To Steal A Book Is An Elegant Offense

if hiphop weren't real its existence would sound like an exceptionally heavy-handed metaphor about racism from a really cringe didactic fantasy novel. yeah the racialized underclass in this society, the one that's constantly derided by the ethnic majority as stupid and anti-intellectual, they have a complex artistic tradition based around improvisational poetry which is sometimes enacted on a competitive basis for dispute resolution. you get judged based on the subtlety of your wordplay and the complexity of your internal rhyme schemes. the dominant group periodically gets mad about how this doesn't count as real art like their own objectively more simplistic music and poetry because sometimes it has swears in it

My FAVORITE THING is researchers who wholeheartedly embrace the Ms. Frizzle aesthetic and wear their field of study on their literal sleeve. Everyone in the invasive crayfish consortium has tiny lobster-print shorts or socks. All the middle-aged dad scientists here at the lab have shirts with fish and/or fishing tackle patterns on them. My moss specimen and ammonite earrings keep getting noticed by women who are wearing silver fishbone-shaped or native plant-themed earrings themselves. Every single person on the outreach team has at least one shirt with an anchor pattern on it from Old Navy, and almost all the younger researchers have tattoos featuring their research interests – one fisheries biologist has a half-sleeve of native species she literally uses as an outreach tool. We are self-aware and having a blast with it, honestly.

I adore the Ms. Frizzle aesthetic

I have like six different math dresses, and a bunch of math earrings, many of which I made myself. Ms. Frizzle is my primary transition goal.

horrible: literal puppy killer is also absurdly based feminist

people NEED to stop throwing around the word unsafe when what they are actually feeling is uncomfortable

Feel truly understand the struggle being a fundamentally lazy person whose favourite foods all require dirtying a minimum of eight (8) separate dishes to prepare.

You learned to eyeball your measurements because you trust your intuition. I learned to eyeball my measurements so I don't have to wash the measuring cup. We are no the same.

Gotta be honest, the way some of y'all use "liberal" it doesn't really indicate any consistent group.

You can say these people apply that word quite liberally

I just really love how human this mission feels. Both the crew and the ground making fun jokes and references ("amaze, amaze, amaze!") or things like Glover saying "hello baby!" to his family back on Earth, or how "moon joy" has become the team's favorite phrase, or those craters being named "Integrity" and "Carroll," or the astronauts being encouraged to describe how seeing the moon makes them feel (and doing so to a moving degree), and also describing how much working and talking together improves their capabilities on all fronts, and both sides constantly telling each other how excited they are and that there's "smiles all around" Not that missions like Apollo never had stuff like this, but it's different hearing it all live. Wonderful experience all around.

it's just really apparent that people think it's okay to want pain but morally abhorrent to want to give it. sorry but the sadist gets to have fun too. it's actually pretty crucial to the process.

Image ID: A screenshot of a tumblr comment that says "yeah, its only abhorrent imo, when the recipient is non consenting, i've" the screenshot cuts off.

the masculine feminine and frankly universal urge to become a massive fucking dragon

in fanfiction one must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that

#he would only do that under duress and oh boy I'm about to pile it on (@ravnervn)

he’s dash canceling