Pauperism

18+ They/them bi/pan nonbinary 🍳 🏳️‍🌈 198x autistic frugal making ends meet. The Netherlands. No likes, only reblogs. Always looking to make new friends.

[pauperism]

Hello and welcome

Late January 2025: I’m gone from social media. The queue will continue until early March 2025. Bye everybody, it’s been fun.

I will tag anything that even remotely reminds me of transphobia with the “transphobia” tag, even the shitposts. This is so can filter those posts out.

I only reblog, no likes. Follow me for intermittent high-volume posting. I use a queue to spread things out a little. Posts about cute animals, mental health, autism, attention disorders, distraction-free computing, queer things, the occult/magick and whatever.

Sometimes I disappear for long periods. Please do not see my social media activity (or lack thereof) as an indicator of my well-being.

This is tumblr and it’s cool to reblog really old posts.

18+ only. Although most of my posts are safe for work.

There is no DNI list. I can’t stop you, but I can block you.

New tumblr users, if your tumblr these:

no posts

no description

a default avatar

You do come across as a spambot. I will not block you but others might. ;) Just set your description to anything else but blankness.

[guerrillatech]

[sageofthetwilight]

Happy indigenous peoples day!

[theartofangirling]

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

[googleygareth]

[toasty-cowboy]

[yourlocaladhder]

Anxiety is not activism.

[newthinkerer]

A minithread of two tweets by Kingfisher & Wombat (@/UrsulaV) the first reads:

["O best beloved, if you are doomscrolling twitter today, ask yourself if there is anything you personally do.

If there is, do it. If there isn't, remember that anxiety is not activism. Your misery does not improve the world a single iota."]

the second, as reply to the first, reads:

["You are not required to wallow in despair to prove your humanity. Better to go and work on something you can fix right now."]

[pauperism]

This message will repeat a few more times as the queue runs out (it should reach zero by early March, save for a few scheduled posts). But I'm gone from social media now. If you message me I'll still get an e-mail.

I'm gonna stop logging in and let the queue run out. It's been a fun few years but it's unbearable now.

We're just making each other anxious, and like that we cannot do anything. Reading each other's posts changes nothing but now we're all feeling even more anxious. The net result is negative! And in that state it's hard to do anything to improve things.

This is not something we can post through. Besides, we're preaching to the choir. None of your followers need convincing of how dire and urgent things are. THEY ALREADY KNOW, probably have known for the past 12 years.

And if they didn't, the shit from the past week alone should've been enough to convince them.

Take it offline, start in your direct environment: Cook a nice meal for your friends. Let them know you are there for each other. It'll do wonders for your moods, and that'll make you capable of doing even more.

Don't burn yourself out before you've even begun.

I love you.

[orangepenguino]

x

[thepastisalreadywritten]

💚🐸💚

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

this is the funniest thing I’ve read in my LIFE

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

HIM????

[theepicyus]

it's real btw

[cuddlefl00fs]

Op here, we're going strong!! Here's a picture of our Goob shrine

[cowboycostume]

[thistoowillpasss]

[thistoowillpasss]

[thistoowillpasss]

[thistoowillpasss]

[damndorothea]

look at this diva

[cute-catts]

Cats of Istanbul 🐈🐱

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

[heroineimages]

Ah! The Vicar of Dibly!

[autisticmysticsarah]

The legend of King Arthur predates thinking

[weaselle]

that would explain some of the actions of the court

[hollow-head]

you ever hear anyone say something so dumb you have to draw a new yorker cartoon about it?

[britneyshakespeare]

How many Shakespeare plays have you read/seen?

Zero, only know his works from cultural osmosis

1-4, typical of what you would've read in school

5-10, burgeoning hobbyist numbers

11-15, still a hobbyist but more experienced, including lesser-known works

16-22, making your way downtown, walkin fast, faces pass and you're homebound

23-30, have read most of them by now, with some exceptions

31-36, could very feasibly finish the complete plays soon

37-40, have read the entire canon and perhaps apocrypha, like an obsessed person

Voting ended onJan 4, 2025

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[mathew]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[grinchlybear]

Have you ever seen a cat white knuckling something before?