[queermania]

if i’m ever brutally murdered and everyone feels like they need to do something productive in my memory, all i want is for you to pass legislation banning LED headlights in my name. regardless of how irrelevant it is to my murder. it’s relevant to my heart.

[divorce-enjoyer]

severance is so scary i hope jobs arent real

[nitewrighter]

I love you samosas. I love you empanadas. I love you pasties. I love you dumplings. I love you pirozhkis. I love you savory food in a convenient little carb purse.

[teaboot]

Why are you pantsless around your cat? That seems really weird to me

Like I don’t mean to shock you so maybe sit down but my cat is rawdogging his whole little life dickballs naked, so

[imaginarycircus]

Remember calming cat? Remember when tumblr was this color? If you don’t that’s fine. I just feel old and alone.

[should-be-sleeping]

You’re never alone. There is always calming cat.

[landmineblogging]

fur mew

[charminglyantiquated]

hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right

[runwildwithme]

It’s “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerard van Honthorst!!

[charminglyantiquated]

It’s the best painting that exists

[earhartsease]

I don’t know about you, but I really want to know what’s written on there - wait, I found a higher res image, can anyone translate this?

also it’s kind of an amazing little vignette

[kipplekipple]

Hahahaa

Okay it says “who knows my arse from behind” and I will never recover from this

[probablynotcavolo]

OKAY— so i LOVE this painting, it’s in the St. Louis Art Museum, and on a tour i found out the story. it’s not a naked dude, at all. It’s actually a smaller depiction of her, she’s a sex worker! She’s showing off her advertising for her services. It’s a really cool historical example of sex work, and a gorgeous painting to see in person.

[sew-birb]

So that grin is her going:

“That’s me!!”

[thefuzzydave]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[stupidbeecandle]

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job.  There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept.  The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

[glowingghosty]

[mcnerds]

you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question

[stupidbeecandle]

But then you wouldnt have known about the moose

[catatonic-chaos-climax]

Watching ancient danish movies and found this gem

[fullmetalfisting]

Me: *looking at a porcelain hand in the home decor aisle of a store* if I lost my hands in some kind of tragic accident, I’d decorate my entire home with hand-shaped things. Then I’d invite guests over for like, dinner parties and such and sit there expectantly just basking in their discomfort.

My boyfriend: Do you hear what you say when you talk? Do you know what you just said to me?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I love you Safety Wizard.

(Inspired by @keroascrazy)

[catsbeaversandducks]

[sixthrock]

Wait is this the same cat from that “my cat always looks like she just found out her husband died at sea” tweet??

IT IS

[hayley566]

She’s a sensitive soul

[insanegemini]

I wish I didn't exist

[journal-number-3]

The Barbie movie: The Ken's need to find who they are outside of pursuing Barbies, a clear allegory for how real life men should not define themselves by trying to attract a partner and building their personality around that, something that would be healthier and better for them overall

Misogynists: barbie movie is so anti-men :(( how could they do this :((((

[amisscreant]

With @staff 's recent post saying 1/4 of this site is LGBTQ going around, I'd like to see what the actual demographic is

So!

would you identify yourself as:

LGBTQ+

not LGBTQ+

unsure/questioning

Voting ended onSep 4, 2023

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[mywitchcultblr]

I finally found it... The yaoi birthday cake...

[transjudas]

AUGH 😍

[mortalityplays]

fun fact: if you pirated six full length albums from your favourite band, listened to them all back to back 5 times, and then sent them $20 on ko-fi or whatever, on average they would have earned slightly more money per play than they'd get from you streaming the same shit with ads on spotify.

[mortalityplays]

invariably when I talk about media piracy people are like "but what!!! about creators!!! they need to make a living!!!" my homey in romey if you're that worried about it send your favourite artist $5 right now. do it. shut the fuck up.

[mortalityplays]

I want to support artists but I can ONLY do it if I'm being drip fed shittier and shittier versions of the content a tech executive thinks I want. I have no choice in the matter because uhhhhhh other people won't pay for things if they're free. yeah that's right. other people are the problem.

[mortalityplays]

here's the piracy secret big media don't want you to know: you can always give artists money if you want to.

[mortalityplays]

ADDENDUM: woke up this morning and realised my math was off (I missed a decimal place). your favourite band would actually earn about 10x more per play from your $20 than they would from spotify.

That means you could pirate six albums and listen to them 50 times each, and you would only owe around $20 in spotify equivalent fees. Figures below the cut since people keep disputing them in various directions in my inbox:

Lets assume your favourite albums have an average 15 tracks each.

15 tracks x 6 albums = you pirate 90 tracks

you listen to the whole discography five times. let's say songs average 3 minutes in length, that means you've spent about (3 x 90 x 5 / 60) 22.5 solid hours listening to their music.

90 x 5 = 450 track plays (or what Spotify would consider 'streams')

Spotify pays $0.003-0.005 per stream. we'll take an average of $0.004

450 x 0.004 = 1.8

Spotify would have paid your favourite band $1.80

You could tip them $2 and even with processor fees they would make more from you than they would have made streaming. For $20 you could have listened to 5,000 tracks - or around 10.4 days of continuous playback!!!