tannertan36
PR's Tumblrdome
AnasAbdin
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
One Nice Bug Per Day
trying on a metaphor
Origami Around
Love Begins
will byers stan first human second
ojovivo
occasionally subtle
#extradirty
JBB: An Artblog!
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
pixel skylines
sheepfilms
wallacepolsom
Claire Keane
Andulka
DEAR READER
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from Netherlands
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Chile
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from China
@bumble-bea-mon
My favorite ship dynamic is "they're both extremely stupid in completely different ways and extremely smart in completely different ways, but rarely is any of that useful because they just get extra double stupid when together"
Things I remember reading online that I wish I had screenshotted: Story of a trans guy, estranged from family, who got an invitation to his sister's wedding, but their parents had specified that he'd better come in a dress or not come at all. But they hadn't seen him in almost 7 years and didn't know that not only was he on T and had surgeries, he's a passionate weightlifter.
So if I remember right he sent the sister a heads-up beforehand and the sister was like "holy shit do it", and he showed up in a pink, frilly dress, and sneakers. No makeup, jewellery or anything, just this bulky, hairy dude in a dress for no particular reason.
Their parents, naturally, still got mad despite of him following their exact, specific instructions in order to "not embarrass the family", and after the wedding the sister made sure to pick as many photos of the wedding as possible with the brother visible in them, because it was now a funny family story of bringing the family together by pissing the shit out of their parents.
All hail the king and queen siblings.
Unmute !
That’s a gunfight in a Looney Tunes cartoon
(This is also what a gunfight sounds like irl)
suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’
please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people
I just tried to combine the words and got “dom” and i cant-
but wait, if we reverse ‘dom’ you get ‘mod’. I suggest we use ‘moderator’ as a gender neutral version of mom/dad
Admin and op would work makes them sound powerful and in charge of everything
Admin (respectful) Op (derogatory)
i was going to add something else to this but instead i got to thinking and i was like huh. what could you use.
in most languages the word for ‘mother’ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because it’s automatically associated with a feminine figure
similarly, ‘father’ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.
now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [ɹ, d͡ʒ, tʃ, θ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the “j” or “dge” sound in “judge,” the “th” sound in “thigh” and the “th” sound in “the.” and we don’t want kids unable to say their parent’s name for years, so those are also off the list.
additionally, it’s easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and we’ll want to stick with low back vowels like “ah” and avoid ones like the hard “i” or “ee.”
so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but don’t want to just put a funky spin on “mama” or “dada”?
my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. they’re called liquids, since they’re the consonants that kind of aren’t consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.
if i ever have a child, they’ll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, they’ll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.
and then, once they’re finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years:
Waluigi.
Okay, but on an actually serious note, Baba is used in several different languages, but the meaning changes between mother, father, or grandparent. However, it is not used in English afaik, so it could be a good English option.
baba is what I use as a nonbinary parent (it has a long history for butches!) and this post hit me like a two-by-four to the back of the goddamn HEAD
How about Tata, because no matter what, they’re gonna try to latch onto a nipple
wait wait wait, do babies try to latch on to the nipples of non-lactating parents too? is this a thing? do babies just automatically zero in on any nipple in the vicinity, regardless of the presence of breasts or breast milk? is this an experience cis men deal with I need to KNOW
UPDATE: based on the notes the answer is a resounding YES!!!
I can’t speak to cis men’s experience, but my house has this kind of lamp, and my progeny were both very fascinated by it whenever I would carry them under one of them.
The lamp thing is legit, I’ve discussed it with so many fellow breastfeeding parents. The weirdest one for me was when my son latched onto the tied knot of a balloon.
I am so so grateful I decided to scroll through the tags:
oh fantastic tags:
#maud #when i was little i called both my parents mom/dad mixture i didn’t know who i wanted so just who ever came first to me yelling that
Seems legit and I don't know enough about Ancient Egyptian monuments to disprove it. @rudjedet ? @somecunttookmyurl ?
this is correct actually
agreed, i see no misinfo here
That feeling when you realize some of your fellow author friends don't actually introduce you in group spaces as a fellow author but as a "content creator" and that they're not actually smiling when they do it, they're sneering.
Yep. That sure is a feeling. I'm not sure what it is yet, but if I figure it out I'll be sure to let y'all know.
Y'know what, thank you for the compliment. I do work extremely hard on creating content. Some of which I turn into international best-selling novels.
The fact that I do so while maintaining a popular blog on Tumblr, the blogging equivalent of a PVP warzone, fielding complex medical questions, and writing the equivalent of three NaNoWriMos a week in advocacy work is neither here nor there.
