i am consumed by whimsy and desperation

everyone ever should listen to Cosmo Sheldrake. | bird appreciator. I tag cool birds with "that is a bird" for my mental health. they make me smile

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Not a dream

DASHCON 2 ?????

[one-time-i-dreamt]

DASHCON TWO TWO ????

[catpop12343]

Dashcon 2: The Third

[anexperimentallife]

[prismatic-bell]

I’m 33 and American. This myth is so widespread here I didn’t know the truth until I was TWENTY-NINE. I was literally taught something similar IN COLLEGE—that the Puritans were so reactionary in America as a result of what happened to them in England. And this was in a class about the history of witchcraft accusations and the Salem witch trials. Like, we were taught that they were horrible HERE, but the narrative was still that they faced injustice in England.

This wasn’t a stupid teacher, either. She had her first doctorate and was pursuing a second. Basically everything else I learned in that class checks out. The myth just runs THAT DEEP.

[dduane]

Yep. :/

[plantyhamchuk]

This thread got me watching this BBC documentary on Oliver Cromwell and I highly recommend it anyone else who also had no idea.

[petermorwood]

The "injustice" the Puritans faced was not being in power any more and thus not being able to oppress people who didn't worship in the same intolerant way they did.

So they went to America and did it there.

They seem to have done it on and off ever since.

[mizkit]

I was a whole-ass adult the first time I heard it framed as "the Puritans were so extreme and oppresive in their religious practices that every country in Europe kicked them out."

I *had* kind of known that, but I had not, well, heard it *framed* that way, and the framing is really critical. It's really difficult to get past childhood indoctrination (that continues into adulthood, like, this is not a piece of information that most American have access to: "persecuted because of religious intolerance" is as far as it goes) even if, technically speaking, you have access to all the facts.

[zzoupz]

MAY YOUR DAY BE YAOIFUL ON THIS YAOI DAY EVERYONE 🥳🎉👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨💞

[zzoupz]

HAPPY YAOI DAY AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EVERY HORSE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE 🐴🦄🐎🎉🎂

[ffishstick]

anyways id love to watch more shows but its extremely dangerous. what if i end up liking a character. that could be fatal

[achillesinhighheels]

[origami-butterfly]

We can't live like this

[mossdftba]

@putting-swears-back-in-images

[putting-swears-back-in-images]

[memorydatas]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[memorydatas]

for context:

[dragonquestv]

[an-actual-lion-deactivated20200]

“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

[leolikesaccountability]

Updated the lesbian flag and added nonbinary, pan, ace, and aro for all your tacky LBGTQ+ barcode needs.

[non-binary-ary]

Hope yall  like my abomination

[thegrimmlovely]

That last one is fucking moving istg

[silverjirachi]

at last. the gaydar

[cargopantsman]

[anathemaegg]

[effeminate-wastrel-deactivated2]

The only pride flag I care about anymore

[moonsfavoritedaughter]

awesome, just awesome

[ohh-lover]

This says "Megalodon Alive?" in German but I'm so sleep deprived I read it as Megalodon LGBT?

[vulnerary-prince]

Do not bury this in the tags I am losing my mind

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[monstrous-ideas]

Its been five years of it’s august and the flow of time still haunts me

[phantomrose96]

You know I gotta learn shitpost brevity. Most of my successful posts are like 3 paragraph essays, minimum. Fucking dissertations. Terrible note-to-word ratio. Inefficient. In this economy? In this economy? Unsustainable. Everyone else posting "blowing my balls up at the bomb factory" and getting 50,000 notes. Amazing ROI. They're the future and I'm on dial-up. The market's gonna out-compete me.

[lemonlegs4]

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[airborneranger63]

One time my rabbi told us, “imagine you had a box with a little bit of god in it. What would you do with the box?”

So we were like ?? “We’d protect it and keep it nice and clean and polished” and he was like “your body’s that box. Stop eating markers”

[what-even-is-thiss]

Every time I come across this post the last sentence smacks me in the face

[allwhiterain-deactivated2025061]

Matthew Lillard and Angelina Jolie as “Cereal Killer” and “Acid Burn” in Hackers (1995)

[zagreus]

previously unseen genders in human history

[shencomix]

[amazoogle]

help me solve an argument

what color is this ↑

red

blue

green

i don't know

i don't care

other

see results

Voting ended onAug 1

[amazoogle]

i guess im fucking colorblind?

[slutty-satan]

Right is the color On ops Blog

Left is how it appeared on my dash

So Depends on where you're looking at it I guess.

[geraldmariaivo]

WHAT

[blackfilmmakers]

Anyways-

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[valmoxium]

[graymoon2-deactivated20241009]

i will never not reblog this

i cannot stress how much it does for us

a while ago, one of my mutuals was considering quitting writing. her fics weren’t doing as well, and the algorithm wasn’t favoring her writing like it used to.

so as a collective 10-15 writers, we all reblogged her fic once each. that alone put her writing at the top of the tag.

it makes a difference. way more than you think. it doesn’t matter if people see it because of you, it still gets promoted by the algorithm.

please, reblog fics