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batmanisagatewaydrug: Five: I’m sorry, why didn’t you think you could be a lesbian? Vanya: well, I -...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:11:40 -0500

Five: I’m sorry, why didn’t you think you could be a lesbian?

Vanya: well, I - look, do you remember that time when we were twelve and Klaus said being gay was his thing and I wasn’t allowed to copy him?

Five: …

Five: and you believed him?

arokaladin: sometimes even I feel like stories about friendship are ‘boring’ and quickly berate...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:20:15 -0500

arokaladin:

sometimes even I feel like stories about friendship are ‘boring’ and quickly berate myself for internalised arophobia but honestly? I think I’m entitled to view them that way. I think friendship is often portrayed in a totally different way to romance in fiction (duh) as if it’s not just a different type of relationship but an entirely different sort of concept. I think of stories about romance (as a genre, not specific ones) and I think about high tension and drama, beautiful metaphors, intended relatablility, fantasies indulged for the reader, massive impact on overall plot, character exploration to the max and an epic feel. amatonormativity and other inevitable harmful messages aside, they’re actually the kind of narratives I’m very interested in.

Stories about friendship are either stories about romance in disguise, or, if I think about them in pure form, something reeking of fully saturated colour and cartoon people. Something for kids. They’re also, and I’m not sure how to put this in words so bear with me, not allowed the epic feel of romance. Friendship is not ‘fated’ (not that I’d want it to be. Read anything by @aro-soulmate-project to understand why), friendship does not last a lifetime, friendship is not why cities fall and new eras come about or why people sacrifice themselves or where the iconic scenes and poses and lines come from, apart from in pacific rim.

So I can’t escape to fiction about romance because it’s confusing at best and panic inducing at worst. But I also can’t escape to fiction about friendship because it’s not for me either. I can’t insert myself into the protagonist’s shoes while their newfound friend tells them how they’ve never felt Like This about a friend before, or while their old friend tells them nothing can come between their deep platonic love, or while their enemy risks it all to save them because their kindness struck a cord in the friendless enemy’s heart. I don’t get, even in fiction, to mourn my friends, make big gestures, hold them like we’re the only people alive, so what’s the point.

I’m not saying I want replication of overdramatic/sometimes harmful romantic tropes copy pasted onto platonic relationships. We can leave behind the obsession, the too-fastness, the reliance on another person for your self worth, the heteronormativity and sexism, the tendency to tell rather than show, etc. etc. etc. But I do want to be able to relate to fiction, and part of that almost as much as aro rep means friendships that are allowed to be centered, realistic, celebrated, beautiful, worth fighting for, because that’s the kind of friendship I experience.

cwicseolfor: maculategiraffe: me, reaching into my dresser drawer for black pants: I hope this...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:27:09 -0500

cwicseolfor:

maculategiraffe:

me, reaching into my dresser drawer for black pants: I hope this isn’t the pair with big holes worn in the inner thighs

Marie Kondo, gently over my shoulder: why is a pair of pants you find unwearable still in your dresser drawer

me: oh shit that’s right!! The dresser is for clothes that under some circumstance I might conceivably wear!!

Marie Kondo, beaming proudly: Yes, that’s correct!! These pants must have been your favorites. How wonderful that they were so comfortable and practical that you wore them out. But now since they no longer function as pants, you should move them from the drawer where you keep your functioning pants!

me: Yes thanks I got it they’re in the fabric basket now

Marie Kondo, fading back into the darkness: I love what you’ve done with the kitchen!!

The notion of KonMari as some creepy semi-embodied but entirely benevolent spirit, like a well-intentioned Bloody Mary, is so perfect and wonderful.

springcottage: the incredible things i’ve seen while following...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:27:22 -0500

springcottage:

the incredible things i’ve seen while following a moose and her calf for a year // jasper national park.
cbc on youtube

tarynel: Water is amazing. No taste but it’s so fucking good. I can’t believe some people don’t like...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:27:06 -0500

tarynel:

Water is amazing. No taste but it’s so fucking good. I can’t believe some people don’t like drinking water.

lesbuchanan: buckysbattalion: lesbuchanan: lesbuchanan: He was a trans man you fucking...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:52:46 -0500

lesbuchanan:

buckysbattalion:

lesbuchanan:

lesbuchanan:

He was a trans man you fucking freaks

Imagine hating trans men so much that you read the history of someone who presented as a man for so long that most people only discovered he was ~biologically female~ after his fucking autopsy and be like “well clearly he was just gender fluid” I’m fucking

he specifically asked to be buried in the clothes he died in!!!!! we only know he was trans bc someone disrespected his direct wishes after his death!!!!!!

