Ramikus Maximus (archived)

hello, i'm Ramikus Maximus (or ramk for short.) i'm a gamer, musician, and LGBTQ+. i mostly reblog stuff but you’re sure to see a post when i finally experience a coherent Thought, which is usually late at night.

[ramikusmaximus]

hey tumblr, it’s been a long while

the last time i posted here was around may i think???

anyways kind of a lot has happened. so uh, let me go on those tangents i guess...

first of all, i am so fucking unsure of my sexuality, i don’t know if i’m ace or lesbian or bi or literally anything else, i’m still wondering if i’m cis at this point. i am so confused on all of this and i’ve been out since february. i like the label sapphic now and i’ll explain later.

second of all, i ranted quite a few times about a crush i had on here. and now i can safely confirm that we are now in a relationship!!! we got together on september 12th of this year and have been happy ever since. last night i confessed that i had a crush on her since 7th grade and all of that other stuff. she just said i was adorable :) this is probably why i like the sapphic label i guess,,, the only crush i have had is on this girl in particular...

mentally, i am doing a lot better than i was. i’m still not perfect, i will never will be. even after all of the venting sessions i have had with my friends and supportive girlfriend, i still haven’t fully recovered from my past traumas. i’m doing mentally better than i was though. i’ve been seeing people as much as i can (which is very little due to the ongoing pandemic) and have been staying safe. no one in my immidiate family has gotten covid, only a cousin and one of my grandmas but they’re ok for now.

as for this blog, i really don’t know what to do with it. i don’t use tumblr as much as i did, hell, i’m still quite new to it. i don’t have much ideas as to what to post. i don’t have a lot of hobbies now that could really garner me an audience. i might just have to abandon this blog once and for all :/ i’m still thinking on that though...

[outofcontextdiscord]

[literallyaflame]

idk how ppl find twitter ‘more bearable’ than tumblr. i log onto tumblr and i see posts from the same handful of ppl i’ve come to expect, displayed in chronological order. then i log onto twitter and it’s like “here’s a seemingly random collection of posts arranged in order of how angry we think they’ll make u! also, every celebrity and major world leader is on here trying to earn their master’s degree from Clown University”

[ramikusmaximus]

i don’t know if i should just abandon this blog because i wanted it to be a more personal one but not a lot has been going on nowadays :/

i’ll probably come back but don’t expect a lot in the next coming months

i’ll probably reblog stuff and like stuff but that’s the only thing i do anyways

stay safe out there

and hopefully things get a little better

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’ve got it— this week. the next week. you’ve got this.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’re a whole person, dude. you will wake up and still be whole. you will keep going and find the bits of yourself that were undiscovered. there’s a lot of exploring you have ahead and you’ll find that as you are, you are fantastic. everything from your mindless humming to the way your hair looks on a good day to the way you walk a little more confident after a compliment to the way you make people laugh.

[noobtheloser]

:)  More Behind the GIFs. 

[randomslasher]

This…I actually…really needed this. Like.For real legit thank you.

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

me too

[day-time-dream]

this is lovely thank you

[jessbanette]

@komamocha

[soundsfakepod]

Spotted at an LA protest: woke ace

[The sign reads:

"I've been saving my FUCKS for this!

FUCK THE POLICE

FUCK THE SYSTEM

FUCK TRUMP"]

[hymnsofheresy]

I hope this email finds you fearing the righteous wrath of God.

[starsailorstories]

me writing to my state senators

[tami-taylors-hair]

The big discourse on twitter right now is ‘you can’t say Columbus was a racist monster because no one knew racism was bad in 1492,’ except Isabella I (yeah, that Isabella I) threw his ass in prison for being a racist monster. There are multiple contemporaneous accounts of Columbus in the Caribbean that are basically like “holy shit, this guy is a legit, Texas chainsaw massacre psychopath.” He was considered bad even then.

When there’s documentation that the queen who got the Spanish Inquisition rolling thought Columbus was bad, I feel like it means we can all feel good about establishing another holiday for mattress discounts in this country.

