The last of Barrett's privateers

Trans, they/he, old. Perfumer. Writer. Gamer. Cat rescue volunteer. I love BG3, David Dastmalchian, and writing. Mostly queer smut.

[contemporary-reference]

Why, Hello There

I am an old, trans (they/he), disabled writer, game designer, jewelry maker, perfumer, cat rescue volunteer. I'm also a prospective Jewish convert.

So you found my Tumblr blog. Clever! And all you had to do was click a link or look up my user name...

I'm contemporary-reference (not my real name). I reblog whatever strikes my fancy, though common themes are:

Judaism

Baldur's Gate 3 -- love to play and I write a lot of fanfic on AO3

animals -- they're cute

David Dastmalchian -- he's cute

Project Hail Mary -- loved the book, loved the movie

shit @gwydionmisha posts -- ze's well-informed and I'm lazy

shit @steampunktoy and @punkedsolar post -- they're an amazing artist

things I think are pretty

things I think are funny

sea shanties

As for original content, I occasionally wax philosophical about:

social justice issues

writing

perfumery

what's going on with me

cats, I guess?

I love interacting with friendly people in good faith. To that end, those folks are welcome to reblog, comment, ask me anything.

Check out the madness that is the Regency sim for an online game I run. All of the characters mentioned are OCs, and the players are so creative and not right.

Click the clicky for Regency Era shenanigans.

We're doing Viking times now. I should post more about that.

[contemporary-reference]

I'm getting to bed too late again. I really need to get a handle on my sleep schedule, but every night it gets away from me. I've got Internet FOMO in the worst way right now.

I'm going to bed, though. And I'm going to leave you with this thought:

The past, the present, and the future all already exist, and they still exist. Also, 'now' is subjective (see: Andromeda paradox) and isn't even objectively real. But never mind that. Past, present, future, it all exists simultaneously.

What we experience as time passing is the increase of entropy in the universe. That's why we can't access the past even though it's still there. Entropy doesn't flow toward order, only toward chaos. Only forward, never backward. We are, in fact, time travelers. All of us are going into the future at one second per second. Relatively speaking. Even that gets fucky depending on your proximity to the speed of light.

Rather, we aren't 'going' so much as perceiving what's already there. Since the future already exists, it's fixed. It will happen. We need the illusion of free will in order to not lose our minds, but it is an illusion. Our paths are set. We're all just along for the ride. I mean, we still have to do the stuff that's going to make it happen, but don't agonize over which decisions you're going to make. You've already made them.

So, in a way, I was always going to stay up too late watching reviews for the Project Hail Mary movie on YouTube. I shouldn't feel bad. And I don't. Maybe tomorrow will be the night I get to bed on time. It could happen.

Maybe it already has.

[arielmh]

I’m so proud of him and Leah 🥹 Congrats on the release of their new comic Kingdom of Earth! 🖤

[arielmh]

New cursed image alert 😂

[loveridden1999]

[psych0n0rmal]

David Dastmalchian on Grave Conversations S05E09 (with Riki Lindhome) ⚰️🖤

[gatorzaeder]

Take my gay cats, Tumblr!

This is part 1, the next part will be gender identity centered :)

[creepycrag]

If you remember being a teenager you're a creep because you straight up saw yourself naked back then. The only way to be righteous is to obliterate your mind with drugs until you can't remember anything

[psych0n0rmal]

He needs to stop posting on Instagram Stories when I'm at work because:

How am I even supposed to focus now 😭

[focaccia-nose]

We read a book about a biracial Jewish girl at my book club this month and I honestly thought about not going. In the past couple of years, nearly every conversation I've had with strangers about Judaism had taken a turn and I wasn't in the headspace to deal with it.

But I ended up going, and while I was the only Jew in the room (shocker), I was pleasantly surprised.

It turned into a learning opportunity and people actually cared about what I had to say and the conversation was really productive and interesting.

However, I was reminded about just how little goyim know about Judaism/Yiddish/general culture and that most have never met a Jew in their life.

People have so much to say without knowing us at all.

[king-shit-thembo]

People have so much to say without knowing us at all.

[hiveswap]

Not now, kitten, m- da- m- your parental figure is in the middle of a gender crisis

[kaijuyuri]

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

[xavantina]

Murderbot + text posts [201/∞]

[arielmh]

Daddy goth on a train 🖤

[contemporary-reference]

YouTube keeps recommending videos on assisted suicide.

Rude.

Like any of you would get rid of me that easily.

[contemporary-reference]

Now YT is like hey if you're not interested in assisted suicide videos how about all these videos about being tired of existing?

I AM FINE, PEOPLE!

[gwydionmisha]

Barrett's Privateers (Stan Rogers) Cover - Colm R. McGuinness

[tourfilm]

living under a rock is so fun i love watching a movie that’s been famous for decades and being like wow this is so good.. did you guys know about this