[bapouro]

i was looking through medieval drawings of demons the other day and i found the demons that make you gay  

[teamrocketing]

this is what an ally looks like

[yellovv]

they’re officiating their weddings

[phemiec]

YA books: There are 2 boys, the protagonist girl HAS to date one, but how can she choose? They are so incredibly different in every way!

The boys:

[liminalspacetime]

He literally has a twin brother but the implication here is much funnier

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in a constant state of hysterics over how one of the founding tenents of western religion is that humans literally murdered god bc of politics

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I loved the Artemis Fowl series as a kid, and it's still fun to read as an adult, but if I ever met the protagonist in real life I'd have to put every last modicum of willpower I possess into not punching his lights out on sight

[that-random-fangirl]

Omfg actually same, Holly would also kill anybody who laid a hand on him though

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holly, Holly the elf, Holly who has canonically punched and tased him on multiple occasions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a superhero on an intergalactic adventure trying desperately to save the world in record time so she can get back to the birthday party her wife is throwing for Jennifer, their adopted 2 year old

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

she travels through the universe, periodically interrupting battle scenes to remind co-workers and hostile alien entities alike that she has to be home by 5 to help her wife wrap the presents

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

her co-workers are unsympathetic, to the surprise of the friendly alien delegate they picked up along the way. Kr'zkex thinks it's nice the hero is supporting her wife's desire to "properly celebrate Jennifer's first year with her new family". the other heroes on her team groan every time she brings it up

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in the end, she saves the world just in time. Kr'zkex gifts her with a priceless magical space orb "for Jennifer." the hero makes it home with minutes to spare, kisses her wife in greeting, and tosses the orb to Jennifer, who promptly starts batting it back and forth with her paws bc Jennifer is, in fact, an adopted 2 year old housecat.

[thevoiceofmadness]

me: .....uhm?! the mastermind author:

i am so impressed with how that turned out

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

Stop vilifying adults that live with their parents.

We’re still deep in one of the worst economic recessions of modern times. For many of us its not a choice but a requirement in order to survive. For many of us we have disabilities that make finding accommodation that suit our needs a lot harder and a lot more expensive.

Many of us pay into the household. Many of us are trapped in abusive households because we don’t have the means to leave. We aren’t moochers or afraid to leave the nest. The world simply isn’t built to support us anymore.

[solitarelee]

This is actually an incredibly western (and specifically American) thing. In a lot of other countries and cultures it’s NOT AT ALL uncommon for an adult to still live with their parents. As a second generation immigrant, it’s BEWILDERING to me. My cousin still lives with our grandmother; it’s important. She needs someone to watch after her, and she has the space… why wouldn’t he? This obsession with “adults” being “fully independent” of their parents is a fully American, bizarrely capitalist notion and it needs to be stomped into the ground.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Reminder that in the U.S., multigenerational households were very common (if not the outright norm) until the 1950s. Young people living at home–and being raised in large households that included grandparents and cousins–was pretty damn normal until around then.

You know what happened in the U.S. in the 1950s?

A HUGE boom in consumerism.

Massive conservative backlash against the progress made by women’s rights, and by progressivism in general

After WWII (which the U.S. managed to make an enormous profit on), suddenly the country was full of people* with credit–which meant it was up to corporations to give them a place to spend it. Throw in the Baby Boom (lots of new couples getting married & having kids), the rise of highways & automobile culture, and the desire that a lot of powerful parties had to see a return to “traditional” gender roles, and you get the uniquely American product:

The Suburban Nuclear Family

It was brilliant, from a marketing and white male conservative perspective. What better way to convince all these newly lucrative consumers to part with their money than by selling them a house–and a complete set of household accoutrements to go inside it? Everything about 1950s media was aimed at convincing young couples to buy a house, buy a car, buy furniture, buy a sewing machine, buy a garage full of tools–and above all, don’t live with your parents & adult siblings, who probably already own many of these things. Don’t share resources–that’s Communism! And worse, it’s unAmerican.

Coincidentally, did Suburban Nuclear Family Culture also reenforce patriarchal power structures within the home, by isolating women in their own families & marriages (which drastically enables abuse), and giving children fewer adults (grandparents, aunts and uncles) to supervise their wellbeing? Did it cut off people who weren’t the “head” of the household from community resources? Did it enable domineering family men to control their families away from prying eyes–or encourage that sort of behavior in men who otherwise could have ended up being decent enough parents & spouses, with better cultural influences? Did it train generations of us to grow up into perfect little consumers, overworked and underpaid and struggling to afford independent households we can’t mantain? Did it permanently alter our definition of family & community in a way that decades later we have not recovered from?

Yes, but it also made a lot of businessmen very very wealthy. What’s more American than that.

