Does This Look Like the Face of Mercy

eh, reblogs

[mother-2-is-home]

I NEED YALL TO PAY ATTENTION BIG TIME THIS YEAR, BECAUSE IF WE LOSE SECTION 230, WE WILL LOOSE OUR RIGHT TO ANONYMITY!! NOW IS THE TIME TO START ACTING AND BEING AWARE!!

Let me explain:

Just before Christmas of 2025, a bunch of senators introduced a bill to repeal Section 230. Section 230 is the section that prevents companies from being liable for content created by its users. It is also the section that helps you stay anonymous online. Getting rid of it sounds like it could be good for taking down big tech but this actually will not help anyone let alone help children. Below is an infographic that explains how repealing it will affect us:

This bill was introduced, it has not gone through committee or Senate or house at all YET. However if it does end up being completely passed by all three and put into law, it could go into law immediately or January 1st 2027. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT LINDSEY GRAHAM OR ANY OTHER SPONSOR OF THIS BILL COULD TRY TO PUSH FOR MORE SUPPORT OR TO PASS IT IN COMITTEE IN FEBUARY. IM NOT SAYING IT WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE ISNT MICH MOVEMENT AS OF NOW, BUT THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE! DO NOT PANIC

NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT HOWEVER!!

This is a bill that could potentially put us into danger of more censorship or surveillance. The Heritage Foundation is in support of this bill as well.

We cannot be quiet about this bill, especially because there are more like it that have potential to be introduced. If you want your right to anonymity and your right to free speech online, y'all need to act right the hell now.

Y'all need to start faxxing your reps and senators, you need to start emailing, calling, mailing, whatever TF, RIGHT NOW!!

We need numbers, we need people, we need to be loud and annoying yet polite, DO NOT GET VIOLENT!! We have seen what happened to the US servers of TikTok recently. Do not let that happen again

Below are some resources to check out:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.whatissection230.org/

Check out the Stop Internet Censorship community on Discord - hang out with 1750 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Reblog this and boost/blaze this asich as possible. We need numbers and we need people. Reminder: repealing section 230 will not benefit us or children, and it will not benefit the fight against big tech either. If anything this has the potential to aid big tech financially.

Tag as many fandoms for reach and post this to other platforms.

By the way, the bill in question can be found here, read for yourself: https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/81396661-53f7-4e38-89b3-0cb7b1c7e912/sunset-section-230-act.pdf

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[chonkadonk]

actually let me go ahead and make a brand spankin new commission post since my old one is almost 3 full years old at this point

my prices have changed juuust a little (as i finally did some math that i was having to do on the fly when commissioned) and i broke it down much more simply. my paypal is here (please god ignore my deadname) and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions/want to commission me!

EXAMPLE ART UNDER THE CUT vvv

[chonkadonk]

im too tired to go into everything thats happening again all i know is im broke my parents are broke and we dont have money coming in for weeks so. bumping again

[chonkadonk]

i am currently 60 dollars in the negative and don't get paid until some point next week and im kind of desperate

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

happy 10 years of spiders georg everyone

[mikkeneko]

“average meme lasts 5 years” factoid actually just statistical error. average meme lasts 30 days or less. Spiders Georg, which started on this day 10 years ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[kissed-a-woman-offical]

AND HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[pumpkinsforsale]

Captions

Woman in purple, in a high pitched, enthusiastic voice: if you’re not at work today or you’re working from home, you may be wondering, whAt day is it?

Man in suit, emotionless and factual: itsmonday

End captions

[postimpression]

emotionless and factual? that man is heartbroken. you can hear the grief in his voice.

[brightlotusmoon]

Guess what day it is again folks

[styx-doesnt-do-art]

It’s monday

[brightlotusmoon]

Happy first Monday of 2023 to those two newscasters specifically.

