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(un)fortunately now you get to witness my descent into enjoying INSERT MEDIA HERE. don't worry about it 23

[animentality]

[dooplissss]

its so funny/a little insane that mensartbot is considered a rare pair when like. thats just the text. I am the most canon compliant shipper in existence, I don’t really do anything crazy and usually go with whatevers popular. what do you mean there werent any spaces for the three of them or even a ship name before I showed up. martha wells told me herself murderbot has two hands in the books she wrote, she literally just gave mensah and art joint custody. I won by doing nothing.

[queerpeers]

me: “yeah I dated a guy in high school who came out as gay. it was before i knew i was a boy so needless to say it didn’t work out”

coworker: “damn dude was preordering”

[queerpeers]

other things this coworker (who is a cis guy) has done/said:

—got confused about why I’d never been a boy scout because he forgot i was trans

—told me he was gonna get top surgery scar tattoos to match me after i get mine

—laughs at all my trans jokes, even if they’re supremely unfunny

—calls me big dog (and him little dog) even though he is about as tall as two of me

— “I can’t believe she would say that transphobic thing to you. In June? Pride month?”

[the-ladyguinevere]

Once I said "My gender is whatever's funniest at the time" and my coworker stops dead in his tracks, turns slowly and says "So are your pronouns honk/honk?" killing me instantly

[doggirlpaws]

I was talking to a friend I knew before I transitioned about my new relationship (my first one ever!) and I said "Yeah, I think I only indentified as aro/ace most of my life because I didn't have lesbian as an option" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "Oh? Why not? ...Ohhh"

Then he said "You know, I completely forgot you weren't always this way. Femininity really suits you" and let me tell you I started tearing up

Of course, not ten minutes later I mentioned that I had to relearn how to sing and he said "oh no, what happened?" so he might just be a little slow

[doggirlpaws]

Update on that friend: a bunch of people sent me "he's a little confused, but he's got the spirit" gifs in response to that story. I can tell you now with certainty that she definitely has the spirit, and she's not confused anymore

[redstonedust]

well, no, i didn’t expect leopards to eat my face, but this obviously wasn’t what the leopards eating people's face party wanted. they were stifled by their opposition and bureaucratic red tape! i think we should give more power to the leopard eating face party, so the leopards only eat the faces of people who deserve it. plus they just put a new leopard in charge of the face eating, and i think this one really brings something new to the table. so yes i'm voting for the leopards eating people's face party again. why wouldn't i.

[ot3]

it’s been long enough i’m making an executive decision that we all need to go reread the tgi fridays infinite mozzarella sticks article

[ot3]

still just as good as i remember it

[bladesofaura13]

The link is broken nooooo

[ot3]

burning of the fucking library of alexandria right here. anyway everyone say thank you wayback machine

[ot3]

Happy ten years of Caity weavers infinite mozzarella sticks article

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[angelsaxis]

i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift

[pineappical]

i think grace being the first and final tester for the biodome because he's the only human they have is a little funny. he mentions to rocky one time that the sea carries the wind and rocky's like hm. okay. will fix for grace :) and then the next morning he wakes up and steps outside and immediately gets blown away like a piece of napkin on a moving car with the windows rolled down because he forgot to mention how strong the wind should've been

[avoid-avoidance]

Grace, ragdolling along the beach like a tumbleweed:

*bounce* *bounce* (utterly deadpan voice) “Whee.” *bounce* *bounce*

Rocky: *screeching and chasing him at the fastest scuttle he can achieve*

[intriga-hounds]

little prince receives his morning cookie

[uumumuu]

What a creature!!!!

