[penandinkprincess]

"Why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables?" is a phrase I just felt super glue itself in my lexicon immediately

[omnipotentnothing]

I have a headache because I'm a bad person

[funstyle]

i tried to come out of my shell and fucked it up and now im kinda lodged in here all weird

[nitw]

*jumps up and down waving my hands and yelling in a crowd* DISCORD WAS NEVER MEANT TO REPLACE FORUMS AND WIKIS!!! IT'S JUST EMBELLISHED CHATROOMS WITH MULTIPLAYER GAMING FEATURES AND LOOTBOXES AND SHIT!!! PLEASE PUT FAQS AND MESSAGE BOARDS OR AT LEAST A DIRECT EMAIL-BASED SUPPORT SYSTEM ON YOUR WEBSITE!!! 1GB NEOCITIES DOMAIN ZERO DOLLARS

[sabertoothwalrus]

did he even die

[sabertoothwalrus]

yeah it’s called the tumblr sexyman poll. and it clearly didnt hit him hard enough

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

Biggest fuck-up ever is that people have to pay to become doctors

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG

[naamahdarling]

If we had more, maybe it would be easier to get the shitty ones fucking replaced. The board isn't going to do much to the only endocrinologist in the state who takes Medicaid, you know? But if there were more than, idk, maybe 5? Maybe then?

[landunderthewave]

More importantly if you needed less money and less physical stamina to become a doctor, people with less money and less physical stamina could become doctors, which would increase diversity and improve patient care.

[telltaletypist]

weirdest part of being an adult is the fact that you can put off watching a movie for nearly a decade and barely notice

[slavery]

Not to vent but: fuck

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[annabelle--cane]

most novels at their core thematically are usually about some shit like the protagonist's bone-deep feelings of loneliness and isolation and their cravings for but inability to connect with other people. this is largely because novelists are sick freaks who are driven by their demons to spend hundreds of hours sitting alone in quiet rooms to write tens and thousands of words of text. they may not intend to write stories about loneliness, but by week six of the typing timeloop they are writing stories about loneliness whether they like it or not. writing a novel is not a naturally occurring healthy behavior, humans only do this when they are very distressed.

[shamebats]

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

[shamebats]

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

[dogpuppy]

wtf is this bullshit

[geniusoflove]

[lamignonette]

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[sunshinetheinspiration]

@teaboot

[teaboot]

Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

[vrabia]

today i learned that the finnish word for ‘hazardous waste’ is ongelmajäte, which can also translate as ‘problematic garbage’ and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.

[callmebliss]

Your fave is ongelmajäte

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

in german it’s Sondermüll which means special trash and that too belongs on tumblr

[pyrebomb]

One man’s ongelmajäte is another man’s sondermüll.

[maddie-grove]

I keep seeing the thumbnail for that “how Mean Girls demonizes hyperfeminity” video on YouTube, and I don’t want to form an opinion on something that my bone-deep revulsion prevents me from watching, but Jesus Christ.

[susandsnell]

There was a post on here to that effect a few years ago, also listing Heathers, Clueless and High School Musical as examples of “demonized femininity” while Elle Woods’ femininity is celebrated, and aside from my constant aggravation by this reactionary trend of a non-issue where everyone is pretending being feminine is under attack and women being gnc/butch is somehow more accepted, I think it’s interesting to note here that the feminine characters in question here are demonized for being bullies. Specifically the kind of bully that terrorizes other girls for, among other things, not adhering sufficiently to standards of femininity in the social panopticon-like paradigm we frequently see where women socially punish and ostracize one another for not meeting patriarchal standards sufficiently. It happened offscreen, but Regina tormented Janis into a mental health crisis for dressing alt and (possibly) being a lesbian, hence incorrectly female. They bully other girls for being insufficiently pretty, thin, fashionable, white, heterosexual. (Interestingly, if you look at some of cinema’s famous male bullies, your Biff Tannens et cetera, there’s an equivalent of choosing targets due to perceived failures of masculinity!)

The Let Women Be Feminine brigade rushing to these bullies’ defense, claiming they're only demonized for femininity and frequently calling the characters targeted by the hyperfeminine bullies “NLOGs” (because, I suspect, they know they can’t quite get away with saying the d-word anymore like they might have in the early 2000s), is very telling. It’s an affirmation and agreement with the bullies, and the essentialist patriarchal standards they’ve internalized and imposed on others.