brunching through the apocalypse

my favourite genre of tumblr posts? well,

hellsite (affectionate)

while i appreciate the general response nobody has yet really understood why i like these kind of posts so much. It's not even necessarily what they are saying in detail what's interesting to me - more the fact that they exist and that they are popular.

Like I have yet to see another social media where one of the main genre of posts is about the nature of the site itself.

Like, imagine a bunch of people on insta just posting things like:

"haha instagram ruined my picture quality again haha you get this nowhere else this is so special i love it here #hellsite "

it just doesn't happen. it's such a tumblr specific experience to connect through the sole fact that we are all using the same website and making funny little posts about it. you don't get this anywhere else.

I remember seeing a post about how tumblr is the only social media that doesn't make you feel bad the more you scroll through it and to be honest, it feel like a crime to not agree with it

I remember some months ago watching a video of the Try Guys (I am a regular fan) and reading the comments, in particular those that said "The try guys are the example of non toxic masculinity, we need more people like this in the world", those that are never missing in a video of them. And I thought to myself "what would happen if one of them had troubles in their relationship, if the flame is not there anymore. What would happen if they filled divorce. Or have a fall down with another try guy. What would happen if we learn they're terrible bosses, or one of them is a pedophile or abuser, what would happen then". And part of me thought "nah, that won't happen because they're the example of non toxic masculinity". And the other part of me, the more realistic part of me thought, "they're only human though, one of them is bound to make a mistake, and what would happen then". I guess I have my answer now.

we as a society handle it the same way we handle everything, by making  a fuckton of memes

lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship

genuinely so fucking tired of people leveraging the "groomer" argument against people who support sex ed because scientific literature over decades shows that comprehensive sex education starting around kindergarten actually prevents children from being sexually abused and groomed because it teaches children the correct words for their body parts and also teaches them concepts of privacy, personal space, bodily autonomy, the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the fact that sex is something that only adults do. children with this knowledge are not only better equipped to identify abuse and predatory behavior and communicate that its happening to a trusted adult, but also prevent it from happening in the first place by recognizing when something is happening that shouldn't.

sex education does not sexualize children, it prevents children from being sexualized. anyone who is against early foundational sex education and claims they are doing it to protect children is a fucking liar.

people in the notes saying "it's the parents job to teach their kids that" as if child abuse isn't most common within families, especially at the hands of parents.

THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY

THERE IS NO TOOTH FAIRY

a dilf is not a dilf if he’s shitty to his children

the sexiest qualities of a man are compassion and responsibility

I just found someone sharing this on twitter, so sorry that I don’t have the link but omg

Girlboss over here gaslighting the gatekeepers.

Fuck the Home Owners Association.

I really think Rasputin lucked out, in that being remembered by history as some species of giant unkillable sex wizard is something most of us can only fruitlessly aspire to.

"Vegan Leather"

Plastic. just say plastic.

How dare you leave this in the notes

when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language

I was eating alone at a mexican restaurant once and a group of college kids were chatting over tortilla chips. There was some jabber and then..

“ ..we had to climb over the bob wire!”

“Dude, did you just say ‘bob wire’?”

“Yea man, that spiky shit!”

“You actually think it’s called bob wire? Like fucking Robert wire? You think it’s called Robert wire?”

“Well what the hell do you think it’s called?”

“It’s BARB wire you idiot! Like Barbara wire!”

*the third guy* “Oh my god. You guys. BARBED wire. Because the wire has barbs, it is BARBED.”

“Oohhhhh!”

“Fucking Robert and Barbara wire. Fuck you guys.”

I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.

honestly the best thing i’ve done in the past year was replacing “i wanna die” with “i wanna commit a crime.” same humor and sentiment without the suicidal ideation

thank you SO much for this tag

It’s already been said so many times in so many ways, but the case against war and imperialism does not have to be made in the terms of “everyone who opposes the United States is presumptively in the moral right,” and that frankly tends to be one of the weakest ways to make such a case

“Everyone who opposes the united states is presumptively in the moral right” = wack as fuck

“No nation, nor its people, regardless of perceived moral standing, deserve to be stripped of their sovereignty, invaded, assaulted, and plundered in acts of aggression” = based and cool and good.

moldova's folk banger about trains and serbia's artistic critique of shitty healthcare system with religious imagery are the two ends of the balkan culture spectrum. i will not elaborate.

i don’t think we can gaslight gatekeep girlboss our way out of this one boys

Why are people on this website always coming in with the most accurate takes on these penguins it’s killing me

Alpine Ibexes climb nearly 90 degree angles to lick salt deposits of of mountainsides. They crave that mineral.

Why is this back on my dash in 2018

Why is this back on my dash in the year of our tormentor 2021?

real tumblr veterans know this isnt even the ORIGINAL crave that mineral post, it’s a repost by the randy your sticks person because the OP of the true original supported child slavery and practiced therapy without a license

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

They existed *before beetles*

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

https://xkcd.com/1259/

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:



everyone’s debating posts of the decade, best and worst, and i have yet to see anyone mention moon moon

for those who were not on here to experience this ridiculousness

Seriously. It caused so many memes.

Truly the greatest meme of our generation

I’m dying. I saw the original, but I’ve never seen any of the others. God bless you, Moon Moon.

MOON MOON WAS THE BEST

@thatotherentity

did not expect to see moon moon today

Will always reblog MoonMoon

MOONMOON?!

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.

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