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hello vonnie
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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almost home
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cherry valley forever
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$LAYYYTER
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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this gave me a, no joke, 60 second coughing fit and im still recovering
[id1: two close ups of a nun subtitled “I’m asking, mr. Harker if you had sexual intercourse with Count Dracula.” end id1.]
[id2: A picture of Bill Clinton from the January 26 press conference subtitled “I did not have sexual relations with Count Dracula.” end id2.]
I was a really soft-hearted little kid who cried a lot and liked to play games about making big families and nurturing things, which, since I was a boy, meant I got the shit kicked out of me a lot by other boys for being girly. Boys were supposed to be tough and fight and compete and try to be the best, you see, that's how our imagination games were supposed to go. And that's what media aimed at boys when I was a kid focused on - heroes who beat the shit out of people and are tough and don't cry et cetera et cetera.
And I learned to like that and see the appeal in that, sure. There are lots of stories that were made for an audience of little boys that I ended up liking. But I always wanted something that told me boys like me, who didn't want to be violent or competitive, who liked nurturing things and making friends, who avoided fights whenever allowed, were valid.
So I was really happy when Steven Universe came around and was exactly that - the kind of show a sensitive little boy like I used to be would have killed to see. And very shortly after that I was crushed when the growing criticism of the show repeated the refrain that it was bad mainly because Steven was a pacifist who cried and didn't want to be violent and liked nurturing things and making friends instead of killing people. I wasn't surprised, no, it made perfect sense people would hate it for being that, but I was crushed all the same.
Our society only accepts a very narrow definition of masculinity, and kindness isn't allowed to play a very big role in it. That's one of the reasons I quit it.
Anyway, I'm a daycare teacher now, and one of the kids in my class is a really sensitive little boy with big feelings and a bigger heart, who acts very nurturing to his little 3-D printed dragons, and gets very upset at how mean and rude the other little boys can be when they're trying to prove they're mature and tough. Recently he's been talking to me about a show he found and has fallen in love with called Steven Universe, and I've been delighted to hear him regale me about how much he loves it. I bet it's doing him some real good to see that it's ok for a little boy like him to have a big heart and to want to make friends instead of fight all the time. He's making up his own crystal gem OC too, isn't that nice?
Checks out the people who reblog this who can’t be bothered to do one thing every four years and expect us to do everything for them.
people on tumblr will really be like "posting on your blog? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, winning an election" and then not win an election
Silver obol from Miletus, Ionian Greek, 525-492 BC
from The Yale University Art Gallery
Old Growth by Mitch Epstein (2021–2023)
Dean killing Sam is whatever but imagine if he killed his wife. I mean his wife. Sorry I mean his wife. Sorry idk why this is so hard, im talking about his wife. His. The angel you know, the angel guy. Who’s his wife.
It’s weird to see people say a character was a perfect example of a story’s tragic themes and also say they ‘deserved better.’
You understand that that character didn’t experience tragedy because their creator thought they deserved it, right? You get that they are a storytelling device and they cannot be a perfect example of tragic themes and get a perfect happy ending, right? That one excludes the other and you can’t have both and the story is stronger for having explored the tragedy in full instead of shying away from it. You understand this. Right?
Right???
webfishing is such a breath of fresh air honestly. i feel like every vaguely "cozy" title wants to be minecraft or animal crossing or stardew valley, but the bloat of all the obligatory timesink systems has been smothering the joy of the low-stakes open-ended lollygagging. i can never just hang out in games like that, because everything is locked behind so many layers of heirloom mechanics included purely for trendiness (via blind imitation of the big name games) and not because they actually improve the gamefeel or streamline the gameplay loop. i can't just play ten minutes of a game like that because those ten minutes are gonna damage my tools/armor or run down a timer or use up a crafting resource or some other chain reaction of unfun grinding garbage.
meanwhile, webfishing has no crafting, no survival, no item breakage, no stamina meter, no food meter, no jumpscares... the physics-defying out-of-bounds void area doesn't beat you over the head with the creepypasta shlock and mostly just exists as a fun convenient hangout spot to catch basically every fish in... and best of all there's insane griefing potential (meowing/barking, punching people into the water to drown them, playing guitar badly, drawing stupid shit all over the ground at spawn) yet zero consequences for actually getting griefed. if someone drowns you it literally does not affect you for longer than like five seconds.
