I am a Classy Mother Fucker

Hi! NEITHER MY CHILDREN NOR THEIR FRIENDS ARE TO BE ON THIS PAGE. I DO NOT WANT UNDER 18'S ON MY TUMBLR. Call me Neil. She/they. I'm a 37 year old blogger who loves stuff. And things. I am super into Thomas Sanders Sander's Sides, right now. (Always subject to change or be added to)  I reblog anything that strikes my fancy. Seriously. Nothing is off limits, particularly if its hilarious. Or feels inducing. Or interesting. I ADORE fanfic, and will read practically anything- even if its not in my specified fandoms. Pro-shipper, multishipper, kinktomato- yadda yadda. ( I have been on Tumblr so long guys. I am so old )

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[bluemuffin-draws]

Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic

Part 2

[bluemuffin-draws]

Endurance runners

Part 2 of this

[whichcouldmeanothing]

these guys haven't seen goncharov

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

this has rewired some neural pathways for me

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[gayvampyr]

lmfao

[ihatepissvortex]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[bramblepatch]

Grace explaining sheepishly to Eridian linguists that the reason he uses different pronouns for Rocky than for the rest of the population is that he reflexively defaulted to assigning Rocky the same grammatical and social gender that he himself uses, in a way that has historical precedent but in modern English is considered somewhat chauvinistic and backward, and he's not proud of it but also the habit is pretty deeply ingrained now and unless Rocky objects it's probably easier to just keep on as he has been...

and immediately being informed lol. lmao. do not even worry about it. you have no idea what kind of buck wild grammatical constructs Rocky has invented for you. everyone else addresses you as foreigner/scholar. they're somehow managing to refer to you as their sibling, ward, and semidivine culture hero at the same time every time they talk about you.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[eeveestho]

ok but the full translation is also extremely good

[human-pet-girl]

that translation is accurate except for that last part. pflegestufe doesnt really translate to a state of need, its moreso means that the weed would leave you disabled in a way that makes you legally eligible for care or assistance

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

[abysswarlock]

[northisnotup]

[hefnerama]

[duskwingmoth]

Autistic girl conditioned through a lifetime of trauma to be deathly afraid of waking people up because what if they're loud and angry and violent: uuhm,...,,., ma'am are you okay, the bus is, around the, corner,,,,,, ,, were you, waiting for thhe bus, ,,, ,

[duskwingmoth]

[duskwingmoth]

do Not call me Bocchi-coded i will cry because you're 150% correct

[theragamuffininitiative]

Alright I want to know something here:

the 🙃 emoji means (approximately)

silly!*

ugh!*

secret third thing you will explain in tags*

Voting ended onJul 10

*if comfortable doing so, you may include your age range/generation in the tags for helpful demographic data

kindly reblog for bigger sample size, thanks!

[purronronner]

[mylordshesacactus]

I read etiquette and homemaking guides from the 1800s mostly because they're a FASCINATING insight into cultural norms that we often don't think about. I honestly really recommend people crack one of these open at least once--it goes way beyond, like, "what to wear to a ball!!!"

The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.

And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.

They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.

And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.

Now that being said.

My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then

Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:

[mylordshesacactus]

[mylordshesacactus]

[sharkfiinn]

For me the gracerocky appeal is about how suffocatingly intimate everything about them is. Like, the level of vulnerability and trust they have to have with each other after taking the time to literally study each other inside and out. At that point something like sex is so far from feeling like a huge leap to make. They're each other's entire universe during those years on the Hail Mary, of course they would both be interested in what makes the other feel pleasure (and deriving pleasure from it themselves). Who cares about the barrier between them, they want to melt into each other's bodies and live there. They're practically a single organism by the time they reach Erid due to the forced proximity (although I doubt either of them would ever think of it as "forced").

For Grace specifically, I like to think that sex was always something he had issues with on Earth because he hated the vulnerability, and maybe also the expectations that came with it of having to do things the "right" way, having to ensure the other person feels fulfilled while never being sure how into it he actually is himself. With Rocky, it would be completely different, because Rocky has no existing expectations for what human sex is supposed to be, nor can he participate in some of the acts Grace might have had hang ups about to begin with. Rocky just wants Grace to show him what feels best for him. And Grace doesn't have to worry about not knowing how to be enough for Rocky because Rocky will tell him without judgment. They're both learning here. They're both trusting each other and nothing is going to fall apart if someone gets something wrong.

Sorry for the rant I never get this way about my favorite characters either idk what they put into gracerocky to make it like this. It's hot as hell though

UPVOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zoctopode]

can you imagine being a parent in the pokemon world and your kid comes home with one of those straight up basically human pokemon. i know those motherfuckers can talk.

its morning. i see my childs Throh getting some oj from the fridge. 'morning', i say. he doesnt catch himself in time and says 'morning' back. he freezes and we both stare at each other knowingly. 'throh,' he says, but its too fucking late