I see nothing but the candle in the mirror

o tempora, o mores [andy, they/them]

[theguywiththewhitespot]

Jeremy is actually in a very specific weird position when it comes to Dropout on SNL. Because imagine you’re at the water cooler talking to your coworkers and you want to recommend this cool streaming platform you did some work with. Oh it’s so funny, so unique, it’s even got deep unique specials. For example, there’s one that explores how the racism in Hollywood is often boiled down to the actions of specific people, but the real problem lies in the various structures of people making decisions that shouldn’t be hidden behind the person in front of it. Your coworker is like “oh that sounds cool what’s it’s called” and you have to tell them the title is “Mark from Accounting’s Wife Is Homophobic.”

[what-even-is-thiss]

Translator’s note: This part of the text was damaged when Dr. Indiana Jones threw it off the side of a mountain.

[utilitycaster]

I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

[raibura]

Is it important to switch you fragrance up according to the season

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 25, 2025

[raibura]

Is it important to switch you fragrance up according to the season

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 25, 2025

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

[coldasyou]

Tony nominations came out, nothing for great comet just bc it “isn’t on Broadway anymore” and “came out several years ago.” Very fucked up!

[platypaws]

pnf revival challenge day 4: driver’s license!

Hosted by @howtonerdoutovereverything!✨

I wanted to add a page where they get pulled over by cops but ironically I spent 10 hours driving myself today and I’m falling asleep at my desk kfbshckm anyway here’s a bonus meme:

[lucydacusgirl]

i wish swimming was something you could do alone in your bedroom.

[henstomper]

hard cider was invented when someone decided to make beer that tastes good instead of bad

[maddisonkennedy-deactivated2017]

Do you have a "signature move" in the bedroom?

Yeah it’s called sleep

[soup-mother]

smarter things have also been done in the name of lesbianism but that's neither here nor there at the moment

[cometcrystal]

out of the backyard gang baljeet is one of the worst to make into a coffee table. ferb would also be pretty bad. phineas and isabella would be mid because they have those bigass heads but the skinny bodies. might be worse than baljeet and ferb if you're a person who cares about symmetry. buford would objectively make the best coffee table because his silhouette has the most evenly-spaced surface area. now if you wanna talk about pnf characters in general i think pet mode perry would be the best coffee table out of all of them

[symbolblue]

love this kinda post where you have to have seen a different specific post for it to make any sense at all

[tvguts]

every single time time i try to check facebook marketplace for furniture i get jumpscared by this (admittedly sick) custom baljeet coffee table

[fictionadventurer]

One of the cool things about the American Girl books is how they focus on the domestic side of history. Other books set during wartimes might have done plots like, "Felicity helps George Washington" or "Molly tracks down a German spy". But this series stays grounded in the daily life that was still going on amid all these big events. It focuses on the things that kids can relate to in daily life--school and holidays and birthdays--which helps sell the idea that people have always been people, even while history was happening around them.

It also has a uniquely feminine view of history--which shouldn't be a surprise in a series called American Girl, but I want to appreciate how the books, for the most part, engage with female life in those eras on their own terms. The history sections at the back might mention that girls had a harder time getting an education or had certain restrictions, but within the stories themselves, the girls aren't sitting around complaining about it. They're not lamenting how terrible it is that they don't live in our modern times, which so much historical fiction can do. They're just living their lives and even finding fulfillment. Felicity doesn't get the same education as the boys, but the skills she learns are useful in her society and she likes her lessons. Samantha gets to learn from all Cornelia's suffragette leanings, but she still wears bows and ruffles and frilly dresses instead of, like, insisting that girls should wear trousers. It presents a clear-eyed view of history that teaches kids about these eras without imposing too much of a modern, judgemental lens upon it. And that makes these books a surprisingly good intro to American history.

[afraid-of-woodpeckers]

my grandfather was talking to me about a book he read on how politicians gave control to rich people and it fucked america and he was like "oh yeah this reminded me of a video I watched. It was Robert Reich. Do you know who Robert Reich is? He was clinton's secretary of labor" and I just nodded silently because I didn't know how to explain to my grandpa that yes I know who Robert Reich is. I watch his son psychologically torment improv comedians

[yesterdaysprint]

The Bystander, England, July 20, 1921