pull up a seat, stay a while

26, she/her, bi, perpetually exhausted

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[elucubrare]

i wish my brain were not full of gludge. i would like to be using it & because of the gludge i cannot do that.

[furryprovocateur]

i started reading this book and kept tilting my head at the comparisons the author was using so i started a running list of them

[furryprovocateur]

this author's use of imagery is so questionable

[furryprovocateur]

i actually went "what the fuck" and had to stop for like 5 minutes after this one

[furryprovocateur]

[blankpointdankmemes]

[matt-ruins-your-shit]

[spaceshipoftheseus]

Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.

This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.

[dirkbolero]

This is the most important addition to the sandwich discourse I have ever read.

[vetckkie]

girl get off that c.ai and embrace the 'x reader'

[carpenters3]

[the-itchy-bitchy-spider]

[catgirlforeskin]

wait THAT’S why my wife always says “son boy allowed” about our cat??

[gayvampyr]

happy 5 years to son boy allowed

[lliveonthesunn]

always wild seeing my kitchen decor from over seven years ago cross my dash

son boy is in second grade and loves pokémon, gravity falls, and legos!

[penandinkprincess]

i think i've posted this before, but ilya truly does deserve an award for his patience after getting woken up at fuck o'clock at the cottage for a five year plan strategy session when he was in the middle of a rem cycle.

like the way he asked "what is nur-ate-iv?" makes me think man TRULY was not catching all of the words getting tossed at him so fast the second his eyes were even a LITTLE open. like he wasn't asking "what story did you come up with?" he's asking "what word are you even saying to me right now?" man got like 0.2 seconds to be like "oh i'm awake now?" before he was getting PELTED with english because shane had a forty step plan that couldn't wait like. three more hours.

i would have hit him with a pillow and said let's circle back, so kudos to ilya.

[penandinkprincess]

this does make me think that if they have kids, ilya is going to be the default parent getting woken up for "i frew up"

in my heart, shane sleeps like a ROCK and is also non-functional if his sleep schedule is disrupted

so papa is the one getting little hands patting at his face at 3 am because his sleep isn't safe from daddy OR the kids

[penandinkprincess]

this also does mean that shane rarely wakes up in a bed with the same number of people it had when he fell asleep

either ilya is completely mia because he went to lay down with whatever kiddo came to get him and then fell asleep in their bed without meaning to, or shane wakes up to little feet pushing into his kidney or a little fist tucked under his arm or a kiddo sprawled sideways over him AND ilya in a way that canNOT be comfortable

shane always handles getting everyone put together and fed breakfast, but the first step of every morning routine is just a headcount to find out where everyone ended up overnight

[gaypoetprince]

@zouisalmightie

@shakespearerants

[penandinkprincess]

awww, also feeling very Soft about the idea of shane taking over when he clocks in for his shift

wakes up at 6 am alone and goes to investigate where his husband ended up and finds ilya curled up on a twin bed he's taking up almost all of the real estate on, their wide-awake child reading their little picture book while using him as a backrest, and shane picks kiddo up, sends them off to the kitchen to wait for breakfast and then *gentle smooch smooch until ilya stirs without fully waking up* hey. i'm sure twisting up like a shrimp is super comfortable and good for your back, but we have a king size bed, too, in case you forgot. just a reminder that you have some options here.

and then nudges ilya back to their room while he goes to get the rest of the house ready for the day while ilya curls up in still shane-warm sheets to sleep for a while more.

[penandinkprincess]

and shane CAN be partially roused, but his one move running on sleep brain is "c'mere" and now VERY strong daddy is holding you and you are NOT getting free until morning, which is not always a solution to a problem, which means ilya has 100% had to negotiate the release of a captive child from his husband's hold after papa has been woken for intercession because being squeezed is NOT a fix for "i frew up"

which shane??? somehow?? sleeps through???? like truly at a certain point it's just impressive

[penandinkprincess]

laughing and also awwww about ilya being lowkey kind of sad when the kiddos are old enough that they don't really wake him up at night anymore. like probably better for his health that he now gets full nights of sleeping without interruption, but i am feeling very soft imagining him being a lil sad to not be having "up at 2 am rocking an itty bitty back to sleep" or "curling up around one of their babies at 4 am in a tiny bed and telling them a story until they get sleepy again" time. at the time exhausting, but also very fulfilling and also a tangible sign that he's doing better than his father did. like HE would have NEVER considered waking his father at ANY age, so yeah tiny hands tapping his face late at night are bad for being rested but very good for knowing his children understand they can ALWAYS come get him when they need him. like yeah not great that their child figures out how to escape artist their crib (he blames shane and shane blames him for creating an acrobatbaby), but it does mean waking up to lil babby trying to climb the sheets to come cuddle, and even if it means his sleep being disrupted, handing off their child to shane to "c'mere" hold so ilya can wrap his arms around all of them and hold his family all at once is very peaceful, and he's more than a little sad for it to stop.

