You’re holy to me

Owen | he/him

[twitblr]

Dormant Predators

[cypresscapers]

[loueejii]

This is why I have this. Even if they can get the lock opened they can’t push the door open. Got it at Lowes for $20.

[ocean-again]

reblog for that last bit to save a life

[smiling-grouch-deactivated20241]

If you’re like me and have a large gap under your front door (someone could take a stick and just poke the leaning stick style door jam out), I recommend the Addalock. It’s small, perfect for traveling, and this lock is CRAZY. It’s so simple but the door does not move.

You can’t see it from the other side, either. It also cost about $20, and I can’t recommend it enough. Easy to travel with, too! Great for Air BnBs!

[deminat-20]

That’s why I have these on my doors. They get drilled into the side and once its flipped over the door nothing is getting it open. Not the door being unlocked nothing, I’ve unlocked the door and pulled and pushed as hard as I could and it didn’t budge. When I go on a trip this is what I use and when I’m home I leave it on too. No one is getting in here.

[letsgetoutofspace]

Okay I know that it is necessary for many but what do you do if you need medical attention and you’re not able to open the door from the inside? Can the fire department get through these at least?  

[morgrimmoon]

Yes. The fire department can and will break down your door if necessary, it’s one of the reasons they have axes; it’s entirely possible for door frames to melt/expand/seize or otherwise become unopenable during a house fire but the door itself can be hacked down. Or the window. In rare cases, the wall. Firefighters don’t fuck around with collateral damage when lives are at stake.

[trini-lover]

Sharing for all the safety items!!

[inner]

Informative. Please share!

[star-trek-bingo]

All-Trek Bingo Event!

After scouring Tumblr for a Trek-themed bingo event, we came up empty. So we decided to run one! This summer, we’re running a Star Trek bingo event, open to fans of any and all Star Trek media. Check out our Rules and FAQ pages for more details!

Sign-ups will open June 1st and run until the end of the month, so if you’re interested keep an eye out for our sign-up post! Cards will be distributed on July 1st, and players will have until the end of August to make their works.

If you have any interest in creating fan work for Star Trek, be it anywhere from The Original Series to Star Trek: Picard, consider joining us, and please signal boost this post! If you have any questions, don’t be afraid to ask.

[writing-prompt-s]

When you learned of the god of war, you thought he’d be tall and muscular and angry. When you were about to meet him, you braced yourself for the worst.

You weren’t quite expecting the short, scrawny, shy kid you ended up getting instead.

[thestuffedalligator]

Olive skin, black hair, skinny, dirty face with pale lines where tears had sliced through the ash and dust. A white chiton dress and a threadbare shawl draped over her shoulders.

A pair of wings - huge, black vulture wings, far too large on her tiny body - were the only things that suggested she was divine.

The general shifted his weight from foot to foot. Obviously respect had to be given to gods, but… “Er - I’m sorry, I was invoking Ares? The god of war?”

The child god shrunk in on herself, and pulled the shawl over her shoulders. She muttered something. “Sorry?” the general asked.

“Ares is the god of slaughter,” the child god said in a slightly louder voice. “Not war.”

The general looked at the priest. The priest shrugged, clearly lost at sea. “Well,” the general said, “then maybe Athena? Goddess of tactics in war?”

“Tactics,” the child god repeated. “Not war.”

There was a long, ugly silence, as the huge vulture wings shifted with the whisper of brushing feathers. “My name is - was - Iphigenia. Daughter of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, commander of the Greeks who stormed the walls of Troy. When my father disgraced Artemis, and the winds of Greece would not blow her battleships to Troy, I was brought to Aulis. For my wedding, I was told. I was-”

She sobbed. Teardrops dribbled off her chin and fell to the temple floor. “I was fourteen. And then I was brought to the highest altar in Aulis, and - and then - and-”

Another sob. “I was fourteen,” she said.

The vulture wings draped over her, and she disappeared under the cloak of black feathers. When they parted, and when the child god looked up at the general, he fell backwards. Those eyes. Eyes he’d seen a thousand times in battle -

“I am the true spirit of war, general,” the child god said. “I am the goddess of bloodshed, of sacrifice, of the slaughter of innocents. I am invoked when men ravage, burn and pillage. I am invoked when mothers cry out, when sons die, when daughters are stolen. I hear it all, general. I have heard it all since the fall of Troy.”

