2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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@spenceraashton
I stopped T after 15 years
The US medical system is failing I am returning to myself I never left I am still trans AF I am still queer AF I continue to evolve into my truest form while returning to forms that saved my life Starting T saved my life Stopping T is saving my life
It rages on
It burns bright, like
the sunset on a warm summer evening
a thunderstorm has swam thru
leaving trails of orange and red
on the horizon
it burns bright, like
the sounds of whistles on a frigid winter morning
an ice storm has swept thru
leaving trails of red and black on sacred land
it burns bright, like
the eyes of little children on a rainy afternoon
a missile programmed to obliterate lives
leaving craters of rubble and tears in communities
it burns bright, like
the collective consciousness in the year 2026
an organized resistance built from survival
leaving trails of hope and community for freedom fighters
Ice kills the soul
My heart aches
Like the wringing of a wet towel
After hours of effort
To save the life
Of love
Love that one cannot see
Taste
Smell
Love one only experiences
In the glow of the moonlight
Full moon, clear sky, infinite dreams
Get lost in the endless specks
Specks of life
That once was
And even in the was
Still brings us light
Now
We harness this moment
Of grief
Feel the pain of what is
Steep in the medicine of remembering
Honoring
Learning to resist what ought to be forgotten
Before it forgets
You
The video game that saved a man's life.
Let me tell you all about a man named Alfred Gamble.
This guy was a WW2 veteran and a retired truck driver.
On September 19th 1997, his wife died after a long illness, and then he lost his daughter in an accident, sending Gamble into a deep depression. He took out his old service revolver and decided to shoot himself in the head, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.
He couldn't figure out why - his wife was dead, his grandchildren never visited anymore, his children didn't talk to him; he had nothing left to live for.
Then he realised that he still had a couple of hundred pounds in the bank which would've gone directly to the taxman after his death, so he decided to spend everything he had as his last order of business, and buy the most frivolous things he could think of.
The first thing that came to mind: video games.
So Gamble bought himself a PS1, but he also needed to buy a game to play.
He scanned the shelves... and saw a copy of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.
He saw Abe on the cover, who looked confused and helpless, just like him. And so Gamble bought the game, just for the hell of it. Something to do before he ended it all.
Gamble booted up the game and began to play... and something unexpected happened:
He started to laugh. For the first time in years.
This was from a man who genuinely believed that he could never smile or be happy again.
For those of you who don't know, Abe's Oddysee has an unlimited life system, so you respawn every time you die, which was very helpful for Gamble, a man in his early seventies who had never played a video game before.
But there's something more. Every time he died in the game, he could get back up and try again, and again, and again, on and on until he succeeded, all the while laughing at its absurdity.
He realised that life was still worth living.
After playing as much of the game as he could, Gamble wrote a six-page letter by hand to Oddworld Inhabitants, the studio which made the game. According to Lorne Lanning, the game's director and president of the studio, everyone in the office was in tears by the time he'd finished reading it out - something that they made ended up saving a man's life.
But the story doesn't end there.
After playing the game, Gamble decided to reconnect with his family. He started hosting Abe Tea Parties, where he invited his grandchildren over to play Abe's Oddysee with him. He even started his own Oddworld merchandise collection!
He even got an Abe tattoo to commemorate the game that saved his life.
Alfred Gamble stayed in contact with the Oddworld Inhabitants team up until his death in 2006 at the age of 79.
Even years later, this remains one of Lanning's favourite stories to tell, and he is deeply humbled that he helped to give this man a new lease on life.
Oddworld Inhabitants continues to include references to Gamble in their games, most recently with a Mudokon named Alf in Oddworld: Soulstorm.
Maybell.eequay
the love cats are complete!
(and now available in my shop)
i saw the words “ur not the first person in your lineage to be queer” and it’s rocking me to my core. how many generations down the line did one of my ancestors feel the way i did, feel differently than i did and so damn queerly it was a crime? how many of us were there? did they have hope? did they find peace? i don’t know. at the very least, maybe i am proof their identity was never wasted. reincarnated.
Finally.
happy pride month
IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E
I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y
ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june
get spooky
how does this appear every june
T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y
it’s june
T I M E T O G E T S P O O K I N G Y’ A L L
LEE IT’S JUNE
GAY HALLOWEEN TIME
y’all know what fuckin month it is 😎
HALLOWEEN
TIME TO GET SPOOKY
I will never again know the succulent flavor of a seatbelt
Did anyone else do this
Rave reviews
Look at that speed
a still from footage of the san francisco dyke march and gay pride parade, produced by dyke tv’s linda chapman, mary patierno, and ana maria simo, june 1995
obsessed with this photo series about trans love by photographer landyn pan (source)
It’s literally a circle. They’re cousins. It’s insane.
If you look up Queen Elizabeth’s family tree, they’ve hidden it DEEP in Google searches, but if you look up Prince Phillip’s family tree you’ll see the circle right away.
And it gets worse lmfao because their common ancestor, Queen Victoria, has quite the family tree herself:
Two circles are seen here - one alarmingly small showing that Victoria and her husband Albert are first cousins. The bigger one shows that her own mother married her third cousin once removed, making Victoria her own mothers fourth cousin, meaning Albert was not just Victorias cousin, but also her fourth cousin once removed.
This means that Elizabeth is Philips third cousin, and his fifth cousin and his seventh cousin once removed.
TIME IS A FLAT FUCKING CIRCLE
Photographer captured the image of a tiny owl hiding from rain under a mushroom
📷: Tanja Brandt-Tierfotografie
