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like to be clear i enjoy many things that are bad. but if they were bad and big, that would be a problem. a bad show/film/book is inoffensive to me. a bad show/film/book that is being given endless accolades makes me feel like there's women in my yellow wallpaper
lots of people expressing disappointment that Zohran Mamdani is a Dear Evan Hansen fan. personally speaking I think it is good and healthy for the mayor of New York to have extremely basic taste in musical theatre. I don't want someone in public office worrying about who sang "The Miller's Son" the best. that's my job.
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Iāve been thinking a bit about Harry Potter again and specifically why it feels so different to me from other bad things Iāve enjoyed.
Iām trained in literary criticism, I personally study a lot of stuff from people with stupid opinions in my freetime, including opinions about people like me, I enjoy reading in general. What is it about Harry Potter that makes me just not want to come back to it?
I think itās kind of how it became a part of culture for a while. And at the time it wasnāt criticized as heavily as other things I witnessed, at least from my childās perspective. Poking holes in media has been a favorite pastime of mine for long time, including with Harry Potter, but the fundamental emotional core of the thing never quite felt flawed.
Yes Rowling put some stupid things in there but thatās to be expected from a white woman in Britain who has had most of her life being taken care of for her. At the end of the day, the intentions always felt solid even if the execution was less than perfect.
Then came the slow eroding of her reputation. I picked up on it before most people did. The moment she went āmask offā in 2020 I and many others were surprised that people saw it that way. Sheād been consorting with transphobes for years at that point. In online trans spaces sheād been a known radfem apologist for a long time.
But then she got worse. Like she started materially hurting people with her money. And thatās about when to me I really started to get sick when thinking about Harry Potter.
Itās like. Sheās not just a privately bigoted person who accidentally made a story about misfits finding a place that they belonged. Sheās taking the power that the marketing machine behind that series granted her to cause active harm right now.
Itās at about that point I no longer found myself with the ability to turn on my critical brain trained in the ways of lit analysis or my casual consumer brain just liking fun things even if theyāre bad. I just felt a pit in my stomach. I moved the family copies of the Harry Potter books from my room into the communal family bookshelf and then into my dadās room because I couldnāt stand looking at them anymore.
Itās not just that Rowling is an author with bad opinions. Iāve read plenty of those. Itās not just that the series isnāt what I thought it was. Thatās par for the course of most things you read as a child and revisit as an adult. Itās the combined power of her and her brand being everywhere and inescapable and her currently using the power that gives her for evil. Not only was the core of the series disingenuous but the series itself is currently actively causing people harm and normies just casually walk by it at Barnes and noble vaguely wondering if they should buy a mug for their cousin not knowing or not caring what that actually represents.
I can read dumb shit. I can handle my beloved childhood media being worse than I remember it. I can even handle my favorite authors turning out to be absolute garbage but the level of how all this happened with Harry Potter almost has no equivalent that I can think of because it is so big and so destructive and so intertwined with its author in the way that very few other things are.
The author cannot be dead with Harry Potter because she keeps coming back in to twist the knife. She has implanted herself into the series itself so firmly that trying to remove her from it make the entire thing implode on itself into something else entirely. And she uses that firm rooting that sheās established to materially harm people. People like me just one continent over. Iām sure sheād also interfere in other countries politics if she legally could.
Itās like. You canāt think critically through the full scope and ramifications of something when she hasnāt even stopped twisting that knife of hers. I can playfully stick my tongue out at shakespeares bad opinions because he isnāt alive right now spending his money on bad things. And even most authors alive now donāt have financial knives big enough to make much of a difference.
Rowling though? She can just throw a million dollars at something. Itās no wonder I canāt look at those books. My siblings are being threatened with them. Itās a lot easier to study a knife in a museum than one thatās currently being held to someoneās throat.
I donāt think I can be trusted to ever study this particular knife objectively ever again. Because Iāve seen what it can do. Iāve seen where itās pointed. I canāt really have rational academic thoughts while Iām watching that.
Thank you. This phrased it better than Iāve been able to
That's exactly what it feels like seeing new HP editions in the window of a bookshop. It's the reason my HP books (recently along with the Neil Gaimann books) live in the part of my bookshelf that has doors, because I can't look at them without feeling devastated. It's honestly surreal how all of that has happened and is still actively happening and the general public just... doesn't know or care.
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ohhh my fucking god AND tomorrow. it really does creep in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded timeā
interesting how, in the realm of fiction, there are some morally reprehensible behaviors that are "acceptable" for someone's character to have, and some that wait a minute post canceled. My cat who doesn't like cuddles just settled directly into my lap for the first time in the 10 years I've known her
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I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.
reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore
FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.
Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot
Don't you dare malign my girl again
Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently
We talk about how this websiteās hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level
great! now do the same medical study with women
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Iāve hear about how having cats makes you immune to hauntings, ghosts, spooky midnight noises etc but. for years Iāve been dealing with a panic response to unexpected nighttime noises, major enough that the adrenaline can keep me from falling back asleep for hours.
A few weeks of living with a cat and my brainās been reprogrammed. last night at 4am the furry little shitmuppet broke a vase & I only woke up long enough to call her a rat bastard & roll over back to sleep
Oh shit. This totally made me realize that it must have been my cat that killed my fear of the dark. I used to be intensely scared of walking into dark spaces. Hated any area where I had to turn a light off before I could turn another one on.
Enter my mostly black demon who likes to jump out of dark spaces at me.
Now I can just walk through dark rooms with no anxiety. Iām now used to the darkness taking physical form and jumping at me. At this point if a monster did jump out of the darkness Iād instinctively reach for the cat treats to offer it.
holy crap what other fears do cats make you immune to?
Iām no longer scared to dangle my foot over the bed bc of demons with sharp claws & glowing eyes, iām scared to dangle my foot over the bed bc of one specific small furry demon with sharp claws & glowing eyes
#fuck off beelzebub my cat has dibs
My cats are legit part of my grounding strategy for when I have sleep hallucinations. As part of my sleep paralysis, I āseeā corpses in the bed next to me on a frequent basis, or shadow men lurking in the doorway; if there is a cat blissfully, softly snoring at the foot of the bed, I know I am safe, despite what my brain is trying to conjure.
the sound of my door opening slowly, but theres no one there. my cat. somethings clawing at the walls, glass or window screens, cats. somethings fucking licking my toe in the middle of the night, my fucking cat again. nothing can hurt me its all cat
Unearthly noise? Cat.
Movement out of the corner of your eye? Cat.
Objects moved? Cat.
Inexplicable smells? Cat.
Corpses (small)? Cat.
Ectoplasm right in middle of the room, which you wonāt notice till you step in it? Cat.
Do cats make the ghosts go away? Nah. They just make you stop being scared.
Do cats make the ghosts
go away? Nah. They just make
you stop being scared.
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It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE
If he didn't want it circulating in 2022 he should have sold better copper
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