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talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

society's infantilization of decorated objects is honestly one of the greatest recent crimes against humans' innate desire for beauty

"the toothbrush/hairbrush/bike/vanity desk with flowers on it is For Kids! this plain beige one is For Adults!"

I am literally throwing you into a volcano

Everyone should decorate their shit.

No more "keep the house beige incase we decide to sell it someday"

Oh god that's beautiful

ohhh to be laying on his chest listening to his heartbeat til we both fall asleep

Legitimately the only acceptable way to enjoy tik tok.

It feels taboo as a childfree person to admit this but I actually do have concerns about who is going to take care of me when I'm old. The elder care system in our nation relies A LOT on the unpaid care labor of adult children. I just don't think that's a good reason to have kids.

"But you'll have more money!" does not completely put this to rest for me. Neither does "Buy care insurance!" Even if I can afford direct personal care, who is going to advocate for me to get it? Who is going to navigate bureaucracy for me when I'm 80?

"If you do have kids, there's no GUARANTEE that they'll take care of you when your old!" That's true, but doesn't solve my problem.

I think childfree people get very defensive about this question because its used as a kind of "gotcha!" against us, but I actually do not feel we can afford to be in denial about this reality. Based on current trends of more people in their 30s stating they intend to be permanently childfree, we are going to see a huge wave of childfree adults hitting the eldercare system at once in a few decades. Childfree people in their 30s should be advocating around eldercare NOW.

We desperately need to cultivate a society in which everyone, even the most bitter, unlikeable, miserably lonely person in the world, has a social safety net that they can rely on from the day they're born to the day they die, and that includes their elder care.

We are not going to achieve this meaningfully under capitalism. :')

Trans women will never be free until people stop having strong emotions about penises. Like we, as a society, have got to stop caring about dicks! Dicks have to stop symbolizing maleness, obviously, but they also have to stop symbolizing power, dominance, sexual agency and aggression, violence, and even sex itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both male chauvinists and radical feminists, because both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.

Anyway dicks are totally neutral body parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh, you meant they literally did, ok

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

girl u are not a strawberry u are mentally ill

interlibrary loan is a beautiful name for a baby girl

— Nick Cave on getting clean, Red Hand Files #258

when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

because of the huge response to this post, I decided to make a version of the art that includes the text

I’ve also uploaded this design to INPRNT, and all sales proceeds will be donated to environmental and humanitarian charities!

this is still going around with the old dead links - please help me share this version

Slow burn romance is fine, but slow burn friendship????? With passionate middle aged bureaucrats and depressed emperors and an explicit rejection of amatonormativity and having still accomplished great things and had a fulfilling life despite not meeting the arbitrary cultural milestones of maturity???? And also just like you love ur friends SO much and even your sad boss is now ur bff and there is inexpressible mutual devotion....Oh we Love to see it

I’m so glad most people on this website seem to have correct surprisingness of walrus opinions

If a fairy knocked on my door I would have to change one (1) assumption about the world (fairies don’t exist). I’d be surprised but since fairies don’t exist, my brain doesn’t have any known rules for them- if it turns out I’m wrong about the existence thing, they may as well be at my door than anywhere else, who am I to say? And humans have a long history of creating fairy hoaxes- a floating little creature with wings that’s real-looking enough for a brief prank would not be a challenge outside the realm of ‘special effects hobbyist’.

Walruses, on the other hand, I do know quite a lot about, and am very firm in my conviction that they operate by known physical and biological rules. I know their typical range, how big of a news story it is when one turns up outside that range, how unlikely it would be for one to get as far south (and with as densely populated a coast) as Boston undetected, how unlikely it would be for one to go more than a mile or so inland even in their normal range, their behavior and diet, their weight, and inability to climb stairs or (for an adult, at least) to fit in my building’s elevator. Even if one assumes human intervention to get the walrus to my building, it would require serious heavy equipment and some structural damage to the building to get it inside and on the second floor alive and in one piece. And obviously, human intervention would imply a human motive to transport a walrus into a random apartment complex. The knocking itself would be believable, it’s easily within the realm of tricks that they teach pinnipeds in captivity, but everything that would have to lead up to that, without me being aware? Absolutely unthinkable. I would certainly notice events proceeding long before the Walrus itself arrived. And faking a realistic looking Walrus? That’s also way weirder and more challenging than a realistic looking fairy, since walruses are real and we know what they look like, you can’t just make shit up.

I’m convinced those voting fairy don’t know as much about walruses as they think they do, that’s the only explanation.

Who is to say a walrus isn't a fairy. Did you ever think of that

My queers, we really need to put the "no men" thing away. Men are not inherently bad. There are queer men. There are questioning men. There's men that are just plain cool. Denying these men a space at our table is not helping - except the TERFs. I just came off the back of reading a transphobe gleeful rant about the need to have pride without men - They of course mean me. This kind of stuff is damaging to me and I really need us all to take a step back and maybe kill this "men dni, men not allowed" stuff. What you mean is "no men who are going to do mean stuff to me." And frankly those men won't give a shit about that kind of boundary.

But I promise you there's a fleet of good honest men who will see that and be sad they're not allowed in your version of queer spaces.

PATRIARCHY is what you hate. Dni Patriarchs.

The TERFs have gotten ahold of this post and are doing a lot to try and dehumanize me or send me death threats because of this. Some of those blogs were children or very close to it. I can't tell you how that horrifies me to see people caught up in a hate movement that obliterates self-examination so young. Those are precious days being stolen from those people. Being trans I know what it's like to lose that time and never get it back.

However it's important to recognise that there's clearly something in this message of tolerance that they don't want to get out, and foolishly by repeatedly reblogging versions of my post, they're actually raising the profile of the original message.

I'm quite weary of getting death threats, let's show them our compassion and unity will always overcome their isolation and hatred.

Reblog this post or any version of it that doesn't have the hateful messages attatched, spread the message further. If they didn't want to be a part of getting this message to see a wider audience then they shouldn't have started fucking with me.

Please reblog and fight fascism with me today!

amerikkkans be like i love you global imperialism and control over third world economies

no investigation no right to speak! you all must enjoy being purposefully obtuse. heres some information about just a single commodity that is consistently cheap and readily available in the united states