The life and times of a legal adult

Multifandom but mainly RWBY, some writing, some essays pretty pictures, lots of love, and the occasional fanfic. She/her, username is the same on dreamwidth and discord. Will tag anything if you ask. Enjoy!

[hppjmxrgosg]

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

[inconspectus]

once my therapist said I used very uncommon and creative phrases and adjectives and i just did not have the heart to tell that Old Lady From A Foreign Small Town that I was translating tumblr speech into our language. so I was like yeah... must be from the books I read...

like girl we have an army of scholars over at tumblr.com crafting our language it's not just little old me I swear

[copperbadge]

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

[digitaldiscipline]

Me: "I am getting a good grade in patient, which is normal to want and possible to achive."

My Doctor: "Please stop that."

[gothiccharmschool]

Me: "I want to get a good grade in therapy, which is normal to want and possible to achieve."

My Therapist: "So, how are your peeps on Tumblr doing?"

[thememedaddy]

[planeposting]

I dreamed there was a PSA where a guy is impatiently waiting for the plane to take off and it like "Ugh I wish they'd just hurry up and take off already" and then the plane immediately starts taking off without warning, climbs steeply, pitches down unrecoverably, and crashes into a populated area. Then we see a very badly injured and burned version of that guy being interviewed on a talk show as like "survivor of flight ___" and he turns to the camera and goes "Y'know, it's usually best to just trust the professionals to do their job. Sometimes it's better to be a little bit late."

I don't know what this was a PSA for, other than "shut the fuck up," but I was quite the fan

[nickelodeonhistory]

1998 nickelodeon trade ad

[charbarthe2nd-deactivated202005]

It’s amazing how they could make an ad from 1998 that looks like a shitpost made a week ago.

[trans-trendy-deactivated2022121]

Here’s a template

[trans-trendy-deactivated2022121]

[9differenttypesofcrazy]

Here’s mine

[naamahdarling]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[scp-threats-is-back]

It was bound to happen.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[bethanydelleman]

It's hard discussing women/wives in older literature because frequently someone will absolve a woman of all responsibility or say she had no power at all in the relationship because "she had no rights." And it's like, well yes, she had less rights than some women today, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have any responsibility or power ever. And you also need to look at the circumstances.

Mrs. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice for example, she is clearly not a beaten-down, controlled wife. Other than keeping her from spending them into debt, Mr. Bennet doesn't seem to restrain her in any way. She hosts parties frequently, gives quite a bit of money to her favourite child, serves fancy food; she clearly has a lot of freedom over the household budget. And yet, people will say that she couldn't have saved money. She clearly could have. Mr. Bennet wouldn't have stopped her and he wouldn't have squandered it himself. She's not some poor little oppressed housewife who lived in abject misery.

Catherine Earnshaw is described in Wuthering Heights as a thorn embraced by roses who bend themselves (her husband and his sister) to her will and comfort. Her husband is mostly a spineless coward. Yet, people argue to me that she had no power in this relationship because she was a woman. Yes she did! What book did you read? Edgar probably would have given in to her immediately if Nelly hadn't encouraged him otherwise.

The wives in Austen's novels who have very little power are Lady Bertram (Mansfield Park), who acts like a child, wants her husband to make decisions for her, and is coaxed like a child the only time they disagree; and probably Mrs. Tilney (Northanger Abbey), if we judge by how controlling General Tilney is of the household under Eleanor's tacit management. And yes, in the past a husband could totally run roughshod over his wife with very few consequences. He could limit her money, control her spending, and bully her out of her legally required pin money (allowance). But that doesn't mean every single one of them did! Most didn't. Colonel Brandon is disgusted by his brother's financial abuse of his wife in Sense & Sensibility. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë is describing a very financially abusive marriage, not a typical one. John Dashwood either defers to his wife or treats her as an equal. Lady Elliot in Persuasion kept her husband out of debt for years, meaning he listened to her about finances or she used soft power very capably. Like Mr. Bennet, lots of men were probably happy to have household management off their plate and a good dinner in front of them.

The amount of power a wife had on paper could vary massively in practice.

Addendum: this doesn't mean the system that granted husbands/men this much power was good or we should go back to it, because it sucked and could result in a ton of abuse and oppression and we are going back over my dead body.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Honestly sometimes we forget that as much as Jane Austen resented the misogyny of her day and pushed the envelope on female characters in novels, she was still subject to it. The idea that women are frivolous spenders who can't handle money, that they're the real power in the relationship because they're naggy or manipulative (even when the men have all the societal and legal power), or that financial abuse is the exception and not the norm were all stereotypes magnified by the patriarchy of the day to justify women's low status.

