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Every once in a while a new music genre gets invented and people from all different countries are like this slaps we got to start doing that and combine it with our own music styles and that's beautiful

There was a time when China got really into jazz and so did Ethiopia. Cambodia got really into Psychedelic Rock to the point that there's now an contemporary American band specialised in this style of music. There's a band from my hometown in Germany singing in Spanish and I know several early 20th century Japanese and Chinese artists were doing the same. Zambia had it's own Rock movement. Ska is from Jamaica but I know Japanese, Basque and Spanish ska bands. You can probably find hip hop and rap in all languages of the world by now. I watched an entire documentary on the history of South American rock and roll. There is a Cuban orchestra mixing Mozart and guajira. Finnish tango. German covers of Irish folk music. Blues from the Sahara.

“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.

This is the speech. Write it on every goddamn wall out there.

You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.

social media is supposed to be PvP

sometimes i wonder if i should reblog something; and then i remember:

cringe isn't real

hope this helps.

Jojo, všichni už známe a milujeme duo anděl a čert/démon/zmetek pekelnej, ale co teprve čert a vodník??

Chci vánoční pohádku o tom, jak spolu žijou čert a vodník sami v těsné blízkosti, vodník v nějakém rybníčku a čert v polorozpadlé chalupě/mlýně/jiné budově s krbem, a taky se maj už dlouhé roky rádi, ale nemůžou se dotknout jeden druhého, protože by je to bolelo, páč milujem ten angst.

No a jednoho dne se u nich objeví náhodný princ, který potřebuje pomocníky na výpravu za princeznou, a z nějakého důvodu (věštba, předpověď osudu, anebo prostě proto, že mu čert šlohl svačinu) si vybral je. Oni nechcou, ale princ jim vyhrožuje, že jejich malý koutek světa zabaví a prodá, ve stylu Lorda Farquaada, chápem. Tak musí souhlasit.

Tak teda jdou na výpravu. Jednoduché to není, protože princ je nafoukanej a sobeckej až hanba, jelikož mu všichni u dvora líbali zadek, a princeznu, pro kterou jedou, ani nemiluje, jen se chce prokázat a vychloubat se tím, jak ji zachránil. Čert s vodníkem ho ale důkladně převychovají, a u toho se celou dobu chovají jako dlouholetý manželský pár. Princ se tak naučí naslouchat lidem, být k nim laskavý, být skromný a nevychloubat se, být trpělivý, umět přiložit ruku k dílu a tak podobně.

Navíc se ale naučí, co znamená láska. Živě vidím tu scénu:

Vesnické dítě, ukazujíc na čerta a vodníka: to jsou tví rodiče?

Princ: cože?? Ne?? Ani nejsou pár??

Dítě: fakt? Chovají se úplně jako moje máma a táta

Princ, hledíc, jak se čert s vodníkem hádají: ale oni se hádají?

Dítě: no jo, ale to je protože se mají rádi

Čert a vodník, mezitím: *přestali se hádat a jen se na sebe láskyplně dívají, natahujíc špičky prstů, ale zastavujíc těsně, než by se dotkli*

Princ, kterého to trklo až teď: !!!

Princi totiž dojde, že jeho rodiče se nemilují a nejsou šťastní, protože jejich svazek je přesně jako ten, do kterého se teď žene on - že jeho otec zachránil jeho matku prostě proto, že byla krásná a urozená a on ji chtěl za manželku, aby se mohl všem chlubit, jak odvážně ji ‘zachránil’ (což jemu i jeho manželce, a vlastně oběma jejich urozeným rodinám, připadalo naprosto normální).

Takže princ zachrání princeznu, ale ne proto, že by ji chtěl za ženu, ale prostě proto, že chce udělat dobrou věc. Poté svým i jejím rodičům řekne, že už nechce dodržovat tuto tradici, která jen dělá královské děti do smrti nešťastnými a princeznu pošle zpátky do jejího království. Tím si vyslouží obdiv náhodné kouzelné postavy, která mu slíbí splnit přání. Princ toto přání přenechá čertovi s vodníkem, a ti, unaveni z nekonečně dlouhého života, ve kterém sledují, jak jejich lidští přátelé umírají, a z toho, že se nemůžou ani dotknout, si přejí stát se lidmi. Na toto naváže nejhezčí scéna pohádky, kdy se ti dva konečně poprvé dotknou a rozbrečí se. Princ se pak rozhodne svůj nástup na trůn ještě oddálit, a pomůže svým adoptivním rodičům zvelebit jejich bydliště. Možná se z něj stane sedlák/mlynář, kdo ví. Anebo z něj bude jeden z nejmoudřejších panovníků, kterého jeho dva oblíbení rádci neváhají okřiknout, když chce udělat nějakou blbost.

I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.

Various tags on this post like "isn't that venting?" "isn't that kvetching?" and sure it's a subcategory of that. But those are missing the key detail of this specific case which is the "I'm not in the right."

It's the "fuck I'm NOT in the right, I GET that, I WILL be mature about this, I WILL just suck it up, I WON'T take it out on the person who's annoying me because they haven't actually done anything wrong, but by satan's spicy asshole I AM annoyed. So I'm gonna spend 5 minutes in private being a dramatic bitch about it before I get over it and go be a perfectly civil reasonable adult about it."

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This is important.

Acknowledge the fact it's okay to be wrong and annoyed about it. Vent the frustration.

Put your adult undies on and be responsible for resolving the issue.

“Unfortunately my circus, unfortunately my monkeys”

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

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This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

Update from OP:

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

Just had a dream that a novel exists which is written from the POV of an old man dying in the 1920s in the form of diary entries and bit by bit it's revealed it's actually a closeted trans woman who was out during her youth and forced to recloset and now I desperately want to read it

The narrator was like, referring to a girl called Sarah in all the writings, and at the start it's super unclear who Sarah actually is and it's speculated by the people around that she may be a lover from the narrator's youth, until it's noted that Sarah had heterochromia and that's the defining trait of the narrator

Oh also Sarah did actually have a lover. They were T4T and lived in a little cottage by a lake until he was drowned in it and Sarah couldn't make ends meet anymore and had to recloset

Okay a bunch of people have told me to write the thing now so I've decided if this post gets 30K I'm turning the thing into an epistolary novel.