inconsequential gibberish.

big fan of when youtubers break out the corkboard and string. thats when you know youre in for an insanely pointless breakdown of a media you're only tangentially familiar with.

wait how could i forget him. mr gilbert the king of this genre.

If you can't cope with the reality of having been wrong, done something wrong, or hurt someone without melting down or having a crisis, you're not safe for anyone to be around, btw. Fucking up is an inevitability of being alive. You literally need need to learn to handle situations in which your actions caused someone else to be hurt, because this is never going to be a thing that just stops happening. Being able to just be wrong, or misinformed, or ignorant, or straight up the one who committed an unforced error to others' detriment while maintaining at least a thin veneer of decorum and reasonability is not optional.

You're not owed forgiveness by others, but you need to learn how to forgive yourself for running afoul of your own value system, otherwise you will render yourself incapable of internalizing when you actually have, thus rendering the value system itself utterly useless at guiding your behaviors, and rendering you effectively devoid of one, besides "I'm never wrong, I'm never the bad guy," I guess. And I'm sure you don't need me to explain how that can only go horrifically, catastrophically wrong.

The 102 of this lesson is that, sometimes, the right thing to do will mean hurting someone's feelings. Sometimes, doing the right thing means saying something that can't be said without upsetting someone, even someone you care about, and/or making them feel bad about themselves. Things like setting boundaries can mean having upsetting, uncomfortable, or otherwise unpleasant conversations, and you need to be able to have those conversations, otherwise you are lacking a skillset necessary to, among other things, meaningfully give consent.

You can't go through life without hurting anyone. It's just not possible. Not only are mistakes inevitable, but sometimes, the correct or necessary actions will unavoidably create conflict. Sometimes it's not gonna get to be a mistake. Sometimes, the option that means you don't have to directly hurt someone is wrong. And so you need to know how to navigate a situation in which you have caused hurt, because not every kindness is nice, and not every necessity is kind.

I'm sorry. But it's kinder to tell a hurtful truth when it is necessary than to tell a pretty lie in its stead.

You need to be able to take Ls with dignity and composure otherwise you will, inexorably, become tar pit. Whether that means being willing to make compromises, to change your mind even if you've invested your energy into something, or just willing to walk into something unpleasant but necessary, you have to be able to be the one who just needs to change or look bad sometimes.

Otherwise you become unable to handle one too many inevitabilities of life and having relationships with other people, and in such a way where, essentially, you will not allow yourself to be wrong. This way of thinking is how abusers get made, and I'm really not kidding. You must be willing to be wrong without also disposing of your responsibility to do better. You need to hold both at the same time and you need to let it hurt until it doesn't anymore because it is not optional.

Sorry. Some things about being alive and healthy just aren't easy or pleasant. But they are still necessary. This is one of those things.

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

✧ fanart for @idolomantises redraw challenge ^^

Very cute art style! Thank you ❤️

hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.

And here's part two:

One note - Nisi Shawl is genderfluid and goes by they/them, though there are a bunch of older printings of their books that have their previous pronoun set in them so I’m not surprised folk added them to this list of suggestions.

thank you for catching that 🫡

The hat thing

genuinely i think that if your game's complex hyperdetailed character creator can't make an accurate mario it's a failure

can you make a short guy who's fat and has a big nose. or did you put all your budget into making five different glans options

Bruce loves movies and his bisexual son. I'm picturing him forcing the rest of the kids to sit down and watch Love Simon with him

Nintendo is incapable of giving donkey kong friends or enemies with the personality level Rare did and I feel like it keeps them up at night.

Eartha Kitt shows off her strength and athletism by doing yoga at the beach, 1960s.

@hotvintagepoll

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo

me: mama what the hell does that mean

my mom: so muscular

According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country. “Our latest research and statistical analysis shows that you are currently the citizen of an objectively humiliating nation wreathed in a miasma of pettiness, sloth, rank stupidity, and failure,” the report read in part, adding that this—this goddamned disgrace of a culture and system of government, if that’s what you call whatever the hell this is—is where you live, where you are from, and where you will likely die.

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THERE IS NO DELTARUNE

THERE IS NO SILKSONG

AND THERE IS NO QUEEN OF ENGLAND

Betcha feel stupid now don’t you?

the queen of england coming to the Nintendo switch 2