Anyway. I'll be over here. Creating content. Not worrying too much over whether it's "art" or not. I've got too many bills.
Joy you're a wonderful author and one of the best people on this horrible website and anyone who's got shit to say about that is both a clown and a coward.
What Natalie said, holy shit. I genuinely look up to you as a colleague, and tbh after years of bad advice from other people you're one of the few authors I'd actually take writing or marketing advice from.
All of this and then some. I mean, really... They're right. You do create content. You are a content creator. BUT SO ARE THEY. Anybody who puts words on paper (or screen or whatever) is a content creator. You just happen to be a brilliant one and can't help that their reaction is the same as every other jealous competitor who simply cannot compete - trying to minimize the influence and success you actually have by "othering" it.
Thank you (all of you, including everyone in the notes). It was just one of those situations that left me feeling raw, and I’m ill/stressed enough atm that it got to me.
Not least of all because they asked me into that chat to get advice and to ask me to promo their stuff, and not 20 minutes later, they were talking about how the age of content creation is cheapening the value of “art,” and I was just sitting there like, ah. These people hate me. Not so much that they won't use me, but they hate me. They think what I do is easy and I’m just lucky. Except if it’s so easy, how come they’re not doing it?
Anyway, I’m still hurt and used feeling and the RSD is sitting on my chest like a physical weight. But I’ll get over it. Last night felt awful like I literally couldn't breathe past the pain in my chest, but I dare say it’s not as bad as the panic some people are feeling this morning.
Though I will say this to anyone involved: you don't have to worry about me posting your names. In fact, you never have to worry about your name touching my lips ever again. I wouldn’t want to sully it with my lowly content creation, lol.
look: our neanderthal ancestors took care of the sick and disabled so if ur post-apocalyptic scenario is an excuse for eugenics, u are a bad person and literally have less compassion than a caveman
Yes but they also when extinct which implies whatever they were doing at the time wasn’t fit for their environment.
So, it’s been awhile since I took a human evolution course, so some of this might be a little out of date, but
1) Whether or not Neanderthals went extinct is still kind of up for debate, and seems to hinge largely on whether you think that Neanderthals are a H. Sapiens subspecies or not, which often seems like a mildly pointless argument to me since it’s largely a fight about which definition of “species” to use
2) Even if we argue that Neanderthals are our direct ancestors and never went extinct, several Neanderthal *traits* (like their noses and their forheads) *have* left the population. Care for the disabled is not one of them.
Saying “Neanderthals cared for their sick and injured and are now extinct, therefore care for the disabled is maladaptive” is like saying “Dodos are extinct therefore beaks are a terrible idea”
Statements about “less compassion than a caveman” still stand.
–Peter
I teach human evolution to college students, so in addition to that, here’s what we know. There’s some citations (and footnotes) behind the cut, if you’re interested.
So Neanderthals aren’t our direct ancestor- more like a branch of the family tree that didn’t lead to us. Close cousins- close enough to breed- but they evolved outside of Africa about 400kya, while our species evolved in Africa about 200kya*. This is important because it means that altruism can’t possibly be a Neanderthal trait that left the population during the evolution into modern humans; we didn’t evolve from them, so it’s not like we can say “well, this was maladaptive in our ancestors.” This is a behavior you see in two temporally coexisting species (or subspecies), and I do mean two, because it wasn’t just Neanderthals practicing altruism. We did it too.
We have really good evidence that early Homo sapiens sapiens (i.e., us, just old) also took care of their injured, elderly, and disabled. At Cro-Magnon in France, a few individuals clearly suffered from traumatic injury and illness during their lives. Cro-Magnon 1 had a nasty infection in his face; his bones are pitted from it. Cro-Magnon 2, a female, had a partially healed skull fracture, and several of the others had fused neck vertebrae that had fused as a result of healed trauma; this kind of injury would make it impossible to hunt and uncomfortable to move. This kind of injury can be hard to survive today, even with modern medical care; the fact that the individuals at Cro-Magnon survived long enough for the bones to remodel and heal indicate that somebody was taking care of them. At Xujiayao, in northern China, there’s evidence of healed skull fractures (which would have had a rather long recovery time and needed care);
This evidence of altruism extends past injured adults, as well. One of the most compelling cases is at Qafzeh, which is in Israel. Here we see evidence of long-term care for a developmentally disabled child (as well as a child who had hydrocephaly and survived). Qafzeh 11, a 12-13 year old at time of death, suffered severe brain damage as a child. Endocasts (basically making a model of the inside of the skull, where the brain would be) show that the volume of the brain was much smaller than expected; likely the result of a growth delay due to traumatic brain injury. The patterns of development suggest that this injury occurred between the ages of 4 and 6. They very likely suffered from serious neurological problems; the areas of the brain that were injured are known to control psychomotricity. This means that the kid may have had a hard time controlling their eye movements, general body movement, keeping visual attention, performing specific tasks, and managing uncertainty; in addition, Broca’s area might also have been damaged, which likely would have affected the kid’s ability to speak. Long and short of it, without help, this kid wouldn’t have survived to age 12-13.
