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You can call me Wren! I'm a 28 year old nonbinary, disabled dollop living in Australia. (she/her ♀ or they/them ∅ pronouns please) I'm an aries and an INFP and I'd love to be friends w you! (Not a spoiler free blog)

[straytheskies]

its 3 am and im tire d and someone posted this strategy board in ffxiv and im crying

[frawgs]

apparently vic’s vapor rub goes exitinct ? i’ve been using the same vapor rub for years and apparenlty it went bad in the 2010s ..

[frawgs]

expired .

[morganicapples]

[holedyke]

obsessed with this pic from the wiki for kneading (cats)...eternal sweetness....

[directactionforhope]

Every time you catch yourself going, "Fuck, are humans just inherently evil and naturally inclined to selfishness and harm???" you HAVE to remember that that's literally a core ideal of Christianity.

So if it feels inescapable and like evidence of it is everywhere, whether at times or always, that might just because you're in a Western country where you're surrounded by Christians who believe that, fundamentally, in their worldview. And also they talk and make art about it all the time and run the vast majority of news outlets. And spent over a thousand years burning any art or texts that disagreed with them. Etc. etc.

If you're gonna come to as drastic and painful a conclusion as that, at least take the time first to make sure you're not working with biased evidence (surrounded by too many people and cultural products that believe original sin is real)

And if it turns out the feeling WAS partly the result of cultural Christianity, then hey, that's great news, because it means there's that much (and it really is SO MUCH) less evidence that humans inherently suck. Which is good, because we don't

[sir-aroun]

The weird thing is "humans just inherently evil and naturally inclined to selfishness and harm" is largely a Protestant thing. Catholicism and Orthodoxy just don't think that. Orthodoxy Does not thing Hell in ethereal, and for all we joke about the Catholic Guilt, Catholicism is fairly clear that it believes all people are good at their core because humans where made in the spiritual image of God, and it when you cut yourself off from that part of you that you Sin. (Not Christian btw, just a storyteller)

[directactionforhope]

Ooh, do you have any sources on this? I would love to read more (and gods do I miss when search engines worked)

[robotmango]

when i forget to log into ao3 and i have to click proceed to see an adult fic, i actually get a kick out of it. like i am an old timey queen and my bard is apologetic: “gentle lady, dicks doth touch in this next ballad. would you prefer another?” and i give him a gesture of command like, “nay, you may proceed, minstrel. bring forth the tale of dicks”

[kinkyfuckeryoftas]

This post is so old I almost forgot why I think “proceed with the tale of dicks” every time I click on it now

[robotmango]

imagine how i felt the other day when i tried to get into ao3 on a new device and blithely thought, “ha, i think i saw a tumblr post about this once.”

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Watching her shows with her so she knows I care to participate in her interests and hobbies

[ot3]

one of my favorite types of media to experience is stuff that i know in another lifetime i would have been absolutely obsessed with as a kid/teen. going through something as an adult and being like yeah that was pretty good. however if this had made its way to me when i was 12 years old it would have fundamentally altered me and i hope it's fundamentally altering some other 12 year old out there right now. that's the good stuff.

[3artho]

He’s leaky and old, like pick a struggle (part 1)

[boybeetles]

We should start doing this for all artists actually

[june-pippinpaddleopsicopolis]

TIL that Piandao from Avatar: The Last Airbender was based on Sifu Kisu, a black (or possibly blasian but that hasn't been verified) martial artist who is the fighting instructor and consultant for the Avatar franchise. He connected the four types of bending to actual fighting styles to make the fights more authentic.

[knightlyaffair]

a knight will always recognize his prince... even if it's been 10 years and his highness has amnesia ⁉️💭💫

[ewaneneollav]

you’re one of the three survivors after the apocalypse & the other two are visibly passing one of theirs’ phones back & forth having a secret conversation in a notes app

[natjennie]

hey if anyone that loves project hail mary wants to make themselves MORE emotional about space stuff!!!! you should play I was a teenage exocolonist!!!!

[3liza]

i dont think KNow Your Meme gets enough credit for how seriously they archive information. i use them as a historical research source constantly. i personally have never found any false information on their site, im sure they make mistakes and i just havent personally seen any because i havent happened to be well-versed in the particular event where the error was made, but the format of their research is extremely citation-heavy. this has been especially true of how they link to tumblr posts that originated memes etc. no one else is keeping track of this information in this way

[almondmilkbitch]

superbat is a bad ship name. it should be manman

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[imagine-darksiders]

[sasha-on-the-side]

Been talking about this with friends so I present to you, the cursed spectrum of media literacy