A little less conversation... A little more touch me.

Personal blog, blah blah.

[kushblazer666]

[peoplegettingreallymadatfurries]

God imagine having a vanity plate about anything to do with this place.

Ah. Right... I did that, too

[prowl-apologist]

I love worrying over nothing tbh. The satisfaction of something not going wrong when by your accounts it should is sublime.

[diablo-sera-tops]

hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo writhing in agony ok? don't cry

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo screaming so much their voice becomes hoarse and weak and the pain still won't stop

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo unable to close their eyes and avoid the visceral sight of their own body

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo suffering unimaginable pain and being powerless to stop it ok? ok

[travestito]

i think whether 'men' can be lesbians is rather irrelevant—the problem being posed by trans women asking this question is one of trans men gaining access to spaces from which trannies are excluded, but pretending this is a war we can win by coalescing around a more specific definition is absurdly naive and just like, not reflected in reality, we know people already treat being afab as more important than persistent identification with womanhood in many well estabilished lesbian spaces—by the same token, "can men be lesbians" is regularly used against us. i don't think we need to emphasize that the tranny camp has more "legitimacy" on this matter bc if anything being awful to trannies has a much better preserved historical record than including them, i think we need to recognize the game is rigged and lesbianism is a fundamentally kinda silly thing to be precious about

[peelingmandarins]

“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”

— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)

[patricide1885]

Jesus christ

[hockeyheart]

Sleep is a super power

[lady-griffin]

That last bit makes a whole lot of sense and it honestly astounds me, that I never once considered it.

But yeah that seems very obvious.

Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.

[recoveredcombatsister]

keeping a blokelist of problematic english men

[jellogram]

Interesting how people only use the saying "The ax forgets, the tree remembers" when they're thinking from the perspective of the tree. The other half of that sentiment contains a reminder that you, yes you, have almost definitely hurt someone at some point who still feels that pain today, and you don't even remember it.

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[questions-about-blorbos]

If you had a chance to take care of your Blorbo, would you make sure they were well-fed, safe and comfortable?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 21 hours

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"Things that make your front door look tacky" "lawn decorations that lower your property value" "why you should never paint your rooms bright colors" "unique styles make your home impossible to sell" "plants that make a garden unattractive to buyers" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP BASING YOUR HOME DECOR DECISIONS ON WHO WILL LIVE THERE NEXT AND JUST DO WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL HAPPY AND SECURE IN YOUR SPACE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[wiisagi-maiingan]

We are being encouraged to see our homes, places that many of us will live for years if not decades or our entire lives, as transient spaces that only exist to be sold one day. Don't plant your favorite flowers, buyers don't like them. Don't hang up tacky windchimes, buyers don't like them. Don't paint your living room your favorite color, buyers don't like color. Don't use unique tiles in your bathroom, buyers don't like that. Don't put plastic flamingoes and gnomes in your yard, buyers don't like them. Don't put put pretty knobs on your doors and unique plates on your light switches, buyers don't like that. Don't put up pretty light fixtures, buyers don't like them. Don't do this, don't do that, don't do anything to your home even if you're not planning on selling it anytime soon because someone is always preparing to buy it from you and you don't want to scare away a potential buyer, right?

I think everyone who gives "advice" like that is actually a shill for predatory real estate companies. And if they're not, why are they doing all that work for free?

[furrypost-generator]

[furrypost-generator]

bitches be sucking farts there

[ravingsockmonkey]

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

[alexseanchai]

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

something tells me Skunks Georg

[headbenzhawk]

we did it, we created furry gerrymandering

[tgirlmaomao]

i do not think it is bad because it was made for children, it is bad because it was made for yanks

[snowbairdd]

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS (1961) dir. Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi

[transhuman-priestess]

Why do you think arcane is slop?

Arcane is a quarter billion dollar, 12 hour commercial for a video game that became famous primarily for having a bot problem, microtransactions, and the most infamously toxic player base of any video game of the last decade.

The developer of League of Legends, Riot Games, has a Wikipedia article whose table of content looks like this.

By the late 2010s, league of legends was a joke. It was a shorthand for toxic shithead gamer behavior. It wasn’t taken seriously as a game by anyone anymore, so Riot Games had to do something with it, the company’s only profitable IP.

So Riot Games basically bought a French ad spot studio, pumped money into them, hired some writers, and set about to make a TV show based on a then decade-old video game. Why? To rehab the IP. And they pulled out alllllll the stops to do it.

