haha they’re gone

T (he/xe) - I just like screaming into the void

[orbitingrook]

[dyke-construction]

shirtless in boxers butch x shirtless in pyjama pants butch

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

"technically tomatoes are fruits--" THAT MUSHROOM OVER THERE IS MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO A FUCKING SHIH TZU THAN IT IS TO LITERALLY ANY PLANT

[teaboot]

@mortimermcmirestinks

[mortimermcmirestinks]

IS THAT FANART?

[teaboot]

it’s a warning

[blumineck]

It’s the final few days of the Bluminarmour Project! After some issues with Kickstarter let’s see how far we can get!

If you want to see fantasy tropes, historical movement and silly tricks tested in authentic full plate armour, please consider chucking a few quid over (or like and share this post):

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[blumineck]

Update on this:

Kickstarter removed my highest funding tier so I lost £11k of funding since earlier today.

BUT

I’ve managed to get the deadline extended in light of this. So this might still happen!

[blumineck]

We’re into the last week now! This is close enough that I think this could actually happen, but it’s still got a way to go!

If this is something that interests you, please consider donating or sharing!

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[bonyassfish]

I still do not understand the people who say voting doesn’t matter…why else would there be a concerted effort to gerrymander and redistrict and purge voter rolls and create draconian ID laws? (Mostly targeting black voters and majority black districts)

Isn’t it kind of insulting to the people who fight for an actual democracy, to the places in the world without free and fair elections, to the people (particularly black, native, and disabled people) who are regularly purposefully excluded from voting, to just say it doesn’t matter? How the fuck do you view your own inaction as some type of moral high ground? How did we get from “the Democratic Party has major issues in regards to corporate donors and neoliberalism” to “both parties are equally bad”

I am not playing this game with you. It does make a difference who is in power. It does make a difference who draws election maps, who sits on the courts, who decides funding, who enforces laws (and what laws they do or do not enforce).

[aro-narcissus]

Starting a collection

[charlesoberonn]

♫ It's fun to stay at the ♫

[shinyasahalo]

Capitalist propaganda: "Monthly food rations per Polish citizen in the early to mid 1980s. But next time socialism will work."

Michael: "Can someone please explain why so many people still take socialism seriously? It has always failed badly, every sing time."

Comrade Jake: "This kind of propaganda completely falls apart when you understand that ration cards were not a limit on how much food you could have. They were a guarantee of your basic necessities. You could still buy surplus food in addition to your rations."

[butchblooms]

Based on my mom's experience living in Poland in the 70s and 80s, the ration cards were kind of a guarantee that people would get the basics. Often people could have afforded to buy more beyond that, but it just wasn't available. My mom often talks about how store shelves were empty except for vinegar. People knew what day food was delivered to the store and lined up to be able to get some before it ran out and shelves were empty again. That's part of why my mom was so awed when she first came to the US, and why she worked so hard to try and find a way to stay here and raise her kids here. Grocery stores with shelves and shelves of food you could just get any time? It was like a wonderland to her.

It's also part of why I have such a hard time talking to her about anything socialist. Because her experience of it is living under an oppressive Soviet puppet state. It is frustrating but also understandable, because even though I consider myself a socialist, it's hard to argue with someone who grew up and escaped a very fucked up version of it.

[moniquill]

"People could have afforded more, but there was nothing on the store shelves" vs "The shelves are laden with unimaginable abundance, but no one can afford to buy it."

[yukinojou]

Also a lot of the time making / distributing more food in exchange for money was illegal because that would have been capitalism. Farmers were allowed to raise livestock for their own purposes but not sell the meat to shops, so when I was an anemic toddler, my mother had to conduct a legit espionage operation to find out who was already illegally buying meat from a farmer, so that our apartment was added to the weekly rounds of a middle-aged woman who toted around like half a calf in her bags, freshly slaughtered meat wrapped in old newspapers. I remember how the fresh blood smelled.

(I also have my old health card with a prescription written by a doctor. The prescription was for extra cheese and butter beyond the ration cards. I was two years old.)

[distracteddaintydemon]

If someone reads all of it and wonders why communism was considered giant success by many: the lacking piece is life of average peasant before communism.

My grandpa remembered until his death young lord who didn't want a boiled egg. On one side of a ridge, local noble's garden, few years old lordling running and screaming he doesn't want to, and governess chasing after him with egg on a spoon, or maybe in a bowl; on the other side peasant children, hungry, watching over geese on a pasture, absolutely sure they would eat that egg with the eggshell if given a chance.

Grandpa was over 70 and still couldn't get over it. How hungry they all were, next to a lordling who didn't want a boiled egg, who never knew hunger.

It is about the tamest image one can get for how commonplace hunger was. History sources say that in Warsaw between WW1 and WW2, where poor flocked in hope for work, at some point street prostitutes took 2 kilograms of onions as a payment.

In same Warsaw, rents were so high and evictions so frequent, that newspapers only informed of those that were somehow special, like widowed father jumping from 6th story window with two small daughters due to eviction; or bed-bound elderly evicted with the bed. Those, on themselves, filled weekly newspaper column.

It was also common practice for middle-class to fire their all-chores housemaid in June, before traveling to countryside or spa for summer, and hiring again in September. About 30% of women in Warsaw were domestic servants. No all-chores housemaid earned enough to survive two months from savings. Starving servants were seasonal occurence.

I'm not even starting on life of a peasant in tsarist Russia.

And yet, everything told above about hardships of living under communism is true. Soviet communism was both a success and a failure.

[orcboxer]

jigsaw got me hooked up to some buuullshiiitttt

[queertility]

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[twentythousandvolts]

early stages of friendship are Soooo embarrassing like yea sorry....... it's me again............ i enjoy talking to you and spending time with you....... you can shoot me point blank if you want i dont mind

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[hypotenussy]

the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.

[thecharmingquirksofothers]

incredible prev tags

[what-even-is-thiss]

Whenever I come across some internet commenter who seems to think that the fallout series isn’t political I have to wonder what exactly it is that they’re smoking

[what-even-is-thiss]

Even with the “war never changes” motif aside, Liberty Prime, the communism hating robot introduced in fallout 3, a Bethesda title btw, is programmed to say a lot of different lines, one of which is “embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated.”

Another line of his is “democracy is non-negotiable”

How can you follow behind this giant robot with comically violent lines about “democracy” that throws nukes at things and not realize that something here is being made fun of? Perhaps some sort of common policy? Of a political sort perhaps? Some sort of common justification for war perhaps? I wonder what it could be.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s also those who try to tell me that Bethesda took the politics out of fallout? I guess?

Do you need me to point aggressively at the anti communist robot again?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah, New Vegas has a terrible no good very bad ending and three mostly morally grey endings. Point being that sometimes neutrality isn’t possible even in imperfect circumstances. You’ve gotta choose a side eventually even if that means some bad things happen.

Some folks are still convinced that the legion are the logical choice somehow though. Not sure what happens with that. Maybe they see the cool bull flag and pass out or something.

[milfyspamton]

anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember

[milfyspamton]

im not fucking crazy.

[milfyspamton]

if i have one more person say sparkles on this post im gonna blow i swear to god

[evengirlierballs]

They're squeans I'm pretty sure! If they pop like that anyway. But the term for this kind of "symbol to refer to the general vibe of something in art" is called "Emanata" because it emanates from a person or object.

[creepymutelilbugger]

what the fuck. comics are magic

[charlesoberonn]

somebody put a quimpsy spurl on my blorbo

[eirapparent]

she quimps on my jarns til I nittles

[touhouweed]