Musings Of A Microbus

He/Him • NYC • Queer

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

the esteemed emperor should perchance read a memory called empire by arkady martine

thank you, loyal subject! as a reward i shall offer you tax and corvée labour exemptions. also a princess if you want

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

you’re thinking of @qin-shi-huang-di

[qin-shi-huang-di]

it’s going to be a real princess, right, traitor? 😊 she is going to be a legitimate member of the royal family, and not some random, disposable servant you’ve adopted and then sent off to appease the xiongnu, like a glorified pimp, right, traitor? 😊

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

bro is so intimidated by reading he has to insult my totally ethical diplomatic strategies

[qin-shi-huang-di]

ATTACK! ATTACK! KILL AND MAIM AND DO SPINNING KICKS!

THE ONLY WAY TO PEACE IS THROUGH FORCE! BUILD A HYPERMILITERISED SOCIETY, WHERE THE ONLY CHANCE FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY FOR THE AVERAGE COMMONER IS THROUGH WAR! KEEP THE FRONTIERS CONSTANTLY STATIONED WITH SOLDIERS! LAUNCH NUMEROUS EXPEDITIONS INTO THE STEPPES AND PRESS THOUSANDS OF PEASANTS INTO BUILDING A FRONTIER WALL! THE PEOPLE WILL LOVE YOU FOR IT! #qindynastyno1 #myhypermiliterisedsociety

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

[Sir David Attenborough voice] Here we see the tyrant emperor in his natural state. So blinded is he by his utter and complete failure of a dynasty that he refuses to acknowledge the efficacy of even slightly less violent methods. When his death arrives, paranoia will have been his downfall.

[bauliya]

“stop traumadumping to your friends tell this to your therapist” my god they paywalled human connection

[big-edies-sun-hat]

“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”

Oscar Wilde

[humanerrers]

x

[humanerrers]

stop spreading despair and nihilism

stop buying into the idea that nonviolent activism is useless, rather than (by far) the most effective form of protest

stop falsely claiming that BLM accomplished nothing and that most citizens “don’t care” when people are murdered by the state

start understanding that most of your neighbors care about your rights, and their own

start noticing that most people are moved by injustice, including against people who look nothing like them

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[statisticalcats2]

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

[statisticalcats2]

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

[concerningwolves]

You get bigger so you can store even MORE love and appreciation for the world inside of you

[monsieurenjlolras]

It means you'll be at the antique mall looking at a coffee table and thinking "blorbo and Squimbus would LOVE this coffee table"

[fivestrandbraid2]

You have destroyed and betrayed yourself for unfulfilling human contact

[kosmogrl]

[northshorewave]

"Not beating the ___ allegations" is such a 'now' turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone's behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.

[ironmyrmidon]

Not beating the panopticon allegations

[toboldlynerd]

[kyleblackpaw]

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

[yuriartillery]

really im not that much of a pervert a sword is a pretty conventionally attractive weapon to fuck

[tooies]

every moment of your life, from birth to death, constantly, while you aren't looking, there's some kind of weird shapes just moving around in the ocean. and the shapes are eating eachother sometimes too. and they might even dig holes. and all of this is happening during everything else that's going on. like think about the most important moment in your life. the thing that shaped you as a person. the entire time that was happening, far away, deep in the ocean, where no human has ever seen, there was some kind of wet sack with a weird protrusion flailing about in the water. maybe it even grabbed a fish. who knows. i don't. just think about that for a bit

[grubarchived]

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

[kcsmall]

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

[orchisailsa]

Tagged by @fluffy13-4 literally five months ago. Is there a statute of limitations on dumb Tumblr memes? I hope not.

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

Ma Meilleure Ennemie, Stromae ft. Coldplay (Arcane)

Lavender, Asheligh Ball

Lunch, Billie Eilish

Mother May I Sleep with Danger, Joy Crookes

The Wood Song, Indigo Girls

Cassiopeia, Sara Bareilles

Red Wine Supernova, Chapell Roan

Dance in the Graveyards, Delta Rae

Golden, Huntr/X (KPDH)

Glitter and Gold, Barnes Courtney

Tagging (no pressure to play along): @rainsfalling, @shenzhiheng, @ajfanfic, @nyxelestia, @jaewritesfic @saki-the-cup-bearer-blog @antique-forvalaka @sugarbabywenkexing @minnarr + YOU if you didn't tag you and you wanna! <3

[themagicmicrobus]

Here's mine!

Golden, HUNTR/X

How It's Done, HUNTR/X

God Needs The Devil, Jonah Kagen

Dead Girl Walking, Jensen McRae,

Burn Me, Jonah Kagen & Sam Barber

No Hell, Cloud Cult

Faking My Own Death, Allison Ponthier

Iron Sky, Paulo Nutini

Wouldn't Come Back, Trousdale

Walking in Memphis, Cher

@sodapop000 @letitrainathousandflames @mithrilbookofmystery @gandalfsbignaturals @lightningstrikes-art Here's the first five of you who popped up in my @ s since I can never remember anyones handle <3

[sotiriabellou]

im going to learn embroidery weaving pottery oil painting hagiography miniature crafting fiddle arabic mandarin spanish perfect french and im going to do it all within the next six months.this is true and incredibly possible and doable and i will do it all

[mioxenoblade]