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RHYS / IT/ITS / 20

[wr0wn]

he thinks he's funny

[stuckinapril]

girl are you okay? you’ve been consuming so much media lately that you haven’t allowed yourself to feel one single human emotion for months

[stuckinapril]

girl you haven’t had a fully formed thought in months and your screen time is 13 hr/day. are u good

[jabberoxdl]

He has every disease.

[javarisx-fightingthosedemons]

[fernwah-funzone]

wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?

[fernwah-funzone]

like "some people work through their personal issues with kink" was a good first step for some of the class that were struggling but i think now we're ready for "things that don't hurt anyone and make people happy are okay even if you personally think it's icky"

[parakeet]

New Years is a time to reflect on all the BIRDS we’ve seen this year, and to look forward to all the BIRDS we’ll see in the year to come

[buzzingroyalty]

[amalgamezz]

[amalgamezz]

#i am aro and dont know any of these #peace and love #can someone please explain 🙏

Relationship Anarchy

Amatonormativity

Polycule

QPRs

[i-like-the-stars-archive]

ID from alt: [An edited version of xkcd 2501 that read: Person 1: Relationship anarchy is second nature to us aromantics, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the definition of amatonormativity and one or two types of polycule. Person 2: And QPRs, of course. Person 1: Of course. Footnote: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.]

[twinkubus]

elf sounds*

that post about elfish music being ambient forest sounds and birds twittering. that's not true. or at least it's not the whole story.

elfs aren't built like everyone else. they can withstand sounds that would blow out a human's eardrums. one time a group of unknowing humans went to an elf rave and left with blood weeping down both sides of their head. i heard a rumor that a particularly hardcore elfsession increased the pressure in a dwarf's eyeballs so much, they exploded once she changed altitude. that one sounds a little far-fetched, though.

so maybe the speculation about the cutesy forest music is just because it can ONLY be speculation. or, that's all other species can hear safely, so they assume it to be the extent of elf music.

exercising my imagination here- and i know it can only be approximation- but i think REAL elf music would sound like the inside of a trash compactor. like a nuclear explosion or sonic boom. and work kinda like infrasound, where you can't actually hear anything but feel nauseous and uneasy. or they have a secretly real brown note. glass scraping together. teeth breaking on metal. power drills whining. the elfs love it. they can't get enough.

(*it's like the myth of shrimp colors. they're experiencing noises we can't even process.)

[blackbackedjackal]

Leucistic Coyote in Falmouth, Virginia [x]

[notyourtoday]

[2spirit-1spoon]

Don't buy the new iphone or any phone if yours works fine

No apple tablets or pcs if yours works fine

If you need one, get a refurbished one

Boycott Teslas

Boycott Vapes

All these things contain resources being illegally and violently mined from Congo.

[thehappysmiler]

NOW I AM BECOME AVOIDANT. DESTROYER OF POTENTIAL CONNECTIONS

[website-com]

guys the consequences of inaction are noooootttt enough to motivate meeee

[thirdpunch]

[seancexpsychotix]

[cryptotheism]

About a year ago I was sitting in a really shitty corporate cafe and reading a book about medieval astronomy. There was a passage about how when we look up at the sky, we see titanic balls of gas all whirling about according to physics, but when a medieval person looked up at the sky, they saw literal divine clockwork turned by uncountable invisible spirits.

I was sitting in a shitty cafe, and I had a moment of realization. I knew logically that's how people used to see the night sky, but something about that moment just clicked. I felt what I can only describe as intellectual vertigo, as I realized "holy shit the world is really different than it was 700 years ago."

[cryptotheism]

I feel like y'all aren't getting this.

When medieval folks looked up at the sky, it wasn't with wonder or optimism. It was with the exact same boredom that we look at the sky with.

"yep. It's the sky. Stars are pretty."

The fact that they were seeing the divine clockwork of the universe was exactly as commonplace and uninteresting as it is to us. Sure there are some folks that really like the sky, some folks devote their lives to studying it, but to most folks it's just the sky.

It wasn't wonderous or enchanted, it was just the sky. Yeah the heavens are a great machine powered by innumerable spirits. This was exactly as normal as the sky being filled with impossibly large and distant fusion reactors. The heavens were full of living spirits that tended to their divinely appointed tasks, and nobody really gave that much of a shit.

[clowngirlpony]