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Uncannily Adroit With a Knitting Needle

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Pfp by the wonderful @navyinks! I'm Molly (she/her, and an old lady). Some things you'll see on this blog: Tolkien, vidya gaems, kitties, history and literature shitposting, and memes.

What you are required to know about me

I don't know. I just don't know

It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize that Phragmites was probably the genus name of the plants in the picture and not, like, an ancient Greek warrior waiting in the marshes to attack.

gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you're charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.

they billed me for three?? three balls???

completely lirious and ranged. absolutely lusional. not only mented but fective, too. engaging in praved behavior. a real generate

"if you are over 30 on Tumblr the mental illness won" "the aging fanbase of Tumblr" motherfucker if you are over 30 and have been here the entire time it means the mental illness didn't win we are still alive WE MADE IT

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work

I like the implication that Mexico is responsible for documenting everything else

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A dad sits with his son as the son's wife gives birth. "Son, you're a dad now, so I want to give you this," he says, handing a Book of Dad Jokes to him.

The son's eyes tear up. "Thank you. I'll cherish this forever, though I'll never live up to you- the master of dad jokes."

"Oh, son. I'm honored!" the dad says.

The son, having waited his entire life for this, says "hi honored. I'm Dad."

t-shirt that says ‘I LOVE BEING ALONE IN QUIET DARK PLACES.’ on the front and ‘I AM NOT A FUNGUS.’ on the back.

I think we should call out women's misogyny more often. My mom was the most misogynistic person I had ever encountered growing up. At herself, at other people. like she's better now, but woman left me some deep scars.

"but women need protecting from men! bear in the woods etc" no I will BITE YOU. I'm biting you so hard right now. I'm femininely beating your ass. I don't need "protecting" from men. i'm not a child. Or a dog or something, I'm a grown ass biting you machine. The amount of women who just said stuff like that still makes me sick.

See, this is also bad actually. The whole concept is flawed. Instead of seeing a random man and treating him as an individual who makes his own decisions, It's a biased assumption that says "this guy is a man, and there for I am unable to trust him to act good." instead of biessentialism, you just switched it out for gender essentialism. It was flawed concept to begin with. It's still terf ideology. It's based on the misogynistic idea that women are weaker and should be weary of strange men, that women are safer with other women. It makes it easier for women to be abused and abuse other people. These ideas at their very core are bunk. If you are in the woods and you would rather meet a bear than a strange man, seeing him as more of a threat instead of a positional ally, you are the problem. Mainly, okay, you're saying a human man is more dangerous than a wild animal. Are we not seeing this? we're saying that a black bear, or idk polar bear, a bear that has and will eat humans, is better than some guy. it's.. are we not seeing this

That hypothetical always baffled me because I run into strange men all the time. It's called living in a society. Bears are terrifying; if there were bears walking around my town as frequently as strange men I would never leave the house. "I'd be more scared of running into a strange man alone than running into a bear alone" oh so you don't ever go shopping? You don't ever go for a walk around the block? You don't ever get on a bus early in the morning when there's no other passengers yet? There's strange men there. If you say you'd be more scared of a strange man than a bear, and you walk your dog in the morning, then either you're way too chill about bears (maybe you're only thinking about those lil black bears that get into bins?) or you are fucking lying. Men are literally just people and if I ran into one while hiking or something then that would in no way be any kind of crisis. He's probably also hiking. Men are allowed to exist in public, they're not some imposition.

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

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