I think tumblr just needs to work a bit on telling people about this stuff

My rule of thumb with cooking and picky eaters is that I'm fine with people being picky, but I'm not ok with people lying about it. So if you've got a long list of things you can't or won't eat, give me the list, and I'm fine with cooking by it. Like literally just write a google docs with all your Yucky Ingredients on it and I can find a way to cook with whatever's left that isn't on the list.

But if you go "no I'm fine with anything it's ok I'll eat it :)" when I ask you what you will and won't eat, and once the food is on the table then you go "ew yuck it has Bad Ingredient, I can't eat this :(" I'm going to beat you with a frying pan.

I know this ISN'T what your point is about, but I still cannot resist asking for a fringe case:

What would you do if someone told you "on good days I can eat everything, on bad days I can barely eat, here's my approximation of the Forbidden Foods Random Table that my body apparently chooses from every morning"?

A list is still a list, and if they can't eat that because they didn't know what they could eat that day, then that's just unfortunate but nobody's fault. Frying pan violence is reserved for the people who could have prevented this situation from happening in the first place, but actively chose not to.

"I don't want to be a bother." [becomes an enormous bother]

People who don't want to be a bother: THIS! A THOUSAND TIMES THIS! People will be so much better about respecting your dietary restrictions if you communicate them in a non asshole way!

the fact that this was never greenlit for a full series is one of television's biggest crimes.

Velma gets 2 seasons and a 40 minute Halloween special while The Amazing Screw-On Head gets exactly 1 pilot and then they never even TRIED doing anything else like it.

and for what

I just found out VLC media player lets you do this????

It works in motion too!! Took me half an hour asdgfsadfghas

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

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How do I upload a photo

dont do this it makes chlorine gas

uses him to scroll on tumblr for 2 hours

it's so funny to me that you can share a location to Uber/Lyft from iNaturalist. oh there was a frog here? take me. IMMEDIATELY

the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

It's a lot, for books aimed at eleven year olds who want to read about kids turning into fun animals.

On the podcast, the two (American) hosts happened to get onto the topic of the post-9/11 Iraq War and their reactions to it. They were both children at the time and as such could not be expected to have particularly nuanced views of US military policy. The person who hadn't read Animorphs was unsurprised by the declaration of war; that's what you did. Someone attacks America, America goes to war. That's how a country protects itself, through military revenge. The Animorphs fan, about the same age, had been devastated and against the war from the start. War was a Big Deal and, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort; a lot of people were going to die, and a lot more were going to get hurt, and no matter how the war shook out it was still going to be horrible. They attributed this perspective, of course, to the series that had taught them about the horrors endemic to war in an engaging way at such a young age -- to Animorphs.

That's what kid fiction is for.

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em

1969.........

Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.

There's a lot more context to this like Siken wasn't even @-ed by anyone he found the original tweet by namesearching himself, decided to respond to it, then when his response got replies he started throwing around accusations of parasocial stalking over some harmless hyperbole. Sir the only one being parasocial about you is yourself.

Then he accused the women above of having 'meltdowns' and asked Google AI for validation lmfao

And he got quite frankly owned here (if nothing else it's a self-own because pretending to not know words have connotations in society, as a famous poet, is hilarious)

Unmute !

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Woman in purple, in a high pitched, enthusiastic voice: if you’re not at work today or you’re working from home, you may be wondering, whAt day is it?

Man in suit, emotionless and factual: itsmonday

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emotionless and factual? that man is heartbroken. you can hear the grief in his voice.

Guess what day it is again folks

It’s monday

Happy first Monday of 2023 to those two newscasters specifically.

Happy First Monday of 2024 to those two newscasters specifically

Happy First Monday of 2025 to those two newscasters specifically.

Happy Last Monday of 2025 to those two newscasters specifically.

Devout

Some of the categories for the NYT Connections fills me with hatred and wrath. What do you mean “dog breeds with the first letter changed” i’ll kill you

Fury. Rage. Flames on the side of my face.

“This is how these words would be related if they were different words”