*cool finger guns*

[Rex | 26 | Nonbinary | Any/All | Pansexual | Autistic | General Trash] This is the place I come to dump all of the things I like. Occasional homegrown rants and reflections. All sensitive topics are tagged to the best of my ability.

[walk-up-songs]

[one single bloodcurdling agonized scream] ok time to lock in

[one-time-i-dreamt]

if you interacted with a tumblr post too late (like, 150+ years after it was posted) your account would be labeled as a [SNOOTH] and everyone would make fun of you and there was no way to get rid of your [SNOOTH] status

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[pukicho]

Like this post to have everything ever happen to you

[pukicho]

Stop that at once

[scavengedluxury]

One thing about the Euros is that the English still haven’t quite adjusted to the Queen dying so during the national anthem they keep singing “God Save The Quing” like there’s a non-binary monarch on the throne.

[melonisopod]

"Hey there Queen. I mean they," -the British

[opal-owl-flight]

SORRY THIS FUCKING KILLED ME

[pinkmomo888]

[pjharvey]

agnostic is lowkey the funniest belief system it's just like yeah idk it's none of my business

[logarto]

[heartnosekid]

machaon caterpillar (old world swallowtail) | malbafont_macrophotography on ig

[conspiracydawg]

sight I saw in san francisco, twice: gaggle of tiny children leashed together being herded along, everyone in hi-vis

[mikkeneko]

[pukicho]

Women take up a small but not insignificant percentage of the population

[b0red-artist-13-offical]

um, source???

[pukicho]

None. Winging it.

[camillescanopy]

gay furry artists

[pukicho]

This isn’t your search bar

[slimegargoyle]

the aquarium said you are NOTHING compared to an eel

[atouchofsass]

you'd think "altoid" was an internet insult for people who like alternative music but it's a mint

[vamp1rate]

sometimes i really love inaturalist

[vyva-melinkolya]

Don’t make your younger self into your own dead wife.

[vyva-melinkolya]

Don’t make your older self into a husband you resent. Idk

[mx-dorkboy]

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

[mx-dorkboy]

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

[logically-asexual]

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

[kitvalkyrie]

THIS ^^^

[nyxwoven]

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

[elliespectacular]

something stupid this way sucks

[mostlyvalid]

A proposal

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)

[lazy-universes]

WHOA WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THE POST THAT SPAWNED DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT

[yourlocaltinsmith]

Happy dead dove do not eat birthday!