The terrible wings opened up. The child god loomed over the fallen man, twenty, thirty feet tall. Somewhere, the priest was screaming. “How dare you call upon my name.”

[simon-says-nothing]

a guide on men's bathrooms

lemme tell you, when you start passing and trying out this scary ass world you gotta prepare- so here’s a list of stuff to watch out for

• don’t look at the urinal with profound bewilderment (trust me, it’s an URGE) • when a man nods at you while takin a thicc piss, nod back. idk why, it’s secret cis code • man says ‘how’s it goin?’ don’t hesitate, put on your best Straight Male™ voice and say ‘it’s goin.’ • usually this will be garnered with a gruff laugh, don’t smile or they will smell your humanity!! wash your hands and go bud. • don’t act like you ain’t meant to be there, you’re prolly more of a man than any of those fuckers so stand tall and stand proud • if someone glances at you weird, rather than thinking ‘shit im not passing’ realize that it’s probably just that you were so handsome that you just gave a guy his awakening!! congrats!!! • don’t back down. you both reaching to get that piece of paper towel first? be fast. be bold. crush your enemies. • a group of swanky men come in laughing? avoid. • business men? avoid. • friendly men? approach with caution. • nervous boy™? congrats you’ve found your kin!!! bless!!! • above all, don’t be too scared. it is horrifying at first but i promise you you are looking super manly today!! strut into that bathroom!! those losers that say dumb shit?? break their faces with a mirror!! • you got this!! you are valid my lovely masc-identifying humans!!

[selfmademen]

The best advice I can ever give someone is ACT LIKE YOU BELONG THERE. Seriously. If people think you know what you’re doing they will leave you alone. Go in, do your bizz, get out. Act with purpose and if you make eye contact give a nod and move on.

[gaycism]

Are there gay bugs?

[hundondestiny]

he performed this when he came to my school and that shit was funny as fuck especially because a lot of the audience was LGBT ppl and we like Got It he’s so ridiculous

[kiyokospeaks]

He’s also the guy who uses his twitter verification to pose as people and tweet ridiculous shit ie.

[officialqueer]

Jaboukie Young-White! He’s fucking amazing.

He’s currently a correspondant on The Daily Show.

[officialunitedstates]

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free:  pouring river water in your socks

[evilscum-deactivated20160223]

why would i do that lmao

[officialunitedstates]

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free

[digg]

[officialcyndilauper-deactivated]

now THIS is an ally

[beepothough]

Awe dude his sister died last year and she was gay.

And he had this huge mass wedding party to honor her.

And he called a bunch of celebrity chefs to make the food for it.

Wow this is… really cute?

I’m… sympathizing with Guy Fieri?

(And he did 101 gay weddings because he was trying to compare the Attorney General against marriage equality to Cruella DeVille, like, 101 dalmations.)

[somasis-moved]

THE TRUE UNPROBLEMATIC FAVE

[inactive1346597623595641352]

Come to think of it I never actually found a single reason to dislike him. To my knowledge he’s just a goofball who likes food.

[kxte]

how does one turn their emotions off

[jackasssed-deactivated20200128]

Okay so first go to settings

[jackasssed-deactivated20200128]

I’m a fucking idiot I thought that said emojis at first

[ssfith]

 no, im still willing to try this, go ahead, im at settings, what do next

[batsdotjpg]

idk what my gender is but it sure is pretty stabby

[synthetic-blanket-hairs-deactiv]

ITS THE

FINAL BRAIN CELL

*kazoo solo*

[ice-block]

Remember when someone on tumblr would post a rhetorical question like “I wonder why all us neurodivergent people love the rain so much” and someone would make up some garbage like “well you see rain carries negative particles (which is why you get depressed if you drink rainwater) and since neurodivergent people are depressed the negative particles feel natural to them uwu” and everyone would be like “thanks science side of tumblr”

[fallingnebulae]

there are reasons for this, actually!

tumblr is set up as what is scientifically referred to as a "factual state" - meaning, in short, that our brains perceive the majority of what we read on it as factual. (source) this is why there are so little colour schemes on it and why dark mode/low colour mode took so long to be implemented, as tumblr didn't want to mess this up. here's a list of colours which help to enhance that mindset and manipulate people into thinking that what they are reading is true - you'll see that almost all of the previous shades of blue used on tumblr are there.

