A MATHEMATICALLY PERFECT SLUR FOR ORPHANS

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:43:44 -0400

it’s fun that Mormonism is based off pseudo-archeology and Scientology is based off…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:37:34 -0400

smoke-in-the-wind:
it’s fun that Mormonism is based off pseudo-archeology and Scientology is based off pseudo-psychiatry. By that logic the big American New Religious Movement of the 21st century is gonna be based on… pseudo-computer science?

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:36:38 -0400

spongebobssquarepants:

I think it would be fun to DM a game set like six months after the defeat of the big bad cosmic…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:52:18 -0400

I think it would be fun to DM a game set like six months after the defeat of the big bad cosmic evil—justifying how everyone know each other and why many of the quests would be kind of smaller scale.

….but mainly because I would want to have an NPC who’s the wretched former henchman turned irritating sidekick creature who redeemed itself by ultimately saving the protagonists and choosing Good™️ but now it just kind of hangs around talking fondly about the good old days in the service of the Dark Emperor and everyone’s like “Gurkus shut the fuck up about the Dark Emperor, the Dark Emperor burned my village and cut off my arm and sacrificed 300 orphans to power his annihilation machine, no one wants to hear about the Dark Emperor’s best jokes”

“But he was so funny!”

“Gurkus, he kept you in a birdcage and made you dance on hot coals when he was bored!”

“Haha yeah, he did do that… always the joker…”

thinking about the way some people talk about shit like protests and direct action as though it’s a…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:43:29 -0400

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

sometimes things are unsafe and that’s part of life you know

thinking about the way some people talk about shit like protests and direct action as though it’s a given that your own personal safety is the #1 most important thing you could possibly prioritize and must take every step to guarantee and that taking and kind of risk that might lead to arrest or injury or even death is impermissible and even moral.

obviously where you draw the line is your own choice but sometimes a cause genuinely is worth risking your safety over. you know? like you don’t have to be a hero but you don’t have to valorize cowardice either.

sometimes things are unsafe and that’s part of life you know

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:36:24 -0400

sometimes things are unsafe and that’s part of life you know

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:11:20 -0400

elodieunderglass:

silima:
silima:
in loving memory of my favorite shirt
turmeric kun update
Hmm hmm hmm. oxiclean loves her for who she is but turmeric cannot help but change her

I’ve gotten into the awkward habit of saying stuff like “we might want to try this treatment” about…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:59:11 -0400

I’ve gotten into the awkward habit of saying stuff like “we might want to try this treatment” about my partner’s illness and every time I catch myself doing it I’m like

it would be funny to have a scene where both patsy and iden are kind of anxiously wondering what the…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:37:31 -0400

it would be funny to have a scene where both patsy and iden are kind of anxiously wondering what the other’s genitalia will be like and if it’s gonna be super weird and confusing and alien and what they’re gonna do if they aren’t physically compatible or if it’s too just too xeno

and then both being kind of quietly disappointed when it’s pretty standard fare

I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this,…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:31:36 -0400

jv:

recurring-polynya:
recurring-polynya:
recurring-polynya:
I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this, because all I can think about is an alternate timeline where the girlies got absolutely sauced on this book and instead of inventing the Omegaverse, people just wrote Kemmering AUs instead.
to be clear, Ursula K. LeGuin would hate this
if you’re not into 70’s feminist sci-fi, it goes like this:
on the planet Gethen, everyone is both biologically and socially androgynous for 21-22 days out of a 26 day cycle. on those other days, you go into kemmer. If you go into kemmer by yourself, nothing really happens except you go horny-nuts. however! if you’re with someone else who is in kemmer, one of you will become male and one of your will become female, and you spend the rest of the time fucking respectfully, because this is an Ursula K. LeGuin book. There is no real rhyme or reason to which gender you become–it can vary from kemmer to kemmer. If you get pregnant, you stay female through the pregnancy and nursing; otherwise you go back to being gender-neutral for the rest of the month. You can get married (vow kemmer) and always do this with the same person, but there are canonically also fuck hotels where you go have orgies with whoever else is hot to go, if that’s what you’re into. lineage is traced down through babies that came out of your own body.
i cannot emphasize enough that all of this is written in the absolute least horny way possible.
i know this would never take off because (1) who is top and who is bottom is transient and (2) you can’t use it to reinvent toxic heterosexuality for gay people
You have to mention that the protagonist of the book is a guy from earth that get sent there as a diplomat, and how the fact that earthlings presenting a gender all the time is considered hyper-perverted by the Gethenians, like if someone was going around town not only naked, but also poking everyone with his boner.

