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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.
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Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.
A store near me started selling these and it made me think of… well, all of Tumblr 😂
Which would you pick, if you had to choose?
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Which candle/trope?
enemies to lovers
plot twist
slow burn
only one bed
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So, he was lounging around in the dark, alone, on the worst throne in the history of thrones, when verde went to ask for his help, too
so that’s three times we found mukuro lounging on his awful throne, alone, in the dark.
I mean, that time with hibari is explainable, as he knows he’s coming. but he can’t have foreseen verde or tsuna.
so - whats going on mukuro do you have nothing better to do
to be fair from the sight of it i don’t think its a throne. i think this guy is for real just laying on a couch and people keep bugging him while he’s doomscrolling or whatever the hell mukuro would do on a comfy couch. like look at all those pillows. this man was locked into being comfy and then verde comes along
Thank you Jared
Image description: [a Facebook post by Jared Price reading:
“If you are a Christian and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Lives Matter”, then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.
Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize
There are 100 sheep but one goes missing. Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.
the 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”
Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the one in danger.
The one is.
I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter”]
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A warrrior with abundant osteoptimism and one more skeleptical re: bone toughness.
Op I want you to know that “I don’t drink enough milk to be that confident in my bones” is now something I will say at every opportunity
A few weeks ago I read a YA book - it doesn't really matter which one exactly -, set in Argentina and Egypt, in the 1880s, and it included a sentence I cannot get out of my head:
[The dress] had a matching parasol, ruffled and useless save for protecting my skin from the sun.
This unassuming sentence, my friends, is one of the stupidest shit I've ever read (I honestly don't know how it slipped past the editor).
On the one hand, like, consider the word itself: parasol. It literally means "to protect against the sun." To say that a parasol is useless save for, you know, protecting you from the sun, is to say something like "a pen is useless save fro writing."
ITS FREAKING PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE SUN.
And even that is not useless - a parasol is vital, especially, you know, in Egypt, where 90% of the novel is set. You don't have sunblock in the 1880s, and, vanity put aside... you don't want to end up with a nasty sunburn - hence the parasol. It's not "useless" - it has one specific and very important function - which it fulfills! It doesn't have to do anything else!
And the most infuriating in the whole thing is that you just know that sentences and sentiments like this stem from the misconception that everything women did or wore pre-20th century is the product of the opressive patriarchy and should be condemned. Corsets are yucky. Long skirt are ewww. Parasols are USELESS.
Heaven forbid that all of these things made sense in their given context.
Honestly, I really wanna see some heroines in historical/fantasy books who go, like "no, I feel naked without my corset, it's like my armor" and "you want me to wear pants? I don't know, I'd feel so awkward." And, you know, heroines who thrive in the period specific femininity, instead of trying to dismantle it, because that's so cool.
And if you think protecting your skin from the sun is just some sort of frilly girly affectation… My mother just had to have most of her upper lip reconstructed due to skin cancer removal surgery. And they didn’t know that the sun caused cancer just yet, but that wouldn’t stop them from getting it all the same
Protecting your skin from the sun is IMPORTANT. Maybe they weren’t doing it for the right reasons, but it’s still critical
(Just like the breast support provided by a corset prevents uncomfortable bouncing and jiggling, that can affect even women with relatively small breasts. There are practical purposes for these things)
(also, before people take this entirely wrong, I don’t think anyone is saying “we need more representation for feminine women!!!“ The problem is that so many female characters in historical dramas, just like in all other media nowadays, want to have their cake and eat it too by being the baseline socially acceptable level of feminine but ALSO loudly decrying femininity, somehow)
"ruffled and useless" kind of makes it sound like they think ruffles cause things to be useless? As if adding a decorative element to a practical thing makes it automatically less practical?? Very foolish.
"My sewing machine, covered in gold decals, and useless apart from sewing."
"My spoon. Embossed, silver plated, and useless, save for stirring or scooping up food and drink!"
"Societal and legal constraints prevented women from exploring clothing options outside their assigned gender parameters" and "women's clothing was often eminently practical and reasonable within these assigned parameters" are two statements that can and should coexist.
How to tame your shark: a Takeshi Yamamoto guide to falling for Superbia Squalo 🦈
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Lakan: Ah yes, a bonding sketchy moment between father and daughter, wonder what moves my beautiful daughter is going to play here
maomao: let's get this bitch drunk
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Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:
Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”
Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“
Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”
SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”
Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”
Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~
the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."
yeah its cus walking on the moon was cool as hell and all this other boring shit sucked ass
When I was a freshman in a red-state college, I had a professor who taught Newtonian physics with a super thick Russian accent. The student body was unusually conservative for a state college, so there was a sort of general bemusement about learning physics from a Russian, but even back then the Cold War was far enough in the past that not even the red tribe was inclined to stir up trouble about it.
He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though. Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be “Mir” specifically. And he’d always use ‘cosmonaut’ instead of ‘astronaut’, that kind of thing.
One day about halfway through the semester, he’s doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little. So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, “Hey professor, what’s the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?”
And this beautiful man spins around on one heel to face the class, whiteboard marker triumphantly over his head, clearly having been waiting for this moment the entire semester: “Cosmonaut go to space first! Ha!”
Do you think I made Adrian too small
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with as much gentle encouragement as possible: fandom is a verb. if you want people to engage with you / your art, engage with theirs too. reblogging fanworks is a large part of that on tumblr. and above all it’s fun
I love your mind 🤗😊🥰💓🦜💓
You know what? You're right. I was putting some cartoon zazz on it, but let it be known that this little guy didn't spill a freaking drop!!!
