Decay Era (Growth)

i'd like to introduce my daughter Nuance to tumblr

Can she play with my daughter Leftist Infighting

sure, what could possibly go wrong

Yeah, I’d watch Muppets Lord of the Rings

This is great.

Are you in Colorado? Time to send grumpy messages to your reps ahead of April 1st 2025. You want them to reject SB 201.

I also find "age" misleading as fuck with these, because what they want is an upload of your licence. They want to tie the porn you watch to your government ID. Which, as things are going, should really concern you even if you don't engage with pornography at all.

Even if you don't engage with pornography at all, identity theft is a very real thing.

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

My masterpiece 🚬🚬🚬🚬

Where's my Jewish phrase for when you people are being irrevocably horny?

“This, too, is Torah, and I must learn!”

Citation

Behold, a Meme:

I love that they're in differing amounts of allowance, too.

"None of these words are in the Bible": fully opposed, there is no written acceptance.

"This, too, is Torah and I must learn": entirely on board, wants more to happen.

"By Allah you people are dogs. I will reblog as always": "ew guys. really? ... lemme in."

If you're expecting your employee to fix a mistake that's costing you millions, then they deserve a very significant cut of it.

If they were being fair, they'd ask for half, which would be $9 million. But they didn't even ask for that. They asked for a raise, which would probably be a few thousand a year. And you couldn't even give them that.

i understand why the ‘grizzled loner who slowly melts & improves their outlook on life when forced to take care of a kid’ trope is a male exclusive role, bc the optics of a grizzled loner woman healing by becoming a mother are maybe not so good, but every time i think abt a hypothetical female version of that trope i black out instantly. could we maybe just do it one time and all agree to be cool about it

previous tags and their very valid point:

You know, I'm quite hesitant to say this, because surely someone will twist my words around to make them mean something entirely different, but...

People need to stop assuming abuse is always ugly, especially the people who say this about fiction. Especially to people who say that anything but super ugly abuse is romanticizing it. It's not.

Sometimes it looks normal. Sometimes it looks pretty. That's the thing.

Getting a little personal here, but I know for a fact it's not. My father used to pick me up and throw me in the pool. I used to watch him play video games. We used to laugh and play like there wasn't anything wrong with the world.

That doesn't mean he didn't lift me by my neck when he got viciously angry at me when I was 16. That doesn't mean he never yelled at me or guilt tripped me or called me a cold, heartless bitch.

My mother used to tell me stories to put me to sleep. She used to trace her fingers along my back. She cooked me food, encouraged my interests, and was extremely supportive.

That didn't mean she didn't hit me. That didn't mean she wouldn't call me "tits on a mule" (a fancy way of saying useless) or the R word. That didn't mean she consistently chose her abusive boyfriend-now-fiance over me constantly or guilt trip me into doing things.

My friends had similar experiences, so this was normalized for me. It was just normal for kids to get abused. I didn't know anything different.

So when people say someone who is writing about abuse in a "too pleasent" way, I get extremely uncomfortable and to be frank, it's extremely invalidating.

Please normalize the idea that abuse sometimes looks like a blooming rose in the middle of spring. Sometimes it smells like ice cream. Sometimes it tastes like chocolate. Sometimes it feels like a warm hug.

Saying that abusive situations that are ugly are the only way to properly depict "realistic abuse" only hurts the people who experience an abuse that they don't know themselves is abuse. Because it doesn't look like abuse to them anymore.

Abuse is abuse, whether its ugly or beautiful.

what a good morning!! im gonna draw a dog!!

apRIL FOOLS I DREW TWO DOGS THEY’RE BEST FRIENDS

God please not this fucking post

the online phenomenon that drives me the most crazy that i never see people talk about in my circles is the tiktok shop ecosystem

for those who don't know because you don't use tiktok (i don't blame you, i only learn about these things through my boyfriend): you can sell things on tiktok. but because it's a video platform, this means you have to make videos promoting whatever you're selling. so basically what this means is you get a bunch of people in their early 20s going "omg look at this, you NEED this in your life" about some bullshit they bought in bulk as part of a drop shipping scam

for a while it was freeze dried skittles. that was the trend. a bunch of people would do videos where they try freeze dried skittles and act like they're the best snack ever that you NEED to try RIGHT NOW—and oh, would you look at that? they have a shop link where they receive commission. recently there's been this shirtless guy who's trying really hard to sell people on some overpriced low calorie meringues, including multiple videos where he puts them in a bowl with milk and tries to pitch them as a healthier alternative to sugary cereal. there's also a LOT of people trying to sell mouth tape right now—not as a (questionable) way to stop snoring, but specifically due to claims that if you stop mouth breathing in your sleep it'll lead to some kind of miraculous transformation of your jawline

it's just an insane ecosystem all around. online grifting in its purest form. some straight up flimflamming. they'd sell literal snake oil if they could. we're gonna run out of electricians because people wanna become tiktok shop influencers instead

lot of people are going to be sent careening three posts down their dash and crashing into a brick wall because of this post

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) dir. IVAN DIXON

Whoever wrote this, slayed so hard with all these statements, truer words have never been spoken