lead the way

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[fashion-puppy]

[catmask]

wheres that post about the gorilla and the ketamine tumblr user

[catmask]

everybody wants to be hard but if you try too hard to be cool youre a poser and if youre too genuine about your feelings or interests then youre soft and if you suffer too quietly youre clearly not doing that bad but if you suffer too loudly youre a cry baby so the only answer left is to be a nothing person and care about nothing and use your time to judge whos genuine and not performative. right

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

[acorviart]

just spoke with the funniest hater of all time. went to the optometrist, happened to be wearing my hadestown shirt. he asks me about it, I tell him it's a musical and he tells me he hates musicals and lists a few he didn't like. fair enough, but he listed mostly movie musicals, so I tell him that stage musicals are quite different. so he asks for my favorites and a few recommendations, and I also explain to him the differences between seeing a show on tour vs on broadway. I tell him he could check out the local theatre and see what's in the next season, but he says he'd rather just fly to new york and see the broadway show if it's the best version and that he probably wouldn't like it. I tell him that sometimes people will like the tour version better just based on personal preference of singer performance. he says, I don't really like singers, I just don't really like music. I get my eyes dilated. I bum around for 15 minutes before going back. he checks my eyes and shows me that he pulled up a google search of hadestown to read up about it while we were waiting. he tells me again he hates musicals and can't take them seriously, while actively looking at showtimes for hadestown at the walter kerr on broadway. I tell him each musical is very different so he should listen to the recordings of a few songs to see if he likes the vibe of a show before he wastes $200 on a ticket. he says nah I won't do that because I probably wouldn't like it, I just don't like music. the broadway showtimes to hadestown are still pulled up on a browser tab. I cannot emphasize how many times he told me that he doesn't like musicals or music while actively taking my recommendations and planning a theoretical trip to nyc specifically to see a broadway musical that he predicts he will hate. i respect it

[doberbutts]

it's really scary as a child of immigrants, to witness how white people on here will happily make the same points that republicans in the us are making with absolutely no critical thought. immigration will never be the problem, ethnic cleansing and genocide are the issues here. there is no way to make 'go back to where your people came from and stay there' progressive and it is so disturbing how many people think that can be done

and yet these same people act horrified about ICE.

Oh yes, I've made that point numerous times as I am a child of refugees (Irish, during WW2), kidnapped people now disconnected from their homeland (Black diaspora created by transatlantic slavery), and people no longer living in their original homeland thanks to forced migration and ethnic cleansing (Native) - there is no "go back where you came from" that I can hear that sounds even remotely acceptable to me, and that doesn't set a dangerous precedent which creates the same mindset that thinks it's acceptable to do what was done to any of my people.

It also reveals to me that none of the people talking about this have any concept of multiple ethnic groups living in the same area simultaneously - it's as though they think that only one ethnicity can be indigenous to an area at a time, when in reality most humans not only moved over large stretches of land but also lived in tandem with others who were similar but not quite like them. Sometimes in war, sometimes in peace, but most places had more than one ethnic group calling the same patches of dirt and water their home.

[thoodleoo]

i think maybe my new favorite category of roman intaglio art is "insects doing human things" because it's so indicative of the human need for whimsy. now take a look at this 1st century BC/AD intaglio of a grasshopper in a chariot pulled by butterflies

[troutlawyer]

Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

[probuccalfat]

[caesarsaladinn]

always remember: stupider people than you have learned it

[vagisil]

the people yearn for nonplastic fabrics

[jjunkyard]

[spiribia]

The thing about character design theory is I really think we shouldn’t just keep reinforcing our “this is what a sneaky and untrustworthy character looks like, this is what a threatening and intimidating character looks like, this is what an innocent character worth protecting looks like, this is what a smart and competent character looks like, this is what a man looks like vs what a woman looks like” conventions like they’re innate human wiring that we tap into scientifically and not like, heavily societal

[gayteensupreme]

NOT staying in the tags on my watch

[headspace-hotel]

yeah so in the late 19th- early 20th centuries, scientific racism and eugenics were in full force and it was widely believed that certain facial features were literally actually connected to things like criminal behavior, I've been reading about it

i think it might have impacted common tropes in character design a lot

it's racism but also a broader belief in some people being inferior and some people being superior because of their biology

[finagled]

are there any modern virtual petsites or the like that are worth investing time (not money) into anymore

[sanrio-stud]

there should be coming of age stories for people turning 30

[theriverbeyond]

met an elderly dude at work today who completely unprompted started talking to me about gender dysphoria and how he wished trans people didn't have to deal with all that, proceeded to reveal how in his career he had accidentally ended up in a mentor position for multiple trans individuals and he liked them all a lot. he then interrupted himself to explain that men are allowed 12 wives, due to the bible. every kind of human you could possibly imagine exists on this green earth.

[the-trans-dragon]

A girl’s natural habitat is in a bed with many blankets and pillows and it’s inhumane to remove her from her natural habitat

[wolfertinger666]

Luna the panther

(She/Her) 🐆🖤🏳️‍⚧️