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2026
FUCK HARD
FUCK FAST
FUCK BADLY
NEVER USE GENERATIVE AI
CREATE JOY
MUSIC ALWAYS
PSPSPSPS AT KITTIES ON THE STREET
YUMMY SOUP
go see the doctor about that thing
BE TRANSGENDER
KISS YOUR FRIENDS
EAT CHEESE
NEVER KILL YOURSELF
THRIVE
I love this so much, the parallels visually and story wise
do you ever laugh with your friends and think oh this is the point. this is the point of everything
Time freezes. I no longer feel the worry of the future. This is us.
I love Kon!Kusuriuri. He's such a yapper compared to Rin!Kusuriuri, like even the sword kon has such a continuous flow of dialogue , sword rin did not have any words spoken AT ALL. I love the small touches in personality between them ,like yeah, they're both "medicine sellers," but they're two separate individuals. Kon is WAAAY more dramatic and theatrical. Rin never tells you shit till the end. Love em both
I love The Golden Girls.
Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.
This was before Ellen came out.
This was before civil unions.
This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.
And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”
I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.
I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.
This wasn’t just about onscreen, either. They directly worked with real-life communities. You could walk into gay bars of the period and see them playing on TV not because it was a cute meme but because these women were actively doing stuff like raising money for AIDS care.
Also worth noting, and often lost in translation because the show is so old, is that the AIDS episode directly challenged and corrected many then-common myths and stereotypes about AIDS. The thing about Sophia being afraid to drink from a cup Rose used reads as a funny quirk today, but it was a very real fear in the 1980s, and such a common misconception that my sex ed teacher taught it to the class on 2002. This episode is actually why I was able to correct her.
All of the medical information provided in the episode is accurate to what we knew when it was written (this is why Rose’s HIV test takes so long and why there was concern she’d contracted it via blood transfusion, for example).
And, of course, you can’t discount the very deliberate choice of Rose–sweet Rose, kindly Rose, trusting and small-town and ideal-woman-in-her-time-period Rose, as the potential victim. Blanche would have been the easy and obvious choice (and indeed, she does mention having to have a test previously). Dorothy could have created an additional wrinkle to the storyline with her work as a substitute teacher. Sophia, with her complete lack of social filter, could have added an even more raw “I’m scared” speech.
But Rose…it’s impossible to dislike Rose. Rose was chosen specifically because she’s the one who dates the least, pulls the most laughs, and never has a bad word to say about anyone. The idea was to put the meanest, most “well AIDS is their own damn fault” asshole in a position to say “no! You can’t do this to her! You can’t, it isn’t fair!” and to empathize, even if just for a moment, with people suffering from the disease.
Don’t think for a single moment there was half a millisecond of this episode that wasn’t planned to a T.
girls be like "i know a spot" and then keep you in their hearts forever
girls be like “i know
a spot” and then keep you in
their hearts forever
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Someone please help I'm begging, I've been trying to remember a ship but all I've got is that it's between a robot character and a Cowboy? They're from like a battle royale game eg overwatch or fortnight. And dialogue that goes "mein walter, perhaps later."
A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad
#this is team skull
The pet store I worked at had a pen with rabbits near the front door. On every side of the pen were huge signs saying “You can pet me, but don’t pick me up!” One day two absolutely huge guys came in and one immediately reaches into the pen to grab a rabbit. Before i could say anything his friend grabbed his arm and asked him “did you see the sign?” He said “yeah! it says that you can pick them up but don’t pet them!” Then he went quiet for a moment and softly said “I didn’t read it right did I?” And his friend just puts his arm on his shoulder and said “its ok, i know you’ve got that thing where words get mixed up. Let just pet these cute lil shits” And I still haven’t gotten over that interaction.
