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all i want is to live in a high fantasy world where my life takes a turn for the better when i meet a few strangers in a tavern who will soon become my found family and we go on increasingly wonderful and magical adventures until we eventually save the world before retiring to a little cottage in the woods where we share a laugh by the fire every night. is that too much to ask

pidgie-core

I’m not sure how my moss rug post blew up on here but I’m so happy you guys like it!!!! Here’s a little tiktok 😎🌿

painhaver

stg im abt to just start blocking any n all goyim w goblin in their url or who call themselves goblins to b like cute n quirky or whatever lmao

painhaver

actually u know what im tired of this needing to b said over n over im done lol

if yr a goy [that is, not jewish] u need to stop using goblins as an aesthetic, as a quirky jokey derogatory phrase for yrself, etc. u need to acknowledge that goblins r an antisemetic caricature, that's their origin n that's what they still represent today. jews have been saying this for years n im fucking tired of goyim ignoring us. just cuz it seems inconsequential to u doesnt mean it is for us n just cuz yr one jewish friend said it was ok doesnt mean they speak for all of us

u wanna keep ur goblincore aesthetic? do the bare fucking minimum n call it corvidcore instead. i see u goyim w yr "goblincore" blogs where u post pics of gold coins n jewish caricatures of greedy creatures w green skin n hooked noses. yr calling yrself a "goblin" cuz yr messy or whatever? get into the grunge aesthetic, bring that back n embrace that instead

goyim stop using goblins to describe yrself, yr aesthetics, any part of yr identity, PERIOD. im fucking sick of it lol

goyim can rb but dont try to start shit

scallioncreamcheesebagel

(context for the following, i am also jewish)

goblins actually do not have an antisemitic origin. this article gives a good explanation: goblins in folklore were never associated with jewish people in the vast majority of mythology (apart from cornish mythology), but the popularization of modern fantasy that uses antisemitic caricatures in the depiction of goblins (such as d&d and harry potter) has made an antisemitic depiction of goblins popular.

as long as goblins are not portrayed in an antisemitic way (hooked nose, green skin, greedy/bankers/money-hungry, etc) there isn't really anything antisemitic about them inherently. for example, here is a goblin in little witch academia:

there is nothing about this depiction that is antisemitic. as long as goyim don't use antisemitic depictions, i don't see anything wrong with using goblins or the word goblin.

however, if you ARE looking to have an aesthetic around hoarding gold coins or whatever, please don't use "goblin" to describe that, as that is antisemitic.

t0mies-b0dy

FUCKIN THIS

gargarden

Gonna get a lil political but,,,

If you are a

G O B L I N

and don’t support

Black Lives Matter

you are not really a goblin.

floodnetworks

thinking about how klingon courting works by the female roaring and throwing heavy objects and the male reading love poetry

floodnetworks

gay klingons:

lesbian klingons:

ernmark

Do gay Klingons ever get frustrated/dejected because their gentleman caller hasn’t so much as kicked a pebble their way or uttered the slightest growl?

Do questioning Klingons ever show their crush their poetry, only to have their crush assume that he’s helping them proofread or something?

Is there ever an issue where a lesbian Klingon tries very awkwardly to recite poetry to her lady love?

Or instances where two lesbians are basically beating the shit out of each other and both thinking “I know she thinks this is just a regular old gal fight, but no, seriously, I’m trying to declare my intentions here”?