Every aspect of the plotting is a safe bet. It’s a cop show. It’s vaguely edgy. It’s lore-friendly. It’s designed not just to appeal to players but to bring new people in. Sure most of them probably won’t play the game much, bur you really only need a few whales to make money off microtransactions, right?

Sure it has “great queer rep,” but those queers are cops so you know they’re the good kind of family-friendly, nonthreatening queer.

Arcane managed to win critical acclaim primarily because it did its best to appeal to the broadest audience, which it did by saying absolutely nothing of interest.

Art reflects its creators. Arcane is a vapid, empty show because League of Legends is a vapid, empty game. It’s a Skinner box designed to fleece teenagers with access to dad’s credit card of hundreds of dollars in bullshit cosmetics. It cannot be anything but slop.

[transhuman-priestess]

No, you may not.

[transhuman-priestess]

Anyway since the person in the tags blocked me and also thinks that they were agreeing with me here's their tags so you can see what they said

#if i may add as a league fan who both hates riot and engages the show w nuance#the first season opened some complex questions about the state of piltover and zaun#that season two entirely failed to capitalize on#season one felt wholly anti cop even if vi joining the enforcers was inevitable i went into s2 thinking we'd get a meaningful commentary#s2 failed to address the lasting conflict between piltover and zaun in favor of a marvel esque final battle#that just crammed in as many champs as possible#to fight a meaningless placeholder antagonist of viktor's robots#i truly don't believe the writers had as much creative freedom in s2 as they did in s1#i think riot rushed s2 to find an ending that only really existed to set the stage for the inevitable noxus show#which im expecting to have even less compelling things to say and even more marvel level cameos#i truly think s1 had some valuable story telling is a hill i will die on#but s2 was slop disappointing and empty

Like, no, S1 didn't have anything interesting to say either, because S1 was still a commercial for a video game slot machine.

[prowl-apologist]

The show does ask questions, but "complex" is doing enough heavy lifting it'll have back problems forever.

Some of the s1 writers did have fun with their sprinkled social commentary, but it's impossible to pretend it had deeper meaning.

[maidslime]

No more waiting, no more debating, go get your hrt. "I don't know if I'm really trans!" You are. Now go. "I'm scared!" We all were. Now go. "There's a long wait to be seen!" Go get your name on the list then. DIY if you need. "What if my friends don't accept me?" They weren't really your friends. Now go. "What if my spouse doesn't accept me?" Get a divorce. Now go. You do not need to continue to live in agony and depression to pretend to be someone else. Go get your hrt.

[maidslime]

The original incarnation of this post inspired SO MANY people to start hrt! I cannot help resolve every situation specifically, but most people can absolutely accomplish this step! If you want hrt GET IT

[ravenlynclemens]

people who like cartoons

[audible-smiles]

My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

[silverhand]

I'm seeing a couple of posts circulating about the gay 90s and this movie. The above is a very good summary, and I think it's worth adding a few other points.

This movie got made because Robin Williams said yes to it (and it's important that Gene Hackman did as well). Williams in the 90s was a mega-star of a type that's not present in the current media environment (maybe Tom Cruise, but I personally think that's echo from his salad days). Even his flops made money on the back end in the video rental market, which also doesn't exist anymore (streaming is different). Hackman was on the other side of his A-list career but still Hollywood nobility if not full royalty.

Playing gay was considered career suicide in the 90s. There had been a number of actors who put lie to that belief stretching back decades, but this was Williams and Hackman (yes, being on screen next to a gay character was enough to get you blacklisted) saying "screw that" and doing it anyway.

Being gay and out was career suicide in the 90s.

Nathan Lane had a really nice gig going for himself. The Lion King put him into the Disney rep company with people like Williams, Bette Midler, and Whoopie Goldberg (check their IMBD list from the 90s--they were making bank at Disney).

Lane didn't come out until several years later (nice summary: https://deadline.com/2024/06/nathan-lane-robin-williams-advice-coming-out-birdcage-1235975010/).

I don't want to imply that this was a Sorkinized moment where everything changed because of one thing, but this was a very important movie that caused real movement in the needle on queer acceptance.

It also proved that there was a market for films with gay characters, which had the knock-on effect of gay filmmakers being able to find distributors of their gay-themed films. Which meant that more people than ever (queer and non-queer) got to see representation on-screen.