jellyfish are the mushrooms of the sea

Lethe || 20s || She/her ||

[moveslikekeithrichards]

this might be kind of a reach but is there a way for printers to connect to devices so that documents can be printed from them

[mikeyfuckinway]

"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library

[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!

[ndnbutch]

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

[ashtonq247]

I was supposed to to make this on Valentine’s Day…

Most iconic couple 💜💙

[honted0]

I'm a huge fan of Chris Samnee's art, it's so cinematic, so I wanted to try and animate it!

HUGE thanks to @/ just_jayjay.va on TikTok, please go check him out, link below!! 👇

https://www.tiktok.com/@just_jayjay.va?_r=1&_t=ZT-98Z79q3gc5V

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

The real problem with 'not all men' is it reduces misogyny to something individuals pick rather than a systematic problem that lies at the heart of our societal structures. It's not, big picture, about changing the minds of the few bad eggs that happen to exist. It's about altering systems. Which also ties in with the fact that men who get very offended when women talk about patriarchal oppression are clearly taking it personally rather than understanding that they can be a good person and still benefit from oppressive systems, which then leads back to how the forced individualism of our current culture in the West has made people obsessed with the idea of moral purity as something individually obtainable and led to a refusal to see ourselves as being shaped by the structures we exist within.

[dowereallyneedthis]

“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

[myfootyrthroat]

The “+” in LGBTQ+ is for math.

[dowereallyneedthis]

It’s literally been years since anyone added something slightly clever or original to this post, so I would like to congratulate you and maybe even bestow some kind of award. I don’t have anything to give you though

[moran-with-a-g]

It was simple addition, really.

[wokibug]

MAN i love drawing clois —click for better quality!

[draconym]

I'm at a convention for the game of Go with a friend who is almost 84 years old, and he is constantly being accosted by elementary schoolers who want to play him because every year there is a prize for whoever plays a game with the biggest age difference between players.

So every time I go to look for him, I see this:

[draconym]

People in the tags pointing out that this is a great way to get communities to interact: you are extremely correct. There were a lot of kids at this year's go congress (many of them extremely strong players) and it's very funny to watch them roving in packs looking for old people to challenge. At one point when my friends and I were sitting in one of the side rooms, a trio of elementary schoolers marched in and shouted "IS ANYONE HERE OVER FIFTY?"

Presumably so that they could compete for the Elder Slayer award:

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[tronmike82]

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

[darkshrimpemotions]

Supernatural

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

[pessimisticfanboi]

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' owes its box-office success to women

The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

[drunkenhills]

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

[vbartilucci]

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

[jediorgana-deactivated20260403]

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

[geraltcirilla]

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

[annaknitsspock]

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

[nova-arcania]

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

[ridleymocki]

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

[ridleymocki]

Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!

I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.

Fictions are a cornerstone of human cultures: they are created, shared, discussed, modified, and valued. Yet, philosophical accounts which p

[tennesseewillams]

women love when there’s a woman

[zenezene0]

miraculous ladybug au where everything is the same but adrien is a girl this time! i started this au back in may 2025

i was gonna dump everything i did about this au in one post but it was getting too long so i decided to divide it into chat noir and adrienne posts. this is the adrienne one

[dididc]

The Wonder Twins and Roy:3

[wonderwomanart]

Wonder Girl & Starfire by Phil Jimenez

[phantasm-echo]

They’re the brothers ever, they mean the world to me, so obviously the logical conclusion is to make them suffer—

[frownyalfred]

Jewish!Bruce Wayne in my DC Comics? it's more likely than you think (a masterlist of posts)

Is Bruce Wayne Jewish? What's up with Judaism and DC Comics? Isn't Bruce an atheist? Below you'll find my answers to all of those questions and more. I've been posting about Bruce Wayne + Judaism for several years now, but this is the first time I've added them all into one masterlist.

Thanks for reading <3

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Is Bruce Wayne Jewish?

Kind of (long explanation)

Easter eggs in recent DC

DC Black taking a side

an example from DC that's not Hanukkah!

Can Bruce be an atheist or Christian and also Jewish?

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Does Bruce's no-kill rule come from Judaism?

Pikuach Nefesh, but not how you expect it

goel hadam informs Bruce's character

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Judaism for the Waynes

The myth of “Jewish” features

Inherited names and their clues

Bruce doesn't understand Christmas (or Hanukkah)

(middle) names have meaning

Ashkenazi traditions - Martha

My Jewish!Martha headcanons

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Jewish Mother Bruce Wayne

Dick needs a belt

Bruce Wayne, Jewish Dad

He asks questions because he's worried

B, it hurts when I do that / so don't do that

Batfamily dynamics

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Bruce V Hal: Dawn of Judaism

Muscling through holidays

"get off the bimah" / "sure, when it's actually your turn for an aliyah"

Fasting for yom kippur

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Modern Christian Influences / Jewish creators and metaphors

When the iconography is just a little off

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Advice on writing Jewish Bruce Wayne

Terms of endearment

Bruce Wayne isn't a great example of a Jewish character

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Examples from dead man's party / my fics

It's a mitzvah, Jason

Is Bruce always Jewish in your fics? how does that work?

that Pikachu thing

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My take on the great accidental retcon

Bruce Wayne, the imperfect vehicle for accidental jewishness

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My Shitposts

Martha Wayne can be Jewish but she can only celebrate Hanukkah

if Martha gives Bruce “Thomas” as a middle name it means she wants her husband to die (/s)

the Bat minivan minyan

Bruce has ashkenazi curls

Bruce has to marry Hal for his kids to be Jewish

Baruch Wayne the miami real estate developer

the abs are too much, Bruce

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Bonus

Superman's Jewish creators

Bar mitzvahs and the Mandalorian Verd'goten

why the Superman harem looks a little dicey