So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Actual answer: the sheep know the dogs are not sheep, and they also know the dog is protecting them and take their cues from the dog about whether they need to run for the barn or can just ignore anything scary that approaches.

However, a friend once had an extremely premature orphan lamb born in December who had to live in the house for a couple of months with leg braces and all that, who due to spending her lambhood with dogs instead of sheep came out of the whole experience convinced she was a livestock guardian dog! She would patrol the perimeter of the fields every evening with the actual dog, stand watch in the barn door at night like the dog, and was more than willing to throw down if she saw something scary coming towards the flock the way the guard dog did. Tragically orphaned lamb did a convincing job at being a guard dog without actually having any of the biological advantages a dog has over a sheep.

Which I suppose made her Sheep Batman.

Piping hot take: I don't give a shit if straight actors play queer characters as long as they do so with empathy and authenticity. When you say shit like "only queer actors should play queer characters" what you're actually saying is only OUT queer actors should play queer characters. If you're assuming an actor (or anyone else, for that matter) who hasn't declared their sexuality is straight, you are participating in heteronormativity.

you're also saying that you, as an audience member, are entitled to private and intimate details of actors' personal lives, fwiw.

if you ever read any interview with Tim Curry, he's always very clear about finding this absurd. we all pretty much assume Tim Curry is queer, but we'll never know, because he has absolutely point-blank refused to discuss his dating life with the public or the media, because it's nobody's business but his (and anyone he's dating ofc).

it's also like--

some of you younger folk really need to go watch the documentary on Paul Reubens. "Peewee as Himself." Like, the context might help a little? for why so many of us who grew up before Obergefell et al really, really, really fucking hate this narrative where the public has a right to every single facet and detail of an actor's life? especially a queer actor?

actors, musicians, comedians, entertainers, etc., don't owe their audiences jack fucking shit about their personal lives. we can all get over that absurd entitlement any time.

I was just talking with my partner about this a few weeks ago.

Lee Pace is similarly an incredibly private man. For a long time we the public knew absolutely nothing about his dating life or anything about his family outside of little bits and pieces he shared, and even that was deliberately as vague as possible.

He played a trans woman in Soldier's Girl. It's based on a true story, and he actually met with the trans woman his character is based on. During the interview, he said something to the effect of having several stark realizations about himself after working with her and learning her story and her journey and her life.

I make the joke that anyone transgender heard the distinct sound of an egg cracking during that interview. And yet, Pace did not come out. Not until he was forced to, years later.

As, simply, "queer".

We now know he is married to a man. We know he identifies as queer, mostly because he was forced to by an interviewer who has a reputation for forcing very private celebrities to come out or risk losing status. We know he has dated men and women. By his own admission that playing Calpernia gave him very strong gender feelings and he saw a lot of himself both in the fictionalized character he played and in the real woman whose presence he was wow'd by.

Lee Pace might be a trans woman who has found it better to boymode for the sake of an acting career. Lee Pace might be a trans woman who avidly does not want to invite a spotlight into that part of his life- and who could blame him? Lee Pace might be an egg who has just barely started to crack, peeked out from beyond the shell and is not yet comfortable leaving the closet. Or Pace might be nonbinary, genderqueer, gay-as-gender, or... simply a cis gay man who feels it is nunya and enjoys being a little fruity and feminine in his spare time.

I don't claim to know the inner workings of Pace's mind, sexuality, or gender. But I do think that it would be wrong to force Pace to share what he clearly is not comfortable sharing for the entire world to see.

When it comes to celebrities who are respectful and also private, I don't think it is a bad thing if what we as fans know about them doesn't quite match up with the demographic they're playing. Sometimes, there's a reason they found a piece of themselves in the role. And especially when it has the blessing of the real life person that role is based on (such as in the case of Calpernia) or of the real life LGBT people working with that celeb every day - maybe the people directly involved with this know more about this person than we do watching from the other side of the screen.

I was just talking

with my partner about this

a few weeks ago.

