Lacking The Ability To Grasp Reality

Beck, zilennial, chaotic neutral, INTP, pisces, pan/demi, mostly liberal, nerdy, crafty, bitchy.

[thehmn]

By now most of us know some people have a genetic variant that makes cilantro taste like soap to them. Can we also acknowledge some people have a variant that makes roses smell like dirty water?

I never understood people’s obsession with roses as this romantic flower when I was younger because they smell kinda nasty to me. Not nausea inducing but definitely not nice either. It was only later in life I met other people who experienced the same thing and I eventually learned that the sense of smell is one of the most individual experiences of all the senses. The only way I know what roses smell like to other people is thanks to rose scented perfumes and I wish rose gardens smelled like that to me.

[kibumkim]

Some of yall need to be more embarrassed about what yall say online and im not talking about the fandom people because at least they have friends that share their niche interests. Some of yall dont even have that and be on here talking to strangers any kind of way and then wonder why ur lonely. Like girl it’s because u are awful to be around

[spectreln]

SInce when is "yall" a valid word? Honestly, it pisses me off to reduce two words to one, especially since the other defines a human being.

[combeferret]

don’t you love it when people give a useful example of the op’s point out in the wild of a post

[fluffehwuffeh]

life is less frightful when you're with your besties ✨

[ashenmind]

“protect children” <- reactionary drivel basically every time

“be kind to children” <-radical thinking that causes way more arguments than you would ever imagine

[oatmealaddiction]

I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.

[teaboot]

Insincere, passionless, money-hungry art is almost always bad art

[violentdevotion]

someone in the UK threw eggs at Charles and was arrested and has been banned from openly carrying eggs in public and has since been sent death threats but their statement on the matter was so fucking good

[0jamajos]

also let's take a moment to appreciate the picture of this man being arrested

[humanoidchaos]

🥚❤

[fez-ryan]

"So my bail conditions were, between my arrest and my trial, were that I wasn't allowed to carry eggs in public." host laughs "Yeah, I know, and so that is in itself like so absurd that it's like right" Host: "I gotta know, is there like a provision for if you're going home from the store? Or are you just, are you just egg-less?" "So the copper who was literally just like making this up at the station says like 'Ok, so your bail condition is: you're not allowed within 500 meters of the king; you're not allowed to carry eggs in public' and then he goes like 'ah actually, like, what 'appens if he wants to buy some eggs?' Ok, so they changed it so it's like, 'You're allowed to carry eggs as long as you're going home from the shops and you've got the receipt" host laughs "And I think, that was more viral than me actually doing it, you know what I mean like, people were like, that's Britain for you, have you got a license for those eggs"

-"The Man Who Egged King Charles", It Could Happen Here, May 18 2023

[soul-hammered]

Hooray! Yay! Dykes!

[headspace-hotel]

I'm not seeing any naked adults in that screenshot...

...There's something deeply messed up about how breasts, which are used by our species to feed babies, are considered to be so perverse and obscene that a child should never see them.

[alexseanchai]

There aren't any naked people in the entire video clip. There's some people that you'd probably see less of their skin on a beach, but only because on a beach they'd probably be wearing a bikini top as well as whatever else they have on. And this is New York City, where toplessness is legal regardless of gender or assigned sex.

[vergess]

Toplessness for breasts is legal in most places in the US, unlegislated in almost all that remain, and only illegal in two states: Ohio and Tennessee.

This is because topless equality has been a basic push from feminists for literally decades, until Radfems and NeoCons bonded over wanting a trans genocide less than a decade ago.

Female Toplessness in the United States - Wikipedia

It's literally why the "no tits on tumblr" and other lesser SESTA/FOSTA consequences* like it were so jarring. It set back FORTY. YEARS. OF PROGRESS in the rights of people with breasts or perceived as women to wear the same clothes as people without.

Do not let conservatives lie to you about this. The majority of people in the us and the VAST majority of States recognize the right of people to not wear a damn shirt. It isn't obscenity, it isn't even nudity, it's just something pericis men are allowed that everyone else isn't.

