Previous said they didn't know how to tag this, but I do.

You tag this as @l-heure-du-the

anyway. i think most people left of mainstream US liberal are uh. insufficiently scared of Trump. this has become a cringe take over the years but i think electing him again has a really terrifying set of tail outcomes that are unlikely but possible

like he probably can't end US democracy! that's really hard to do. probably. but he has stated pretty directly that he's gonna try. and i would prefer if he did not

There’s a certain irony about this because many of the same American leftists tend to be very critical of liberal institutionalism, but they’re also relying on liberal institutionalism for why Trump would not be able to simply bulldoze his way into being a banana republic dictator.

Meanwhile, the folks who actually lived in countries that went authoritarian are way more alarmed about Trump because they dont have the US exceptionalist delusion that it can’t happen here.

Not to mention all this also ignores the sheer damage he did and can do even within the boundaries. Reagan wasn’t a dictator, but he was an absolute dumpster fire for the world, and the Republicans already have Project 2025 lined up for if Trump wins.

When I was twenty I was almost shot by a police officer because of my mental illness. I was peeling bark off a tree on public property to calm my anxiety.

Two officers pulled up very quietly in a squad car while I had my back turned. They did not announce their arrival. When I noticed them approaching me by the sound of their footsteps, I was frightened and reached for my phone to record them. They thought I was going for a weapon and one reached for his pistol. I put my hands up.

They illegally detained me and took my ID to run a background check. The one who had started to draw his gun on me asked me if I’d had any thoughts of hurting myself or others.

My background check came up clean. They released me and told me I wasn’t doing anything illegal. I went to my car and bawled my eyes out, thinking about how I’d almost died for the crime of “weird behavior.”

Don’t give these pigs a registry of the mentally ill. They’re already trying to kill us for no good reason.

@ all the idiots commenting on this saying I almost got shot because I reached into my pocket for my phone and not because of my “weird behavior”

me reading one of the most famous books ever written: do people know about this book. do they know.

This pattern is where I found the insects I used in my midsummer/Kupala piece.

'Bugs Sampler' by MaryHickmottDesigns available on Etsy for download

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

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

Check your hand sanitizer y'all

Here's the full, updated list from the FDA. It's currently (well, as of March 14 '24) 67 pages.

Also be aware that a LOT of companies substitute cheaper ingredients in their food products. Which is obnoxious but fine, unless you're allergic to the substitute ingredients.

Olive oil, tea, honey, cinnamon (not that lead is exactly "safe" to eat), vanilla, coffee, fish, blah blah blah. The list goes on. Any corners a company can cut to save .001%, they will. Usually the substitutes are mostly harmless, but it isn't as if companies care about consumer safety when there's profit to be made.

To clarify, the list linked is ALL hand sanitizer products officially recalled (and may have ongoing additions). It is NOT just the Aruba Aloe brand; there are many brands by various manufacturers on the list. So please check to see if you own anything on that list.

it’s like every month there’s some shit from the us that’s like “congressman for iowa john hamburger has introduced the Put Everyone Into A Meat Grinder bill (s.911) & it’s about to get passed to the senate everyone call your reps now!!!” & it’s something that affects the entire world

the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards crabs

The best part of worldbuilding is making something that sucks. Magic schools with bullshit rules that don't work. Spaceships that are built stupid. My favourite thing to do is to make an inconvenient world that is full of stupid things for boring reasons, and then putting a character int here and making them live with that.

I was about to reblog this like "wow I so agree" and then I checked the username and apparently I posted it.

#There's a giant water monster in my homebrew world who occasionally investigates boats

#he doesn't attack anyone he's just curious about boats so the nearby town made him their mascot#his name is Big Sneak because despite being 120ft long he sneaks up on boats all the time and spooks the fuck outta people

#He's 230 years old and has a title equivilant to a knighthood

#He is not an uplifted animal. It's the equivalent of giving a knighthood to a scaled whale. They just love him.

#He was given that title so it would be illegal for anyone to hunt him

#What purpose does this lore serve? None at all. It's a giant monster you aren't allowed to kill and who might sneak up on you and go Bloop

#If you try to attack Big Sneak the entire town will be mad at you.

@ashedink​ You cannot just hide this absolute work of art in the tags

(I immediately love Big Sneak)

HERE HE IS

THE BIG SNEAK

THE GUY

Shout out to the people who never had a safe place. Who didn’t have a before trauma. Who were loved but not protected. Who were collateral damage in someone else’s breakdown. Who got fucked up so young that they’ll never know who they could have been.

Shout out to people who’ve never felt safe. I hope you do someday.

So I think I forgot to post about it here but I'm knitting my own wedding dress.

@labradorduck LOOK AT THIS

Oh so pretty!