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[guccigarantine]

happy 10 year anniversary to “fuck shit titties it’s friends at the table”

[loreleywrites]

you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too

[fatt-twitter-updates]

Tomorrow (7/14) is the 10th anniversary of Marielda! We're going to be celebrating live on twitch at 6pm ET with a soundtrack listening party, a vinyl edition giveaway, and some multiplayer video games with the cast! www.patreon.com/friends_table/posts/marielda-10th-et-163715028

Marielda 10th Anniversary Stream Tomorrow! (6pm ET, 7/14) | Friends at the Table

Tomorrow, Marielda will be ten years old! To celebrate the day itself, we're going to be hosting an anniversary stream on Twitch, starting a

3:37 PM PT, July 13, 2026 (Source)

[fatt-twitter-updates]

Join us at 6pm ET tonight! twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

8:16 AM PT / 11:16 AM ET, July 14, 2026 (Source)

[actualized-animal]

i fell down a rabbit hole of reading bad punk takes and i think my new understanding of why some people cling so hard to the label of "punk" and call everything good "punk" is that it's this amalgamation of a few different desires:

the desire to have your political beliefs actualized in a way that is immediately tangible (e.g. battle jackets with patches loudly proclaiming your politics)

the desire to associate with others who share your political beliefs

the desire to be seen as "cool" / to feel like you're "cool"

the desire to believe that the people you see as cool also share your political beliefs

these things are understandable to me because i feel like most people have similar desires-- it's very human to want to be liked and to want to surround yourself with like-minded people, and to feel like you're making some sort of difference in the world. and on tumblr and other social media websites, there are a lot of young people who are struggling to find a sense of identity and community, who are (understandably) anxious about being hurt in a world that is full of bigotry. so, for these people, the label of "punk" is a way of rolling all of those desires into one package; whether or not they listen to actual punk music doesn't factor into it, because that's secondary to feeling like you're in community with a bunch of "cool" people who share your political beliefs.

when people say "supporting your public library is punk rock," i believe that this is rooted in these deeper anxieties. supporting public libraries is good, but just good isn't enough if what you want is to belong to a community of young bohemian counterculturalists who are all fundamentally kindhearted and will not hurt you. meanwhile, the punk scene will give you young bohemian counterculturalists, but the fact that there are punk nazis and racists and transphobes is very inconvenient to the desire to not be harmed. the conflict is very apparent: the (symbolic) library is often good but not inherently cool, while the (symbolic) punk is often cool but not inherently good. people don't want to hang out with the asshole skinhead at the punk show, but they don't necessarily want to hang out with the liberal christian grandma on the library board either.

so the most convenient reality is the one in which all the cool badass queers with battle jackets are hanging out at the library and listening to the emo / pop punk / just outright pop bands that you already like, and reactionary punks are barely existent and when they do exist they're always kicked out of punk spaces immediately with no hassle. if we make enough posts about how "[good thing] is actually punk rock and [bad thing] isn't punk rock," we can speak this reality into existence. if you think about it, there's nothing more punk rock than the lathe of heaven.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

did I REALLY just see a post using a single study of EIGHTEEN! PEOPLE! to argue there is statistical evidence that gen z college students can't read. be serious for five seconds

[dragon-in-a-fez]

my favourite part was actually the comment in the notes that was like "professors were complaining about this 30 years ago", but then instead of recognising that as obvious evidence against the underlying argument, they were just like "hard to believe the crisis has been going on that long!"

what, you mean the crisis that according to the post you're replying to is due to technologies that didn't fucking exist 30 years ago??

[dragon-in-a-fez]

how is it we are entering our fourth decade of the youth being stupid because of chatGPT (3 years old) and smartphones (18 years old)? well obviously the youth are so stupid it broke time

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think that we as a society should get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes our friends will be attracted to us and sometimes we will be attracted to our friends and nothing needs to come of that.

You don't have to date. You don't have to stop being friends. You can just keep hanging out. Self control and respect exists.

And sometimes you will date your friend and figure out that your dynamic worked better when you were friends. And then you can go back to being friends. It's really quite simple. Mature and cool, even.

[miseriathome]

Even requited attraction doesn't need to be acted upon. Two people can be mutually attracted to each other and still decide not to date or not to change the dynamic of their friendship. People who are dating can mutually decide it worked better as a friendship, even if the attraction persists.

Feelings are just feelings. Not all feelings need to be realized as actions. It's very mature and cool to still treat people like people even after learning about their feelings, whatever they are.

[facelessoldgargoyle]

i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

[yvfu]

this is the statistically reasonable post, reblogging it will have no effect except for putting this post on your blog

[moral-autism]

guys this post really works! I reblogged it and it really did put the post on my blog! you need to try it!

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[rabdoidal]

no one from outside australia is going to post about it but!!!!! happy NAIDOC week to the longest enduring culture in the world, and fuck this chud racist government ✌️

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

do you guys like remember when I made that post about how I hate sharing beds and people were like fr sending me anons going like "you need to STOP spreading this DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION about BEING AROMANTIC... many of us are TOTALLY NORMAL and LOVE TO SHARE BEDS and CUDDLE like NORMAL FUCKING PEOPLE you are just a MEAN FREAK and you're making us all look BAD" like what the fuck was that

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

oh well I'm aro so everything I say reflects on The Community lmao

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

everyone responding to this who isn't aro but also hates sharing their sleeping space you are so brave and I will fight alongside you in this stupid war forever

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and also other aro people who are specifically talking about being touch repulsed and don't want anyone in their bubble ever, bed or otherwise, that's not my particular bag but we're all in this together on Team Stay Out Of My Bed

[winged-void]

"i hate women" -> crowd boos and jeers

"i hate women... including trans women!" -> crowd laughs and claps and giggles, the speaker receives an ally of the year award

[winged-void]

"I hate men" -> apprehensive silence, isolated claps and maybe one or two cheers

"I hate men... including trans men!" -> okay listen here buddy pal dude guy man male xy chromosome brother in christ

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[boxesfullofthoughts]

next tattoo booked!!!!!

[64mpg]

u can just do whatever at any age all of the time nobody cares except teenagers

[64mpg]

teenager will be like ur 40 with a hobby ? 💀 that’s sad <- nobody else thinks this way though they are just going through some stuff

[quiet-doll]

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

[dear-girl-blankets]

one time this woman at a zoo told me about tribolytes and i said "hey i think theyre actually called trilobytes" and she was like "youre a dumb fucking kid" or soemthing to that effect "i know more than you bc im a groan up" type shit and moral kf the story im still upset about it 20 years later because I WAS FUCKING RIGHT

[sea--burn]

i had the exact same experience when i was like 11 i was in history class and the fuckhead teacher was teaching us about how polynesian explorers were crossing the pacific by island hopping and he was asking the class how they might have found new islands and i was thinking about it and i was like oh they could have followed birds! because birds need to rest on islands so they probably would have followed in the rough direction of islands and he was like kid you are so fucking stupid you're gonna follow birds out in to the ocean and die lol any other braingeniuses have any ideas and then he advanced to the next slide and it was talking about how they followed birds and i laughed so loud and hard that he had to spend 15 minutes calming the class down kill all teachers