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happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

#happy homestuck #and neil

carfuckerlynch

hey does anyone have that poem. about the author seeing two boys cuddling on a hotel lobby couch, where he refers to it as something like an island of safe anonymity or smth. its been 5000 years my college boyfriend had it written out and pinned to his wall

carfuckerlynch

THANK YOU @witchoflight it is indeed "on traveling together" by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

fwugradiation

professionalowl

[id: a three-panel Garfield comic. In the first panel, Jon sits grinning at a computer screen and says “Homestuck.” Garfield stands next to him on two legs, looking fed-up. In the second panel, Jon looks at Garfield, both wearing the same expression. In the third, Jon looks back at the computer, and Garfield looks at the viewer, disappointed. /end id]

#happy homestuck

argumate

America is unusual in the Anglosphere for the way that political debates often refer back to "the founders", mostly because Australia and Canada had a more gradual evolution towards full independence, so even though they have written constitutions (unlike Britain!) I don't think the identity and intent of the authors matter so much to modern politics.

and I can see the value in precedent and tradition and continuity for providing another form of checks and balances to a complex system that is constantly getting dragged this way and that, but it's still odd to focus on what the founders thought the US would be like back when it was 1/100th the population and solely clustered on the east coast and focused on competing with the European powers and you know, had slavery and all that.

iteration-dave

I used to toss this quote from one of "the Founding Fathers" at anyone I encountered claiming that something was their original intent. I enjoy the irony of countering an appeal to antiquity/authority with an appeal to the same long-ago authority.

"The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?" — Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)

argumate

sunset clause for the constitution

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP: Back when I was young, I couldn’t afford nice clothes. Now, I buy pretty dresses for the 18-year-old me. (cr 农村的陈奶奶)

#goals tbh

crowwkui

some griffith gestures aaaggghh i miss doing personal art ;-; work's been crazy this year

toolusingmammalgirl

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

psshaw

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

groovy-bastard

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

spockvarietyhour

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

#music #video #Actually Gay #!!!!!!!!!! that’s very important

valtsv

i like the term "gallows humor" because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like "i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution"

valtsv

#emma #gil

roachpatrol

“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is a ruling class in a capitalist society.”

— Jason Read (via finedineonmyvegangenitalia)

captainsblogsupplemental

geekremix

Data was an artist on a level organics cannot achieve and I appreciate him.

old-manrupee

“you may experience the emptiness with me if you wish” is all at once 1) a very cool thing to say and 2) unbearably romantic

thisisallthehattersfault

Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.

#thg #i think about this one a lot

decepticonsensual

It's never too late, you know.

It's never too late to find your people; to work your way to believing that you are worthy of attention and affection and love (you are); to emerge and, little by little, let yourself be seen.

Maybe you think you screwed up previous chances. Maybe you did! It's okay. You can try again, if it's something you want.

While you're breathing, you have time.

rewind-on-purpose

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/food-plant-solutions-malnutrition-farming-edible-plants/12580732

https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World

This guy is my new hero. I LOVE learning about native food plants that just grow everywhere without human help.

The database is a little clunky to use (especially on a phone), but still loads of excellent information.

plantyhamchuk

Here’s their website - Food Plant Solutions - and they can use volunteers! And $ of course. What they really need help with is connecting with NGOs/groups on the ground already working in countries, to get them access to the database. They also need help from formally trained agronomists, people good with website stuff, and people good at marketing / getting the word out about their project.

persianmom-deactivated20251026

your only job on this earth is to be so intrinsically yourself that the right people gravitate toward you and the wrong people move out of your way

#quote

gluten-free-pussy

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????