Dune quote rattling around in my head this night.
"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
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Dune quote rattling around in my head this night.
"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

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Thought this tonight and had to bring it into being.
laying in bed, high as fuck, thinking about balsamic vinegar
Its like grape soy sauce
Both are brown liquid made from mold growing on it
You know, you're not wrong. I still don't have to enjoy the truth.
Good fucking luck. I think I'm like 1-6 when it comes to people saying that on my posts. If this breaks 200 I'll be surprised.
Imagine if sometimes some fucking T̡ÍÍ ÍĚĚĄĚŚhĚ¸Ě ÍĚĚi̸ÍĚĚĚĚŠĚŽn̸ÍĚÍÍḚ̌ĚÍÍg̸ÍĚŽĚťÍ̟̏ could just crash through the shimmering veil of reality with a trail of fragments from the suffocating void enveloping it, grab whoever's unlucky enough to be closest, and swoop back out like it was nothing. And this was just one of your everyday hazards to worry about. Incredible cosmic horror concept
Best description of a warhammer chaos demon that I have seen
Iâm fine, I just need everyone to see me as their friend but also never have to open myself up to being known by anyone
you realize I, as your friend, should, as tradition's rite, respond to this by submitting you to the mortifying ordeal of being known?
Wither do you summon this monstrosity upon thyself? Do you imagine I should call upon your politics or fetishes, as though you would be embarrassed of things you wear so openly? Or that I would poke fun of such strengths as events of emotional vulnerability and openness? No, those common targets are mean to hit, and accomplish regressive goals.
No, you want to be made fun of, and mocked, but lightly. And feel an illusion that people dislike you a little bit, because that feels familiar and paradoxically makes you feel safe, because you feel you know where you stand with people who are mildly annoyed with you at all times. Because you're used to that. And so you post such bait.
I will therefore not mock, but instead allow the gentler response of "feel seen, bitch"
Ok but why did that make me horny
Because you have a massive crush on me
Absolutely not
That's *exactly* the kind of hubris that Tumblr love to punish and see punished, you realize :)
Not me Iâm built different. Worse even.
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the plot of the last book you read is now real! are we doomed?
yes
no
oh fuck
kinda
results
Roll for 3 ingredients. Could you make a meal out of these?
Yes, quite easily!
Theoretically...
I can't think of what I could make my ingredients into :/
Absolutely vile ingredient choices!
Rules: You MUST use all 3 ingredients in the dish, but may use any additional ingredients not listed to complete it. The dish may be established (apple pie) or something of your own creation.
Dash did a thing.
Honestly there are so many sources that I wonder whether i even need to add one but here you go: Source
It's called diVine and it already contains a lot of the iconic vines from the original platform. Also they don't allow any ai-generated slop.
From someone with a tech background, it's important to sus out why this is happening, because billionaire don't things that won't make them money.
The key here is that No-AI statement in their literature. While I'm sure that they'll be Extremely interested in keeping AI generated content off this platform, I'd bets dollars for donuts the reason isn't public goodwill, it's to ensure that their AI that they'll be feed each video to isn't being trained on AI video itself.
I think we should invent a new holiday that's kinda like Halloween, but it's specifically for crossdressing.
This isn't a fetish thing but I think there's enough early-eggs who would quickly Learn Some Things About Themselves if they got a chance to crossdress.
Thus, let's make a holiday for culturally appropriate approved crossdressing. Just a day where people get dressed up as the opposite sex, for fun!
And if some of those people realize things about themselves in the process, great!
bonus points for
people who can't safely crossdress or otherwise indulge in their clothing preferences otherwise having a day to do so
people being given a safe space and day to explore their relationship with gender and clothing - no matter if they end up being trans or not
trans* people being able to return to/try out clothes they could not wear or enjoy before, i.e. because of dysphoria or prejudice from their surroundings
crossdressing just being really fun
Yeah exactly!
Ok so I was driving around and I realized I already did this last year, so... It's a thing now.
Crossdressing Day is October 13th every year.
This is an all ages all genders non-sexual* holiday. On that day, try crossdressing. Maybe go to a party or a lunch or whatever, crossdressed. Try it out. Get someone to dress you up, or go by a thrift shop and find some second hand clothes to try out. The important thing is to have fun with it.
And it's not a gender-binary-enforcing holiday! You don't need to dress as the "opposite" sex. Dress androgynous or weird genders or whatever. (just please try to avoid "man in a dress" comedy)
Fellow trans people: you can use this holiday to dress more fem/masc than you usually do, you can use it to not have to boymode/girlmode, or you can just skip it, of course.
Anyway the idea of the holiday is that you can try crossdressing for fun. It's lighthearted and not at all serious. Obviously consider your safety first, because there is sadly still transphobia, but hopefully there'll be a little less once Crossdressing Day catches on.
Mark your calendars