also you can buy scratch offs and get drunk. i really appreciate that. i dislike the way a lot of cozy games seem to be stuck in a kid friendly tone owing to their origins in E and E10+ games/websites, only ever vaguely referring to adult topics, even while being marketed heavily towards nostalgic adults who grew up on the original ds or played a lot of neopets. just because i want a simple gameplay style doesn't mean i want to be babied; i want the simplicity because i'm an adult with realass adult responsibilities and don't have time/energy to grind, not because i'm still mentally ten years old and blanche at mature topics. and so i really appreciate the way webfishing will scratch that itch for "wild world if it was just fishing and able sisters" while also letting you have bloodshot eyes, wear a hat that says "i love peeing", and then blow all your money on beer and scratch offs. like honestly truly who else is doing it like webfishing
Some fun squares I crocheted recently 🧶☀️
i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole
NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 4 POLL 14
TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?
Enkidu (The Epic of Gilgamesh)
Data (Star Trek)
PROPAGANDA:
[Enkidu]
"He seems like he'd enjoy it. ;)"
[Data]
"data was MADE to be a father. he has several precious interactions with children throughout the show and even his OWN DAUGHTER. he is endlessly kind and patient, he treats children with respect, yet sets firm boundaries. he is the greatest father any baby could ask for. and more importantly he is also DEVOTED to his quest to Become More Human, to learn about humans, live among humans, experience human experiences, as a human would. he was even present when his friend Deanna went into labor, because she trusted him and knew he would be curious about the experience. if ANYONE'S gonna figure out how to get an android pregnant, it will be DATA HIMSELF. he's in it for the love of the game and the love of humanity and his love of children. let the android get pregnant i say.
he should've birthed lal thank you for coming to my ted talk."
"HE DESERVES IT. It would make him so happy, and Spot would get a friend. :)"
Data propaganda from last season
It would be a crucial step in understanding humanity, he deserves another chance to be a father after what happened to Lal, and there's a surplus of excellent possible baby daddies aboard the Enterprise to choose from.
ok this level of simultaneous vague and direct psychological horror hasn't been expressed since Amnesia Was her Name
NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 4 POLL 16
TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?
Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit)
Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)
PROPAGANDA:
[Bilbo]
"Already a parent to Frodo; I think giving him a baby would help prevent a lot of the stuff that happens in LotR actually."
Bilbo propaganda from last season
[Gandalf]
"Gotta put those big naturals to use somehow."
i love that my mom (40 yr old millennial btw) looks over my shoulder as I'm voting and asks me why anyone would choose between Bilbo and Gandalf when you can impregnate both
I see a lot more love in Bilbo then I do in Gandalf, so I think Bilbo would be a better dad ❤️
NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 4 POLL 8
TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?
Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune)
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)
PROPAGANDA:
[Tenna]
"Because he's a TV."
"I just DO, I’m unbelievably down bad for him. He 100% laid that egg that he has, Spamton for sure knocked him up and left him with that egg. Now it’s my turn to knock that TV up."
"He keeps an egg from his ex in the closet that he's ashamed of anyone finding out about, but treats as a daughter. Said egg is hidden inside his official plush. The TV is canonically eggnant. Creator also called him a handsome, apron-wearing older husband. I mean, come on."
"He’s already so desperate and needy for attention you can’t tell me he wouldn’t love it."
"I haven't even played Deltarune but the art is so amazing! it's convinced me that Tenna MUST be mpregged."
"It might fix him."
"Okay so the entirety of The Lore takes like an hour to explain so I will skip that and instead talk about the merch pipis stuff. The offical plushies merch have secret bonus stuff sew inside. For Tenna he has a pipis- something that looks like a blue egg. In canon Tenna has a special pipis he keeps safe and hidden and calls it his darling daughter. Pipis (so far) is exclusively made by a different character, Spamton. Tenna and Spamton have fraught history together to the point where they honestly come across as messily divorced. Spamton's plushie *also* had a hidden pipis inside so the meme is that they got each other pregnant."
"We need more pipis in this world <3 also Smapton."
"THEY CAN TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT IN THE DIVORCE, BUT NOT HIS KID."
"Pipis."
[Doofenshmirtz]
"he is the number one girldad and i think he'd be really cute with a younger child <3 please he's got empty-nest syndrome he needs this."
"He's already a good dad he needs another."
TENNA TENNA TENNA
”Ah ha, Perry the Platypus! We meet again! You must have heard about my newest evil plan!…Well, that was actually just a lie I spread to get you to come so you could help me put this player together for Junior. Vanessa won’t text me back and I could use the help…”
