lurking in the conner

She/her || 20+ || this blog is for fan art, shitposts, and else anything I want!

[everywaythatmatters]

I can’t stop thinking about this asshole of a spaceship and its very special secunit

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

I keep making people realize they’re nebularomantic

[shreekofjoy]

Which means?

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Due to neurodivergence I experience romantic and platonic feelings as the same type of feeling, or more as a spectrum than two hard categories.

[plural-puppygirl-polycule]

thats not normal??? (I say, while nothing about me is normal)

[viorosery]

There's a word for it?!?

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Yep!!

[embers-braincells]

chat i might be nebularomantic, ive been (internally) describing myself as "queer and autistic abt it" and yes, im pretty sure im nebularomantic

thanks wren :3

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

You’re welcome lol.

Labels only matter for the use we get out of them. But it helps in a society so focused on the divide between platonic and romantic, that it’s okay to not have that hard line.

I just think people are neat.

[astreanightfang]

Wait....

Wait...

Wait.....

WAIT!

Thats not how everyone does it.

What?

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.

[quixoticanarchy]

i do not want to live in the fucking panopticon fuck the camera that blinks above me at work, the tv watching me at the store, the "smile you're on camera" signs, the ring cameras, the flock cameras, the apps to track your child or partner, the activist friends telling me "just assume everything you do in public is being recorded somewhere", the government building protester databases, the teslas recording every move all around them, the knowledge that everything i type or search or save is being tracked and logged, the ads and search suggestions that mysteriously know what i was just talking about, the way biometrics keep creeping into more places, the way my car spies on me, the way my phone spies on me, the way there is nowhere to go to get away from it!!! no wonder the internet is full of vindictive little stalkers and witchhunts when it's the water and the air of society from the culture to the infrastructure

[what-even-is-thiss]

Religion in fantasy worlds: Everyone believes the exact same things about Green Nature Goddess and has official rituals for her that are the same everywhere

Religion irl: Technically it’s heresy for me to worship this skeleton but my spiritual advisor said that it’s legit so I’m gonna keep giving it offerings of yogurt

[what-even-is-thiss]

Religion in fantasy worlds: We’ve gotta pour water over this statue or else the god will get angry

Religion irl: We’ve gotta pour water over this statue? Why? Idk man that’s just what you do. Just do it alright.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Religion in fantasy worlds: These are the rules. The rules are law. Nobody can break the rules.

Religion irl: Okay you say that there are “rules” but how exactly are we defining “rules” here? Like is a suggestion a rule? How are we defining suggestion? No come back. Listen. Are we going by nuance in the original language or are translations fine or-

[what-even-is-thiss]

High control religions/cults recruiting in fantasy worlds: Join us! For we shall all eat the moon! This is a legitimate position to have!

High control religions/cults recruiting irl: We have free snacks. That shirt looks sooo cute on you btw. What, you heard that we wanna eat the moon? The media is always telling lies about us you know. We may have some unorthodox opinions about the moon but, tell you what. Come get some snacks, make some new friends, maybe chat about the moon a bit. See what you think. We’ve got pizza.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Religions in fantasy worlds: We must make a sacrifice to appease the gods! *draws up a sacrifice circle and completely destroys the sacrifice*

Religions irl: We must make a sacrifice to appease the gods! *has a communal barbecue*

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[pitbush]

i want a thousand tough guys and i want 1000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher and i want them in this order: soft soft tough tough soft tough tough tough soft tough tough soft soft soft soft tough tough tough soft tough soft tough

[kikmessenger]

applyinf to be one of the guys but not twlling u which one. So leave room for a “?” 😼

[pitbush]

Ok so u can put wrenches 🔧in your own plans at home but please Dont🛑✋🛑 put wrenches in my plan. because myplab is flawless.

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[earlgraytay]

I do not disagree with this at all, but there's something you have to keep in mind whenever you're studying the classics: everyone used to live on the edge of a knife.

Everyone- kings, priests, 'nobles', scholars, craftsmen, and ordinary people alike- was subject to the will of the harvest and the will of the weather. One drought was enough to cause mass famine and mass death. Five years of bad weather was enough to destroy a kingdom.

50% of all children born- to king or slave alike- would die before they reached the age of 5. (In the worst shitholes on earth today, that number is 14%. In countries with access to proper medical care, it's less than 1%.)