[pangur-and-grim]

really does not look like a real animal

[steampoweredwerehog]

[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

174.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[jgvfhl]

@beemovieerotica

[strongermonster]

i'm helping out at a creative writing workshop for uhhh i think 10-12s? 10-14s? idk. but that age range. and anyways

a) i forgot how fun this is

b) it's really hard not to like, re-write for them and stick to just "hey add descriptions here, change this grammar, really cool ideas!" bc i'm an adult and not trying to talk over/railroad these kids, but i'm just so excited for their ideas!!!

c) little boys write cool stuff like "what if we went to mars but it sucked so we left, but left behind all our technology and the technology rose up and created its own society and then went to war with us for abandoning them? what if transformers had 100x the war crimes? what if the earth blew up. what if we were the robots all along?"

d) little girls out here writing like "aunt melanie's skin was sloughing off the bones as her beloved dogs tore her apart, turning on her in blind animal instinct. the second she stopped providing food, she became food." and a lot of body horror and dark themes about group pacts and betrayals and ritualistic murder/sacrifices. like a lot

[strongermonster]

me, turning to the teacher who is also doing this: hey so, i'm personally really cool with the tone and direction these girls take, but is any of this? how you say... a red flag?

teacher: little girls have really rich inner lives to combat the way they're puppeted by society in real life. they'll learn to censor it out in a couple years, but it doesn't go away.

me, who was also a weird little girl who phased in and out of weirdness depending on social settings: nice.

[lumsel]

Normally I dislike theories about the world that are predicated on the moral failings of entire professions. These things are more complicated than that, right? Incentives create patterns of behaviour.

However: I was out getting ramen with a buddy of mine, guy who works at one of those huge-big software companies in a senior position. This restaurant had one of those digital menus, where you scan a QR code and have to order your food on their website. And the website they had... christ almighty! It took a full 10 seconds to respond to any of my inputs!! If I was booting up fuckin noclip dot website here I might understand, but this was literally a list of meals and a button to check out. What in god's name could this website be doing behind the scenes that was causing such latency???

I complain about this to my buddy, how absurd it is that their website was lagging this bad, and what this extremely skilled, senior software developer at a billion dollar company said in response was "ah, but it's a pain in the arse to support older phone models, so really this one is one you".

So I think one of two things is going on here. It's either modern app designers really are just pod people from mars, or they put a special slug in your brain when you get the job. Still figuring out which.

[wordcubed]

Getting conflicting reports here.

[timberwind]

you can post on tumblr even when you're trying to take a break from social media it literally doesn't count. it's like pepsi max, or pescatarianism

[juicydangler]

[candyredterezii]

starting a collection

[toadcroaky]

[international-repeater-station]

[softichill]

[ladyshinga]

[turgidturnip]

[turgidturnip]

[turgidturnip]

I just had to collect all of these responses together in one place

Edit: And one from my friend, who doesn't have a tumblr (yet)

[ladyshinga]

#i keep waiting for someone to address the '18th century looms were huge' claim#like sure some were#but the fact that textile mills had been invented doesn't mean that all home weaving ceased#indeed people still weave for fun or profit in this the 21st century#smaller looms were still being built and used in the 18th century just as smaller looms are still being built and used today#and that's without considering the existence of inkle/tape/band looms which were/are used for making narrower woven ribbons for trimming etc#small 18th century looms absolutely exist

there are thousands of notes and a few people ABSOLUTELY addressed this xD

[twistedmaiden]

I wanna add mine! But it still has some assembling to do before I can move on to the next step

[quick-to-query]

...Okay this place *is* better than Reddit.

[stormneedle]

My wife did a lot of hand crafts while we were dating. After we got engaged, my father piped up that at least she didn't have a spinning wheel. We put it in the doorway the first time my parents came to visit.

Her loom is packed away at the moment so she can work on an uncountable number of knitting projects and metalwork at the moment.

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Fibercrafts.

Not even once. You start with "Oh, I'd love to learn the drop spindle" And the next minute your home office is occupied by a loom, you're planting flax in the garden, and considering the logistics of owning an alpaca.

[oleanderunderground]

This is one of the things I LOVE about humans! I love people keeping old crafts and hobbies alive! It's SO important! Plus I get to see all these other nerds and their sick ass hobbies!

[abimee]

I hate the trope of "I refuse to hit women!! [Gets decked]" cause it's boring but I do like the trope of someone in an RPG going "hey I don't wanna hit a kid that's kinda fucked up" and the kid just obliterates them

[abimee]

"i refuse to hit a woman!" = Sexist, overdone, does nothing to actually empower the woman or make the guy seem nice

"I refuse to hit a kid" = valid, even funnier when the kid whips absolutely ass in one go

[inotrope]

Avatar: doing it right yet again

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]