But they did. They lived, and they were loved. When they died, they were given a funeral- we know this based on body position and funeral offerings. Mortuary behavior was common among both Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens, and this burial was particularly interesting. The body was placed on its back, its legs extended and the arms crossed over the chest. Deer antlers were laid on the upper part of the chest; in the archaeological context, they were in close contact with the palmar side of the hand bones, meaning it’s likely that they were placed in the hands before burial. This points to Qafzeh 11 being valued by the community- why go to the effort for somebody you don’t care about? Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.
Keep reading
“Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.”
Would you be alright with me borrowing your words when someone poses the above comments’ line of thought to me?
Of course! (And feel free to use anything else in my anthropology tag.)
Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.
I am literally begging. BEGGING. Yall to just actually Google what the word "fetishize" means, even just one time. I know that nuance and context is a concept a lot of people on the internet don't understand, but here's the gist. Finding something attractive is not fetishization. Being turned on by something is not fetishization. Having kinks is not necessarily fetishization. Having a preference is not necessarily fetishization. Appreciating certain features, aesthetics, or behaviors is not necessarily fetishization. Reducing a human being from a complex person with their own thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs, down to one singular aspect of their character that you find sexually or otherwise gratifying is fetishization. Saying, "I really enjoy that my boyfriend, whom I love and enjoy sharing a life with, is well-endowed" isn't fetishization, saying "I don't care about who he is or what his life is like, he has a big dick and I use him for that" is fetishization. Men who only date Asian women because they believe the stereotype that Asian women are all submissive, childlike, and docile are fetishizing them. Embracing your partner's cultural background because you love them and want to appreciate all parts of their life is not fetishizing. Fetishization is the act of reducing someone to a single characteristic, whether true or perceived, and disregarding their other attributes as a human being. Not every fucking aspect of attraction or kink or sex is fetishization, you fucking walnuts.
SO HELPFUL 💜
Credits to @author_jgharris on Tiktok!
Thoughts on the blunt headed tree snake?
This! Shoelace! Is so much untied!!!
THIS SPAGHETTI HAS NO MEATBALL
0-0________________________
@is-the-snake-video-cute why it like that 😭😭
Blunt-headed tree snakes (Imantodes cenchoa) look Like That because they're arboreal, and need their bodies to be super slender and light to stay up in the trees without their weight bringing them down, but they also need big heads so they can eat bigger meals, and their eyes need to be huge so they can see food moving around in the trees.
I really hate that pixel art is becoming associated with NFTs, pixel art rules
Maybe I should just make the opposite of an NFT, like I dunno, just a cute pixel art goblin anyone can right click+save for free and keep it forever and now it's theirs
You can put a hat on it too if you like
I’m totally on board. I’d like to propose a name for him: Nifty the Goblin.
I love it, I'll try to whip something up when I'm feeling inspired
...
...[BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOL-AID MAN] HELLO, YES, HI, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS ART PROJECTS?!
...I mean, yeah, these sorts of opposite-of-NFTs Open Source Art things are something I dedicate a lot of brainspace to, and I actually have some suggestions!
Firstly, if you wanna do that, you’d probably want to use one of the organization Creative Commons’ licenses, to make the “anyone can use/save/alter it” official and legally binding, presumably one of their looser ones like CC-BY or CC0.
Secondly, honestly, this is a rad idea, something like Open Game Art’s various sprites but more as an art project than an assets thing, and i have an idea on how you could expand it further.
Basically: Fanpro but for Pixel Art. Which, for those who don’t know, Fanpro is basically this pool of character designs people contributed to for a while, released totally and utterly under a CC0 license, for anyone to use how they see fit! Basically the exact opposite of NFTs!
It ha a successor in ComPro, but that kinda sputtered out, but one based around a specific theme like pixel art might be perfect! If only as an F-you to NFTs!
...But yeah, that’s my two cents on that good idea.
Boosting this! The opposite of NFTs has existed for a long time, it's called open source and creative commons. And to add something, Kenney has recently released this little app called Creature Mixer to create little animated pixel art sprites: https://kenney.itch.io/creature-mixer It's free and it's terms of use forbid any use with any kind of NFTs for the sprites created with it.
so, with some thanks to the lovely people above and with no further aplomb ‘cause it’s just a goofy 16 by 16 pixel goblin, here goes:
Nifty is a little 16 by 16 pixel goblin who’s yours to own and do whatever you wish to do with.
