I must admit those do bother me. I mean sure, the ticking has a certain rhythmic doom about it, but it's preferable to the smooth irresistible slide into the unknown.

[ID. Video of a woman recording an opera performance when her cat, fluffy and with bulging eyes, hops into frame. She stops singing and tries to push the cat slightly out of the way, but on her next cue the cat starts meowing before she can sing. The woman starts laughing as the cat continues meowing to the music, as though it was singing as well. End ID.]

More evidence that cats bond with us by mirroring us.

I’ve read accounts here on the Tumblr of a trans man whose cat lowered the pitch of their meow, after he started taking T. So I suspect this woman sings a lot around the house, and her cat is like: “That’s just how we do things in this clowder.”

i think a lot of liberals need to confront the fact that they don’t actually believe everyone should have basic human rights. a homeless person could call me every slur under the sun and i would still want them to have housing, food, etc. the belief that everyone is entitled to basic human rights should not hinge on whether you “like” someone or not. at that point the entire ideology crumbles.

Tintin remembers what comes after 15.

FUCKING HELL IT’S BACK FROM LAST YEAR

This literally gets reblogged every 15th of the month. It’s almost two years old. It’s beautiful.

listen up ya’ll this post is 6 years old now and you’re still reblogging it. every month. once a month, my notifications blow up for this one video, but only until the 16th. then the notes on this vid completely stop. it’s so eerily spot on and impressive how you just all collectively know what to do. if I’m not online, people irl still remind me that it’s the 15th. thank you for six surreal years of me wondering if I completely fucking lost it. here’s to the 15th

hey do you mind if I have a crush on you...as a friend....

this is my life

now that my post about breaking down one's idea of what a woman looks like has circulated for a while (thank you all), i'm now going to make this post, as i do not want people to derail that specific conversation, nor this one.

we also must break down our idea of what a man looks, acts, sounds, behaves, and presents like.

men are not cis, het, allosexual or highly sexual beings, tall, muscular, strong, hairy, deep voiced, broad chested/shouldered, emotionless, mean, aggressive, unemotional, uncaring, distant, cold, stoic, heartless, standoffish, bread winners, bad/absent fathers, macho, obligated to work despite disabilities, or obligated to be "the man of the house."

men are people. first and foremost.

men are allowed to express just like anyone else. men do not have to be pillars of their communities. no obligation. men are allowed to be disabled, tired, weak, emotional, caring, compassionate, asexual, aromantic, friendly, warm, in need of support, neurodivergent, mentally ill, chronically ill,and have personality disorders. men have their own struggles and we have to stop telling them to "suck it up" and "move on" and "pull yourself up by your boot straps".

we are forcing men to do this: this is a cage of our own design.

once we dismantle this idea of how a man "should" be, once more: we will move past radfeminism, patriarchy, trans/androphobia, and fostering a culture where this is an acceptable way to treat men. it's not. we must allow men to be diverse. we must allow men to be who they are on the inside

On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting

Reading cursive is one of my most valuable skills as a historical professional.

But it's also not a one and done thing! Scripts came in and out of fashion as they were taught in schools, and each one has a learning curve as you get used to it, along with nuances of the individual writer.

I don't think you necessarily need to know how to write in cursive in order to read it, but it certainly helps. My advice if you find yourself in a situation where you're struggling to read something is not to give up, which is often the impulse when you encounter a barrier to something that usually comes easily.

Depending on the document, you might find your eyes feeling strained or getting a headache (the ink in the one above was so faded my brain was mush after a couple of hours sitting with it) but there will be a threshold after which the pieces come together. Don't give up.

