ass boys & men complaining about friendzoning and loneliness have either written off/mistreated “undesirable” girls & women who have shown interest in them in the past, or they have just grown so incapable of seeing girls & women as real human people that they go around treating them like brainless gumball machines whose sole purpose is to dispense sex but only if you press the right conversational buttons. or both. anyway i know where the buttons are and i can reveal them to you for the low price of $90/month. please subscribe bro i promise im not a grifter
Oh also, there is a general loneliness epidemic. Regardless of gender.
And this optimistic + from 2021. It has not gotten better since.
one thing I really like about my relationship with my boyfriend is that we can express negative feelings about each other’s actions without assigning blame or requiring apology. I mean like for morally neutral things like “it drives me crazy when you leave a wet towel on the floor instead of hanging it up”
cause now like instead of “oh I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to drive you crazy, I’m terrible and unsocialized” or “um well that’s dumb, who cares” it’s like
“it does? I didn’t know that. how come?”
“because it will mildew and I keep tripping over it and I don’t know whether you intend to reuse that towel or whether it needs to go in the wash”
“okay so usually if I intend to reuse it I hang it up, and if it needs to go in the wash I drop it on the floor. I guess because I thought I shouldn’t put it in the hamper because it would get all the other dirty clothes wet and then THEY might mildew before we do the laundry.”
“that’s valid. what if we have a specific place to hang wet towels that need to be washed? how about this one hook here”
“perfect!”
no hurt feelings, nobody being made to feel shitty and sloppy on one hand or uptight and bitchy in the other hand. just, we’re partners right? let’s workshop this
Being autistic is like screaming through a megaphone “please don’t overwork me, i WILL explode” and everyone responds like haha well. You’ll get used to it over time :)
i need greater societal understanding for the fact that people with autism are just less capable of handling stress and are more likely to become stressed from things that are invisible to others. like can you be nice
This is the basic concept of overstimulation, actually. Too many stimuli at once, the brain can’t process everything at once, it causes a lot of stress. Being stressed expresses differently in different autistic people but generally like. If you commonly feel a need to flee from a group to go lock yourself up in the bathroom to calm down or you otherwise shut down and don’t want to talk anymore you are experiencing stress, and whatever situation you were in is made more stressful to you because you’re autistic. It’s not your fault, you’re not being whiny, you have needs and you need to take care of them.
At my current job, I am mostly helping run a science workshop for 5-8year olds and I have been running it for school groups over the last week and this is what I’ve learnt.
1. Six-year-olds, on the whole, can’t read. I keep forgetting this.
2. We have a Samsung tablet to show a video on and they’re confused about the “really big phone”.
3. I trying to explain that 2009 was not technically that long ago by pointing out it was within my lifetime. I was told I “gotta be at least thirty!”
4. They have been on this planet for five minutes and it’s been a very stressful and fucked up five minutes so they do seem to sit on extremes.
5. The majority of them are absolute angels and very sweet (even when they’re making me feel old)
Tumblr is unique bc like. It’s collaborative shitposting and you can’t opt in or out. You can just say something about your day then an evil wizard shows up to turn your post into something humorous
Every other site is just one and done, but here a post is a welcome mat to be funnier than you
yeah or sometimes you’ll see a post that hacks into your brain and forever rewrites your instinctual reaction to seeing a pineapple explode
straight people are so fascinating even when they aren’t actively trying to be homophobic. I had a class a few years ago where one assignment was to summarize some eighth century arabic poetry about going out for drinks with the lads before indulging in some gay sex and like half the class came in and said “I’m sorry idk what was happening in this one, they mention having sex with a servant but they also say the servant’s a man? where’d the woman come from? I’m so confused.” and a few days ago in a shakespeare class I made a comment about how cleopatra and octavius caesar are kind of parallel characters in possessively bartering for mark antony’s attention and one of my classmates responded as though I’d been talking about octavia and not caesar, despite the fact that I said “caesar” and “him” multiple times while describing the actions he specifically took. fully incapable of comprehending of anything that’s even a little bit gay.
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I have an opinion about the Switch 2 price but y’all aren’t gonna like it bc it’s more nuanced than just Nintendo bad greedy
Since someone actually asked
Like corporations are bad, but there’s a bigger reason that games cost so much. I’m actually okay with mainstream games getting more expensive bc it helps raise the floor on indie game prices (which should all be higher, Stardew Valley being $15 is actually bad for indie devs everywhere bc everyone compares your indie game to SV and is like why can’t you have this much content and be this cheap. SV should be like $40-50.) bc then me an indie dev might get paid more and not be starving.
The nuance is that twin evils are at work here: 1. video game costs have kept up with inflation (as they should to pay for the higher fidelity gamers demand and to pay the bigger and bigger teams) but wages have not. Ppl should be asking why isn’t our minimum high enough I can afford a game with a few hours of work (the equivalent of less than half an extra shift if you wanted to take it once a month)?
Essentially: please gain class consciousness, bite every billionaire, demand minimum wage and thus all other wages be raised to keep up with inflation and suddenly you will have money for games and consoles, and game devs will be able to make quality products that allow them to feed their families.
Evil #2, (this evil is also why AI has gotten so big) is that art has been even further reduced to things that are solely meant to be consumed, spit out and then immediately forgotten for the next item of consumption. This conflating of art (and video games are art!) with products and consumption is the other half of the nuance here. It’s not wrong for people to ask, hell even to demand they get paid well for making good art. They should be getting paid well for it.
Either that or gamers need to lower their impossible standards.