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Will you reblog this and say in the tags what your favorite kind of cheese is?
Yes
No
Don't eat cheese / Results
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEYâRE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasnât. it hasnât failed me. itâs just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
Lil Early, but fuck it! Iâm not missing it this year.
Happy 20th!!! To this song.
Hey. Why isnât the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isnât that fucked up? Does anyone else think thatâs absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! Thatâs a big deal! Iâve never thought about it before but now that I have, itâs ridiculous to me that thatâs not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why donât we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
Itâs July 20th. Thatâs the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. Iâm ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and Iâm going to have a goddamn potluck. Youâre all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!
Happy Moon day!
Canât wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say âhey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we arenât like that anymoreâ
Hey,
Donât say anything
Every single week I cycle through a different coffee shop in my town and ask the barista to make me their favorite drink in a medium. I have an entire spiel:
âAll milk is fine, caffeinated and not caffinated iâm game, hot and iced both work, it can be coffee or tea or anything.â
It has yet to fail me. Every time I have tried a new drink I never would have thought to try and every one Iâve had has been amazing. The true delight Iâve seen in baristas faces pondering on what to make me and the joy they have when I like the drink always makes my day and I hope it makes theirs too. Itâs the little things of kindness that can make someoneâs day and I feel that it helps the world be kinder. Highly recommend doing this yourselves.
Just went to a place I go to more often near work and I got a âoh! Itâs you!! :Dâ from one of the baristas when I gave my order. Made my day :)
Update: me and the most common coffee shop I go toâs baristas and I are now friends :)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING IM AN AU OR PROMPT IM NOT A PROMPT IM A REAL BOY I PROMISE
Additional update: I wrote a good review/feedback for the coffee shop and corporate really liked my review, so now everyone in the coffee shop knows my name, knows I gave the review because my order is unique, and I was given a free breakfast sandwich in appreciation.
^tags:
#oh and they start making a mystery drink for me every time I walk in the door now and the baristas will argue on who gets to make the drink
#when the manager I've never seen before went 'are you (full first and last name)' and thanked me for the review I was so happy #THEY PINNED IT ON A BOARD BEHIND THEM SO I SEE IT EVERY TIME I ORDER COFFEE NOW #AAAAAAA
#they're all so sweet I'm debating on giving some of my fav baristas my number so I can ask for their dietary restrictions to make them soup
Seeing people reblog this post with tags along the lines of âhumanity is goodâ makes me so happy man. My singular goal in life is if I manage to have a conversation with a person and they walk away at least a bit happier than before, Iâve succeeded in my lifeâs mission. My impact on the world might not be huge but to those around me and the few that I interact with, spreading that little bit of joy can mean do much to others and watching that joy impact others is truly amazing.
This is also me at our local coffee drive-thru chain. I have a speel and a catchphrase that I use every time I get my "edible gatcha box". At my previous lodging I was self described coffee shop bar-fly, Sadly the closest shop is a fair distance away for my current lodgingđ.

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
#someone pointed out once that he chose his female name because he liked it#whereas the other man just picked the female version of his existing name#because it was easier and that was his main concern#lot of interesting gender stuff going on here
Oh yeah there was a lot of "Hayes Code be damned, all of us making this film are queer/friends with queers and we're going to have some fun with gender identity" in this film. That's why it still holds up. It's not a story based around getting a laugh out of dressing men up as women so they can be clowns - there's an integrity to the cross-dressing. Daphne is an identity Jerry realized he had when he put on a dress. Every time he chooses to keep his wig and outfit on and maintain his feminine mannerisms while alone with Joe, it shows his comfort in this identity, and it elicits laughter from the audience through the dialogue, ie. the audience isn't laughing at the fact that a man is in a dress, but at the characters as fleshed out characters and human beings. The laughter comes from the situations the characters are put in and their reactions to them, not from a parody of womanhood presented through a male perspective. Similarly, Osgood's classic line at the end of the film is an affirmation that he likes Jerry as he is, even if he's Daphne. It's a way of getting the audience to say, "this is fine, we're comfortable" through laughter to something socially unacceptable in its time.
Joe's masculine identity, meanwhile, is used to highlight his misogyny and force him to understand it (and the same with Jerry, but as he's less of a womanizer, there's less of a point to be made with him). In a world where men and women often had separate social circles that overlapped only when romance was on the table, putting a man like Joe in a female space where he's privy to the conversations and emotions that his actions elicit gives him a lot to contend with and understand because he can see the consequences of his actions as raw pain and secondhand, instead of as anger being spewed directly at him. Again, the joke isn't that he's a man in a dress, or that he's parodying womanhood, it's that as a selfish misogynist he's put in situations where he's forced to empathize with the experience of womanhood in order to convincingly enact it for his own safety.
There's a whole lot more to unpack in the metaphor of these two men having to pass as women because their lives are at stake if they don't.
Okay so for one of my screenwriting and film studies sections I wrote a paper comparing the language of clothing and feminism from Wilder in two of his films, The Apartment and Some Like it Hot.
Now I am not going to spew out a wall of text on the subject or anything, but I did want to point out that he did not just "sneak things by" the code, he actually deliberately REFUSED to abide by it at all for this film, he willfully refused to even apply for the certification, he knew it wouldn't pass, and he knew he wouldn't bend to let it pass.
He and the studio took a gamble that a Wilder-Curtis-Lemmon-Monroe flick would do box office and get play without the "seal of approval" from the code folks.
And he was right.
Hey! If you like this and you like Some Like It Hot; you should know that it was also made into a musical that is currently on tour!
The story has been updated and Daphne is a canonically trans woman (though granted, they do not use the term), and her relationship with Oswald (the man who want to marry her in the above gif set) is played as an unabashed, adorable romance.
They have also updated it to be a more racially accurate depiction of the Jazz club scene, so both Daphne and the Marilyn Monroe character Sugar Kane are both black. Not race blind casting; it's in the script, and Sugar Kane has a incredible solo on her experience with segregation.
It's a beautiful, touching, inspiring story, and one of my favorite adaptations, in any medium.
J. Harrison Ghee (shown as Daphne in the YouTube preview) also became one of the first two non-binary actors to win a Tony award! (J. Harrison Ghee won won Best Actor in a Musical and Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked, both in 2023.)Â
100%, I saw the touring verison, after already being familiar with the original, and it was a breath of fresh air in these dark times.
And it has a soundtrack as well!
biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning
time for people to do the funniest thing ever
Do not.
Oops who left this dodgeball here?