And just to add to this - as someone who has to read a lot of old handwriting for my job and who has developed this skill, it is SO frustrating to see transcription jobs only advertised as “volunteer”. I get the appeal of it to give retirees something to do (like with the National Archives), but once that generation dies off we’re going to have next to no one who can read and transcribe old documents written in cursive. If we don’t give younger people an incentive to learn the skill, it will die out. So maybe actually pay people who are trained or learning this skill instead of relying on volunteers, because I promise you we’ll pay for it in the long run otherwise 😢

this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem

1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"

2. hitting the baby will still win you the game

i kinda feel bad for oedipus b/c everyone assumes he chose to fuck his mom when in fact he went out of his way to avoid it. he left his hometown and distanced himself from his parents because he was afraid he would somehow get tricked into fucking his mom. everything could have been avoided if his adopted parents told him he was adopted.

someone: oedipus was fucked up like who fucks their own mother??? fucking weirdo.

me: it’s not his fault! he didn’t know!

also the point of the myth is supposed to show how despite your best efforts no mortal can thwart fate but also? what the fuck? the whole thing was an oracle telling laius that his son was going to murder him and fuck his wife. that shit came out of nowhere. he didn’t offend the gods or anything. they just decided for no reason other than the world is fucked up sometimes.

i have been informed that oedipus’ dad, laius, did in fact bring a curse upon himself for kidnapping and raping king pelop’s son chrysippus.

i stand by my stance that it’s still ridiculous to punish oedipus and jocasta for laius’s crimes. also why would the godss curse oedipus for fucking his mom when they tricked him into doing it in the first place? fucked up.

You’re assuming the gods are ruled by logic and not by zeus nudging poseidon and saying “hey you know what would be so fucking funny”

This is so accurate

did u guys ever watch the BBC drama “Atlantis” where the main character is a modern guy who accidentally travels back in time to Ancient Greece

and tbh it’s full of him having moments where he realises this is a myth

like this woman comes to him and asks for help because her husband is trying to kill her baby so he helps her smuggle the baby out of the city to be taken in by another family and the other family ask the baby’s name and she says “Oedipus” and the guy is like

oh fuck

and then he meets a girl called Medusa and the whole time is just like shit shit shit then she goes missing and they track her to a cave and he is like “guys this is gonna sound weird but does anyone have a mirror”

BEST MOMENT  is he meets a guy who says “Hi I’m Pythagoras” and he blurts out “THE TRIANGLE GUY” and Pythagoras is just HEART EYES like “YES I LOVE TRIANGLES HOW DID YOU KNOW”

perhaps I have been too harsh on this man

If you have not watched Will & Harper, you really should. It's an incredibly sweet movie, and he starts out doing a pretty good job of being a good friend to Harper, but somehow he gets better. (You will cry tho, like, guaranteed, but in a good way. There is one scene of Harper getting a LOT of negative attention though so trans ppl please have some decompression space afterwards if that would be upsetting for you.)

My blog is an Ai free zone

none of my posts or works are made by AI

These Dumb ass posts are neither Artificial not Intelligent

THIS ALSO GOES FOR WRITING

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG! EVEN IF YOU DON’T ADD TAGS.

I LOVE PEOPLE WHO REBLOG MY ART, I GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE FOR YOU

I LOVE PEOPLE WHO

REBLOG MY ART, I GET DOWN

ON ONE KNEE FOR YOU

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

Lol and also lmao

My favourite sentence in the article: “Those interested in acquiring Jones’ media company had submitted their final offers to federal court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray, who was tasked with picking a best bid, but not necessarily the highest.”

That suggests to me that Mr Murray had the option of choosing the funniest bid, and by gum he took it.

What's great about this is that Jones is out of a job entirely because of it.

See, if some sympathetic right wing media organization had won, Jones likely would have been hired on to keep doing exactly what he's been doing. It's what he hoped for, and likely was the motivation behind a lot of the buyers (since Infowars only really has value under its original mission if you keep Alex Jones around).

Now since The Onion bought it, they have no need for Alex Jones for whatever parody or comedy site eventually appears in January. He's out of a job. And they made a big enough offer where it didn't break the company apart, so he couldn't even snatch up some pieces.

Now will some right wing asshole hire him still? Probably. But it's without any of the things he's used to build his awful career. He's starting from scratch, and that takes away a lot of the stuff he might have brought to the table. So where ever he ends up, it'll probably be for a much smaller paycheck than he would have gotten at a rebooted Infowars.

And I think that's great.

I may not be a perfect person but at least I have never yelled at an employee in a store