TheKingleMingle

Been lurking on tumblr for years, but the twitter fiasco has been the deciding factor in finally making an account. Not really sure what I'm doing yet.

[goblinchief]

Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

[nealashitposts]

So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry.

So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful.

She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal.

He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet...

"Oh you have a dick?"

"... yeah."

He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says

"Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride.

My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can't please my girl, but I'll show them!"

[nealashitposts]

I do feel the need to add that later he excitedly tell the group that as a straight guy, he never thought that skill would be useful outside hotdog eating contests.

[hyperrbolic-orange]

"Man its too bad that im straight since I've got like no gag reflex and all."

"Honey, I must tell you, i am in fact trans and I have not had bottom surgery."

"My god... everything's coming up Jason."

[dancinbutterfly]

Pure of heart dumb of ass hetero of sexual

[quasi-normalcy]

So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

[quasi-normalcy]

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

(I mean, the colourful fashion was more of an eighteenth century thing, but yeah)

[quasi-normalcy]

#more women in higher education meaning fewer men is incredibly depressing to me. funny in a sad way#what happens when women will finally get into trades? will they just stop working

[sherryzade]

spectacular tags from @luesmainblog

[transfemininomenon]

the phrase really should be "eat your cake and have it too" im with the unabomber on this one

[thekinglemingle]

You really don't "have to hand it to the unabomber" buuuut...

[thekinglemingle]

I know it's a 30 year old show and everything was discussed long ago on message boards, but I wish that there was more Evangelion meta on Tumblr. The final film came out only a few years back and we have far greater access to Japanese cultural knowledge than we did in the past, I feel there's still so much more to be mined from the the themes and worldbuilding

[thememedaddy]

[thekinglemingle]

Something I seem to have missed the first time I watched Thrice Upon A Time, is the reveal that Gendo "I burned all the photos of my dead wife" Ikari actually kept some saved on his smart phone!

[thekinglemingle]

I never see anyone ever talk about this and I think it's so damn important.

Sure he presumably didn't have a smartphone in the original 90s show, but the basic idea of him making a big show or publicly letting the world know he destroyed all photos of Yui while secretly hoarding digital photos rings true. And it says so much about him, as does the way he selfishly keeps this secret even from his/Yui's own son.

It's an absolutely fantastic piece of characterisation that recontextualises so much of what has come before

[thekinglemingle]

Do we think Kozo knows? What about the Akagis?

[thekinglemingle]

Something I seem to have missed the first time I watched Thrice Upon A Time, is the reveal that Gendo "I burned all the photos of my dead wife" Ikari actually kept some saved on his smart phone!

[thekinglemingle]

I never see anyone ever talk about this and I think it's so damn important.

Sure he presumably didn't have a smartphone in the original 90s show, but the basic idea of him making a big show or publicly letting the world know he destroyed all photos of Yui while secretly hoarding digital photos rings true. And it says so much about him, as does the way he selfishly keeps this secret even from his/Yui's own son.

It's an absolutely fantastic piece of characterisation that recontextualises so much of what has come before

[eighthdoctorscocaine]

the young and despondent nuwho fan who believes that dr who only exists when its currently airing on tv vs the wise classic who fan who knows that doctor who exists all the time, constantly, and you'll never be free of it just because the bbc pull the plug vs the enlightened eu fan who knows that doctor who actually manages to somehow exist More when the bbc take it off television

[snowkissedmonsters]

Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.

[dreamerinsilico]

#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )

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[cantheyhandlepoppingballoons]

Can Shallan Davar handle popping a balloon?

Can do it easily

Flinches but is able to

Is really scared but will do it

Can't do it

Will cry

Remaining time: 15 hours 28 minutes

[thekinglemingle]

She absolutely can't, she gets Radiant to do it for her

[phantomrose96]

That thing where milkmaids were often immunized against small pox because they'd already contracted the weaker cow pox earlier in their lives. That's Tumblr, to me, against whatever the hell social media landscape is happening in 2026.

[phantomrose96]

"TikTok Instagram Youtube-Shorts Share-Your-Whole-Life Influencer Social-Media Online Online Online" it cannot affect me. I was already a weird online 16-year-old all so many years ago. You cannot grab me raw and unfortified with these poisons. I inoculated myself when glomping was a thing. I am still on Tumblr making text poasts.

[homunculus-argument]

I think "The Hangover" movies would work better as a whole movie genre. The beginning is always the same: group of friends wake up hungover as hell, to start figuring out what the hell happened last night. Turns out a lot happened. As a tradition of the genre, there's always an animal in the house that has no logical reason to be there.

But get this: The same premise every time, but in wildly different times and places. Victorian England, the gentlemen went fuckshit with some nice sherry, wrote some questionable letters, worked together to compose an absolutely idiotic thinkpiece essay and sent it to the local newsprint (the publishing of it must be stopped) and for some reason there's an ostrich.

A troupe of travelling performers in the late Kofun period wake up in the stables of an inn, and the main plot point is the little beast sleeping on someone's chest. None of them have ever seen a cat before, but one knows enough to tell that those are imperial pets, and whoever's fucking cat that is will both be capable and willing to kill whoever stole it. So they'd better fucking return it.

A Tepehuan group of youths find themselves way out of the place that they last remember they had been, for some reason someone's balls have been shaved and painted red, and the strange out of place animal sleeping at their makeshift campsite is some random swedish guy. The spaniards don't seem to know how the fuck he ended up there, either, but they clearly do not have a mutual language with each other.

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[post-to-poll-pipeline]

How old were you when you got your first smartphone?

Younger than 10

10-13

13-16

17-20

21-25

26-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

Older than 60

Never had a smartphone

Voting ended onJul 22

[cyle]

i went from a nokia phone like this which i hacked into to install custom ringtones

to an iPhone 3GS

in .... 2009, right after i graduated college... i was 22

[thekinglemingle]

My parents bought me a first generation iPhone for my 18th birthday. To be honest I'm still surprised by that as it had only been out a couple of months and was soooo cutting edge and expensive. As far as I am aware I was the only person in my school with a smart phone for the whole year and even when I went to university the next year most people didn't have a smart phone

[socialistexan]

[senecio11]

a lil' Jacinthe from a while back that I forgot to post.

My commissions are now open!

[nohoperadio]

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*