I finally watched The Sound of Music and like I get it now, I get it. 

It’s a beautiful two hour love story of a strict man finally opening his heart again and then a fifty minute public service announcement to hate the nazis. Brilliant.

You’re not wrong there…

Reblogging this version cuz those two gifs show the sexiest duality a man can have.

2 things a man should do

I sToLe ThIS frOm PiNtErEsT

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saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies.

create, consume, cavort, commune

create: bring something to life consume: appreciate the art of another cavort: move your body daily commune: have a community to socialize with

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I think you need hobbies that do all four things but the number of hobbies needed to cover all these needs may vary. Some hobbies pull double/triple duty. Some hobbies can cause repetitive stress injuries so it's good to have a few different ones that fulfill the same need so you can rotate to get the fulfillment without the carpal tunnel.

Tumblr really is aging.

This is true tho.

Misread this as 'you need to have 4 hobbits'

also true! there’s a really famous three-volume self-help guide about that!

unless all you’re doing is liberating a single mountain from a dragon, in which case you can probably get by with just one, so long as you also have a lot of dwarves.

They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?

I mean like... I've been called 'weird' my whole life and pretty much immediately started owning it. But I'm also much more the 'makes art from discarded items' weird and less the 'show us your genitals' weird.

They use it like a slur lol

Years ago I casually mentioned that I'm weird to my pro-trump dad and his wife and they got bafflingly offended and insisted that I'm NOT weird.

Being abnormal is the worst thing to those people because they've always wanted it to have a death sentence.

It's kind of funny to see them use it like that because I've been 'weird as a point of pride' for like 30 years. Essentially 'you can't call us that, that's our word for making fun of you!'

Elon actually called it a 'slur' and is trying to prevent people on Twitter from using it. Like... yall want to be oppressed so bad.

I love how benign it is. You can call someone a fascist for years and they don't even blink, bur call them 'weird....' love it.

fascists goal is to become mainstream and normal. In his book The Authoritarians, Bob Altemeyer found that people who scored high on an authoritarian scale would say that they would want to be around the middle of the scale, while medium and low authoritarians would say that they would like to be low on the scale. Altemeyer notes that when asked, high authoritarians tend to rank "being normal" as one of the best things a person can be. This is why when you call them a fascist, they can brush it off like it's nothing, but when you call them weird it hurts so bad. The thing they want the most is to be normal. They want their bigotry, their hatred, their violence to be normal. And it is vital that we do not allow that. They are not normal, they will never be normal and we will make sure that they are not normal. Always push back on their ideas, call them on how weird they are, and organize against them to make sure they stay weird.

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

Organised by People’s Union, read more here:

'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.

I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.

Hey, prior to this I've seen this listed as a buy nothing from CORPORATIONS and this is a HUGE difference.

Y'all can and should buy local. Always. This is an anti-capitalism thing, we don't need to get small stores involved. They aren't the problem.

Aromantic Adult Books - High Fantasy (mostly)

ARO WEEK 2023

KAIKEYI /  historical fantasy/retelling / aroace MC

MOONSHINE /  1920s-ish fantasy / major side character who has some POV is aro bi

THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES / fantasy novella / aro MC

AN ACCIDENT OF STARS  /  upper YA/adult portal fantasy / secondary MC is a polyam married aro woman

A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT  / high fantasy / apparently one of the MCs is aroace, haven’t read it yet!

CITY OF STRIFE/ISANDOR SERIES / high fantasy / last cast includes multiple aroaces, demiros & greyros

THE WOLF AMONG THE WILD HUNT  / fantasy novella / centres a QPR between and aroace & enby

THE ORACLE STONE / NA high fantasy / one of the three MCs is aro pan

THE BRUISING OF QILWA / fantasy novella / MC is aroace

*as a note, some of these only briefly explore aromanticism, and/or explore the ace part of the aroace character more. If you want more details on how much things are explored, see my database!

heavy coat vs light coat

'Brother in arms' oh they were in each other's arms alright

Since I’ve entered a Vampire Era and realized this is more commonly believed than I thought, here’s a poll.

No nuance. Do they bite and suck or use sippy straw fangs?

she asks kindly before sex if she could please have your safeword. you oblige happily; it's only after her knife draws blood, and you fumble for words that will not arise, that you realize the extent of your mistake. "it's perhaps one of the most basic fae tricks, yes," she tells you with a smile, "but you know, people tend to be far less cautious when it's not a name being taken!"

In recent news, the National Park Service has scrubbed all mentions of trans people from their websites. Including literally Stonewall.

I don't have much energy to make an angry post, so instead, I'll repost all of these pictures from the past summer: a trans flag waving in the back country of 5 national parks.

Yosemite National Park

Near North Dome, with Half dome in the background

Lassen Volcanic National Park

Butte Lake, with Cinder Cone and Kom Yamani (Mt. Lassen) visible in the background

Redwood National Park

Redwood Creek, near the tall trees grove, where the tallest trees in the world grow

Kings Canyon National Park

Glenn Pass, with the Rae Lakes basin in the background

Sequoia National Park

Mt. Whitney, looking West, over the Kern canyon and the Kaweahs

Enjoy the outdoors, support your parks, and support your rights.

why is parks even responsible for that?

Under a different administration, it makes sense. They manage a lot of historic sites across the country, including active businesses, and having it in control of a theoretically static federal agency gives funding, staff, and recognition for its preservation and public outreach.

What the current administration is doing is, in theory, illegal, and severe overreach. If they were beholden to the rule of law, none of this would be happening.

it's not even a complaint about what it is they're doing, that's bad enough I didn't see a reason to comment on it. my question was just why they're called "the National Park Service" if they cover more than parks. it sounds like they need a new name.

I mean, that's mostly history. The NPS has a legacy with that name, and they protect parks, monuments, recreation areas, historic sites, and more. And oftentimes, the lines between those are blurred- expansions to a monument can result in it being changed to a park, for example.

To be fair, this apparently is not the actual NPS doing this - it is likely M.usk and his cronies.

The Alt National Park Services page has confirmed they did not have access nor did they approve the change / commit it.

Oh yeah, I 100% know this is Musk and his cronies. I thought it was at least nps staff that was forced to do it.... But holy shit I didn't know it was just completely changed externally

Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

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