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“They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be talented - there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a set of letters strung together to make a word? Be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.” ― Nikita Gill
i love women. in the feminist way and in the gay way. happy international women’s day
i predict that when love, simon comes out a bunch of people on here are going to be bending over backwards to find parts of it that are “cringey” or not 100% in line with our 2018 views on gender and sexual politics, but like, that’s sorta the point? It’s a teen coming-of-age movie. That genre is by very definition cringey. I grew up with perks of being a wallflower, whip it, and juno. I still love those movies but i’ll be the first to admit that they have certain elements that are cringe-worthy. Even classics like ferris bueller and the breakfast club have their flaws looking back on them as an adult. I imagine love, simon will be just as cringey as the john green books and movies that people fawned over on this website for years. The point is, this isn’t meant to be some cinematic masterpiece that revolutionizes the gay film genre. It’s not going to win any oscars. It’s a bubblegum coming of age movie that’s made for teens, especially gay teens, to enjoy. If you’re a twenty-something and this movie feels juvenile or lacking nuance or silly to you, maybe that’s because it’s not for you. Let it be for the 13-year-old gay and questioning kids who have only ever seen themselves represented as the quirky bestfriend in coming of age narratives before, not the protagonist until now. Let it be for the young gay people who are burnt out on independent, artsy gay tragedies and just want to see themselves in a goofy popcorn flick for once. For all the corny, embarrassing romcoms straight teenagers get, don’t gay teens deserve one too? It’s not that deep.
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It’d Be Nice
Today, I had an interesting conversation with a group of coworkers about normalizing the word “partner”– typically used for your significant other if you’re queer– for use by everyone.
“It’s common on my college campus,” said one of my coworkers, Katy, “like girls calling their boyfriend their ‘partner.’ It helps so that people don’t have to be accidentally outed as much. We just think that it’d be nice.”
But someone disagreed.
“All of this political correctness is ridiculous,” another coworker told us, shrugging and grinning, “why should I have to change what words I use?”
A bit of prodding, and it was revealed that:
1. He genuinely believed he would somehow be forced into changing or restricting his vocabulary, and that the oversensitive LGBT community was overstepping its boundaries
AND
2. He was primarily against it because he was horrified that for one week, one day, one millisecond he might be perceived as gay.
My coworker is a liberal arts professor’s kid, college educated in STEM. He was raised in a generation that has witnessed gay marriage be legalized in the US only in our lifetime.
Never before have I been able to firmly put my finger on the double standard that I see in some people my age: the idea that the LGBT community has gone from persecuted to privileged, but simultaneously and ironically find it undesirable and dangerous to be part of that “privileged” community.
And this standard shows itself to me… every day.
My coworker–who has already labeled me and all of our other peers as straight and cis-gendered– would do anything to avoid having someone wrongfully label his sexual orientation. This, despite the fact that there are minimal repercussions for him. If he used the word partner in front of a homophobic boss, stranger, or parent, it’s simple enough for him to whip out his wallet and honestly show off his girlfriend, to talk about her using her feminine name, to bring her to parties. He probably won’t be kicked out of his house for saying “my partner” instead of “my girlfriend”– he likely won’t be demoted, or threatened for just existing, because of those words.
But if I, a woman, ever publicly uttered the words “my girlfriend– my wife–”
Oh, oh, I could be.
Yet in my coworker’s eyes, he’s the one with a restricted vocabulary.
…All my coworker Katy said was: “it’d be nice.”
It’d be nice, if we tried to changed the social connotation of a word, because it might help prevent discrimination, harassment, and abuse. It’d be nice, to normalize and accept a word that would allow us to safely talk about our loved ones, about our weekend and our families, until a time when it truly is safe to exist as we are.
If your kneejerk reaction to someone suggesting a possible, lifesaving kindness is to protest “you’re wrong to force me! You can’t MAKE me!”
Well, I just hope you would consider re-evaluating why you feel the way you do.
I'm a butch struggling to figure out if this femme likes me. I've noticed that she likes touching/rubbing my arms a lot and she's just very touchy with me in general and likes to sit in my lap too, but what if that's just the kind of person she is? She also likes to borrow my clothes when she comes over and there's no good reason why really, but she asks me if she looks cute in them. She's told me before multiple times that she thinks I'm handsome but I think it was in a joking manner... Help?
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i understand why van gogh cut off his ear and shot himself in the middle of an open field like i get it now
“One, two, three, it’s just me *laughs* it’s just me on my own…”
Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? - Avatar Studio’s Acoustic Session aka the best acoustic version of this out there
honestly alex jus fuck me up
I wholeheartedly support useless lesbians, dumbass gays and clueless bis
why do u think u know me i don’t even know me
stop shaming people who drink milk you bullies
our bones may be strong but our hearts are not
both yeri and jungkook were literally raised by teenagers and they are both gay so that’s how our generation will end heterosexuality
thanks to lgbt icons queen bae irene and min yoongi actual lgbt rights activist for raising such amazing and talented kids thank you
signs as untranslatable foreign words
Aries: Schadenfreude. German – the feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another’s misfortune.
Taurus: Cafuné. Brazilian Portuguese – The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.
Gemini: Verschlimmbessern. German – to make something worse when trying to improve it.
Cancer: Mamihlapinatapei. Yagan/Tierra del Fuego – The wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.
Leo: Kjæreste. Norwegian – A gender neutral term for girlfriend or boyfriend. It literally translates as “dearest”.
Virgo: Wabi-Sabi. Japanese – “a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”
Libra: L’ésprit d’escalier. French – is the feeling of finding the perfect retort too late, though it literally translates to “staircase wit.
Scorpio: La douleur exquise. French – the exquisite pain that comes from loving someone who will never love you back.
Sagittarius: Fremdschämen. German – Embarrassment you feel on behalf of someone who is too dumb to know they’ve done something they should be embarrassed by.
Capricorn: Geborgenheit. German – the feeling that, when with a certain person or in a certain place, that nothing could ever harm you.
Aquarius: Koev halev. Hebrew – Empathizing with someone else so deeply that it causes your heart to ache.
Pisces: Goya. Urdu – the transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur in a good storytelling.
sometime… u jus got 2 eat white rice. plain white rice. untouched. by itself. with your hands
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