A lot of stories written in the past- Greek myths, the Bible, the Torah, or Chinese legends- caution people against hubris. If you are living at the edge of a knife, any risk you might take doesn't just harm you. It harms your family, your community, and (if it's bad enough) possibly the entire world.

If every man in your village goes off to war and plays hero, you might not have enough men come back to harvest your crops. If you leave your family behind to go off and seek your fortune, and you fail to find your fortune, you're risking your family not having enough to eat, your children (or your parents) dying while you're gone, or dishonour and scandal on everyone you care about.

....If you have access to Tumblr, you no longer live on the edge of a knife. Your society has enough food to feed you, regardless of a bad year; if you take risks, the person they're most likely to impact is you. We've invented wings of steel that can fly so high that there is no "air"; the sun is no longer our enemy.

You have the power to be happy in a way your distant ancestors could never have dreamed of. They fought like hell to get you here. Reach for it.

[apricops]

on Tumblr you can just pile up some dirt wherever you want and someone will decide it’s a hill to die on

[yukinnn]

Hopping on the nostalgia train.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Adult Calvin is a tattoo artist named Panthera who is the bassist in a terrible metal band called Captain Napalm and Hobbes helps do faer E injections

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame

[parawyrm]

[parawyrm]

@madnessbrainworms pointing at you

[hymnism]

making a collection

[putridghost]

Wait I have more

[acemingo]

[badassdemonsword]

Hey... we heard you have bug mush. Its been 10 minutes since we had any bug mush

[daciancatamite]

"my great grandmother who survived 3 wars and raised 10 children by herself while working in a factory watching me go to therapy because my parents yelled at me" ok but your great grandmother was also miserable. maybe your great grandmother would be happy you try your best to not be miserable

[daciancatamite]

like have you considered your ancestors wouldve wished to see you be less miserable than them

[reasonsforhope]

We are still here, as human beings, because millions and millions of us - since far, far longer ago in our history than recorded time - have looked at the world, and said "I want my children, and my children's children, to have a better life than I did."

Maybe your parents and your grandparents and great-grandparents were among those people - or maybe they weren't, personally. Some people admittedly aren't.

But every human alive is part of an uninterrupted line of hundreds of thousands of years of descent (and that's only since we became Homo sapiens).

We, as humans, have created and built and invented and learned and treated and cured so, so much. Because we kept looking around us, and looking at the people around us, and saying, "I want a better world for the people I love. I want a better world for the people who will come next."

Or perhaps think about it this way:

Would you want your great-grandchildren (or the great-grandchildren of your loved ones / family / chosen family, if you'd rather) to be miserable?

Or would you want those children to take care of themselves, and be kind to themselves, and do their best to find peace and joy in their lives?

[captaindibbzy]

Recently my dad handed me my granddad's pit token to pass on to my brother when I next see him.

The pit token (and locker key) was something my grandad had when he worked in a coal mine. Every day he would have it over and receive his safety lamp, and go down the pit to mine coal. At the end of the day if there were any tokens left on the board then they'd know that there was still someone in the pit.

My grandad was an intelligent man. He was politically motivated, wrote letters to the local MP, read countless books about many subjects, listened to a wide variety of music, etc. But he worked down that pit for years to pay for a house and home for three kids. He broke his back down that pit. When his best friend died he locked himself in his shed with a bottle of rum cause obviously Men Don't Cry and he couldn't be seen. He fought in world war 2 and killed men in battle, and he never spoke about it unless asked.

My brother has a masters. He attends therapy. Has his own son now, and he worries about the world. He works in an office, and while he would like to do something he is passionate about rather than admin, I don't think my granddad would ever begrudge the kind of man my brother has grown up to be even if he didn't fully understand it. He wouldn't wish that pit on anyone.

[boccher]

ocean.com/fish

[elegant-paper-collection]

ocean.com/fish/careers

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

(Also, mod will be searching for a fish career for the next few days. As in, I will be on vacation to a beach! Posts may slow down)

[yellow-dress-basil]

Since the Paralympics are happening and I’m seeing all sorts of people saying “See? This person doesn’t let their disability stop them!”

I would like you to remember that Paralympions are OLYMPIC LEVEL ATHLETES.

How would it feel if I compared your output to that of a literal olympic athlete and used that to justify not helping you or giving you what you need?

Oh, well Michael Phelps and Simone Biles can do it - why can’t you?

Thats how you sound.