Needles, Lace, & Combat Boots

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

get actually sniffed

leoreturns:

Will it hit a million notes today?

Will it hit 2 million notes today?

Unfortunately it was colder today 😭 whyyyy

we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

New favorite delightful freak discovered

I think we may have accidentally adopted an anteater.

Fantasy books stop having arctic kingdoms of all blond hair blue eyed white people.

So this idiot decided to write out all this nonsense then block me so I wouldn't even be able to see it which is a choice.

1) Scandinavians like Norwegians, Swedes, etc are NOT Indigenous to Scandinavia, and even the smallest amount of European historical knowledge would tell you that. Sámi and Karelians are the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic Scandinavia and Kola Peninsula. And no, historically these people, esp Sámi were not that pale so that's just ahistorical and I bet this idiot doesn't even know who the Sámi are.

2) "Mongolic" 🤮. Siberians, Mongolians, Chukchi, etc all can sometimes be pale and sometimes are not. There's literally so many darker skinned Arctic Asians esp with the Chukchi.

3) I actually never said "pale skin" in my original post. I said "blonde hair blue eyed white people" because there aren't any Indigenous Arctic people who are universally considered "white" and blonde hair and blue eyes are really uncommon in the Arctic.

4) You claimed that lighter features are advantageous in the Arctic when actually they are not. Actually scientific research shows that due to the Arctic having near constant sun exposure for half the year means sunburning is esp easy esp if you have less melanin, including in the eyes. Blue eyes esp are very sensitive to sun exposure and esp around snow can make snow blindness occur faster. So your "scientific" knowledge is wrong.

5) Arctic Natives Americans are darker because... We eat fish?????? Huh? Arctic NAs aren't even usually that much darker than Siberian Natives and dude I just gotta say, we ALL* eat fish idiot. Kinda a lot of water up there.

(Obv not all of us eat fish but a lot do, I certainly eat a whole lots of fish it's my main meat intake I don't really eat any meat besides it)

6) I am Arctic Indigenous man, and I'm not even being colorist because I do have light skin, but again this wasn't even about skin color, this was about fantasy Arctic kingdoms all looking like a nazi wet dream unless they're bandits or barbarians, THEN they aren't white and are Asian or Native American, which is obviously extremely racist.

But anyway, the Arctic is extremely diverse with thousands of ethnic groups in it, and to write Arctic kingdoms in fantasy as all white people esp all with being blonde and blue eyed (I literally listened to someone talk about one book that someone was clearly not Arctic because their hair was bleached and not naturally blonde and their eyes weren't blue enough 🤮) Or depicting Asians and Native Americans as barbaric instead which is racist and shows a significant lack of knowledge about any Arctic Indigenous people.

And people say her lyrics aren't deep

Tiki spent the morning Very Determined to free this wolf.

He was disappointed when it failed to make its escape, and gave up.

Don't worry, buddy. Your efforts are appreciated.

(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

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i literally feel like im going to be sick trying not to laugh at this at my desk like i feel faint

the smuckling smumbler

Plenty of highly intelligent people end up getting sucked in to cults because they just wanted people to hang out with. There are antivaxxer nurses. Your ability to act on empirical reason breaks down fast if your social and emotional needs aren't being met.

Like, I reject this idea that people end up becoming tradwives or antivaxxers or cult members because they were dumb. These groups prey on people by filling the social and emotional needs of vulnerable people. They look for people who need help, and give it to them on predatory conditions.

It is important to understand that there is a conspiracy theory that could push your particular buttons and get you, there is a cult that could offer you the right support at the right moment and get you.

Thinking 'this can't happen to me' plays a big role in not noticing when it is in fact happening to you.

It is what it is but like. Can it be something else