Are there euphemisms for LGBT Klingons? “Don’t try to win her over, Riker. She reads poetry.”

ishouldbeontheenterprise

This one of the best things I’ve ever read

nudityandnerdery

Bisexual Klingons:

hazeldomain

One gay Klingon keeps giving his crush poetry he wrote. His crush reads it and gives it back, heartbroken, saying that it’s beautiful and he’s sure to win over whoever he decides to woo with it. Poetry-writing Klingon thinks he’s being gently rejected. Mutual pining 500k happy ending.

butchtj-deactivated20190316

Do any other american high schoolers have intense survivor’s guilt and trauma with school shootings even though they weren’t at your school?

butchtj-deactivated20190316

Like. A laser tag place opened geared towards teenagers and it got no business, we tried to enjoy it but when someone pointed a laser machine gun at me and I instinctively dropped behind the nearest wall and reached to turn off my phone I cried, I wasn’t the only one. The announcements system turns on at an unexpected time and everyone holds their breath until they say something besides “locks, lights, out of sight,” nobody even jokingly pops chip bags anymore, a door slammed really loud during a class change and everyone dropped and ran. Everyone cries during drills, even the toughest ranch kids. Every drill comes with a full day of teachers crying and telling us that they love us all so much and will die for us, and every kid in every class looking around wondering who would I die for? Who would die for me? You walk to the bathroom and wonder every second if it happens right now, where will I go? You test supply closet doors to see which ones are unlocked, you memorize which furniture in the teachers’ lounge your English teacher says is light enough to barricade a door with. The fire alarm goes off and nobody moves, instead you wait for gunshots—it a trap? You stand with a group of freshmen and realize that you’re the oldest, you know you’ll have to die for them. You forget your ID tag and worry that now the police won’t be able to tell your parents if you’re safe, or not safe. Your stats teacher has a baseball bat by the door, your math teacher keeps a stapler under each desk to throw, your drama teacher asks who will be willing to stand by the non-locking door with the Shakespearean swords. Your yearbook teacher tells you don’t worry about breaking a camera because you heard about the kids who died holding them. You don’t use the bathroom during classes because you don’t want to be the only target to shoot at. You keep your phone on silent 24/7 because you worry the one time you forget will be when you get your whole US History class killed. You have a snap saved with your class schedule and school and full name to send in an instant to your internet friends so they know if you were on that wing, you have a note saved with the things you want your mom to know and the things you’re sorry for. At the age of 12 I was told I needed to know who I would die for and that it was okay if it was nobody, that was my decision to make. School shootings control us more than adults and non-Americans could possibly imagine and nobody moves to change anything unless we’re actively screaming for it. Have you considered we’re too scared?

tehdoctah

The absolute fuck. The fuck did I just read. This sounds like dystopian fiction. The fucking fuck.

allthingshyper

It isn’t. This is 100% the reality of all American children - not the ones that live in bad neighborhoods, not the ones that make bad choices, ALL OF THEM.

Welcome to America.

kentuckyfriedbooks

This reminds me of a discussion we had in one of my classes the other day-

My professor was describing how everyone from her generation had the same nightmare of a nuke going off. In they dream they all saw the same mushroom cloud and everything. She said that she didn’t think my generation had a dream like that; one that everyone shared and had

For a while none of us could disagree with her. Until this popped up. I raised my hand and mentioned that everyone I knew had an active shooter dream at one point or another. And Every. Single. Person. Nodded. All of us had that dream. All of us.

Pretty telling, huh?

aristocrowcy

The mere notion that highschool children might have survivor’s guilt is sickening

persephonessister

a couple of people have messaged me or commented saying that they want on collecting or creating a hoard. I'm not an expert and my hoard isnt huge but heres my advice.

Don't expect a big hoard to be made in a couple weeks or months. Mine spans since basically when i was born and will keep growing as long as I live.

If you want a hoard, just start.

Collect anything and everything. Ticket stubs, birthday cards, bottle caps. Anything.

I dont recommend spending money on this, but if you want, you can usually find cheap coin or postage stamp lots on ebay to boost start a collection

Ask relatives. My family has millions of heirlooms (and often amazing stories to go with them), and expressing interest can really make elder relatives happy.

