I probably don't belong here

But the rest of the internet is also going to shit and I know what to expect here He/Him

[coyoteman1142]

If Machiavelli were to rise from the dead I would be elated at my chance to beat his head in with a rock.

[twunkish-cleric]

The fact that there are gods with disabilities makes me so emotional. Hephaestus, Tyr, Hodr, Odin and other disabled deities just prove that being disabled is a vital part of the human experience, not a deviation from it, and that concept alone is so moving. Just like there are deities for specific human experiences like fertility or war, there are also deities with disabilities, which just proves that we have just as much of a place on this earth as mothers and warriors do. The idea of that has genuinely pulled me through some hard times.

[coyoteman1142]

Havamal stanza 71

The lame can ride horse, the handless drive cattle,

the deaf one can fight and prevail,

'tis happier for the blind than for him on the bale-fire,

but no man hath care for a corpse.

[frogliftcertified]

what is it they put in the hardware store to make it smell so good

[frogliftcertified]

OK 👍 that is helps

[coyoteman1142]

WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[striders]

encountering an inconvenience while cold: damn that sucks, oh well, i’ll figure something else out!!

encountering an inconvenience while hot: we all deserve to die right now, come on everyone, lets all go die

[cocoon2010]

"ohhh wahhh the problem with building out america's rail network is that nobody wants to live next to train tracks-" I DO BITCH!!!!!!!! #I<3INDUSTRIALNOISES #SEXWITHATRAIN

[masoney]

for a second i thought @transit-fag wrote this lol

[queer-as-city-folk]

I had a reply to this ages ago, but I honestly can't remember it

[coyoteman1142]

Everywhere I've lived had been near train tracks, I'm not sure it would feel like home without it.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love it when you accidentally meet eyes with a stranger in public and you flash a quick polite smile and they look at you like they wish you were dead in a ditch

[deadmomjokes]

I’ve seen this several times on my dash and always with southerners being confused in the tags why the rest of the US is like this, and as a southerner, I have to say, SAME. Like, there’s plenty to hate about the south, don’t get me wrong, but at least in general we have public courtesy down to a science. I ordered at a Sonic out West once and the guy specifically had someone take over his headset so he could come out and shake my hand because he was from Tennessee and it was the first time since he moved West that he heard anyone say “Yes sir.” And it’s just…. Automatic for me? And this polite smile thing, people will jump and glare and I’m just trying to be friendly not awkward? What else is a socially anxious southern child to do upon accidentally making eye contact? Look down and hurry away? Isn’t that rude??? Someone explain why is smiling met with such anger I am confused and afraid.

[sea-anon]

Exactly!! When I moved to Missouri I was baffled at how rude everyone is! Like I saw someone I knew at Walmart and stopped to chat and they didn’t even stop! They just went ‘hi’ and moved on. Like????

And when I moved here I made cookies for the neighborhood, cuz that’s what you do and the first place I went they said “we don’t eat things with sugar” and shut the door.

Like why do y’all hate everyone so much?

[rosesforwildwitches]

I’ve lived in places all around the US growing up, so I have a bit of an answer for this: people not from the southeast view this as incredibly overfamiliar and overbearing. The cultural norm outside of the south is largely to keep to oneself if you don’t personally know the other people around you, because interacting with random people on the street who you don’t know and who you don’t see on a regular basis is seen as creepy in the same way as going up to a random stranger and hugging them suddenly; you might be doing it to everyone just to be nice, but other people see that as way too familiar from someone they just met. It is very isolating compared to southern US cultural settings, and people are rude about it to people who are just trying to be nice, but it comes from the cultural idea that you don’t actually know any of the people around you, and they don’t know you, so interacting with these people in a non-neutral way is falsely acting like you’re friends or like you care about each other when you really don’t, and is thus deceptive and rude because you’re acting as though you care when you don’t. Most westerners and northerners, in my experience, see southern politeness norms as phony and fake, seeing it as more rude to act polite to someone you don’t have an established relationship with or someone you don’t like instead of just acting how you actually feel about them. I’ve legitimately had to explain southern sarcasm and fake politeness in documents in college history classes to northern classmates because they didn’t understand that the author was actually being threatening and were confused as to why the guy was acting nice to someone he didn’t like, and when I did explain it, their responses largely were “why the hell would you coat how you actually feel about someone you want to hurt or kill like that in politeness, get blunt with it and openly tell them to fuck off”.

I’m not saying it’s not rude or defending any of these interactions, I’m just saying this by way of explanation.

[coyoteman1142]

I have this conversation very often with my group of friends. Most of them are Southern, I'm kinda Mid Atlantic Appalachian, and one Midwesterner. All of us from more rural areas (Me, and all Southerners save 1) just kind of intrinsically knew to wave at cars and talk in stores because you Do Not See People often. Especially for the old folks.

The Urban southerner is honestly just a rude guy on accident but mostly because he just wasn't taught how to act, and it wasn't as necessary growing up in a city. But he still understands that people aren't trying to be rude by anything.

