And a disaster for the discussion of non-anime TV shows in fandom.

"Cool-down episodes" aren't filler.

[Image description: a tweet by @matress_island "Evelyn Waughluigi" which says "I've said this before, but the word "filler" breaking containment from meaning "episodes original to an anime while they waited for the manga to catch up" to "any part of a show that doesn't move the main plot forward" has been a disaster for the medium of television".]

we need to ban parents from using the word "attitude" so they can maybe start grappling with the fact that their children maybe are having a reasonably angry response

nothing fills you with greater false confidence than managing to wake up early once

"this sleep schedule shit is easy" (← about to learn a lesson straight out of a fucked up traditional fairytale punishment)

Promise?

*reading philosophy* hmm well it depends

Oh Jeffrey? Jeff the killer? Oh yeah he's not a teenager anymore. He's 28. Yeah he's still into the killing part just not as much. He says it lost its spark. Yeah he still says go to sleep but he'd honestly rather go sleep himself. He's pretty chill. Past the killings. He's a beloved member of the community. Yeah he's on estrogen

a lot of pieces of media will show characters catching fireflies with just their bare hands. in some cases they will just land on the persons fingers. to gently be placed inside of a jar..

for people who live in areas who don’t have fireflies, i want you to know that is not made up or exaggerated for those scenes. fireflies are really like that. they are slow and not cautious at all. while camping i would just walk up to one flying in the air and grab it. and it would sit on my hands like “oh ok.” they are my friends.

also i think it’s funny when fireflies are portrayed as round light bulb-ish shapes. they are skinny.

also their butts are yellow even when not lit up. they’re not just all black until suddenly lighting up yellow! they always got little yellow asses!

they are such friends

fireflies our beloveds <3

Thought people might appreciate this video I got of a firefly that landed on my mom’s ring and sat there flashing for about a good minute or two. They really are just like that

I've had to let a couple people know that fireflies are in fact real.

If you're one of todays lucky ten thousand, i'm happy for you. The world is a marvelous place <3

What surprises me always is not that they are real but how shockingly bright they are. That's a whole ass LED. How does he power it? What a beautiful boy

oh so they’re just saying the quiet part out loud? Good to know they’re just out and open now

That’s not the quiet part.

There’s something else, something they might not even be fully aware of themselves. The real quiet part is that if it was *their* child or *their* ectopic pregnancy they’d pull out all the stops to save their life or get their grandchild aborted. Planned Parenthood sees reactionaries and regressives all the time, and they are every bit the nightmare patients you’d imagine them to be. But the one thing all those patients have in common is that *their* abortion is *justified*, and the next week they’ll be outside the clinic again, rejoining the protestors for “killing their baby”.

It’d be one thing to have ghoulish principles, but the far-right have none at all.

When I was younger and had more time to waste on the internet, and spent a lot of time in various online forums getting into arguments -- on purpose -- I made up a game I called Six Degrees of Slut.

The game (which is a variation on the well known Six Degrees of Bacon) was very simple. In any discussion of abortion, see whether you could get the other side to articulate, within six back-and-forth exchanges, some variation of The Filthy Sluts Must Be Punished. Regardless of where their argument started, the goal of the game was to get them to admit that.

I never once lost a game of Six Degrees of Slut. On a few occasions the match was inconclusive - the other person left off arguing before we reached round six - but I never lost; I never once reached six rounds of debate with a prolifer without them expressing some variation on this sentiment. But what was really remarkable to me was, a lot of times, that there was no effort involved at all -- they would blurt it out themselves, with effectively no provocation.

Scratch a prolifer, and you'll find right under the surface the conviction that The Filthy Sluts Must Be Punished. I have never once yet found an exception. Sometimes you don't even have to scratch.

