let my song be love, always love

tess - she/her - not only an adult but an parent - icon commissioned from @shop5

[mortalityplays]

if you spend your life bitching and complaining about the fact people are 'expected' to engage in the dreaded pointless banal '''small talk''' instead of learning to trade pleasantries with the people around you, you will never know the true and heady joy of doing a dumb bit with a complete stranger and as a result your soul will remain small

[x-i-l-verify]

#my favorite bit is when i wear my wrist braces in public and someone asks if I got hurt#and I tell them something patently insane #'I got into a Kung Fu Battle with the local canada geese' insane #and realizing that We Are Playing A Game #they will Yes And me #'Oh yeah they've been taking lessons from the squirrels' they nod #and within two minutes the lady cutting my fabric at the quilt store and I have a whole bit about the urban animals all being in rival dojo #The grandma behind me chimes in that the fat raccoons under her porch must be doing Sumo

[homunculus-argument]

The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.

With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.

[urgentkettle]

Articles written by neurotypicals will be like “ADHD children find the external motivation of the SAW traps is very effective. Here’s how to build SAW traps to maximize their productivity.”

[snoopylovessoup]

[avadaniels]

"Scrooge learns the true meaning of Bisexual Awareness Week" Make Some Noise Season 3 Episode 11

[kuttithevangu]

The other day a neighbor asked if this toy has a name and I didn’t want to admit that my mother calls it “his carcass”

[dingdongyouarewrong]

man y’all remember when the avengers movie came out and everyone headcanoned that all the avengers would live together in the tower and had all these cute posts about various fun ways they could interact and then the movies literally never had any of them even be friends

[mycroftrh]

I want to state, for the record, that “all the avengers would live together in the tower” wasn’t collective headcanon, it was canon. The very last scene of Avengers (2012), the one they left us on, is Tony redesigning the tower, designing a living area for each Avenger. That was, canonically, what was supposed to happen, in canon, and they just changed their minds and decided to… not. For whatever goldarn reason.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

GHHFDGJHFDS THATS EVEN FUNNIER WHY IS MARVEL LIKE THIS

[magpiesketchins]

The entire Discworld fandom on the 25th of May.

[eliotheman]

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media

[lemonylemus]

Great example

[tuiskuh]

As a woman who is both gender non-conforming and who is planning a pregnancy in the near future AND who works with children, I am very invested in the conversation about the confines of femininity, the complexities of motherhood and the fascistic expectation of women to have children. I also often find it deeply frustrating.

I do not think it should need to be said, but unfortunately it absolutely is, that nobody should ever be forced to become pregnant, be a parent or carry a pregnancy to term. Ever. This requires both complete and total abortion rights & access but also the dismantling of the gendered expectation of women to want and need children. Remaining child free should not only be possible for women, it should also be normal and completely accepted. Anything else is oppressive.

However, I am deeply bothered by how many people who share these views talk about children. I have come across many posts describing children in cruel and dehumanizing ways, emphasizing how gross and terrible children are and how much of a burden they are to their parents. This, I think is also wrong.

Children are a particularly vulnerable population. They often have very little rights and autonomy and are at the whims of adults around them, which makes then particularly vulnerable to abuse. Children are real, fully realized people who have very specific needs and considerations. Constantly discussing how disgusting and terrible children are, means attacking people who have no power and cannot defend themselves, legally or otherwise. These views cannot be separated from calls to remove children from public life, like parks and transportation, the practice of which is both dehumanizing and oppressive. This goes hand in hand with the gendered oppression of women who are unfortunately still often the primary caregivers of children. Forcing children out of the public sphere means forcing mothers out of it too. And the right to not have children needs to go hand in hand with the right to have children. Women need abortion rights and access but they also need the right and access to give birth for free. They need robust childcare and child & family friendly infrastructure. Otherwise the only people who can afford to have children are wealthy elites.

The rights of women to not have children and the rights of children and mothers go hand in hand. They are not contradictory. Being a parent is a complex relationship, one wrought with a long history of violence and oppression of children and women. It is not easy to navigate, and nobody should be expected to do it. Simultaneously, the people who do decide to do it deserve help and support, not scorn or mockery. And most of all, children, all children, even the annoying, dirty and screaming ones deserve a safe loving world that sees their full humanity, respects their perspectives and their bodily autonomy. We are all a part of creating that world for them. Society should be about being good to each other, and that includes children too.

[demo]

Passing through Times Square by Mareen Fischinger

[gifs-of-puppets]

Sesame Street (1969-Present)

[lovebeyondmeasure]

the barista at the university bagel shop where I was getting breakfast just called me Miss and my married 30-year-old office worker mom ass is going to be riding that high all day. my outfit did not immediately scream church secretary??? thank you so much

[jeronandor]

DIEGO LUNA on CASSIAN ANDOR

Rogue One Interview (2016)

[jyndor2]

@chamerionwrites these tags were too good

[theheliumtaxi]

@jyndor2 / @jyndor

I know that this post is over a year old, but I'm still mad at what season 2 could have been. It would have been amazing to see the writers connect the dots between and not wanting to join the rebellion and dedicating everything he is to it.

Like, if they really needed Cinta to die, I would have preferred to see Cassian be put in a position where Cinta is left behind during some escape and if he chooses to go back and save Cinta, he would guarenteed fail the mission. So you see Vel yelling at him to turn around and he chooses not to. He chooses the rebellion over his friends. Over Vel's love.

Vel would never forgive him and he doesn't forgive himself either. He swallows it.

We would see the process of him hardening himself for the sake of the rebellion. We would see him learn that in order to succeed, he needs to learn how to lie and betray the people he loves and trusts. Because he truly believes it is worth sacrificing everything and everyone he cares about.

Have him choose to lie to Bix. Have him lose Brasso in a way that actually MEANT something.

Ugh if only, if only

[kness]

Just gliding through 🦦

[coolestguyonearth]

I'm the #1 time travel fix-it fan like yess send that blorbo back in time to save the future but destroy the world they knew in the process!!! let them give everyone a happy ending while they have to deal with leaving their versions of those people behind

[beedsm5]

everyone always says they'd kill hitler if they had a time machine but personally? you can find me rolling up the Ronald Reagan Residence with a shinzo abe 3000 in tow

[plasmapop]

09/04/2026 • every time @softinvasions writes a villanelle about how sonnets suck i write another suckful sonnet*. metrical malpractice!

*sonnets do not even have to have 14 lines if you are pure of heart and sonnetpilled enough