Confuddler

Local being pathetic enjoyer

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

[blue-sunshine-mauve-morning]

One detail from the book that didn't make it into the movie that I think is neat is that Eva Stratt did not just stumble across Ryland Grace. He was not the 'potentially disposable' option. She went to the top microbiologists in some of the best research labs in the world and was told multiple times "you know what? I think Dr. Grace might be your guy." When discussing the Petrova Problem. And this several years after his ejection from academia.

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[assiraphales]

I feel like grace was in such a rush to turn that ship around and hightail it back to rocky that he was indiscriminate about what data he sent back. just shoved it all into the beetle probes, just to realize ‘ok so 20% of that data is scientific breakthroughs to save the world……..80% me and rocky’s movie reviews. and I def forgot to delete the fifteen minute long dance off. hm.’

[assiraphales]

it’s kinda funny bc the videos of grace hanging out w rocky is the happiest eva stratt had ever seen him. like imagine guilts been haunting you and the laws been hunting you and for decades you have no idea if it’s been all for nothing and then….. first clip you see is the scientist and a sentient rock going “this is me and my BOI ✌️”

[thebootydiaries]

[serpentmythos]

This tag has me dying

[cascadiarch]

[claratyler]

that tweet had undeniable tumblr energy, she should have stayed here where no one would have snitched on her

[roelkeet]

Playing with dad

[edgebug]

I think it would be funny if most of Grace's eridian students went to him and asked for earth pronoun designations instead of picking for themselves, because they think it's cool to get word-gifts from the coolest teacher in the galaxy

and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"

"HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. THANK"

[lutheban]

"Grace doesnt have enough food on the jorney to Erid" yeah but Rocky does. Rocky has plenty, in fact, Rocky had enough food for 23 eridians for a bit over 30 years (because they were also expected to make the jorney back) Rocky has so much food, and he cant give any to grace because it will kill him. Every meal he makes he can hear Grace's body slowly collapsing in on itself from hunger. Rocky has to sit there, with way more than enough food for 2 and still watch his best friend starve to death.

[clopability]

mushroom... corn.... apples...dirt

[clopability]

[clopability]

the 4 stooges of greif

[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[mousidy]

some of you never let go of the binary you just say "amab" and "afab" instead of "man" and "woman"

[mousidy]

sorry but not being transphobic involves a little more than just swapping out some vocab words. do you see trans women as women or do you see us as "amabs"?

[mousidy]

if it's the latter I have bad news for you: you are transphobic

[mousidy]

sorry but I think you should be removed from trans spaces for the safety of the rest of us until you can learn not to be transphobic

[mousidy]

- "trans inclusive space"

- look inside

- they're calling trans women "amabs"

[mousidy]

referring to someone else by their assigned sex that they've disowned should be understood as just as transphobic as referring to them by their assigned name that they've disowned and I'm dead serious

[mousidy]

it's not your fucking business what's in someone's pants or what was ever in their pants and it's insane that I have to even say this to a growing culture of trans people obsessed with categorizing people by their genitalia. we have a word for that behavior and the word is transphobia

[mousidy]

a lot of you just use "amab" as a silencer on calling trans women men and you think it isn't obvious what you're doing

[depsidase]

[b0nkcreat]

STOP eating salads because you want to get Skinny✋🚫 START eating salads because theyre yumby plate of leafs ✅🥗

[b0nkcreat]

i am getting my THIRD SALAD.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In a day row. They call me the yumby leafer

[sharkishblue]

the leaferrrrrrr

[b0nkcreat]

[spicy-apple-pie]

Hello everyone! I have something important that I want to talk about.

It’s recently come to my attention that there’s been a call to boycott DC comics because there’s been a no ongoing mainline comics centring around a black main character. You can read here to learn more about it.

I want to express my support for the boycott and my participation with a few footnotes addressing a few concerns that I have personally and a few that others have brought up, which I will cover later. But as a white creator that wants to show her support for the Black community, this is how I will be participating.

1. I will not buy any new dc books that aren’t from Black creatives (ie. Zantanna) or centered around a black main character (ie. absolute green lantern). I will instead pirate, buy 2nd hand, or borrow any issues that fall outside that category. This way, my money is showing DC demand for more black voices and characters. I implore you to do the same, but for those with pre orders through a local comic book store or have pull lists, please refrain. The loss of financial support will then fall to the store, not DC.

2. While I will continue to post more batfam comics and continue my ongoing series, I’m going to actively include more of Duke and other black members of the Batfamily in my comics. Duke Thomas is severely ignored by both DC and the fandom, and I’m guilty of this as well. I’m also aware of Lucas Fox aka Batwing although I’m very unfamiliar with his character, and I will make an effort to read more of his issues.

That being said, here are a few concerns I’ve seen from people online, black or otherwise, that I’m also concerned about.

1. Lack of support for black creatives in the field.

The organizer has called for a blanketed boycott for all of dc comics, including comics being headed by black creatives as well as comics centered around black characters that aren’t in the mainline universe such as Absolute Green Lantern.

2. Lack of support for upcoming Pride issues.

Again, because of the blanketed boycott, people have expressed concerns about how it might LGBTQ+ community’s representation in comics and the intersectionality of queer black people.

3. Local Comic Book Store’s role in the boycott

The boycott has been quite sudden and gives comic book stores little to no time to react or adjust. People pulling their preorders means that they will have unsold stock and lose money from it.

Overall, I’m not an expert in this area at all. I won’t debate anybody on me “having to do this”. I want to show my support for black creators and people who just want to see themselves represented. Your decision on how you want to participate in the boycott, if at all, is up to you. You don’t have to participate, but you can still be supportive of it. I won’t tolerate any racism in the community I’ve garnered, along with any other bigotry.

I want to conclude this by acknowledging that I am a white queer woman, and although I do belong to some minorities, I’m not part of the black community and therefore, lack insight to issues and nuances to many situations. I do my best to listen to black voices and be actively against racism, but I have made mistakes and will probably make mistakes in the future. If/when I do make those mistakes, I will listen and apologize and change.

Sorry for the long post. Take care of yourselves and have a good day ❤️