A shade of blue

sorry but in my opinion this is so rude

The notes on this post are just filled to the brim with the society-killing US chest-thumping of ‘HOW DARE YOU ASK SOMETHING OF ME IN MY OWN HOUSE???????‘ and just like... you guys do understand this is why you had Trump, right? Because all of you feel this way about each other?

Like, you are all aware that this is exactly exactly exactly how right wing people feel about being asked to use pronouns? “You want me to change MY behavior just to benefit YOU? FUCK YOU. I WOULD RATHER CALL YOU THE WRONG NAME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE THAN BEND TO YOUR WILL.“ But hey. Lawnmower go brrrr, right? Based? The person asking for courtesy was the one being rude?

On reddit, I would expect this, but I’m surprised to see it on tumblr because like... this is the queer website? We care about each other here? Sometimes I feel like some of you are only right by coincidence and not by conviction or principle.

Maybe it’s because I’m from a third-world country, but in my eyes lawnmower man is such a gigantic cunt I cannot even believe my eyes reading this story. Part of being in a community, even a tiny, ad hoc one like a neighborhood is recognising that there are parts of our spaces that overlap, and we give and take from those spaces in equal measure. In my neighborhood, that means my neighbors are allowed to stay up until 3 AM partying if they want. You won’t hear a peep from me unless you’re doing it every night. I party too, and we both understand each other. It means my neighbor’s kids can play the drums and ride their very loud motorcycle outside. I have my own loud hobbies, and we all respect each other. And if you leave a note on my door asking me to be quiet while you have your WEDDING? Of course man, no problem! I hope it’s a sunny day and the ceremony is beautiful! I know that if I ever need anything, you will help me out as well. I mean come on, people. Are you seriously searing over one afternoon of your life? That is such a reasonable request. You were probably being quiet anyway! Stop trying to be the main character and build connections with the people around you. Being nice costs nothing and will only bring you gains. How else do you expect people to be respectful and kind to you, if not in return?

“Stop trying to be the main character and build connections with the people around you.”

being an asshole is not edgy y'all

Daniel Sloss- “Jigsaw”

ROMANTIC LOVE IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN PLATONIC LOVE!!!

More videos from Kris Zhaokai, the other chocolate guy. You won't regret this one!

moth update ! theyre threatening me

WELL, stop being so BIG and LOOKING AT THEM.

you fucking bet it does

snom

The Feng Shui creature

I love them <3_<3

Frilled shark seen near Japan.

This is the only video of a frilled shark on the whole internet but it’s a deep sea animal in the process of dying which is why it swims so weird and its gills are puffed out and its whole front end seems paralyzed. Somewhere there are vibrant happy frilled sharks swimming gracefully like regular sharks but almost no one has ever seen what that’s like.

RE: why this happens: most of the ocean is just one huge open space with no physical barriers, so a deep sea animal relies only on its senses of light, temperature and pressure to tell it where it should stay. As it wears down with age or sickness those senses start to break down so everywhere probably begins to feel the same. It randomly wanders farther out of its habitat and sometimes that wandering takes it up and up and miraculously one of us humans sees it before any predators catch it, which is incredible because that’s hundreds of meters of distance it might have avoided porpoises, seals, barracuda, morays, squid, tuna, marlins, large jellyfish, even scavengers like lobsters and hagfish will often start eating something on the brink but not quite dead yet.

It’s sad, but it’s likely this shark lived a very long life, and it doesn’t know it, but it survived a very long trip in a very vulnerable state just to visit us for a moment. With its senses so far gone it may not have felt too bad. It might have felt like any ordinary day floating around its home until it fell asleep one last time, never knowing how it amazed and enlightened members of an entirely alien species in the process!

I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”

So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”

Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.

Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.

But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.

^^this is why bell hooks challenges us to say “i support feminist movement” or “i support feminist action” rather than “i am a feminist.” she says that once we say “i am a feminist” and make “feminist” an identity rather than a political movement or a set of beliefs and the actions resulting from those beliefs, we can become complacent and think the battle is over. 

Your daily dose of cat memes

he took a bath 3 times

his name is Organic Spinach

the cleanest frog in Michigan

If you truly believe women can be anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women are men.

