Aravo Celta

30s  he/Him I don't give a shit about learning how blogs work, bisexual. Proudly anti skub.

[captain-price-returns]

[notaaronsroommate]

aside from this being a bad design, the idea of it being average is really weird.

like.

this looks fun! I don't think anyone could tell me that the general idea of playing forts and having a fancy cabin and a few greenhouses and feeling like you're a farcry villain wouldn't be fun.

but that this ought to be most people??? why??? and like. how do you afford this, what is your job, what is the economy if most people have the kind of internet skills based jobs that let them buy a bunch of chinese manufactured goods to build the woods fort? Is this in a united states where most people have died or moved away, and we've all moved to the wilderness to play forts and do email jobs? Even if they get what they want and we somehow manage to deport or kill literally every non white person, even if the country is entirely just white people, there are still way too many people to sustain this being the average home.

Like, sure, this is an unrealistic thing for an individual, but it is theoretically doable if you are so wealthy you don't have to be terribly productive and have the upfront capital to build this then the fixed income to continue paying the ludicrous fee for utilities and then for the property tax.

but AVERAGE AMERICAN HOME?

i know the answer is it's ai generated and they are stupid. but jesus christ.

also if you're going to have watch towers why the fuck isn't the treeline cut back further? you're going to see neither fuck nor shit until someone is in shinzo abe range of you

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[isawken]

going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room

[bluelois]

Blue Lois

[isawken]

can i help you

[redmarge]

Red Marge

[isawken]

jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[isawken]

i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me

[shithowdy]

law not unlike the ones that make phone cameras play a "click" sound that forces all vape battery manufacturers to install a slide whistle sound on pulls

[peachfromcmbyn]

I have cooled a bit on the progress pride flag. It's still ugly and misses the point of the og Gilbert Baker flag, but if somebody is willing to signal support for trans people right now then I'm not going to hold that against them. But it is hideous.

[thisladyisawesome]

[sprinkledsalt]

I was reading a really long essay recently about the sheer incomprehensible scale of violence that happened during World War II, and among other things, it reminded me that this isn’t the worst time to be alive for the general human population. I can very much picture people during WWII thinking it was the end of days, and for millions of people, it was. Up to 60-75 million people died during WWII, and that doesn’t count those who survived injuries, starvation, occupation, bombings, etc. Millions upon millions of people killed or mentally fucked up for the rest of their lives, and this was after the first World War! Imagine the psychological toll of going through two world wars. None of us really can, nor can we comprehend that body count. WWII was so bad that, just in terms of numbers regarding the death count, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket. Even the Holocaust didn't make up the majority of the death count, despite killing an insanely high amount of people at an insanely fast pace. It's hard to quantify the worst events in human history, but WWII has to be up there.

Obviously, a shit ton of scholarship has been written on the long-term effects of WWII both on individual societies and the world as a whole, so it's not like the war ended and then everything was fine and dandy, but the fact that human society continued to exist after that at all, and even thrive in some cases, is insane. It's just something to keep in mind as you're inundated with a constant stream of "nothing will ever get better" posts from people clinical depression posting on main. Things were so, so, so much worse not even 100 years ago.

[sprinkledsalt]

The anniversary of D-Day passed recently. It made me think of this post and the essay that inspired it:

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?

Despite being one of the most talked-about events from history, I still don't think we talk about WWII enough. I think it's partly because it's hard for us to conceptualize the amount of violence and destruction, and I think, as suggested by the essay, it was partly a trauma response. The general population didn't want to talk about it after it was over, they wanted to move on. Now I think people either don't believe things were that bad (because the mindset is "if things were that bad, wouldn't we be talking about them more?"), or they don't want to grapple with what the end result of letting fascism and authoritarianism (and Jew hatred) run rampant actually looked like. But forgetting does two things: makes it easier to bring the world closer to destruction by repeating mistakes of the past, and gives people a false sense of the past and present. I think it becomes more difficult to prevent things from getting to that worst case scenario endpoint if you incorrectly convince people that they're already there and there's no point in fighting.

