I figured out how to title this shit!

sub titles too, holy shit

[beebfreeb]

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[scribe-cas]

Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"

[comicgeekery]

No, but for real!

[subversivecynic]

Please do this. For real.

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[stjohnstarling]

Who wants to get fucked up on the green neolithic slime that makes you hallucinate to death?

[subversivecynic]

I can think of so many worse Saturday evenings. Like, worse things I've done myself.

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

It’s been a while since I got a wild text from a wrong number

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Uhhh so warning for nsfw conversations below the break but I had to ask

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

They sent a picture as proof ig??? and I would like to bleach my eyes

[morallygreyandgreymorally]

PROOF??? pls tell me it was just a pick of the stuff together and not the activity 😭

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

The second one

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Update: woke up to this

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Yall I am devastated that I haven’t heard back (a part of me wonders if there’s any way he’s seen this post)

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Update: the saga continues

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Another update because I’ll be honest I forgot about this until a few minutes ago

[lostinthewrongfandom]

My parents met while working at Busch Gardens

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

You should tell your parents this guy is plotting something sinister there

[chikawawpnzmuncher]

Sorry smg4 community, I had to

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

New challenge just dropped, draw this as your otp

[im-a-different-guy]

Draw this as 2 characters from different Fandoms

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

You didn’t specify which fandoms

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Just realized that we’ve got new members to the council since this was last reblogged

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

He’s back

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[trb752]

Kodak Coquette Camera with matching lipstick and compact, 1930

[subversivecynic]

Lois Lane had this exact set in her handbag at all times

[nokingsnocrowns]

Our water belongs to us

"Burn Down The Data Centers" Cap for Sale by NoKingsNoCrowns

Buy "Burn Down The Data Centers" by NoKingsNoCrowns as a Cap

[reading-writing-revolution]

[travelingtwentysomething]

can we put it up to a vote?

ban all advertising on the Internet

advertising only allowed on your own social media pages or websites

advertising is fine the way it is

secret fourth option PAY ME FOR THE ADS, DIRECT DEPOSIT FOR EVERY AD I SEE

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

<please reblog for larger voter sample>

[subversivecynic]

Nothing makes me more aware of how insidious advertising is like trying to convince my mom with dementia that she doesn't need supplements or a honey love bra or a magical shaver that makes people bald

[army-of-bee-assassins]

okay i'm reading the semantics chapter of my language development textbook now and i know i've already posted a bit about the wacky methods researchers have employed to test infants' and toddlers' linguistic knowledge, but this is a really fucking great one.

so they were trying to figure out if children use syntactic knowledge to learn new vocabulary, specifically in this case they were researching two year olds. with verbs, some are done to a person ("x hit y") and some only have a doer ("x laughed"), and they wanted to see if these different sentence structures had an effect on how toddlers learn.

they got some grad students, put one in a rabbit costume and one in a duck costume. they had the rabbit repeatedly push the duck into a crouching position using their left hand. at the same time, both the rabbit and the duck were moving their right hands in a repetitive circling motion. they had a bunch of two years olds watch this. with half of the kids, they said "the rabbit is gorping the duck!" and with the other half, they said "the rabbit and duck are gorping!" afterwards, they showed two videos at the same time to the kids, one with the rabbit pushing the duck down but no circling motion, and one with both making the circling motion but no pushing. then they said "where's gorping now? find gorping!" and the kids who had heard the first statement would consistently look towards the video of the pushing motion, while the kids who heard the second statement would consistently look towards the video of the circling motion.

so it provided good evidence that kids do learn new words using their knowledge of sentence structure! my textbook says it's called the "syntactic bootstrapping hypothesis", which is also a fun term. anyway, i just think it's a fucking hilarious way to have tested this. imagine being a linguistics grad student and your advisor is like "hey i got this furry suit. i'm gonna need you to put this on for research purposes."

[foone]

ever since I took a developmental psychology class in college I've wanted this job. I want to be a professional baby-confuser, for SCIENCE

[strangesequitur]

And then six years later all the kids in town were using the word Gorping but the definition of the word varied wildly from one elementary school playground to the next.

[thecollectibles]

Spellbound Felines Series by Sam Hogg

[macgyvershe]

What a masterful series of kitty cats. Thanks, Sam Hogg. You Rock!

[asmuchasidliketo]

[devinellekurtz]

Late Night at the Art Studio From my upcoming artbook, which is crowdfunding right now!

[marlynnofmany]

The tiger He destroyed the fourth wall Yes YES The tiger is out

[recovering-vamp]

[subversivecynic]

I find this image joyful

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[lostsometime]

ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artists’ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. It’s SO COOL, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at. https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic

Check him out he’s so cool

[subversivecynic]

The singing with where the voices in your mouth is such a complex thing that I understood pretty intrinsically and it's why I succeeded in vocal studies as long as I did. How you hold your teeth and where to hold the sound is so important.

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[subversivecynic]

Yeah, it's been an lifelong Learning Experience trying to get people to understand that

[thememedaddy]

[depsidase]

[displeasedwolf]

this is the vibe i bring to the party actually

[subversivecynic]

Hating dandelions and embracing monocultural parkland/hoa lawns is fascism actually.