I am not willing to accept a single forced birth, by anyone, let alone by a child, or a single death. That's not acceptable. Anyone who thinks that way? We have nothing in common. The life of a 10 year old, raped by their father, is precious. They should get to grow up, enjoy whatever childhood is left to them, and some day have a choice of whether or not to have children. They shouldn't have to sacrifice their childhood, risk their life, risk their future fertility, because some foul ghoul thinks the cluster of cells in their uterus has more rights than the person carrying it.

Sorry but I’ll be adding these tags to the post!

From @threewolfboon

#follow the filthy sluts must be punished' argument to its logical end and you'll realise they dont care about babies at all #*filthy sluts must be punished' with what? with the consequences of their actions!' whats the consequence of being a slut? having babies!! #is every life a precious miracle that must be protected at all costs? #or are children a punishment inflicted upon people you already think are stupid and irresponsible? #THATS why its ok when they get abortions #they didnt do anything wrong! they dont need the punishment! #having babies you dont want is a punishment for the sluts not them!

[start first image description: a screenshoot of two tweets, the first is by user Kaya Masters @ sisterinferior, it reads:

Here's what you ghouls don't understand.

I will accept one 10 year old forced to give birth to her father's child every year to stop 30k+ other abortions.

The second tweet is by user Sensurround @ ShamashAran which reads:

My other favorite take is: "Women will still get abortions they will just be far less safe, and more women will die."

Okay. Fine with it. /End ID.]

touching grass isn't enough some of y'all need to drive out to the countryside and look at the stars

this post was aimed at the discourse-addled and terminally online, but i'm glad it's reaching an audience of people who are just excited about stargazing in general

shoutout to everyone with forget disorders (adhd, DID/osdd, ptsd/c-ptsd, asd, dementia/alzeheimers, schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, major depressive, chronically ill/phys disabled people with brain fog, people with long-Covid, natural memory degradation, and etc.)

“tumblr became bad because of porn ban” “tumblr is bad because of bots” “tumblr is bad because there’s hateful people who post freely” THE AUDIO POST HAS A COPYRIGHT DETECTOR NOW. DOESNT ANYONE REMEMVER WHEN YOU COULD PUT ANY SONG ON HERE AND LISTEN AND SCROLL AND LOVE????????????? STOP SENDING ME TO SPOTIFY APP

they need to come up with more words like necrosis and miasma and mausoleum and cadaver and morose and decrepit and stuff like that just so metal bands can expand their vocabulary

[Image ID: AO3 Tag reading: Long-Term Nuclear Waste Site Warning Messages As A Metaphor For Love /End ID]

Matthew Rice in Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron 1996

[image description: a black and white photo of a man sat on a motorbike. He's young with pale skin, dark hair and a few tattoos on his arms. He's wearing a black shirt and a chain necklace. Under his portrait is text reading:

I've been tending bar at a gay bar. The guys I work with have been fine. Sometimes when people find out, they make pronoun slips that they wouldn't have made before. There are patrons who come into the bar and refer to me as "she" and won't change it, even when I've told them it's not appropriate.
I think it's about what is and isn't okay. You know, because these guys are all masculine and really hyperconscious of being masculine and don't want to be perceived as feminine because then they would be nellie and that's just not okay. (It's a bear bar: bears and bikers. Harleys and flannel shirts.)
But there are men at the bar who are incredibly supportive. In a lot of ways, I'm more empowered by men than by women. I've had a really hard time with dykes through my process. I've had lesbian lovers exclude me from their lives because I made the decision to stop being in denial about my identity.
The biker guys are very cool.
They're probably the most accepting of me. The ones who have become my friends have helped me explore how I feel about being a man, how I am a man differently than other people, and my kinship to other men. Some have really helped me sort through what it is that I want to take on as part of being a man.
Many of my role models have been leathermen and perverts, so they understand that a young queer man is someone non- traditional. I think some people assume that transsexuals have this sexist stereotype about how they're supposed to act, and I've had men tell me that I don't have to be that way: "You can be any way you want to be, and it doesn't make you less of a man." /ID]