Fine, you win. Amemait has a tumblr now.

Happily penguining about Star Wars since 1946. If you’re blocked it’s likely because you stated or directly supported a legitimate death threat against a member of my family, or you’re a Sealion and I’ve shown you the door.

[amemait]

It’s okay.

Others do what they must to look after themselves. And I am too much. Too much drama, too much loud, too much wanting to talk, too much present when others wish I’d leave. Too much wanting to give and to please when others want me to be myself and find worth in me not in what I can do for them.

I don’t know how to be me, without doing that.

And it’s okay to back away from that. To say no. To say enough.

Because I’m too much of everything.

It’s okay for others to protect their own sanity from me and my intrusions into their peace. If I hurt them, intentional or unintentional, they should remove me. That’s fair, that’s understandable. Intent is not impact. My intent is good, my impact is bad.

And I’ll try to get better at being a person who’s me without being too much of everything that others can’t bear.

Because it’s not right to ask others to bear me when I can’t bear myself.

It’s okay.

I’ll do better. Even if I can’t do better for them. Because I need to do better for me.

Wish me success!

[homunculus-argument]

I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.

[squid-thoughts]

I’ve mostly learned Chinese in school, so I know a lot of academic vocabulary while having the language skills of a toddler in some basic areas. Once, I forgot the word for sad, which is a really dumb thing to forget. A bunch of the ways to say sad in Chinese are literally just “not happy”, but I also momentarily forgot how to say happy. So instead I said “there is an economic downturn inside my brain”.

[scarlettohairdye]

When my wife and I were in Japan we went to an izakaya on our first full night in the country, and when it was time to pay we weren't sure where to do it, at the table or at the counter up front? Our waitress didn't speak much English, so I threw myself on that conversational grenade with, "Okane ga koko desu ka? Okane ga asoko desu ka?" Literally translated that's, "Money is/goes/should be here? Money is/goes/should be over there?"

She very gratefully confirmed that "Money goes over there," and we paid and left.

[captain-kit-adventuress]

This is exactly what I was taught to do when I took Spanish (and I took a decades' worth, and my main teacher was amazing). He always tried to get us to tell him what we wanted or needed or was trying to say in the best way we knew how, because that is how people actually use language. Rather than have it be a barrier, he taught us above all to keep communicating. He never really told us why, or how valuable a skill it would be, he would just pretend he couldn't understand us anyway when we asked for a word we didn't know, and basically forced us to do exactly that. So it became completely normal to just...do that when we didn't know something.

Later, when I was in college and/or in the real world and I didn't know a word or couldn't remember or didn't have the words for a concept, I would I automatically do what I always did, what had become normalised: I would talk around it, which is what my teacher always called it. I even had one of my professors compliment me on getting what I needed that way, and she said that she'd never had another student do that and how helpful it was for her to be able to help me. I know that when I encountered others in my job with whom I had to speak in Spanish, and I couldn't communicate with them in the "proper" way, I could still get what I needed, or they needed, and there was always a sense of delight that even though my grammar was far from perfect, and I didn't always use the right words, that we all accomplished what we were there for. Most people don't care if you get it "right." They just want to be able to communicate effectively. (Can't speak for the French, though. 😉)

I also highly recommend doing this in your native language if you forget a word or blank on something. When I have conversations with people and they tell me they're blanking or can't think of something, I always, always ask them to describe it. Most people don't because they think it's weird and so either they don't get their point across or the conversation simply stops. But if they were more willing to keep communicating, we might get there. So I'm subtly trying to train everyone around me to do the same thing.

[roach-works]

it's so much less frustrating and more funny when you can forget the word for windows and just say 'the doors for light to come in the wall' and if you forget the word for noodles you say 'you know the bread worms? from soup?' and if you forget the word for tiger you say 'those big assholes in the jungle, with stripes, they're orange.'

genuinely people love it when you do this. it makes the rest of the conversation so much more fun.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[snarp]

Part of the job when you work for child protective services is acting as a scapegoat. Abusive adults do not admit to being abusive. When they can't hide the fact that they lost custody, they lie about why it happened. They blame someone else.

Sometimes, they blame their kids, their kids' teachers, their kids' other parent, or someone they think reported them. This can be very dangerous for their target: a restraining order against a single person isn't enough when that person has convinced dozens or others that you're evil.

