Combing Stars and Dreams Out of Her Hair

Holding Her Reflection in the Water Kissing the Moonlight in the Night Sky

[creekfiend]

healthcare provider: do you have to pee unusually often?

me: well, I don't know how many times a day the average person pees. the relevant data I have is that I am currently on a medication that helps me have to pee less often, and also that before I was on this medication, I had to pee a number of times per day that I personally found frustrating and inconvenient, although I often think that some degree of that is due to our society not being built to accommodate people who need to pee really often.

healthcare provider: most people pee between four and seven times a day.

me: oh yeah then I'm totally normal.

healthcare provider: I would not go that far

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

[creatingblackcharacters]

It's a bit depressing that "saying the n word no matter when or where on the planet you are or how you identify is a bad thing" has been a months long, multiple instance, multiracial discourse in 2026. It's the same ass argument we were having in the 1960s. How are we as a society not doing better than the "Whites Only" ancestors 😭 Martin didn't dream of this 😭

[emotargaryen]

one of the tweets of all time to me

[ilynpilled]

it is truly the ppl who fight tooth and nail that the thing they love isnt for children that actually seem to operate with the belief that fiction made for kids is bad and worthless art that u r stupid for liking. that is not the case and once u finally stop being insecure about it and confront that u dont have to ignore or deny the reality of what the thing u like is is when u will stop saying stupid shit that annoys and embarrasses everybody

[ilynpilled]

we cannot keep doing this

[roadhogsbigbelly]

Well i think the reason Atla fans keep insisting their favorite nickelodeon cartoon isn't for children, is because people use the fact that it's for children to insist that it's bad and worthless art that you're stupid for liking

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i do think "avatar isn't for kids because it discusses genocide" is extremely silly not just because it aired on nickelodeon but because the majority of the show is focused on children having adventures and learning life lessons, but people who praise the show without acknowledging it's age demographic also getting dunked on for allegedly "not watching shows for adults" which to me does seem to heavily imply there is actually something extremely wrong with enjoying fiction for children.

[ilynpilled]

the actual praise of the show here was labeling it “the only show with a big ensemble cast with a perfect ending” which is just a very “read another book” feeling inducing claim. that original qrt is smug and dragging this larger discourse’s baggage into it, one that happens biweekly, and it does weaponize its demographic against it, but u will not convince me that, as an example, discussion of atla by its fans only takes this shape bc of ppl being demeaning. most atla glaze i see online is like this, and u can argue about which phenomenon comes first and feeds its opponents’ annoying overcorrection

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I think another thing that poisons the well in these discussions is the way fans of these media will loudly insist that they're not just cartoons for children because they deal with heavy issues, but a lot of them will gladly retreat to "it's for children" as a defense when they're criticized on the simplistic framing and handling of these issues.

With atla specifically, I can't find the post rn so I don't have the screenshots, but I remember a post from a couple years ago (I wanna say 2023 or 2024?) where OP made a jab at US citizens and the way they benefit from US imperialism, and someone reblogged it telling her to watch atla season 3 to "educate herself" on why the common citizens of an empire are normal people and not evil monsters and you shouldn't treat them like that.

And then when they received the dismissive responses about the silliness of telling someone on the receiving end of american imperialism to "educate herself" about imperialism by watching an american children's cartoon, they did the whole "it's not just a show for children it deals with heavy topics like genocide and imperialism" thing.

But then when people started pointing out the ways in which atla presents a simplistic view of these topics with a clear American Liberal bias there were a lot of responses like "lol why are these bozos complaining that my favorite nickelodeon cartoon does not represent perfect ideologically sound marxist theory". And when I saw that post I remember thinking like. Idk if you walk into a conversation demanding that the people involved in it take your favorite nickelodeon cartoon seriously as a source of political theory you don't get to be mad when people take you at your word and decide to point out the ways in which it fails as such. Like do you want the cartoon to be treated as a Serious Show with Important Things to Say, or as a silly children's show whose ideological undertones shouldn't be scrutinized too seriously?

[creatingblackcharacters]

so, i have a slight conundrum in writing a Black oc of mine, and would like your thoughts on this

to keep it brief, i realised a while ago that the oc in question would likely casually say the n-word. however, i am very white, so i'm doubtful if it'd be okay for me to write that.

[creatingblackcharacters]

I want to clarify here- and you are not the first to ask this- that the issue lies in the confident presence of the belief that this character would say the n word. Because... Why? Reflect upon why that is. Why do you (general), as a white person, believe that this character that you came up with would do that? What are the standards that this character supposedly meets that say "ah yes, he would say the n word"?

Because I won't lie, there absolutely are Black characters that I believe would do that. But is your belief coming from experience or is it coming from bias? And even if he would say it casually, do you recognize what "casual" actually is? Because what you think might be casual might very well become fighting words!

I just think if you have not shown a confident grasp on how Black people interact with each other on a very comfortable level to begin with in your works or life, the use of that word should be thee last priority.

[galetops]

this is a foundational text to me i can’t believe it hasn’t even cracked 4k retweets

[mossworm]

every time

[modmad]

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

ayomidebello

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Phineas and Ferb

Sample Size: 3,208 stories

Source: AO3

[cricketsintheceiling]

[wickedcriminal]

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I recently got a served a TikTok from an influencer who claimed I must follow them to learn how to prevent ‘clitoris cheese’ (that part isn’t my question I have read the faq about washing yourself, you know, normally). Are sex education grifters a common thing? Do you run across them regularly in your research and just filter them out? Or is this a new horror for the modern age (TikTok specifically)

uuuuh yeah I would say that people profiting off of peddling bad/misleading/stigmatizing information about sex have existed for approximately as long as humans have been having sex

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I mean. Goop is a multi million dollar company built on Gwyneth Paltrow telling people to shove jade eggs in their vaginas. you can buy vaginal douching products, which virtually every gynecologist will tell you are a bad idea, in drugstores. my entire motivation for becoming a sex educator was realizing that my country's sex education system isn't even helpful for cisgender straight kids, the people who it's most designed for. sexual misinformation is so normalized as to be entirely unremarkable and tiktok didn't even remotely invent that.

[lunaeregia]

[fairycosmos]

sexual assaulter and bigot jk rowling

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[aletheyass]

it’s insane to me that some women think taking their husbands surname is romantic like i’m not changing my name that’s my name it’s literally a crazy concept to me to legally change a name for a man like girl that’s witness protection stuff wdym you’re just changing your name???? one day just like that? all the paperwork and for what?? it’s sooooo stupid as well as regressive. sorry

[duckmeat-woohoo]

I love Ghost Trick. If there was a 10/10 game out there this would be it for me.