I Wish I Was a Bumblebee

Queer, non-binary (they/them/their) 

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[thesituation]

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

[moniquill]

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

[vergess]

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

[commodorecliche]

[nongunktional]

"oh you're just being nice" JUST? do you have any idea how much work goes into this shit? JUST being nice? girl i am doing some supercomputer shit upstairs to construct this niceness. they installed laplace's demon in my brain to trace out the last hour of interaction and calculate the optimal thing to say to make you feel better. and i still somehow beefed it? JUST being nice? yeah and bach was "just writing songs" jesus fucking christ. people askin for cordiality like it's no big deal

[dogsuffrage]

I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.

[jessaerys]

hate when im reading and theres a word i dont know so i search it in the dictionary and its like: beuperer. noun. a person who beupers. i'll fucking kill you

[fucking-relax]

eat when you’re hungry,

rest when you’re tired.

you don’t need to “earn it”

[fucking-relax]

if it’s been a while: eat! rest!

it’s okay if you forgot

this is your reminder

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[quadriviummuse]

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[macrolit]

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[macrolit]

Passing by Nella Larsen is one of our giveaw@y books, and today is her birthday. :)

[inthefallofasparrow]

Actually, 'Zelda' is the name of the princess. The guy who runs around smashing everyone's pots is just called 'Zelda's monster'.

[sheislucifer]

let me make myself very clear, on this blog its:

fuck donald trump

fuck ICE

immigrants are not illegal

free palestine

black lives have and will always matter

trans rights forever and always

pro choice

healthcare should be free

house the homeless

keep religion out of schools

LGBTQ+ rights

fuck the tories

if you dont agree, fuck off.

[clownluvrcommunist-deactivated2]

the absolute number one thing that you as a cis woman can do to make yourself a better "ally" for trans women in your relationships with them is to learn about transgender medicine.

i was at planned parenthood at the start of december for a gender care follow-up. now, im on bicalutamide, which i get online, instead of spironolactone because spiro sucks and bica is awesome. the GAC clinician DID NOT KNOW WHAT BICALUTAMIDE WAS, which is absolutely absurd given that it is the second most widely used anti-androgen in the US, and because planned parenthood has known for seven months that im on bica (plus my dosage, monthly liver panels, etc). maybe even worse was that she effectively said "if you want to continue being a patient here [and, implicitly, being prescribed estrogen here], i need you to have testosterone labs." for reference, T labs are useless on bica, as bica does not block T production, it blocks T reception, which means that blood T levels (which is what T labs measure) are much HIGHER than almost anyone, including cisgender men.

if you want to be a good "ally" to your trans girl friends or partners or whatever, learn our medicine. learn the different anti-androgens, their effective dosages, their side effects. learn the different types of injectable, pill, gel, and patch estrogens, their half-lives (if relevant), their dosages, how to use/take them. learn which forms of injectable estrogens are best subcutaneous vs intramuscular, and what the difference in efficacy between the two is. learn what surgeries make up the umbrella of facial feminization surgery. learn about us.

trans women are the only people who know much of anything about our medicine. for most of us, this is one of the most important facets of our lives (if not the most important one). if you want to call yourself an "ally", if you want to be safe for trans women, if you want to be someone who trans women seek out for advice and companionship, learn about us.

[ultrafacts]

Mrs. T, a 90-year-old tortoise from Pembrook, Wales, lost her front legs during hibernation due to a rat attack. Her owner, Jude Ryder, feared for her mobility until her son, Dale, a mechanical engineer, attached wheels from a model aircraft to her shell. This innovative solution allowed Mrs. T to move at twice her previous speed.

[cringecorp]

they say you can't pour from an empty cup but i've been doing it my whole life and aside from all of these mysterious ailments it's working out great for me

[pukicho]

Invasive species versus a second, stronger invasive species

[doctorpotatomd]

Australia did this at one point, intentionally releasing cats into the bush in an attempt to control the invasive rabbit population. Now we have invasive feral cats as well as invasive rabbits👌

[pukicho]

A third, even stronger invasive species will surely do the trick

[yms1]

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

[shinelikethunder]

reminder that if you haven't had a Tdap booster shot in the past 5 years, get one ASAP for the love of god - pertussis (whooping cough) cases have exploded in the US, the CDC can no longer be trusted to report accurate info on further spread, and the vaccine loses most of its efficacy within 5 to 10 years.

official recommendation is every 10 years, but it hurts literally nothing to get your booster early, and that recommendation is extremely conservative - ESPECIALLY for gen Z and gen alpha, because you tend to get longer-lasting immunity if you were given the older whole-cell version of the pertussis vaccine as a child.

(MMR re-up also good given the measles situation, but you generally only need one booster as an adult, and immunity doesn't fade anywhere near as dramatically as it does for pertussis. get your fucking Tdap if you don't remember the last time you got one!)

[shinelikethunder]

promoting the original post tags into a reblog comment:

iirc the 10-year recommendation is mostly based on the longevity of the tetanus vaccine anyway - and if your last booster was T or Td without the acellular pertussis vax... sing it with me now: get 👏 your 👏 fucking 👏 Tdap

QUADRUPLE ESPECIALLY if you are going to be around any babies in the near future. whooping cough is nasty rib-breaking shit even for vaccinated unboosted adults! but babies are completely unprotected and it will fucking kill them.

[serdunkthelunk]

I wish the world worked like it did in the stardew valley universe. If I'm strapped for cash I should be able to go grab some blackberries off the nearest roadside bush and go sell them to a grocery store for a quick ten bucks. I should be able to think "huh I wanna go talk to the wizard today" and then I go talk to the wizard in his wizard tower

[serdunkthelunk]

And then the wizard transes your gender for $500 in his basement