Aspiring Polymath

Things that I find cool, funny, or meaningful on tumblr and a few rare personal creations: poetry, photos, etc. (she/her, 18+, aro-spec ace)

[ooppo]

A PORN BOT UNFOLLOWED ME?

[ooppo]

not that i care

[ooppo]

[necromancelena]

If you ever find yourself in a horror scenario, remember to blush really hard when the ghost/demon/monster appears. If you do that fast enough you might be able to shift the genre.

[necromancelena]

This applies doubly if the antagonist is more abstract. If a house starts growing teeth and flesh you've gotta be prepared to get a little freaky

[brightlotusmoon]

[gay-irl]

Gay_irl

[psychotic-gerard]

me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

[nojerama1996]

This. Please. Whether I'm avoiding spoilers for a show or people promoting eating disorders, if I block a tag it means I don't want to see it. Spell your fucking tags properly.

[dracl-dragon]

!!!!!!!

DO NOT CENSOR TAGS

AND SURE AS FUCK DON'T CENSOR WARNING LISTS/WARNING TAGS

[brightlotusmoon]

WE SAY SHIT HERE SIR

[quietwingsinthesky]

i’m bringing it up because noncon appeals to me on account of my asexuality, and the complications of sex, willingness to participate, to react properly, therein. so as follows, i’m thinking of similar things for aromanticism, for… non-consensual romance scenarios, in the same vein of ‘i got kidnapped by the sexy pirate king and now i, the chaste maiden, have to fuck him’. the bodice-rippers of romantic entanglement. arranged marriage is high on that list. love potion/spell gotta be on there somewhere too.

(though these have different appeals. the arranged marriage appeals to having a relationship formed without your work or input required, and depending on the fantasy, it can either be shaped to your needs and be lacking in the romance entirely while still appearing to be so to the outside world, no longer requiring you to deal with people bugging you about your dating life, or it could be forcibly romantic until it breaks you down, much like noncon fantasies generally. and the love potion is closer to fantasies of sex pollen, in heat, etc, where you Need and Love despite your actual feelings, acting uncharacteristically but in a way that frees you both from responsibility of it or the stress of performing love the right way, because you’ve been drugged to do it “right”.)

[lilaclupin]

Today we were talking about how words can mean different things to different communities, and that people outside the community wouldn't understand. Like how a non-poker player wouldn't understand poker jargon the way other poker players would. Anyway, then my professor said he was gonna show us his "favourite example" and wrote a single word on the board that gave me instant psychic damage: beta.

Apparently sport climbers use this word with a meaning of "technique, method." But for a horrifying, horrifying second there was the possibility in my mind that we were gonna talk about ABO in my fucking linguistics class

[muffinlance]

Professor Betas Georg, who writes 50k omegaverse fics during office hours, boldy wrote "beta" on the board while observing which of his students went dead. still.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[the-evil-skull]

It's funny how much of a stink I've seen people put up over fan/original writers who write and talk about things like nsfwhump, sexual abuse, and dubious consent on here like they're irredeemably sick in the head when all of my folks who write that stuff are literally no different from the average whump fan. We're human people

[quietwingsinthesky]

i love posts on here that are like “>:) i love nasty dirty forbidden relationships, i love relationships that are hard to define as platonic or romantic, i love toxic dynamics, i love when characters are so close that they can’t be separated from each other and this destroys every other relationship they have (IF YOU MAKE THIS ABOUT INCEST I’LL KILL YOU)” like my brother in christ you are the one who made the sandwich

[quietwingsinthesky]

if you make a post about enjoying forbidden relationships, i think you’re gonna have to accept that incest is gonna get tagged on your post. i’m sorry if that makes you uncomfortable, but that’s like the number one forbidden relationship people enjoy. it’s on hbo for god’s sake. relax and learn to love the brotherfucking.

[prokopetz]

Web series where the principal characters are constantly having long, emotionally open conversations about their needs and traumas, except it quickly becomes clear that one of them is wildly mistaken about their own motivations, one perfectly understands themselves but is lying on purpose, and one is just kind of saying shit.

[prokopetz]

One of them is conspicuously unfiltered in a way that's initially played for laughs, but it later transpires that they have this tremendous hangup about being perceived as true to themselves and they think oversharing is the same thing as being authentic.

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[thestuffedalligator]

Collecting books is great until you have to move all of them at once and realize that every one of the little bastards weighs about as much as a brick and collectively have the mass of a neutron star

[fairycosmos]

airpods are literally such a massive downgrade like remember when headphones cost £2 didn’t need charging didn’t randomly disconnect and didn’t get lost all the time. remember when tech kinda worked for kinda cheap

[fairycosmos]

remember when phones just fucking had headphone jacks

[stability]

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Every time this comes around I get the enjoyment of all the people who don’t know Waterford Whispers is like the Irish Onion

[probuccalfat]

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[prokopetz]

This is 100% me being a crank, but I'm getting real annoyed at seeing Ancient Traditional Crafts™ videos that depict people grinding minerals to make pigments with no respiratory protection. Like, yeah, an N100 mask isn't Authentic and shit, but do you know what powdered mica does to your lungs?

[prokopetz]

@sawdust-emperor replied:

Watching any green or blue-green mineral being ground to make pigment in these, praying it's just rough glass or some shit and not any of the almost always notably poisonous green minerals:

Being as I've also seen examples where the craftsperson is handling what appears to be raw cinnabar with their bare hands, I wouldn't say the odds are good there.

[ajaxgb]

[shittymoviedetails]

In The Departed (2006), Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg play two different characters— a subtle nod to them being two different actors, despite my wife being unable to tell them apart on the first viewing of the movie.

[dunsalien]

op this is the funniest post you’ve made yet

[brightlotusmoon]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

my fave thing about this post is that that’s not mark wahlberg in the picture. one of those actors is matt damon and the other is leonardo dicaprio