Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and those of us who know better

A being of pure light sent to this earth to watch a lot of cartoons and make stupid observations about stuff no one cares about. Gender: *shrug*. Pronouns: whatever, just don't be a douche. Ace and on the case. In a loving relationship with the most beautiful bean in the world. Also a fan of ball gowns and cats. Pro-choice. Trans rights are human rights. Terfs ain't got no friends and can die in a hole.

[babybluebanshee]

Reading Log 2026

Currently Reading:

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (reread)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (reread)

The Refrigerator Monologues - Cathrynne M. Valente

Chain of Ideas: The Origin of Our Authoritarian Age - Ibram X. Kendi

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life - Rob Paulsen

The Princess Bride - William Goldman (reread)

Monster in the Archive: My Year of Fear With Stephen King - Caroline Bicks

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

January:

American Studies - Mark Merlis

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination - Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Persepolis: The Story of a Return - Marjane Satrapi (reread)

Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San, Vol. 1 - Honda

Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin

Ash’s Cabin - Jen Wang

February

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

All About Love: New Visions - bell hooks

Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

March

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter

1984 - George Orwell

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - Abraham Flexner

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

Silas Marner - George Eliot

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

April

Grendel - John Gardner

Maus Now: Selected Writings - Hilary Chute (editor)

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

Emma - Jane Austen (reread)

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold - Seanan McGuire

The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer - Rax King

May

Ice Cream Man, Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles - W. Maxwell Prince

Ice Cream Man, Vol. 2: Strange Neapolitan - W. Maxwell Prince

Hope In the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities - Rebecca Solnit

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (reread)

The Color Purple - Alice Walker (reread)

Beowulf: A New Translation - Maria Dahvana Headley

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

June

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett

The First Rebellion - Marion Chesney

Role Models - John Waters

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times - Azar Nafisi

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer

[scarletsoldierr]

“they are so me coded” and its just an absolute loser

[cillyscribbles]

some of you have never jellicle balled and it shows

[xiomara-voidtree25]

Just got this gorgeous art commissione from @madkatartist

Thanks again for this wonderful piece of artwork, I can’t wait to put it on my wall with the rest of my collection.

[itsaaudraw]

rest in peace and dream

dream it never ends

HAPPY 50 YEARS PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE 🦢🎤⚡️🪠

[marcheriest]

macavity the mystery cat, for a patron

[andhumanslovedstories]

Medication is so annoying. I don’t want to get up so I can take more ibuprofen because the cramps are starting up. I want to take 100 pills of Tylenol and 100 pills of Motrin at the beginning of any given cycle and then be good for like three months. Or one month! Or one week! It doesn’t have to be an efficient usage of the medication if it means I don’t have to think about it at all for a bit. That would be nice. But unfortunately this kills you. Yet another example of how the science engages in a constant conspiracy to make you get up out of bed just when the nap was getting good.

[andhumanslovedstories]

Absolutely sick and tired of this mammal bullshit. Give me a sunbeam and one enormous pile of all my necessary medication in the form of a fully intact pig that I slowly digest over the course of a week

[irithind]

I need that. What do you mean I have to take six pills in the morning and one in the evening for the rest of my fucking fucking life to be functioning at almost the level expected of a normal person.

Sum fucken bullshit.

[animentality]

[ye-pers]

And birds

[reasonsforhope]

Arizona Suburb Turned into Mediterranean-style Walking Town Where Temperatures Stay Low - Good News Network

A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high. Western civiliza

"A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high.

Western civilization has grown remarkably climate conscious over the last 20 years, but not when it comes to building, civic planning, and especially zoning. Perhaps the interiors of buildings are becoming more climate adapted, and in some cases the facades as well, but in a way that’s a little like inventing a freezer designed to keep ice cream frozen while sitting next to a fire.

Wooden or concrete boxes arranged side-by-side across leveled ground with sprawling, largely treeless gardens and concrete sidewalks alongside wide, blacktop roads is simply a culture of construction that has to be abandoned if living in a world of 2°C or higher annual temperatures [or, hopefully, less than that, but nonetheless likely over 1.5°C] is to be tolerable.

