identity is a myth

Identity is a myth, and by that I mean the idea of a single solid self is lie, but by that I also mean identity is a story we create to make holy, create meaning, loosely based on events, subject to revision.

[gluetun]

CLEAR SKIN IS SO ATTRACTIVE I’D CHOP A TOE OFF FOR CLEAR SKIN FOREVER

[windows-98]

[postillfastill]

I think the best tumblr interaction I've ever had was when i replied to some post and referred to bigots with cute cartoon icons as "picrew racists" and this other person materialized out of NOWHERE to call me ableist and queerphobic because most people who use picrew are neurodivergent and nonbinary people. I was like, "i don't think that's true and also I am neurodivergent nonbinary people, what the fuck are you talking about", and they said VER BATIM "classic DARVO tactic" and were like why don't you just call me a slur or threaten me with violence since you're such an abuser or whatever, and I was like "I WAS JUST SAYING ITS FUNNY WHEN A BAD PERSON HAS A CUTE CARTOON ICON" and they immediately DM'd me their ENTIRE LEGAL STREET ADDRESS so I could doxx them or hurt them or something since I "clearly wanted to." Like that fast, like 2-3 replies. Pure unadulterated tumblr condensed into such a succinct exchange. 🤌 can't get that anywhere else baby.

[shyocean]

The way someone on this site will try to force you to be the person they are mad at in their head so they can be abusive to regulate their experience of internal shame into external attack is absolutely chefs kiss

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[dropoutcontentfortiredqueers]

[fansplaining]

Good Omens’ Final Love Letter to Fanfiction

The author is dead. Long live the authors.

Our latest piece is live! The great @annejamison (who you might know as the author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World) writes about the recent Good Omens finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction:

And so, May 13th found me awake at 1 A.M., watching the series finale through bleary and teary eyes. Despite widespread sorrow at the glittering yet gutting conclusion for our heroes, 6,000+–year-old angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley, I thought it was the most heartfelt and validating love letter to fanfiction I’ve seen come out of a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, this message got tangled up with the show’s other unique ambitions: to save itself from its author—not Pratchett, the other one—and restore the Good Omens legacy to its fans.

Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version! 💞

[bookshop]

I edited this piece and it is SO enjoyable! So far in this new era of Fansplaining, I think what I've been happiest with is seeing just how engaging and highly readable and entertaining all of these very different perspectives on fandom are. Anne's take is essentially that the Good Omens finale was a metatextual argument for embracing transformative storytelling over proprietary authorship and even a single authoritative canon, and even if you don't watch the show, reading about how all of this came about (and a little bit about the fallout) is fascinating and moving. And warmly, lovingly told.

[shyocean]

I didn't realize that Gman had been disinvolved by the Pratchett estate, and that he didn't write or showrun the finale.

I didn't watch it but

The idea that this is a gift to fans, that it's literally a story about a creating a new universe free from the abusive author of the universe, really does change the vibe of people continuing to engage with the text for me.

[o-craven-canto]

Come to the Human Cuisine Restaurant, we have:

Boiled grain

Flatbread with various toppings

Flatbread wrapped around filling

Fried lean meat

Stew of fatty meat and starch

Fermented vegetable

Oily sauce

Aromatic herbs

Stimulant alkaloids

Alcoholic beverage

[teamugdraws]

Milk from someone else's mother

The above, but gone a little bit rotten

Berries!

Fried dough

Salt

[shyocean]

May I suggest:

Meat that has been heated over a fire

Meat preserved by smoke, salt, acid, and aromatic herbs

Vegetables preserved by salt, acid, and herbs

Starchy root vegetables.

Beans, pulses, and grains that have been dried and later rehydrated in the presence of aromatic plants.

Dish that consists of fried aromatic plants, a liquid, and a protein source, served with above rehydrated plant or flatbread.

Pilfered unborn birds.

Afterwards, we can have a mixture of, sugar, dairy, eggs, ground starch and an aromatic elements, after it has been heated and cooled.

[kathyack-blog-blog]

(from Empire of the Senseless)

[kathyack-blog-blog]

(from Don Quixote)

[goth-queen]

[darkwingduck]

Flowers - May 31, 2026

[i-like-dropout]

fantasies about vampires coming to your town to fall in love with you and make hot vampire sex to you: old, outdated, boring

fantasies about vampires coming to your town to improve the public infrastructure, destroy the rich families milking you for money, and perhaps also making hot vampire sex to you (or helping you make hotter sex with your partner of many years): rejuvenating, what we need in this day and age, modern

[navpike]

new reaction image just dropped

[hotvampireadjacent]

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Ice operations have moved to harassing folk in Memphis

[castformbignaturals]

Huh. I wonder what else is going on in Tennessee (and specifically Memphis) right now?

Oh well, I’m sure it’s a total coincidence.

[quasi-normalcy]

(For those not in the know, @castformbignaturals is alluding to the fact Memphis is a majority Black city that stands to have its congressional representation entirely wiped out by redistricting led by the Republican governor of Tennessee who has, of course, welcomed the ICE occupation with open arms. Again, the project of MAGA is to reintroduce Jim Crow)

[hyperspacial]

Video shows tense moment between Rep. Pearson, state troopers as brother detained at Tenn. Capitol

Cameras in the capitol captured a tense moment between Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson (D-Memphis) and state troopers who w

TN governor signs new congressional map into law, dividing Memphis and marking end of special session

Republicans passed bills repealing a state law barring lawmakers from changing congressional districts between census apportionments.

Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI

A TIME investigation reveals data tying Musk’s AI data center to pollution surges in a historically Black Memphis area.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The satirical research field "parachute use to prevent death and major trauma" is such a goldmine. The two major publications

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300808/

and

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

are pretty much perfect satire of the way pseudo-skeptics dismiss domain experts and demand "hard evidence" in the form of exclusively flawless double-blind controlled studies, while clearly demonstrating that they have no idea what that entails, or what the limitations of RCTs are.

[anarchqueen]

wild way to say "kill yourselves"

[tpwrtrmnky]

But the randomized control trial that was actually performed (second link) found no evidence that parachutes prevent mortality! (because they could only recruit people willing to jump off small, landed aircraft)

[homunculus-argument]

Okay, that's IT. As a bisexual ranch dressing supporter I just can't continue to follow you in good conscience. Why do you industrial carpet shippers all think it's okay to use bland women as a scapegoat for premium disco culture? Maybe if you actually bothered to read the ukranian degeneracy thesis you'd understand batman's suntan technique, but I guess you're just too busy making free insurance consultation posts, so whatever.

Blocked, flambéed and unfollowed.

I want this as a medieval calligraphy manuscript framed on my wall.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

LOOK LOOK EVERYONE I HAVE SEEN YOU ALL @'ING ME THESE TAKE TIME

that being said, @homunculus-argument :

my work tracker app says this'll be $100 bucks Canadian, I take cash, tattoos, uranium glass, or Hot Topic gift cards

[alwaysbewoke]

[leighlew3]