The Ghost of Twentysomethings Past

35, they/them/elle/loro. Credit to @straycattrash for the pfp! '#tilting at windmills' is my tag for posts I think are useful for community-building and maintaining in various adverse conditions. The odds seem hopeless, but we try anyway. (And we stay silly :3) [Profile ID: A bespectacled cartoon possum smiling and holding a copyright-distinct Arizona iced tea can. End ID.] [Header ID: a photo of a public transit bus. Where the route number and name would be, instead the display says "NO? ?? ???????" End ID.] I do my best to add descriptions to images without an alt ID. I do this both to increase post accessibility and to preserve information in case of image takedowns (or site issues that affect images loading.) Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/quijotescx

[dragosballz]

movie called technically blonde where she goes to trade school instead

[inertial-reel]

No but you don't understand. Rocking up to Welding class with 100% barbie pink tools is such a POWER MOVE.

"Jeremy, I'd really like my orbital sander back ^_^"

"... didn't know it was yours..."

(Legit excited, no sarcasm) "Someone ELSE has the original Box 20-Volt Brushless Cordless Detail Sander with Dust Management?!?!?!?!"

"...no..."

Teacher walking up like "Miss Woods, is that a nail file"

(Elle, blasting compressed air to get rid of the nail file sand)

"Actually, its an emery board. But yes! :D It's a finer grit than what we have, and I've always found these easier to handle"

"...Ok, fair enough."

Elle making friends with the 6 year old daughter of one of her classmates. (Child care ain't cheap, I get it. Bring your kid to class)

Elle learning how to drive a forklift/motorcycle/semi-truck

Elle giving an impromptu lecture in the break room about what gifts to give their wives/girlfriends/mothers

Fucking laser cut "bless this mess" sign on her locker (I lied. It would totally be live, laugh, laser)

Elle's car breaks down and 20+ dudes coming out to show her how to fix it. (And realizing her mechanic is ripping her off)

Every single guy in the building filled with instant despair when she gets with one of the butch lesbians in the program.

Gimme plzzz

[kla1991]

Proposal: She takes her car to a mechanic and it's beat for beat like the original movie scene at the dress shop, where the mechanic *tries* to rip her off and she nods along and then eviscerates her with precise technical details.

The rest of Elle's class now shun that mechanics' shop and tell everyone else to as well, so that place ends up going out of businesss, which allows someone else in the class to open up a sparkling pink and perfectly trustworthy shop of his own.

[predishthefish]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[ID: comment from biomark saying "Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny." End ID.]

[baradragon]

all timer to me specifically

[mayra-quijotescx]

[ID: Post my maddi jo that says, "Zohran Mamdani, my country, Philadelphia, yearns for freedom." End ID.]

[hagiomoto]

Climate change, exacerbated by capitalist exploitation, is going to force more people to leave their homelands. Get more pro-immigrant and reject nationalism now!! We only have each other.

[parmandil]

their barbarous mass tourism vs my enlightened brief cultural visits

[parmandil]

beaten to the punch by Evelyn Waugh by a good century

[jaw8jaw]

Kate MccGwire, Secrete (mixed media with magpie feathers)

[night-dark-woods]

[ID: a conical metal bucket is tipped over, and out of it spills waves of feathers, arranged like wings or a viscous flowing liquid. the feathers are perfectly aligned down the length of it; at first glance it looks like a large bird with fancy plumage has its head stuck in the bucket. /end ID]

[door]

#that is a large bird whose head is a bucket.

technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,

[2rsquared]

I want a new character

[theprettyboysclub]

Then make one.

[deergirlslut]

Everyone talking about posts that changed their brain chemistry seem to be leaving out this classic, which probably propelled me into activism and more self confidence in a way that I cannot put into words.

[teathattast]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[Video description: A person in a safety vest sprays water so several pigeons can bathe. End ID.]

[feyburner]

Man at my job just told me to “hold your little horsies just a little longer ☺️” about the task I’ve been waiting for him to complete or at the very least update me on for six weeks. Brendan, I will fuck your adult son. You’re gonna start seeing me at family Christmas. Horsies in tow.

