"things that made me nod" repository

Formerly iwasnotasrightasyouwere. Late-30s midwesterner living with 3 middle aged cats, one middle aged human, and one small child. No theme, just reblogs and sometimes thoughts. Side blog is quarangreens. If you have an empty blog I will assume you're a bot and block you, nothing personal! Trans rights, Black Lives Matter, ACAB

[valtsv]

really a good tool for any aspiring critic or creator to develop is the ability to ask yourself - and answer honestly! - whether your disdain for something comes from a place of (perceived) wasted potential or bitter anger that anyone else dared to create something less than perfect while you were too paralysed by dissatisfaction to even attempt to do so yourself. because if it's the latter, then you'll save yourself a lot of time and stress in the long run if you start to recognise just how much of what's holding you back is your own insecurity.

[beaft]

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

[beaft]

I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

[starbitten13]

[ebonydraygon]

#theres a thing called 'larp drop' thats essentially this#esp since when having a great time you might be more inclined to disregard your limits and ignore discomfort#(and forget to eat/drink if its larp whoops)#and then once you have a moment to yourself it all comes crashing in#source: once forgot to eat at larp and had a sobbing fit in my car that ended the instant i bit into a chicken nugget - @queerfarmgremlin

[troublepunk-ldn]

this is also true of festivals, conventions, pride parades, concerts, and any situation where you have a lot of fun with other people!

[comparativetarot]

Strength. Art by Alice Mastroleo, from the Super Extra Gravity Tarot.

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

the novelty of having pets really does never wear off i’ve had my cat for ten years and i still look at him strolling around like can you believe this. a cat. is everyone seeing this. he’s alive he has bones and all. unbelievable

[morggo]

had some Big Feelings after therapy regarding existence and legacies, so i channeled it all into a little sinosauropteryx on a tiny piece of scrap paper. ink and watercolor sketch, about 2x2 inches.

prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmorgan/a-monument/

[joshuamartian]

A KNOCK-KNOCK JOKE TOLD BY STEPHEN MOFFAT

Moffat: Knock Knock You: Who's there? Moffat: Orange You: Orange who? Moffat: *dark chuckle* You're asking the wrong question. Don't be embarrassed. Amateurs always do. First of all, ask yourself what *kind* of person would use the name Orange as an alias. What does it tell you about them? Still confused? Check your phone; an Uber's arriving to take you to the airport. You're booked on the next flight to Beirut. The next piece of the puzzle. Don't keep me waiting. MANY MANY HOURS LATER You: Okay, that was all very clever sounding but you never answered my question; Orange who?? Moffat: I don't know

[queer-as-city-folk]

Animals: a guide

[queer-as-city-folk]

One side has monkeys and tigers and elephants and capybaras, the other? Squirrels and deer

[queer-as-city-folk]

I forgot Bison and Sea Otters

[salekinj]

Have you seen a moose, megafauna are cool.

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

I DO NOT!!!

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

[queer-as-city-folk]

I am sorry

[captainlordauditor]

I live in the US and one of the things that really reframed the way I think about animals was when someone I knew in Brazil posted a picture of a marmoset hanging out outside their window and I realized that monkeys were to them what squirrels are to me. Recently a friend in Hungary sent a picture they took at the zoo of a raccoon and it was like my worldview was being shifted all over again because what was to me the mildly annoying, somewhat cute, critter that makes weird noises behind my house at night was a wonder to someone else. They have little hands and bandit masks. They wash their little hands. How is that NOT a wonder? All animals are cool I’m just used to raccoons.

[plasmapop]

09/04/2026 • every time @softinvasions writes a villanelle about how sonnets suck i write another suckful sonnet*. metrical malpractice!

*sonnets do not even have to have 14 lines if you are pure of heart and sonnetpilled enough

[daciancatamite]

a misogynistic society is so threatened by the concept of trans women - women that "had the opportunity" to be privileged men and chose not to - that they start making up privileges women have in order to explain why trans women exist. going into womens restrooms isnt a privilege, playing womens sports isnt a privilege, lesbianism isnt a privilege, yet they present them as such to try and explain why trans women are women for nefarious reasons. a misogynistic society will never understand that trans women have no ulterior motive for being women

[innerchildabortionclinic]

this woman on tiktok was talking about how a doctor put "habitual aborter" in her medical history when she got one abortion at age 14 and like obviously this is fucked up and everything but i'm sorry, I can't read "habitual aborter" without laughing. habitual aborter. beautiful name for a baby girl

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

Aborted baby girl voice: well, it WOULD have been a beautiful name for me...

[iwantsweetrevenge]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

lot of people are going to be sent careening three posts down their dash and crashing into a brick wall because of this post

[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[saanah]

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

[santapau]

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

[qqueenofhades]

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

[nudistcat]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[sekkitsune]

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

[qqueenofhades]

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

[sekkitsune]

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

[qqueenofhades]

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

[laurenthemself]

how dare you say we error on the scribes

[jtimu]

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

[firawren]

Elizabeth encounters something unexpected and shocking in the gardens of Pemberley

Inspired by this post and made for @janeuary-month Day 1: Garden. This one is slightly less stupid than the Darcy version I made, but still very silly. Enjoy!

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

for once it's better to watch this one without sound first

[theriverbeyond]

me locking in to be edged by torbooks once again

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[nonevahed]

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[pomrania]

Something I've gathered, is that almost everyone seems to think they only have a "necessary" number of shoes; however, everyone has a DRASTICALLY different idea of what that is.

For purposes of this post, I'm defining "shoe" as "footwear you'd wear outside the house", and "actually used" as "something you've worn within the past month, and/or that you expect to wear again within a year".

Reblog with how many pairs of shoes you have that are actually used, and what they are.

For me, it's a pair of steel-toed shoes that are what I normally wear when I have to wear shoes; sandals; running shoes; and winter boots. So, four pairs. (Plus there's the old worn-out stuff that I just keep in the closet because I'm allergic to throwing things away if it's still vaguely functional, but that's why I specified "actually used".)

[creatingblackcharacters]

Okay so I've had a thought in my head and I'm going to share it because it's been a pressing concern.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Y'all don't value or consider the existence of the afro, in all its lengths, but especially shorter, enough for me. And I don't like that.

[creatingblackcharacters]

I feel like it's a combination of antiblackness and white beauty standards of "length" that makes people forget the hair that already grows out of our heads.

Everyone wants to know about the many types of beautiful braids, which is good! But... At the end of the day, an afro is what's growing underneath it. So many questions I get feel as though the afro is a foregone non-option. Unconsidered. Unmanageable, as if in order to have "cared-for" hair, it has to be in another style. It doesn't. I can protect my hair while it's still in my afro, same way you can protect YOUR hair. It's called daily maintenance.

If you can't look at afro hair textures and find it just as beautiful without the braids and the styles, if you can't picture your Black character with a textured afro, if you are giving your characters protective styles simply so you don't have to think it, guess what? You still look down on Afro hair!

This is the root, the source! I think we should all learn to accept this too, while we think of putting it in every different style. Let it be sort of a catch, for you. "Do I still like the way this character's design looks with their natural hair?"

[blackfilmmakers]

Also quit determining hairstyles as "masculine" and "feminine" based on the length of one's hair according to white people

Too many of yall would see this woman above, label her masculine, and not ask yourself why that's the first thing that popped up in your head