Our Midwesterner (my girlfriend) from a Big city is lost as all hell. She didn't understand why I cared when people gave us dirty looks because she never waved in the small towns when we would go see my family. She explained it as in a city that packed, your car or your personal space is the only real privacy you get sometimes. She felt rude for interrupting their drive to wave.

I had never considered this before, and I try to tone it down now when I travel to different places, but I do find it sad. Its just an indignant feeling of how dare I care about you as a person even if we don't know each other? So many people, such a loss of community feels like a genuine tragedy to me.

[maidthings]

just shot a gnome

[maidthings]

#cottagecore

[juney-blues]

[whitefangthefightingwolf]

#post your tags

Ok if u say so

I've done some looking at varmint rifle calibers and 22LR might cut it which means you could probably also get away with size 2 birdshot so you won't be at up your shoulder so much. While not nearly as bad as a slug, buckshot is still not super fun to shoot a bunch in a row. I'm still a little dubious though because that gnome really does look chonky. The good news is there's about a billion varmint cartridges to pick from that are beefier than the 22LR but not so beefy they'll blow the whole gnome to pieces.

HOWEVER

The fact that she's aiming at the "hat" makes me think it's actually the vitals... like a cephalopod... which means either 1) it's extremely vulnerable which means 7-birdshot is totally fine and so is a 22LR, or 2) it is ARMOR PLATED in which case you'd want... like... probably a slug if using a shotty (if the armor is thick enough I don't think 00-buck will do the trick) or a Big Chungus rifle cartridge like 45-70 govt...

Much to think about

@sea-salted-wolverine if I'm completely wrong and talking out of my ass about made-up varmint gnomes please feel free to destroy me

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I mean... my first thought is that thing is only a handful of inches off the end of her barrel so it really doesn't matter what she shot it with.

That said you can use 22lr for damn near anything with the correct shot placement. But look at that woman. Look at her face. Look at her posture. That is the violence of a blunt instrument. A maid is a service job and she is killing for a wage. There is no aiming going on here. This is simply the most efficient method of extermination which means its whatever gun she happened to have access to and the cheapest ammo she could find. Like, plinking rounds with nonexistent QC. She bought bulk and charged it to her employers household expense account. This isn't even in her job description, it should be the landscaper guys doing this, but they're too squeamish and busy being a plot point of some homoeroticaly charged rom-com with a weird take on class divides. She doesn't even dislike gnomes but she does dislike listening to her boss bitch about kitschy sentinent lawn ornament varmints so the gnomes have got to go.

[xxxxxxcany0us33m3xxx]

goodnight to people who are unable to run goodnight to people who used to be known for 'running/skipping' everywhere until it became far too painful and dangerous goodnight to people who have a walking gait that shows deformity and 'disturbs others' goodnight to people who have limbs that 'move wrong' goodnight to people who walk with a limp goodnight to people who stumble and fall goodnight to people who use a mobility aid goodnight to people who use elevators goodnight to people who use shower-chairs goodnight to people who use ramps

[paging-possum]

I love when characters are always drawn in lab coats even outside the lab because it implies that 1) they are either constantly violating lab safety rules or 2) they have a second, casual lab coat purely for external use

THE TAG ‘AND BOTH ARE SEXY’ IS A JOKE ITS A FUCKING JOKE I DONT THINK BREAKING LAB SAFETY PROCEDURE IS SEXY I WAS MAKING A JOKE ABOUT FICTIONAL SCIENTISTS. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A LAB THEYRE NOT SEXY AT ALL. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPPPPPPP.

[vren-diagram]

US citizenship should be automatically granted to all willing to cross a large ocean to America on a sailboat-type craft. There should be other ways to become an American but the sailboat thing should be by far the easiest.

[coyoteman1142]

I understand what you're saying but also boats with sails landing in America is how we got in this mess in the first place.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

[tpwrtrmnky]

My cutting-edge radical queer politics: Actually meaning it instead of just saying it as an empty slogan

[osakanone]

Then more people need to study biophysics and realize you do literally get female cells from estrogenated gene activation. HRT is literally male cells being replaced with functionally female ones.

It's literally why all of your skin including your dick gets softer. That's literally a girl dick. If you grafted a penis on a cisgirl and it took, it would eventually end up identical to a transwomans for the exact same reason.

Genetics isn't a blueprint.

Its a game of pachinko.

We beat it and everybody is mad at us because you're apparently not meant to win or profit from pachinko?????

I'm (NOT) sorry for being literally the forefront of progress in the pursuit of human happiness, ACTUALLY????

[tpwrtrmnky]

Yes, and: I mean before transition too. Closeted trans women as a type of marginalized women explains more of their experiences than the alternatives.

[the-moonbug]

Green eyes shouldn’t actually be considered an eye color. It’s just not common enough, it’s a VERY SMALL percentage of the population, 1-2%. Green eyes are also caused by an irregular mutation. Most people have blue or brown eyes, so those are the two eye colors.

All the “green eyes” positivity is actually a bad thing, by the way. Having green eyes is linked to higher rates of retinal melanoma. You’re celebrating something dangerous that can cause suffering.

