odd, but harmless

I love tennis and philosophy. So you will find here: tennis, philosophy, fandom stuff (Star Wars among others), politics, cats, & birds. 18+

[unsteadyunsubtle]

Hello there.

Autumn, 30s, she/they.

- 18+ only please

- lurker, not very talkative, awkward, bad at emojis, terrible social anxiety (debilitating, even)

- random (fandom + politics/other + tennis) posting (up to 50 queued reblogs/day) (subject to change)

- everything is tagged with who/what it is (ask if you need me to tag something a different way) (sometimes i don’t tag critical posts though)

- asks are open

- i’ve got asks that need answering (i swear i don’t forget about them)

- i delete DMs from blogs i don’t recognise

[mousemannation]

britishvogue & alexdeminaur & katiecboulter | [x]

katiecboulter and alexdeminaur had known each other for years from the tennis circuit, but it wasn’t until both athletes happened to find themselves staying at the same Melbourne hotel at the same time that romance blossomed. Six years later, the tennis stars tied the knot at a romantic ceremony in Tuscany, where the bride hand-stitched a piece of fabric from her late grandmother’s wedding dress into her own custom lace gown. Click the link in bio for an exclusive look inside the celebrations.

Photographed by katiejulia_

[mousemannation]

katiecboulter & alexdeminaur | [x]

Mr and Mrs de Minaur

[tienvedev]

i wish i lived in the timeline where casper ruud won roland-garros 2026

[divorcedwife]

look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat

[divorcedwife]

solidarity for everyone who was born on the day of the cistern or the watering can or something like that

[carlicos]

He's coming home.

[tieheartbreaker]

in spanish, the sentence "se viene a casa" lacks an explicit subject, and it could be both "it/the trophy" or "him/this person". of course he wrote that expecting everyone to interpret it as referring to the trophy. however, what I find funny is that there are tons of photos of the trophy and yet he chose one where not only is the trophy not visible, but carlos is the literal focal point of the image. so yeah. idk man, he's insane

[channelslam]

[channelslam]

[carlicos]

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - JULY 19: Lamine Yamal #19 of Spain is congratulated by Carlos Alcaraz after the team's victory following the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final match between Spain and Argentina at New York New Jersey Stadium.

[gamesetandmath]

they both know a thing or two about making history at 19 in new york

[lightsouttennis]

I have children and I’m very proud of them

[kidrat]

U can watch Star Wars so many times and it doesn’t prepare u for how dumb Star Wars is. For one thing I think we gloss over how kenobi (who has definitely been at the club. Please.) describes the mos eisley cantina as the worst most villainous place ever and then u get inside and it’s a pack of muppets vaping

[shane-actually]

the man who has witnessed a thousand bloody battles saying the airport bar is the worst place he’s been is based, actually

[regging]

this is for a part-time job as a barista

[inactiveaccount082024]

on an application to work the front desk of a hotel

[chasetriesagain]

If minimum wage you'd like to make, This ancient quiz you'll have to take.

Step right up, but be prepared. Those who fail are poverty-snared. Question One! If your labor proves most fruitful, Raking quarters by the bootful, Who should excess profits reap, Me the wolf or you the sheep? Question Two! If, by merit, you're made pope, What will be your fervent hope? Law and order justly paired? Or mercy and the guilty spared?

Question Three! If a train should leave Topeka Driven by a solar squeaker, How then should the cat behave? Give it milk or give it grave? Question Four! Do you have a criminal record?

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[sunflowerbutch]

🥚

crack egg directly into hot pan, scramble while cooking

crack egg directly into cold pan, stir/scramble, then cook

crack egg into bowl, whisk or stir, THEN pour into pan and cook

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Voting ended onMar 31, 2024

[coughloop]

[leopardmask-ao3]

Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans

[great-and-small]

Now that’s what I call

[great-and-small]

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

[son-of-drogo]

I hate this site so much.

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[hylianengineer]

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

[topofoff]

im genuinely so heartbroken for all the intersex women+girls on tour. like the very nature of this tour is already hostile for women with intersex conditions (such as pmos) who are still 'woman-enough' to pass this genetic testing but for the women who happen not to have two (and only two) x chromosomes this is gonna be even more hard. it makes me so sad. the very concept of binary sexes male and female is of course bioessentialist to its core but to enforce that is going to be upend the lies of so many people. the athletes themselves, their teams, families, people who care about them. and oh if a famous athlete doesn't pass this test it's gonna subject them to so so much public harassment, it's absolutely disgusting