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sol | 23 | they/them i reblog stuff

[cabybapa]

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[vaspider]

So, like, we all know that fiction isn't reality. And also, at what point does "the faintest whiff of civil unrest means sexual assault, naturally" to the point where a dude's writing is like "2 pm, guys with swords charge the throne room, 2:02, women getting raped across the city" become ... like, sir, actually, I don't want to be in the same room as you on Election Night, just in case?

Just wondering.

[traycakes]

Normally including dark themes in a book don't mean the author endorses them, but I feel like when a fiction author insists over and over again that their grimdark books are "realistic" it's worth being concerned about how they think the real world works.

[vaspider]

Yeah, see, I think that is the thing that gets me. "This is just realistic!"

No, sir, I think this is Telling On Yourself.

[moonbeamdreams]

Fiction doesn’t HAVE to tell you anything about the author, no matter the topic. That doesn’t mean fiction CAN’T tell you anything about the author.

[vaspider]

There ya go.

[furryprovocateur]

stop writing fanfiction we need political assassins now more than ever

[furryprovocateur]

my impact

[valtsv]

to the casual observer it may look like i'm trying to summon a demon but anyone who knows me will realize that i am simply calling my wife

[underneath-the-skin]

The wife and the demon are the same person

[valtsv]

[an-anxious-gay-mess]

The fact that these replies would mean wildly different thing had they been said on a different platform, such as Facebook, is absolutely hilarious

[valtsv]

[sawnik]

me before getting to the end of this post

[hanavesinauttija]

[calebwittebane]

[brawltogethernow]

Discovered: equation that screams in agony at its own existence

[itsbeesknees]

Things that are better than sex:

1. when a masked character does the head tilt thingy

[rylandsgrace]

I mean.....

[deranged-joculatrix]

And then the search function doesn't work

[geckosquid]

AND THEN THE SEACH FUNCTION DOESN’T WORK

[outerspacekake]

"I am the library of Alexandria that never burns" screams @theshitpostcalligrapher

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

lmao on it

[cy-lindric]

I've just been made aware of this post and the fact my tweet on twitter about tags on Tumblr has breached containment back onto Tumblr is the funniest shit

[higgsboshark]

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

[cheskamouse]

This is a powerful positive message..

[pluckyredhead]

I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.

[adhd-informative]

This is really good advice for ADHD people because when executive dysfunction gets bad it’s easy to fall into this pattern of thinking. Do just one thing. It doesn’t have to be your homework, or a chore. It can be something small, it can be something you enjoy. But do just one thing to remind yourself that you can.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

This is what “humans want to be productive” really means

We want to make things. We want to do something and at the end of the process see that something has changed. We want physical proof that we did something. We want to be able to point at something and say “I made this”. We want to be creators

[dduane]

Why are you sitting here staring at this? Go make something. :)

[gamejoypod]

Amaury "Chocolate Guy" Guichon is undoubtedly an extremely skilled sculptor in chocolate but I think my favorite thing about a lot of his videos is the effort he puts into putting actual dessert food under the sculpture work

So many of his desserts & pastries have at least 5 layers of different textures & flavors. Fruit jams, caramel, cake, creams, mousse, cookies, meringue, crumb layers etc

That's what makes his work truly impressive to me, especially as someone who quickly got tired of the "knife that turns everything into cake" thing, where it was all basic chocolate cake buried under 13 layers of fondant

It takes amaury's work from an impressive stunt to "if I ate that, it would probably be the best thing I'd eat in my whole life"

[bagofbonesmp3]

didn’t know you were an only child…… don’t like that *goes back in time and impregnates your dad so you have siblings*

[triangleguy]

by fomajc on instagram. im losing my shit over this

[creature-wizard]

Okay y'all, going forward, this is what we're doing.

Shit's scary, I know. But we absolutely cannot afford to surrender to that fear, because that benefits the GOP. They want us to feel powerless, because they know we are not powerless. That's why they have so many shills and bots discouraging people from voting.

