Literal Human Garbage

Come, join me in my trash kingdom. Aspiring artist, roleplayer, shitty writer (won't stop me from trying.) Posting all manner of crap, but you can expect: Rick and Morty, Gravity Falls, Danny Phantom, etc. He/Him pronouns.

[homunculus-argument]

Things I remember reading online that I wish I had screenshotted: Story of a trans guy, estranged from family, who got an invitation to his sister's wedding, but their parents had specified that he'd better come in a dress or not come at all. But they hadn't seen him in almost 7 years and didn't know that not only was he on T and had surgeries, he's a passionate weightlifter.

So if I remember right he sent the sister a heads-up beforehand and the sister was like "holy shit do it", and he showed up in a pink, frilly dress, and sneakers. No makeup, jewellery or anything, just this bulky, hairy dude in a dress for no particular reason.

Their parents, naturally, still got mad despite of him following their exact, specific instructions in order to "not embarrass the family", and after the wedding the sister made sure to pick as many photos of the wedding as possible with the brother visible in them, because it was now a funny family story of bringing the family together by pissing the shit out of their parents.

[mellifluousbenthictones]

delicious malicious compliance

[guerrillatech]

[esoomris]

Wow.... so you’re telling me you took an action that resulted in the death of one person...... to save the lives of many people.... who would have died if you did nothing??? that sounds so familiar

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

It’s INSANE to me how controversial romance novels are. Romance novels. Like, being openly a fan of them immediately opens you up to people constantly coming at you like “but don’t you think it’s ~limiting- and ~juvenile~ to have a genre of books with happy endings for women?”

Like.

No?

Why is it such a big deal to want to read stories where women have sex and then don’t die at the end? Jesus Christ.

Why is the concept of female characters being happy seen as less creative than female characters suffering? (Trust me, creating a world where women win in the end takes a lot more creativity and artistic vision lmfao)

Anyway, literary bros will pry my romance novels with their happy endings from my cold dead fingers.

[jennyredford]

Or die in the very beginning of the book. But no one calls out James Patterson for writing another formulaic thriller in which a woman is horrifically killed after getting laid and then some man solves her murder. Every. Damn. Time.

But hey, those romance novels where women get happy endings are so limiting, eh?

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

Real talk: realizing how common it is for female characters to be punished for on-the-page sex with death was a big part of my embracing the romance genre. Once I noticed it I couldn’t unnotice it. It’s everywhere. A woman having sex in literature or non-romance genre fiction is the literary equivalent of a red shirt on Star Trek.

[roo-bastmoon]

It’s not just the sex thing, though that’s a key element. It’s that, in romance novels, the heroine gets to be cared for the way she normally would care for everyone else. It’s wish fulfillment in that her romantic partner will do emotional labor, spend a great deal of time thinking about her, or sacrifice his desires or fortune or reputation to be with her, or spend days nursing her back to health, or risking his life to save hers. In romance novels, you’ll find men taking care of children, talking about their feelings, putting effort into their appearance—even if they are adorably bad at it. Watch how many romance novel protagonists fall in love with a man who happens to be rich or handsome, but she didn’t give in until his behavior changed and he starts mentoring her, or providing for her, or being gentle toward her, nourishing her, listening to her, appreciating her… I suspect romance novels are looked down upon not for being juvenile formulaic “beach reads” but because they paint a fantasy world that leaves men feeling uncomfortable or even emasculated. But whether you’re a Midwest housewife or a big city CEO, women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty. Great sex they don’t have to die for is also a huge bonus, but the *romance* part of the novel is genuinely more about the woman being appreciated (for her beauty or spunk or intelligence at first, and then for all of her by the end).

[codenamecesare]

“women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected to love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty.”

[obsessionisaperfume]

THANK YOU.

[lyricwritesprose]

According to the website smartbitchestrashybooks, which analyzes romance novels to a great degree, one common element of the average romance novel is what they call the grovel.  That is, there’s a turning point near the climax of the book where the leading man says, in effect, “I hurt you.  I had my reasons, but they don’t make it right.  I am devastated that I hurt you, and I will do whatever it takes to make it okay again.  Leaving you is completely on the table even though I find the prospect horrific.”