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

i CANNOT express how much more lovable my friends are to me at their most annoying. i'd rather hear the same story 3 times than not at all. i'd rather read a 22 message text rant about something totally inconsequential than not hear from you all day. i'd rather you tag me in the stupidest post i've ever seen than not know that it made you think of a conversation we had a month ago. BE ANNOYING AT ME. I LOVE YOU

H.R. Giger

When youre a kid youre like wtf adults are making themselves sick with poisons and when youre an adult youre like i need more poisons ASAP

This has gotta be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 😂😂😂

Remember to eat, my loves! There's a whole world of delicious joy awaiting you! X

Not to doxx myself, but it's wild to suddenly see the escalators I take every day to and from work randomly on tumblr LOL

I dont think people realize how much money the US spends on Official anti-china propaganda. over a BILLION. do you know how much that is? Do you have any idea how many people you can pay for that? How many news articles you can buy? How many hoaxes? How many reporters you can keep on retainer? How many analysts you can pay to drum up fake statistics? How many studies you can fund? How much social media you can manipulate?

fuck it 10 pm post we like to party

this video feels like seeing an old friend for the first time in a decade

please read this story of a man accidentally discovering his wife is the world's best Tetris player

[image description: an excerpt of text that says:

“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

“Oh, my!”

/end id]

TL;DR on the article

The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.

The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.

They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.

She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.

which, they later find out, is her second-best record

There was a decent but ultimately forgettable fantasy novel I read a long time ago that had a single moment that stuck with me.

The protagonist has just won the world famous sword fighting competition in the big, rich capital and is talking to his mentor, and says something about being the best swordsman in the world. The mentor frowns and tells him that no, he isn't. He is the best swordsman out of the people that could afford to show up to this tournament. There could be a mercenary way out in the mountains, patrolling a snow encrusted fort's walls that could kick his ass and there was no way to know until he was already losing to the guy.

I think about that a lot, and how for every apparently dominant competitor, there might be a fucking ronin out there somewhere capable of destroying them.

Always reblog tetris ronin lady

announcer ritually chanting the horse's name "GOD I NEED A FAVOR"

It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

via @discipleofkleio

I hate Rowling so much.

Likewise, the new all-star audio books featuring people like Keira Knightley, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Gomez, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and more, only seem to have happened because Stephen Fry - who did all the original audio books - said he thought she radicalised and "was a lost cause" (x)

my new years resolution is 480x640. Gettig smaller

‘やるんか？やるんかっ!?’
(You gonna fight? You gonna fight!?)
Needle felt art by Chachakinana, 2025

NEEDLE FELTING?????

do we think anne rice's gay son is tuned into heated rivalry

wait i was kinda taking the piss but he is actually following the show's official insta and also the cast bc of course he is

real as hell

usps is releasing goodnight moon stamps on may 2, 2025. get excited 🌕🐇

This is your daily reminder is: FUCK ICE AND TRUMP PLUS EVERYTHING DUDE FUCK THEM!!

Early Lesbian Film: A female bandit (Asta Nielsen), protects a young woman from a fellow bandit, then kisses her in Zapata's Gang (1914), Dir. Urban Gad

Every time I see someone say “what is air?” or “trololol” on tumblr,
all I think is:

get off tumblr, please.

you are doing ghost of christmas past torment to me

OMG

There are two of them

Whenever I come back to Tumblr and check the activity, it’s always this post still getting some notes here and there.

went to my best friend’s house last night and saw a little plushie dog and plushie cat that had been sewn together down the middle into a two-headed chimera. I said, “did you do that?” she said, “yes, I saved them.”

turns out at her old job when the last two plushies hadn’t sold and became deadstock, her boss told her to cut them up and throw them out. so she cut them each in half, preserved their heads, and then rebuilt them together.

cannot stop thinking about the way these little plushies were approached with the instinct of a Vampire or some sort of ancient god. “Let me save you [turn you into a monster].”

