i am cringe but i am free

name: Libby | age: old | pronouns: she/her | content: (mostly) spn

[tiktaalic]

i go into jensen ackles’s pen and while i am feeding him his bucket of oats i accidentally saay the words bisexual lesbian and he bolts like a skittish horse and runs into the wall and breaks his leg and sadly we have to send him to LA’s center for humane celebrity euthanization. on the bright side LACHCE has a partnership with an esoteric meat company so you can buy your own very personal jensen ackles glue guaranteed to contain a detectable amount of his dna

[bshmatthews]

i got the memorial sweatshirt and glue combo

[bshmatthews]

A few people said they wanted shirts, so I made a fundraiser for Holler Health Justice, a BIPOC-led abortion fund in Appalachia. A two-sided sweatshirt would have been absurdly expensive, so I made a new one-sided t-shirt design.

[bshmatthews]

We hit $750 raised for Holler Health Justice!!

As promised, here are the glue graphics! Imgur png gallery and svgshare svg

To re-label a glue bottle, you can either spend some money to order one-off labels (~$10), print labels on a home printer, or you can do like me and order “photo” prints from Wal-Mart for $0.25 a pop and just paste it onto the bottle. (I “laminated” the photo with a bit of clear shipping tape before gluing.)

There’s still a whole day to get your shirt if you haven’t yet!!

ETA: Now that the fundraiser is over, here are t-shirt graphics if you want to print your own. I just ask that you donate some money to HHJ or your local abortion fund if you use them (and please don't sell any of these).

ETA2: @steveyockey has verified that Rush Order Tees will print this design without asking any awkward questions. Custom Ink will NOT print it.

[elierlick]

Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees shows us what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest challenge came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories regarded her as brave or heroic for her openness. National newspapers even celebrated her wedding in 1955.

The New York Daily News, which now hosts daily anti-trans editorials, ran a shockingly respectful series on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees's narrative was among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity, but also other trans people like her.

Tamara wasn't the first famous trans woman of the 1950s, nor was she the best known. However, she had a unique opportunity to share her own story. You can read Tamara's 1955 autobiography, Reborn: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female, at transreads.org/reborn 

[bowlegschester]

[trashchancosplay]

jfc whenever i see this scene I laugh because I remember that IKEA post saying “how would otps react to building the furniture together”

[howlinattheimpala]

Thank you. You just made a heart breaking scene absolutely hilarious.

[dorothylarouge]

[funfey]

You are not staying in the tags

[ask-cloverfield]

[russianblush]

#happypridemonth

[communistkenobi]

This is the most comprehensive and impressive resource I've ever watched on transphobia. I think this is an especially important video for cis people to watch. The video is accessible and meant to be an educational tool for people who are confused by what the hell is going on right now. Every possible question you could have on trans issues is addressed in this video.

This pride month, if you want to help combat transphobia from your coworkers, friends, family, and so on, this is a very good educational resource to help you understand every aspect of transphobic rhetoric, policies, legislation, history - everything. It was made by a cis guy who drove himself crazy trying to figure out why everyone hates trans people, to the point that he dropped out of university to make this video. Given the global state of increasing anti-trans violence, I really strongly urge cis people to watch this video in full. It is an incredibly valuable resource and I cannot recommend watching it strongly enough.

Life for trans people is only becoming more horrifying, and I genuinely appreciate and respect every cis person who takes the time to watch this video, educate themselves, and understand the many fights ahead.

[transpondster]

[sergal]

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

[buggyboyf]

i went to go make a shark one because i like sharks and

are you fucking kidding me !! instead of having two cutie sharks hugging each other they're attacking people . are we serious

there's only around 60–70 unprovoked shark attacks worldwide per year btw .

there were only 57 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks in 2022 btw .

media portrayal of sharks i hate you

[bshmatthews]

try 💞 + 🦈

I also enjoy 🦈 + 🎢

[darshanaheena]

yeah it’s a big fuckin’ mystery alright

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 1 Part 95

Louis de Pointe du Lac (Interview With The Vampire)

Crusnr Colven (Psychopomp)

Uncle Iroh (Avatar the last airbender)

Remaining time: 4 days 19 hours

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that Xena, for all of its ridiculousness and cheesiness, did a better job of conveying the allure of evil than just about any other series I've ever seen. Like it understands that violence, no matter how justifiably it starts out, is addictive, and that hatred poisons you until you can't feel real joy anymore, and it's strange to me that I've never seen it laid out so simply elsewhere.