And that’s a very important fantasy.  To have your feelings, your pain, be made so absolutely central to the narrative, to someone else’s world.  You could call it a power fantasy, but I don’t think that’s exactly right.  It’s a significance fantasy.  A romance story is a story in which the woman is the most significant damn thing in the book.

And when you think of it like that, you realize why some people are really, really threatened by it.

[funkyness]

at least can all we agree that the original gay flag with the magic and sex colours is BEAUTIFUL and it should make a comeback

[funkyness]

what's more iconic than this

[spiltpencilsink]

The original creator made an updated version with an extra lavender stripe to represent diversity and I fell that's worth mentioning!

[bean-of-cheese]

as an asexual I feel kinda uncomfortable that this flag has a stripe for sex tbh

[toastwiki-deactivated20230129]

the flag aknowledging that gay people can and do have sex is not erasing or invalidating your identity and if you think the concept of others having sex threatens your asexuality in any way that is not our problem

[corvidspectre]

as a fellow person on the ace spectrum, I think it's more about queer sex being criminalised and wanting to be representing it in a positive way; it's beautiful like all the other things on here and it deserves to be celebrated! I think it's nice to have on there and every single exclusionist in the notes I wish you a very leave the poor person on this post alone ❤️

[cursesyourbloodline]

[official-lucifers-child]

[tinymoththing]

[coolfrogdude]

original thread by @pukicho and several other users

[plausiblyren]

I always love seeing this comic because it interprets Tumblr as a gigantic theater ruled by absolute chaos where sometimes somebody just stands up on their chair and shouts and we all pay attention

[nightingem]

growing up i was told that any girl has to be ready to be chosen as the next virgin mary at any time. and i was thinking ok he chooses a pure girl and one who doesn’t want it/isn’t expecting it so i tried to like, sin a certain amount and have it in mind so i wouldnt qualify.

i had no idea how pregnancy worked so sometimes i’d be like. 10 and my stomach felt weird and i was terrified that i hadn’t sinned enough and god had chosen me to be the next mary.

i’d purposefully commit like, small venial sins specifically to make sure that i wouldn’t go to hell if i died before confession but enough that i hoped my soul wasn’t pure enough to be a vessel for jesus. normal math to be doing.

[thebibliosphere]

As much as I mildly despair about the functionality of Tumblr, I’m forever grateful we don’t have the creative interface of other social media platforms. 

I keep seeing youtubers talking about how the new algorithm on their creative dash is so detrimental to their mental health, both in terms of how they feel about themselves as creators and the content they make—dreading to find out their performance rating, regardless of whether they enjoyed it or not. And it’s the same across multiple other platforms, TickTock, Facebook, Instagram. Fuck, I’ve even seen people with business accounts complaining on Twitter.

And then there’s Tumblr. Where sometimes you can’t find your own posts even though you know you tagged it, time stamps are hidden in the ellipses at the top right hand corner of the post, your bread recipe keeps getting flagged as porn, too much punctuation causes asks not to send, and checking your activity feed causes the app to crash. You want to know your trending numbers? You want to know what’s performing well? Fuck you, guess.

[bringmetothe-pilot]

No cops at Pride, just Elton John with his Gucci shirt and a knife

[pinballwizzer]

no cops just elton john with his elton john brass knuckes

[sjhamart]

happy pride, everyone

[mytalkingraccoon]

pov elton john finds you 

[goofstep]

i'm so sick of smooth brain "thinkers" saying "ohh immortality would be the worst being immortal would be awful" "your brain would fill up and you wouldn't be able to process or remember anything anymore and everyone would get old around you" like bro i'm 22 and it's already like that but at least i can go touch the wires in nuclear reactors

[goofstep]

the only motherfuckers in this city who can handle me

[fish-to-male]

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

[fish-to-male]

