In case you’re uninitiated:
These are the current female volleyball uniforms
The Norwegian team on the left got fined a ridiculous amount of money for wearing shorts to the games
When you compare the men and women, it becomes very clear how sexist the uniforms are.
“Sexism is dead women are so annoying to keep talking about it”
*professional athletes get fined for wearing shorts*
if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
this actually made me cry with joy also one of them is eating noodles
It just keeps going and getting better. *^^*
Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”
Me now: (sobs into a tissue) “OH MY GOD THAT ONE IS PLAYING TWO RECORDERS AT THE SAME TIME” (blows nose)
The one with two recorders is in the same phalanx as the one eating noodles. They’re covering their friend’s lunch break
to be clear I want you to reblog it when you see it. we share the SOUP at the end folks. the soup.
Honestly as much as I love Tumblr now, I’ll never forgive this site for the “ace discourse” era that nobody has ever fucking apologized for. Irreparable damage was done to aro/ace people and our communities and now that shit is being recycled on TikTok. And then aphobes have the gall to say “well it’s not like you guys have ever faced any hardship in your lives” as if they still don’t bully and discriminate against aro/ace people to this day.
Go rot.
love love love that the people who engaged in this are rebranding it as a silly toothless phase rather than accept even the faintest smidgeon of responsibility like
lol remember when it was acceptable to tell people they were lying about being correctively raped, and that even if they weren't lying it was appropriation? reblog if you're part of the ageing tumblr userbase!
omg and when we'd talk about how conversion therapy was fine if it happened to asexuals bc something something antidepressants and lmao is it really ""oppression"" if you can't go to your doctor without them repeatedly trying to alter your sexuality? so cringe
who was around for the onceler fandom and responding to people opening up about coming out to their parents and facing utter rejection or outright abuse with "ew gross what kind of freak would tell their own parents about something as disgusting as their sex life??" anyway what is with all these puriteens yelling at pride marches nowadays?
good times, glad we've all neatly compartmentalised that into harmless memeposting so we can all pretend to be very surprised that in 2023 people think it's appropriate to emotionally bludgeon a trans hacktivist over an orientation they don't understand and therefore think is worthy of bottomless abuse
Whenever I see people try to differentiate what is “Israel” and what is the “Palestinian state” I always have a very awkward feeling - which is why I think a lot of people need to reevaluate how they speak about Palestine and Israel, specifically what they define as occupied Palestine.
My father’s family is from a village in Jaffa (the district), which is now part of what most people define as “mainland Israel” or an “undisputed” part of Israel - like that land was acquired legally or ethically and an unequivocal part of what is Israel vs what is considered (at least to some) Palestine (the West Bank & Gaza).
My father’s family had the choice to flee or die and to this day cannot return home to Jaffa. It leaves me with a strange feeling when people discuss a hypothetical “two state solution” as if that land is inarguably Israel and the West Bank and Gaza is inarguably Palestine - my family is not from the West Bank or Gaza, they’re from Jaffa. Proudly Palestinians from Jaffa - they’re not Israeli and never be Israeli, they predate the modern colonial state of Israel.
When people talk about occupied Palestine, they’re usually referring to the 1967 borders and the increasing settlements in the West Bank, when Palestinians talk about occupied Palestine, we’re talking about all of it - every corner of what people define as “mainland Israel” there is a story of Palestinian dispossession - It includes my family and thousands of others.
In short:
This reminds of that Mahmoud Darwish line.
سيِّدةُ الأرض، أمُّ البِدَايَات وأمُّ النِّهايَات، كَانَتْ تُسَمَّى فِلِسْطِين. صَارَتْ تُسَمَّى فلسْطِين.
“The lady of the earth. Mother of all beginnings and endings. It was called Palestine. It will be called Palestine.”
This is also common practice in Sweden. Dairy cows are kept indoors during the winter, then released into their pasture in spring. The kosläpp (release of the cows) is an annual event usually open to visitors. There’s even an expression derived from it.
it’s so marvelous to me that humans make an annual event of gathering around specifically to watch cows experience joy. the humans are excited that the cows are excited, to the point they make sure the human kids get front row seats, cause they know the kids will be extra excited. there is so much vicarious joy here. how remarkable a world, where we do things specifically for the pleasure of seeing other people and creatures happy.
