[no-more-dead-dogs]

my beautiful wife, severe thunderstorm warning, is texting me 😌😚😍😍

[enchantedbook]

The Silent Voice, by Gerald Moira (c. 1898)

[toastbutteregg]

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[marlynnofmany]

And it's gonna getcha

[dresdencodak]

Doing a thing for a Pride thing.

[spicymancer]

Sen may be the best in the business at drawing Cool Sword

[nonbinary-wrath-month]

Non-binary people get louder NOW. Non-binary people get angrier NOW. Be a killjoy. Get obnoxious about your pronouns. Put gendered words together in ways that people don't like and spit on the ones they think are mandatory. Refuse to laugh at their stupid exorsexist "jokes". Dress in ways they don't understand. Refuse to answer their prying questions. Tell exorsexists to kiss your ass. Keep your chin up. Raise your voice. Get loud and a little cocky. I want to see your nonbinarity from outer space. Don't get it twisted; do it TODAY. Do you understand me?

[thefrenchfryturtle2]

*insert raaaa skeleton banging sheild*

[sourdough-seal]

“what are you doing this weekend” i am going to fantasy land. i am hiding under the covers in bed. i am making things up. i am contemplating events that didnt happen. i am talking to fake people. i am listening to my tunes. i am envisioning scenarios

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[brainscrems]

Important fucking tags

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: overall point is interesting but "not because they themselves were racist" is sending me, yeah they themselves were racist, in fact they were materially enacting the racism. actively. with their thought out conscious decisions., tumblr users to internet poisoned they think of racism as like. the mean thoughts., entirely forget that racism is a structural force that materially impacts us, oh they themselves weren't racist they were just actively working to make sure Black people didn't use their facilities, like such a casual offhand part of the post and So telling /End ID]

[bebevayy]

📍Barcelona, Spain

[maidthings]

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

[fake-lancelot]

[maxkirin]

when you want to write something really deep but it ends up sounding like

[the-haiku-bot]

when you want to write

something really deep but it

ends up sounding like

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ao3commentoftheday]

memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made

[wintergrey]

The middle is where the fun is. The middle is the sandbox and, fyi, you do not have to get out of the sandbox if you don't want to.

[velvet-lover]

would u still bless me on my third sneeze

[everydaylouie]

bull in a china shop

[vintageeveryday]

San Francisco in 1965 through stunning Kodachrome slides.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

a lil tomato soup made from roast tomato, onion, garlic and bell pepper with a lil grill ches. regular marble cheddar, some farmers market truffle cheddar, and a lil pickle for the filling. bread is a sourdough pullman's loaf recipe of my own design

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

man it is SO funny that everyone's still cycling this post considering that the meal poisoned the shit out of me

turns out the bread i baked there had started to mold, the cheddar cheese had started to mold, and the chicken stock I used for the soup's best before date was over a year ago. I found all of this out a day or so later and I'm now still dealing with the gastroenteritis symptoms

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

everyone in here would have gotten poisoned if I'd brought this to the potluck, good to know

[feedmegreenthings]

May everyone learn a valuable lesson from this: check your food before you wreck your mood

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

I needed a warmup and honestly I should frame this and put it up in my kitchen

[worldsendvalent1ne]

[allegedly-human]

Begging you to put the sound on