[amateur-forklift-driver]

Happy First Monday of 2024 to those two newscasters specifically

[antisocialgaycat]

Happy First Monday of 2025 to those two newscasters specifically

[palestrangermoon]

Happy First Monday of 2026 to those two newscasters specifically

[crunchbuttsteak]

[imnotrevealingmyname]

You can only reblog this on the 3st of January

[official-lucifers-child]

the 3st huh?

[transgirlsgetswords-deactivated]

the 3st.

[morganoperandi]

3st trap

[joeyclaire]

what’s it called when you’re so disconnected from reality that cold water doesn’t feel like anything and you can barely taste food anymore

[joeyclaire]

[the-silver-stone]

happy depersonalization locking in Thursday to all who celebrate

[cheetochild989]

THE FREAK YOU MEAN THIS IS FROM THIS YEAR

[yb-cringe]

happy normal fuckin day to everyone who doesnt celebrate christmas or rly any holidays today n tomorrow. hope you have an average day. hope its chill like any other

[sparrowsocks]

Have a day

[yb-cringe]

have a day yeah

[psychotic-gerard]

as a smoker one of the fastest way i dissuade people from smoking is i go you know how your headaches suck. imagine a permanent headache that slowly gets more and more expensive to cure and also you cant stop coughing in the middle of all of this. yeah? this sucks.

[psychotic-gerard]

i have said this before but end stage liver failure did not dissuade me from starting opiates. what dissuaded me was someone telling me "do you want to be itchy for the rest of your life? this is how you be itchy for the rest of your life."

[psychotic-gerard]

people in the tags keep bringing things that are terminal, and i need you to understand some thing critical here. people do not conceptualise what they've not experienced properly and the 'inconvenient' side-effects come faster, and are far more likely than the Big Scary Ones. "dont start cocaine because your liver will fail" -- means nothing to me, have never experienced liver failure, also it takes forever for me to get to that stage. "do you want to know what cocaine shits are" -- paying attention, do not alter my shits habits.

[damnfandomproblems]

not submission. I really hate the "My OC, my rules" thing. Cause like, no? Just because they are your oc doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with them. If you want to make your oc suffer and not like them get help, you deserve to lose rights over them. Especially if you only do that stuff to purposely trigger people. Once you do that, your oc no longer belongs to you. they belong to the public who will take better care of them instead

Making a comment to get this to post.

You do not get to take someone else’s OCs for yourself just because you don’t like how their creator is treating them.

[theworldlookswhite]

[as-thou-will]

I’m absolutely adding this to my Online Entitlement collection. Raymond’s already on there.

[goldenzingy46]

this reminds me of the time that someone asked me to change my name because they had bad memories of someone named trixie

god what a wild day

[valentineish]

I took the liberty of harvesting more examples from the notes. This genre of guy is an invasive species to fandom and freelance art spaces alike.

[elanorpam]

[darth-revan-dark-lord]

It’s 2025 and I still somehow get surprised with how much people go apeshit over imaginary people

[dancinbutterfly]

If this is you? Then with all sincerety? Please seek help. It might be carbon monoxide poisoning, black mold, a maladaptive coping technique as a result of trauma, or a symptom of a psychotic disorder. But whatever it is? I am speaking to you as a clinical social worker who is a full time private practice therapist with years of experience: This behavior is a non-standard experience and typically means that you are functioning in a different reality state from those around you and while being in a different reality state is not inherently harmful? This behavior is not culturally typical for Western Civilization and Standard Cultural Norms. This behavior highly likely to become dysruptive to your existing relationships due to the agreed upon social definition of what is real and what is fiction. Please seek professional assistance and support in setting reliable reality-testing..

[dekaydk]

I shared this with my psychiatrist relative. He actually dealt with someone in this state (convinced that they were in a relationship with a character from a TV show). They were happy enough because they had constructed a complex story about the actor being an alter-ego, which allowed them to get over the character’s on-screen romance.

[dancinbutterfly]

Gonna gently and lovingly point out that your psychiatrist relative is a psychiatrist. And that the person they are describing is a patient. Who they are not telling you anymore details about because of confidentiality laws. But who…if they are seeing your PSYCHIATRIST relative…they are in fact seeking medical help to manage…(handewave) whatever their underlying condition is. If whatever that is, is in fact managed and is not disrupting their life but it with medication, therapy, or any other form or reality-testing or coping skills? Then yeah, go off, good for them. I wisht them nothing but happiness. But I would say that your point contains a very important detail here…that this anecdote comes from a psychiatrist…that this is something to get checked at least. Because again - its not the actual fantasy that is a concern here. It’s that the fantasy itsefl is a maladaptive coping technique and the lack of ability to distinguish reality from fiction is a sign of an underlying concern that needs to be monitored. Not acted on. MONITERED.

I’m begging people to stop de-intellectualizing and listen. I’m not trying to stigmatize mental health issues here. Okay? There are folks reading this who may feel this way or believe these things. And a lot of the comments on this post are very gross, unkind things.

However there are very real health issues ranging from environmental to trauma to neurologic to infectious to drug induced conditions that can cause these behaviors. And so I just want folks who see this to get a check up. If they get the okay like your relative gave his patien the okay, more power to them! But please, if you are reading this and you related to any of these stories? For your health, please get help.

If it comes back that there’s no reason why, and you really are a kin with or in a relationship with your character, then go get them! My blessing. I’m not here to judge. I’m really not. I want you to follow your bliss. I am a tumblrina and I believe you should do what you want forever.

But do so in good health okay? I just want you(general) to be well. That’s all.

I just have seen too many people be sick because no one told them things could be symptoms until it was too late. Okay? This is me just trying to tell whoever is reading this, who thinks that I might be talking about them, that they could be sick and not know it. Or hurt and not know it.

So get checked out if you think this could be you and you have the means. I know not everyone does but if it is you, you can? Please consider it.

Because I love you and I hope you love you too.

[guerrillatech]

[kendrysaneela]

This is why I love the “Covid is faked” conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism

[geijutsu1]

Look up the manhattan project you dipshits

[sashibunbun]

You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?

The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?

The one that had so many close calls to they’re working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?

THAT Manhattan Project?

[dixkens]

The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?

That Manhattan project?

[anarchopuppy]

We’re talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?

[bogleech]

And that was still just one government using the fullest extent of their power to try and keep just one secret in a time before cellular phone cameras or the internet. Imagine thinking multiple, rival governments agreed to fake a virus to fool just some of their citizens into staying home from work, while also agreeing to pay billions of dollars to compensate them for it.

[theropegeek]

[the-cnc-captain]

I recommend you read this if you’re unsure about your own rape fantasies or can’t understand why others are into cnc.

Educate yourself, know its ok to want what you want and feel what you feel.

Never judge yourself for the way you feel or the kinks you crave, whatever they may be!

[catgirlthecrazy]

My one (mild) complaint about the original post is that it mentions these sorts of fantasies being common among both men and women, but only cites data about women. So I did a little googling, and although this wasn’t published when OP first made this post (and thus can’t be blamed for not including it), I did find this great article, from a social psychologist who reports on a survey he did of 4000 Americans aged 18-87 (not just college aged women). He found that (exact quotes from the article):

“61% of self-identified women had fantasized about this [being forced to have sex] before, while 24% said they fantasized about it often.”

“54% of self-identified men had fantasized about this before, while 11.5% said they fantasized about it often.”

“68% of non-binary participants had fantasized about this before, while 31% said they fantasized about it often.”

Interestingly, the same guy also asked people about the inverse, i.e. did they fantasize about forcing sex on someone else, which he talks about in a blog post. He found (again using exact quotes):

“20% of self-identified women had fantasized about this [forcing sex on someone else] before, while 4% said they fantasized about it often”

“38% of self-identified men had fantasized about this before, while 7% said they fantasized about it often”

“38% of non-binary participants had fantasized about this before, while 9% said they fantasized about it often”

I recommend reading both articles, they go into a lot more detail than I’ve reported here. This guy also wrote a book on this topic, though I haven’t read it.

