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zuccnini

[oc] Comic - Love bugs

Happy valentines day!!

homoquartz

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

piratedgender

themisally

#thats just so beatifull

uwingdispatch

Marvel fans! I often get comments like "will you ever make (insert character here)" and like 90% of the time it's something already in my shop. So I thought I'd make a post with all y'all's Marvel faves from over the years. Is your fave here? Let me know! And don't forget you can use code TUMBLR15 for 15% off most accessories! So come and grab your faves! Shop is here.

more below the cut!

glowcowboy

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

its-your-mind

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

beautifulterriblequeen

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

dear-ao3

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

an-eccentric-devil

your-werewolf-boyfriend

I think my dash is trying real hard to manifest this one

This is the 20th one I've scrolled through, various people

cosmic-terrestrial

ever since I was a young lad I knew I wanted to be a middle-aged man with an undone tie around his neck who’s having a crisis so he goes to the bathroom to splash water on his face only to look up at himself in the mirror and wonder at the stranger looking back

nickyflowers

i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

doctorbluesmanreturns

Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman), by Berthold Woltze, 1874.

disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

that is a "hello darkness my old friend" face if I ever saw one.

safetynot9uaranteed

Cybersmith off his shits

marzipanandminutiae

keep in mind also that this girl is

A. A teenager, since her hair is almost fully down (the longer skirt and her traveling alone make me think maybe 14-15), and

B. In mourning, as evidenced by her entirely matte and unornamented black dress, gloves, and hat

so this guy is pestering a young girl who's just lost someone close to her, in absence of clear social cues meant to convey exactly that

shinyhappygoth

I recently saw it pointed out elseTumblr that, a remarkably easy detail to miss, she is going for her hatpin. The clear social cues are about to escalate.

lyricwritesprose

I for one think that is very valid of her and that hatpinning That Guy should still be considered a socially acceptable and perhaps even laudable option.

pukicho

Worst dog name, go.

pukicho

horsesource

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

magnesiumflare

Important tags from @sashayed

queer-here-and-in-fear

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

queer-here-and-in-fear

this is prime proof that this ENTIRE WEBSITE is autistic because nowhere else would a no tags post that's just an informative list about slang get this much traction.

queer-here-and-in-fear

anyway more addittions

“30-50 wild hogs” for someone making ABSURD excuses for violence.

“what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” for how do you know that without being a part of it.

“anyone in this thread smoke weed” for the shit you people are saying is so off topic this might as well be a general discussion forum

“dogs are boys and cats are girls” for ooh ur mindset did not grow past 4th grade, huh

“color theory in a childrens hospital” for bending over backwards to not agree that YEA, that thing Came Off Weird

“you are a tar pit” for someone finding any reason to respond with outrage.

“is the __ in the room with us right now?” for I Don’t Think That’s Real.

“bean soup? im allergic to beans!” for ik this doesn’t work for you, but that’s not a flaw. not everything can be for you.

“people irl: hey man hows it going” for this will Never Matter irl

the-haiku-bot

“people irl: hey man

hows it going” for this will

Never Matter irl

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

pangur-and-grim

birthdays always make me so sad 😞 but Belphie has helped by climbing a chair and then divebombing into my prone stomach like a pro wrestler

garmrin

Do you mean supine? Prone would indicate that your stomach is to the floor.

pangur-and-grim

huh, I never knew! okay sorry everyone, i was supine when my organs got crushed by a kitten

rot--mutt

i think your original post was correct, you were laying supine which left your stomach prone to attack from divebombing cats

pangur-and-grim

understood. I'll try again: birthdays always leave me with a profound sense of isolation, but as I was lying supine with my stomach prone a little furry bullet penetrated my abdominal cavity and exited out the back, leaving me shaped like a cartoon doughnut with lots and lots of blood

stoney-baloney-with-cheese

Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.

veshialles

make nazis unrecognizable-as-human fine red smears on the pavement again 2025

noccolibroccoli

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize