Once Upon an Ace

♠ an asexy ace/arospec Autie who apologizes in advance for their obsession reblog periods ♠

[animentality]

[simpsorama]

[drax-the-vampire-king]

Well this joke certainly aged well

[animentality]

[mysharona1987]

[lynati]

If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)

The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.

[shamebats]

Most of those iPad babies you're seeing are probably sick of that fucking tablet too.

[shamebats]

A lot of parents are very bad at parenting and don't like their children. They don't want to talk to them, be around them or do anything with them. You know, the things kids need and will remember the most once they're grown.

So they train them from an early age that they should always be distracting themselves with something as to not be in the way or annoying the adults.

For me it was books and TV when I was little, and computers later on. That's all I did because it was all I could do without getting yelled at, and it was the closest to human interaction I could get most of the time.

[shamebats]

Everyone loves to make fun of & complain about iPad kids but nobody thinks about the struggle of navigating life as an adult when you were forced to spend your entire childhood keeping yourself distracted so your parents didn't have to acknowledge your existence.

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

So I want to be an elementary school teacher, I’m getting my master’s now in elementary education, but I’ve also nannied and children are so interesting to be around. They ask questions and then if you don’t know the answer you just look it up and now you’ve learned something too. The first little boy I nannied for had so many questions and I learned so much because of him. I learned about what kind of cars each symbol means, I learned that cucumbers are fruits, and I learned about spiders. The point is that children are interesting because they are seeing the world for the first time and you should want to interact with them when you are a parent.

[shamebats]

People always assumed I would have children of my own because little kids of family friends always loved me so much when I was a teen, they'd talk about me to their parents & ask over and over again when they could see me next. I definitely didn't know anything about childcare at that age. All I did was listen to them & show interest in whatever they wanted to show or tell me about. That was literally it.

[airedelalmena]

Yeah. It's child abuse. Don't blame the kids.

[thestuckylibrary]

#i think another thing that happened is the 24-hour news cycle#which made parents too scared to let their kids go outside and be well... kids#so they instead plop a tablet in front of their kids thinking it will be “safer” than the nearby playground#when in reality they're getting exposed to something far more addictive and damaging via @sick-sad-little-world

[pineappical]

is this anything

[indecisor]

Ted Chiang, “Why A.I. isn’t Going to Make Art.” The New Yorker.

[liberalsarecool]

Vote for progressives. #DSA #ZohranMamdani

[catchymemes]

[pghumfort]

dead dove do not eat in practice

[cloudabserk]

grace is like rocky be honest am i too clingy? and rocky is like grace i would mind meld with you if i could.

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

[redstonedust]

i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

[depsidase]

[lady-averie]

So while doing some pirate research for the play I’m writing I stumbled upon one of the most amazing things I’ve ever read. In the 5th century A.D. there was a Scandinavian princess called Alwilda who’s father tried to set her up to marry Alf, the Prince of Denmark. Alwilda wasn’t cool with this so she and some female companions dressed as men, stole a ship, and sailed away. Eventually they met a company of pirates who were in need of a new captain and they were so captivated by her that they elected her as their new leader. Her crew became so infamous that Prince Alf was sent out to stop them. When their ships met he took Alwilda prisoner and she was so impressed by Alf’s skill that she agreed to marry him after all and eventually became the Queen of Denmark.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

I stopped caring whether this was factually accurate about halfway through because it’s completely AWESOME.

[oldshrewsburyian]

Medievalist here for triumphant fact-checking: this story is, if not true, at least true according to the history of the Danes (Gesta Danorum) written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus. You can read his account of Alwilda’s story in the original Latin here, or in English translation here. Highlights include:

She exchanged woman’s for man’s attire, and, no longer the most modest of maidens, began the life of a warlike rover. Enrolling in her service many maidens who were of the same mind, she happened to come to a spot where a band of rovers were lamenting the death of their captain, who had been lost in war; they made her their rover captain.

I love the implication that there were lots of Danish maidens just WAITING for the opportunity of a life of piracy…

[lady-averie]

Reblogging my old post for this A+ addition to it

[depsidase]

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[podcastwizard]

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.

[depsidase]