[rachandroll]

...so THAT'S what sleeper cell activation feels like. Because yes, YES, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS, because Xena is such an interesting lightning-in-a-bottle-case study! While I would never discount the work done by the writers, Xena as a show is almost perfectly positioned both historically and structurally to consistently explore that theme.

The first puzzle piece is that Xena was a syndicated show at the tail end of syndication's total dominance of a distribution model. For those too young to remember a time when ongoing plots and prestige dramas weren't the norm, syndication is big part of why older television shows almost entirely kept plots contained to one or two episodes rather than having them span seasons. See, when a show is syndicated, it is licensed out to individual television stations/affiliates to be aired as reruns. The individual station chooses when to air them and in what order, and whether to just skip episodes they don't like in favor of the ones most likely to draw eyeballs, etc etc. The more a show is licensed, the more money you make on it, so there is an incentive to make each episode standalone to make them appealing to each station by enabling them to toss on whatever episodes they like without it being a problem for the casual viewer. Also, before streaming, easy access to dvds and episode recording, and the like, a show could not assume that even its fans would have necessarily have seen every episode. "Catching up" was not an easy thing, and reserved for the most dedicated, doing shit like physically mailing bootleg tapes! Therefore, shows needed to have a consistent formula that didn't lock out the person who couldn't watch last week for whatever reason. Characters remained within more of a status quo. Xena is a "monster of the week" style show, like X-Files. I mention X-Files intentionally, because it was one of the first to really break that no-ongoing-plots structure, and that shift affected its contemporaries, like Xena, who also started to follow suit.

That alone doesn't account for Xena being so primed to explore those themes, of course. Even staying within the same fictional universe, Hercules (which Xena is a spin-off of) and Young Hercules don't even come close to Xena's complexity on the subject. But that's because Xena's premise is perfectly positioned to interact with those practical constraints for this outcome in a way those shows aren't. The status quo that syndication demands remain mostly in intact is that 1) Xena was evil and really good at it, 2) she is trying to do good in the world now as penance but can never undo what she has done. Every episode is about Xena trying to save people while dealing with the consequences of her actions as a warlord. The fact that she was evil cannot be changed or diluted nor can the fact that she must continue trying to redeem herself, otherwise the show is over or is unrecognizable to the casual viewer. But this is also an action show, sometimes cartoonishly so, so she must also be fighting consistently! The core spectacle is violence and the core story is why violence is often evil. There is an inherent tension there that the writers either needed to interrogate earnestly or ignore, and they chose the honest, interesting route. They gave Xena a costar who is innocent and principled but loves Xena, and had her always asking why and trying to understand how Xena could be that person, while being put under similar pressures herself. They had Xena continue to use the tools she has, including violence, for good ends, and wrestled with the answers as to why that was ok, why the violence she did then and the violence she did now were different—and sometimes decided they weren't. They showed Xena struggling with falling back into those old habits because they are seductive and easy.

If someone asked "are there so many episodes of Xena where you find out someone tried to get her to change her ways many years ago and failed because that is a really great standalone premise, or because violence as a tool and power and vengeance as motivators are corruptive and hard to stop using once you start," the answer is yes. The show is cyclical because violence is. But also because it is syndicated.

It's fucking rad and interesting.

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you're following who reblogged this post didn't pick. if they didn't say in the tags what they picked or if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random instead.

first option

second option

Remaining time: 3 days 22 hours

[holy0ak6-deactivated20240421]

[squeeblr]

via bree newsome bass on twitter: 

“The widely circulated timeline created by @Zerflin does a great job in showing how recently slavery & segregation occurred & that they lasted longer than the modern era. 

“I'd like to offer this timeline as another way of viewing the same period of history to show the constancy of both Black resistance in US & efforts of the white power structure to maintain racial caste since 1619.”

https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/986427881680228354

[queen-mihai]

This second picture is MUCH more accurate!

