#ongoing thread

[applejuice-tice]

YOUR FRIEND IS AN ASTRONAUT?! AND YOU DIDN'T WANNA TELL ME?! (⁠ノ⁠｀⁠Д⁠´⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

CLAY TERRAN I PROMISE I'LL FIND YOU!! POLLY CAN'T KEEP US SEPARATED FOR LONG!!

why are you online aren't you at school right now??

[genius-in-training]

(New thred!)

@the-one-and-only-dontron

*He clicked slightly, tapping the buttons, help? Yeah, they help. He inspected the buttons slowly before pressing one*

"Forget"

*yes! That's exactly what he doesn't want to happen! He doesn't want to forget, he chirped quietly, looking at newer yi before inspecting the buttons again*

"Don't, forget, no, forget."

*not many buttons to help his cause, he make due with it, he turned back to purple treasure, pointing to him and then himself again, he didn't want to forget again*

*She watches the turtle, listening. Yi thinks for a moment, quietly repeating the four words. Her eyes widen*

"Donnie... It's the forget part. He forgot his markings! Maybe it scares him that he forgot them! He doesn't want to forget!"

*Yi looks to Donnie*

"Maybe he wants to make sure that you won't forget either..."

[lakecitysilenceme]

I'm re-watching all season of classic 90's Sailor Moon, and here is a thread of all Queer Moments I see

[obs: i started doing this from episode 10 onwards because of the glaring homosexuality displayed, so I might have missed something from previous episodes!]

-> Sailor Moon Classic (Season 1)

Umino cross dressing ! [EP07]

Usagi and her friends blushing after seeing Rei for the first time. [EP10]

Rei says that her grandfather likes flirting with everyone, man and women, and so he hired an attractive young man after flirting with him. [EP10]

Rei and Ami going together on a couple's cruise (i know they went as friends, but it was very queer of them nonetheless). [EP12]

Usagi dreams of marrying both Tuxedo Kamen and Motoki at the same time, giving very much bissexual polycule! [EP16]

Zoisite rests his head on Kunzite's lap (these two are literally a gay couple, and this is their first appearance). [EP22]

Zoisite is sitting on Kunzite's lap while they hold hands and snuggle against each other. [EP23]

Usagi blushes after Mako saves her from a bunch of irrelevant flops. [EP25]

Zoisite is a dramatic twink after Kunzite calls a woman beautiful, to which Kunzite responds with: "Jealousy doesn't suit such a beautiful face," and gives him a rose. [EP29]

Zoisite calls Mamoru a "good boy". [EP34]

Kunzite holds Zoisite in his arms and hugs him as he dies; Zoisite says, "I loved you, Kunzite-sama," as his last words. [EP35]

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank can you tell me a bedtime story please? 🥺 I'm just a little guy. I'm just a little guy who'd like a bedtime story, you wouldn't tell a sleepy little guy who wants a bedtime story no, would you?

A little guy from hell stumbled into a pub, scared.

"What's wrong with you?" asked a patron.

The little guy replied, "Satan sent me to Earth to corrupt the humans, but they don't seem to care!"

The patron said, "Not to worry, little guy, we got this."

A nun entered the pub and chastised the little guy.

"How dare you drown your iniquities in alcohol?" she said.

The patron asked, "Not to worry, little guy, we got a beer."

A well-meaning liberal entered the pub and said, "The poor need to break the cycle of oppression and poverty."

The patron laughed and replied, "Not to worry, little guy, we got liberalism."

A grinning hobo entered the pub and asked, "Hey, do you have anything I can eat?"

"Not to worry, little guy," said the patron, "we have a religion."

A little guy of indeterminate gender and gender identity entered the pub.

"Not to worry, little guy," replied the patron, "We have a penis."

