Nothing to See Here, Move Along

just a reminder that t*rfs are not and will never be welcome on my blog i think you are embarrassments to humankind and you should be ashamed of subscribing to a belief system based on hate and white supremacy

me: care about people

half the notes: youre the real oppressor for telling me what to do.

the other half: cut out this useless liberal proselatizing. you are an invertebrate and you will perish in the revolution.

we have a new prize comment which is “pretty neurotypical of you to assume i have the capacity to care about other people”

being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

Wouldst thou like to live above averagely

“f it we ball” BALL?? BALL??? BALL??? BALL???? THROW THE BAL???? THE BALL???? THE BALL?? BALL??? BAL?? THROW BALL?? THROW RHE VALL???? THE ALL?????

We literally cannot let them start charging 80 dollars for video games 70 dollars was already outrageous 60 was pushing it. 80 fucking dollars. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND. For MARIO?!?!?!?!?

If we don’t buy it, they’ll lower the price, just like the 3DS. They make more money from 2 million people buying it at $60 than 1 million at $80

Don't even buy the console, don't let them think they can get away with this

I refuse to live in a world where a console cartridge costs eighty fucking dollars

Eighty dollars doesn't get you a cartridge.

Eighty dollars gets you a key card that confirms you paid for the game like some glorified digital steam key and makes you question why you didn't just buy the cheaper digital only version since you have to download the game anyways?

This is getting out of hand.

What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys

these tags are gold omg

It's a misconception that the mimics are hunting humans when they trail along at the back of hiking groups.

In fact, the creature you'll find suddenly walking beside you and acting as if they've always been there is almost certainly a juvenile, as the adults lose the ability when they reach reproductive age.

Recent studies suggest the forest mimic is less like a preying mantis (mimicry as a hunting strategy) and more like a cuckoo (mimicry as a protective strategy for their young). Adult forest mimics will leave their offspring near a group of hikers while they forage during the day, and retrieve them near trailheads in the evening. Groups of hikers provide safety from predators and allow the parents of the species the freedom to forage more widely.

For this reason, the traditional advice to never let a mimic into your vehicle is still very important, as this would separate the young mimic from its mother. If a juvenile forest mimic does follow your group to the parking lot, you can keep it entertained with trail snacks, dad jokes, and simple goofs. The mother will usually collect them shortly before sunset.

When you notice the woods around the trailhead go silent and feel a sense of nameless foreboding, find an excuse to avert your attention from the juvenile so it can sneak back into the forest to rejoin its mother, convinced it's fooled another party of unsuspecting humans.

surprisingly wholesome takes from the cryptid community here

@monstrousproductions

With stroke going on and everyone catching up on shows/movies they couldn’t watch

I highly recommend watching old OLD films

Btw there’s YouTuber that posts film noirs with backgrounds on actors, sets, and directors AND there are zero ads

I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.

My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.

This is a big part of why trans people are such a targeted minority by right wing politics. Both now, and during the rise of the nazis. It's less about controlling trans people, as it is about keeping cis people from having control over their gender presentation.

The strict gender binary is how many are able to hold onto power. In particular how they're able to groom young boys into easily directed violence. It is far more difficult for fascism to come about, if its foot soldiers are not indoctrinated into the entitled masculine supremacist grievance ideologies. As many conflicts are powered basically by men being convinced to go rape foreign women and enslave domestic women as property. With pervasive gender fluidity, that ability to "other" groups based on ones sex is diminished significantly.

And without being able to sneakily teach huge populations, that having sex slaves should be considered as a desirable reward for immoral behavior, because the categorizing of who would be enslaved could too easily include themselves, that breaks the back of a lot of immoral hierarchies.

Put more simply, a lot of fascism is structurally reliant upon men assuming that being a man is something they do not have personal control over. That they cannot escape it, nor can they redefine it to suit their needs and desires. They become pawns for what other more influential men tell them being a man is.

Trans and nonbinary as concepts, explains to them quite plainly, that the most winning move in such a rigged system is simply not to play.

i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree

Someone in the comments said "you really said just stop being insecure" and yes :) make an effort to stop spiralling about your looks, challenge insecure thoughts and stop doing things that lead to you feeling insecure.

I always come back to this: Do your insecurities match your morals?

Do you truly believe that having belly fat makes people disgusting? That the media should have final say on how you feel about yourself? If you don't believe it and there is a mismatch between your moral beliefs and your gut reaction to your appearance...

Then yeah. Stop being insecure. It's work but it's worth it.

Promoting @sarkywoman 's tags as that's a perfectly distilled mantra:

I am not the exception to my beliefs

Vintage Mouse Candle Holder // GladStoneatHome

i love old science fiction because it’s all like “IT’S THE DISTANT YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND THREE AND MAN IS EXPLORING THE DEEP CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE” like god bless you old sci-fi you had such high hopes for us

“Appeal to a wider audience” is corporate lingo for “strip more themes from a piece of media so it’s safer and more sanitized for investors”

I struck a nerve in the billionaire fandom with this one

It looks like today is going to be a night of checking up with my friends to see which ones of them are now unemployed… Tumblr seems to have been hit hard

It looks like developers, both web and mobile, are the biggest group in the 280 people laid off

This blog post gives a rundown of what has led up to this moment.

Whether you think the decisions he’s made are right or wrong, I do think these lawsuits put the entire Automattic business at risk. Which would put Tumblr at risk because Tumblr is not a high priority for Automattic.

Sigh.

they call it the switch 2 because you see the price and switch 2 another console

15 year old monk whispering "do i lust for men?" and then flipping to a random page in the bible to see what it says = medieval equivalent of modern "am i gay quiz"

bibliomancy is alive and well in the 21st century. St Augustine rolling in his grave.

my main takeaway from that post is that the "asexuals should be put in meat grinders" crowd didn't actually go away they just got quieter

it really is crazy how hearing the word "aphobia" makes the compassion just immediately drain out of people like a plug got pulled in the soles of their feet. ace people can talk about our experiences with ostracisation and medicalisation and corrective rape and abusive relationships and assault and conversion therapy and familial rejection and societal pressure and self-hatred and loneliness and erasure and lack of representation, and everyone agrees that those things are bad. but the second the word "aphobia" is mentioned people are instantly just falling over themselves in their desperation to Commit To The Bit