The Forgotten Blog

I'm never here anymore you're right.....but I still love this site.

[nakamorijuan]

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[bob-belcher]

[vaspider]

This year, try practicing the phrase “I don’t get it, but I’m happy for you” as well as the sentence “It’s not for me, but it makes them happy, so good for them.“ 

You will find yourself so much happier if you just acknowledge that other people’s lives aren’t about you. If there is any wisdom I can pass on from my time on this earth to other people, that’s it: other people’s lives aren’t about you, and that’s okay.

[vulpes-aestatis]

Sorry to hijack this post, but this is high-key one of my parenting goals

[vaspider]

That’s not a hijack. It’s a good thing to talk about. Teaching your kids this should be a parenting goal.

My family taught me to judge people, constantly. Judge their clothes, their hair, their habits, who they love, how they live, how they worship. My mother and sister think it’s funny to judge the clothing of people they see in public. One of the things that made me stop talking to my father is that he took a picture of a random woman’s tattooed shoulder at a minor league baseball game, without her consent, so he could post it on his Facebook and theorize with his Boomer friends as to what the “meaning” of her ♀️ tattoo meant, including a long side conversation about her “hip to shoulder ratio” and whether or not he thought she was “really female.”

I have to reiterate that what this woman did in order to be treated this way by my father is sit a few rows in front of him at a baseball game with a visible tattoo on the back of her shoulder.

My family taught me to judge people constantly for things that don’t hurt me. I came to the world as a young adult wired for conflict and wired to have a bad time and wired not to get along with people. It took me literally decades and lots of therapy and nearly dying to unwind the judgment for others that my family baked into me. And that judgment made me really miserable, actually! It ruined friendships and screwed up working enviroments and made it hard for me to see the things people do in a neutral or positive light, bc this desire to judge people in order to feel superior to them on the most marginal of points doesn’t easily turn off in your brain. You see everyone as an opponent, always finding flaws rather than points of commonality.

Teach your kids to leave people the fuck alone about the things other people do that don’t hurt your kids. Teach your kids to say “I don’t understand it, but it’s not hurting me, and so I’m glad for them.”

Teach your kids to mind their business. They’ll be much, much happier adults.

[thelotusdiaries]

[popepauljohn]

[fuckyeahasexual]

Hello you need to see this drag performer talking about quantum physics, queer existence, and non-binary identities.

[enbees-and-aros]

[Video Description: A drag queen — who is credited as Amrou Al-Kadhi / Glamrou, a drag performer, writer, and filmmaker — stands in front of a microphone and explains,

“Quantum physics is this incredible sect of of physics, which basically…

With like, Newtonian physics — I think of it as heteronormative physics — where its basically ‘What are the fixed universal principles that govern the world? If I do A, will B happen? What are the formulas that’ll tell us anywhere in the universe, “What will happen if I input this?”’

Quantum physics is equally a “real” sect of physics that basically looks at subatomic particles — so the very smallest things in our universe, not the macro things — and they contradict basically everything that Newtonian physics shows us. So, the most famous experiment is the Double Slit Experiment, where you fire an electron and it should go through the left or right hole. And then every now and then, it goes through both at the same time. And we don’t really know why. And sometimes, the same subatomic particle is in different locations at the same times.

And quantum physics shows that actually reality itself is basically a majority approximation of what’s happening sub-atomically. So when people spew the biological essentialism argument on me. Like, particles themselves are non-binary, and do things that contradict each other all the time, we just can’t see them all the time. And that gives me a lot of comfort, that if subatomic particles defy constructs all the time, why should we believe in fixed constructs of gender, or any kind of reality?” END DESCRIPTION]

[naamahdarling]

“Newtonian physics is heteronormative” is not the take I expected to see on my dash today, but it is 100% inspirational.

[inky-dumbass]

i needed this

[homophobicavatarstyle]

can you imagine how the whole energybending scene must have looked to Sokka and Suki

[homophobicavatarstyle]

[doritoprincess]

Sokka: “ohmygod, I think aang’s losing!”

Suki: “you dont know that, maybe red is aang’s color”

Sokka: “you think the motherfucker who was planning to genocide the entire world with fire has a *blue aura*??”

Toph: “what the FUCK are you guys TALKING about”

[femalerappers]

[black-geek-supremacy]

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

[tiredtwstoutt]

[vampryn]

nobody has bitten my neck this october and that is frustrating

[homo-se-dice]

I literally cannot rest and it’s all because of this tiktok

[dignity-not-intact-deactivated2]

put azula in smash

[nickwithoutadick]

Self care ✨

[thelotusdiaries]

I finally think my hair is long enough where pigtails look good. But idk if I now just look too much like a child. Eh

[thelotusdiaries]

[thelotusdiaries]

[digivolvin]

elizabeth swan and will turner are actually SO romance in the first movie and not enough people acknowledged this because the early 2000s were the age of the edgelords who only valued jack sparrow’s moral ambiguity and that is the TRUTH

[digivolvin]

the part where she’s like “how many times do i have to tell you to call me elizabeth” and he shyly says “once more, miss swann” and once she walks away he gazes adoringly after her and whispers “elizabeth” to himself like he’s unworthy of it

[digivolvin]

then when he’s patching up the cut on her hand and she flinches and he says “i know, blacksmith’s hands… they’re rough” because he thinks that’s what’s bothering her HE KNOWS HE’S NOT WORTHY OF HER!!! THAT’S THE PINING I’M TALKING ABOUT BINCH!!! I DON’T ACCEPT LESS!!!!

[digivolvin]

he has like 10 chances to confess his love to her but waits until he’s dressed like this to do it: 

my man knows 1) the importance of a good outfit when shooting your shot 2) how to ACCESSORIZE. take NOTES.

[thedevilsofficialblog]

That’s how I would dress if I was gonna confess my undying love to Kiera knightley

[bireyes-moved]

UK residents SIGN HERE on the government petition

https://transrightsuk.carrd.co/

https://uktransrights.carrd.co/

please, if you’re a UK resident, trans or not, please speak out on behalf of your trans family, friends. we suffer enough without the right to self-identify in the UK

if you aren’t from the UK please share this so that more Uk residents can see and speak up.

[thethunderwolf]

I know tumblr is america focused but PLEASE PLEASE reblog this, we trans folks in the UK have so much difficulty already. Please help us and reblog this.

[tsuronhema-deactivated20250213]

"Beauty does not belong to a single, privileged race, I have promoted throughout the world of art the idea that beauty is everywhere. Every race has its own beauty, which differs from that of others. The most beautiful black person is not the one who looks most like us."- Charles Cordier

[thelotusdiaries]