Licence: You can copy, modify and distribute this work, even for commercial projects, strictly excluding those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens (so-called "NFT") or blockchain (related) projects.
I’ve included a blown up 80 by 80 pixel version simply because I know from experience that Tumblr messes up small pixel art, but I’ve included a version in the original 16 by 16 resolution. While Sprytile is my pixel art software of choice, any image editor should do as long as long as it allows for turning off anti-aliasing, the bane of anyone who’s worked with pixels.
anyway, that’s enough pomp and circumstance for my silly little goblin powered by spite, although I do think it turned out pretty cute
I know nobody cares but I made a bunch of Nifty’s because he’s just so cute
I CARE HOLY SHIT THIS WHIPS
Shhh... sleepy
hi i love Nifty so i brought him into the physical realm
pattern:
OH i literally JUST finished my nifty piece today:
It’s Nifty the goblin in a nice little forest home with a pet cat and some friendly ducks nearby. <3
A tradition
In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace. The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.
Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.
A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.
A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people.
A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.
Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage.
HE CAN DO ALCHEMY
CHOCOLATE MAN MADE A LOVE POTION
yes babe your final form is so horrifying and uninterpretable by mortal eyes <3
emotionally i am. angry breadcrumb
i woke up at 4am, wrote this, and went back to sleep. i have no idea what it means. i am slightly concerned with the sheer number of people in the notes with whom it resonated. why are ya’ll empathizing with angry breadcrumbs what does this say about our general emotional status
we’re having a rough decade huh
Backseat Driver
“Mm. You should really clean the backseat.”
The hero screamed.
“Keep driving.” The villain reached forward to gently ease the steering wheel back to its proper place as the hero, wide eyed and filled with adrenaline, took a deep breath.
“Villain, I say this,” The hero took another deep breath, heart still beating too rapidly. “I say this with the utmost respect for your ability to break into apparently anything - What the fuck?”
“Language.” The villain chided.
“You broke into my car!”
“A very messy car.” The villain mused, throwing an old jacket to the front seat to prove their point. “Last I checked you could fly.”
“It’s - uh,” The hero kept their eyes between the road and the villain, who was inviting themselves to the passenger’s seat. “Uh, not helpful, for my day job, I mean. Can’t just pop through a window and clock in.”
“Day job?”
The hero, now fully aware the villain knew of their identity, and was a passenger on the way to the place of their work, started panicking just a bit more.
“Fighting you doesn’t pay the bills.” They laughed awkwardly. “And I don’t get to pull grand scheme heists with a massive payout.”
“Hm.” The villain harrumphed in their seat. “I forget that sometimes people choose the boring way to do things.” They took another glance in the back. “And the disgusting way.”
“Well, I don’t have to think about cleaning backseats when I’m flying.” The hero shot back, turning to a hard left.
The villain hit the window.
“Bitch.”
“Wear your seatbelt.”
The villain sniffed. “Bitch”
“You broke into my car!”
The villain buckled the seatbelt. “So what? It’s not like there’s anything valuable in here.”
Sharp right. “Yeah, sure, that’s the problem. Not, you know, the breaking in part.”
“Wait, is there?” The villain peaked back behind them.
In response, the hero smacked the back of the villain’s defenseless head.
“Stop it! I will turn this car around!”
“Oh, and actually go to wherever it is you work?”
“I-”
The villain waved off the hero. “Please. I doubt this rural setting is fit for uh,” they vaguely gestured at the hero. “Business casual.”
With a great sigh, the hero pulled off to the side of the road. “Fine, fine. I already figured out your plan. The real question is, why did you reveal yourself? I had no clue you were back there.”
“I couldn’t stand another minute in that filth.”
“Come on, it’s not that bad.”
The villain’s nose wrinkled. “There are old fast food wrappers piled up back there.”
“Ok, I’m so sorry I don’t always have the time to make a healthy meal when I’m busy stopping you and every other villain in the city.”
“You have enough time for a job, though. By the way, how do you explain that? Disappearing at the most inconvenient of times?”
The car came to a slow stop. “Nice try. I’m not giving you anything.”
“Other than your license plate.”
“Get out.”
The villain let out the slowest of sighs at the thought of managing their way back into the city.
“Fine.” They opened the door, stepping out. “I’m getting you a meal delivery service once I find out where you work. Something healthy.”
The door slammed shut.
They managed to find all the trackers placed on their car before they got to work.
