confused but never disappointed @whatsaterrarium - Tumblr Blog

terrarium? we’ve never had a terrarium. also…

formerly whats-a-terrarium - banned 6/19/24

a man of many names. saph/jane most used atm. | she/him

21 years old | semi-professional theatre maker | bsw student

لبناني و فلسطيني و امريكي | مسلمة

queer tme butch dyke.

enjoyer of all things sick and twisted but also of all things joyous and fun.

serializd | letterboxd | ao3

if you stumble across my original posts from my old blog (whats-a-terrarium) please send them to me for archival purposes.

sideblogs for 80s nostalgia netflix slop: @baseballbatjohnny & @season2jopper

blog title from how to be a dog by andrew kane; bio from more than you gave by philip levine. username from am i alone now? by gabriel urbina.

#saph.txt #pinned post

greelin

sorry to hear that you haven’t been feeling all that great lately. Do you want me to hunt you for sport

greelin

no worries if not. will be thinking of you regardless

wertfi-penguin

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

geekyhistoriansunite

ivy-saurs

randomly remembered this tweet and had to stop myself from bursting out laughing

setulose

Whatttt is with the tendency of Tumblr users to seek absolution from every single person who offhandedly posts about disagreeing with something they do

setulose

I say this not unkindly, but firmly: to function as a member of a social species, you have to get comfortable with the idea that not everyone will like you

bungerc0re

most insufferable traits become tolerable and often attractive when transferred instead to a woman

bungerc0re

this is mostly a consequence of misogyny, the forces that enable men to be sleazy scumbags by default heavily discourage that in women and so her shittiness is in active defiance of social order rather than in line with it, but critically women are just more likable

anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

ohholydyke

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

amorphousgenderlesscryptid

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

normaloperafan

gumi-megpoidd

did you have to use that photo for that

gumi-megpoidd

i mean good on them...? still paired with that image thats uh. interesting

gumi-megpoidd

laura-the-swarming

I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.

The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.

OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).

dwinkus

peasant visionary: & then it stood before me, a towering wheel of flame that beheld me with 10,000 shimmering eyes!

me: idk man it still sounds like an ocular migraine

peasant visionary: #MyGrain

nonbinary-octopus

hello I notice that you are attempting to access my webbed site from a phone. did you know we have an app? I will redirect you to the app store so y— oops it looks like you tried to load the webpage again, it's okay I will show you to the app sto— no, no, it's okay this happens all the time, I know you didn't really want to access the actual website on your phone, that's why we have an app! let me take you to the app store where you can download it

canadian-static

“Todd Jacobson, you have the right to do whatever you want.”

#community

traniform

isn't it so crazy how tmes love ""trans inclusive misogyny"" and see it as something hilarious and gender affirming but suddenly when it's trans inclusive ""misandry"" it's not funny at all

sneefss

again fucking imagine if i started calling trans men "low t beta male cucks" or some stupid bullshit.

fucking imagine.

taylortut

the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript

rouge-wall-enthusiast

“The Family Dog” by Deaf artist Susan Dupor, 1991

byjove

I will reiterate over and over again that chronically ill and disabled people have always existed. We have evidence Neanderthals took care of members of their community who became disabled after a serious injury or were born with disabilities like Down Syndrome. Yes, many more illnesses ‘just killed you’ before modern medicine but the lack of modern medicine meant there were even more people struggling with chronic ill health. Institutionalization and the stigma around discussing disabilities and illnesses is the reason you think there were fewer people with disabilities and chronic health concerns, not reality. Bad backs, bad lungs, bad stomachs, mobility issues, poor eyesight, poor hearing, countless other things that range from mild annoyances to serious life-limiting disabilities. We have always existed. Pretending like there was a time in history where a sizable portion of the human population wasn’t chronically ill or disabled is historical revisionism.

byjove

We should always be thinking “How do we make the world better for disabled people and how can we prevent acquired disabilities like post-viral chronic illness and lifelong injuries from things like motor vehicle accidents?” and not “How do we stop disabled people from surviving and existing in public?”

byjove

‘Survival of the fittest’ never referred to survival of only the most healthy and robust individuals, it is about an organism’s ability to adapt. Humans are social creatures. You can be the most genetically sound and physically fit human being on earth and if you break your leg and there is no one to help you, you die. Caring for our most vulnerable, sick and/or weak community members is a core part of what it means to be human and if we didn’t not have that drive, we’d go extinct.