Keep reading

[alpha-beta]

Tags: #not a shitpost#long post#serious post#and when that model didn’t end up being sustainable–guess what?#many of us DID go back to living with other people.#except now it’s often with roommate and even complete strangers#or with parents with who we have an unhealthy relationship#(which is in many ways a direct inheritance of the shift to ‘traditional’ family values)#and now even those of us who of lucky enough to be living with family members we love and get along with#are constantly told to feel guilty about that bc how ‘lazy’. bc you aren’t 'contributing’.#in a society where 'contributing’ is very suspiciously synonymous with consuming andoverworking

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“survival of the fittest” simply means survival of those most fitted to their environment. it has nothing to do with brute strength

humans have survived so well in so many environment bc of our adaptability. our ability to fit ourselves to our environment is extraordinary, and by far our most valuable survival strategy

our adaptability relies on community. we were able to survive in ways that other species were not–in particular able to survive injury & individual hardship that would be fatal to less social species–through interdependence. 

in humanity’s case, it was never “survival of the strong.” it was “survival of the social, and of the community.” 

when you perpetuate the attitude that only the “strong” survive, you are ignoring a million years of evolutionary history that screams otherwise. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Just checking in to make sure you’re doing ok. Here’s a picture of a family heirloom from my mom’s side of the family, no one knew it was a weed necklace until I said something. Have a good day.

The SOUND I made, u made me wake up the Cat, she was NAPPING

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

being american like “my politics are considered radical bc half my country’s wealth is controlled by like 12 people and i think that should not be the case maybe”

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

catboy this, catboy that, it’s nice they released new pokemon but some of us already outgrew the fandom ok

[flightofbats]

from purely purrsonal curiosity, what do you think the evolutionary tree of a catboy is

[kai-couldnt-think-of-a-name]

Kittenlad -> catboy -> lionking

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

…i would be interested in seeing the concept illustrated

[fwoosheye]

I get this is probably nowhere near what you wanted/expected, buuuuut….

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Oh my stars people actually made art

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

classic vines but they’ve been reshot hollywood style. a man stands over a cliff on a stormy night, his coat billowing in the heavy wind. rain-drenched, hair whipping about his chiseled features, he turns to the camera and–in a voice hoarse with betrayal–gasps: i can’t believe you’ve done this

[youre-drinking-embalming-fluid]

Midnight. The detective bursts through a locked door to see a shadowy figure perched on the windowsill. The body of the Prime Minister sprawls on the ground, hardwood floor growing steadily darker around him. The curtains fly back as a gust of wind sweeps through the study - and in the next blink, the figure is gone.

The detective rushes to the window, but there’s no trace of the fugitive. They stare out into the shadows of London, and exclaim;

“What the f*ck, Richard?”

[purr-positivity]

Well deserved rest

[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

If you're celebrating Biden's win, consider celebrating by donating to a bail fund, planned parenthood, or the Navajo Water project.

Your action to help the marginalized shouldnt end at presidential candidates and voting.

[populus-tremuloides]

To add some more:

Navajo/Hopi Covid Relief Fund

Critical Resistance, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and abolish the police

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, working to end violence against indigenous women and children and provide resources for the MMIW campaign

Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political campaign pushing the Green New Deal and climate legislation

Industrial Workers of the World. Unions.

And of course it’s always a good day to venmo, paypal, or cashapp black, indigenous and other POC in your community, or donate to your community mutual aid fund.

[anarchopuppy]

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

The International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund (and you can get some rad stickers and other merch from it too)

RIP Medical Debt - this one’s cool, they buy medical debt in the same way debt collectors do (for much much less than the value of the debt) and then simply forgive it. What that means is every dollar you donate erases $100 of debt. You can’t ask for a better value than that

[firstfullmoon]

“I know what I want: an ugly, clean woman with large breasts, who tells me: what’s all this about making things up? I won’t have any dramas, come here immediately!—And she gives me a warm bath, dresses me in a white linen nightdress, braids my hair and puts me to bed, very cross, saying: well what do you want? you run wild, eating at odd times, you could get sick, stop making up tragedies, you think you’re such a big deal, drink this mug of hot broth. She lifts my head up with her hand, covers me with a big sheet, brushes a few strands of hair off my forehead, already white and fresh, and tells me before I fall asleep warmly: you’ll see how in no time your face is going to fill out, forget those harebrained ideas and be a good girl. Someone who takes me in like a humble dog, who opens the door for me, brushes me, feeds me, loves me severely like a dog, that’s all I want, like a dog, a child.”

— Clarice Lispector, from Near to the Wild Heart, tr. Alison Entrekin

[thepoisonroom]

friendship is when you hear the stupidest most annoying thing you've experienced in your life then immediately share it with everyone like

[oak23]

Unpopular Opinion but rich people shouldnt be designing things for poor people

[botanyshitposts]

footage of my moss ball herd in 2043 about to smash the aquarium glass with the intent of devouring a small child