Semi-Aquatic Shitposting

Tae💖💜💙 23 She/Her Manatees used to be mistaken for mermaids, but I'll never be mistaken for a consistent blog

[queer-as-city-folk]

Imagine, if you will, a single issue voter, whose issue is his neighbor

[queer-as-city-folk]

He will vote for whichever Mayoral candidate promises to lay siege to his neighbors home and banish him from the neighborhood

[lettucemakar]

Word already had a word count?! That WORKED?

You made a computer that can't COUNT?!

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[ladyofthebookcase]

aw mannnn

[kropotkindersurprise]

[kropotkindersurprise]

it's offical!

[valtsv]

do you think a cemetery angel and a gargoyle could fall in love

[valtsv]

[fantasiona]

to draw this was a very impulsive decision

they seem so sad <33

[beardedmrbean]

the anesthetic apparently hasn't fully worn off yet

[crazy-brazilian]

Ping 200

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[buffalo-tracks]

Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.

The Wretched of the Earth

Discourse On Colonialism

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Borderlands/La Frontera

As We Have Always Done

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Books I couldn't find on the archive but still recommend you purchase or check out at the library:

[wiigiwaamcore]

I just want to highly recommend Emma Larocque's essay "Metis and Feminist" in Making Space for Indigenous Feminism. Also, if you are able to get a copy, there is a new third edition of the book which has some really great additional essays alongside some of the older ones. I also recommend the book In Good Relation for people interested in Indigenous feminisms.

[transfemme-shelterdog]

RIP Alex Jones who popped like a balloon in his car.

[transfemme-shelterdog]

To all the haters who say he's actually still alive, I got my news from a reputable source:

[fuzze5]

literally announced on infowars. infowars made by alex jones. this is reputable due to the creator being the subject of it. farewell alex jones

[transfemme-shelterdog]

RIP Alex Jones

[saltedume]

[kyrasaphira]

Statuette of Venus made from rock crystal quartz (Roman, 1st century BC)

[everythingfox]

Took a risk and it paid off

[patheticperipatetic]

This is the face of someone who knows this doesn't always work.

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

no way

[thelastsongimwastingonyou]

[themoonandmyman]

Thinking about Shane learning the Russian words for ‘my little bear’ because Ilya’s so large and imposing but so soft and his hair is so fluffy- but he also delights in knowing he can use it on Ilya to needle at him and sweetly annoy him. He can imagine Ilya’s faux-irritated brow crease, followed by wrestling Shane into the couch to prove he’s no little bear- he’s a grizzly bear who’s going to eat Shane for breakfast…

So he works to get the pronunciation down, and finally springs it on him one day when Ilya’s just come in from the lake, hair air dried and floofy and he’s all open limbs and soft edges.

The moment the words fill the space, Ilya goes silent, and tears start to fall. Shane panics, and closes the gap between them to hold his husband close with a crushing grip.

‘What’s wrong? Did I not do it right? Did I say something bad?’

Ilya stays quiet for a moment, trying to control the inevitable break in his voice when he speaks. When it comes out, it’s wet, and wounded, like blood seeping out the mouth of an injured animal.

‘No, no. It’s ok- my mama, she-’ another small sob. ‘She used to call me that. I have not heard it in a very long time.’

Shane knows he doesn’t need to reply, or to fill the following lull.

He just needs to stand there. Solid and unyielding.

Arms a vice around Ilya’s torso, large hands stroking down the damp skin of his back. Soothing kisses pressed like a comforting brand to his temple, his cheeks, his eyes. Urging the tears to flow because they need to. Loving his man exactly how he needs to be loved.

[the-haiku-bot]

Shane knows he doesn’t

need to reply, or to fill

the following lull.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.