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:43:27 -0400

2022dirt:

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.

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Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:43:15 -0400

stimman4000:

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had a dream that I killed a guy and then couldn’t figure out how to hide his body. had a few close…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:56:15 -0400

had a dream that I killed a guy and then couldn’t figure out how to hide his body. had a few close calls before I finally popped him in the oven for an hour at 400 Fahrenheit and when I opened it again he was a bunch of baked potatoes. which I ate. and shared with the detectives investigating his disappearance.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:07:11 -0400

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:42:25 -0400

tgirl-thucydides:

Alexander the Great swung his sword to cut the Gordian knot, but his sword struck on metal.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:01:31 -0400

markadoo:

Alexander the Great swung his sword to cut the Gordian knot, but his sword struck on metal.
“I neglected to mention”, said the sage who had informed Alexander about the knot in the first place, “There is a flexible steel cord inside the rope, specifically to prevent you from cutting it.”
Alexander pondered. “What if I burned it?”
The sage laughed. “Steel doesn’t burn, idiot. Also, you shouldn’t burn the rope because it’s synthetic. Who knows what kind of harmful chemicals might be released.”
Alexander weighed the pros and cons. On one hand, he didn’t want to inhale noxious chemicals. On the other, king of Asia. He came to a determination.
“It’s not like I’m gonna be inhaling these chemicals every day. Just this once.” And so he burnt the rope. Once it had mostly sloughed off, untangling the thinner coil was easy.
Moral of the story: It’s ok to burn synthetics sometimes.

habbadax:Unusual seal

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:41:29 -0400

habbadax:

Unusual seal

the king picked the guy with skull shoulderpads for the court magician job, which is exciting

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:37:52 -0400

medievaljournalist:

the king picked the guy with skull shoulderpads for the court magician job, which is exciting

kim kitsuragi: i feel good about our work here today. it’s all about the little things – like…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:34:05 -0400

erme-maererme:

kim kitsuragi: i feel good about our work here today. it’s all about the little things – like bringing people random stuffed animals.

Given the very uncertain-looking future of Tumblr, you’d be wise to take a moment to start…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:19:34 -0400

stjohnstarling:

Given the very uncertain-looking future of Tumblr, you’d be wise to take a moment to start connecting with your friends, mutuals, etc. on other platforms if you haven’t already. In light of the no information that we currently (04/09/25) have to work with wrt what precisely will happen and how soon, I think everyone should focus on doing what’s easiest; make this process as simple for yourself as possible.
Throw together a bare minimum Bluesky account.¹ Be lazy with it. You can customize your profile, explore the site, etc. later.
Make a low-effort post directing people to add you there. Optionally, throw in your Discord handle / instruct friends to DM you for same.
Reblog it once per day. Schedule a weeks’ worth of reblogs if you find that easier.
REMEMBER: something is better than nothing!²
¹ I have, for professional reasons, explored the social media platforms that are currently most in use and it is my confident opinion that Bluesky is the only feasible option for a large-scale Tumblr exodus on short notice. Is it in any way an adequate replacement for Tumblr? Of course not, but it’s indisputably preferable to no replacement at all.
² If you disagree, I invite you to make your own post.