Heavy petting

Man, that really caramells my dansen

[lrndvs]

Do not judge me for anything except for the contents of my person and the contents of my massive trunk

[galaxywarp]

[trangoldin]

The state of litigation on anti-drag and anti-trans laws is so weird bc a lot of times the courts will be like "well if we just read the plain text of this law, its fine because it just says you can't take your kids to watch drag queens strip" but the law itself is titled shit like "the FUCK QUEERS Act" and the right sees it and is like cool, time to call in bomb threats to every place i see with a pride flag and the liberal left is like well we must immediately bend over and accommodate the new reality which means cancelling all our gay shit and firing any trannies that work for us

Like its true that the legal situation on paper for queer people in this country is not yet totally fucked, but this pattern of "the right sees everything as a green light for more violence, while the liberals see everything as an excuse to get scared and start firing transsexuals" i what's rly fucking us!

[trangoldin]

So many of the Trump executive orders are just glorified press releases with no legal force and yet every lib in this country was like well golly gee gosh I guess its all over time to put on my swastika wristband

[alltears]

girl who is playing disco elysium for the first time in 2025

[kosmogrl]

Dont blame yourself for not having known a lesson only time could teach

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[chillyfeetsteak]

i gave the venus of willendorf a brewski

[verins-little-notebook]

venus of chillendorf

[valtsv]

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

[teathattast]

[keplernik]

Would you go on a boba date with him?

[oidial]

bappy saturday!!!

its her favourite part!

[infezmite]

Comisho

[respectissexy]

One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

[respectissexy]

I love doing notes for therapist-posting on tumblr because I get tags like this.

[shevr]

woof woof bark

[homobiwan]

"Why didn't they just communicate?? They're so stupid!" Have you considered that communicating with someone you love and value and don't want to hurt is scary and that vulnerability takes practice and that perfect characters with perfect words make the most boring stories of all

[pointnclick]

"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

[artyphex]

Apparently there’s a “kids shouldn’t be allowed in grocery stores” thing being spread on TikTok because they might scream or run around and look yeah that’s annoying but at a certain point you’ve gotta just put up with kids being a little annoying in public. Sure the kid pouring milk in the isles is the fault of a shitty parent and should be asked to leave, but a single mom with an otherwise controlled by crying toddler isn’t doing anything wrong. I think you’ll live if someone’s two year old starts screaming in their arms in isle 3. It might be annoying but that mom is probably having a worse day than you

[sparklyeevee]

Also, is a lot of the Internet just, unclear on the thing where you learn how to do stuff by doing it? You know what you get if you don't let toddlers into the grocery store? School age kids who don't know how to behave in the grocery store, which is worse. Don't let them in either? Teenagers who don't know how to behave in the grocery store, which is much worse. Just ban all minors from the grocery store? Now you have adults who don't know how to behave in the grocery store, and at that point we may as well not bother with society.

Toddler in the grocery store is learning:

How to find items in space that was organized by someone else

How to share narrow or complex walking spaces with strangers

How to operate in a space full of things they can touch and maybe even pick up, but don't own

How to peacefully coexist with strangers in a public space when everyone is doing their own (similar but separate) tasks in the same place

What kinds of food exist

How to tolerate having nothing in particular to do in a high stimulus environment

How to wait in line

How to greet a cashier and complete your transaction nicely

How to pay for things in a store

Most of this they are learning just by following and watching their adult(s). They're also, and this is especially important for families who don't take much public transit, getting to see a broader cross section of people than most other age appropriate activities will readily show them. The only other public place of this sort that a toddler might routinely go is the library, which is different in ways that are potentially instructive if you have only existed for 30 months.