I was just grocery shopping and for a while I was in line behind the peak possible combination of parent and child, here is my 1 minute recreation from memory

fuck it, klapollo doodle dump, with the last two being the most recent (which are still old)

morning

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm

[id: tumblr tags reading 'dude This Fucking Rules', 'holy fucking shit! that was legit so cool?', 'holy shit that is fucking metal', 'oh this fucks severely', 'yeah no this fucking SLAPS', 'yo this RULES']

Holy fucking shit this is one of the most incredible things I have ever read. I am dead serious. I PROMISE you that you want to read this, and you're going to immediately send it to all your weird friends who you also know will love it.

The original link is down -- you can read it at

@scarletsaphire

English added by me :)

^ cock

the youtube "stop drawing like this" community doesn't want you to know this but you can shade however you want forever btw. it doesn't have to make sense in fact you should actively be pissing people off with how inaccurate your light source is

youtubers are busy telling you how to do things ("do this, don't do this"), but to know what you're doing you should be learning why you would do things a particular way.

if someone tells you not to do something, interrogate why, and then decide if you agree with the advice.

in this case the why is "if you place shadows randomly without thinking about it, you can end up making things look even flatter or visually confusing", so thinking a little about how light works and placing shadows accordingly might be something you want.

personally I rarely follow a specific light source, but i understand how light and shadow can be used to highlight and obfuscate details and to describe the shape and form of things, so i place my shadows in the best way to do this regardless of whats going on w the rest of the lighting. nobody has ever negatively commented on this, in fact i get complements on it lol knowing the why and making educated decisions on how to execute things is much more useful than if someone just told me "do this don't do this".

so always ask yourself, "well, why?" n then do what you want forever

crossing over to the valley

Doooooont know why they are in a box

Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they're casting a spell with a verbal component it's literally more effective than a counter spell.

This also works with pinning their hands against the wall when they're trying to use somnatic components.

Basically if you make out sloppy style while pressed against a wall the spellcasters can't do anything

wrong ♡

chain lightning

You're really gonna try chain lightning with a tongue in your mouth? You think that won't end horribly? You think you have more HP than me?

[id: photo of a thin silver scythe with the edge opposite the blade decorated with stylized flame-like sun rays. the background is plain black. /end id.]

eclipsickle

What the various radfems in the comments and reblogs [thank you for making yourselves exceedingly easy to find and block btw] don't seem to get is that people using Queer often do so out of a fundamental objection not to labels or categories, but to the prevailing model of those categories 1. Being used to interrogate and exclude people based on a list of identities that do not actually describe our relationships to each other, and often don't even describe our personal identities, and 2. Being used to set the limits of solidarity, defining hard limits on whose perspectives have to be included and whose problems we have to care about.

I keep seeing these folks talking about how we NEED the acronymical list of labels to have solidarity, and with surprising frequency going mask-off and saying we need them to keep "the straights" [ie. Anyone they don't deem sufficiently aligned with one of their precious letters] OUT. The fact is, the amount of community and solidarity I've found by being less attached to those labels, the enthusiasm with which I've seen people from all across the spectrum of gender and sexual variance come together in love and support precisely BY detaching from those narrow labels and prioritizing shared causes, is why I use Queer and why I continue to stand by other Queer people.

I got tired of going from room to room finding that each and every one had SOME reason to exclude me. I'm not Lesbian enough for the Lesbians, not Gay enough for the Gays, not Binary enough for some Bisexuals, sometimes not even Trans enough for other Trans people. And then I started reading my history, looking at ethnographies and reading how my ancestors described themselves, and realized that the alphabet soup was ALWAYS limiting and was always made to be so, that it was designed to bring us into the warm light of state-funded social services at any cost to the revolting ones, the poor ones, the criminalized ones, the Black and Brown and Indigenous ones, and to anyone whose intersectional positioning challenged narrow categorization. By the by I'm reading David Valentine's book Imagining Transgender currently and it's quite good so far, if anyone wants to see the kind of ethnographic studies I'm talking about.

I will use Queer and I will stand up for other people's right to use it free of ridicule and diminishment, because for ONCE it's a label standing for unity outside the purposes of atomizing us into discrete, legible categories that fit neatly onto forms and justify the allocation of resources in a society driven by selective care and artificial scarcity. For once, it's a label saying labels are not required for us to find common ground and stand on it, and that we should be looking at our mutual illegibility and caring about people over concepts.

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

RIP Bonzo we know you did your best to murder Ronald Regan for us.

We honestly just need to stop trying to make criteria for what being nonbinary is point blank. I really don't give a shit if people think this would obscure the term into uselessness because right now the concept of a nonbinary person is a skinny person who transitions into elfish androgyny, typically thought to also be white and afab by default. Which excludes, like, the vast majority of people who are nonbinary to serve some imagined ideal of a third gender

"But what if this opens up the door for cis people who are chasers/want a claim to transness without experiencing oppression/etc to INVADE the nonbinary community" Cannot emphasize enough that this is already how most people see any nonbinary person who doesn't fit into the aforementioned skinny and completely androgynous elf thing lol

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

Back in the 90s, there was a story in the LA Times that a boy sent me, saying it was right up my alley. This was the only good thing to come out of our relationship. Full link below (ignore the bible tag; it's the only site I could find it on), but this part always stuck with me:

"Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experience to savor, not endure. I'm trying to recognize these moments now and cherish them.

I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special event-such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom. I wear my good blazer to the market if I feel like it. My theory is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $28.49 for one small bag of groceries without wincing. I'm not saving my good perfume for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks have noses that function as well as my party-going friends.' "Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now."

Over the years, remembering this story has made me braver. That's led to all my good adventures, even the ones that ended is disaster.

Some day is today. Book a flight. Ask someone out. Make your art. See a play. Drink the good coffee/wine. Order dessert first. Connect with people, no holds barred. Life is too short for anything other than an unfettered yes. Care fiercely. Love wildly.

**walks back into the room like Columbo**

And another thing!

This quote from Ted Hughes, in a letter to his son, Nicholas:

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

He's right. And that's been something I have carried around for years, too. Hughes is one of my favorites. (I have his book of collected letters, and it's incredible.)

Invest your heart. <3

Seeing a steady rise of people using the library as we carry through summer break, so here's a quick thread from a staff member on little things you can do (for free!) to make life easier on staff. Let's go!

I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

[ID: A YouTube comment by @/KM-mw3jp. It goes as follows:

"When I was in 7th and 8th grade we had a Sikh kid who would carry wet boba around in his pocket and throw them at people for insulting him, his religion, culture, or other kids. I asked him about it a couple years ago and he said it's cause his dad gave him some talk about how standing up for what's right is part of the religion. So for two years this boy carried an open plastic bag FULL of wet boba around to throw at bullies. If it was a minor insensitive comment or a first time offense it would be one boba. If it was a big thing or a reoccurring bully it could be a bunch. He even threw boba at our substitute teacher one day because she tried to punish us because one kid was talking by making all of us do pushups. He literally went "no that's not fair" and threw like four wet bobas at her.

Pretty sure his dad encouraged that behavior too. And to be honest, it did deter a lot of bullying and name calling."

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dos anyone want to play cars with me .

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