Anyways. Corporations are evil and not your friend, that includes Nintendo, but please consider using this anger to gain class consciousness and realize that the real thing to be mad about is not that games and consoles are more expensive, but that you are not getting paid enough, are being exploited, capitalism is a failed system and all billionaires are evil and need to be forcibly divested of their money.
3rd reblog bc fuck it I have another point to make
Even with console games jumping to $80 USD video games are, barring maybe books, by far, the cheapest dollar to hours of entertainment investment than anything else!
$80 game that you play for 100 hours of entertainment=80 cents per hour
2 hours of Disney slop at the theatre for $15 (forgive my estimate I live in Canada and don’t actually know how much y’all’s movies cost) = $7.50 per hour of entertainment.
Video games have just as much if not more man hours put into their creation than some movies, and yet you are paying way less for them! The price of video games going up is not actually the evil thing here.
You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. “No feeding the birds.” “Stop swimming in this drainage pond.” That kind of thing.
Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They’ve covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they’re working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means “stop bothering this particular goose, Sven.” I don’t know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.
Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There’s no law against it, except perhaps “littering,” and the municipal sign factory doesn’t have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.
Is this wrong? I don’t think so. It’s a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn’t get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.
What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the “no trucks” sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I’m not entirely sure if he’s actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.
It’s so funny every time reality butts up against these guys’ fantasies of a glorious war, they get upset. They can’t handle what Hemingway said all the way back in 1935:
“…In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
The worst thing to happen to modern warfare was modern warfare. Nothing has fundamentally changed in a hundred years. War is not the noble meeting of champions in the arena, it is murder.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
im laughing so hard my roommate and i each picked a poster from a movie we liked and we were going to decide on a movie we both like to put in the middle but we havent yet so our living room wall just looks like this
I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godchild is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.
In science that’s called a whalefall :)
dead gods on the bottom of the mariana trench
I’m choosing to read this as “You cannot kill a God in any way that matters” and interpret that as “Gods are Fungi.”
y’all really need to read deeplight if you want dead gods at the bottom of the mariana trench
Ever since I learnt bout angel tiers as a kid I always wanted to draw em all but only now did i get around to it-
Wanted to have it where they progressively get more abstract and inhuman the higher the tier goes cause who doesnt love a lil cosmic horror? I also took some liberties with the descriptions of all the angels cause lotta them kind of overlap and sound similar.
the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.
when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i’m embarrassed of - this was not me being a “girl’s girl.”
but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn’t what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you’re not performing girlhood correctly. it isn’t as easy as “i liked x when girls liked y” - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.
now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.
the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.
but it is no longer “i made this choice and I love it.” instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn’t having kids. instead it’s long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you’re going to kill them. instead it is “this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you’re making.”
the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don’t have this, you aren’t happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.
but you can no longer say i’m not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they’re trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can’t you be like her?
because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she’s shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you’d be happier if you were listening!
and the whole time you’re sitting there thinking: i’d actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.
I agree we really need to figure out a counter narrative to the tradeife movement I see as many young women falling down the tradwife rightwing rabbit hole as young men getting radicalized.
But especially as the economy tanks, making it more difficult for women to achieve economic independence the lure of being a tradwife will only get stronger.
I find framing it in terms of financial independence to be a lot less stigmatized than most other responses. It’s not that you’re criticizing her life choices it’s that you’re worried without financial independence she could become trapped in a cycle of abuse or find herself without job prospects or experience in the event of divorce or becoming widowed.
Our grandmothers worried about these things. Our grandmothers hoarded jewelry, silver and gold as the only monetary safety net they could amass. Our grandmothers couldn’t open a bank account or line of credit without a husband. We do not want to go back to that reality.
I also want to express how seen I felt in the phrase
“not performing girlhood correctly”
As a child I was regularly ostracized and harassed by my peers and elders for not performing girlhood correctly. I was queer and brown and awkward and anxious and very book smart but people dumb.
Girlhood was painful and awkward and difficult. And I was never allowed to forget for a moment that I was doing it wrong and badly.
Imagine my shock and surprise when I discovered that womanhood is actually something that I excel at. It’s an incredibly weird experience to tumble accidentally into presenting as a societal ideal after being a social outcast for so long. It gives you an interesting perspective
Maybe it’s masking, maybe it’s Maybelline -Experiencing kindness and grace from strangers when you’re used to being ignored and intentionally closed out of social opportunities at best is a hell of a growing up experience.
why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.
Because dudes never get to experience an orgasm that lasts seemingly forever, an orgasm that builds so slowly that you fear that it might never actually end and you’ll just be stuck perpetually on the verge of insanity
Pam Bondi directing prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione for allegedly killing one CEO when school shooters get proven guilty and still manage to get off with lighter sentences should rattle you.
Luigi Mangione has been stripped of all of his legal and human rights since day one. Luigi Mangione has not been proven guilty of a single crime up until now because Luigi Mangione has not had a trial yet.
If there’s a time when you need to speak up for what’s right, it is now.
Don’t make them make an example out of this young man and take his life. Your America has never been safe anyway, and it definitely isn’t going to be if they keep getting away with their bullshit.
Stand by Luigi. Support Luigi. Seek justice for Luigi.
I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down…
I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!
It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!
People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like
What in the Skyrim
been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.
We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?
The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It’s roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first ‘offically’ recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.
The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.
So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange’? Let’s get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that’s strange.
So now let’s get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it’d be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes…again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.
As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like… 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.
I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I’m gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!
“The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day”
“THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY”
!!!!!!!!!!
Finally
Cryptobotany
And so this post floats back to me. Pure poetry.
Somehow no one has mentioned yet that Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the U.S, and the 10th deepest lake in the world. She Is Deep And Full Of Secrets guys, perfect wizard territory