[kereeachan]

Yep. Contemporaneous accounts of him and De Soto often have the writer essentially going “what the FUCK are you doing, why are you like this.” People AT THE TIME knew it was fucked up just fine.

[citizen-zero]

His crew wanted to mutiny and kill the man and we are all worse off for the fact that they didn’t.

[trilobiter]

In 1511, only 19 years after Columbus’s first voyage, a Dominican friar named Antonio de Montesinos said this to the Spanish colonists on Hispaniola:

“Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude? On what authority have you waged such detestable wars against these people who dwelt quietly and peacefully on their own lands? Wars in which you have destroyed such an infinite number of them by homicides and slaughters never heard of before. Why do you keep them so oppressed and exhausted, without giving them enough to eat or curing them of the sicknesses they incur from the excessive labor you give them, and they die, or rather you kill them, in order to extract and acquire gold every day.”

“Racism” was an unknown word (coined in the early 20th century) and perhaps a difficult concept to explain to 15th and 16th century Europeans. But they were fully capable of understanding that marching into some one’s country, and then immediately killing and enslaving them, was wrong. The fact that they did it any way is their own responsibility, and it’s not inappropriate for us to judge them for it.

[queeranarchism]

This is why it matters so much not just which history we tell, but from with perspectives. The fact that the perspectives of the many contemporaries who recognized Columbus as a disgusting racist and tried to stop him are not in our history books is a choice that was made a long way back by people who wanted to continue being racist and loving Columbus.

[athelind]

I think we can all agree that by the standards of the day, Columbus wasn’t racist.

He was plain fucking EVIL.

[awed-frog]

“Many of you are writing about race, racism and white supremacy right now. Please use this chart to correctly identify Black Americans. Accuracy in how we identify folks is paramount always but especially right now.”

[feministism]

[hyperthrust]

i don’t see enough “acne is normal and fine” talk so here. acne is normal and fine. you don’t need to use all these fancy products and wash your face/shoulders/chest/back/whatever 8x a day. it sucks cause it hurts, it sucks more that everyone seems to have an opinion about it. acne is normal and fine, you’re alright.

[hyperthrust]

this post goes for all skin conditions. take/use whatever you need for relief, don’t feel pressured to hide it, and you don’t have to listen to people’s ignorant comments about it. i wish you comfort in your own skin.

[sandersstudies]

You CANNOT serve from an empty vessel but go off I guess

[i-have-n0-idea-what-im-d0ing-de]

OP what does this mean?

[sandersstudies]

When your friends are hungry, you cannot serve them from an empty breadbasket, no matter how good your intentions. When they're thirsty, you cannot serve them from an empty pitcher, no matter the effort you put in.

We have to stock ourselves with good things before we are able to give them away, and if we are too exhausted to make bread, we must rest before we can make it to serve our friends. If we are too hungry to serve, we must eat some bread ourselves first.

It's a metaphor for emotional exhaustion. When we wear ourselves down it makes it difficult or impossible to help the people around us, and all the effort and good intentions in the world can't make up for the fact that our vessels are empty. It's hard to not want to serve when our friends are in trouble, but trying to serve from an empty vessel often leaves both of you floundering.

On the contrary, when we care for ourselves and are kind to our body and mind, we are full vessels, and serving the people around us becomes easier. That's why it's important to take time for ourselves once in a while, to refill ourselves with good things.

[cluegrrl]

In the event of a sudden pressure change, put on your own oxygen mask before helping a companion with theirs if needed.

[ailithnight]

I have never seen this concept so perfectly and eloquently articulated.

You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

f. scott fitzgerald said, “that is part of the beauty of all literature. you discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. you belong.” i feel like this applies to a lot of things. you can realize we all feel it sometimes. keep that close to you when the world is falling apart.

[comicsareforkids]

First in a series of comics about Street Medics. Feel free to share and add these to your resources, however you deem necessary. Black Lives Matter.

[ramikusmaximus]

there’s gonna be a lot of good stuff happening to me next month and i’m super excited