*passive aggressive slurp*

Woah…. his dykey and complex relationship with gender has bewitched me…..

you know when you see those gross cooking videos where a lady is dumping baked beans onto a countertop and mixing in cheese with her bare hands or something, and it's obviously meant to spark engagement and outrage. and people will always say "don't interact with these video; this is just fetish content"

i think a good way to have piece of mind online is to apply that same mindset to more things.

you saw a really bad take online? that person just has a degradation kink and they're waiting for someone to call them out. if you don't want to participate in their kink, leave them alone.

some people can only get off by being wrong. it doesn't have to affect your day.

Been saying this for years. Anytime you see something begging you to respond to it, ask why.

Beyond the human reasons of someone wanting a fight or some other kind of emotional satisfaction, it's usually because the more interactions a piece of content has, the more advertising dollars it makes, or the more traffic is driven to that account's other posts.

"Bet you can't name an American state that has a Z in it!" -- everyone rushes to answer "Arizona" and suddenly a completely inane Facebook account has ten thousand comments (and the account holder can then sell this high-traffic page to someone else to be rebranded).

Any of those allegedly cute animal videos where it's clear someone has put an animal in a distressing situation just to show themselves helping it -- yeah, it's exploitative, and the way the exploitation happens is by enticing you to comment and denounce the content.

A video on TikTok with a caption like "you'll be amazed at what these zebras are eating" -- I was about to click and say "dude, those are hyenas, not zebras" and then realized that's exactly why they put that error there.

Especially with the outrage driven posts, it relies on your need to Not Walk On By when you see something wrong. Remember that if it's internet content you are literally doing no good by interacting with it and in many cases you are becoming the instrument of exploitation or harm.

Take the apps off your phone and touch some grass, and recalibrate your brain's idea of what is a normal amount of distress and pain and stupidity and grossness to be exposed to.

This falls under "don't feed the trolls."

Sometimes the trolls are not people declaring fandom hot takes and angry controversy. Sometimes they're just telling you how smooth the sharks are.

Here's a little peek behind the curtain on those disgusting food videos where a white woman is standing in a very expensive looking kitchen making the most unhinged meal known to man. It's 100% on purpose and frequently directed by former magician and public spectacle enthusiast Rick Lax. He's like a modern day PT Barnum in this way.

You know those mobile ads showing a shitty game where the person playing it is just fucking up an easy puzzle really, really badly? One that you would solve immediately if you had the game, and boy do you want to go and do it PROPERLY? These controversy farmers are banking on the same urge. Just imagine they're all trying to pull you into a shitty mobile game.

basically, modern advertising works like this:

Legit the scariest stream I've ever seen

Salmon when they narrowly escape a bear ^

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

for context:

“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

Updated the lesbian flag and added nonbinary, pan, ace, and aro for all your tacky LBGTQ+ barcode needs.

Hope yall  like my abomination

That last one is fucking moving istg

at last. the gaydar

now you can be gay AND european

If we go much further we’re just going to reinvent white light.

babygirl I'm bothered by noises you wouldn't even hear

wrote this about sensory issues but people relating because of hallucinations or tinnitus or anything else I am shaking your hand in solidarity if you are comfortable with that

[ID: Three hands touching. They are labelled "Schizophrenia", "autism", and "tinnitus". Where they all meet, there is writing saying "sounds nobody else can hear". End ID]

btw it's fantasy, you really don't need to worry about your world map making "sense" geologically or whatever. make that river flow backwards from the sea into the mountain.

Wait are you saying I don't have to take plate tectonics ocean currents and mineral deposition into account when I make this map? But how will I know where the mountains with gold mines are, or what shores would have the best fishing spots? If I don't map out this entire world in intricate detail, how will I know if this kingdom falls on a major trade route or is sidelined to the periphery of the classical empires?

TOLKIEN SPOTTED!!! C.S., OBLITERATE!!!!!!

tumblr deleted my last confessional post so here’s a new one:

when i was like 6 my grandparents got me an awesome dollhouse (playmobil haus 5301 if anyone needs to know). for some reason, i had in my head that one day, god would shrink a bunch of people until they were the size of polly pockets and the world would be so cruel and scary for them. so every night i would pray to god that if he did that, that he would please put the tiny people in my dollhouse so i could provide for them. and every night, in case it happened, i would put water in a little cup for them and make their little beds so they’d have somewhere warm to rest after finding out they would be tiny forever. i told my friend in school about this and he said “oh my dad’s a wizard dont worry he can make them grow again” and then i felt at ease and never worried about it again.

happy pride month! it's the 5 year anniversary of the orange and pink lesbian pride flag being unveiled to the world, but its creator (emily gwen) is still struggling financially despite big corporations using their flag this month. while inclusion and acknowledgement of lesbian pride and history is important (and g-d knows the old lesbian flag had a lot of issues), it's better to keep existing lesbians alive and cared for so that we can actually. y'know. be here to express that pride.

if you want to help emily gwen out financially, you can find their ko-fi here to send them money directly. you can also buy some 'official' lesbian pride merch (as well as some other cool stuff) from their store, available here.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

None of whom ever worked a twelve hour shift in food service.

Da Vinci and Michelangelo had patrons who paid all their expenses in exchange for art. Einstein and Pasteur had grant money and access to university education and resources. Jefferson had slaves to work for him so he could do whatever he wanted.

Everyone has the same number of hours in the day. Not everyone has the same freedom to use those hours. The idea that time management is all that separates people from greatness is hideously classist.

happy pride month! it's the 5 year anniversary of the orange and pink lesbian pride flag being unveiled to the world, but its creator (emily gwen) is still struggling financially despite big corporations using their flag this month. while inclusion and acknowledgement of lesbian pride and history is important (and g-d knows the old lesbian flag had a lot of issues), it's better to keep existing lesbians alive and cared for so that we can actually. y'know. be here to express that pride.

if you want to help emily gwen out financially, you can find their ko-fi here to send them money directly. you can also buy some 'official' lesbian pride merch (as well as some other cool stuff) from their store, available here.

Being an ex-criminal is effectively being a second class citizen. You are never truly forgiven for the crime you’ve committed because the system is set up to filter you out whenever it can.

Something something criminals get no rights creats incentive to charge minorities for stupid shit

Any political system that strips away the rights of its criminal population has a vested interest in criminalizing its political opposition.

Like clockwork

For reference

Normies talking about getting whiplash from recipe blogs. You know nothing

if u take zoloft and/or spironolactone be careful in the hot months u will dehydrate and be prone to overheating. drink. Water

Like the bottom text next to the asterisk says, there are more medications that cause this problem than listed. Please search for any medications you take if they cause heat problems <3

Note: Brintellix -> Trintellix for those who didn’t know this brand changed trademark names.

Your daily dose of cat memes

jfk famously changed the course of fashion by making many appearances at state functions without a hat, which was previously considered mandatory for well-dressed men. at his inaugural address, he even bragged about "[his] big juicy melon, naked as a jay bird for all the world to see". unfortunately we can all see how that turned out for him in the tragic events of the zapruder footage

the real tragedy about JFK is that with his horrible secret health condition managed mostly by uppers and steroids by incompetent 1960s doctors, he was apparently healthy, yet his system was essentially defenseless against the deadliest medical problem known to man: being shot directly in the brain

you know who could have used a warning about something being spoiled? JFK, about his lovely visit to Dallas, Texas

I don't remember why I spent last night JFKposting. I don't know exactly was going through my head here. On the other hand, what went through JFK's head was pretty thoroughly established by the Warren Commission

glad this resonated with all of the freaks i love you