What the Fuck

@harpersstupidmind

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my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it's great. two dashboards for life

wow! i was really hoping someone would organically reverse-engineer this and find that dash.

here are a few other "secret" dashboards:

Posts from your "crushes"

"What you missed" (will be empty if you already visit Tumblr every day)

"Trending"

these are all just taking existing feeds of content and putting them in a dashboard-like format... the "Stuff for you" tab/feed is the same idea.

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

aroace grace is so important to me because yes, he experiences all of the things that make being aroace feel so isolating, but more importantly, these feelings and these experiences are actively used against him.

it is specifically his lack of relationship that gives stratt the ability to whisk him away to work on the hail mary. in every aspect of his life he is seen as replaceable.

take him out of his classroom. there are other teachers. put him in a hazmat suit and see if astrophage kills him. there are other biologists. fly him to a military base to work. there's no one wondering where he is. (not even a dog.)

it's a critical part of his story that his life is perceived as lonely, as sad, and that its not a problem to uproot him, solely because there's no one waiting for him at home. stratt knows this, knows the optics of it, and knows that it makes him a better candidate than anyone else.

so little consideration is given to grace's life by anyone - he barely even considers it himself until it's too late. and that's so real, so important, because i promise you every aroace person in your life knows how it feels to be dehumanized, and seen as less-than, to be seen as disposable, because you want to live your life a different way. because every single one of us would have fought stratt tooth and nail to not go up on that ship and we all would have lost.

grace's life was different, but it was still worth living, still worth enjoying, and worth loving. because he did love his life - he loved it enough to leave it, even if no one understood what it meant. even if they used it against him, in the end. he loved his life and he deserved to live it how he wanted. but he didn't get to, because no one saw his life as something worth sticking around for.

#he had friends. he had coworkers. he had students. but it wasn’t enough #he had a life and a passion and a career and it wasn’t enough #he had habits and desires and a home and a place in his community and it wasn’t enough #he was just as human as the rest of them. but he wasn’t human in the same way. in the right way.#and (unless theres lore I haven’t gotten to yet in the book) neither was stratt. and that had to have crossed minds when appointing her #regardless of the status difference given between a scapegoat and sacrificial lamb they both end up on the altar #aroace grace my beloved #he is so aroace its canon even if weir doesn’t know it #aroace grace in space #eva stratt they could never make me hate you #but its fine he’s happily living his life with people who love and respect him and he won’t be alienated again. ironically.

aroace grace is so important to me because yes, he experiences all of the things that make being aroace feel so isolating, but more importantly, these feelings and these experiences are actively used against him.

it is specifically his lack of relationship that gives stratt the ability to whisk him away to work on the hail mary. in every aspect of his life he is seen as replaceable.

take him out of his classroom. there are other teachers. put him in a hazmat suit and see if astrophage kills him. there are other biologists. fly him to a military base to work. there's no one wondering where he is. (not even a dog.)

it's a critical part of his story that his life is perceived as lonely, as sad, and that its not a problem to uproot him, solely because there's no one waiting for him at home. stratt knows this, knows the optics of it, and knows that it makes him a better candidate than anyone else.

so little consideration is given to grace's life by anyone - he barely even considers it himself until it's too late. and that's so real, so important, because i promise you every aroace person in your life knows how it feels to be dehumanized, and seen as less-than, to be seen as disposable, because you want to live your life a different way. because every single one of us would have fought stratt tooth and nail to not go up on that ship and we all would have lost.

grace's life was different, but it was still worth living, still worth enjoying, and worth loving. because he did love his life - he loved it enough to leave it, even if no one understood what it meant. even if they used it against him, in the end. he loved his life and he deserved to live it how he wanted. but he didn't get to, because no one saw his life as something worth sticking around for.

rocky and grace are walking along the beach one day when rocky slips on the sand and steps on grace's foot with his full force and nothing breaks but they're both devastated by the incident because grace feels like he got in the way and rocky feels he stepped on his dog's tail so it's just both of them on the ground like this

salvadorbonaparte

"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

Tag via @bluehairedspidey and vocabulary updated

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

worm long and squishy, what difference, question?

is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

How about you mind your own damn business

vanillikidbyers

"he/him lesbians arent valid-" "bi girls are bringing their boyfriends to pride-" "neopronouns are ruining the queer community-" "i hate polyamorous people -" "aroace people aren't really queer-" I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!!! I DON'T CARE!!! THE GOVERNMENT WANTS US DEAD!!!!! THEYRE TRYING TO MAKE LAWS AGAINST BEING QUEER!!!! CONVERSION THERAPY IS LEGAL IN 23 STATES!!!! WE HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN OTHER PEOPLES IDENTITY!!!!!

Concept: fairy tale where the wicked step-parent (who is of course also some sort of warlock) transforms the princess into a swan, as one does, but rather than running off to mope around in a lake and be beautifully tragic, the princess decides to stick around the palace and cause problems on purpose.

foldingfittedsheets

cunning-linguistix

Pro tip: when you see a brand new slang term, your first question should be how that term has been used in AAVE for the past 20-30 years.

maureen2musings

Cece, the guardian and protector of Dendera Temple, Egypt

bradflowerss

Here we fucking go

I am not a paleoartist, I am merely a dinosaur enjoyer. Please know that any anatomical mistakes in my drawings are 100% intentional and are there to deliberately make you angry

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I am deeply uncomfortable with this man's corner

entities-of-posts

The Spiral

mildlybizarrecorvid

Home decor hacks for if you hate yourself and want to die

Wild googles

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