The fact that the beheading was at the order of a superior, and the solution was to create some sort of monster of disobediance to the letter of the law instead of just lying and saving them adds a certain mythological resonance.

John Waters you will always be famous

figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever

for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:

https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]

remove the [brackets] when using it!

mods are asleep, share hacks that make the site usable against its will

“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”

— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays

"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.

learned today (after googling it upon seeing the "Sadomasochism Brothers" post) that masochism was named by a psychiatrist who had read Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's erotic writing and was like "I feel safe in concluding that this man had Fucked-Up Freak Sex Disorder, which now until forever will bear his name", while von Sacher-Masoch was still alive. there are accounts of von Sacher-Masoch being like "bro what the fuck" about this

always pissed off to see people acting like there’s any coherent amount of possibility that luigi mangione wasn’t framed. when you look at the “evidence,” the way in which it was gathered, the timeframe between the crime that’s being pinned on him up to his arrest, and the methodical way in which the actual claims adjuster did everything possible to leave no evidence (contrasted with the allegation that mangione just simply had a manifesto and confession on his person, which we are simply supposed to believe because the pigs say so), this is like the most obviously framed man in history. “even if he did it i want to see him acquitted” well. he didn’t do it. hope that helps.

does Juno count as mpreg, like retroactively

@phinatheeeper not leaving these in the tags

real quick if anyone is confused: professional athletes are paid a lot of money because they generate a lot of money. if you believe that professional athletes should not be paid a proportional share of the revenue they generate, you are anti worker's rights and also fundamentally do not understand how labor works

like hey. im a communist. i am not arguing for rich people. i am arguing for workers to get paid what they are worth for the labor they perform. athletes being paid a lot of money is not a hill you have to die on. it is not a consideration you should be incorporating into your political and economic policy. athletes are not special, they are workers, and if you say "this worker does not deserve to be paid what they are owed" you are anti labor and you should not be trusted under any circumstances.

also like. arguing that white male athletes should not be adequately compensated for their labor is really not the leftist win you think it is when wnba players get 9% of the leagues revenue and pwhl players are forced to work second jobs. if you think the recognizable names of major men's sports shouldn't be compensated, what do you think about workers rights for bench players and 4th liners in women's sports who are paid astronomically less?

"average cat owner spends 3 years in prison" factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette's mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I love how every single Georg post observes the original's typo

i like that you said "observe" instead of "preserve," implying this has religious importance.

just pinned a girl to the fourth wall

one curiousity search on ebay to see if people are still going nuts over beanie babies has led to getting a strong contender for the funniest email ever

When your doctor prescribes you the generic

does anybody want to see this baffling drawing i did when i was like 8 and i assume just learned what gay people were

what the fuck does this mean. the rest of this notebook is homestuck ocs

You read Homestuck at 8??

no but i did look at the pretty pictures of the characters on pinterest and take "what god tier are you?" personality quizzes

OP, I regret to inform you that you seem to have been drawing a tumblr post in your childhood notebook

WHAT

How many people have you lived with in your life (meaning, sharing place of residence, especially cooking areas, living areas, and/or bathrooms).

Group homes count, family counts, everyone in an apartment counts, not everyone in the entire apartment building counts.

boy marx wasn't lying, the wealth of societies where the capitalist mode of production prevails sure does present itself as an immense accumulation of commodities

What about girl Marx

"A riot is at the bottom the language of the unheard. It is the desperate, suicidal cry of one who is so fed up with the powerlessness of his cave existence that he asserts he would rather be dead than ignored."

Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King Jr.

So often we quote the first half. Figured we should hear the second.

Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.

@i-add-sources do you know where we can read more about this? (Please and thank you!)

Article linked in the source reddit post :)

Also in turn links to the individual maps used.

This is true

Fact: The greyed out east coat was also taken from indigenous people. It just happened earlier than this time lapse starts.

/Wampanoag

/The apocalypse happened in 1620

I think a lot of people on tumblr probably need to hear the pizza metaphor given to me by a fellow queerio.

