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@depressedaroace

I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.

YES

also technology breaks at random, and sometimes you just suddenly feel a thousand years old

  • everybody has a half dozen names and none of them are their “real” name.
  • which name(s) you know gives you different powers over them.
  • there are Rules but you mostly have to figure them out for yourself.
  • getting the Rules wrong or breaking them can cost you more than you ever even knew you had.
  • Maximum Horny at all times
  • be careful what you wish for or you just might get it
  • Gift Of Prophecy
  • Illegal Use Of Bones

less love songs and more songs about being a seer with a spellmaster for a best friend and your babysitter is a vampire and so is her best friend and your other friend is a vampire as well and every week you battle some new supernatural force that only started showing up when the vampires did and this is normal. and they are also love songs about your best friend.

I love shows that take place in a small middle of nowhere town where there are loads of supernatural stuff going on, but everyone just agrees to not let it out of the town.

yeah your boyfriend’s a stag now. yeah he accidentally saw diana bathing and she turned him into an animal so he can’t tell anyone what he’s seen. he’s still the same guy mentally though. oh look his dogs are running up to him. maybe they’ll recognize him that’ll make him feel better

Adam’s Ribs episode of ALL TIME like Klinger’s floor length gown at lunch, Hawkeye’s gay puppet dancing, Wayne Rogers breaking so hard he starts choking on his drink, “I love her” “it’s a he” “I love him”, “in the riot you caused by going off your noodle, you got succotash on my stole!”, Trapper complimenting Klinger’s lingerie, “we’re only two” “nobody else wants to be three”, BIG JOHN MCINTYRE hello!!!!

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happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only

Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal

Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only

aint it crazy how many people realize they're queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????

I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone's lives improves.

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Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger

I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

Also while we’re at it, can we nix the nebulous “essential oils” on toiletries ingredients lists? Because that sometimes but perhaps not always means lavender, which I’m allergic to, and clarity might allow me to be able to stop avoiding currently ambiguous labeling.

Can we also just... please out aloe Vera on labels as well??? The amount of times I thought a soap or hand sanitizer or lotion was safe and then I found out very quickly it wasn't is atrocious (and yes, some do, but not nearly enough brands do this)

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It sometimes feels like we're about 10 years away from "Ingredients: stuff"

"Spices" can sometimes include wheat based things, as well. Not to mention my nebulous "natural flavors" allergy. But it's not like I can just not HAVE natural flavors, because they're in everything, so it's just allergen roulette all around.

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I've spent the last 2 days in bed because my skin has broken out in a horrible rash which we are pretty sure comes from wheat in my spouse's new body wash

For that "everyone can benefit from some extra care being taken" commentary -

I work in a chocolate factory. Nuts and nut products are a big no-no.

I'll need to know what "natural flavors" or "essential oils" are nut products to avoid product recalls due to cross-contamination. This is a concern at my specific workplace because we supply other brands.

I've got a cinnamon and you'd be amazed at how many things I have to avoid because of the generic "spices", just in case.

And similarly, I would really appreciate stricter rules on the marketing of fruit flavored or scented stuff. I once grabbed a raspberry fizzy water, looked at the ingredients on a whim, and found out it was flavored not with raspberries, but with blackberries, which I am deathly allergic to. The ingredients on a multivitamin gummy doesn't have blackberry in the ingredients list, but it has "natural flavors" and the picture on the label has all sorts of fruits, including blackberries, and none of them are listed. Better not to risk it.

Even worse, in my experience it is practically impossible to get clarification from companies. Every time I've contacted a customer service line I've been met with some variation of "our recipe's proprietary blend of flavorings is secret, we can't tell you that" and it's so frustrating. I'm not trying to steal your secret formula, y'all. I just wanna know if your product will kill me if I take a bite! 🙃

sorry but it’s actually so horrific how little of a sense of community people have, how little regard they extend towards the other humans around them. killing people for being loud on the subway or turning around in your driveway. loading your gun and waiting at the door because a child ran your doorbell unexpectedly. ring cameras, neighborhoodapp, community watch group Facebook pages. you’ve assigned yourself the role of the one true peacekeeper and casted everyone else around you as a threat to be controlled. there’s no connection or love or compassion. just a deep distrust and hatred.

and the people who face the most significant consequences from this are the ones who are already deemed as outsiders. people of color, especially Black people, disabled people, people with mental illnesses, homeless people.

and so many people are willfully promoting this complete alienation from each other. the obsession with true crime, the hatred directed at children for existing in public spaces, the policing and controlling of where homeless people are allowed to be / what they’re allowed to do, the constant fearmongering about public transportation. you are building a society of FEAR. you are conditioning yourself to distrust everyone around you. you need to make an active, conscious effort to engage with the world and the life around you in a healthy manner.

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it also made me very sad at one point one of the kids said her dad was being hateful towards drag queens and that he had a very skewed/incorrect view of what a drag queen was and wouldnt listen to her and told her she was “too naive” when she tried to explain

and i replied “if i remember correctly when youre at this age it seems adults will wave off any of your life experiences even if they lack their own because they refuse to see those younger than them as their own people” and EVERY SINGLE KID AT THE TABLE turned and said EXACTLY

and i was like. oh. so i wasnt alone in that. but also. i dont have to BE that. im not doing that. im listening and actually talking to them. i hope that there are older people in their life doing the same.

um. i dont know how to say. please listen to the children in your life. its true sometimes youll know better but, often times they have perspectives we may miss and dismissing them hurts everyone in the end. we have so much we can share and learn together.