This post was not intended to harm young people, people in rural or conservative areas, people who use mobility aids, people with sensory issues, people with anxiety, or agoraphobes. I apologize that my poor wording gave way to that interpretation. Disabled people have absolutely added to richness and diversity of what it means to be LGBT and they have added to the richness and diversity of pride. Accessibility at pride should remain an issue in our forefront. An inability to go outside regularly or at all is not a moral indicator nor does it limit your personal experiences. What I am saying is that discoursing in insulated online spaces about actual people’s right to exist and identify and express themselves as they have been doing so for decades, centuries even, all for online clout and a moral high ground, is not only harmful to the people who’s identities and experiences they are speculating about, but harmful to the people engaging in such discourse as it will impact their ability to relate to others on a human level.

Now that we have discussed semantics engage with the original message of my post and don’t derail.

[roguewolfiii-deactivated2021072]

Hyper-realistic packers are OUT packers that look like these things are IN

Yes the fish are included, they live in the balls

[moth-the-man]

do you know how confusing it would be to attempt to kick someone in the nuts and you hear a popping sound, it looks like they pissed their pants green and then FISH fall out of the legs of their shorts???? i would literally never recover

[sioltach]

my favorite relationship is the one between humans and dandelions. in childhood we instinctively blow on its little fuzzy seed carriers. we take the role of the wind, we help the dandelions in a crucial part of their lives, and in return we get a wish and a moment of happiness. this is how nature is meant to work. we are just as unaware of our goodness as the honey bees are, pollinating the flowers 

[fullmetalfisting]

When I was a little girl I convinced most of the girls in my grade to fill up a ziplock full of dandelion fluff at home and bring it out to recess. I told them we were obligated to do this because dandelions are created by God and it’s our moral obligation to spread the seeds (we went to a Catholic school so this argument was infallible). At recess we all stood like 3 feet apart from each other in the soccer field and dumped out our seed bags. It was chaos, especially because the teachers had no idea it was happening until too late.

Long story short, there were about 1,000 more dandelions that year and we had to bring home little memos on bright orange paper that children were not allowed to bring dandelion fluff to school in ziplock bags, which my mom looked at when I brought it home, and said, “Did someone actually do this?” Completely unaware that it was her own daughter who started the riotous seedbombing

[shigraki]

*walks into american followers bedrooms* *in gentle voice* hows it going champ

[dicksnot-deactivated20210512]

[demimonde-semigoddess]

[knightwithakay]

[jackdaw-kraai]

This person knows what she’s about

[yesbothways]

This is one of the best tiktok’s I’ve ever seen. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 This is extremely important content <3

[voidcenturyscholar-deactivated2]

Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai

Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward

(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)

[constallayetions]

Wait but also, until then, if anyone under the age of majority is challenged

Zuko fights it for them.

Which, especially in more rural towns (where Agni Kais are less of a public event and more of a fast and violent duel) is terrifying because you challenge your neighbor’s kid over a stolen chicken-fish and all of a sudden the Fire Lord is showing up???

But, those few who still challenge those who should be kids learn quickly to regret it.

[grayblebayble]

Okay but this implies that Zuko knows whenever someone challenges a kid to an Agni Kai and is there before the battle takes place.

Firelord Zuko: *wakes up in a cold sweat near midnight*

Firelord Zuko: *running down the palace hallways while still struggling to put in his pants, being chased by his team of bodyguards* I’M GOING TO HING WA ISLAND TO KICK SOMEBODY’S ASS SEE YOU IN A WEEK BITCHES

[enbyzukostanblog]

Random spirit: Why’d you do that to him? Isn’t it kind of a stretch for a mortal to be blessed like that?

Agni himself: I felt like it

[overlordofbisexuals]

@dead-fandom-society @evilkitten3

[yankee-doodle-danger]

how dare you leave this gold in the notes

[promethiae]

If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

[any-open-eye-deactivated2022071]

this is a pathologic ass song 

[rosslynpaladin]

The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Just saying.