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@lifelongpadawan
this is like looking at the original draft of the constitution
genuinely cant stop thinking about whatever early human first looked a literal wolf full in the face and thought domestication would be fun but ALSO cant stop thinking about the ENTIRE early human tribe that absolutely did NOT think to stop them
HOLD THE PHONE
Slightly related: I read a book by Rick McIntyre, who was official Wolf Guy at Yellowstone Park for 25 years (and studied wolves for 40 yrs total). He describes how, when theyâre alone, wolvesâboth adults and pupsâwill pick up sticks or bones or bits of animal skin and toss them around to entertain themselves, the way you might toss a ball up and down. They essentially play catch by themselves.
So if wolves do this by themselves, in nature, that means that we saw them playing this game and thought âhuh, that wolf enjoys fetching the stick itâs throwing for itself, maybe I could throw it further and it would like that more?â And thus began our two speciesâ mutual favourite game to play together
But the point is that they invented fetch
they made fetch happen
THEY MADE FETCH HAPPEN
When you have a chronic ailment, you hear all the time âI could never.â
Oh, you cut out dairy/gluten/ect? I could never. Oh, you do self injections? I could never.
I could never deal with that much pain. I couldnât live with all those doctor appointments. I could never stay in bed all day, Iâd just get so bored! I couldnât do it, I couldnât live like that, canât couldnât wouldnâtâŚ
Please stop implying to people with something chronic that youâd rather die than go through what theyâre going through, and take a minute to understand that their treatment isnât a hobby. Itâs survival.
Yes, people with chronic ailments ARE incredibly strong. They ARE doing things you think you couldnât ever do.
But theyâre the same things that they likely thought they couldnât ever do until they had no other option.
Yes. Often, someone with a chronic issue sees a notable decline in their quality of life.
That doesnât make it less worth living.
You could do it if you had to.
âI could neverâ is not the empathetic response you think it is.
Just finished reading Maus for the first time and this part really spoke to me.
"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
"I don't ship poly Scooby Gang because I hc Velma as a lesbian"
You small minded fool! Observe!
whoâs gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?
okay
these are the executive functions. impairment of these functions is executive dysfunction
Oh.
OH
Girl, help. None of my executives are functioning
every fucking time I see this I miss the "7 month old" part, then when I see the image I fucking lose it. god fucking dammit
kitten, stop fucking around and tell daddy where you hid his prozac or daddy's gonna add another 'hey there delilah' to the sex playlist
why do you guys only like my bad posts
hi prev i read all my tags anyway my wife watches house and she says youâre right
my body is a temple but it's from one of those ancient sects of Christianity that evangelicals have never heard of and the walls are crusted with icons and relics and artwork you can't interpret and there's moss growing everywhere and it's been witnessing miracles for thousands of years and it would horrify most mainstream American Christians
In before I start seeing people bitching about rainbow capitalism MY favorite rainbow capitalism story is about Subaru. Yes the Japanese car company.
In the nineties, they were struggling. They were competing with a dozen other companies targeting the main demographic at the time: white men ages 18-35, especially after a failed luxury car launch with a new ad agency. âWhat we need is to focus on niche demographics,â they decided, and then focused on people who enjoyed the outdoors. The Subaru was excellent at driving on dirt roads that many other vehicles couldnât at the time, so it was perfect for all those off-road campers; they started making all-wheel drive standard in all their cars to help with that. And the people who wanted cars to go do outdoor stuff? Lesbians.
Okay. Of course it wasnât only lesbians buying Subarus. Theyâre on the list with educators, health-care professionals, and IT people. But the point is, this Japanese car company interviewed this strange demographic (single, female head of household) and realized one important factor: They were lesbians. They liked to be able to use the cars to go do outdoorsy stuff, and they liked that they could use the cars to haul stuff rather than a big truck or van. Subaru had a choice to make then. They had four other demographics they could market to, after allâthe educators, the health-care professionals, IT professionals, and straight outdoorsy couples. Their company didnât hinge on this one âproblematicâ demographic.
And they decided âfuck it,â and marketed to lesbians anyway. This included offering benefits to American gay and lesbian employees for their domestic partners, so it didnât look like a cash grab. (This was not a problem. They already offered those in Canada.)
Yes, there was some backlash. They got letters from a grassroots group accusing them of promoting homosexuality, and every letter said theyâd no longer be buying from Subaru. âYou didnât buy from us before, either,â Subaru realized, and ignored them. It helped that the team really cared about the plan, and that they had many straight allies to back them up. There was also some initial backlash when Subaru hired women to play a lesbian couple in the commercial, but they quickly found that lesbians preferred more subtlety; âXENA LVRâ on a license plate, or bumper stickers with the names of popular LGBTQ+ destinations, or taglines of âGet out. Stay out.â that could be used for the outdoorsâor the closet.
Subaru said âWe see you. We support you.â They sponsored Pride parades and partnered with Rainbow Card and hired Martina Navratilova as spokeswoman. They put their money where their mouth is and went into it whole hog. In a time where companies did not want to take our money, Subaru said, âWhy not? Theyâre people who drive.â And that was groundbreaking.
It wasnât blatant, it was cheeky and pretty low key, but really really effective. It played into the âif you know you knowâ vibe in exactly the right way.
Oh THATâS why lesbians love Subarus
Not the only gay car
@identifying-cars-in-posts please help I need to know this one
1980-1987 Saab 900
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Yet another example of capitalism not rewarding the actual artist/inventor/producer of a particular thing. If you want to get ahead in this system, it's not about hard work or innovation; it's about owning capital.
St Irenaeus was not having it with your misogyny.
(Attributed to St. Irenaeus in the Commentary on the Hexaemeron attributed to St. Anastasius of Sinai. Scott Hahn quotes this somewhere but incorrectly cites Book I, Chapter 10 of Against Heresies.)