[queen-mihai]

I had the exact same experience the second time I looked at this picture as the first time. I was looking like "what is this green line? Like suddenly everything is OK? It's not. Racists are still trying to push us back to 1619. Nothing has been fixed. We still need to fight. Hard!

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Hi guys! I thought I should just share my whole mini little library of Project Hail Mary-related things so they're all in one place:

It includes:

A digital copy of the movie (with subtitles in 30+ languages via download)

My transcript of the movie (more on that here)

Audio recordings of the movie

A PDF of the book

An EPUB of the book (for e-readers)

The full audiobook

A copy of Andy Weir's doc on Eridians

A copy of Andy Weir's spreadsheet on Astrophage physics (among many other things!)

A draft of the screenplay for the film from 2022

An audio recording of the director's commentary

My transcript of the director's commentary

There is also a UHD copy (that's too big to fit in the drive) here!:

Proton Drive

Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

Please note that because of the way that google drive works, some of the subtitles only work if you download the file yourself.

The audiobook, audio recordings, and commentary all have their properties programmed so they (should) work just like songs with a track number, album cover, artist, and so on if you download them.

There are two audios of the movie, one is the entire film untouched and one is that same audio cut up and broken down into separate scenes for convenience.

Additionally, there are two versions of the movie transcript, one with time stamps that match the audio recording and one without. The time stamps (+ their titles from the audio) are outlined in that version, so if you double-click on that tab or click "show outline," they'll all show up and you can pick a specific scene.

Similiarly, there are two different versions of the director's commentary transcript. The first is made to listen along to the commentary, while the second is more intended to be read on its own. The first is a direct transcription of everything that's said (an attempt, at least), while the second is slightly cleaned up for easier reading, meaning things like jumbled sentences and stuttering were removed or reorganised, but nothing has been actually paraphrased. Both are broken down into different scenes based on how their conversation goes, and the listening version includes timestamps. 

The first few seconds of the commentary are missing unfortunately as my US friend who was kind enough to record it for me had some technical difficulties at the start, but the she paraphrased the part that was missed. The commentary starts at that first red shot of Ryland Grace's face in the coma suit 32 seconds into the digital copy.

There's also a google doc with some instructions to follow if any of the files aren't working, which usually happens when too many people try to access or download something at the same time.

As always, if anything's not working right or you notice any mistakes in anything, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can!

[grrlmusic]

Jean Smart & Hannah Einbinder

[grrlmusic]

Jean Smart & Hannah Einbinder

[wheel-skellington]

normally petty arguments about small cultural differences are whatever, its just what youre used to normally but

there is literally no advantage at all to a bag of milk and a designated milk bag pitcher

[wheel-skellington]

like if the milk MUST be in a bag for whatever reason, at least put a spigot on it like a bag of wine or those emergency water bags

[wheel-skellington]

i -really- need to clarify that the bag milk people would be much less annoying if they were just like ‘yeah its what im used to i like it’ but instead you bring up bag milk and they will each give you a different, imagined, and often conflicting personal reason why they are actually better

if one person says easier to pour, one person says more recyclable, and one person says efficient storage (especially if all three have an alternative that is better than both bags and jugs, glass) then you know that its cope and each reason is made up. (also i almost forgot that one lunatic who said it makes the milk expire slower????)

anyway recycling plastic in any form is a myth and the best milk experience ive ever had was rectangular and stackable glass bottles that are completely recyclable

[lemonade-squid]

We really had it right in the 40s with the milk man stuff

[wheel-skellington]

AND you could fuck the milk man!!!

[worldwideslash]

World Wide Slash Con (formerly DC-Slash Con) is just around the corner!

Join us July 17–19 for a weekend of fandom, creativity, and community. With programming and activities scheduled across multiple time zones, there will be something happening for everyone, wherever you are in the world. Our convention committee spans Europe, the U.S. East Coast, the U.S. Midwest, and Hawaii, helping ensure a truly global experience.

Registration is still open, and the deadline for Vidshow submissions is June 17.

Register today at www.wwscon.com/world-wide-slash-con/register or contact us at [email protected] for more information.