See the Beauty

Lauren, feminist and fangirl extraordinaire

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm so sick of defending shit I don't even like. I hate porn. I think gender and sexuality are boring. I've never taken an illegal drug and have no interest in doing so. But people won't back the fuck off and let people live their lives so here we still are, still on the front lines with this shit. "You guys make everything about" I'D REALLY LOVE NOT TO, MATE, BUT WE'RE NOT THE ONES CREATING PROBLEMS HERE. Stop trying to control people's lives and we'll all get a chance to shut up about it, but unfortunately the Moral Police are out here endangering lives and livelihoods so here we still are. Forever.

[ramquest-deactivated20260414]

God I fucking feel you. Too real.

[lizardsfromspace]

Disappointed to learn that Ark Encounter, the creationist theme park in Kentucky whose primary and by primary I mean only attraction is a replica of Noah's Ark built with public tax incentives & that pitches itself as a field trip destination for public schools, has abandoned their plans to build an "immersive" Plagues of Egypt ride, but delighted to learn the Bible theme park is building a Tower of Babel instead

[lizardsfromspace]

This wasn't a bit btw. The Ark Encounter creationist theme park is showing their strong commitment to Biblical literalism by building a new Tower of Babel

"Lord willing, we hope to build a reconstruction of what the tower of Babel might have looked like at the Ark Encounter." I mean the Lord was very much not willing the first time around. Like I know what you mean but when it comes to the Tower of Babel the Lord was very much not Ο Γιάννης είναι ο τράγος φοβάστε το ελάφι

[overpoweredoriginalposter]

God: I have used the Tower of Babel as a cautionary tale

Evangelicals: At last we have built the Tower of Babel, from the classic Bible story Don’t Build A Tower of Babel

[caats]

[nickandros]

genuinely best thing to come out of american politics in a while is this whole earnestly calling republicans "weird". never underestimate the power of cringe to turn the tide of a political campaign.

[nickandros]

genuinely the democrats best option right now is just to reply to insane republican takes with

[only-tiktoks]

[stele3]

Oh look, it’s entirely possible for a cisgender comedian to crack jokes about transgender people without being transphobic.

[giantspacehead]

[molive-0]

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

[a-book-of-creatures]

Finally an actual good use of cryptozoology.

[theconcealedweapon]

[plentyoffandoms-deactivated2024]

Jack Black did more of Hit Me Baby One More Time, and I am living for this.

What an ad for Kung Fu Panda 4

[coffee-in-that-nebula]

BABYYYYYY I DIDNT KNOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO FALL IN LOVE TODAY

[shirtsthatgohard]

[shirtsthatgohard]

i got spanish anon hate for this one btw

[coindraws]

discreet is my middle name

[coindraws]

I hope I win the grange display

[coindraws]

the holy trinity

[coindraws]

and the saga continues

[coindraws]

This post just doesn’t die so I’m reblogging it for the last time on here

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

Mosab Abu Toha, "Interlude", from his poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, available for download here

[zooophagous]

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

[zooophagous]

I feel like people get so hung up on the results of a thing that they don't appreciate that the process of making it is, actually, enjoyable.

It's like if you have a friend who likes to bake, asking if they'd like to just buy cupcakes from the store instead of making them. The end result of the cupcake is secondary to the joy you get from having made cupcakes.

Art isn't a slog or a chore or something I want to avoid. Art is fun. It's rewarding. It feels good to do it. You may as well be asking me if I want the AI to watch television for me, it doesn't make any sense, I'm not participating and would gain nothing from it.

[bnyrbt]

me: *is jokingly mean to my friend*

friend: *jokingly pretends to be hurt*

me:

[gemsrevenge]

17 years ago today.. the biggest rockstar move in history.

The look of satisfaction says everything

[earthlaughsinflowers2]

[reginageourge]

she's a hero. she should dump her west brit "friends" and become friends with me instead

[delmoxie]

Languages that aren't spoken dissappear. I have a friend who speaks Armenian to her kids. She learned from her grandparents, too. Her grandfather escaped genocide and starvation as a child. An older sister, who was only 14 or 15 herself, got all her younger siblings and cousins to Canada. My friend wants the language to stay alive.

My dad doesn't speak his mother's language, even though he understands it and can reply appropriately in English. Therefore I have never learned her language. I wish they had tried earlier so my brain was wired for it. Sometimes I'm barely verbal in English.

[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[myjetpack]

I have reopened the webshop and art-for-sale at tomgauld.com and added a few new drawings: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale