We’re Here Now, Arent We?

I’m... vibing, I guess? [any pronouns] Trans, Non-binary, and queer people are welcome here

[kingcatnine]

proposal to replace the common usage of "chud" with "chump" so as to not throw around a word that means facist... it is better to have a chump son than a chud son but it still conveys the fact that he is a loser and you don't like him very much

[kingcatnine]

like if you're looking for a word with a similar mouthfeel and loserly connotations you can slot into place where you or others have been using chud in a playful manner i think chump is just the ticket. fuck my chimp life okay my typo has spawned a beautiful new opportunity what is a chimp life and why wouldn't someone like to have one

[surprisemoose]

What kind of Millennial™️ are you?

Avocado toast millennial

I am bird watcher now.

I ran a marathon for fun?

Yes, I am currently working on five fiber art projects…

Other millennial stereotype that I will write in the tags.

I am unfortunately not part of the greatest generation aka here for the result

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

Please share!

[thirddoctor]

fandoms are still so transparently male-centric. I'm tired of hearing about people's """babygirls""" and the pathetic wet little guys they're obsessed with. have you ever spent a single second thinking about a female character's interiority

[thirddoctor]

you see so many posts like this, and there's nothing wrong with any of them individually, but this is part of what I meant in my tags about the automatic assumption in fandoms that the characters you obsess over, the ones that are most interesting and worth psychoanalysing, are always male. maybe HER guilt complex and crying fits compel me. maybe I want to get overly attached to an amoral and pathetically sad fictional WOMAN

[teh-nos]

#there's no longer quite so much vitriol in fandoms towards female characters#but instead they're viewed as the cool competent smart emotionally mature ones. the braincell havers and mom friends (tags from @thirddoctor)

She (whoever she is and whatever she's actually like) is reinvented as this very sensible, mature, reasonable character who OF COURSE we all respect and admire and etc etc blah... but as fandom keeps pointing out (see above) those are not the type of character fans generally go for, we prefer the broken hot messes (even if they, too, aren't actually like that orginally). Fandom has at last found a neat way to sidestep any accusations of not liking the women (because OBVIOUSLY we love her! she has the brain cell!) while also making sure they are collectively seen as the character type that - purely coincidentally - don't tend to get all that much fannish attention.

[icaseybaybee]

[jadechasegranger]

[ivy-michaels]

Functionally, there's very little difference between watching a movie on poob and watching a movie on basic cable. Yet, for some reason, the advertisements on poob offend me far more

[troglobite]

ad breaks on poob always interrupt important scenes or make really jarring cuts.

when it's on cable, they've timed the commercial breaks in a way that generally isn't as disruptive. someone took the time to "reformat" the movie for tv.

ads on poob always KNOW that they're on poob and want me to interact with them or click them. the number of QR codes or ads-in-separate-ad-framing/window are infuriating and jarring.

cable commercials are just stupid little skits i can mute to go use the bathroom.

ads on poob are less than 2 minutes--not enough time to do anything, but enough time to piss me off.

cable commercials are 2-5 minutes, which is enough time to go do something/bathroom or snack break, or talk to whoever you're watching with.

ads on poob are the same 3-4 commercials over and over and over and over again, often cutting to them immediately with no warning, and poob struggles to like, catch up to the fact that it's having to show a different progress bar, or a different timer.

cable commercials, esp during primetime, generally cycle through like 10-15 minimum, so you can go an ad break or two without seeing the same commercial. and they usually only pop up during quiet moments, at regular intervals, so you can see them coming--and there isn't a weird lag/loading time.

in both cases i am being accosted by advertisements and treated like a consumer to manipulate and exploit. the volume changes on cable and poob, the brightness level is eye-searing in both cases.

but poob doesn't respect that i'm here for the MOVIE. cable, thanks to preexisting, decades-old norms around broadcast television, still kind of does. kind of. it's easier to ignore those commercials than the ones on poob.

basically i think poob follows ad norms established on the internet--pop-ups, invasive flashing bullshit, creating lag, taking up time and attention--and cable follows established cable norms of, "time for a few minutes of ads that are just stupid little skits instead of spam machines, and then back to your otherwise uninterrupted movie."

