there's this phenomenon i've noticed on youtube which i dub "man math" which is when men STEM-ify hobbies/activities/art forms in order to make them more masculine. it's very noticeable in the cooking video sphere where there's an endless stream of videos made by men along the lines of "the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN best way to cook an egg" (and dgmw, i watch them and find them helpful, but the observation stands), but i notice it also in the way men approach ceramics (a lot of focus on mold-making and slip-casting to perfection, basically reinventing one man mass-production rather than play and discovery), tailoring/sewing/knitting/textile art, gardening and other nature-oriented hobbies, interior decor, furniture making and woodworking, journaling/planning/productivity, even drawing and painting, there's always some man math angle to it that although interesting it often strikes me as some sort of overcompensation to move away from the inherent vulnerability that comes with art making and once you notice it it's literally everywhere

Another day of successfully making stranger cries on the internet

Resharing it for Shoto’s birthday ! ❤️❤️

i don't know if accidentally giving your cat a wig when you cuddle them is a plus side or down side of having long hair

i walk into my hotel room to find it fully cleaned. strange, because i'm pretty sure i put the placard on the door before i left. i must have forgotten.

the trash is taken out, the sheets are fresh, and it smells of flowers and laundry. there's two new rolls of toilet paper in the bathroom, and the towels have been taken away and replaced.

in typical hotel fashion, a new set of towels has been left for me, folded artistically with impressive skill into a fully accurate... recreation of myself. he's lying on the bed, head up on his hand, staring at me.

that's a weird choice. they even put clothes on him. my exact clothes. how did they find... he has intricately folded facial features, perfectly depicting my face with a subtle expression. is that really what i look like? why is he staring? why did they do this?

i'm frozen in place. i feel that if i move, he'll turn to watch me. the bed is off limits now. he can have it. i'll sleep in the bathtub, crumpled on the barely wet porcelain surface. the rough texture of the non-slip floor won't bother me. when the housekeeper comes, i'll be taken away and replaced.

“well this person being [fat / disabled / an addict / autistic / plural / sexually deviant / etc] is fine, because at least they [go to the gym and eat ‘well’ / put all their emotional and physical effort towards not to be an inconvenience to others / don’t do the ‘hard’ drugs / mask consistently and near-completely / don’t have ‘scary’ symptoms / keep it completely private / etc]” is not the progressive statement so many of you seem to think it is.

if my friends and i cannot be fat and disabled and addicted and autistic and plural and sexually deviant, with full joy and glee and PRIDE in who & how we are, around you… if we have to make up for it over and over again by performing normalcy for you… you are not a safe person to be around.

You should be allowed to cruise in bookstores

like if i see a tall woman in the sci fi section i should be able to brush against her to see if she wants to fuck in the back

this post is teaching tumblr gays what the term cruise means

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

i love soroku SO much. selfless roxas and the lover of all, sora. you guys dont understand how much the words “That’s why it has to be you, Sora.” mean to me

soroku forevaaaa

thanks I worked really hard on it

God I love Apothecary Diaries. Maomao is like a dog with a mouth full of Lego bricks to me. Babygirl don’t eat that

So imagine you go to a brothel and when you get there it’s full of beautiful women but then also there’s this dog. And when you ask “hey what’s with the dog” they’re like oh the dog, we love the dog, everybody loves the dog, the dog collects rocks from the yard. And you’re like “okay” but later you find the dog gathering piles of rocks and cementing them into a beautiful river-stone wall to protect the building. And you’re like “I didn’t even know dogs could do that”. And they’re like “that’s nothing, check this out” and then the dog starts doing multiplication with the rocks. You’re like “what the fuck” and they go “nahh she’s just getting started”. And they start giving the dog complex mathematical formulas that the dog answers by laying out the rocks. And you go “holy shit that’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen”. And they go “it’s the smartest dog in the world” and you’re like “wow that’s amazing”. And then you look outside and the dog is eating the rocks. And you’re like “can the dog eat rocks?”. And they’re like “no”

One day you find out the dog went missing. “We don’t know where the dog went but we miss the dog”, the beautiful women tell you. A year later the dog comes back. The dog is accompanied by the Duke of wales. “My gardener stole this dog but now I would like to buy it”, he says. “The dog has built me a beautiful castle and solved the viscount’s mysterious murder.” You aren’t sure how the dog did that by stacking rocks but you’re still incredibly impressed. The beautiful women are so happy to see the dog again. “Did you know that the dog can ride a bike?” The Duke asks. You look at the dog. The dog is obviously concealing a mouth full of gravel

This is the post that enticed me to watch apothecary diaries and now that I am watching apothecary diaries I am constantly pointing at the very deliberately cat-coded character, whose name is 'cat-cat', and shouting 'this dog can EAT ROCKS?'.

how it feels to genuinely and seriously hate something but all its critics you see can't stop making really really stupid points when hating on it

you think a movie is bad because it just sucks and then dudebros hate it because it had women and minorities in the cast. you think gen ai sucks but so many anti-ai people try to defend copyright law or the idea of art having a Soul. someone's criticism of something is generally correct but they lean into conspiratorial thinking. a person online had a shitty take but everyone's saying "of course they had an ace flag pfp". many such cases.

happy new year yay

not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny

governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies

115 colonists: okay

governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit

governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone

governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post

croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin

everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke

hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating

one of the best things about pjotv percy going so hard with the yearning is that he is still in fact actually deeply oblivious to the nature of his feelings so even absolutely unhinged shit like "i'd burn down olympus for you" is genuinely him just Having A Real Normal One With His Good Friend Annabeth

Can't wait for the "why does Aphrodite look like my very good friend Annabeth" scene