I only have one love

butts

[oliviawhen]

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

[no-mere-mortals]

Someone is filling out a form and asks for your full name.

How do you tell them your name?

Just say your name

Say your name, but you’re ready to spell your first/last name

Immediately start spelling

I don’t have a name/I’m bald/my name doesn’t use any known writing system

Voting ended onOct 9, 2025

[radicalgraff]

"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever"

Seen in NYC

[raviposting]

Oh my god, what is your problem with me? What, I can’t even breathe now? Um, for starters, maybe because you hooked up with my best friend’s boyfriend? 

SCHOOL SPIRITS 1x08: MADISON’S BODY 

[myonetruebutt]

I love how many songs that the right hates get played on the local radio station of my small conservative town. I also love how the little old ladies who run the religious charity thrift stores know all the words to unholy.

[sacredcitycenter]

[seeingeyecatgirl]

[luthienne]

girl help i’m starting over again for the 1000th time & i’m beginning to think that life is a never-ending cycle of starting over & i actually have to make peace with that in order to move forward

[goodnighthorses]

I’m so mad TikTok the app shares its name with Ke$ha’s 2009 hit TiK ToK. Undeserving. Nauseating

[humming-fly]

Every now and then I'm reminded Real People with Actual Jobs use tumblr and I've always been legitimately curious what all you weird adults are up to when you're not on this site and with tumblr's New Poll Feature I can finally get an answer! (or the closest approximation of an answer possible with only 10 available options h a)

What job do you currently have (or plan on having in the future)?

Deals With People (customer service of any kind, waiter, hospitality, etc.)

Professional Nerd (engineer, programmer, accountant, etc.)

Keeping Things Running (maintenance, janitorial, delivery, construction, etc.)

Never Left School (teacher, academic researcher, still a student, etc.)

What Kids Consider "Real" Jobs (lawyer, government agent, doctor, etc.)

Graphic Design Is My Actual Passion (designer, animator, artist, etc.)

Literal Backbone of Society (farmer, assembly operator, temp., chef, etc.)

Like And Subscribe!! (influencer, comedian, sales, marketing, performer, etc.)

Full Time Public Service Baby (firefighter, non-profit, social worker, etc.)

My Job Is Cool But Not Listed (slap that in the tags if it's fun)

Voting ended onApr 13, 2023

[phantomoftheorpheum]

if I made icons, who would you most be interested in icons of?

Maddie

Simon

Nicole

Wally

Rhonda

Charley

Xavier

Claire

Other (comment which character, pls)

Voting ended onApr 14, 2023

I'm thinking about making School Spirits icons, but I don't know if there's much interest in them? My style is generally pretty colorful, which is quite different from the vibe of the show. I'd like to gauge interest in general & then who people are most interested in getting icons of.

[wallyclarksnewmom]

[thisisprettybroken-deactivated2]

[cinnamonsprankles]

Reblog to cast

[morningwitchy]

the Scarlet Garden 🦇

this is probably the most popular pattern ive made yet! it was...challenging to work on tbh, but i really love the end result! 💖

[SHOP]

[anderswasrightt]

i have this button-up and it's my favorite shirt!!!

[yesterdaysprint]

The St Louis Republic, Missouri, April 21, 1904

[mercurys-in-retrograde]

Streamers getting high schoolers into chess is so so funny to me and it's even funnier that all the kids are bad at it too

[mercurys-in-retrograde]

Just heard from my brother in 8th grade that chess.com is blocked at school so kids are playing games of chess over shared Google docs during class. Literally laughing so hard at this.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I think this is so neat and to all my trans followers - if you ever need help remembering just how valid and real you are, please look at this!

Coloring the Past

Colorizing queer and trans history

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to you all, trans people have always existed and will always exist, you're valid and loved and completely accepted with me and I support and love you to the moon and back and beyond.

[omgthatdress]

I’m generally not a huge fan of the 1950s, but I have to say Maryellen won me over. Why? She’s pro-vax. She survived the polio epidemic of 1952 and makes friends with the kids who were left disabled by it. The major historical event her two books cover is the release of the Salk vaccine. I research cemeteries. Do you know how many kid’s death certificates I’ve looked at that had vaccine-preventable illnesses on them? Do you know that child graves NOTICEABLY go from sad fact of life to extremely rare after 1955? Is the fact that you’re anti-vax and pro-gun just because you really really really love to see children die?

—a direct quote from the anti-vax, pro-gun, “pro-life” crowd.

Maryellen only gets two books and that honestly pisses me off so much. She’s from Florida! A Florida girl just like me! There’s so much to explore with that! The biggest thing that I sort of see in Maryellen’s collection is that the end of World War 2 put America on top of global politics and that its post-war economy made the 1950s the golden era of American consumerism. I want to see a supermarket playset!

The rise of consumerism meant that goods were primarily being bought from department stored and catalogues. While home-making clothes was still popular, it finally fully took the back seat to mass-produced fashion in the 1950s.

Technology transformed the home and time-saving appliances gave women more time to devote to their personal interests. The washing machine and dish washer *did* play a certain role in women’s liberation, but the idea that they are solely responsible for it is a marketing ploy made to sell more appliances.

Air-conditioning meant that places like Florida were a much more tolerable to live, and the rise of the suburbs created a new space for American leisure: the back yard. YES I want a patio and pool set for Maryellen, complete with a dad on the grill.

So in short, the 1950s are often looked back on with intense mis-placed nostalgia because it was an easy time for a certain part of the American middle class to be nostalgic for. BUT. Being in Florida, Maryellen would attend a Whites-only school, and most of the public places she visited would be segregated. There were no laws protecting women and children from abuse and domestic violence (if you want to have your day ruined, read about the Tongay Aquatots, a story out of Florida that Maryellen likely would have read about in the news). Homosexuality was considered a mental illness, and people caught being gay in public were labeled as sex criminals just like rapists and pedophiles. If you were mentally ill, you were still likely to spend your life locked in a mental institution and given routine electroshock therapy (for real though how much better would Marilyn Monroe’s story have ended if she’d have just had access to modern anti-depressants and cognitive behavioral therapy?). That and the fact that the USA and USSR were building bombs to nuke each other out of existence at a moment’s notice. So yeah living in the 50s actually kind of sucked major ass.

All that being said, as much as Maryellen’s collection leaves me wanting MORE because there’s just SO MUCH you can do with the 50s, I really like what she has. My one broad critique of Maryellen’s fashion is that her clothes are much more teenager than nine-year-old. Now, it’s given in her books that she has “very grown-up taste in fashion,” but that still doesn’t change the fact that a lot of her dresses are, well….. fashion for high school, not elementary school. Like her little gloves and pearls. She looks like she’s gonna go on her first date, not go roller-skating at the park. But I guess the dress is plenty casual if you just take the accessories off.

(credit @fifties-sixties-everyday-life​)

(Tuesday Rose Vintage)

Also I love that her dog is a dachshund. Nothing quite embodies 1950s middle America quite like a chubby dachshund.

(credit @fifties-sixties-everyday-life​)