She said, “I think sexuality is an appetite. Like, I love cheese pizza. I could eat cheese pizza for the rest of my life. But if I’m starving and there’s pepperoni right there- well, I might have some pepperoni.”

And it struck a deep cord with me. We both identified as lesbian but had slept with dudes while accepting this. For me, I was a horny teenager in a small pseudo-rural town. My options were slim but I had a sex drive. I had a lot of bad sex with dudes. I had some okay sex with dudes.

I dated a dude for three years with both of us knowing full well that I wasn’t really sexually attracted to men when we got into a relationship. I fell in love and thought maybe the sex might follow and it didn’t. I tried different labels and some fit better than others. It’s still a coin toss whether I feel like queer or lesbian describes me best on a given day.

But much like eating a slice of pizza with toppings you don’t care for there was still aspects I could enjoy. Gender is like this. Sexuality is like this. It’s okay not to know, and it’s okay if you try things and it’s okay if you think you like pineapples but later your tastes change. It’s okay if you COULD eat some variety of pizza but it’s just not what you really want. It’s okay if you don’t like the pizza but you like the company that comes with it.

It’s all okay.

@earthtothedaydreamer​

Okay. I’m going to assume that this is a good faith argument and engage with it as such, but also what you’re saying has been parroted at me by TERFs as well. You have just said that I don’t get to determine what my sexuality is because you don’t agree with the circumstances under which I slept with someone.

Let’s look at this from a different angle. If an ace person who does not experience ANY sexual attraction chooses to have sex with their allosexual partner- that’s not self harm. That’s them loving their partner and choosing to engage in an activity willingly. You don’t get to tell someone who’s ace that they’re not ace for sleeping with their partner. My sexuality refers to what sparks sexual attraction, but it does not mean I need to be disgusted by anyone who doesn’t fit that criteria.

Maybe there’s an ace person who is sex repulsed, who will not get any benefits from that experience. That is what you’re describing here. I am not advising with this metaphor that someone who is gluten intolerant eat pizza. If you HATE dudes, then this metaphor might not be for you.

Maybe this metaphor is for a trans person who does not experience dysphoria with their assigned gender, but experiences euphoria with their actual gender. Or a trans person who doesn’t like most aspects of their assigned gender but did like some parts of it. They don’t need to feel guilty or fully reject aspects that they did like, and I find it really shitty that so much of the queer community feels this intense rejection of things that don’t fit into their idea of a label.

I had sex with a dude I loved because he was my partner and I chose to be with him because I didn’t think sex was the end all be all of a relationship. His companionship was precious to me.

If YOU are sex repulsed by men, that’s okay. But you do not need a gold star to be a lesbian, you do not need to have hated every moment of sex you had with a dude. It’s literally okay to be like, that wasn’t great, but some parts of it didn’t disgust me? It’s even okay to be like, that was fine but I don’t want it again because I’d prefer this other topping.That’s it.

This is something where I wonder if the reason that we don't have words for the different ways of interacting with sexuality, because many of them are still so taboo in some ways.

As in, the difference between;

"If the only option to have [the kind of sex I want] is with someone I am not attracted to, I would rather not have it." and "I will have sex with someone I am not attracted to in order to have the type of sex I want."

Where "type" can be anything from "the kink I enjoy" (eg "I want to fist someone", "I want someone to flog", "I want someone in latex") to "at the time and place that I want it" (eg "I want to go to the bathhouse tonight", "I want to go home with someone after the party", "I want to join the mile high club") to "in the emotional sphere that I want" (eg "I want a friend that I have regular sex with" "I want just a one night thing" "I want sex with someone I love and share domestic life with")

I know it's a joke, but at the same time... There are straight men who will have gay sex in the bathhouse because they want truly anonymous sex, and it's more valuable to them to have that, than to need to have it with women. I feel like it's more well-known in kink circles that there are plenty of people who will pick partners for kinks who are known to be experts in that kink, even if they aren't "their orientation", because they're more concerned with seeking out the best caning top, needle player, double-fister etc. And even cishets know the experience of going home at the end of the night with someone you don't fancy, because you just wanted to end the night of dancing with sex.

And I feel like there is still a lot of judgement towards people who experience their sexuality like that- Either outright calling them sluts, or desperate, or leaning into pop-psychology and calling it self-harm or dopamine-addiction or whatever, when it's just another way of being.

I know the answer is probably "corporate interests" which are the bane of my media-heavy hobbies but I wish things like this were more common and could be actively sold in a general market.

I just dug up and sold several electronic devices from yesteryear that I no longer use and am kind of frustrated at the amount of devices I still have. What stops me from building a PC that can play all of those games plus PC exclusives? Why are videogames the only media allowed to do this- imagine needing a special branded 500ish dollar device to read a book, watch a movie, or listen to a song, except you actually need 4 different 500ish dollar devices (and tbh for PC somewhere in the thousands range at times) if you want to be able to finish the TV or book series, or listen to everything on the album, or even just watch the next movie made by the same director. What's stopping people from just trashing all of that and making something that can handle it all?

And I know. I know. The answer is "Nintendo will put snipers on your roof". But I think that's the world's stupidest system and I've thought that since I was handed my first gameboy at 5 years old.

Anyway a friend of mine did this with the GameCube, Xbox, and ps2 back in the day since his brother was a computer engineer and I know people have been doing similar for ages but. I wish it was more common, more viable, and could actually be sold. I'm so done with this.

sorry to like, say too much on your post OP, because this isn't a real answer to the real problem, but everything up to the PS1 era can be emulated on a modern computer (and depending on the amount of 3d jraphics, many PS2 titles can be as well)

Here's the all in one that people use to do it: https://www.retroarch.com/

the game files are generally called "roms" and are technically illegal to pirate, (experiment with downloading at your own risk) but it's not illegal to have a rom file backup of any games you already own. It's widely winked at by the retro games community, and especially those who are passionate about archiving - for games that are out of print, downloading a rom is the only way to access the game any more, and there's no more money for nintendo to squeeze out of them.

You can automatically download the "cores" (programs that allow you to emulate different systems) directly through retroarch.

Oh, I know how to emulate, that's really not the problem I'm having and not really the point.

I'm just being annoyed that we can't have the technology utopia of just being able to have A Device that plays games rather than having to buy a ps5, Xbox series x, switch 2, *and* a PC to play everything. I've sailed enough of the high seas to know I can emulate pretty much anything prior to 2005 quite easily, and anything from 2005-2015ish is somewhat doable with enough patience and effort on a powerful enough PC. The issue is that there's 10 years of media since then that's not currently possible for unless I'm willing to either hunt for deals (which I did) or drop fat stacks of cash and be willing to own several devices when technically the only thing keeping them from being playable on a single device is proprietary nonsense.

Tdlr I hate what corporate interests have done to technology.

Here’s dril’s candles on a graph for reference.

It’s easy to look at these and assume “well, high crime cities need more police,” but i think that’s putting the cart before the horse.

Police make crime worse.

Police take fiscal oxygen out of the room, away from actual social support programs. The money spent on policing could go to housing, nutritional services, healthcare, civil rights, building inspections, labor rights enforcement, street maintenance, public transportation. But it goes to paying guys to sit around idling Ford Explorers all day and hitting poor people with sticks.

Crime follows poverty in absolutely every single case. Every single “high crime city” is because of the fucking poverty.

I used to be a proficient googler who never wasted a word but since Google is near useless no matter how good you are at it now I have reverted to just typing in entire questions like an old person

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WIKIPEDIA IS 25 TODAY MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!! [Their celebration article here]

there is not NEARLY enough noise on this post !!! CELEBRATE ITS BIRTHDAYYYYYY

Hey trans person reading this, go drink water, like right now before you forget. You can't trans your gender if you die of dehydration

Pierre Fouché. 1994.77 or Lebenslänglichen Explosionsglück, 2020.

Rayon chords from a World War II parachute.

PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944, photo by Horace Bristol

oh my god he did a bobbin lace. out of parachute cords, both military and protective in nature. of the guy who saved someone from the water and then ran to fire his gun with his fine ass out. This is so gorgeous and so gay

HEY @sweaterkittensahoy LOOK AT THIS

Genuinely one of my very favorite pieces of art ever. It's a masterpiece of design, materials, and execution.

I never get tired of seeing it.

Oh, my God, it feels like the first days of the war all over again. Bombing everywhere in Gaza right now. It you scroll past this without sharing, please question your humanity.

I just got a call from my mother while I’m lying in a hospital bed. She was screaming as my younger siblings cried in terror. The bombing was very close, and they survived by a miracle. Please donate to help evacuate my family and keep them alive.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

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please share and donate!

Guys, we're living through the worst days of our lives. Please share.

FAFO IN MINNEAPOLIS

this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and "marched" less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city

I believe wholeheartedly that if you're some sort of tough guy you really need to get into namby pamby stuff to at least a midlevel understanding and if you're some namby pamby softie you need to get into toughguy stuff as well. It's can't be ironic or subversive either. No edgy hello kitty or only engaging with art about Spartan warriors.

If you wear corduroy overalls and listen to Phoebe Bridgers you need to watch through at least seven John Woo films and get really into The Predator and if you're into MMA or read a lot about the Navy SEALs you need to be monday night quarterbacking local performances of The Nutcracker and getting really into oscar nominated short films from Iranian directors exploring family and identity.

why is it able to instantly liquify a bay leaf but struggles with garlic 😭

it’s fine—I turned it off and started trying to fish out the bay leaf bits with a fork

okay actually though. How bad is it really to have bay leaf in there?? looking it up

Okay so it’s Not Ideal but I’m just gonna blend it more and Deal With It

fuck.

I’m giving the swiffer a 4/10 rating for its ability to clean ceilings btw

DO NOT

I don’t care if you make fun of Catholicism as long as it’s accurate! The best humour has its roots in the truth.

“You can be mean to me but there are RULES about it” is the most Catholic thing I’ve ever seen.

I walked into that one

I know everything is shit fucked sixteen ways before lunch time, but it remains a fact that you should not trust anyone who wants you to feel like the whole world hates you all the time. That's a person trying to sell you something, swallow you whole, or bleed you dry. Especially those times when it feels like they're right.

No one wants anything good from you who wants you always feeling scared and hated. They will wear you out and leave you in the bin the second fashions change. Things are extremely high levels of fucked, but you are not hated like that. It's scary and isolating but you are not alone like that. Worst case, come and shiver like a wet dog with me, I won't say anything and we can dry out.

I think this is being taken as a generic positivity post, but it is very much meant to be cautionary. Now more than ever we are easily manipulated by our own justified anger, which is reason enough to always force yourself to pause a minute, five minutes, to consider if something is worth your anger, if it's even true or just upsetting.

was she real for t hi s

sorry ...mm.

no I'm not.

leather boy pig roaster

(HE/HIM) 🐇⚡🏳️‍⚧️

his tummy + cellulite

I enjoy when people give me a hard time about using the term "sequential art" because they think it's just a pretentious way of saying "comics", because when I point out that "comics" and "sequential art" are overlapping but non-identical mediums, they invariably demand an example of sequential art that isn't comics, and I get to hit them with "PowerPoint presentations".

@urlocallesbiab replied:

i like how you said "overlapping" instead of "one being a wider category than the other" do you have any examples of comics that don't count as sequential art? (this isn't a gotcha question, this is me engaging in good-natured, sportsmanlike pedantry, along with expressing my curiosity)

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You guys call anything Catholic just because it's christian and vibesy. "oh he's southern and makes me feel bad about myself" girl that's a baptist

only valid tag on this so far

Quick and absolutely non-comprehensive field guide of Christian breeds:

Roman Catholic: Oldest version and the one pretty much everyone else split off from. Ornate churches, elaborate vestments, formalized and ritualistic service. Very hierarchal and patriarchal; Pope is head of the church and all clergy are male and celibate. Most, but not all Christian monastic orders are Roman Catholic. Primary ranges: Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland, and places with strong colonialist/immigration ties to the above (especially Latin and South America).

Eastern Orthodox: Split from the Roman Catholics during the 12th century. Churches tend to be more dome based, icons are everywhere. Less centralized than Catholic church. Male priests, may be married or unmarried but usually depicted with thick beards and either very fancy robes and crowns or black robes with a black hat and veil. Primary ranges: Russia, Greece, eastern Europe.

Anglican/Episcopal: Split from the Roman Catholics when Henry VIII wanted a divorce. Sometimes called "Catholic Lite" because "high church" vibes are very Catholic at first glance (notable differences: less emphasis on saints/Virgin Mary, lots of references to people in Oxford and Canturbury, priests who may be married, female, and/or openly queer). Monarch of England is nominal head of church (except for Episcopals, who are what American Anglicans became when they didn't like the whole king business), but like most things with the monarchy it's an empty title and the Bishop of Canterbury is generally regarded as the official head honcho. Primary ranges: United Kingdom, US, Canada, former British Empire areas.

Lutheran: Split from the Roman Catholics when Martin Luther didn't like forgiveness of sins being a pay-to-play deal. Generally more minimalist in look than Catholic or Anglican. Wide range of subgroups including Evangelical (generally moderate to progressive), Missouri Synod (conservative) and Wisconsin Synod (extremely conservative). American Lutherans have a reputation for extreme stoicism and throwing lots of potlucks. Primary ranges: Germany, Scandinavia, Midwestern US.

African-American: Churches of various denominations that minister primarily to Black Americans, because segregation was A Big Thing for much of the country's history. Usually depicted as having passionate, enthusiastic preaching with call-and-response ("Can I get an 'Amen'?" "AMEN!"), gospel choirs, and ladies in really fancy hats. Primary ranges: Black communities throughout the US.

Latter-Day Saint/Mormon: Splinter group formed when a guy named Joseph Smith claimed to find a whole new part of the Bible. Famous for polygamy but nowadays this is limited to smaller fundamentalist sects. Aggressive missionary work; being approached by young men in black pants and white button up shirts calling themselves "Elder (Name)" is inevitable anywhere around a Mormon ward. Very conservative; EXTREMELY white. Primary ranges: Utah and Idaho, with a smaller but still distinct presence in other western US states.

Evangelical American: Loose organization of non-denominational churches with strong social and political presence. Primarily responsible for 98% of the "faith-based" media made in the last thirty or so years. Typically found in large mega-churches, converted anchor stores in strip malls, and high school auditoriums. Very conservative and making that absolutely EVERYONE'S problem. Primary ranges: anywhere in the US where they're worried someone is learning evolution, feminism, or socialism.

Also, just to swing back around to Catholics since that's who I know, there are other tells.

Family with a lot of children? Either Catholic or quiverfull. Quiverfull is not any specific denomination, and there are similar movements outside of Christianity, but the term comes from Psalm 127:3–5. Here it is from the King James Version of the Bible care of Wikipedia:

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Besides that, Catholic families are not just big but tend to have no qualms about drinking. Heck, they put out a whole 'nother set of mysteries for the Rosary since I left the Church and they make sure to include Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding at Cana.

Speaking of that, you can gauge when a person left the Church or even if they're still in it based on how they respond when you say, "Peace be with you." The response when I was a kid was, "And also with you." The response now is, "And with your spirit." And then there's the third possibility: they left before the Church made the switch from saying the Mass in Latin to saying the Mass in the spoken language of the area.

happy holidays all. I won’t be silent about what i saw today, December 8 at 10:06am on I-74 West.

Receiving a Werther’s Derivative from my poser grandma