“it’s circus work.” not to me. not if it’s my monkeys.

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“it’s circus work.” not to me. not if it’s my monkeys.
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
this is so fucking funny I love sharks
A MASTERPIECE
This was on my refrigerator for years.
oh no , the dog is drinking the wave equation
Young Woman and the Sea by Mark Beck
I feel this in my bones.
So I have to expand on this.
A few months ago, I was reading a Destiel fanfic, one of my favorites of all time, that has lived on my phone (and before I had a smartphone on my computer) for probably 10 years rent free. Randomly I thought, “I can’t believe I’m rereading this yet again 10+ years later for the 100th time. I should go find them on AO3.”
And they weren’t there. They had not reposted it.
Not to be deterred now I was on am mission, I went back to the origin, found the original LiveJournal post. I had to change my password. Honestly, I’m surprised I could access that email account. I also had to live through seeing the cringe of my old account.
Regardless, I went to that fanfiction post and I commented. I didn’t care that it had been over 10 years. I told them maybe you’ll never see this. Maybe you abandoned this account many years ago but I still remember you. I remember this story. It ment something to me. It still does. I’m sitting here right now rereading this on a plane again in fuckin 2025. I think of you, and I still truly love this thing you freely gave me.
I didn’t expect a response. I genuinely thought I was whispering good vibes into the void.
To my complete shock, the writer responded. All these years later she apparently was still set up to get emails about comments on LiveJournal. She couldn’t believe she got one. I couldn’t believe she read it. She was really touched that someone from so long ago still cared enough to make the effort. That her work, her art, was appreciated. Someone remembered.
I wish I could have that moment will all of you.
I wish I could still tell you all I cared. Not just LJ, but Twitter, DeviantArt, AOL, MS Messenger, Yahoo Chat, private message boards, my video game guilds, all of you out there.
I want you all to know you meant something to someone. You meant something to me.
You still do.
I remember.
I genuinely hope you’re happy.
Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:
chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.
grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet
he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.
even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).
(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)
famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.
and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.
ALSO IMPORTANT:
SWAG
I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.
when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically
daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman
he invaded egypt
the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”
then napoleon showed up
napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus
the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”
this did not make napoleon happy
in fact it made him jealous
napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud
I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.
General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…
…and like this…
…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…
:-D
I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…
…he was also a foodie.
He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
General Dumas was also the highest ranking officer of African descent to have command of a European army. EVER.
His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:
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Fun Fact: Jean Shepherd, best known for the 1983 holiday classic, A Christmas Story, had an earlier career as a late-night talk radio host where he told stories, talked about current events, and occasionally invited his listeners to help him play harmless pranks on "the day people."
His most famous hoax was born of being fed up with arbitrary "lists" which determined the existence and approval level of media pieces, particularly the NY Times Bestseller List. In 1956, he asked his listeners to go into their local bookstore and ask for a non-existent book called "I, Libertine" by Frederick R. Ewing.
It went 1950s viral. So many of his listeners asked after the book, published alleged excerpts, discussed it in literary circles, and planted references to it so widely that people actually believed it existed. There were even rumors that somebody tried to get it on the NY Times Bestseller List based on word-of-mouth demand.
Plot Twist: SOMEBODY WROTE THE BOOK. Based on Shepherd's basic plot outline and a compilation of the various bits and bobs provided by the public, contemporary author Theodore Sturgeon wrote a full-length novel version of "I, Libertine" and published it under the previously-established pseudonym Frederick R. Ewing.
All this to say, I think Goncharov should be nominated for an Oscar.
Schiaparelli ss24
After years of global searching and processing human response, the internet has finally completed its original task of finding the most perfect cat video possible.
oh my god
Unmut this 😭😭😭
😂😂 this is great
To anyone who is feeling sad, watch this
@airi-san i sent it to u then remembered it doesn’t work but u need to watch this
Yonic dish found in NY
Video: Two machine knit jumpers being unravelled and then reknit into a single jumper, with lots of machine clicky-clacky noises and whirrs
first rule of Cite Club: tell everyone where you learned about Cite Club
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No, What's on second.
2026 year of the horse and the horse is dead and i am beating it. unfortunately
put 2026 in the plinko