Whatever this mess is

Here, Queer, You All Should Fear I am over 30, if this fact makes you uncomfortable please leave my blog. If you are under 18 please leave my blog.

[jkottke]

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

[kaity--did]

Tonight on My Husband Doesn’t Know How to Baby Talk

“Ma’am, are you aware that these, right here are your hands? They belong to you. And you get to decide what happens with them. So when you use these hands to pull your binky out of your mouth that is not necessarily a dad problem. I’ll fix it obviously i just want you to acknowledge it’s not my fault”

[kaity--did]

Husband: ma’am it has been reported lately that you do in fact have tiny little toes and a little button nose, do you care to comment?

Penny Rose: Babbles in Baby

Husband: RIVETING!

[kaity--did]

Penny Rose: Does that High Pitched Baby Yell ™️

Husband: Let it out friend! Feel your feelings!

[kaity--did]

Me: Hehehe silly husband doesn’t know how to do baby talk

All of tumblr collectively at my husband:

[kaity--did]

Penny Rose: does a sad baby scream

Husband: you don’t even have to understand taxes yet! I can explain them but you’ve got several years before that’s relevant!

Penny Rose: wide eyes, staring at her father, almost intrigued

Husband: I lied to you Penny your mother does our taxes. Do you want to know about arbitration? I know all about arbitration.

[kaity--did]

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND

yes he just walks around the house and talks to her like this

[kaity--did]

Penny Rose: Cooing as twinkle twinkle little star plays

Husband: Now Penny there is a lot of misinformation out there in the world and I hate to tell you this but the moon is in fact not made of cheese. That is a conspiracy theory pushed by Big Dairy.

????

[kaity--did]

Husband: Holds Penny Rose up to her reflection in the microwave

Husband: you see Penny Rose! This was the M. Night Shyamalan twist! You were mirror baby all along!

[kaity--did]

FYI this is how you get a Deals Warlock if you were wondering

[justplainsalty]

I have follow up questions:

1) Did you participate in baby talk to make up for your husband's deficit, or did you also opt to speak to the Deals Warlock like a very tiny adult from babyhood?

1a) If you participated in baby talk with Penny, did she ever do any code switching with you while she was learning to talk (I mean, babyish talk back to you but fully formed adult like you share with us to Lawyer Dad)?

[kaity--did]

I didn't baby talk with her very much either! I think I squealed at her more than my husband did.

Something funny that has happened is that while she formally calls me Mama when she's answering me in passing she does call me "My Darling Love" and I don't know for sure but I think it's because I call her and her father "my loves" and her father calls me and her "darlings" and she's created a mash up 😂

So I'll say "okay penny it's time for bed" and I'll just hear "okay my darling love!" 😂

[kaity--did]

Everyone is always so so kind on this post but I do want to warn you all that this did in fact lead to an insanely verbal child, and if you choose that life you have to commit to that life.

Penny Rose is now 5 years old and she

1. Starts talking the moment she opens her eyes to the moment she passes out at night

2. Asks, and I am not exaggerating I counted, an average of 892 questions a day

3. Does not accept "I don't know" as an answer to said questions, will usually have a follow up question as to why you don't know OR a suggestion on how we can find out together

I pay for limitless data and have 709 Google tabs open on my phone at all times

[s-nnoh]

someone made a website where you can declare your favorite pokemon & why. let's all see if every pokemon is someone's favorite... Together

[sxsg-moved]

:) every pokemon is someone's favorite

[mysharona1987]

[patrochilles-or-bust]

"Here's Why You Won't Be Invited Inside My Shoeless Home"

[cosmic-liopleurodon]

My jaw fucking dropped. What a gross person.

[groovysarity]

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

[mrshamill]

everything about this is gold. Er, platinum.

[otterloreart]

ok then why didnt you

[otterloreart]

In honor of this post getting way too many notes i made this

Shes dedicated to all the people who missed the point

[otterloreart]

some people really aren't getting it so i need to clear something up, let me hold your hand through this

^^^THE SAME COMIC. THESE ARE ALL THE SAME.

