i was drafting a post that said βa single boba tea can replace up to two meals if you are pure of heartβ and the reason i didnβt post it is because as i was typing those words i got so dizzy i felt like i was being abducted by aliens
Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.
It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.
Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):
kinda hard to take it seriously people complaining about "toxic yuri" this, "toxic yaoi" that. i grew up on toxic comp het; in my day we called them "cartoon sitcoms"
sometimes not even cartoons. often not even cartoons! that's how invasive the genre was!!! "bad queer rep" babe have u seen. have u seen the heterosexual representation??? it's all bad, it is all so so bad, it's just goddang awful and the straights have been boggarting it. now lets get IN on this toxicity
"i can't benefit from oppressive power structures, i'm literally nice :)" is a disturbingly common sentiment on here and if u express it then i can never trust u again
I've talked about this when delivering cultural safety education. People feel very uncomfortable when they are made to acknowledge that they benefit from systems of oppression, and most people (in Western societies im talking about) aren't good at being uncomfortable. So we avoid acknowledging it. But avoidance fixes nothing.
It's perfectly reasonable to feel discomfort, sadness, shame, and anger. The key is to turn those feelings into fuel. Make them doing feelings, instead of avoidance feelings. These emotions are meant to teach us what we did wrong, so we can stop doing those things wrong now and in the future.
grunkle stan would be very supportive of his queer family members (which is like. all of them) but he'd do so in a very βhe's a little confused but heβs got the spiritβ sort of way. like he'd accidentally call them a slur probably but he'd also be the first to defend them. he absolutely did that βher pronouns are he/himβ thing with dipper at least once. he's trying his best itβs just his knowledge on queerness comes from like forty years ago and didnβt come from the best sources.
he was always like that btw like he was absolutely like βi donβt care if youβre a fag or anything youβre my brotherβ with ford when they were teenagers at some point lol. heβs trying but he is like 14 in the 60s/70s
reading the wiki for the american psycho movie every single thing itβs saying about christian bale has me in tears β¦β¦.. he literally wanted the role so bad he got that buff in two weeks, rejected every other offer for 9 months while the producers tried to get dicaprio to be patrick bateman bc bale knew dicaprio would chicken out, went to dinner with the director and the guy who wrote the novel IN CHARACTER apparently scaring the shit out of the novelist, took the role for $50k, and then made all his costars think he was a giant freak bc he never fucking broke character, and APARENTLY LITERALLY HAS CONTROL OVER HIS SWEAT GLANDS AND USED THIS IN THE BUSINESS CARD SCENE
ok thanks for the info wiki
Hey Paul!
It brings me comfort that, for a brief moment, Jared Leto genuinely believed Christian Bale was going to kill him with an axe
insane movie, cinematic masterpiece
based on actual thoughts I had at the club last night
I'm so serious about being kind above all else. it has genuinely changed the way I interact with the world on a fundamental level and has made me so so much happier.
the other day, someone said something quite nasty and I patiently and kindly explained to them why I didn't think that was an okay thing to say. I treated them like they were my friend. they apologised! we didn't start arguing, and they reconsidered their stance on the matter. this has happened SO MANY TIMES. this is not a one off experience. every single time I am kind to someone who chose to be mean, it startles them into being kind back to me.
there are many many times where I thought someone was being abrasive, but I was kind to them anyway, and found out that they just didn't realise that what they were saying was hurtful. it starts a chain reaction and it will make you so much happier in life. please try it? try it just once! be kind to a cruel stranger. you might be surprised.
also before this has the chance to get big. I swear to god if you willfully misinterpret my post I will EAT YOU. I am not saying "don't be mean to your abusers" I am not saying "be nice to nazis".
I just think kindness is a forgotten tool when it comes to changing minds. if you call someone an idiot and then make a great point, your point won't matter. because considering your point and agreeing with it ALSO means they have to agree that they're an idiot. and people don't like to feel stupid or like they're dumb for thinking something. use kindness to your advantage! make someone feel better while changing minds and inciting positive change. it's worth it
THIS IS EXACTLY IT!!!! it is VERY hard to be cruel to somebody who is being kind to you. people are so used to others snapping back that kindness absolutely takes them off guard and makes them feel a bit guilty, which usually stops them from being quite so mean. thank you for your tags!
matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao
from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.
If this is truly the beginning of the end, it's been an honour π«‘
when the air and sun in the green fields with wildflowers starts feeling like "oh i love being alive"
itβs called a βhappyβ trail for a reasonβ¦ i see a manβs happy trail and i start jumping up and down in excitement saying βyayβ βyippeeβ βthis is the best day everβ βwoohooβ and other things in that veinβ¦ u would too if u had any soul
Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace
Yes itβs called the mammalian diving response and itβs also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.
Itβs literally activated by putting water on the face.
My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end
This is really funny timing for me, waiting for a lab to start where we will be testing this exact thing.
Update: one of my friends immediately near flat lined on the heart monitor so⦠Might be a whale of some kind?
Christ.
idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers
stamina
[ID: Four panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.
Panel 1: A lime green person with a round head is talking to an olive green person, who has a square head. A grayscale person with a round head is interjecting from the side.
Olive: "So I do actually have a lot of issues with tetraphobia from round head green people. It's an issue I really think should-"
Grayscale: "Haha so true! Round greens are the worst! I hate round greens!"
Panel 2: Zoom in on Olive, looking frustrated. They say:
"No. Disappear."
Panel 3: Zoom on grayscale, who begins talking and continues into the next panel.
"wow okay so this unprovoked hostility is exactly why the chromatic movement is losing popularity every single day. you're lucky i don't become chromophobic now, even though
[the panel cuts off, the grayscale person is still talking while walking away in the next panel]
you have been treating me like this. I used to be an enthusiastic follower of chroma ideology and even said green people are actually green, so i hope you're proud of yourself for alienating your sorely needed allies. i will no longer support you and your chromagenda"
Panel 4: While the above monologue occupies half the panel, a gold person shows up. Olive: "So as I was saying-" Gold: "Hey why are you defending round head green people's tetraphobia? They're not above criticism!" Olive: "I am not doing that." Lime, in small text: "how do you have the stamina for this"
End ID.]
Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, how did you did that.
kill me three times, this time loop fucking sucks
kill me four times, iβm sick of this fucking asia song