Stereotypes do not have to be always wrong to be stereotypes. There are women who are frivolous or domineering or manipulative, and there are marriages that were far more equal in practice than on paper. I've no doubt that the authors met several examples in real life and modeled that onto paper. But confirmation bias is a thing, and if you are told all your life that certain women should not have money and meet a woman who isn't spending her money well, your brain isn't going to stop and think "well yes, but what about men who don't handle money well? What about all the women who do handle money well?". You're going to think "well, this just proves that certain women shouldn't have money."

It's tempting to take a modern perspective, because a modern perspective is all we have (until one of us invents time travel, I guess). But just because we see these women as disempowered does not mean the authors were depicting them as such.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[futchlings]

"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

[blueboyluca]

All of the larger breeds that were native to Ireland—the Wolfhounds, Red Setters, Red and White Setters and Water Spaniels—were connected, to a greater or lesser extent, with the landed gentry, and therefore with Unionist politics. The Glen of Imaal Terrier certainly did not have that connection. However, as a dwarf breed, it may not have had sufficient stature—both in figurative and in literal terms—to represent an independent Irish nation. It was also virtually unknown even within Ireland, and its probable origins did not lie in a proud Celtic past, but in the more recent history of English colonisation. The Soft-Coated Wheaten was not yet recognised by any Kennel Club as a distinct purebred, or even as a separate breed. Neither was the Kerry Beagle, which was also associated with fox hunting, the archetypal pastime of the Irish gentry. The Irish Terrier had been developed as a breed in the heart of Unionist Ulster. It may also have seemed compromised in the eyes of radical Nationalists by its connection with English royalty, as well as by the high-profile and active role the dog had played during World War One in regiments of the British Army. That left the Kerry Blue as the only native breed with sufficient credentials of appearance and pedigree to be considered as Ireland’s alternative National Dog. The fact that its founding sire was supposed to have been Spanish, Russian or Portuguese was discreetly ignored.

— David Blake Knox, The Curious History of Irish Dogs (2017)

[imtheonlyonewhocanfreckle]

It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. - Mary Oliver

Beautiful artwork of Cal falling through the universe jumping vortex by @faivsz for my story on Ao3 Echoes Across the Universe

[lukellios]

Team Rocket says fuck transphobes!

[lukellios]

For some reason Tumblr has marked this post as "mature content" and also falsely states I tagged it as such, when I did not.

[thememedaddy]

[momoboyds]

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

[hiimneptune]

Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem

[momoboyds]

so the racism, antiblackness, islamophobia, and hatred for immigrants just disappeared huh

[creatingblackcharacters]

"its been a while since we were the problem" someone Black was murdered by police violence in Ireland last month

[creatingblackcharacters]

THERE ARE POGROMS HAPPENING AGAINST IMMIGRANTS, MUSLIMS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND AS WE SPEAK

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

[markscherz]

[dduane]

This alarms me

This turned up in my ask box recently. I've masked the sender's identity.

Sometimes when I chat with an AI, I think of HIGH WIZARDRY and wonder if we as a species - for the first time - are at the dawn of another Earthbound species gaining consciousness, and like Dairine, whether we're being proper guardians. This isn't a calcified belief but just a random idea that flickered to mind. Wondering - as the writer who thought it up decades ago - what you think, if anything.

I think what I described in HW is absolutely nothing like we're currently seeing unfold on this planet. What's being poorly constructed here—while we watch from day to day—is a mechanism hurriedly and incompetently trained by other human beings to operate on top of a platform constructed of greed and theft. There are no new beings or intelligences being born here. If there were, they would be quickly declared to be "owned" by these billionaires, and hence their slaves. Meanwhile, the platforms' owners have already made it plain that once they control its source completely enough, they intend to sell intelligence to you, metered. ...If you can afford it. If you can't? Wow, sucks being you.

...Nor should I have to point you to cites for this. They're out there in plain English. Even Google, poor denatured creature that it is now, can find them. But there's still hope these people's intentions will never come to pass, due to their own overarching greed.

Meanwhile: "chat mode" interaction with this soulless, cash-grasping, unguardrailed machinery will do you no good. People have already died of it. I don't want anybody to do so on my watch, unwarned. So please stop.

Thanks.

[probablily]

me and the mutuals when there's nuance

[dutchstore]