The Grasshoppers Ate Joliet

Remember when I posted about video games all day? Those were good times. they/them 30 to 40 years old and do not need this

[theweirdwideweb]

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Ramirez Street, Los Angeles, California.

[chuck-wills-widow]

Strawberry Moon of 2025, Southern Maine USA

[stars-bean]

☀ The Addams Family ☀ | 2.17 - "Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama"

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Antibaar

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[annina98]

[lesbiandarvey]

this was flirting

[ked-r]

I'm so sick of every post about education having so many people going "actually school is bad because it forces children to conform to capitalistic standards and (whatever buzzwords that sound leftist and progressive and yet fall in line with the active right wing efforts to push minority students out of education)".

Sorry that you had to drop out of high school. You're like 32 now. You can stop going to every post about education and talking about how evil school is now. I

[ked-r]

It's just so crazy to be perpetuating the idea that education is incompatible with disabled children at the same time that republicans are trying to repeal the policies that mandate that schools accommodate and teach disabled children. Like?? Are you stupid???

[sprinkledsalt]

I think the skeleton key to understanding most tumblr discourse on education is that, when you push past all the buzzwords, they’re not arguing for increased accessibility, but instead buying into plain old reactionary anti-intellectualism. They act like even valuing education is elitist and classist and ableist and every other -ist that you can think of, and it becomes abundantly clear from interacting with these people that they’re compensating for their own lack of curiosity about the world, failures, and unwillingness to learn anything or read a book (which is why they do often claim “no one taught me this in school!” about a basic fact and get offended at people who tell them to use the phone they’re using to look it up). They use disabled students as a shield against their own inadequacy and act like expecting students to do anything they don’t want to do is oppressive because they’re still mad they had to write a book report in middle school instead of sit and watch movies in class with their friends all day, but kids don’t have the knowledge or life experience to know that of course it’s important to learn reading, writing, critical thinking skills, basic math, etc. or else you’re really going to be at a serious disadvantage in life as an adult. But these people are still mad at their teachers, so they say all of this education is frivolous and a waste of time and smhhhh we shouldn’t be teaching students how to do math, that’s icky and difficult and it’s oppressive to challenge students in any way, we should be locking these students out of a college education (which is evil and elitist anyway) by not even trying to make math more accessible to them and instead bring back home economics and teach students of color or disabled students how to clean and cook—because leaving the hard academic subjects for the middle class white kids doesn’t sound Republican at all, right? 🤪

[hartsnkises]

Alan Turing and Ada of Lovelace did not invent computer science for the girls and the gays to claim they can't do math

[ryebreadgf]

the sexiest thing a woman can be is a cringe fujoshi with a very serious day job

[ryebreadgf]

fujoshis with serious day jobs have skills and competencies you can only dream of

[cepheusgalaxy]

wanting to see more Black whumpees like me just absolutely getting it like really being shattered to the ground and kicked while they're down then crying their hollow eyes out for my sadistic pleasure vs not wanting to perpetuate the fetishizing glorification of violence towards Black bodies by colonialism&racism 😍

[cepheusgalaxy]

anyways it is very important to be aware of that kind of stuff bc we live in a racist society and its very easy to perpetuate systemic violence even in the little ways (im not perfect myself and like im somewhat more lighter-skinned than my peers even so i dont feel the hit of racism as roughly as some of them do) BUT for what its worth i think its a very worthwhile line to walk. whump is also about the validation of pain & exploring suffering while humanizing your unlucky main character and Black (+ other nonwhite) characters should get that too. make your nonwhite whumpees cry their eyeballs out and feel hollow in face of the world today #myagenda

[cepheusgalaxy]

they also deserve tragic backstories + sweet caretakers + the reclamation of bodily autonomy in recovery + identity issues + drowning in the puts of utter despair + generally have the world time of their lives while an audience sympathizes with them. it shouldnt be just the white boys who get it. hold my hand. let's put our Black characters through such hellish torment that they come out on the other side feeling a tangible gab between who they became vs who they used to be. together.

(still on the same vein, this post by @/creatingblackcharacters is a pretty nice resource to start out i think every now and then i reread it i think it has nice things to keep in mind)

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[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[what-even-is-thiss]

I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like “just get bob to do it he’s got a good few hundred years left” and then bob doesn’t teach anyone else how to do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

Elf: How have you kept this castle maintained for a thousand years if your lives are so short?

Human: We just train new people how to do it?

Elf: *gears visibly turning in their head*

Human: Are you alright?

Elf: I just realized that we didn’t have to let that whole city fall to ruin just because my grandfather died.

Human: What?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Human: Wait that’s why there’s ruins of elven cities even though you live for so long? You just keep not asking people how to do things? How do you learn anything?

Elf: There’s a lot of “you’ve got time to figure it out on your own” attitudes floating around in our society that I’m starting to question somewhat.

[unassimilatedsoul]

Elf: That sword, where did you get it?

Human: My cousin made it.

Elf: Impossible! Those metalworking techniques were lost a hundred years ago!

Human: What do you mean lost? My great-grandmother learned to make these swords from an elven smith, then taught it to her kids.

Elf: That's ridiculous. No elf would give such secrets to a human.

Human: They didn't. Meemaw delivered the metal to the forge, and no one kicked her out when she stayed and watched. She always said they barely acknowledged her even when doing business with her, like she wasn't worth noticing.

Elf: Come to think of it, my great-uncle always was rather single-minded when he started working.

Human: So he wasn't ignoring her, he just forgot she was there?

Elf: Oh, he was definitely ignoring her, too. He was super racist.

[nevver]

Arrival, Valentin Pavageau

[mariacallous]

[parentheticalaside]

Everyone that says he’s dead, I’m like, “Okay, so you’ve never had to deal with a death because you have no clue the logistics or emotions involved.”

Like, let’s just set aside all the rules associated with a death and how many people you would need to keep a secret — people who are completely disconnected from Mitch McConnell and would be happy to take a payment from TMZ or the Daily Mail in exchange for proof that he’s dead — and focus on how you’re talking about a rich man. I guarantee you that there’s a family member who wants their share of his estate. In the rock paper scissors game of sins, greed trumps secrecy.