PhD. in dithering

30-something | he/him ("gasp!") | cishet ("GASP!") | AuDHD ("oh nvm, he def belongs here")

[cipher-of-the-round-table]

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

[icechucker]

Me and all my blogs are

[obsessed-loser]

Sure

[icechucker]

What?

[obsessed-loser]

Sorry, not you.... I didn't read you're repost part so I was saying sure to the post, not questioning you.. Sorry😓

[icechucker]

Oh okay, I thought we had beef I didn't know about lol

[obsessed-loser]

Nah, I just can't pay attention

[autie-j]

Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely

[larken-the-skies]

It’s like they expect us to just forget their original marketing schemes in favor of more and more money grabs.

[givesome]

one of the advantages of the marketing department being entirely separated from what your company actually does is that they can full-throatedly sell people on all kinds of shit you never intend to follow through on

[floridameme24]

So rather than do whats intended of in TOTK I ended up bringing an auto industry to Hyrule. Under the legitimate approval of President Hudson himself I resurrected the Hudson motor car company in which Hudson revives 25% of the profit. Several models exist all in this order:

This is the Hudson pack rat which is a panel van. Its roughly as tall as Sidon's force ghost but most the vehicles are.

This one is the Hudson cab-over which is a big rig. The good thing about it is that the driver is well protected from most things just as long as if it isn't coming in at a 45 degree angle.

The last one that Ive produced is the Hudson commodore which is a sedan. Real pain to line everything up though but as ill say "at least it has better panel fitment than a Tesla".

During ww2 auto makers shifted from building cars to building tanks and planes and since I'm fighting the forces of darkness like them I re tooled to make my own weapons of war. I built A tie fighters made out of guard rails and airship gondolas and also ended up producing a tank and howitzer. In any case I spent more time single-handedly starting a car industry in Hyrule than I did playing the main story.

Now if this isn't what Hylia intended then I shouldn't of been given car parts and a tractor beam with super glue.

[transmascvoiceproject]

hi! one of my exes is a trans woman, we split amicably and remained friends for a while after the breakup the problem is, i'm having a lot of trouble getting into the victim mindset as a result. do you have any tips as a fellow survivor? i mean, how can i be 100% sure she didn't abuse me? i think there's a lot of room for me to uncharitably interpret her actions that i am missing out on

💙

this might be hard for you to hear but…you were abused. The fact you’re already covering for her when she was a monster is all the proof I need to say that she’s a piece fo shit. She even forced you to stay friends after you clawed yourself free from her. you are a victim, never forget that

[homunculus-argument]

Day 200/365 of listing something good I saw today:

A gift from my mother-in-law: a homegrown zucchini the size of my dick.

[homunculus-argument]

Day 201/365 of listing something good I saw today:

Made a prettily arranged plate of thinly sliced zucchini, gently drizzled with the dark vingrainette sauce that I also was gifted because my boyfriend's dad bought a whole stash of it. Sent a picture of it to bf's mom, who liked it :)

[sarcasmprodigy]

Making women up like it's a job

[queeranarchism]

If you're a leftist who finds inspiration in the stories of the anarchist and communist revolutions, you also need to find wisdom in its excesses, it's cruelty and it's vulnerability to corruption. If you find pride in the history of the resistance movements against nazism, you also need to find introspection in the fact that many resistance members ended up raping the wives and abusing the youngest children of nazis the moment the power was reversed.

I don't trust people who only explore the pretty parts of leftist history. It doesn't lead to a realistic understanding of our past movements and it doesn't make us prepared to see the flawed, vulnerable and ugly in our current movements. Will you recognize and confront the rapist in your local group? How can you, if you won't even recognize and confront him across 80 years of distance?

[standwithdaanes]

Criticism should be an act of mutual respect, love, and genuine belief. If you want socialism / anarchism / leftism to improve and become stronger, you must critically engage with it in full.

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sun-cheyne]

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

[snowriddenwolf]

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

[mechanicalriddle]

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

[knightingaleforce]

I just thought of an interesting scenario for post-game Awakening: what if Grima's powers and everything disappeared, but his conscious was inside of Robin, so when Chrom finds Robin again after the war he now has to put up with both in a split-personality kind of dilemma? I'd find it to be hilarious if Chrom held out his hand to help him, only for Grima to say "Screw you", and Robin switching back like "Oh s***"

[daughter-of-sapph0]

"you shouldn't speculate on a dead person's gender"

no one needs you to protect the inherent assumed cisness of someone who very obviously didn't fit the mold of what cis men are expected to act like, who died far too young and never got the chance to tell us how they identify as, who ended their own life the way so many trans women closeted and otherwise do due to transmisogyny.

instead of getting mad that someone said Kurt Cobain was a trans woman, instead ask yourself why being a trans woman is a fate worse than suicide in your eyes.