[soracities]

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

[soracities]

"anything worth doing is worth doing badly"............."not failing as he fell but just coming to the end of his triumph"......goodnight (it's noon)

[mayra-quijotescx]

Man. I tell ya what.

[fluentisonus]

do you ever remember the note the scribe left at the end of catullus manuscript G and want to burst into tears

[fluentisonus]

colophon from manuscript G (36 recto), trans. oakley

[depsidase]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[ID: Skeet from The Verge saying, "16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year." Link to article titled, "Why are people buying so many CDs?"

Brent O'Saur reskeets with: "CDs don't make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs." End ID.]

[yardsards]

was doing a first aid course and it kept talking about how when applying first aid to a child you have to ask the PARENT for consent and how the child's consent is not enough unless you cannot reach the parent. and then immediately after there was a unit on shaken baby syndrome, and then mentioned abuse as a common source of children getting injured. and they didn't see the irony there. i later asked the instructor what to do about parental consent if the medical emergency was from the parent abusing the child and she was like "you still need to obtain parental consent. you can report the abuse though" not even acknowledging how fucked the whole system is. i hate it here. youth rights now

[freegiftjones]

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

[chicknparm]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[ID: tag that says "#first journal entry in a video game diary with chew marks on the cover." End ID.]

[natalieironside]

The name of almost any newspaper could also be the name of a shitty cryptid or other woods monster. The Chicago Tribune is like a ghostly ancient Roman guy who haunts the streets of the windy city stabbing guys with his lil sword he's got.

[natalieironside]

If you look toward the horizon when the weather's just right you might catch a glimpse of the Washington Post outlined against the sky

[mayra-quijotescx]

The Philadelphia Inquirer haunts Old City late at night when the moon is waning. It'll come up to you and ask a question. If you answer it sincerely, it'll leave and take some of your memories of the thing it asked about with it. I think it eats them.

Its appearance is indescribable... mostly because no one who's encountered it can remember what the fuck it looks like.

[aurora-eos]

The New York Times is a wizened professor of mathematics who lurks the subway tunnels of the Big Apple forcing unsuspecting commuters to perform multiplication…without a calculator!

[natalieironside]

The name of almost any newspaper could also be the name of a shitty cryptid or other woods monster. The Chicago Tribune is like a ghostly ancient Roman guy who haunts the streets of the windy city stabbing guys with his lil sword he's got.

[natalieironside]

If you look toward the horizon when the weather's just right you might catch a glimpse of the Washington Post outlined against the sky

[mayra-quijotescx]

The Philadelphia Inquirer haunts Old City late at night when the moon is waning. It'll come up to you and ask a question. If you answer it sincerely, it'll leave and take some of your memories of the thing it asked about with it. I think it eats them.

Its appearance is indescribable... mostly because no one who's encountered it can remember what the fuck it looks like.

[clockworkrobotic]

Its frustrating when non-horror people come into horror spaces and ask why we like violence and watching people suffer and sexism and all other manner of moral hand-wringing, but i also find it frustrating when horror fans (myself included) attempt to sincerely engage with these questions. Like 9 times out of 10 the question is either being asked in bad faith, or the asker is genuinely confused, and neither of those types of people are prepared for a proper answer about how horror reflects the cultural landscape or the complex relationships between the genre and gender and race etc and they definitely aren't ready to hear about the real facet of sexuality and eroticism in basically all horror media

horror is an easy target for pearl clutching but you can subject pretty much any genre to the same criticism if you frame it poorly enough. Oh you like romance movies? So you enjoy watching men stalk women and violate their boundaries? You think cheating is okay? You think its cool when women give up their careers to get married? I dont like or watch romance movies but based off my limited understanding thats what they're all like, etc

i think we need to just start responding to bad faith questions about horror with "yeah i thought it was awesome when The Killer fed all those teenagers into a wood chipper"

OP IS A BIG SCARY TRANSGENDER WHO GETS HORNY ABOUT GORE. TERFS FUCK OFF AND DIE 🖕🖕🖕