That Most August of Blogs

reblogs of paleoart, mtg, leftist politics, and other nonsense with the occasional bit of poetry or thoughts on HotD sprinkled in

[imperatorcaesaraugustus]

That Most August of Pinned Posts

oh, hello. i didn't see you there

allow me to introduce myself. i'm a writer who goes by the pen name August Wright (millennial-gen Z borderline, pronouns are whatever you want them to be darling, Floridian). i probably would have been on tumblr all the way back in 2012 if i wasn't so obstinately techphobic growing up, but hey, we're here now aren't we?

on this blog you can expect to find:

nonsense

chicanery

dinosaurs

tomfoolery

anti-capitalist sentiment

nerd shit

shenanigans

and writing (occasionally, if we're lucky)

if you want to see some of my writing specifically, check out the very cleverly named if i do say so myself August Writes tag. i've also started doing Brief Book Reviews, we'll see how long i keep that up. and i do reviews of House of the Dragon under the title ThoughtD.

i also have a sideblog dedicated to a worldbuilding project of mine: Yakhir-ban-Dawatywn (i swear i'm gonna start updating it again at some point)

so, with all that said, welcome to the blog. stay as long as you'd like.

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[daughter-of-sapph0]

i feel like starting an argument

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[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[janmisali]

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[boringkate]

Everyone wants queerness to have countercultural asthetics because that's cooler. Gay graffiti is cooler than glossy pride themed posters. But those posters are better. Both in what level of already achieved progress they represent and their effectiveness in further normalizing queerness. Those posters are what winning looks like.

The problem isn't that a makeup add is performatively pride themed. The problem is that makeup ads are fucking inescapable. The problem is that we live in a capitalist hellscape where cheeseburger commercials are legit our primary method of asserting shared cultural values. You can't go anywhere or do anything without seeing ads. You should be pissed about the straight ones too.

[tieflingkisser]

[a-thousand-suns-one-more-light]

If you’re still on windows 10 it’s there as well. Tho it’s under Devices>typing>typing insights.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about the You Don't Have To Hand It To The Pope situation that makes me really insane is the sheer number of people going "oh okay so now the pope is responsible for everything bad the catholic church has ever done? all of that is his fault?🙄🙄🙄" as if we're talking about some random schmuck with a rosary and not the world's #1 head catholic bitch in charge in his fancy little dipshit hat sitting on a throne made of pilfered riches and the bones of people who were killed for his god. like yeah actually that guy kind of does need to be held accountable for the past and present crimes of the organization he's in charge of actually. that's sort of what being the boss entails.

[sapphling]

i do not know how to communicate to other usamericans that 99% of the time No, you do not need to and should not bring your dog to that public space

[sapphling]

that's not your wubby pubby sweetie son boy darling to me that is a 60 pound animal with significant bite strength that you elected not to train because he's "just a pupper"

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[a-book-of-creatures]

My beautiful daughter Monosodium Glutamate who has done nothing wrong in her life

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[cleric-chono-is-my-everything]

can you imagine how good fandoms would be if fans thought of women as human beings

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

Too much Doctor Who about how great Doctor Who is. Doctor Who needs to go back to being about how the writer was overcharged on taxes due to a bureaucratic misunderstanding. Or how the writer had to spend time with her worst relatives. Or how Doctor Who sucks

[janmisali]

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[sexhaver]

it's extremely funny reading historical accounts of Spontaneous Human Combustion because it follows the normal historical trend of other 1800s paranormal phenomena where it stopped happening as much right around the time cameras were invented and stopped happening entirely when everyone started carrying mini cameras in their pockets, but unlike most others of its ilk, it was effectively replaced by this mysterious phenomena where alocoholics would spill liqour on themselves and then fall asleep smoking a cigarette and turn into a fireball. nobody knows if these two things are related