Sorry I’m a bit late, had a terrible time... All sort of thing

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” It is never too late to join the party.

[renthony]

I was 12 when the first of my siblings was born, so I have very vivid memories of the way my mother was excluded from a lot of spaces because people find children annoying.

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

What the fuck was our family supposed to do? Never go to the grocery store? Starve because strangers couldn't handle a toddler existing in public?

[technovillain]

Happy Neil Day! Please enjoy the very rare alternate Neil images!

[technovillain]

it's that time again,

🎉🐁HAPPY NEIL DAY 2025🐀🎉

[kateammann]

Happy International Asexuality Day!!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[cubemanmileys]

this is a severance fanart by yours truly

[foamfollowerisfallen]

best tv show in town

[boatgrave-deactivated20250901]

[mysteryteacup]

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

[victusinveritas]

I don't know who the fuck censored "hell" in that last image, but it sure as shit wasn't me. What is this, 3rd grade internet?

[foamfollowerisfallen]

It's already Knife Day in my neck of the woods so cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

but like, in a good way, not in a 'we wish nobody had stabbed this arsehole running the country' kind of way

[drchucktingle]

defy the norm. get even stranger. NO SURRENDER

[transhuman-priestess]

You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

[transhuman-priestess]

"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.

[foamfollowerisfallen]

Sure, ok.

[cannibal-rainbow]

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

[edgar-allen-potpourri]

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

[edrec]

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

[anghraine]

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

[advanced-procrastination]

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

[polyhorde]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Singular “they” predates

Singular “you”

[animentality]

[the-final-sif]

Running ‘Doom’ on E. coli cells… very, very slowly

It would take nearly 600 years to finish playing this MIT student's iteration of the classic video game.

I cannot stress enough that when they say doom runs on ecoli they mean the actual display screen is ecoli, you literally look at the bacteria to play doom

[foamfollowerisfallen]

If I had an actual brain this is what I would do with it. Which may be why the powers that be didn't give me one.

[oldblogarchived]

i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm

[dzamie]

when it rains you simply do not get a day

[foamfollowerisfallen]

Grey. It's so fucking grey.

[glitchyycatt]

“love makes us human” wrong. wearing hats.

[z-a-d-i-e]

i am a big believer in letting music (and other media) come to you when you're ready for it. you may only know vaguely of an acclaimed beloved artist and suspect that you'd be into them but just... not ever get around to it. and then in 15 years one of their songs just hits you the right way and what a gift to suddenly have all of their works to explore! there is no hurry; what is good is always good.

[deathation]

[foamfollowerisfallen]

always

[valarhalla]

Ok this is the best one i've seen.

[genderqueerdykes]

i don't know why it's so hard for people to accept that there are queer people in every civilization on every landmass in every city, town, and so on, that has people living on it. it's not a "white" or "trendy" or "misunderstood" or "rebellious" state of being- i've heard so many queerphobic people claim that only white people are queer. you would not believe how common this is. it gets worse in that most people assume that queer folks are rich white folks, due to the stereotype of the rich San Fransisco white gay.

it's not just for people who live in "trendy" cities. we're not people who are "following a fad". when i was growing up, especially as a teen, people were calling bisexuality a fad. people were saying "oh everyone's trying it out right now but they'll go back to straight once they're bored." like what the fuck kind of mentality is that? where does this come from? there were more people stating they were bisexual because other bisexuals were coming out at that time and made it a lot easier.

there are queers who live in rural areas. there are queers who live in the american deep south. there are queers in every country, every continent where humans live. it's not just tied to white culture- every culture has its own expression of gender, sexuality, and presentation. queerness in asia is going to look much different than queerness in white america- even queerness between different groups of people of color living in the US will vary greatly.

[illustoryart]

They were here for the first light in the Universe and they will be here till the last Fall☄️🍂

If it's the end of the world as we know it, let's watch the fading stars together. Did you know that it takes years and years for the light of the dead stars to stop reaching Earth?

It's November of the Universe and all we have is each other 🫂