Thesis: the reason we joke about what J R R Tolkien’s initials stand for but not C S Lewis’ is because nothing could possibly be funnier than C S Lewis’ actual name.
Have y’all considered though that C.S Lewis;
a. knew his name was terrible, why do you think he called himself Jack all his life instead
b. was creating Eustace as a very specific type of self-insert. Everyone’s familiar with self-inserts as power fantasies, but there’s also the phenomenon of writing an expy of yourself to drag them mercilessly….and maybe poke them into improving as a person earlier and making better choices than you did. Eustace in Dawn Treader and Edmund in TLTWATW are both self-inserts of this type. Lewis wasn’t happy with the person he’d been as a child and a young man. He felt that he’d been both nasty and highly annoying. He also felt that he had eventually learnt not to be a huge arsehole. Edmund and Eustace’s arcs are based on that. (They’re also Christian conversion narratives, of course-but that fits too because Lewis believed that Getting Religion was a key part of his own irl learning-how-to-not-be-a-prat arc.)
So it’s not surprising that Eustace has a really stupid name. He has a stupid name because Lewis’s own name was stupid. Because he wrote this thinking that once there was a boy called Clive Staples Lewis, and he almost deserved it.
potential doctor who companions in an ideal world
- Ea-Nasir
“Wait if I sheath my sword will he not attac-DID THIS TWINK JUST SLAP ME?!”
Thanks @niksfake
i was just wondering if this had faded into the background noise of the internet yet, but nope, still very much here
this is still the best ditty.it ever made
certified iconic post
There also needs to be a button for “this is the 5000th time I’ve read your fic because I’m having a horrible day and this is the only thing in the world that always brings me happiness.”
good news: there is!
Support the folks posting work on comment-ebabled sites!
I love when people leave comments on my old stuff.
Its like passive income but it actually works to make me happy.
The voice acting didn’t have to hit like that
you have to unmute the voice acting is Oscar worthy
he sounds like an anime villain
Glorious voice acting but can we also acknowledge
“Mario is not a real game”
Mario.
The granddaddy of video game popularity
The big kahuna of every single mainstream console launch since 1986
Nintendo’s Ride or Die bitch
Is not a real game.
never have i ever seen a better description of my sexuality
Gandalf, taking a hit from his joint: Did you guys know that mithril is super expensive? Like insanely valuable? That it’s very much a finite resource mostly plundered from the earth and invaluable due to its many uses? And also Sauron has most of it so it’s now lost to its Elven and Dwarvish makers? And to think Bilbo’s precious gift of mithril mail is probably sitting in the local Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum. Just makes you think lol ...
Gimli, a dwarf who has lost most of his people’s cultural artefacts: ... I’m sorry Bilbo was given what and did what with it
Frodo, secretly wearing Bilbo’s mithril mail at that very moment but only after nearly 70 years of it sitting in the Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum gathering dust because Bilbo had no idea his cool shirt was worth approximately the net value of their entire country:
Lord of the Rings is a comedy
facts only
Why the fuck am I seeing shrek slander on my dashboard right now. Did any of you even watch the goddamn films. I can’t believe this. You guys don’t deserve shrek.
Fuck you Fiona was already an ogre and was trying to hide that part of herself because her parents told her to be ashamed but shrek helped her accept that part of herself and become her true self unapologetically! Fuck you
OP is lord farquaad
Hilda by Duane Bryers
More Hilda!!
in this family we love and support Hilda.
Yes! Hilda!
What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.
I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day
I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy
My favorite thing is how Hilda is always doing something and having a BLAST! She’s not posing coyly for anyone, she’s having her own adventures and it’s not about the viewer at all
Always reblog Hilda!
8 billion humans on Earth
8 billion artists, 8 billion storytellers, 8 billion siblings, 8 billion lovers, 8 billion tool users, 8 billion people
congratulations, i think
happy 8 billion, everybody.