Anyway, I really feel like with WWII, no matter how bad you imagine it was, things were worse.

[lianedegrenade]

people really do have such short memories about lots of things but specifically gay sex was a crime in much of the usa less than 25 years ago like i remember it and gay marriage wasn’t legalized until 11 years ago and i was a grown woman waiting to get my hair cut when i found out. on a beautiful june day!!!

[notaaronsroommate]

do not give expensive things to your children, don't take them on fancy trips. they have no way of contextualizing the value system you have, where the expense of the thing indicates how much you value it. All they know is that their parent does some things with them and gives things to them, this is expected, and they will act exactly the same when you give them the big expensive thing as if you gave them a cup of applesauce.

And so, you will come to resent the child. Don't they understand how big of a deal this is? And they will come to resent you, as they realize they never asked you to piss money away to impress someone who couldn't understand the money in the first place. and you will think they are spoiled and a brat and they will just wish they had parents who had spent time with them.

The only unconditional love in the world is a child for their parent. the greatest thing you could do for your child is to spend time with them, make things with them, make ugly little wooden toys so they get strong hands and understand how hard it is to make things. Take them to see things which are quite strange that they wouldn't really see every day, I promise you they will be fascinated by steam trains and by horses and dinosaurs and airplanes.

A child will remember far more how you taught them to nail a board than they ever will a plastic trinket you spent loads of money on. the only reason kids supposedly even lust for material goods like toys is simply because they are told to. Media, including childrens media, reinforces the idea that a toy is like a form of valuable property and that getting lots of them must mean something good. They don't care what the item is.

stop buying expensive shit for your kids.

also every child with a tablet isn't ensouled. I'm sorry, those white babies with the ipad and cocomelon, the baptism didn't take, the quickening didn't happen, no souls there. straight to purgatory forever.

a kid sitting in front of a tv is miles and miles better off than an ipad baby.

[charnel-grounds]

Randy Ortiz, “Battles”

oil on canvas, 2026

[learn2anarchy]

Probably reading too much into it but this video has always filled me with such indescribable longing. Like the climax of a sports movie where everyone else has turned away from our hero facing impossibly long odds except for the one die hard with his fists clenched whispering, “come on you son of a bitch, you can do it.” But “it” in this case is outrunning the toxic nightmare of urban sprawl. I want him to run so fast he breaks free from the things we’ve done to this world. I want him to clear the city limits and find the forests that don’t really exist anymore. To gambol and forage and rest in primeval bliss. I want him to make it.

[dogpuppy]

[vague-humanoid]

Transgender woman faces two felony charges after drawing a firearm during an altercation.

A Wyoming transgender woman is facing two felony charges after drawing a firearm during an altercation she says began with anti-LGBTQ+ and a

Ríhanna Kelver, a bartender and trans rights advocate in Laramie, has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent after a 13 September 2025 confrontation outside the Crowbar & Grill, whereshe worked. Kelver could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges.

Kelver says one man in a group of men across the street from her started shouting homophobic and transphobic insults at her before the man allegedly shoved her to the ground in a downtown crosswalk, as reported by The Laramie Reporter.

[el-shab-hussein]

There's more, as it pertains to Black trans people's right to self-defence:

Despite Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” statute, which allows people to use reasonable force in moments of self defense, Kelver faces up to 15 years in prison for both charges, as well as up to $11,000 in fines, per Cowboy State Daily. Kelver faces an additional year and $1,000 fine for a charge of interference with a peace officer. [...]

As pointed out by Slate, self-defense laws are often put into question when people from marginalized communities, especially trans people, use them, including Cece McDonald, a Black trans woman who served time in a men’s prison for defending her friends during a racist and transphobic attack. Ky Peterson, a Black trans man from Georgia, was also arrested and imprisoned for killing his rapist in self-defense.

[dogpuppy]

[foolcrum57]

found this pic on facebook marketplace thats unintentionally up my alley

[orcboxer]

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

[oneheadtoanother]

no offense but some of you should be earning your chippy hike badges instead of whatever it is you're doing on here

[oneheadtoanother]