And besides, most people with “green eyes” lean closer to blue or brown anyways. They should just make up their minds and be brown eyed or blue eyed. And if it’s too hard to tell, they should get corrective surgery (because green eyes are dangerous, and associated with more difficult medical care!) or at the least wear contacts so they don’t confuse people. But also they should be required to

I hate to sound like this, but green eyes are a far more recent development than blue eyes in the mutagenic history of humans. So humans weren’t created to have green eyes.

And hazel eyes? Those are just a variant of brown eyes—come on, they’re far closer to brown than green. They just have a couple greenish traits. And there’s no way there’s that many green eyed people, or a wide variety of eye colors… It’s just not natural.

I don’t have a problem with green eyed people, they didn’t ask to be born that way—but there’s just too few of them for it to be an actual eye color. We don’t need all this “green eye positivity” or putting green eyes in media. The internet is making people delude themselves into thinking it’s more common than it really is.

‼️ THIS POST IS ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF INTERSEX PEOPLE ‼️

✅ I HAVE GREEN EYES THIS IS SATIRE ✅

⚠️ PLEASE DON’T SEND ME ANY MORE THREATS OF VIOLENCE IN DEFENSE OF PEOPLE WITH GREEN EYES?? ⚠️

💧 THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT EYE COLOR?? IT’S ABOUT INTERSEXISM AND BIGOTRY 💧

[olowan-waphiya]

Nearly a thousand children died at Indian boarding schools funded by the U.S.

The investigation into abuse and mistreatment of Native children at the boarding schools for more than a century proposes $23 billion in fun

note the downplaying of the headline vs the reality. this is just the confirmed number.

“And the report confirms that at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending schools in the system. The Department acknowledges that the actual number of children who died while attending Indian boarding schools is likely greater.”

—

“The investigation also confirms that there are at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of the schools. One initiative proposed in the report is to identify and repatriate the remains of children who never returned home from the schools.”

National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive

[jackkdaniels]

look at me. listen to me. this is directed at americans for the record. the reason you think North American animals are boring is because you live here. there are so many cool and beautiful animals here. we have beavers. we have wolves. we have moose. we have sea lions. we have armadillos. we have mountain lions. we have alligators. we have foxes. we have bighorn sheep. we have manatees. we have bears. we have ocelots. we have BISON. and that’s not even touching on the birds! or the turtles! or the snakes! we have amazing beautiful and diverse wildlife right here and it deserves to be appreciated and protected

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

Possums are the only North American marsupial, they eat ticks and keep down cases of Lyme, and they can't carry rabies! We only have two native boa constrictors; the rubber boa and the rosy boa! Bison and the American Alligator are LITERAL MEGAFAUNA LEFT OVER FROM PREHISTORY!

[scifigrl47]

When I was a teenager, I was hiking with my family on Cape Cod. I was not a willing participant to these hikes; I would've preferred to be back at our rental cabin with a book.

But my parents were birders, so hiking we did go.

And about a mile up the trail, a woman came rushing up to us, clutching her binoculars to her chest. "Come quickly," she said, with a British accent. "You have to see this!"

This is what birders are like. They are as excited about a life bird as any fan would be spotting their favorite celebrity. You have to see, you have to.

So my parents rushed off with her, and I plodded along behind them.

To find a cluster of Brits huddled in a bird blind, staring at..

A blue jay.

A goddamn blue jay.

And I was a teenager, but I knew better then to mouth off in front of my mom. So I nodded, and smiled, and bit my tongue, until an elderly man looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?"

And I stopped. And looked at it. The way they were. As if it were new. And damned if they weren't right.

I think of that, to this day. That sometimes, you need to step back, and see the world as if it were new. Strange, and haunting, and beautiful, so beautiful.

[falconratesbirds]

Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?

[jeyneofpoole]

before you say that hashtag witty hashtag clever thing about ‘dumb hicks’ or ‘rednecks’ or ‘hillbillies’ run through this quick and easy questionnaire to make sure you’re not a piece of shit!

do i know what states i’m even talking about? can i point to them on a map?

have i ever visited, or god forbid lived in, a state south of the mason-dixon line?

do i know where appalachia is? can i point to it on a map? do i know what states it encompasses?

do i know what the word ‘melungeon’ means? do i know what distinctive people-groups make up the appalachian south?

have i ever made fun of someone for having missing teeth (aka dewmouth), a silly accent, or unique regional grammar structure?

do i think of the south as a homogenous wall of bigots and republicans? have i considered that the south is diverse racially, economically, and politically?

how do i pronounce ‘appalachia?’ have i continued to say it the wrong way after being corrected because it sounds ‘smarter?’

when i say ‘i hate all country music,’ have i listened to anything other than bigwig sellouts singing about trucks and shit? can i name a single true bluegrass musical artist?

do i consider the south to be ‘beyond saving’ or a ‘lost cause?’

do i make ‘sweet home alabama’ jokes about incest in the south? have i poked fun at the ‘blue people of kentucky?’ do i even know their last names, or are they just punchlines to me?

do i say ‘y’all’ in everyday conversation? am i from the south? do i even know where to put the fucking apostrophe?

do i know what the fuck i’m talking about? should i shut the fuck up?

[animentality]