got my new boyfriend from Ikea. Unfortunately he's made of particle board and with a single thrust of my hips I broke him into five pieces
sure is yeah. keep me updated
That thing people do with female characters where they like, in their attempts to compensate for the unfairly negative way that female characters are often treated by fandoms they end up overshooting and just making them Too Good and flawless and endlessly caring and loving and patient and incapable of doing or being wrong and just removing everything that’s distinctive about the character, making her completely flat & forgettable & uninteresting, because they don’t want to say anything about her or depict her doing anything that might possibly be interpreted negatively.
#someone in the notes is like ‘once they say she’s the only one with braincells it’s all over’ so real (via @oodlyenough )
WHY WOULD YOU HIDE THIS IN THE TAGS
Thinking about how Theo Van Gogh loved and supported his brother their whole lives and funded his art even as the rest of the world said it was bad art and how without Theo the world wouldn’t have the art of Vincent Van Gogh and how Theo loved Vincent so much that he died a few months after Vincent died, heartbroken over the loss and how his widow had him reburied next to Vincent so they could be with each other forever and how I can’t even get my brother to text me back smh
I'm thinking about how Vincent had a sister in law (Johanna van Gogh) who understood, accepted and supported her husband's support of his disabled brother-in-law and understood his art so well that even though she was left widowed, poor, and encumbered with 200 paintings which the art world saw no value in she strove tirelessly to change the minds of the art world. Thinking about how she was raising a child, founding a socialist movement, putting together art shows, and editing her deceased husband's and brother-in-laws letters to create a book which she could share with the world. Letters we still rely on today to help us understand the beauty and pain of Vincent's life and my sister won't even respond to group texts 1/2 the time.
Important note: just because I support hunting doesn't mean I think we need to get rid of things like meat and fur farms.
We need to massively scale back meat farming and shift the focus from huge industrial farms to smaller scale ones that put less stress on land, and both fur farms and meat farms (particularly one pig and poultry ones) need massive reworking to make them better for both the animals and the environment, but they're not inherently bad.
Too much of our society is built on animal products and by-products to get rid of animal industries entirely; to do so would kill a lot of people. The focus needs to be on restructuring those industries to make them more sustainable, lessening the weight on them by bringing back more widespread hunting, improving welfare and care practices, and changing how we as humans live to put less strain on small areas instead of just trying to get rid of animal industries entirely.
The devil works hard but Cowboy Starshine of the Confession Executive Committee fandom works harder
When I am emperor, I will make everyone who refers to women’s leg hair removal as “basic hygiene” fight to the death in my coliseum.
finally it will be understood that I am doing it not for hygiene but for slut reasons
sluts are welcome in my empire, be they hairy or smooth
Confused, but cautiously willing to welcome these slippery people into my empire so long as I can put down some plastic drop clothes over the couches before they sit down, and provided they do not become evangelical or moralizing about their thigh slime. (Why stop at thighs? Why not emulate the valiant eel and opt for a full mucusoid coat?)
This probably refers to people whose thighs touch and chafe when they’re wearing shorts or skirts
Aww, and here I was planning an imperial holiday called Slime Fest, with mandatory public slimings.
Very well, anti-chafing measures are permissible. I want my subjects to be comfortable (when they are not fighting to the death obviously).
your highness can we still have slime fest?
*imperial majesty thx
Imperial majesty, can we still have the slime fest?
hmmmmmm
no I’m too sad that the eel people don’t exist and I shall declare an Imperial Day of Sulking instead
all are welcome
The imperial Majesty Sulking
for three hours each day we will open the doors of the palace to the public so that my subjects may view their emperor sulking about the eel people from the royal observation chamber
there will be hors d'oeuvre
Imperial Majesty, bring back Slime Fest or the people shall revolt
don’t threaten me with a good time
justabramble
Imperial Majesty, what will you do to make your empire more accessible to people with disabilities and sensory issues?
Well originally I was thinking of having canals installed throughout the empire, winding between homes and businesses and interesting vistas like a circulatory system so that the Eel People could come and visit me at their convenience. But since that apparently isn’t happening, I suppose I could turn the canals into a kind of “lazy river”, so that my subjects may float through the city unimpeded while perched upon large inflatable tubes. I could have margarita and smoothie stands and sunglasses booths stationed throughout the canals to ease the inherent stress of public transportation.
Another consideration is government-issued mechsuits. The only problem with this is how do you make a mechsuit sexy? I am looking to find a Transformers fetishist to join my imperial council to help solve this problem.
Currently I am pouring funds into the development of a service-tiger training program. Lions were originally considered, but they’re so visually drab, so beige, and cheetahs are not built for tanking. Tigers are the obvious choice, but we also plan to make service bears available. They’re a little less flashy but they do seem to like wearing little hats, and their long claws take to metallic polish like nobody’s business.
For sensory issues I am banning digital advertisements and issuing everyone a sharp knife, so that the “too many noises happening at once” problem may be resolved by legally stabbing the culprits until noise level is reduced to a manageable level. I feel passionate about this law and I think my advisors are being ridiculous when they discourage me from implementing it.
Item: various Food-Dogs; great at sniffing out the type of food they are made of
“We don’t want to and won’t argue this with you. We’ve now explained our stance and we won’t be providing a platform for you to distort our position in order to feed an irrational and paranoid narrative. You can do that elsewhere, where we won’t care enough to read it.”
Gotta love Nexus Mods’ post on this, which is the best kind of response!
You know the mod who wrote this really enjoyed it
Phd by mistake
from wikipedia: “Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they “seemed to be a little harder than usual”, but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue. Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that the “homework” problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics. [… ] Dantzig recalled in a 1986 interview in the College Mathematics Journal, “A year later, when I began to worry about a thesis topic, Neyman just shrugged and told me to wrap the two problems in a binder and he would accept them as my thesis.””
[id: #i want you all to know he was Jewish actually. end id]
It's so sad that HBO, I mean, Warner Bros Discovery doesn't give a single fuck about any of it's creators
i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you
I started reading The Tale of Genji during the pandemic, figuring I might as well improve my mind during lockdown. It’s considered the oldest novel on record, possibly the first one ever written. Early in the book, there’s an incident where the main character has a crush on a girl, so he tries to sneak into her family’s property to get close to her, and along the way he runs into this ancient old grandma who can’t half see and who mistakes him for one of her grandkids. So she’s standing there going on and on about her digestive difficulties and whatever, and he can’t speak up because if she hears his voice she’ll know he’s not who she thinks he is, so he’s just having to stand there and nod and hope she’ll go away soon. And I’m reading all this and thinking that with a couple of adjustments this could be a modern day sitcom, and it made me happy to think that a thousand years ago someone was laughing at the same sort of stuff we laugh at today.
people who use the queue function fill a necessary role in the tumblr ecosystem. they keep posts alive. if u miss a post bc ur entire mutualcule was reblogging it from each other in a 30min span and u were offline, the queue mutual provides u an opportunity to see that post again in 1-8 business days. they put posts in stasis in little cryogenic freezers for u to discover and enjoy later. everyone thank their queue mutuals right now
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OBSESSED with the fact that there’s a redditor out there who calls themselves “PISS BOT” but carries themselves with the unflappable politeness of a confused Victorian gentleman.
the most beautiful stories repeat themselves over and over and over again, time weaving itself into a blanket to warm our beds