[noah-wyles]

i'm sobbing inside at how cute this is

[lakevida]

free the nipple has to make a resurgence for a number of reasons but bro look at our upcoming eternity of wet bulb temps youre smoking straight up cock if you think im keeping a shirt on when it hits 105° in new england

[lakevida]

everyone tits out with a parasol is such a beautiful world to imagine that the fact it doesnt currently exist fills me with equal parts fire and misery

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[cleaningouttherooms]

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines

[auujehjrgnmuuoingjoskjcnjsjshdo]

[archerinventive]

Some flowers from the garden for your Friday.

🌸

Years of tilling, propagating, weeding , composting, and just general dirty work have led to a space that brings me and my fellow housemates a sense of pride and tranquility.

Soon, all that hard work will be coming to the shop later this year with a new batch of garden inspired items.

Stay tuned for more information, but in the meantime, don't forget to smell the roses and get your hands dirty once in a while.

Have a lovely weekend all. 🩷

[skeletomez]

[frogayyyy]

how do you usually read a chaptered fic on ao3?

enitre work

chapter by chapter

secret third option

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

personally i always use the entire work option. i only ever change to chapter by chapter if i’m trying to find something

[kedreeva]

Absolutely fascinated by how your mind works. I only read chapter by chapter, and only switch to entire work if I'm trying to find something. Because then I can press control+F and find it no matter which chapter it is in... without having to click around between multiple pages. What about chapter to chapter makes things easier for you to find?

[raccoonmilf]

Fun fact: due to the ongoing financial support from the people of tumblr, critically endangered pygmy raccoons being rehabbed in Cozumel are now able to get vaccines for deadly diseases like distemper and rabies before they are released.

[leebrontide]

The funniest and most enduring legacy of dashcon.

[raccoonmilf]

To contribute to the critically endangered pygmy raccoon fund, you can donate:

On the website

On Venmo

On PayPal (make a note that this is a donation for pygmy raccoon conservation)

[imaginarylands4000]

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[sydney-y2k]

Prevsie I'm not gonna lie you might actually have a point with this. Give yourself some credit!

[devonia]

The premise of the post is flawed. Not only is it very difficult to prove such a statement, but what evidence there is suggests the OP is completely wrong.

Olderthannetfic and friends did some stat exploring and, yeah, no. If anything it looks like fics with graphic depictions of violence are taking up a higher proportion of fics than they used to.

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There is a real trend towards fascist garbage in culture generally, but there isn't really any evidence for the claim made by op.

[polysucks]

sorry to call you out but i think your tags are too important not to be seen as well

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

[headspace-hotel]

Saw this post and I had to go in the notes to see if anybody actually investigated.

what y'all are talking about in regards to pastoralism and coffee shop AUs is like. The broad concept of romanticizing things or of presenting an idealized version of them.

And like, yeah, fascists definitely romanticize some things, but when talking about fascism we gotta delve a little deeper than "this thing has a similar 'feeling' to this other thing, so therefore they must have similar underlying ideologies."

But more to the point, I don't know that there is a shift toward fluffy or escapist stories.

[naryrising]

And without knowing the context of who wrote or who is reading that coffee shop AU, you can't say why they enjoy it or what they're getting out of it. Do you not think there might be a slight difference between a retail worker writing a fic where their own job or a very similar job is actually fun and rewarding and leads to love, and a lawyer or doctor writing that fic, and an independently wealthy person who has never actually worked a day in their life writing that fic? Do you think it might actually make a difference what any of those people is looking for in their preferred form of escapism?

In summary:

1. No actual evidence of an increase in this type of fic or of a change in its level of popularity.

2. No information about who are the primary audience or producers for this type of fic, or what they themselves think about it.

3. Sweeping conclusions based on vibes and "this thing reminds me of another thing" rather than actually any kind of evidence.

Do the work if you want to make the claim.

[theashesofthefirststar]

This post does a great job of explaining why the whole cozy game/fic = fascism feels so reductive. It also assumes that people engage with 1 type of media only. A person enjoying escapism doesn’t mean they don’t engage with other types of stories for different reasons.

[renee-niles]

I'm reminded of that quote about fantasy, asking who is concerned so much with controlling people who want an escape, and the answer being jailers.