non sum qualis eram

twenty-six || non sum qualis eram

[storybookprincess]

so today a group of 8-9 year old kiddos approaches my desk and goes “hey. we want to go to the downstairs part of the library.”

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

truly wish i could render this little scene artistically for you all it was a delight

[lesbianfl]

the best part of the princess bride is how it says that love is the number one motivation in life but! a close number two is spite.

[feastofsnakes]

hey sorry I snapped at you, I've just had a really hard day and [remembers focusing on myself is selfish] maybe it's your fault for provoking me?

[its-sixxers]

feel like shit just want her back x

[leavingautumn13]

some very rough pipers

[mayihavethisdanse]

Gday! If you’re still doing drawing requests(?), I think a cait drawing in 15 would look sick?

Yeah!

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[ailichi-deactivated20230730]

and also: “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” — simone weil, tr. richard rees

[argumate]

choosing breeds of Christianity like do you prefer austere and minimalist antisemitism and homophobia or ornate and baroque antisemitism and homophobia, or perhaps Russian antisemitism and homophobia?

[degenerate-perturbation]

In love with the usage of “breeds” here like

Catholicism owners: This is an 85th generation purebred system of antisemitism and homophobia, we feed it only the finest organic grass-fed teleological proofs for the existence of God

Protestantism owners: This is Luther he likes bigotry

[whetstonefires]

this is mean but also very very funny

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[charl0ttan]

im glad we're in the internet backwaters i think if dove chocolate or something replied to my post i would just keep reporting them for terorism again and again and again

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Life is about being stared at by various animals who already have food but are hoping for tastier food

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#getting stoically stared down by a horse who heard a wrapper crinkle and Knows You Have Mints

[earhartsease]

speaking of horses, the one who patiently followed us and a friend while she picked blackberries from a hedge, and then knocked her bowl out of her hands and ate the blackberries off the ground because he wanted them but not the bramble thorns in the hedge

[ovid]

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

[allbuthuman]

it's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror

[lakevida]

im going to drink a $7 light beer at the zoo and become the jane goodall of leafcutter ants

[kafk-a]

[byjove]

Everyday I see a nothingburger celeb gossip story about a celebrity being ‘rude’ to fans and it makes me so happy I am not big leagues famous. I’ve been recognized twice and once was that time I got nervous and said I was NOT Tumblr user [insert my URL at the time]. If I was a real celebrity, children would come up to me and be like “Hey! You’re Algernon [LAST NAME]!” and I’d be like “Not anymore, I just filed off my finger prints then I burned my driver’s license, draft card and birth certificate.” in a completely deadpan voice before fixing them in my unnerving autism stare. No amount of PR training could make me not a complete fucking freak.

[abbawkchio]

when i was a baby i was blessed by a stranger in waters YOU might not understand. i get it though