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[dragon-in-a-fez]

never going to be over that time I was trying to explain polyamory to my mum, and she said "I just don't understand how someone could be in love with two people at once" and I gave her my the-cognitive-dissonance-is-causing-me-physical-pain face and she said "what??" and I very quietly said "mother....you had an affair...."

[orcboxer]

and the post begins

because otherwise it gets kind of visually confusing to parse, which is annoying to some folks, including me

GRANTED not everybody uses the same theme or even the same update. you might have noticed my version of tumblr is earlier than yours (I don't like the new button setup)

but still, it's just about being polite

so now you know

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[contradictory-label-culture-is]

clc is watching someone bring up labels as an alternative to bi lesbian and realizing that they're stupid because people under the label CAN BE BI LESBIANS

on this topic, amplusic folk and anyone who's identity is non static in some way, you rock! keep being you

💗

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade

[cassiewolfe]

This is off topic but I want to rant so here we are.

I live on a family farm cooperative. I grew up with tales of my grandparents living the nudist live in the Sixties. Of my father being shocked when he first came to the farm and saw how everyone didn't care about nudity and toplessness.

I grew up running around as a naked little kid. Nobody cared. As it should be. I grew up swimming on a clothing optional beach. I grew up seeing my mom and grandmother and later aunt work topless in the garden just like the men in the family.

Last summer, it was hot. And, as I occasionally do when it's hot, I went topless one day.

Not a week later, my aunt - no, not the topless one, a different one - called a family meeting where she said that she didn't think it was appropriate to keep allowing the type of nudity that was the norm. I asked for clarification. She said she'd like nobody to go topless. I asked if she meant nobody, or just the women.

She said just the women.

Except she didn't mean just the women.

She meant just me.

An important thing to know: I'm the only person in the family with breasts bigger than a B cup. Most of the women I'm related to are heroin-chic skinny and very small chested. I'm curvy with 38G breasts.

I don't think it was a coincidence that someone who never had a problem with middle aged, flat-chested women going topless suddenly started having an issue when I, as a young, uncomfortably big-chested female person, did the same.

And that still pisses me off a year later.

Free the nipple is for everyone.

[i-am-a-fish]

posts can have gargoyles!! I wanted to ask though, does anybody know how to make text align to the center on a tumblr post? I tried playing around in the HTML but I got stuck

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[shop5]

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

[sandersstudies]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

[sandersstudies]

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

[coldgoldlazarus]

[filyahehh]

smartest cat ever!

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[unyieldingsilence]

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[roadhogsbigbelly]

i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[ourlordapollo]

The zoo in my hometown posted this picture of one of their cheetah cubs and I'm obsessed

HIS NAME IS YAM ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDINF ME

[carfuckerlynch]

[ID: 1. a picture of a juvenile cheeta sitting with a nearly polite posture. he is looking at the camera and the angle makes his eyes enormous. he has blood on his muzzle. /end

2. an illustration of a TBH creature; a small, simply illustrated 2D creature with short legs, a round white head, and big, dark, wet eyes lying in a puddle of blood with its feet tucked under it. it has blood on its mouth and feet. /end ID]

[inkskinned]

my most ungrounded and unresearched fear is that so many companies are pushing AI in part because it builds them a pathway towards a subscription model for a huge number of things that should not be subscription, but theoretically could be:

do you want to talk to verizon's help desk because there's an error on your bill? to access a real agent, you have to pay for Verizon Access+, only 5.99 a month.

want to filter out all the fake job postings from the real ones? subscribe to Indeed: Advanced Tactics and only verified postings will appear on your dash.

sick of the infinite ai slop? buy Google Premium; it'll automatically detect ai within a site and gives it a credibility score. with premium plus, you can shuffle high-credibility results to the top.

do you want a "luxury" experience? well, you'd have to pay for that luxury, and since the company sure doesn't want to pay its employees; the cost would fall to the consumer.

when automation has made every experience unpleasant; the experience of genuine humanity will be commodified.

[i-am-a-fish]

*sending my nothing beams at you*

*blasting you with nothing*

[skwidtheoctopus]