It's safer for everyone when these abusers instead run a smear campaign against a government agency: a group of hundreds of adults, whose individual names the abuser doesn't necessarily know, who have lawyers and 24/7 security cameras and training on how to handle the situation.

Young people removed from an abusive household, when asked why it happened, will often say that the decision was made for them by social services and had nothing to do with what they wanted. This is the safest thing answer for them to give: saying "my dad tried to kill me and I never want to see him again," to someone who might report that back to their dad, is potentially-suicidal. They are doing exactly what they should be doing when they make CPS the scapegoat.

[glitter-stained]

I'm curious let's see what you guys think

Best way to dial up your hot chocolate?

Hazelnut syrup

vanilla extract

peppermint teabag

marshmallows and sprinkles

Bailey's

cayenne pepper

cinnamon + allspice

chestnut cream

plain, wtf are you doing to my hot chocolate

other (tell me in the notes!)

I don't drink hot chocolate /see results

Voting ended onDec 8, 2025

[amemait]

All of the above and more!

[aflo]

if you're washed chopped and cooked then you might be vegetables

[post-uwuifier]

if yoo’we washed chopped an cooked den yoo might be vegetabwes UwU

This post has been UwU-ified!

[snail-counter]

there are fifty five (55) snails 🐌 in this post!

[post-uwuifier]

how did aww da snaiws get in my vegetabwes UwU

[misforgotten2]

O Holey Night …

Better Homes and Gardens Treasury of Christmas Ideas - 1966

[dreemmachine]

just my humble attempt at raging against the machine

[dreemmachine]

i made a follow up! if this blows up, pls remember it is illegal to be mean to me. and i am a small artist you can give money to btw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the physical media depicted: lucky leaves by krill, worry by jeff rosenstock, self titled by babytooth. i love to tiny doodle album covers :)

[malmuses]

Skip Spotify 2: Non-Electric Boogaloo

[shock]

if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character 

[b0gchamp-deactivated20230613]

someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over

[yessica-k]

This one?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[iustuspeccator]

When you are posting on tumblr, do not add your commentary to the text of the post, in case others disagree with you and the original poster may come and say to you, "Make your own post," and then you will be in disgrace. But when you post, add your commentary to the tags, so that when the original poster sees them, they may say to you, ‘Friend, do not hide this in the tags'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who blog with you.

[iustuspeccator]

#on that appointed day many will say 'did you not say we should piss on the poor‚ and that you hate waffles‚ and that sharks are smooth?'#and then will i declare to them 'depart from me‚ for i am turning reblogs off and muting this post'

@library-windows friend do not hide this in the tags!!

[he-was-a-sk8r-bird]

Cecil Palmer voice : My cousin Throckmorton, you know, the skateboarder

[schwarzfeesecond]

Birdy the Mighty OVA (1996/1997)

[uberthemeh]

Estrogen

[quasi-normalcy]

[quasi-normalcy]

[viridianmasquerade]

Like... If you have regret and sadness about doing something don't fucking do it, you bunch of turds

[thememedaddy]

[barsom-fearce]

[kaibacorpintern]

Mokuba should get to poison more people

[kaibacorpintern]

Investors he doesn't like. Teachers who won't let him cut class for work. That one guy in Engineering who didn't say hi back to him in the elevator. Pegasus. Newspaper journalists who write bad things about Kaiba Corp. Kaiba's like "I got in a fight with Yuugi last night" and Mokuba's like "He better think twice about stepping foot into burger world today" And kaibas like "what" and Mokuba's like "don't worry about it"

[demonatemu]

Behold the Millennium tissue box

[guerrillatech]

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

[poorghost]

no one follows the trees warning

[rapidashrider]

You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN

[whereserpentswalk]

flood Plain perfec t size for put town in to b\uild! inside very Soft and Comfort town safe happy put town in Floodplain. Put Town In Floodplain. no problems ever in flloodplain because good Shape and Support for town roads weak of big town citizens. Afloodplain yes a place for a town put town in floodplain can trust floodplain for giveing good place for town. friend flood

[crypticcripple]

If you crossed a schnauzer (don’t) with a poodle (seriously don’t) you would call it a schnoodle

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i have to believe this creature exists, and that it's like some genius mad scientist supervillan dog

[crypticcripple]

Via @chasingtheskyline they exist!

And we are correct. This dog looks like she could do a multi episode arc in Hannibal