[bonk-bird]

Moments of gender affirmation

An ongoing thread to remind myself of happy things

When my baby cousin kissed all the girls in the family on the cheek but didn’t want to kiss me bc he knew (I hate kids but he’s my fav)

Getting short hair for the first time

When animals hate men but live women and they are weary towards me. It is slightly upsetting bc I live animals but it’s also gender affirming idk

Meeting others with the same experience

Straight legged jeans (only straight part about me)

[transbuckaroo]

started playing the witcher 3: wild hunt yesterday for the first time a little bit and here’s my review so far. yes this will be an ongoing thread of my reactions to this video game.

1) beautiful game select/title screen

2) FOR THE WITCHERRRRR, HEARTLESS, COLD

3) i hate the bath scene more than anything why is it the first thing you see

4) BABY CIRI

5) ESKEL AND LAMBERT

6) immediately forgot the combat mechanics

7) HOLY SHIT A DREAM ???????

8) MONSTERS

9) bram,, your HAIR

10) the inn is cool. the lady that greeted vesemir and geralt is polite.

11) i WILL be fighting that dude that called them freaks

12) god i hope i get to see dandelion

13) i like making geralt be nice it’s so beautiful he’s so beautiful

[nostalgebraist]

@philippesaner​ responds to my post from yesterday:

Here on Tumblr, we know that callouts are usually not about what they claim to be about. The alleged “reasons” that somebody needs to be cancelled are not the actual reasons people want to cancel them.

And that’s as true now as it was in 2013; looking at the i-am-a-fish fiasco, callouts may just have gotten worse.

You say you’re confused by this pattern showing up in the media. But why should you be? Why should the David Shor or Lee Fang cancellation be any more sensible than the John Green or glumshoe callouts?

Did you expect this pattern to remain a Tumblr-ism forever?

In the first part of my post, I talked about 3 different things:

I have heard about several recent nonsensical callouts of high-profile media figures have been happening

It looks to me like these are happening at a greater-than-usual rate (“an upsurge")

This coincided with the protests, and various commentators see them as connected to the protests, perhaps a natural outgrowth of them

#1 doesn’t confuse me, for same reasons it doesn’t confuse you.

#2 confuses me in the trivial way that any change in events surprises me until I can explain it.  Your explanation for #1 doesn’t explain #2 (nor does it intend to).

But I’m not too surprised by #2.  Social trends often acquire their own momentum without needing external pushes.  Especially when it’s a trend like this, where each occurrence is a proof-of-concept for a weapon with broad applicability.  If someone rants about their coworker on twitter, and the one who gets hauled into HR and fired over it is the coworker, bystanders are going to think “hmm!” and contemplate the coworkers they hate . . . 

#3 is the one that confuses me most, as I said in the post.

It’s easy to imagine mechanisms here, like “protests happen --> corporate world starts making big shows of ally-ship --> some people read the room and decide HR will be more receptive to this kind of thing than usual --> they try it, it works --> others notice it works and try it too.”

That seems plausible, but it’s incompatible with the claim (which I’ve seen frequently in right-wing commentary) that the same “woke” left mindset is behind both the protests and the cancellations.  I find explanations like this most plausible, where the protests and cancellations are “connected” maybe by material cause-and-effect but not by anything deeper like the same people or ideology wanting both.

I guess I could have said “I think people are wrong to say they’re connected,” rather than “I’m confused how they are connected,” but I have a habit of saying the latter when I suspect the former but am not too confident.

[ramblesofahotmess]

Outlander the book: notes and thoughts on each chapter(spoilers ahead) Please feel free to converse with me if you so wish! I will gladly talk about the show or books with you.

-Chapter 1: it has come to my attention that I paid not enough attention to the first couple eps and didn’t realize the ghost watching Claire that is assumed to be Jamie was also in the show. I also didn’t realize that they weren’t newlyweds in the show but were like newlyweds because of reconnecting after the war. My bad. I also think it was a missed opportunity of them to not show Frank accusing her of stepping out on their marriage but says nothing about himself. For awhile in the show I didn’t know how to feel about Frank in the show but 50 pages in and I’m pretty sure I highkey dislike him. (More on that in a bit.) I also loved that they show the meaning of why she uses Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.