[s-8-t-a-n]

Being on tumblr feels like living in a house full of women. Every other social media feels like being out in public.

[perfectly-princely-emo-nightmare]

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)

The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"

This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."

Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Ok it has become apparent to me that people do not understand what I mean by conservative on accident.

Nobody my age is voting republican. Let's be clear on that. With the exception of a small minority of gamer gaters and people who were raised in actual cults most people my age are either commies or good liberals who votes straight blue down the ticket. This is because of the greta thunberg effect. We're all afraid of dying of thirst because there's no water anymore at the age of 35. Wealthy white children are no longer safe with the republican party which has become less of a political party and more of a death cult, and white children are less wealthy than they used to be (I specify white because POC by in large never voted for the party of the southern strategy for obvious reasons). We as a generation are so insanely blue that they're trying to raise the voting age to 25 about it.

This liberalism and party affiliation doesn't preclude them from being conservative on accident. What I mean by that is... Well

No kink at pride is a great example. The assumption that pride should exist at all makes them think that they're immune to conservative logic but they're still trying to enforce a dominant ideology onto a minority group. That person who made the tweet about how you shouldn't have sex in houses where there are children in the other room and if you can't avoid it you're a sex addict. That's a great example of like straight up puritanism coming out of the mouth of someone who proports themselves to be a leftist

If you ever see a discourse that feels like an obvious psyop as an adult and you can't understand why these supposed leftist youths are falling for it it's because that kid has never had sex in the woods and had to try to buy plan b under their parent's nose. My generation is dumb about sex. We're dumb about drugs. We're dumb about theft. We moralize literally everything. We're so dumb about stranger danger that we never learned how to community organize so while the vast vast majority of us are crushed by existential dread about debt and climate change but we never do anything about it because we just don't know how to organize because we're raised to see everyone else as a threat and we never went to or organized parties as teens because our parents would always know and stop us.

They managed to invent a generation that hates capitalism but fully buys into individualism and who is supportive of queer people and way less monogamous than previous generations but who still buys into the base assumptions of the nuclear family and thinks sex is evil. The levels of politics going on here are way weirder and stupider and more complicated than "young people vote republican and watch Fox news"

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

I've never seen anybody explain it so well

[butchfagminotaur]

idk i just feel like if you were actually attracted to women you’d be attracted to women in their default state not just exclusively in an outrageously plucked and preened one

[butchfagminotaur]

like if you see a woman with body hair or whatever and go “ew that’s disgusting!!!” like you’re not attracted to women then bc women have stuff like that we’re born with it it’s literally normal and you think it’s disgusting

[butchfagminotaur]

“i would never date a woman with leg hair, armpit hair, facial hair, saggy tits, cellulite, stretch marks, etc etc etc” great! so you admit you aren’t attracted to women then!

[shamelessequilibria-deactivated]

Let people like different things.

Let people like different things.

Let people like different things.

Let people like different things.

[butchfagminotaur]

NO! go fuck a hairy woman RIGHT NOW

[ad-wills]

[pointnclick]

dont be insensitive. americans wear shoe in house in case they need to go get cheeseburger on short notice

[speedlimit15]

need to get a car to get to a job to get job experience to get a job to pay for a car

[punkitt-is-here]

if you insist that anyone making queer art must be openly, loudly queer, or else it is some form of faking/baiting/etc for clout, you are a bizarre individual and i do not like you

[punkitt-is-here]

i am a trans woman but i do not believe that the experiences of being a trans woman is so fundamentally and intrinsically alien that, say, a straight cis person couldn't at least understand me on some level

[punkitt-is-here]

the insistence that media written by an "outsider" cannot be beautifully understanding and profound just because they haven't lived a specific experience is absurd. people love toy story but absolutely no one is an actual toy. people love shit with wizards and dragons but no one can cast spells and no one lives in fantasy worlds. a fundamental aspect of fiction is learning to engage with the author's "what if?"s and insisting that every person to ever write a story must have been part of that story leads to a lot of boring fucking stories.

[punkitt-is-here]

i guess for a personal example, Simon vs. the Homo-Sapien Agenda is a book written by a straight woman from my understanding. Apparently it gets a lot of flak online for some reason? In no way do I feel like that invalidates the comfort I got from reading a story about me, a closeted queer kid who's only expressions of my sexuality coming from online spaces at the time. The author may not have literally lived my experiences, but it was the first time I read a book and went "oh my god, that's me" on the level I felt when I read that book all in one night. Insisting that the queer experience is SO alien and different that there's no possibility someone unlike us could EVER understand us is just a way to prevent people from ever attempting to understand and empathize in the first place.

[mackthecheesy]

i believe the person who wrote that book was forced to come out of the closet as bisexual due to the harassment they got from people doing exactly what you described in the original post

[speedlimit15]

very well, i shall smoke this “bowl” with you. but take warning! henceforth i may become quite….. silly…

[fairyysoup]

[amintadress]

starting a collection. pierre talking to natasha in war and peace

[amintadress]

additions

[movedtofailhag2]

how it feels to be in a transitional period

[evilvarric666-archive]

If I ever respond to you w just a heart emoji it’s not meant to be dismissive. I’m bumping my shoulder against yours bc I like you. I am blinking slowly at you like a cat.

[anexperimentallife]

[caesarsaladinn]

Tolstoy was right

[beggars-opera]

One of my favorite apocryphal stories of the American Revolution that I love so much is that on the morning the war started, Anna Munroe, wife of one of the soldiers, said that she kneaded her bread while crying, because she was convinced that her husband would be dead before she would have to knead it a second time.

It's poignant but easy to overlook, I think, what she's really saying there. Anna's husband walked out the door the night before, leaving her with no certainty that he would ever walk back in again. Soldiers were marching through the streets. She could hear gunshots. And through all of it, she was at home alone with three small children, with no choice but to go through the motions of a normal day. Bake the bread. Feed the baby. Milk the cow. She couldn't just curl up in a corner with her head in her hands, because despite the battle, life was still going on around her, other people depended on her, and she had to keep on living.

[chickiesbb]

I'm spiraling further now

I feel it muffling me and what I want for myself. Like a hand that is bigger than all of me.

I feel it carrying me away.. or also just pushing me away.

It's a mouth that whispers everything I am scared of.

It's everything I forget after awhile that I had been living for.

Now I want to die again and all I think about is death and my ego and other people and how bad I am.

Now I wanna die all alone and be gone and just I'm trying not to hate myself so much

[writing-prompt-s]

“Burn the witch! Burn the witch!” shouted the crowd, drowning out the distressed warnings of one person. “No, you fools! She can control the flames!”

[writing-prompt-s]

You run a café on the edge of life and death. Souls who have been departed from their bodies temporarily, such as in comas or near-death experiences, can relax in your quaint cafe for as long as they need before they can either return to their bodies or begin their journey to the afterlife.

[snipemother]