Y'know.

Basic sexual discrimination.

*Y'all aren't still on that "it was the Apple app store that caused the tit ban" shit, right? It was the literal US federal government. To be fucking clear.

[lennyjamin]

spoke deeply to me.

[nudityandnerdery]

Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.

[coyotette]

[whitechadwarden-deactivated2025]

[poketcg-art]

This blog is nearly at 25,000 followers (holy cow) and I think it'd be fun to celebrate with a little community activity!

A tumblr-wide TCG redraw event!!!

Pick a card you want, any card you want, recreate it in whatever medium you see fit, and post it! Every entry will go into my queue as card posts (to start September 1st)!!

A few rules:

Absolutely NO AI IMAGES ALLOWED. Anything I suspect of being AI will not go into the queue.

Use the tag #poketcg25k so I can find everything in one place! Feel free to tag this blog as well

The last day for entry will be July 31st, 2025! After that I won't be checking the tag anymore!!

I would appreciate it if you somehow credited the original card you're referencing somewhere in your post! (EDIT: Posts with links still don't show up in tags! Yayyy!!!!)

You can make as any entries as you want! There's no limit!

There's no application for entry! Anyone who enters will go into the queue!

Please share this post so others can see it and participate too!! You don't have to be following me to participate! I'm just excited to see what might come of it! :)

This is my way of saying thank you to the people that follow and support this blog! I want to take some time to showcase YOU! 💚

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me!

[roxasboxas]

Did y’all know queue limit is 1000? They don’t let you put more in than that. Wild

[roxasboxas]

Having a real normal one on roxasboxas dot tumblr dot com

[roxasboxas]

#i say this with love: what’s wrong with you

i love rebog

[goldensunset]

[tyako89]

[thememedaddy]

[teaboot]

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

[artbyblastweave]

What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys

[eikotheblue]

these tags are gold omg

[rhysintherain]

It's a misconception that the mimics are hunting humans when they trail along at the back of hiking groups.

In fact, the creature you'll find suddenly walking beside you and acting as if they've always been there is almost certainly a juvenile, as the adults lose the ability when they reach reproductive age.

Recent studies suggest the forest mimic is less like a preying mantis (mimicry as a hunting strategy) and more like a cuckoo (mimicry as a protective strategy for their young). Adult forest mimics will leave their offspring near a group of hikers while they forage during the day, and retrieve them near trailheads in the evening. Groups of hikers provide safety from predators and allow the parents of the species the freedom to forage more widely.

For this reason, the traditional advice to never let a mimic into your vehicle is still very important, as this would separate the young mimic from its mother. If a juvenile forest mimic does follow your group to the parking lot, you can keep it entertained with trail snacks, dad jokes, and simple goofs. The mother will usually collect them shortly before sunset.

When you notice the woods around the trailhead go silent and feel a sense of nameless foreboding, find an excuse to avert your attention from the juvenile so it can sneak back into the forest to rejoin its mother, convinced it's fooled another party of unsuspecting humans.

[fandomcompass]

surprisingly wholesome takes from the cryptid community here

[doggeddetermination]

@monstrousproductions

[coolyo294]

The shogun of sengoku-era america, Abraham Lincoln

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists develop antivenom that neutralizes the neurotoxins of 19 of the world's deadliest snakes

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effecti

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journal Cell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.

Continue Reading.

[charyou-tree]

Ok, that’s fucking wild.

This guy Tim Friede wasn’t any kind of researcher or doctor. He was just a snake collector who thought it would be cool to try and become immune to snake venom by injecting small amounts and working up. For 18 goddamn years. He nearly died at least once.

Later, actual scientists heard about him and realized that since he survived his blood must be full of antibodies that neutralize many kinds of snake venoms. Using a sample of his blood they were able to develop an antibody cocktail that seems to be effective against many types of tropical snake bites, a sort of universal antivenom.

Absolute mad lad benefiting humanity.