which does mean he faces his first month of not being woken up at night at all and one morning just snuggles up behind shane while he's making coffee and is just "heeeeeyyyyyyyyyy what do you think about another baby-"

[penandinkprincess]

GOD

and kid whose house their teenager is supposed to be at (who used staying at THEIR house as an excuse) also gets collected because they had gotten a ride from someone who isn't leaving yet even though the party is NOT fun anymore for young teenagers who just made one very bad choice that got out of hand, and ilya isn't going to wake up other adults at 2 in the morning, so other teen comes along and stays the night and gets a brief pause on facing the music from their parents until the next day.

but shane who still has a habit of doing a headcount of everyone each morning now wakes up to find?? a whole extra teenager in addition to HIS teenager who wasn't supposed to be here??? WHAT happened last night???

but also *shrug* breakfast for two more than planned, okay-

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What's this? The red-lined bubble snail (Bullina lineata), a marine gastropod. Bizarre and beautiful, yes?

[organiccyborg]

i am strange and i look like a peppermint. is that ok .

[kalichnikov]

There's lots of problems with USA public education but also a lot of you were just drawing Naruto characters kissing while your history teacher tried to tell you about the Scramble for Africa

[scavengerofcool]

They should make an anime about major history events actually. That way people could still ship the characters and be forced into accidentally learning things

[kalichnikov]

Shut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut upShut up

[valtsv]

what i REALLY want to do is knit my friends chunky wool sweaters in ugly patterns and send them jars of homemade jam and lavender honey and sugar-crusted shortbread wrapped in brown paper tied up with knotted twine and handwrite them letters on thick yellowish paper infused with dried wildflowers i picked and pressed myself but nooooo i have to “study” and “work” so that i can earn ‘‘‘money’’’ and pay ‘‘‘bills’’’. fuck all life.

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[okthisway]

#the beauty of tumblr is that any new show i start i'm able to say oh that's my friend. from gif.

[anomalousrobot]

That's my blorbo-in-law!

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

[the-haiku-bot]

The Rodeo Rule:

you only have to do it

for the first time once.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[kittysneezes]

I like this article because it’s not what you think it is.

[todaysbat]

This is up there with Master Pancake of Hoary Bat fame.

[2spirit-0spoons-deactivated2024]

3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

source

Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

[krellion]

Video transcription:

My fellow cis ladies, here's three transphobic arguments I want you to know now so you don't fall for them later because this is the hot topic gateway into conservatism for women.

Just to be clear, it's-it's-it's the Nazi kind of conservatism as well.

Remember "divide and conquer" is the name of the game, so don't be divided!

First thing transphobes are is they're gender essentialists, so they will tell you "men are inherently bad and evil and it's in their DNA, and women by contrast are good and fragile and precious." And it's the same logic as like "oh, women are more sensitive and nurturing, which is why they should stay at home." It's bullshit because women are not inherently anything, women are human beings with free will and idolization is just dehumanization with better PR [public relations]. I, as a woman, have capacity for evil, which makes my choice to be good that much more important.

Number two thing, and you will notice if you listen to TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] long enough is that they hate being women, they have a lot of internalized misogyny, they think being a woman is about pain and suffering. The attitude that women are predestined to suffer and men are predestined to make us suffer is a very defeatist attitude, it means that you can never see a future without misogyny in it.

And the number three thing, and this is the stupidest argument: They will tell you that cis men are pretending to be trans women to go into women's bathrooms. Men just simply don't need to do all of that. This is stranger-danger rhetoric which is based around this fear of "oh, strangers are the most dangerous thing to your child or to you" when it's statistically not true. Abusers are more likely to be people that you already know, which is bleak, I'm sorry, but that is the truth. Abusive men simply don't need to go to that effort.

Trans women are our sisters, they're our allies, and a world where a trans women is free and safe to express herself and her gender presentation as she wants to is a world where all women get to do that.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

browsing some dark romance titles for reasons (you know why) and ran into this in the blurb for The Ritual

what does it mean that they "require their blood in payment"? obviously it's a play on the idea of receiving payment in blood, but what do those words actually mean in that order? also and unrelated what the fuck do you MEAN the most powerful men in the world are a gaggle of college undergrads? Tyler from Intro to Psychology???

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

working at a university really makes any romance set among college undergraduates unreadable but ESPECIALLY the dark romances where they're supposed to be like sinister mastermind daddy doms. he's 20 years old dude. there's a good chance he doesn't know how to do laundry. I know a guy who was living in a house with 4 other dudes when he was 20 and they were all sharing one fork. that guy's not leading the college mafia.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I have undergrads who still ask for permission to swear and use the bathroom in non-classroom social settings. most powerful men in the world my ass.

[actuallysara]

According to The Nation, Heated Rivalry is now the most-watched, non-animated, show on HBO Max since the streaming platform launched in 2020

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.