Ummmm

[problemnyatic]

the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.

[problemnyatic]

You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it

[problemnyatic]

you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.

[livseses]

Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."

[tartrazeen]

And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[msmeeeeeeee]

I just...I love it.

[oh-good]

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

[msmeeeeeeee]

#still a better Wuthering Heights adaptation than that quotation bullshit

[msmeeeeeeee]

I figure folks I've recently followed/interacted with might like some token of my being an actual person, so here are kelpies drawn by me and my preK kid who is utterly fascinated by them, especially their most gruesome aspects.

I do not need AI to draw a creepy flesh eating water horse. Aa you can see, I perfected my horse art technique by the age of 8 and have refused any impulse to improve since then.

I was on Pinterest for a while and kept seeing all the Tumblr hype and this place is in fact as refreshing as for profit social media in 2026 can be. Which is not to endorse for profit social media in any sense. But people actually write long things, and read them here and I like that. Among other things that I also like.

I have a handful of tags I follow at this point but please don't think these are the limits of my interests/priorities/values. I am open to recommendations and conversation, and to sharing more about myself as needed to create safety for others while maintaining safety for myself and my family.

Hopefully that all sounds sincere and not Fed ish. I'm not sure if feds on Tumblr is a concern.

K thanks say hi!

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth

Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.

“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.

Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”

[cephalopodvictorious]

Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.

The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie

You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19

[moosepower]

I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.

[witchofpumpkinspice]

"I asked ChatGPT —"

Well, I asked Samwise Gamgee, and he said that, in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass, a new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer, and there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

[nico-nd-the-ninrs]

“We should have a president that is x!!!”

“We should have a president that doesn’t do x!!”

I’m sorry to break it to ya, but any president in this country is gonna be horrific to the MENA region. White, black, Asian, gay, no matter how leftist, whatever. The idea of a president (as we have it specifically in the US, not talking about other regions!) is a white idea. We must dismantle it.

“We should replace the country with x ideals!”

“The country needs x.”

Wrong again! This is indigenous land. We need indigenous ideals, and wanting to replace one white man’s ideas with another white man’s “better” ideals is still colonization!!

We need indigenous sovereignty. We need landback. We need MMIW2S to be a major focus in this country. We need to care for the indigenous people of other countries and their rights, and stop?? Blowing them up???

It sickens me how this country’s decisions are majorly decided by nonindigenous people. It sickens me how many people want to replace that with another colonizing ideal. Landback forever and always

[ivyroseiris]

People who still believe in the 2 party system in the US only care about people who live within the confines of the United States and even then, only certain groups and 2024 made that so fucking clear.

Both parties are colonial & imperalist capitalists controlled by the rich who hold up the slave and military state that they control (Slavery is legal as punishment for a crime). The people in control of the democratic party more in common with the Republicans than any anti capitalist. Every single democratic president has been a war criminal. Look at how hard they tried to distance themselves from Zohran Mamdani, who, as a political entity, is less progressive than most people think (having Jessica Tisch stay as head of the NYPD and saying he recognizes Israel's right to exist) and yet they still tried so hard to go with Andrew Cuomo. Even within america, look at how the democrats act with indigenous people or those with disabilities especially, but even any other group, even tho the democrats will tokenize certain minority groups and then act like having a black woman as their presidential candidate makes them fundamentally different than republicans even tho policy wise, especially internationally, there is far less than most realize.

Yes, grassroots efforts will do good, but the entire system is designed to uphold what it has been doing since its creation which is hold stolen land, genocide the native population, exploit black people for their labor and uphold capitalism worldwide. The US is a duopolist oligarchy in the most positive interpretation of how it works.

The government needs to be dismantled and rebuilt entirely while honoring the treaties signed at minimum

[ladyofspoons]

Ursula K Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

cooking as ever. we gotta start using the term masculism to describe the centering of men in our view of society, and stop treating it like the default, unbiased view that is blatantly isn’t

[kairoses]

ive seen several posts suggesting earthsea as a harry potter alternative and while i fully agree that people should be reading things that are not harry potter it's also frustrating. earthsea is very much its own thing and (wizards and magic school aside. and the latter is the setting for maybe 2 chapters cmon) bears no resemblance to harry potter. theyre so vastly different that it doesnt make sense to portray earthsea as "harry potter but not problematic" and tbh im tired of seeing references to harry potter in the earthsea tag. can we just let harry potter die

[kot-czarnoksieznika]

I absolutely love how the wizard of earthsea is both a story that tacks off every cliche and trope, and one that is completely different from anything i have ever read

So cool

[morphmaker]

are there palm tree Ents

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"For a while he abode with them and aided them in the making of language; for that was their first work of craft upon Earth, and ever most dear to their hearts, and the fair Elvish speech was sweet in the ears of the Valar." - J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring, "Of the Coming of the Elves"

QUENYA NEOLOGISMS by @outofangband

[ID: an edit comprised of seven horizontal banners, each bearing a word in more ornate white script, and its definition and etymology in smaller serif font below. Top to bottom, the images show:

1: Iridescent feathers. Text reads "Calilqua," and below it "iridescence" and in italics "'cal-' (shine, light) + 'ilqua' (oily)" / 2: Sun shining through the green canopies of trees. Text reads "Narollasë," and below it "the smell of leaves" and "'nar-' (relating to smell) + 'ollassë' (foliage) / 3: Ocean waves on a clear day. Text reads "Ëarwesta," and below it "sea breeze" and "'ëar' (sea) + 'hwesta' (breeze)' / 4: A pearl forming in a pale nacreous shell. Text reads "Marilquilëa," and below "pearlescence" and "'marilla' (pearl) + '-quilëa' (hued)" / 5: Tree branches bearing white flowers at night. Text reads "Lómelótë," and below "night-blooming flower" and "'lómë' (twilight) + 'lótë' (flower) / 6: Bare branches covered with snow. Text reads "Minyalossë," and below "first snow" and "'minya' (first) + 'lossë' (snow) / 7: Moss and small plants growing on the surface of a rock. Text reads "Taurecaila," and below "moss" and "'taurë' (forest) + 'kaila' (bed) //End ID]

[swordfright]

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.