my watch doesn't quite communicate notifications right, so any time I get a note on Tumblr, this is what I see :/

it's not even on that post

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

i know what i’m doing dw

Keep in mind I only know like. Two Greek gods by name. Homer is one of them, and he was good friends with Odysseus I think?

Wait fuck Homer isn’t a god he wrote the fucking thing. Fuck

POST CANCELLED NO ONE LOOK

desperately google searching for “greek gods to pray to when people notice your online idiocy”

You're failing.

You don’t think I know that, God of Death? Can I pray to you so I can DIE ALREADY

Pluto is Roman, not Greek

?????

Short version is that Pluto is a later name for the god of death, which is often associated with the Roman era/Roman mythology. Hades is the earlier name.

I set up my own house made of sticks and it has promptly fallen on me

HE’S NOT EVEN REAL?????*

I made this post thinking I knew what kind of fire I was playing with. Hephaestus, God of Fire, looking upon me from his fuck off tower or whatever said “Oh you think you know? Check this shit” and promptly set my post ablaze for everyone to observe

Hephaestus doesn't have a tower, he lived in a volcano

FINE THEN. BIG FUCK OFF VOLCANO. WHATEVER

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Lightning Bait

You're basically doing the post equivalent of standing out in a field during a storm with a ten-foot copper pole, you better hope Zeus is busy hiding from Hera.

I need you to name every greek God you know and what they are for plz

For science

OKAY FINE HERE'S WHAT I'VE FOUND

ares is the god of war, not kratos

WHY THE FUCK DOES THE GAME CALL HIM GOD OF WAR THEN

I can't believe this post is less than 24 hours old, it feels like something out of classic tumblr lore

op god of war is not official greek mythology lmao

Someone needs to read a Percy Jackson book

hey is this still post of the year or

NO

how's the hole op? want some snacks? a blanket? a shovel to dig yourself out?

I'D LIKE OUT NOW I THINK

And the post of the year goes to.....

here is me holding my trophy for tumblr post of the year. i'd like to thank no one in particular but i would like to unthank everyone who decided this one in particular was post of the year. i will never let this down ever

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!

no amount of budgeting will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

no amount of therapy will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

no amount of working will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

No amount of wage increases will make up for the fact that a pursuit of infinite growth by a few individuals is devaluing currency and causing inflation as the gap between the rich and the poor grows increasingly wider.

Kermit the Frog would be an ideal assassin because if caught he would need to be tried by a jury of his peers (Muppets) and you would not be able to find a Muppet who does not have a pre-existing opinion on Kermit the fucking Frog. case thrown out. kermie can kill again. it's easy being green

using gluten-free potato flour, chickpea water, artificial sweetener, lactose-free milk, and that ‘cant believe it’s not butter’ shit to make what scientists are calling “improbable cake”

Value Pack

Small comic adaptation of a small section of one of my favorite sanders sides fics: ‘the credits are rolling’ by arealsword for Greenninjagal on Ao3. I love how Roman was written, in fact I love how all the sides were written. Beautiful stuff really.

arealsword is possibly one of the best writers in this fandom (in my opinion), I’d recommend literally any of their fics if you’re into fanfiction. Truly an incredible writer, go check them out.

it would benefit students to speak openly with their classmates about what grades they are getting, just as it benefits workers to openly discuss their pay. i guarantee you that if students were to show their grades to one another more frequently, they would uncover all kinds of evidence of gender and racial bias, differences in the length and detail of feedback provided, inconsistent grading standards, inconsistent application of guidelines and rubrics, inconsistent carrying out of class and university policy, and also just plenty of instructor mistakes.

rotating the idea of a post appocalypse story set on an island nation thats dealing with the aftershock of the rest of the world suddenly going dark. like when you play pandemic/plague inc and fail to infect madagascar. can they sustain themselves without trade? would they want to go find out what happened? do you feel survivors guilt if you don't even know what you survived? idk i feel like every appocalyptic story i see just focuses on major cities like whatever man i dont care about new york tell me whats going on in niue for once.

my current favourite person on tiktok is this guy who has a giant advent calendar that his brother made him and every box has a completely unrelated thing in it that ranges from a pile of sand to a pack of One Piece cards to a button that has his own mother's voice recorded on it saying, "Riley, I'm so disappointed in you." he's been ranking them at the end of every video and so far the pile of sand has a higher ranking than the little box of chocolates he received for day five. I can't believe he has under 3000 followers because this is the funniest bit I've seen in a long time

why do closed captions keep pretending english is the only intelligible language? when a character speaks spanish what exactly is forcing your hand to transcribe it as "[speaks foreign language]" rather than "Si"

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

re: that recent post an interesting thing about being an any pronouns user is that most cishet people will hear that and immediately go "oh thank god I can just call you the normal girl pronouns" and many queer people will go "okay got it I'll use they/them and apologize if I ever fuck up and use a different one" and it's like. okay. you're actually both kind of whiffing it in different ways.

about to say something possibly unfair and definitely cunty but i can smell from a fucking mile away when somebody was raised in a comfortable liberal family and has never had to face like actual conservatism from family and community members. it's like trying to talk to a child who thinks they know everything and thinks that you're stupid for not understanding their genius idea of how to fix every problem in the world. and you can't just tell them they're ignorant because they're a Child you have to spoon-feed it to them like well it Would be nice if i could stay home all day! but i have to go to work so we can have money to buy toys and food and go to the movies :) and the child is like you HATE ME why don't you just get money WITHOUT going to work >:(

but instead of trying to explain capitalism to a child you're trying to explain to someone from portland that you cannot easily convince people who see themselves as your betters and believe it's their responsibility to Teach You What's Right that they are actually wrong about their most deeply held beliefs and have been wrong all their lives. and that it is actually very difficult and often harmful to cut your entire family out of your life forever. and that sometimes we love people who are wrong about things. and that being wrong about things does not make these people irredeemably evil and unworthy of human kindness. and the person from portland is just like ummm you obviously are just performative and if you Actually cared about what's right you would voluntarily abandon your entire family and support system forever and leave them all to rot