We will not demoralize ourselves and each other by doomposting in our moments of panic. If we have a panic attack, that's okay. But we are not going to spread that fear to other people in public. We will save our most scared thoughts for our private journals and close friends. And we will support our friends who are feeling hopeless.

We will remember that spreading awareness of Project 2025 and Agenda 47 has been hurting Trump. And we will continue to do this.

We will remember that right now, our only option is Biden, because without ranked choice voting, getting a third party candidate in is simply impossible. We might not like it, but that's why we're going to push like hell for ranked choice voting once we get his pruny old ass in to office for a second term. (And thank God, he can't have more than a second term; the Democrats will have to find someone else afterward.)

We will not spread conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are the weapon of the enemy. We don't need them.

We will not publicly mock Trump in all of this. Making Republicans feel even more victimized is a losing strategy. "But it's my blog-" I'm sorry, are you playing for political keeps or are you just here to fuck around and put everyone's life in even more danger?

We will emphasize the ways that Project 2025/Agenda 47 will hurt everyone. And we will keep talking about it.

We will remember that the UK and France have already avoided far right takeovers in their elections.

All right? You got that? Because we got this if we stick together and keep at this. Shit's bad right now but that doesn't mean it has to be bad forever. We got each other, and we can do this.

[emergency-broadcast-archive]

i swear to god i thought jerma was in the casket

[himydogsayswoof]

[cryptotheism]

Already seeing people say that Trump's assassination attempt was staged. Remember: no evidence, no conspiracy.

[cryptotheism]

Believing this was staged requires believing trump said "I need you to shoot me in the ear close enough to draw blood but not enough to kill me."

[generalissimo-kneedeepincynide]

All right ear me big sniper guy, it's going to be an attempted assassination, the biggest ever, you are going to shoot me close, like danger close but don't worry I'm the best president, really I'm the best and you are the best sniper, the best sniper in the whole country. So you shoot me near the ear, near enough that blood comes out, I know scary stuff, but we are tough guys, the toughest so you do it and I resist and together we make the best attempted staged assassination ever

[kingddundo]

The meowrails in Feferi’s coronation, best guards ever

[t4timekeeper]

romance is lame and overrated i love mentor/mentee relationships in fiction and especially when theyre sort of fucked up

[t4timekeeper]

greatest hits:

- You started out as a bet/challenge to see if I could successfully wrangle the infamous Problem Child but oh whoops I got attached!

- You are my kind, bright-eyed protegé who would never do so much as rip a tag off a mattress. anyway I am going to acquaint you with Criminal Activity

- I showed you genuine kindness and it was maybe the first time you’d ever experienced it and accidentally ended up becoming more of a parent to you than your “real” blood family ever was. Uh. Do you want to play catch in the park or

- I will gladly take any punishment meant for you. I would go to the ends of the earth to protect you, even if it meant I had to die in the process. I would do it a thousand times over, and I wouldn’t regret any of it.

- I taught you how to fight, and now through some circumstance or another, I’m forced to engage you in life-or-death combat without holding back.

- I put you through training from hell to make you the person you are today, for “your own good”, and now you’ve realized that you can hit back. And you can hit hard.

- I have made you into something greater than yourself - but you are changing from how I have designed you, and this is something I cannot allow.

- I taught you everything you know, and it was the greatest mistake I’ve ever made.

- I will make you just like me - by force, if necessary.

[t4timekeeper]

stop taggin this with ships / “and then they kiss” / “but what if it WAS romantic” you are missing the whole point of this post so bad. this is a Certified Aro Post. get weird about platonic dynamics NOW

[sizzlingcandyjellyfish]

NEVER be vulnerable. FLUSH your medication down the toilet. LIE when people ask how you’re doing. SUPPRESS your feelings. ALWAYS be irritable and abrasive. MAKE SURE you push away anyone who’s close to you. CANCEL your therapy appointment.