I was walking my dog through Boston bc he likes the likes car rides. He’s a little thing tbh we call him short and long. So this huge scary man with a full beard approaches me like “hey can my buddy and I pet your dog? He gets nervous around dogs but your’s is so small I think it’s a good place to start.” Ofc I was like “yes he’s very friendly!” So this guy brings his equally big friend over and they sit on the floor while this man looks terrified of my tiny dog so big man number one asks “can I pick him up?” And i say yes so he picks him up and puts him on man number two’s lap and man number two is abt to freak out and his friend straight up just goes “hey man, it’s okay just relax I’d never let anything hurt you. He’s a good boy.” I’ll never forget it ever bc I know that man looked at me (5'3 , glasses, probably wearing a sweater vest) and my dog (kinda goofy looking little thing) and was like ‘ah yes the two least intimidating living things I’ve seen in Boston all day he’ll feel relaxed around them’ and went out of his way to help his friend. It makes me so happy
My husband had this Dungeons and Dragons group ages ago, and one of the guys was TERRIFIED of cats. The moment he sees one he freezes up and can barely breathe. Said guy is almost seven feet tall and solid wall of muscle. Whenever he came over I’d put the cats in the bedroom and chill out with a book because my cats don’t like being shut away without one of us.
One of my cats was pawing at the door and meowing loudly, an indication she REALLY needs to use the litter box. I let her out and decide, hey, I’m hungry, and decide to the kitchen. I forgot to shut the bedroom door.
Next thing I hear is the group going completely silent. My husband very calmly asks me to come over and help him gather our two cats up. I go over to where the group is and my black cat, Cacoa, is rubbing up against the guy’s leg, purring, and doing her “let me on your lap” meow. The other cat, Jasper, is sitting at the window, chilling out. I go over and pick up Cacoa and tell the big dude she’s harmless, loves laps, and would be thrilled if he pet her. Very slowly he touches my cat’s face, and she leans right into his hand. He then pets her back and sighs because she’s really soft and purring like mad. After a few minutes he asks how to pick her up and if it’s okay if she sits on his lap.
He spent the next six hours spoiling my cat. The next week he showed up with cat treats and toys because he fell in love with the cats. He told me he was doing some research on house cats, and even talked to a vet about them. A couple months later he adopted two cats and was as thrilled and excited as a new parent.
Oh no a new one!!!
Blessed post.
I used to work at this stable for icelandic horses and every now and then this man would turn up by the field to just watch the horses. One time I walked by him as I was going to get the horses inside, and he went ”I always wanted to learn how to ride but I’m afraid of horses because they’re so huge. If I could ride ponies like this, maybe I’d dare but now I’m too big and heavy for them.” You should have seen his face when I told them that actually they’re not ponies, just small horses and they could totally carry him. His face just lit up. Next thing I’m helping him to get on back. Today he knows how to ride.
A few years ago my sister and I were in Daytona Beach, and we saw this huge, burly biker. Looked like the stereotypical biker: big black beard, the goggles, leather, and a bandana. He also had a baby carrier, and in that baby carrier was a tiny little orange Pomeranian. We complimented his dog and he said, in one of the deepest voices I’ve ever heard, “thanks, his name’s Little Bear!” And he told us about how he’d take Little Bear out on his motorcycle everyday and how much the dog loved it.
Such a lovely post.
I’m not even putting this in the museum, it shall run free and collect more lovely stories.
having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!
there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.
OP’s tags are equally as important as the original message:
I’m on mobile so if someone could reblog with a transcript that would be greatly appreciated
[ID: a long chunk of tags that reads as follows:
and before one of u is like"i have no friends :(" i used to be there too actually
abusive partner cut me off from ALL of 'em. i didn't think i was lovable - it made me EXCEPTIONALLY shy. i still am actually!!!!
i just .. started saying "yes."
i would take pictures of flyers in my library and go to whatever events they had, i started taking community classes, if someone mentioned like am gonna start x group" i actually took a deep breath and approached them to be like. okay i want in. i started making the first move with new people - a small compliment, a smile or a little joke. just to share the space with them.