thedurvin: gelana78: eruditionanimaladoration: itwashotwestaye...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:49:58 -0500

thedurvin:

gelana78:

eruditionanimaladoration:

itwashotwestayedinthewater:

littledeludeddupes:

those snakes are not fighting they are fucking. im very sorry

while two snakes FUCK to the death

That dog looking at the snakes like why you gotta do that while I’m eating

Metal as snakes fucking.

biologydyke:i really don’t do anything but eat pasta and think about love

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:46:24 -0500

biologydyke:

i really don’t do anything but eat pasta and think about love

dexer-von-dexer: smitethepatriarchy: insecureghosts: blackcollarcitizen: hestmord: astrophobe: ...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:34:13 -0500

dexer-von-dexer:

smitethepatriarchy:

insecureghosts:

blackcollarcitizen:

hestmord:

astrophobe:

aresnakesreal:

i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don’t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is

Then Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure

society is a horrific parody of itself

No wonder this game makes me aggressive

Her name was Elizabeth Magie and her game was stolen by Charles Darrow.

Darrow went bankrupt after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, so when he saw his neighbors playing the game, he copied down the instructions, and published his own version of the game.

Then he sold it to the Parker Brothers who popularized the game. Darrow became a millionare within the year. Despite this, Hasboro currently lists him as the sole creator on their website.

Magie was amazing, and not just for her game. She liked to mock societal standards of the time through theater and even made national headlines mocking the institution of marriage. She supported herself until her mid 40s, proving that marriage was not the only option for women, before tying the knot herself.

Elizabeth Magie is attributed with this, “Girls have minds, desires, hopes, and ambitons.” Dont forget her name.

This is the saddest and most representative of the United States thing ever.

Magie actually had a second set of rules for a more fair game to show how the system could be improved. The game was meant to be unfair to illustrate the unfairness of runaway capitalism at first, and then switch to a new set of rules, which provide a much more even playing field (and a much more fun game). Darrow scrapped this second ruleset when he stole it, eliminating the teaching purpose and also all the fun. Here’s the original rules, with the second ruleset included

kyraneko: shadowmaat: whumpxng: look, im just a slut for some magical exhaustion okaygive me your...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:29:05 -0500

kyraneko:

shadowmaat:

whumpxng:

look, im just a slut for some magical exhaustion okay
give me your whumpees overusing their magic and having physical repercussions from it, bloody noses, unable to stand, getting progressively weaker, utterly exhausted and spent !!

bonus points: if they know they are running low on magic but they have no choice but to keep using more until they just collapse

bonus bonus points: if their magic is somehow connected to their life force!!

bonus points: technically they could stop, but it would mean allowing the person they care about to die/suffer, so it’s really no choice at all.

extra bonus points: they exhaust themselves on magic and the person they were protecting gathers them up and carries them inside and cares for them and nurses them back to health

extra extra bonus points: they regularly do this shit for each other and then have screaming arguments over each other’s tendency to do the exact same overexertion

hydok: sothatjusthappened90: insanelycoolish: impuretale: dru...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:27:45 -0500

hydok:

sothatjusthappened90:

insanelycoolish:

impuretale:

drunp:

this is peak Craigslist

I want to know if they got answers.

I really wanna know how this turned out.

Just so you guys know.

cracking open 500 cold ones with the dads

madmaudlingoes: goodzillo: sandersstudies: sandersstudies: The fact that the hip child-rearing...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:38:23 -0500

madmaudlingoes:

goodzillo:

sandersstudies:

sandersstudies:

The fact that the hip child-rearing trend of the fifties was “don’t touch your kids” might explain why fuckin baby boomers are…like that.

“An extreme position, made popular by psychologists like John Watson, held that young children should never be caressed, held or physically comforted by parents. … Early psychologists said that mothers who responded warmly to a baby’s cries would produce excessively dependent adults, unable to function in American society. Despite the absence of supporting evidence, this view profoundly influenced not only parental behavior but national institutions like orphanages, which minimized contact between caregivers and children, and hospitals, which denied parents the opportunity to comfort their sick and frightened children.”

HELLO?!?!

No More Wire Mothers, Ever

traumatizing your entire generation to own the communists

This helps contextualize the utterly daffy hospital instructions from 1968 that went viral recently. Only nursing for a few minutes at a time, four times a day? Don’t let the father anywhere near the kid except at pre-ordained “viewing times”? You don’t want the kid to get soft, do ya?

killstiles: [holds my breasts for comfort] securititties

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:37:16 -0500

killstiles:

[holds my breasts for comfort] securititties

moonstone-fanchild: @one-time-i-dreamt I meet Jesus. Like i knew it was Jesus, but he looked like...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:35:58 -0500

moonstone-fanchild:

@one-time-i-dreamt I meet Jesus. Like i knew it was Jesus, but he looked like Bob Ross. I showed him what looked like a childhood painting and tried explaining what it was but started crying and felt very distressed that what i made was garbage. Bob Jesus smiled, cupped my face in his hands, and said “I’m so proud of what you’ve done. Keep going, you’re going to be amazing”
I woke up crying.

hemansbobcut: ginger-ale-official: beekillsflowers: twelvestak...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:31:45 -0500

hemansbobcut:

ginger-ale-official:

beekillsflowers:

twelvestakes:

alfred-e-neuman:

Rogers: Be Kind To Other People
Irwin: Be Kind To Animals
Ross: Be Kind To Yourself.

