This Ain't BC

old enough to know better

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

got curious because idk how well-known this is internationally so:

Are you familiar with twist bread/Stockbrot?

Yes; I'm German

No; I'm German

Yes; I'm not German

No; I'm not German

Nuance button

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[verushkak70]

I need the button for "I am [1/4] German"* AND "I learned this in Girl Scouts" - "nuance button" doesn't quite cover that

*we were frequently babysat by our German-born, German-speaking maternal grandmother who lived upstairs - then downstairs, when her knees got bad - and had subscriptions to Amerika Woche and Meine Familie Und Ich. She sometimes picked up copies of Stern and Der Spiegel when she went to the German grocery store and apotheker. Our German cousins came to visit us in the US many times and we've visited them multiple times too. Four years of German in high school, several semesters in college, but that was a few decades ago so my German is rusty these days.

[recolored-classics]

Lunar night (1899) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[apolladay]

Do you have a dedicated tumblr blog for fandom/(topic), or do you say fuck it and post everything on one?

*yes, dedicated main blog(s) to topic

*Yes, dedicated side blog(s) to topic

*no, we ball, multi-fandom/topic blog

*Other? (elaborate)

Do you have a dedicated tumblr blog for fandom/(topic), or do you say fuck it and post everything on one?

yes, dedicated main blog(s) to topic

yes, dedicated side blog(s) to topic

no, we ball, multi-fandom/topic blog

other? (elaborate)

Remaining time: 1 day 13 hours

[earlgraytay]

God, there really is nothing like 20s detective fiction to remind you that prejudice is a social construct.

You'll have a story with a crossdressing thief which is mildly transmisogynistic but completely devoid of modern vitriol; it literally comes off as "here is a fun oddity that lets me be Clever about French grammar"

And in the very next story you will learn fifteen different slurs for Italians

[jesterlesbian]

what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender

[lucyaudley]

Also Blue Moon (northern Wisconsin) and Gingersnap from a local place where I live now.

[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

[catgirl-kaiju]

[apolladay]

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

Voting ended onJun 2

[dankxsinatra]

American naturalization test

[roycohn]

the thing about being a homeschool abolition hardliner is that people always want to come to you with some bullshit sob story about how you hate disabled people because they were bullied for being autistic and homeschooling was so amazing for them. and it's just like well unfortunately homeschooling is also a widespread tool of coercive control in child abuse used by christofascists to raise kids without the tools they need to function in the world so that they will always be afraid, dependent, and unable to think critically and discern right from wrong and truth from lies. so unfortunately i do think this is a situation where in order to prevent enormous harm to untold numbers of children those bullied kids who just don't wanna go to school are going to have to suck it up. (and in reality what i always propose is a more robust system of alternative/magnet public schooling set up for kids who are basically on grade level but who DO struggle to thrive in a mainstream setting, but nobody ever wants to hear that, they just want to guilt you for not thinking anyone who ever gets picked on should just get to stay home and play vidya and do all their lessons on zoom. and it's like honestly i don't think you're having this argument in good faith bc you are very much centering hypothetical discomfort you MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY have experienced over, again, widespread child abuse and neglect. so.)

[roycohn]

so i watched the netflix documentary about piper rockelle yesterday and i would like to once again humbly suggest that homeschooling be permanently abolished and perhaps even criminalized

[cardassiangoodreads]

You learn that the homeschool lobby is literally the reason the USA is one of a single-digit number of countries that never ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and you just aren’t the same since

[talonboot]

take my mermaid quiz boy

If you were a mermaid, what animal form would your lower half take? Are you a slithery eel, a powerful shark, or maybe a colorful reef fish?

[willgrahamscock]

almost 9 thousand likes I can’t take it anymore, it’s gonna be illegal to ship sasuke and naruto soon

[eluaofhearts]

“Let’s normalize kicking people’s sandcastles over and eating their ice cream from out their hand and unbuttering their lobsters”

[missionlameturtle]

#the children lack imagination and whimsy #this is dire

[asha-mage]

The thing is Robert Jordan looked at the high fantasy genre and saw it was full of healers who are soft spoken, demure, and passive, then said "None of you have ever met a med student"

And wrote Nynaeve al'Meara.

[missionlameturtle]

heated rivalry got me contemplating researching ottawa labor laws

[just-your-average-tangerine]

[the-big-mood]

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense