Beat the Bright out of Me

a harmless asshole. a professional bridge burner. a powdered donut with jelly-regret filling. 30’s. she/her

[dsunearthed]

2006

[mournfulroses]

Sara Torres, from her novel titled "X Is Where I Am," orginally published in March 2026

[victusinveritas]

Ken Unsworth

Suspended stone circle

1978-1981

[deathgasmic]

who else is up permanently feeling like they did something Wrong

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[eoh666]

playground insults in 2030: dude your dad looks like ai generated gay porn

[pronounyaoi]

dude stop before i develop a strange and powerful fondness for you

[catchymemes]

[animentality]

[mikkeneko]

#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden

[doctorsex69]

DJing at the club: put your hands in the air and shake your ass a lil if you love baby animals!!!! everyone go crazy!! do it for the baby animals!!😄

[lamignonette]

[rookravens-deactivated20260314]

An Eagle-Owl Seizes a Hare, 1860

Ferdinand von Wright (Finnish, 1822–1906)

[nyahgust]

[summer-oil-inactive]

forced caretaking as a trope i think is like cocaine to people who know they need to be taken care of but have mental blocks in the way like yeah please do gently force me into a state of vulnerability so my body learns it is a safe thing to feel around you

[fluffiest-fox-kira]

This has gotta be a hit with the girlies who have always wanted something terrible to happen to them just so people realize they're in more misery than their outward appearance lets on

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statuette of drunken Hercules pissing.

Date: 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century

Medium: White marble

Provenience: Herculaneum, Antiquarium (in depositarium)

[monstersovka]

✶ PRIDE MONTH ✶

[bothpalms]

Baba's domain 🐈 Collab with @ceeejus 🌟