[ivy-michaels]

Yeah honestly that all tracks.

[ivy-michaels]

#you are doing some goncharov shit to me

I mean i know what you're saying, but there's about a dozen free ad-supported streaming services and i respect none of them to use any of their names. Meanwhile, Poob has fully entered the tumblr lexicon as a shorthand for stupidly-named tech products, especially streaming services.

[ivy-michaels]

#we arent doing goncharov shit to you we're doing glup shitto shit to you

[beardedmrbean]

[giliisnotcreative]

@i-like-reblog-maps I heard you like large maps ^⁠_⁠^

[i-like-reblog-maps]

what the fuck

that thing is eldritch

acquired a dark mode version just to see what it’d look like. oh my god. this map is gorgeous

i have never seen a hub that large. i’m?? stunned

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Didn't realise it was a reblog map at first,thought somebody was drawing the visual effect that accompanies casting Testicular Torsion.

[k-wame]

WNBA star Gabby Williams supports trans women playing in the league: “I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team.”

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[auniverseforgotten]

[ID: a picture of a hand holding a bottle cap from a Jones soda. The inside of the cap reads: You haven't seen all the colors of the sky. End ID.]

[thegaymertrainer]

TikTok live is such a waste of time there are no good….

[cognitohazardous]

this is how we should generate power for cities

[transmechanicus]

contextual storytelling from that sign in the back

[quendergeer]

muttering "the hamsters control the wheels" as i wander around like a blind medieval soothsayer

[eilooxara]

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

[dialogic]

I find it sort of suspect that a lot of time when tumblr users choose to Make Up Two People And Compare Their Virtuousness they are contrasting the sinister and hypocritical urban against the simple and virtuous rural

[dialogic]

I promise I can think of lots of rural queer/trans people who aggrandize and obscure their position in the social hierarchy and also lots of urban queer/trans people who have regular working class jobs Or who have nonevil office jobs but are nonetheless not lying about the level of discomfort or danger they face on a daily basis

[dialogic]

And btw I thought from the first half that this was going to be a post about like imperial core queer people vs the rest of the world but actually no. It was about how awesome and badass it is to be from oklahoma

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone will say "as a queer person in the heart of empire, my life is in danger every day" and you'll find out they're a developer for Amazon and live in San Francisco or Seattle or some shit, and then you'll meet a trans girl from Alva, OK who's like "Yeah, things are pretty good. AutoZone moved me to full-time."

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone in a queer group in my current blue city said that they didn't like expressions of solidarity because it "diluted their oppression".

[teaboot]

[msvorderofoperations]

#That's what I mean when I say the foundation of feminism and queer community should not fixate on victimhood #Once you feel that our suffering is our shared experience an not our love then our suffering becomes vital to the culture #I don't want a culture where suffering is vital #I want a culture where love is celebrated #The suffering is an imposition not a prerequisite #And yeah I sure fucking hope our oppression is diluted bitch you WANT us freebasing the uncut shit???

[paramar]

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964)

Silver Jews - New Orleans (1994)

wdhmbt’s tumblr post (undated)

[mesopelagos]

there are at least three houses in new orleans

[solarsyrup]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

always remember, friend,

now go in peace

This meme was inspired by the piece "Lucky 10,000" by Randall Monroe.

[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[maseratus]

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

[mousidy]

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

[mousidy]

[bisthefairy]

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

[maightymai]

[cipheramnesia]

It's like talking to a 2010 Old Spice commercial with you people

[ironychan]

In archeology there are artifacts, which are items made or modified by humans, but there are also manuports, which haven't been modified but are found far from any possible origin point and there's no explanation besides somebody carried it there. Manuports include things like stones, fossils, and seashells, and have been found in deposits as much as three million years old.

So yeah, apparently the oldest human activity for which we have evidence is Picking Up Cool Rocks.

[ekjohnston]

I was on a team that found a walrus tusk on a late IR2 site in central Jordan. We all knew what it was instantly, but just kind of sat there, telling ourselves stories about how it got there. It was plain and unmodified, and probably one of the coolest things the team ever found.

[omghotmemes]

Bought a new generator and thoroughly reading the instructions.