Bubblegum Bamboo

A whole lotta nonsense

[twistcmyk]

[cute-animals-only]

zen garden 

[burtoo]

October - Brendon Burton

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Dear god. please make all superyachts explode tomorrow. amen.

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Fave thing about this post is that nobody who’s reblogged it so far has made any comment. we’re all just sharing in the sentiment. peace and love on planet earth

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

*goes back up to read my own url* yeah okay this is funny

[contexfiles]

[memewhore]

[slowedclover4]

This will haunt my nightmares.

[andmaybegayer]

Squelch! Squelch is the technical shorthand for noise gating. Your antenna will constantly pick up ambient noise, which is useless and annoying to listen to all day while you wait for a call. Squelch tells the radio to mute the speakers if the overall power of the signal coming through is below a certain level. You twiddle your squelch until it just cuts out ambient noise, and when someone tries to talk to you the extra power from their signal will go above your squelch setting and it'll unmute so you can hear whoever's calling you.

[diane-nguyen-watches-cartoons-d]

You know what? Fuck you. *untwiddles your squelch*

[helloitsbees]

​she twiddle my squelch till i end up abandoned and unidentified at a local museum

[thejanelleandrea]

[catadromously]

reasons.

[zeelatunes]

[memes-that-get-reported]

[crazyexedits]

[scared-aquarius]

[toboldlywrite]

I know adverbs are Controversial, but “said softly” means something different than “whispered” and this is the hill I will die on.

[yamelcakes]

I need to plaster this on every surface of my house tbh

[guooey]

[panstarry]

[nothorses]

Yall know that “toxic masculinity” refers to expressions of masculinity that are toxic, right? it doesn’t imply that all masculinity is toxic- it’s used to talk about like, how people will repress their emotions aside from anger in order to seem “manly”, and how they might act in violent or self-destructive ways because that is what society expects of men.

masculinity is not inherently toxic. it hasn’t been poisoned or corrupted. it is a neutral concept, a kind of gender presentation, and it doesn’t make you a bad, unhealthy, or toxic person to be masculine.

masculinity does not need to be “soft” to be acceptable, it can just be neutral. because it is not toxic, just sometimes expressed in toxic ways or for toxic reasons.

[ninjakittenarmy]

Does this mean there is toxic femininity?

[nothorses]

imo? Yes.

Like when white women fake cry to win arguments, or to appear to be the victim (despite how much damage they may have caused), or when female abusers point to their femininity as a reason they couldn’t possibly be hurting anyone. Or when the girls in school weaponize their performances of femininity against more androgynous, less traditionally attractive, or more masculine girls.

Plenty of cis women have a similarly toxic relationship to femininity as cis men do to masculinity. A good example of a less material expression might be the tendency to self-martyr, using the “caregiver” role to guilt trip and gaslight, and abuse in a more manipulative, emotional/mental way than the physical aggression more typical with toxic masculinity.

The patriarchy rewards gender conformity, and requires cis people of both genders to uphold it. Cis women are at a structural disadvantage to cis men regardless, but can absolutely gain more social power by adhering more strictly to traditional femininity- and weaponize that power against others.