[i-am-cybersmith]

That's a really bad idea, OP.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander; do you want people speculating that YOU were not actually the gender you say you are when YOU die?

Respect people's privacy and dignity. Let the dead retain what they chose not to share in life.

Kurt Cobain was a cisgender man, to say otherwise is to violate the pirvacy of someone who has no means of fighting back.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

1) if i died of suicide before i was able to fully come out, and the people who knew me best understood that while i might not have had the language to describe i probably would've been a trans woman if i had lived longer, then i would 100% with them posthumously calling me a trans woman.

2) people speculate on dead people's gender and sexuality all the time. there are people throughout history who, while not using the exact words we use today, would have been the equivalent of gay, lesbian, asexual, transmasc. why is it only offensive when people talk about someone possibly being a trans woman?

3) "no means of fighting back"? being a trans woman isn't an insult or an attack. if anything its a compliment and a mark of pride and honor. what does it say about you that you think someone is lesser for being labeled as a trans woman?

4) i think cybersmith disagreeing with me just proves my point even more

[i-am-cybersmith]

1: if you died of suicide, that would be a choice. I would respect the decision you made to take any private doubts or secrets with you to the grave.

2: some people do. I don't approve of that, this isn’t a double standard; I don't like it when people say that Achilles or Oscar Wilde were attracted to men, I think that is also wrong.

3: that's an opinion the drad person might not share.

4: Ad Hominem!!!

[daughter-of-sapph0]

1: so if i didn't publicly state "i am a transgender woman" anywhere publicly, but i implied as much privately to my friends and expressed wanting to be a woman, you would misgender me even in death?

2: so why is cishet the default in your eyes?

3: then thats part of a larger societal issue of systemic transmisogyny. maybe instead of conforming to it, start to work on your own internal biases.

4: lmaoooooo

[red-mercer]

Why would anyone argue with HPG? He's HPG, he's already lost. Or else it's someone pretending to be the original HPG, which is so sad as to beggar belief

[daughter-of-sapph0]

idk. its funny ig?

plus if other people see this post and get mad that i called Cobain a trans woman (which she is), they have to contend with the fact that they're siding with him.

[ot3]

would you recommend homestuck to someone who knows next to nothing about it or is it more of an internet cultural phenomenon where You Just Had To Be There? the way you describe it and its fandom always sounds so fascinating!!

it's tricky because this is a bit like asking a fish if it'd recommend swimming to someone who doesn't have gills. you're going to get a heavily biased answer from someone who has never been in that position. It's near impossible for me to even imagine what the experience of being a fresh homestuck reader in 2026 would be like because Being In The Homestuck Fandom is just kind of what I did for the entirety of my teen years. I have not properly revisited the comic yet since moving on from that era of my life (i have doing this penciled in for 2029) so how different it may feel in a contemporary media landscape/to an adult perspective isn't something I can speak on at this time.

that said i do think there is a lot about homestuck that is good and interesting and worth seeing. As a work in and of itself, I absolutely would recommend it to many people, but it's absolutely not for everyone. it's on my recommendation list for my sideblog since truly so few things can compete in terms of engaging and different and strange and fun female characters.

I think the most important thing to understand when going in to homestuck as a new reader is that it is essentially an incomplete and fundamentally incompleteable text that completely buckled under the weight of its own narrative bloat in its twilight years now being kept on life support. If you read homestuck you need to do it with the mindset of enjoying the experience and not in hope for any sense of real satisfaction when you're done. I know there are a lot of people who would never consider the idea of going into something permanently unfinished or that otherwise fails to stick its landing, especially not something as long and meandering as homestuck. But I'm a big believer in engaging with and enjoying unfinished works, personally.

If you're following my blog and you resonate with my opinions on things enough to ask for them, I think there's a very high chance that the actual content of homestuck is stuff that will appeal to you. Here a few things about homestick that i think make it worthwhile as a work, in no particular order:

it's really fucking funny man

it's kind of The defining Internet Friends piece of media. Homestuck his hard and fast with the tumblr crowd in no small part due to the fact that there really was nothing else in the media ecosystem at the time that was structured around these sort of social relationships and still kind of isnt anything else honed in on it. These characters exist primarily as text on a screen to each other despite being the most important people in each other's lives, and the unique facets of intimacy and isolation associated with that are central and significant. Like the titular Stuck at Home-ness is ultimately about being the kind of kid who grew up on the internet.

It's constantly, shamelessly referential and even at times derivative while still being completely unique. There's a real collage-like character to homestuck both visually and in terms of its content and it is far more than the sum of those parts. Something I've repeatedly critiqued in the past is referential works who use their audience's familiarity with what they're referencing as a shortcut to/substitute for actually having their own substance. But I think homestuck kind of ends up in the opposite situation where the references it makes are not super well known to the people who ended up being its core audience, which results in a work that feels meaningfully grounded in a specific cultural frame of reference without allowing that frame of reference to supersede anything about the characters and setting, or carry any of its weight. I don't think there's anything else quite like it in that aspect.

