old lady has a blog

[miraclemaya]

i think it's so funny wehave like letters and whatever from Tolkien talking about how he fucked up with the orcs. it's ao funny

[sackboy166]

[unyieldingsilence]

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[trans-for-man-tion]

Is that man mansplaining

or are you misusing that phrase?

warning: i made this while annoyed and tired so feel free to correct it how you see fit

I have noticed a couple of people trying to use the word mansplaining to get trans men or trans masculine people to shut up about whatever topic it is they're discussing

and it made me realize that the word "mansplaining" has been bastardised into "a man that I dislike or disagree with talking about something"

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I’m not defending the word “mansplaining” but this is critically (and ironically) missing the point of what it was clumsily coined to describe, which is that there is a pattern of men simply adopting the position of teachers when speaking to women. Even in the original essay—really a short anecdote—by Rebecca Solnit that inspired the term, the man she’s speaking to is chagrined when he realizes he’s explaining her own book to her.

“Does he know he’s dominating the conversation” “do you know more about the topic” “would he talk over you” this is irrelevant!!! Definitionally he does not realize what he’s doing; the whole point is that he has unconscious misogynist biases informing his worldview that lead him to instinctively assume comparative ignorance on the woman’s part. It’s the “I can’t operate, this is my son” joke writ large—a systemic bias that women’s ignorance and lack of authority can be safely assumed unless proven otherwise.

[skippyisntfunny]

[oddlysexypancake]

[wikiphilia]

Major scientific breakthrough spotted. in the boundlessly chaotic void of linguistic misunderstanding

[girldraki]

kind of harmonically beautiful

[funky-insanitear]

[razielim]

[egberts]

what mouse walks on two legs

[striders]

mickey

[egberts]

okay, what duck walks on two legs?

[striders]

donald

[egberts]

no, all of them.

[striders]

this is the last time you make a fool of me in my own house god damnit

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[fyretrobarbie]

Volkwagen Microbus (2002)

[mysteriouspersonrambles]

Truthfully one of the most insane things to me that tumblr users have ever done is transform Dracula from a book about the Victorian scooby gang trying to defeat a vampire into a tragic time loop (which in turn makes the story even more of a gothic horror in my opinion) via the existence of Dracula Daily

Like what do you mean every single year the Harkers, the suitor squad and Van Helsing are forced to relive the worst year of their life

Sure they win in the end but over and over they are forced to loose the people they love, be striped of their personhood and fight what must have seemed like an impossible battle.

And nobody is even aware of this time loop except us and we just feed into this narrative. “Oh my friend Jonathan has just sent me another letter let’s hope this goes better than last year ;)”

And from a literary analysis standpoint this whole change is inane because it frames the book in an entirely new light. There is a meta layer of horror being applied to the book that was never possible before.

How many years will they suffer like this before someone realizes something is wrong? Before someone gets déjà vu just a few too many times?Before Jonathan and Mina realize they don’t know what their son looks like all grown up? How many years before they are free?

[thefandomlifechoseme]

so like. when are we getting that wild west ect TV show where right at the end of the first season. right at the end. last ten minutes right at the end. the main character wanders over from America to England to go propose to this really nice girl we've been hearing about all season. and she opens the door and we finally learn the main character's last name.

and The Public still don't even realise that Quincey Morris just wandered his way into the plot of Dracula because no one ever includes him in the adaptations and no one's actually read the book

when are we getting that.

[fluoresensitives]

Women stick thin and malnourished on the red carpet, and people are saying you can't point out that these women are dying because that's body shaming. Girl.

[doctordaemon]

@whitenikes

[fidget-sinner]

En Anglais, on ne dit pas “quatre vingt dix neuf”, on dit “ninety nine” qu'on pourrait traduire comme “Hurr durr, regardez mois, j'ai un système de numérotation fonctionnel” et je crois que c'est magnifique.

[assemblageofmyartistry-blog]

[theehorsepusssy]

[wishingformemoria]

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

[wishingformemoria]

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

[andre-30008]

[notoriousmasc]

[zoesupreme]

generational abyssmal dogshit coming down the pipe

[zoesupreme]

he's so real tho

[famosoentrescalles]

soy sauce fish, linocut on kitchen wall (2026)

[catbreon-draws]

I’m p

Yes I’m

Yes hmmms ow

Eh

Tnhk

[catbreon-draws]

Tumblr wouldn’t let me upload the video but I let the mice write a tumblr post for me and this is the result :^)

[ohfuck-abastard-deactivated2023]

i thought that was just. a regular tumblr post and accepted it

[chatmeow9]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame