Silly Willy Timmy Tilly

Asexual | Demiromantic | nb | been here since 2012 ✌️ it's like fucking Hotel California

[orteil42]

evil game design must never be done for money reasons. evil game design must be done for the love of evil itself

[beatcroc]

[almost-correct-quotes]

op surely isn't biased here

[beidak-art]

rate my chestnut man

[unpeeled-human]

felt compelled

[beidak-art]

[walliard]

Posts I can't believe didn't originate on tumblr.

[vaguelyluciddragon]

It took me a second and now I'm fucking

W H E E Z I N G

[beemovieerotica]

was at a bar and a 50+ year old drunk white woman complimented me and my friend's outfits, told us there was a campsite up in northern maryland where a lot of gay bears go to have sex in the woods. we asked her how she knew about this and she very aggressively said "because i'm a FAG HAG!!! but i'm not allowed to say that anymore I GUESS!!!"

[plumslices]

vintage sterling silver balsamic condiment label

[batbetbitbotbut]

[impactings-deactivated20240405]

Jessie after dark

[impactings-deactivated20240405]

update i have concerns about where katherine is going 

[batwynn]

I’m a little more concerned about Roland at the moment.

[teashoesandhair]

Not to awaken the Katharine fandom or anything but, as of April 2020, she’s doing her absolute best

Oh to be a misunderstood sassy girl who disappears for a year and returns having gained 1,000 pounds

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was just looking at how Sally was doing and

[kenbuttshiro]

So, Thomas definitely is up to something

WHAT IS HE UP TO

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

He got the shark equivalent of the 2am zoomies.

[auxphono]

Please please please don't click those phishing texts

[auxphono]

[clouds-of-wings]

"Watching my dad (a GP doctor) watch House is more entertaining than the show"

[zoi-no-miko]

GOD, I wish more doctors were more like this redditor's dad

[sighinastorm]

been ages since I saw a rage comic!

>thread is from 13 years ago

oh.

[ninjamouse13]

[corporationkills]

now who kicked all those springs under the fridge

[birdsareblooming]

i was talking to friends who's main view of tumblr is that everything is sexualized on here. and when i said i do see that i also know that the most vocal groups of asexuals are on tumblr. eventually i realized how much of tumblr was de-sexualizing sex. like just saw a post of a gifset of a sexy lady smoking and tying up hands with the reblog text "me putting the little tag back on the bread bag" and so many posts are like that. just saying or talking about some sex shit in a completely neutral non-sexual manner. I was going in loops around my head trying to figure out why it was like this, something about being so used to nudity and sex and that's not shocking or even sexy anymore, until circling back to the fact that tumblr is full of asexuals and maybe the most respectful place of them. it was then a saw a poll (a post I CANNOT find again for the life of me but it was some type of sexuality poll or something) and was shocked by just how many people answering it were asexual, until I remembered this and went. oh. so yes everything on tumblr is sexualized but not even for sexualization's sake or for sexual satisfaction. its for the bit

[birdsareblooming]

uptopia in the making sporting my aspec siblings

[sea-salted-wolverine]

It's the nuance I think.

From the outside, it looks like the axis is along the lines of no sex to all the sex, but its actually a spectrum from "im normal and thats so obvious it requires no definition of what normal even means" to "my sexual proclivities or lack thereof require several paragraphs of explanation and also a bibliography. And possibly diagrams."

[midnightssea]

spotted this sign at a hotdog restaurant where the extra long hotdog is called “the homewrecker”

[captain-price-returns]

oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

[hotvampireadjacent]

[thewellofastarael]

"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels. Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so. Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing. Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."

Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Best thing about pets is that sometimes you look up and see them. Glanced outside and a chicken was trotting past, clearly on some kind of mission. What kind of mission? No idea. Chicken business.

[leebrontide]

A week or two ago I was in the car with my 7 year old and she saw one of the few surviving Red Lobsters and asked if we could get cheddar biscuits. Because Red Lobster cheddar biscuits are amazing.

But the problem is that I can't walk into a Red Lobster because if I do that I will stop breathing. It's not a fun spot for the shellfish allergic (Yes, Jamie from my books gets that from me).

So I told her we could, if she would take some cash into the restaurant, wait her turn to talk to the hostess, ask politely, pay, and bring them out to me. She considered this, but she already orders for herself in restaurants, goes up to ask for shop restroom keys herself, etc. She's polite and calm and it's fine. So she decided that this was a manageable stretch, and agreed.

And lo, we had cheddar biscuits and they were awesome.

And I keep thinking about how we did this all the time in the 80s and 90s and then everybody went nuts for stranger danger and true crime podcasts and we just...stopped.

You know what's great about teaching young kids how to do shit like this? No sense of cringe, and if they fuck up they come right back to their parents, and also people give young kids grace if they stumble a bit.

Instead, I'm seeing people to wait till their kids are teenagers to expect them to be able to do things independently. Teenagers! Who are famously terrified of social fuckups, who get no grace from anybody, and who rarely want to go to an adult if things go wrong!

That's utterly backwards!

Not only do we need to trust teens to do more independently, but that starts with letting young kids do things more independently. So they learn early on that trying and failing is ok and they can just try again. So they can learn skills when they're young and shameless.

standard disclaimer not all kids not all families you know the drill please do not be obnoxious pretending I said you piss on the poor.

[kosmogrl]

[freakoutgirl]

i hate when something is in 20 minutes

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).