Burton: Be kind to your imagination

It got better

these men are beacons of kindness in our chaotic world

the four horsemen of happiness

batmanisagatewaydrug: ah, yes, welcome to the Umbrella Academy, where your shipping options are man...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:21:51 -0500

batmanisagatewaydrug:

ah, yes, welcome to the Umbrella Academy, where your shipping options are

man with no concept of boundaries attempts to woo sad lesbian

now that’s what I call incest

would be cute if one of them hadn’t died but now it’s just sad

would be cute if one of them hadn’t died but now it’s just sad AGAIN

thirteen year old child with distressing attachment to a mannequin

time-travelling assassin decides to risk it all for a donut-making birdwatcher

kyraneko: jemariel: thelibrarina: starstuffandalotofcoffee: idk-i-cant-think: curiosity-door-lo...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:13:29 -0500

kyraneko:

jemariel:

thelibrarina:

starstuffandalotofcoffee:

idk-i-cant-think:

curiosity-door-locked:

GUYS the 80s are back!!!!

Star Wars, high waisted jeans, over sized sweaters, flannels, horrible republican government, conflict with Russia, the ever impending threat of Nuclear Anihilation, scrunchies,

synthpop, bomber jackets, a tyrannical mad woman runs the uk, incompetent child runs the us, the entire worlds in an economic crisis, doctor who

is this we didn’t start the fire

Star Wars, flannel shirts, accidental bomb alerts

Bomber jackets, Brexit, Beto loses Texas

13th Doctor saves the day, guess what all your faves are gay

#MeToo, heroin, Cold War starting up again

Syria, blue/white gown, tearing racist statues down

Pussy hats, protests, universal unrest

MAGA hats and Russian spies, British politician lies

Kavanaugh! Endless war! I can’t take it anymore!

[cool synth piano solo]

good rhythm, good rhyme on this.

thatsogerman: Since I’m not seeing her name nearly enough on the press, let’s give the attention...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:12:13 -0500

thatsogerman:

Since I’m not seeing her name nearly enough on the press, let’s give the attention Katie Bouman deserves. Thanks to her, we are now possible to see the first ever image of a black hole, something that people talked 200 years ago for the first time. It’s no longer a myth.
We are girls and we can be whatever we want to be. Einstein would be proud of you, Katie. Thank you!

Here you can see a huge stack of hard drives she used for Messier 87’s black hole image data.

nyanymous: storywonker: argumate: this-is-getting-silly: argumate: no fats, no femmes, no hunks,...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:11:50 -0500

nyanymous:

storywonker:

argumate:

this-is-getting-silly:

argumate:

no fats, no femmes, no hunks, no mascs, no twinks, no bears, no tops, no bottoms,

no gods, no kings,

no masters, no subs,

No lettuce, no tomato, and easy on the onions,

and a partridge in a pear tree

neurodivergent-crow: hogwartsaheadcanon: Under appreciated brilliance in Legally Blonde: when an...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:10:04 -0500

neurodivergent-crow:

hogwartsaheadcanon:

Under appreciated brilliance in Legally Blonde: when an innocent woman on trial for murder learns that her lawyer (“the top defence attorney in the state”) sexually harassed one of his students—the same student who had been kind to her, believed in her, and refused to share the alibi she’d been told in confidence—causing her to decide on dropping out of law school in distress, said innocent woman decides to risk prison by firing the TOP DEFENCE ATTORNEY IN THE STATE to whom she has paid a fortune and have said law student defend her instead, in order to prevent her dropping out of school and giving up on a promising career. This decision is supported by the law student’s ex boyfriend’s fiancé, and the presumably long term colleague of the offending attourney who is a partner in his firm and thus would have clear motives for disbelieving or dismissing the report of harassment, but does not.

Elle is believed, her harasser faces immediate consequences for his actions, and she is rallied round by a group of friends, coworkers, and even a teacher (“If you’re going to let one stupid prick ruin your life, you’re not the girl I thought you were.”) who go out of their way to support her and ensure that the harassment she faced does not destroy her future—even when an innocent woman has to put her own freedom on the line to do it.

Legally Blonde didn’t have to go so hard but it Did That and I love it