Collecting stuff (for me) is about finding beauty and value in small random items. I dont hoard for material possessions, i do it for the memories and stories that are told by the items. (Also, if you want an in depth tour of my hoard, where i got them etc, lmk)

mojoflower

“But [Tumblr’s] value, of course, is more than just what it isn’t, and what it points away from. Despite all the drama and discourse lurking in its corners, it’s easy to make your own Tumblr life as simple and as happy as you want it to be. There are no algorithmic threats lurking around every corner, no onslaught of promoted posts from politicians or influencers. More than anything else, Tumblr in 2020 is a self-sustaining ecosystem. It’s a semi-sealed and increasingly fertile terrarium, a nigh-impossible perpetual-motion machine of a platform going productively psychotic in its isolation.”

— @areyougonnabe, “The Ever-Mutating Life of Tumblr Dot Com”

fox-in-the-library

Let’s be honest, going productively psychotic in isolation is this year’s mood.

octoberbastards

darkgreyclouds

why does flick ask for 3 of the same bug? to ask for their feedback and have them live happy lives after being his muse!

midsommersolstice

Don’t wait. If you see something, say something.

tiptoe39

well this is amazing and everyone needs to see it

cosmicallyavg

the straights are at it again

love-geofffree-deactivated20190

Reblog if you are a greedy gay hoarding refracted light all for your greedy gay self

october-rosehip

I totally am, but also: I have a story. The time: 1995. The place: a small liberal arts college. We decided to participate in “denim day” which was a widespread event wherein on National Coming Out Day, you would wear denim to indicate SUPPORT FOR the LGBT community. Our support group made posters that were very, very clear about this. Wearing denim did not mean that you were coming out, it meant you supported anyone around you who might.

I have never seen so many suits and khakis IN MY LIFE. People who accidentally wore jeans went home and changed.

The community took it as a rebuke. We drew in closer to eachother, and felt unwelcome everywhere we thought we had friends before.

And I had people later tell me “You know I support you, just… I didn’t want anyone to think I was.” First off, I DON’T know you support me. Not if you refuse to, for one day, change nothing about your life to show it. Second off… why is that such a terrifying thought to you?

I remember before rainbows were a “gay thing”. They were everywhere. Church walls next to arks. School walls next to sunshine faces. People have VOLUNTARILY abandoned every other use. I have HEARD PEOPLE SAY they just couldn’t use rainbows anymore because people would think of “gay stuff.”

So I know this is a joke, and a stolen one at that, but you’ve done this to yourselves. If someone is so terrified of being perceived as queer that they will INSTANTLY abandon something they like if it has queer germs on it now or something, then they don’t deserve refracted light.

Maybe help us change the world into a place where being mistaken for queer would be just a thing to chuckle about and you can have refracted light back.

aintnosintobefinallyclean-deact

The LGBTQ+ community didn’t steal the rainbow. The straights abandoned it.

g00d-cr1mes-w1th-sc4r-moved

^^^^

the-cloud-whisperer

if i see one more comment saying “sometimes i forget these guys can really play” i will RIOT like ffs how do you just FORGET that????? idk i just don’t find it funny. doesn’t matter how much they goof off normally, they are fucking professionals and don’t you forget it

jellybeanforest-a-go-go

One of the things that perplexes me about the anti-AO3 crowd is that they have the gall to come to AO3 and demand moderation when AO3 was clearly and explicitly established in response to censorship and fandom purges of more popular (at the time) fandom spaces. AO3 was created not because the original crew were huge fans of problematic (but legal) content but because they recognized that content’s right to exist regardless of any one person’s particular taste. AO3 is popular precisely because they don’t moderate. I left fandom in like 2012-ish around the time of one of the big FFN purges. At the time, FFN was the big site and AO3 was a little nothing site with a fraction of what FFN had. I returned in 2017 when AO3 suddenly seemed the place to be for writers and readers of newer fandoms. There’s a reason for that.

It’s like… okay, let’s say there’s a dog park. The dog park is sprawling and super popular among owners of all dog breeds and sizes. There are separate spaces for terriers and large dogs with signs posted so you know what types of dogs are allowed where. All of the sudden, some small dog owners, the ones with teacup poodles and yorkies or whatnot, decide that the pit bulls all the way on the other side of the park are a PROBLEM because pits are dangerous. Doesn’t matter if they only play in the one area that is specifically designated for them, and there are warning signs indicating their presence. They’re a breed that shouldn’t exist because what if a child tried to pet one?