It was revolutionary and boundary-pushing in its use of a multimedia format and deeply influential on a huge and varied crop of other creatives. There's a lot to be learned from seeing why firsthand, especially if you have any interest in producing your own body of creative work

i really like works that feel like they could only ever be the deranged brainchild of one determined sicko who has nobody to tell them no. and homestuck is definitely one of those. Stuff like jojo's bizarre adventure or zero escape or ryukishi07's work share that same element, where you're just sitting there like. okay this is insane and i have no idea what's going on but lets see where the dog is going with this. I like weird shit where i can't always understand what's happening or why that i never in a million years could have dreamed up myself.

The Beta Kids Are Real, They Are My Best Friends, And I Will Kill Or Die For Them.

anyway that's a lot of words but homestuck is a complex beast with a deservedly controversial reputation. I want anyone who does read it to have the highest possible chance of getting something out of the experience, and I think a lot of expectation setting is necessary in that regard. Good luck, should you choose to go through with it.

[vincentpriceofficial]

I think for a lot of people “I am completely helpless and powerless” and “I am completely powerful and in control” are both basically comforting fantasies because most of us live our lives in an in between place where we have enough agency to be responsible for our actions but not enough agency to have true control over our lives and the tension between power and powerlessness in the day to day is psychologically wearing and exhausting

[turtlepated]

This morning I had the totally random and completely unsolicited realization that “Ghengis Khan” has the same number of syllables as “Stacey’s Mom”, and if I have to be cursed with this knowledge then so do you.

[donnies-pop-tart]

Oh my god

[destrochao]

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

Genghis , can I come over to help raid?

(Help raid)

I’ll make sure the heathens all get slayed

(All get slayed)

Did the huns get back from their raiding trip?

(Raiding trip)

Are they there, or are they trying to give me the slip?

(Give me the slip)

You know, I’m not the little boy that I used to be

I’m all grown up now

Genghis, can’t you see?

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

He’s all I want

And I’ve waited for so long

Genghis, can’t you see?

You’re just the right hun for me

I know it might be wrong but

I’m in love with Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

Genghus has got it goin’ on

Genghis, do you remember when I fought with the huns

(With the Huns)

We fought and pillaged and murdered by the tons

(The tons)

I could tell you liked me from the way you stared

(The way you stared)

And the way you said

“You missed a man over there”

(A man over there)

And I know that you think it’s just a fantasy

But since I learned to ride

Your could use a killer like me

Genghis Khan has got it goin’ on

He’s all I want

And I’ve waited so long

Genghis, can’t you see?

You’re just the right Hun for me

I know it might be wrong but

I’m in love with Genghis Khan

Genghis Kham has got it goin’ on

(He’s got it going on)

He’s all I want and I’ve waited for so long

(Waited and waited)

Genghis can’t you see?

You’re just the right Hun for me

I know it might be wrong

I’m in love with

(Genghis Khan oh oh)

I’m in love with

(Genghis Khan oh oh)

Wait a minute

Genghis can’t you see?

You’re just right Hun for me

I know it might be wrong but

I’m in love with Genghis Khan

[anime-grimmy-art]

I lovingly call this “The Postwick Idiot Trio”

This started out as a silly sketch cos I thought the poses in the game were so much fun but alas, it turned out to be quiet more (a pain in the ass)

anyways, thought since this seems to be quiet a bigger project, I made a speedpaint outt this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpuz254g0aM

[zoesupreme]

Christopher Nolan almost allows colors into his mythical epic shot on 70mm IMAX film. thank god they stopped filming in time.

[startedwellthatsentence]

The WEATHER ITSELF. Gifted you a RAINBOW. Pointed at your ITHACA CASTLE. DIRECTLY. On the day you were FILMING ABOUT THE HOMECOMING OF ODYSSEUS. From THE ODYSSEY, which is very frequently about DIRECT INTERVENTION FROM THE GODS TIED TO WEATHER EVENTS. And you. Intentionally rejected it? ???

No wonder the marketing for the movie went so poorly. You deliberately rejected a gift from the Olympic Gods themselves. Did you. Did you ever actually READ the source material?

[losermaninthedark]

answer: no they did not. why would they do that that would mean accuracy to the story

[malinaa]

the tumblr consensus of nolan’s odyssey is I HATE IT (most have not watched the movie) meanwhile i wrote a 2 thousand word analysis of the movie in conjunction w me finishing my reread of the odysssy and my conclusion is nolan’s kinda sick as fuck. Sorry

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I really hated this girl in my class and we kept exchanging notes with various threats of violence on them but then on a Zoom call I saw that she kept a bunch of them pinned on her wall with little hearts around them and I got the biggest crush on her after that.

[glowingemberz]

Not again. Reread OPs name

[virtualgirladvance]

no shut up let me believe please i need this