[longseasons]

let's all go out and buy pink refreshing citrusy fruity sexually arousing drinks

[mausspacearchive]

it’s 2014 can taylor swift stop

[4outof20]

[apocryphics]

Steiner

[reachperfection]

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

if you've never been clinically depressed, this is the short version

[yellow-cat]

when i was but a wee babe the wet nurse accidentally dropped a sufferingberry into my open mouth and thats how this all got started

[honorculture]

[badnightbrian]

[ashtabharya-deactivated20240717]

[pmamtraveller]

The Great Mosque of Samarra during fog, Samarra, Iraq

[alienpapacy]

Weird how “masturbating and falling asleep in the late afternoon” isn’t regarded as a cherished summertime tradition

[alienpapacy]

Whoever lives like this….. we live in such different worlds that i don’t even want to know you

[alienpapacy]

every sunday afternoon this gets like 4,000 additional notes

[chuunifox]

Autism Representation written by an allistic: My name is John Autism and I like the designated autistic interests

unintentionally autistic character written by the creator who hasn't really thought about whether or not theyre autistic: I wish I could be human like the way everyone else is but I know they can tell I'm not. And I know they're right

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[prairiedeath]

Pars Province, Iran. Shooting competition.

source

[galileosballs]

Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.

The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.

How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?

[hyperlexichypatia]

When I complain about increased surveillance, control, and infantilization of older kids and young adults, it's often a level of surveillance and control that wouldn't have been possible, or at least practical, in previous generations. At minimum, it would've been escapable.

[furby-yeehaw]

*going to a festival that celebrates what has for a long time been considered sexual degeneracy by society* Oh boy I sure hope I don’t encounter anything that society views as sexually degenerate!

[nineinchmales]

Did you know that um…. (remembers that words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm) …………