If you truly believe women can look like anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women look like men.

If you truly believe women can do anything, then you are going to need to accept that some women transition to be men.

If you truly believe that women have the right to decide what to do with their lives and bodies, then you are going to need to accept that some women decide to be men.

Decide to be...?

What's not tracking?

Isn't it kind of harmful to say that a queer person decided to be that way? Or is that idea outdated now and I'm being dumb?

the only reason we have to rely on the idea that sexuality and gender is innate and unchanging is because the legal system in the US ties rights to things that are innate and unchanging

while for the vast majority of people, their gender or sexuality is unchanging, as most identities stabilize between age 3-5, the idea that identity (whether gender or sexuality) cannot change at all over the course of someone’s life is just simply not reality. Unfortunately, the right wing takes this fact to mean that you can successfully engage in conversion therapy - this is not true. Sexuality/gender can just change for some people over their life time. For some people it IS very much a conscious decision. 

It’s a difficult conversation to have esp in the US when all human rights rely on the foundation of an innate/unchanging status. 

Love learning this kind of dynamic assessment from new Tumblr friends. Thank you.

To further build on this, the Born This Way narrative was constructed specifically to counteract the (particularly Catholic) Church's "Choosing the Gay LifestyleTM" narrative. When (Christian) bigots said we could just choose not to be queer we responded with "but I cannot choose not to be queer. I have always been this way. Are you saying God made a mistake when He made me this way?" And it was a convincing argument for a lot of liberal religious folk and got them to be allies and that was all well and good.

But the problem with that line of argument was that it conceded to the Church the right to define the question. The response instead should have been "so what if it is a choice? So what if I choose to be this way? How does that give you the right to discriminate against me?" By arguing that being queer is not a choice, we are implicitly saying that no one would choose to be queer if they could instead choose to be cishet. We are implicitly asking for their pity as humans who have been condemned by God to live a life that no human would willingly choose and to be allowed to live a life as close to cishet normality as possible as an act of mercy.

Which... Is not a narrative I will willingly accept. Whether I chose my queerness or not is immaterial to my right to experience the full gamut to human sexuality without fear of persecution based on irrational hatred or religious bigotry. So what if I chose this? I have the right to choose.

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

Moving from Brooklyn to a woody area within The Hamptons in the early 90s meant being exposed to Very Starry Skies and especially fireflies. They really did land on me, blinking or just shining brighter. They tickled. It really was incredibly easy to imagine cryptids in my backyard.

For those curious about how fireflies work: this artlcle's pretty good. Tl:dr; the light comes from a controlled reaction of enzymes with oxygen, mostly. The boys fly around flash-signalling "I GOT SEX HERE!" and the girls, down in the grass, flash back "BRING SOME OF THAT DOWN HERE!" And then (ideally) sex happens. (We have to assume that fireflies who run into people along the way later remark with mild annoyance about how awful the traffic was tonght.)

Unfortunately we don't have them in Ireland. It's a pity. I miss them sometimes.

There are also some species that see another species' dude yelling his availability in Light, go "come down here, big boy ;)" and then eat him. And presumably go back to semaphoring to males of their own species that not only can he smash, she'll treat him to dinner first

Had a dream that tumblr came up with a new creature called Greachur and it looked like this

brother of the alot

upon further research:

i had a dream a while ago of a very tall, long-legged creature with a thin, grey fur coat. it didn't have any horns and it was like double the height of a semi, but this post reminded me of that

like this?

Posts from a split second in the future

Drew the things

300000000% what it feels like walking around with my sibling

good omens heritage post

"Why are there so many female archers in fiction?"

Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!

Also, it's not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?

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Ages ago a well meaning friend sent me a link to a fediverse that ostensibly was a "safe space" for "self expression and creativity" with "zero tolerance for hate". Everything with sensitive topics has to be warned for on this site - their definition of sensitive topics included politics, religion, and spirituality.

I'm a queer Jew. All of my nonillustration work - and a considerable amount of my illustration work - is based in one of those two things.

My culture is not a fucking "sensitive topic".

me before making yet another unintelligible post about my current hyperfixations

fucking relatable master yupa