but why is this a thing? studies have actually shown that tumblr aims to push information on us that will, actually, assist governments.

yeah. it's scary. that's also why tumblr was sold for such a low amount - because if it fit these specifications, it would have to be listed here; a site, for those of you that don't want to click the link, that lists all well known social medias that cannot legally be used to spread propaganda. which is also why facebook is up in arms about that whole political advertising shitstorm.

tumblr is generally advertised as the "shitty blogging website with bad staff" because they want to cover this with incompetence, or an impression of it - studies show that our brains are not able to link sinister means with a feeling of utter uselessness.

tumblr's users are often also struggling with mental health issues - it is thought that up to 68% of users may be depressed and therefore, easier to target with this information.

tl;dr is that you absolutely should not trust half the shit you see on tumblr, because unfortunately, up to 13% of blogs are only created to spread false information for a larger purpose.

additional sources:

a list of blogs confirmed to be spreading false and possibly harmful information

a list of topics that are usually filled with false information in posts

extra information on what governments are the worse for this and why

and, finally, what you can do to keep yourself safe from this

[ice-block]

Ok first of all I applaud your dedication to this and second of all I read every source and I encourage all my followers to do so as well thanks science side of tumblr

[tenderwiki]

reasons why people with ADHD lie

we didn't remember what was happening and our brain made something up we only later realized wasn't true.

no one believes us when we tell the truth so it's easier to lie.

we didn't realize we were lying until the words were already out.

we have a complicated relationship to truth in that we rarely know what it is until we're told/have it affirmed to us.

[myadhdlife]

We're embarrassed

[linguisticparadox]

we're gonna get yelled at for telling the truth anyway (because it involves some ADHD fuck-up or other)

[transloveletter]

the crushing fear of rejection we think will happen if we dont give the “correct” answer even if there is literally no wrong answer

[sir-libearian]

oh. Oh

[jabberwockypie]

- Look, you yelled at us and insisted that “I forgot” was a lie - when it wasn’t - so many times that we threw up our hands and said “Fuck it”. Who even knows what the truth is now? Certainly not us, APPARENTLY.

- It’s not necessarily a lie as such, but if I’m in the middle of a low-key panic attack, *something* will come out of my mouth and it may or may not be the whole truth, or the truth from a certain point of view, or somewhat random and unrelated, because I’m currently devoting most of my higher brain functions to keeping the panic from becoming A Problem

[creepyscritches]

I got BOTW and so far all I've done is grab frogs and ride my perfect pony boy Bing Bong everywhere But the plot points

[creepyscritches]

Bing Bong Bing Bong Bing Bong

[creepyscritches]

BING BONG BING BONG

[creepyscritches]

Big boy Bungus......

[creepyscritches]

[creepyscritches]

[creepyscritches]

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[kaity--did]

You really shouldn't have a cat with a dog. Especially a new cat. That's not fair to the cat. I understand wanted to give them a good home but cats don't really care for dogs.

We don’t have a dog. We have 3 cats. 3 equally sized cats. 3 cats who are all cats and all know they are cats.

See? Two of the totally normal baby cats getting along. The newest cat will come around but you know cats it takes them a minute to get used to their new surroundings.

Love our 3, equally small kitties.

[just-a-little-belle]

Ah yes cats don’t care for dogs. Not at all

[kaity--did]

That is a v good orange cat you have. Many good cats in this here picture

[a-dozen-moderate-fragments]

yep, just some totally normal cats

[kaity--did]

Those are some good lookin cats 👌

[rainywashday]

Cat is totally being treated unfairly by these vicious dogs.

[kaity--did]

Look at all the cute cats ya got there

[actuallypasta]

[kaity--did]

LOOK AT ALL THESE PRECIOUS KITTIES

[evilottoandfrenxxy]

[firefox-official]

love sleeping in guest bedrooms. they’re always just a Little off

[firefox-official]

blanket is tucked in too tight. headboard is too cold. fan is a little too loud. it’s incredible

[firefox-official]

lamp is just out of reach and it’s the only light in the room. the floor is carpeted but cold. it’s always 8 pm

[mulletlove-deactivated20200811]

everybody wants to claim anarchy until it means decentralizing romantic relationships, recognizing ego and how it feeds off hierarchy, confronting power and control in your own life, shifting better/worse & good/bad mentalities....dismantling the state means dismantling the violent state tactics you've internalized