Im starting 2 fucking hate it here

26yrs / they/them

[changelingcoded]

does anyone else have parents who suck in objectively funny ways

[changelingcoded]

drawing it made me realize this one might be a unique experience

[changelingcoded]

im going through some bullshit someones homestuck fankid would experience

[simandy]

Do you guys know what an Ypê is? You need to know what an Ypê is.

Now you know what an Ypê is. Come to Brazil we have colorful flower ball tree everywhere

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[shadows-ember]

This is humanity

[siawrites]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

[labelleizzy]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[the-cimmerians]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[icarus-suraki]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[lesnby23]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!💕

[emmathefanficgal]

Happy Birthday, Curiosity

[what-even-is-thiss]

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

[what-even-is-thiss]

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

[what-even-is-thiss]

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

[crabussy]

just saw a chair so photogenic I had to reevaluate my feelings towards plastic furniture

[crabussy]

do you see this. beyond ridiculous

[crabussy]

what are our thoughts

I understand your feelings for the chair robin crabussy

unpost this right now you strange strange man

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

[crabussy]

I hired a wizard to cast png on it. effervescent

[kelocitta]

Once again reminding people that if you want to make something that has both reproductive capabilities and that is the norm for their species, the term you are looking for is NOT intersex. Intersex is used to describe a variance in what "should" be separated sexual development. If a species is meant to have functional reproductive sets of both types, by its nature its not intersex. The term 'hermaphrodite' for intersex conditions was dropped because it was both offensive and deeply inaccurate. Using intersex as a direct replacement for what it means isn't being polite and avoiding offensive terms, it actively reinforces one of the (many) reasons it was dropped as a term by conflating them as the same thing but 'nicely'

[sprawling-reptillian-effigy]

adding in op's tags as an image so they're not lost in reblogs [ID: Tumblr tags reading 't.extpost, this is out of nowhere and was originally a twit post but like i think its important, and a lot of people make this mistake for slugcats specifically, please be mindful of what you mean when you call a character intersex!!, otherwise you are just making the exact same mistake but nicely!,also to save you some trouble since a lot of people end up using alternative terms that really only apply sensically to plants, try cosexual instead,its not perfect and still quite niche but at least it isnt designed around,things having like 10 sets of reproductive organs per limb, h slur, im using it here mostly to reinforce my point that you cant just,paste over the no-no word and pretend like the issue is solved,and also to be explicit in what term is being avoided'. End ID.]

[sycamorality]

id like to add in text form too instead of just tags - the terms "cosexual" and "gonochoristic" have been suggested & used instead!

[tedthetalk]

I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[dogletantte]

Reading comprehension test:

1. Does OP mention an obligation on victims to forgive abusers who have learned from their past actions?

2. Does OP mention any work on the part of victims to educate their abusers?

3. Is there any mention of “redemption” or “forgiveness” at all in this post?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Something about how society cares more about punishing the wicked than about making the world a better place, and how many people really struggle to shake that.

[2007xbox360-deactivated20211113]

Unassuming woman: Nice, dude. That hot dog is ketchup-pilled AND mustard-pilled

Strange man whose son died in an accident he could have prevented: I guess

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

getting followed by porn bots is weird and that’s coming from a guy with multiple 🥵 concubines

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

this is really resonating with the subjects

[qin-shi-huang-di]

step aside you old cut-sleeve, i shall court these maidens!

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

I’m an emperor actually @chasingtheskyline

[qin-shi-huang-di]

the marquis of homo WISHES he had a fraction of my imperial glory!

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

right so i’m one of the most well regarded emperors in the history of china and you’re the guy who had to put “shut up about the mercury” in his bio

[qin-shi-huang-di]

I AM NOT OWNED! I AM NOT OWNED!!!

I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN EARN THE LOVE OF MY CITIZENS!

I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN ADEQUATELY PREPARE MY SUCCESSOR!

I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN ESTABLISH A STABLE DYNASTY!

[diet-poison]

the Terracotta Army guy?

[qin-shi-huang-di]

🙄 you build ONE funerary complex with 8000 life-sized statues of soldiers, horses and generals and suddenly you’re “the terracotta army guy.” 🙄 execution.

[wingdingle]

attention to all dashcon attendees

someone urinated into the ballpit while it was empty and posted it in the tag

stay out of the ballpit

[wingdingle]

there are people who think this is a joke

this is not a joke

please stay out of the ballpit for the safety of your health

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[sadclowncentral]

yesterday one of my brother's deckhands drunkenly confessed to him that the whole crew thought he was gay because he is, and i quote, "too tall and nice to people to be straight". a new puzzle piece to the wondrous mystery that is the world view of the cishet man

[the-big-mood]

This woman's dragon puppet

[yaoist]

this is how it feels when someone draws something for you

[brucesterling]

*The oligarchy has brought this ill-will and deep suspicion on itself. If they sold jars of mustard it would be "Pervert Mustard"

[theorahsart]

A comic about book bans, ppl's continued dismissiveness of asexuality, and ppl's lack of understanding around what it means to be queer, and why they should be worried about book bannings.

I'll add smth here cos I learned after posting this on IG that people still aren't entirely understanding how scary and dangerous this is. Ppl kept saying to me 'I can still buy your book in shops though' or 'Its okay, I'll order your book into my library!'

I dont give af about my book lol No one outside of Ace ppl ever read it, its yearly sales don't even cover a month of expenses for me.

The thing you should all be concerned about is that a totally benign unheard of book about someone's every day life is being banned. And those laws listed above are passing through US government right now. One of those laws would make it so that any teacher/librarian in the US could lose their job/go to prison for simply sharing 'ideology'- and I don't mean only lgbtq folk, these laws are attacking black history, civil rights history, disability rep in books. Just talking about these things will now legally be considered a 'dangerous ideology'.

And once that's set into law, the US government has backing via law to go ahead and say 'if these books aren't legally allowed in schools, then they shouldn't be allowed in shops, either.' And from there it sets up a great argument for 'The dangerous content in these books is lawfully being removed from public, shouldn't we be lawfully removing the people living out/promoting this ideology too?'

I can see why ppl don't fully understand how dangerous book bannings are, if they're not familiar with the history of fascism. If you're interested, there are plenty of graphic novels that share this history via first hand accounts- Maus, Persepolis, Banned Book Club.

But guess what? You're on limited time to get these via libraries...cos all three of these books are on banned lists too, and they got nothing to do with lgbtq rep, and everything to do with warning ppl about fascism.

And the US government knows it can get away with this, because they are passing these laws as we speak and barely anyone is doing anything about it or talking about it. I've been trying to talk about it for years and no one does anything except say to me 'don't worry, I'll buy your book!' or say its a badge of honour that I have a banned book.

So I'll emphasise once more. If you live in the USA, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REP ABOUT THESE LAWS!

[pastel-prouvaire-deactivated201]

PSA: tumblr user littlefuckinmonster is stealing human bones from cemeteries in Louisiana. Please don’t let them get away with this and spread the word/signal boost!

[wdapteo]

this post is officially a decade old now

[mutantrenegade]

For anyone who wasnt around when this happened, this was real. Littlefuckinmonster was actually stealing bones from cemeteries. She is the bone stealing witch. She was specifically stealing bones from poor people. She was arrested for it.

[ms-demeanor]

This is not a Goncharov, this literally happened, here’s the Wikipedia article about it.

[ralfmaximus]

World Heritage.. Something

[gremlininho]

you!!! are!!! not!!! running!!! out!!! of!!! time!!!

it literally doesn’t matter if you’re in your 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or fucking 90s. if you’re still alive, you literally still have that chance in your hands. don’t let your mind or anyone or anything trick you into thinking otherwise!!!!