Fortunately for Arizonans, change may have finally arrived in the form of a carless, planned community that looks and feels like a Greek island village.

In the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Culdesac has arisen as a 17-acre mixed-use neighborhood from the ground up to stay cool and local, taking the concept of the 15-minute city, where anything a resident might need is only 15 minutes away, and putting a Mediterranean spin on it.

Buildings are tall, thick, and totally white. The residential areas look like they were built atop of the ashes of the Phoenix zoning code burnt in effigy. Crammed together, they create narrow streets and alleys that are almost constantly shaded, through which wind is channeled and accelerated in passing.

Windows open towards each other, allowing wind that enters one building to exit into another, while the total lack of asphalt means that the ground temperatures are a staggering 50-60°F lower than pavements beyond the limits of Culdesac.

No privately-owned cars are allowed to enter the neighborhood, in which electric bikes, robotic mini taxis, and light rail shuttle people around town, to downtown Phoenix, or out to the airport.

The street life is lively—there are no cars to bisect movement between the 21 different businesses and eateries, among which is a James Beard Award-winning Mexican restaurant, DIY ceramic business, and some stores run out of apartments—a big no-no under Phoenix zoning laws.

“Once you pull the cars out,” Architect Daniel Parolek who designed Culdesac, told BBC, “there’s so much more opportunity to make a vibrant, thriving community.”

His inspiration was sun-soaked locales like Italy, Greece, and Croatia, where town centers were designed before the automobile and before air conditioning.

Technically speaking, the entire Culdesac neighborhood is one apartment complex, but the paseos, or little alleyways, open up into plazas of open space exactly liked one would expect in a little village in the Cyclades.

Because no one has to jump in a car to get from place to place, people run into each other, sparking conversations, relations, and breaking through the counterintuitive phenomenon of big city loneliness, which in Phoenix hits particularly hard.

“Culdesac Tempe has shown that people do want to live car-free in the US, even in a metro area like Phoenix that’s often seen as the poster child for car dependency,” says Erin Boyd, Culdesac’s government relations and external affairs lead. “This success has shifted the conversation around what’s possible in American development.”

-via Good News Network, August 25, 2025

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[zevrans]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 (𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐, 𝐝𝐢𝐫. 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫) + 𝐈𝐌𝐃𝐛 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚

[creaturey]

i think r/BenignExistence is my favorite subreddit 🥲 i love these pleasant little glimpses into strangers' lives

[nightkitchentarot]

"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." -- Kurt Vonnegut

[slow-drowned-angels]

“Do it scared” but please realize that, if you Do It Scared too much and don’t let yourself rest + relax + have fun in between, you will fuck yourself up. If you “do it scared” all day every day, you will burn out badly and quickly. Sometimes this is temporarily necessary but please keep this in mind.

[barnables]

When you “do it scared” eventually you’re supposed to be less scared, eventually doing it scared is supposed to teach you the worst won’t happen, or it won’t be as bad as you think it is, or that the best outcomes are worth it, or you’re more capable than you thought you were. If you do it scared over and over and you’re still scared and you’re always scared, maybe it was never about pushing yourself, maybe something bigger is going on and what you really need is to be kind to yourself while you figure out what that is.

[kaputtsolvi]

What I feel people frequently forget about autistic special interests is that they aren't always information based. They may simply be visual or mental

Someone may have a special interest in a show, but instead of that meaning that they will talk about that show often, it may mean they watch that show extremely frequently.

Special interests are ways of regulating, not simply encyclopedias we have in our heads. Sometimes it's watching something frequently. Maybe only listening to one genre of music, maybe it's a collection, maybe it's an action. I'm tired of it only being seen as autistic people's personal encyclopedias

[ethanillustrations]

My Cinderella’s Castle Fanart! I loved this show so much!! I hope to the nine good gods that they create more tales in this world, the vibes are so fun.

[teafromthemicrowave]

Is here anyone who likes Repo! The genetic Opera PLEASE GATHER FOR I HAVE FOOD