Survival is the Ability to Swim in Strange Water

Lily. 30. She/her. Blog of all trades.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Do you threaten murder on everyone who gives you book recommendations?

it was ayn rand...

[sirobvious]

Being a woman in Ancient Greece was hard because you’d smell the smell of a baking loaf of bread on a warm spring day and it turns out that smell was Zeus and you’re pregnant now and Hera is about to hit you with an Anzio 20mm as if it’s your fault you got bread fucked by Zeus.

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

following people who are into wrestling is just like "holy shit johnny appleseed just hit burner hurtzog (evil artfilm director-themed wrestler) with the Prostate Puncher 5000! can't fucking stand that guy!" like all day long

[wunderwirker]

[orange-catsidy]

[brxdyking]

[tainbocuailnge]

i keep laughing to myself abt the part where zuo le wants to enter yumen and he flashbacks to chongyue's event where his dad chewed him out for sneaking out of yumen through the sand sluices without a plan to get back in and then the plan he has devised for entering this moving fortress city on high alert after learning from his mistakes is: just run up the side of it real fast

[tainbocuailnge]

and he didn't even need to invent a special glue

[aintthesharpesttoolintheshed]

[cthulhubert]

By Gleb Melnikov

[mf-dude]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Btw the three-cueing thing is less of a "they've started doing this to kids now" issue and more of a "the harm of teaching reading this way has been ongoing for decades in the english-speaking world, many of the people affected are now grown adults, Mississippi was able to massively increase the average reading level of students over the course of the last decade by simply teaching reading in a scientifically grounded way instead" issue.

[mxjackparker]

Making motivational "it's never too late to transition" posts is really undercut if the age you're highlighting is still young. Claiming that your transition was late and it worked out great for you actually makes older people more afraid to transition if you're saying that shit in your 20s. How do you think a trans person in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s feels when you're 23 and calling yourself a late transitioner?

It's never too late until you're in a coffin. It is worth it for a single day of being yourself, even if you're 110.

[supermariomamafucker]

they need to come up with more words like necrosis and miasma and mausoleum and cadaver and morose and decrepit and stuff like that just so metal bands can expand their vocabulary

[darkmoonhyena]

Inspecting my grean

[darkmoonhyena]

Yep that's grean!

[fallingtowers]

"grackle" really is a perfect name for a bird. knocked it out of the park w/ that one

[enriquemzn262]

[transgenderer]

what the fuck

[argumate]

sweet, might base an agricultural civilisation on this river, hope it behaves itself

[theaudientvoid]

[argumate]

might just fuck around and find out

[andmaybegayer]

Diversity win! This river has ADHD

[crazy-pages]

Nile: You would not believe how long term you have to mismanage agriculture on my banks to start experiencing soil depletion. I will always be here for you Egypt.

Huang He: *kicks in the door* FUCK YOUR DYNASTY IT'S FAMINE TIME!!!

[theprofessional-amateur]

I took two semesters of Chinese history in college. The first thing the professor started with was “getting to know the rivers, Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers. You need to know them because they will play very important roles in the history of China. The Yangtze has been crucial to trade, movement, culture and more. The Yellow river, the Yellow River can’t be trusted as you will repeatedly see.”

[theprofessional-amateur]

If you got stuck on a question during a test or whatever you could start with “the Yellow river jumped the banks causing instability and chaos that quickly spread” and would be correct more times than you would be incorrect.

[im-adrienne-deactivated20260216]

I love geographical chats when it completely devolves into dragging a landform.

[kittiesarecuter]

[shiftofgallifrey]

You people are normal right. If I learn how to be a person from you it would be fine right

[amiya-shirou]

The argument that "of course battle shonen are misogynistic and can't center women, they're targeted at young boys and will have to focus on and appeal to them!" is stupid for many reasons - not least the fact that we literally know that plenty of women read them - but it especially annoys me because even as one of the fourteen years old boys they so like to use as a shield I was already complaining about the treatment of women in the manga I liked & getting overly attached to any girl that was allowed to be even half as badass and strong as the boys like someone dying in a desert being offered a bottle of water and if some guy at the time had told me "sorry but you're going to have to deal with it because you boys aren't supposed to care about female characters" I would have become the Joker

[origamityler-deactivated2016101]

The best reddit thread I’ve ever seen was when someone asked if the gang from Always Sunny in Philadelphia could kill Darth Maul and almost all of the responses were over 4 paragraphs long

[experimental-sponge]

Best quote from that thread: “To give the gang a slight advantage, We’ll assume that Darth Maul has not seen any of the films in the Home Alone franchise.”

[nogoodnikolai]

Moratorium on stories about the importance of stories! If I did not already think stories were worth my time I would not be spending said time reading! It's the literary equivalent of auto-fellatio, except instead of removing your ribs you've removed your capacity for shame.

[nogoodnikolai]

If you want your book to be a "love letter to libraries" then write one that doesn't make this librarian suicidally bored

[liprairian]

God thank you. They are so exhaustingly twee. Even when it's Dark Academia and supposed to be grim and brutal it's twee. If I open a book and your librarian is even the smallest bit magical, mysterious, or mystical, I will throw the book at someone's head. The next book I find like this, I'm assigning the author remedial homework. 4,000 inspirationally saccharine words about The Power Of Having Printer or I nuke the entire site from orbit.

It feels like if farmers made a cult out of worshipping grocery store clerks.

[despazito]

This Canada day let's celebrate the Hudson's Bay Company once owning 5% of the earth's total landmass now being relegated to a shitty kiosk in select Canadian Tire locations. Good riddance.

[despazito]