TLDR: you’re not a freak or abnormal, there is no such thing as thoughtcrime.

[lee-romee]

this is a great time of year to buy from native stores or donate to native organizations. you can figure out who's land you're on here, and below i've listed some (of many) businesses you can support ♡

B.Yellowtail --- jewlery, clothing, and home goods designed by Bethany Yellowtail, citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and from the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation

Cheekbone Beauty --- sustainable, low-waste beauty products from Jenn Harper, an Anishinaabe artist based in Canada

Trickster --- atheletic products from Tlingit and Deg Hit’an Athabascan siblings (Alaska)

NativeHumboldt on Etsy --- the artist, Shayna McCullough, and their fiancé make designs inspired by traditional designs from their culture; she is from the Yurok tribe and descended from the Hupa, Karuk, Redwood Creek, Pit River, Yuki, Wintun, Pomo (tribes in California), and Chetco tribe (in Oregon)

OklahomaThirtyNine on Etsy --- they mostly sell beaded work, particularly earrings, as well as some necklaces

xBeadsByMandyx on Etsy --- handmade beaded earrings, from a Cherokee veteran

food products, from wine to sauces to teas to mixes to fish to jerky and nuts, sorted by store with details beside each store

[grison-in-space]

My favorite shoes in the winter are my Manitobah mukluks, which are Metis-owned and participate heavily in community initiatives with other indigenous nations to train and support artists. They also partner regularly with artists from other nations on their shoes to create custom editions. Currently they are collaborating with Rosa Scribe (Cree), Janae Grass (Sac & Fox), Atheana Picha (Salish), and Melissa Peter-Paul (Mi'kmaw). They also host an indigenous market that showcases and promotes indigenous artists.

Plus they're warm as hell and the sheepskin lining means I don't have to wear socks, which is extremely nice sensory comfort. So that's nice as well.

[cactusspatz]

Eighth Generation (Snoqualmie Tribe) has some beautiful stuff - I've bought a huge beautiful beach towel and cool socks from them personally, but they have jewelry, art, housewares, lots of great work.

[lee-romee]

image is one of my favourite blankets from Eighth Generation

Beam Paints --- watercolour paints by Anong Migwans Bean, M'Chigeeng First Nation (located in Ontario), who was taught to harvest pigments by their parents ((recommended by @airbenderinalbion))

Beyond Buckskin --- created by Jessica Metcalfe, who is Turtle Mountian Chippewa, they feature and sell works such as moccasins, jewelry, clothing, and blankets from over 40 artists --- featured is a beaded Yakima Plateau bag ((recommended by @sassytail))

Haipažaža Pĥežuta --- a couple, Lakota and Dakota, from Ocheti Sakowin Tha Makhoche (Sioux Nation) who make soaps, shampoo bars, bath and body products, salves, & more herbal products, incorporating traditional knowledge and using minimal packaging + natural ingredients ((recommended by @wittywallflower))

Sequoia Soaps --- soaps, candles, lotions, body mists and body scrubs, founded by Michaelee Lazore, who is Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Akwesáhsne and Northern Paiute (in Nevada) ((recommended by @trialofasphodel))

[lee-romee]

a couple new additions:

Only Child Handicrafts --- beadwork created by a 30-year-old beadworker, which they learned while growing up near the Great Lakes from the Anishinaabe; their paternal family is Ojibwe from Fort William First Nation & their patterns are both based on traditional patterns & contemporary ((recommended by @fruityshirts))

Sage & Oats Trading Post --- based in Montana, but selling products from native artists across the country, including beadwork, candles, foodstuffs, books, textiles, jewelry, & so much more ((recommended by @samwisegamgeeee))

Sea Wisdom Design --- jewelry by łlilawikw ("gatherer of the people"), who is Kwakwaka’wakw, from the Pacific Northwest, whose beautiful historical designs are featured in her art ((recommended by @fruityshirts))

middle picture: blanket made by Rachel Twoteeth Pichardo, a Little Shell artist from North Carolina

[smokingtigerhiddengun]

It's not a small creator, but Prados Beauty is indigenous-owned and partners with indigenous designers. They're pretty mainstream now but I've only heard good things about their corporate practices.