Think of the children!

No matter that children aren’t allowed in the pitbull section; they might break in unaccompanied by an adult to pet some pitbulls. All pitbull owners are dangerous, irresponsible assholes who want nothing more than to train their pits to eat small dogs and attack kids. In fact, if you have ever owned a pit, not only are you a bad person, you are a literal murderer who trains your dog to attack children on sight.

Think of the children!

The anti-pitbull crowd is persistent, and pits are not very popular in general, and a lot of people don’t like them, so the dog park decides to ban pitbulls. But the purge also sweeps away German Shepherds (a popular but potentially dangerous breed also known as explicit slash) and Boxers and other large dogs. Maybe some of these dogs were dogs the anti-pitbull crowd even liked, but hey, all is done in the name of safety, right? Because:

Think of the children!

It’s not that you can’t find pitbulls in the dog park anymore. They’re still there, except now they aren’t tagged and easily identified as pitbulls and aren’t confined to one area. They’re much easier to stumble across by accident. But hey, maybe 1 or 2 of them will be reported and kicked out for a spell until the owner sneaks them in again. It’s not like anyone is really checking every single dog at the door for pit ancestry. It’s too unwieldy; there are millions of dogs and not enough staff to do so, and they can’t quite agree on what a pitbull is anyway.

Anyways, a few of the dog owners think this is bullshit. Maybe some own pits but mostly they own like Golden Retrievers and Black Labs (that are technically still allowed in the park, for now, but hey, you never know what will happen). They decide they’re going to build their own dog park where all dogs are welcome as long as they stay in their designated sections. It’s a small operation at first, but it’s free and staffed with enthusiastic volunteers, and as more dogs are booted out of the first dog park, some entire segments of dog owners (including many that don’t own pits) gravitate to the new dog park. It’s friendlier there. They accept everyone, and won’t randomly kick out the odd bulldog for looking pit-like. All their friends are starting to go to the new dog park.

New dog park grows, gains a lot of traction over the old dog park, and becomes the place to be.

Only now, the anti-pitbull crowd is also there. They use it frequently and like its amenities, but there’s only one problem. They allow pitbulls here. Nevermind that they’re tagged and in their designated area. What if a child tried to pet one?

Think of the children!

So they start reporting pitbulls. The pitbulls are a danger to society; they should be taken out back and shot. Why TF would anyone allow pitbulls into their dog parks??? The staff looks at them, shrugs, and points out their policy, which has been there since the beginning, which is the reason for their popularity and what everyone agreed to when they entered the dog park, that says All Dogs Allowed.

‘But that’s not right,’ the anti-pitbull crowd screeches.

Think of the children!

Other dog owners point out that old dog park still exists; they don’t have to frequent this one.

‘But this dog park is more popular! More people will play and interact with my dog here!’ they say, stomping their feet. ‘You should accommodate me and my preferences.’

‘No.’

They throw themselves to the floor, thrashing their arms about, in full tantrum mode. ‘Then I rather this dog park not exist. It is a danger to children everywhere!.’

Think of the children!

Think of the Goddamn children!

And that’s basically the story of AO3. AO3′s lack of content moderation is not a flaw but a feature. And if you don’t like it, FFN still exists. Have fun trying to avoid untagged pitbulls there.

mizjoely

My husband is deathly allergic to dogs. But you know what? He would NEVER tell someone they can’t own a dog just because he’s allergic to them. If he knows someone owns dogs, he won’t visit their house. Or he’ll let them know he’s allergic and only visit if the dogs are kept outside or in a separate room.

To sum up: It’s easy to avoid things you don’t like if you know where they are. And it’s easy to remember that people don’t like the same things you do, and that’s ok.