you do not have to be good

queer socialist + adult

[starsendlessly]

(the title quote at the top of my page is from from a Mary Oliver poem. the banner is by. Vincent Van gogh. Check him out on tumblr dot com)

hey, i’m stars/atlas! don’t want to share my age on here, but i am an adult!! just a silly little person amazed by this great big universe and the people in it! i reblog all kinds of wacky things here, stick along for the ride if you like :) i also do art and write sometimes!

feel very free to send me an ask/talk to me, i’m very friendly i promise!!

a list of some things i like/am interested in:

• history

• politics

• trains

• nature/animals, but specifically birds, cows, wolves and cats and very very cool

• art/literature

• hamilton

• night in the woods

• marvel

• stranger things

• moominvalley

• heated rivalry

• wake up dead man + other knives out movies

[kosmogrl]

"whats your 5 year plan?" buddy I nearly go insane thinking about what I should have for dinner

[literallymechanical]

Lots of writing advice on tumblr. It's been years since I've written fiction in a serious way, but I did write a couple of (bad) novels in my early 20's, a bunch of short stories, and also a few hundred thousand words of LARP writing, and I do have a bacherlor's of science in creative writing (lol).

From what I can tell, there are only three universally applicable pieces of writing advice:

Read a lot (mandatory)

Show your writing to people (mandatory)

Have something wrong with you in a way that is impossible to articulate except by writing a novel (optional)

[mslanna]

I think this one is also important:

4. write

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[the-rat12]

youre not nothingburger in fact you are everything bagel

[okthatsgreat]

“ooohhhh this teenage girl character is so annoyinggg because she didn’t react to extreme stress in a way that was reasonable or what i consider to be normal oooooooohh” well i’m launching the missile

[djglory]

i notice everything i’ll play dumb tho

[dailymanners]

You don't have to laugh at "girl math" or "girl dinner" or "I'm just a girl" jokes. You don't have to laugh at misogynistic humor that demeans women. You don't have to go along with it. You don't even have to sit there awkwardly pretending you didn't hear anything. You are allowed to speak up and say something.

You don't have to be a jerk about it. The most effective yet civil way of dealing with harmful "humor" is just pretending you don't get the joke and asking them to explain. "I don't get it, what's girl math? What's a girl dinner? What do you mean by you're just a girl? Can you explain the joke to me?"

And if you're feeling bold, you can just say (or follow up with) "I think that's misogynistic". That's allowed. You don't have to quietly endure misogynistic "jokes", you can call a spade a spade.

[dailymanners]

It really does feel like we've done a massive backsliding in gender stereotyping over the past few years and it's honestly alarming.

Not just the "girl x / boy x" like "girl math" to mean being stupid and bad at math, or these "lol girl dinner" posts where it's a can of energy drink and half a jar of olives.

But it's also this "pink this" and "blue that", like girls and women posting tiktoks like "being well behaved in the blue store in the hopes he'll take me to the pink store 😇" and 'blue store' meaning, like, a hardware store or a sporting goods store, and 'pink store' meaning a makeup or clothing store, and uh, hello?? Why is this so prolific right now?? Why aren't more people questioning or calling out how grossly sexist this all is??

[dailymanners]

#or when owners think their boy cats are the best in the world#while demeaning their girl cats#cats dont have gender they all get spayed or neutered anyway#theyre just animals#the memes about kind boy cats and awful girl cats need to die

You know human sexism is out of hand when we have to project "boys are silly lovable goofballs, but girls are cold and mean" onto animals who have no concept of and absolutely do not adhere to human gender roles and stereotypes.

The sad thing is that this has real world consequences for these animals. On average, male cats and kittens have shorter stays at shelters due to being adopted quicker than female cats and kittens. I have no concrete proof that this is due to stereotypes of boy cats as lovable goofballs but girl cats as cold and mean, but my own lived experience is that I know several people who have prioritized adopting male cats and kittens due to this (incorrect and sexist) assumption.

Of course cats all have different personalities, if you've ever had cats you know this. But it has no basis in gender roles or stereotypes. I've had boy cats who were aloof and unfriendly, and I've had girl cats who were sweet little cuddlebugs with everyone they met.

Again, animals are animals, they really have absolutely no concept of human gender roles and stereotypes.

[kamscorn]

no i dont want to ‘ask chatgpt’ i want to go to a wikipedia page and spend half an hour reading an article like a real person

[peachyjude]

shane holding ilya’s two fingers with his whole hand at the cottage… do you think he does that often… like when they’re on the couch and he doesn’t wanna interlock hands he’ll just grab ilya’s fingers instead. or if they’re in a crowded place and he wants to make sure they don’t get separated, he’ll just blindly reach out behind him, just to have that point of contact…

[peachyjude]

What is pleak

Is pleak an adjective or a verb

Or a thing. If its a thing is it like a universal right thing we all have inside us or is it a commodity

Is pleak a person? When we pleak up do we invoke Pleak, the special guy?

Can I put pleak on klarna

Is pleak for lunch or for dinner

Or is this a heated rivalry term idk I've never seen it

Thank you

Kind regards

yes

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions

[skellydun]

hey good luck today with whatever u got going on. u got this. and i hope something really nice happens to u today. u deserve it. 

[bbygirlverstappen]

sports rpf fans: remember none of these men are actually gay and we're just shipping them for fun literally like playing with barbies because they're rich and deserve that

musician rpf fans: he's 80 and he's coming out this year! [2637 second hand sources that two band mates probably fondled each other like 73 times]

dan and phil: [kissing with tongue on patreon exclusively]

actor rpf fans: which could mean nothing

historical rpf fans: i don't care what historians say they were gay

[starsendlessly]

guys please….. i have a confession to make: idk what pleaked means. wgat does pleaked up mean…. Please

[cupidsquilll]