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queer-as-city-folk

We really are never going to stop stripping this land bare

#can we leave my mountains alone?#the damage the coal strip mining did to land and community is devastating

I just want to take a nap, but alas I am at work

blaserables

iamthelowercase

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

spidey-webs

There seem to be a lot of people who don’t understand why Lobo was in the movie, so I’m just gonna say it: Lobo is who Kara is at risk of becoming.

Kara is at a crossroads, and one road leads towards Clark and one leads to Lobo. Or rather, one path leads to embracing the responsibility of the life and powers her parents gave her, and the other is continuing to drink her life away, not caring about anything or anyone but her and hers.

Lobo is immensely powerful, and the last of his planet. Just like Kara. And when we meet him, he’s passed out drunk in a bar, oblivious and uncaring of violence and exploitation around him. Just like Kara was trying to be when she first met Ruthye.

Lobo is Kara’s future if she gives up on trying to be good. Drunkenly stumbling through the galaxy not helping anyone or anything and only caring about herself. Maybe not mindlessly cruel, but not kind or good or caring of the pain of the people around her.

It’s why they both get Ruthye’s spiel, it’s why Lobo’s whole introduction mirrors what Kara was just doing demanding to know about the Brigands, it’s why they’re both “the ditz from the bar”, it’s why they both have the gag with the space suit collar.

It’s why Lobo crops up each time Ruthye and Kara are faced with choices, sometimes acting as a devil on their shoulders, sometimes just a big lurking ominous warning of their bleak future if they make the wrong choices. It’s why Lobo says “let Ruthye have her revenge”, uncaring of how the violence might haunt Ruthye for the rest of her life. He’s a big constant reminder why Kara cannot let this thirteen year old girl be consumed by violence, and of who her parents didn’t want her to be.

Lobo is Kara’s foil and shadow.

I don’t think the movie always executed this well, it could have been done better, but I don’t think it was subtle either. The parallels between Kara and Lobo are right there in every scene and always highlight the choices Kara makes to be kind, and I do wish people would take the time to actually think about them before writing Lobo’s presence off.

yesornopolls

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

Remaining time: 2 days 3 hours

#4x my age would be over 100 years old #i have friends that are 3x my age tho

sinni-ok-sessi

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

softness-and-shattering

Friend of mine calls it active listening. Ah yes we are speaking of tooths. I understand and respond. Here it a tooth image. I have heard you.

manda-kat

Budget indie horror movie idea: one of those true crime videos (complete with sponsorship segments and ad breaks) where a girl does her makeup or something while discussing a gruesome murder, but as the video goes on you realize she's describing her own murder and is subtly pleading for somebody to help her.

#reblogging for the void #this would be interesting

quiet-art-kid

Ok, so when it comes to Russian fairy tales, they technically don't have a specific date they are set in. But from the art and geopolitics, it does look like they're set in an ahistorical version of the late 1400s to early 1700s. Guns were a thing during this time period. It would not be entirely unreasonable to have Baba Yaga pull out a musket, and I feel like more people need to play with that idea.

autofuneral

i come here from my home country of teusday, which is very very far indeed, and my old bones are tired. could i stay at your wednesday for the next 24 hours if you would be so kind?

#sorry friend my wednesday is closing in 5.5 hours #but you can stay till then

blumineck

I got to try some new archery, and I LOVE IT!

Huge thanks to Richard, Emily, Wojtek, and everyone else out here who let me learn with and from them, and were willing to put me on a horse with a bow. And massive thanks to Santos for letting me sit on his back and shoot arrows!

#blums close to being a full ranger

teaboot

I live in the northwest coast of Canada so we walk everywhere and do stuff outside in the rain and swim in whatever lakes and rivers we find so imagine my smug sense of Canadian superiority when I met a USAmerican Midwesterner who was horrified at the very thought

And then I went to the USAmerican Midwest

And I understood

teaboot

What I mean to say is that it's very easy to delude yourself into believing you are more in tune with your environment when your environment is not actively hostile to your existence in every conceivable way

teaboot

BC, Canada:

Rains frequently, but the worst is like standing under a bathroom shower. Genuinely inhospitable rainstorms are uncommon.

Along the coast, it's pretty easy in most areas to walk to at least one store, or else there's usually a bus or shuttle available. There are sidewalks and bike lanes everywhere.

It's a temperate boreal rainforest, so while there are many freshwater lakes and rivers, they're usually pretty cold. The biggest danger is typically getting caught in a strong current, and the most dangerous animals in swimming distance are on land.

Earthquakes happen almost every day, but the vast majority go unnoticed. Buildings are designed to withstand bigger seismic activity, so unless it's a 5 or higher it just kind of feels like having low blood sugar for a second. There are no tornados

Rural Illinois, USA:

One minute it's sunny, then ten minutes later that distant smudge on the horizon has swallowed the entire sky in black clouds and the water is coming down like waterfall and you literally CANNOT SEE. Then there's a crash like cymbals and you need to get indoors because the thunder and lightening are on TOP of you

No sidewalks until you are in the smack dab center of town, which is a three hour walk or twenty minute drive from wherever you are.

There aren't many natural bodies of water other than small ponds and creeks, and because the environment is so much warmer, those are filled with snapping turtles that can grow bigger than a nine year old child and water snakes that are incredibly venomous. These are paired with leeches and mosquitos for that sweet umami flavor.

Sometimes Jupiter, Lord of the Heavens decides to jam his finger into the side of your house just to fuck with your whole shit and throws your truck a thousand yards into the nearest church

#often those creeks and ponds are filled to the brim with bacteria and microorganisms that want to kill you

firawren

Persuasion's first three chapters are brilliant. They almost entirely ignore Anne, as if the narrative itself has joined forces with her family in making her "only Anne," an inconsequential afterthought who must always give way to her father and sister.

In these chapters, we learn all about Sir Walter's history and present-day concerns. We even learn all about Elizabeth's hopes and disappointments in the realm of romance. If you knew nothing of the story, you would likely assume she is going to be the main character and her path toward marriage the main plot.

Anne's love story, which is what the whole book is actually about, isn't introduced until chapter 4.

And yet, it is not missing from the first three chapters. There are references to it hidden throughout, a presence lurking in the background, even though as a first time reader you couldn't see it.

The reference to Anne "happening to be not in perfectly good spirits" one winter in Bath is a reference to her devastation after her breakup with Wentworth.

Anne's casual knowledge of what Admiral Croft has been doing shows she's been keeping track not just of Wentworth but of his family all these years, and thus how much she still cares about him.

The way she holds back from naming Mr. Wentworth, Frederick's brother, even though she knows exactly who Mr. Shepard is talking about, shows how greatly the whole affair still pains her, that she doesn't want to even speak his family name and/or doesn't want to remind everyone of her past connection with him.

I love how Jane Austen weaves these details in but makes no effort to draw our attention to them, as I feel most authors would do. They're just casually there like Easter eggs for repeat readers to find. If you don't pick up on them, the story still works fine, but they are there to make it even more full and rich and real if you do notice them. It's masterful writing.