I will never listen to your voicemail

[neighbor-unknown]

They should’ve started hunting pickup artists for sport in the 2000s but noooooooo no one gave a shit and now we have Andrew Tate

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!

Do you like it?

YES!!!

yes

eh it's okay

no.

IM MOON MOON

results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 11 minutes

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

I DON'T WANNA BE DEAD WOLF

[gallusrostromegalus]

It's me. Football Cat.

[somestorythoughts]

One of the things I really like about To Shape A Dragon's Breath is the lack of secondhand embarrassment.

Because at some point, possibly unjustly, I started expecting the awkwardness of not knowing things to feel awkward or embarrassing in any story that was a variant of "stranger in a strange place "

And there's none of that because Anequs is just, so self assured and refuses to be embarrassed for not knowing things she has no reason to know. I love it. She's confident, willing to explain things, and entirely unwilling to take shit.

I didnt realize I was expecting that till I read this and it wasn't there, and again maybe its an unfair expectation cause I'm not certain when I picked it up. But I love the confidence.

And I love the lack of romantic conflict, because I'm so used to that in stories. I kept expecting Theod to take things worse because I'm so used to characters reacting badly to say "I'm challenging how you grew up", I definitely didn't expect him to react well to Anequs wanting to court both him and Liberty and its just.

There's conflict in media I've grown used to seeing and the fact that it wasn't here was just. Really really good to read. All the conflict is from the outside. Right there, in the main group, you have characters that will talk things out. I love it.

[cassavee]

This right here is one of the (many!) reasons I enjoy this series. So many series with young/new adult heroines put the focus on their being awkward and unsure and worried about what people will think of them. Anequs is just walking along thinking "My people love me, Kassaqua loves me, and I love me, so all these white folks and their internalized racism can go take a long run off a short pier."

[cryptotheism]

Do y'all have any favorite card games?

[cryptotheism]

I know this is the jaded post-irony website and we all wanna be funny, but I am genuinely asking. Please, tell me about a good memory you have with some loved ones and a stack of standard playing cards.

[cassavee]

My brother and I would end up wrestling and laughing on the floor over Uno.

Also, my dad taught me to play poker at age ten, and after I beat him four times in a row (and I know I beat him, my dad does not *let* anyone win), he said "Forget you learned this" and has never mentioned it again.

[break-my-nonexistent-bones]

I think that’s a really valid take tbh

[sixth-light]

Do you know what an iced chocolate is?

Yes and I’ve had one

Yes but I’ve never had one

No but I have a confident guess (in tags please)

No and I have no idea

Clicky button

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

A friend was describing introducing cafe workers in the UK to the concept of the iced chocolate and then I found out Wikipedia doesn’t know what they are and then I thought: is this another lemon lime and bitters situation? So…Tumblr poll time!

[ghostofhiim]

[nicky999doors]

[jabberwockypie]

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[beaft]

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

[beaft]

important additions!!!!

[vaspider]

Sometimes learning "wow, that person is a DICK" is the best thing for your social anxiety.

[dangermoose]

I really hate the narrative I see around the conflict between Santos and Langdon. It’s always Santos needs to get over it. Santos needs to stop holding a grudge against Langdon.

It’s so frustrating that it’s always framed as her having to be the one to do the work and change when it was Langdon who committed a crime and tried to derail her career to cover it up.

But he apologized! Did he though? Did he own up to being in Robby’s ear her whole first day trying to get him to fire her because she was onto him? Did he apologize for actively gaslighting her and downplaying her knowledge and skills? Or did he just say sorry for being mean and think that would be good enough? Especially when that apology came after taunting her while working with a patient together. ‘I’d be happy to teach Dr. Santos’ sounded a lot like a veiled threat of retaliation to me.

So maybe we should be putting it on Langdon to put in the work to earn her trust and respect rather than saying a young woman who reported her male superior for misconduct should just shut up and smile already.

[entomologistologist]

Look at this meme my friend shared with me... it's so perfect.... my favorite book with a reaction image from one of my favorite shows...

[lonelyroommp3]

and so javert you see it’s true this man bears no more guilt than you. who am i?

[not100bees]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[jeffcross5000]

[jenjen4280]

This made me smile. Maybe you need a smile today too.

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[the-reblog-squad-deactivated202]

Reblog if you don't use Generative AI to write fanfics/original fics or to create fanart/original art.