Prados Beauty: Your Bold Beauty Destination

Discover Prados Beauty, featuring high-quality cosmetics at affordable prices. Embrace all of your beauty with ethically made cosmetics, too

[lee-romee]

Thunderbird Skin --- skincare made Mooretown Rancheria Maidu women from Northern California, who now live in the UK. they also make products specifically for eczema & psoriasis & have trial sizes of nearly all their products ((recommended by @a-wild-haggis))

Mistahiminis Beadwork --- beautiful art, beaded earrings & embroidery works & sewn bags, made by a nonbinary Nehiyawak (Cree) beadworker in Canada ((recommended by @thymeforeverything))

Choke Cherry Creek --- clothing created by Angela Ikūalasaash ("persistence"), a Apsáalooke (Crow) & Pikuni (Blackfeet) woman who incorporates symbols from her heritage into her work ((recommended by @alcidesire))

Good Medicine Clothing --- an Apsáalooke-owned (Crow Nation) clothing store, founded by a Native American dancer & hip hop artist (his music links here) ((recommended by @alcidesire))

The Wandering Bull --- they carry a huge variety of pow-wow supplies & whatever anyone might need to make their own pieces ((recommended by @lugarn))

Medicine Man Crafts --- goods made by people on/near the Eastern band Tsalagi Nation (Cherokee), such as traditional baskets & jewelry, craft supplies, masks & pottery, & so much more ((recommended by @lugarn))

[arrowheadedbitch]

I just accidentally made un-tea?????

I made green tea, but I forgot there was an old bag of chai in the kettle, so I mixed chai water with decaf green tea, then I mixed in like a half table spoon or something of that honey from the dollar store that they aren't legally allowed to call honey because there's too much corn syrup in it and some almond milk and a single drop of coffee creamer because we ran out and???? It tastes like??? Nothing????

It has LESS flavor than my tap water! HOW do you EVEN-

I think I made a flavor that's only perceptible to shrimp, that's the only explanation

[arrowheadedbitch]

It tried to make it again and I somehow made milk???? I used almond milk but it tastes like whole milk???? Like straight from the fucking tit what the fuck, HOW DID I MAKE LACTOSE FREE MILK WTF WTF HOWWW

[fwoosheye]

Pretty sure OP are on their way to become a modern alchemist

[arrowheadedbitch]

Halp

[doublemyheight]

New tumblr recipe dropped gang inform strange aeons

[arrowheadedbitch]

Oh dear

[the-tired-ish-rat]

don't worry arrow I believe in you, you can make your tea. wait what's this cup- aaaææÆGHHH

[arrowheadedbitch]

Please stop trying to curse me

[arrowheadedbitch]

I made more untea, god help me

[arrowheadedbitch]

I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU GUYS TO *STOP* TRYING TO CURSE ME

[arrowheadedbitch]

YOU

[arrowheadedbitch]

Okay, my most popular post is a 20k Tim Drake post, you can't get this to a 100k that's actually ridiculous. Good luck doing the impossible, babes

[shutoffthelights]

to me, there's an innate horror in tradwife content. it's always a pretty young girl in her late teens, early 20s. she's so young. she's basically a baby herself. maybe she's about your age. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don't want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she's smiling but there's something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there's no passion, there's just the movements of the day. sometimes she'll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

her world isn't real - it's neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn't need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don't you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn't need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you're just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she'll just track her period, she doesn't NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn't effective. you just watch happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again, and it's jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn't be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she doesn't want you to save her. how dare you pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her. a horrible feeling washes over you. you just watch it happen.

[shutoffthelights]

[mikkeneko]