i have MASSIVE social anxiety. bad parent and bad relationship will do that to ya. but i just.. kept going. and going. and going. to each of these little things. and then... like. ... idk i just am very blessed. i have a STUPID number of friends, a lot of which i reconnected with. bc it turns out love is never wasted. adult life just. like. gets in the way. but also... i loved u as a weird little kid. i love u now as a weird big adult. i promise i PROMISE ur friends are out there. u just have 2 find them. and btw i didn't make friends with everyone. but i did get a lot of people to smile or laugh. aint that something. this process took me something like 2 years. it was HARD!!!!!!!!!!
i love u!!! hard things are often worth it!!
/end ID]
idk if this is a boomer take but I think ppl should make more of an effort to go see movies in theaters bc I couldn’t bear it if the movie theater industry went down and the only way to watch movies was through streaming I’m not strong enough
Actually I’ll make it even more boomer because I genuinely think it’s a good thing for people to have a reason to put down social media for an hour or two and just focus all their attention on a movie together and get fully immersed like I think that’s good practice for our attention spans and ultimately for our mental health (unless you’re a person who uses your phone during the movie in the theater in which case uh idk die)
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis
“Pick a god and pray.”
-Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening
Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…
this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources
#discovering that the profound is lurking behind the absurd#just waiting for the chance to peek through like sunlight through the clouds#is one of the best things in life once you start to notice it
this is a beautiful way to put it and i’m gonna cry abt it
this post has gotten so much better since the last time I saw it
I would like to add
“You want to be a hero, Tommy? Then die like one.”
- Technoblade from Dream SMP
Truly the best shit on the internet here.
Ahem @bettinalevyisdetermined could you please do a video with this?
also “you’re not brave, you’ve merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.” Is the rawest line and it’s from dominus ghaul from destiny 2’s vanilla story when it first released.
How can we forget the quote that sums up this entire reblog chain:
Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too
“Spare me this mockery of justice!” (A few minutes later, a with a different character) “Silence! Or you shall be held in contempt of court!” “I have nothing *but* contempt for this court!” The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
“For every kid that dreams up the electric lightbulb, there’s one who dreams up the atom bomb.” - Mr. Electric, The Adventures of Sharkboy And Lavagirl (2005).
“I like turtles!” - turtle kid
“If the sea were of ink and the sky parchment I could not begin to write my love for you.”
Grandma Arbuckle reading a love letter in A Garfield Christmas.
Grandma Arbuckle
reading a love letter in
A Garfield Christmas.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
dont get me wrong this is #mood but just try eating a piece of bread with salt. please, seriously. ok? at least a tiny bit. salt helps with nausea, bread calms the stomach acid. if you really can’t face eating anything, just lick some salt like a damn elk, then wait and see if you can manage the bread. make some broth if you’re into that kind of thing. no spices, yes salt. if you’re feeling too weak and shaky to do much, just have a cup of tea with sugar (energy) and lemon (again, good against nausea). nibble on the lemon first, it will feel good, but don’t overdo - citric acid on an empty stomach is a majorly bad idea. take care of yourself, you’re the only you we’ve got
“You’re the only you we’ve got”
“just lick some salt like a damn elk” is the new “touch grass”
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
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I love this post
The horse thinks as it scratches an itch
Do you ever just daydream about the tattoos you’re going to get
Do you ever just
daydream about the tattoos
you’re going to get
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰
"fuck it we ball" is for stress about the future "it is what it is" is for stress about the past and "this too shall pass" is for stress about the present thank you for coming to my TED talk
"And you, SUH! Are you waiting to receive my LIMP PENIS!?"
for those who don't know, he was completely innocent. they misidentified him as someone else they were looking for.
so all of this wasn't him trying to look innocent. this was him actually being innocent.
He was literally just having a succulent Chinese meal.
"tata, and farewell"
I genuinely wasn't expecting the intonations this guy uses. It's like he's on stage pretending to be english, while also fighting with police
