imperfection is beautiful

Praise kink? Do I have a praise kink? *Laughs* Sir, I was an honors student…Of course, I do.

10/10 squid poetry, on my evergreen squid tweet 😂

@annleckie

how are yall gonna share this all and not mention that the muppet with the fraggle rack is named Arieola Borealis

every single addition to this post caused additional psychic damage i hit 0hp at ‘fraggle rack’

This blog is so cool! It also has a section which grammar nerds like me will appreciate about some pros and cons of each pronoun set they discuss, such as neutrality, ease of pronunciation, and grammatical flow. An excellent resource!

realizing cis women also struggle with “passing” a lot of times and has a lot of the same issues with dysphoria trans women have (issues with putting on/losing weight, dissatisfied with bust size, not feeling “feminine” enough, etc.) has done a lot to combat dysphoria for me, cause it’s like, wow, we really have a lot more in common than we have in difference huh

terfs are starting to find this post, and i gotta say: terfs getting mad at a post that explicitly acknowledges cis women’s struggles and with notes full of cis women agreeing and talking about their own struggles and experiences really speaks volumes about how anti-feminist, and frankly misogynistic, terfs really are, that they don’t even give a shit about cis women’s struggles and experiences

juat started watching First Kill on netflix and this opening credits is really giving me carmilla vibes

A lot of adulthood is shouting “AUGH MY LAUNDRY” hours after you put it in the washer/dryer and running to go fetch it

oh shit my laundry

reblog to save someone’s laundry

republicans will be like “good news, everyone! we have passed legislation that will make it legal for us to shoot you in the chest” and dems will respond with “we have listened to the SCIENTISTS and the SCIENCE says that being shot in the chest is bad! and that is why we are proposing a BOLD counter-legislation that would provide FREE bulletproof vests to individuals making less than $30,000 per year!” and leftists are like “um yeah I guess if those are our only options I’ll pick the dems but why is it legal for you to shoot us in the chest? maybe they shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place? where’s that option?” and dems will be like “shut up and vote blue no matter who you stupid fucking hippie” and then you find out that the private company that makes the bullets and the vests funds both parties

It’s absurd how many communication mediums have been ruined by advertising, spam, and scams. Most of the mail you get is junk, most of the emails you get are junk, most of the phone calls you get are from bots, even a good portion of the text messages I receive are spam of some kind. If they ever invent a way to transmit thoughts directly between persons (not something I would even want) it would immediately be used to beam advertising into your brain. Hell companies are already researching to see if it’s possible to put ads in our dreams. Nothing is free from capitalism and nothing is sacred

research keeps showing that advertising either does nothing or makes people even less likely to buy a product but there's such a massive industry built around ads and their hypothetical value that every business just wants to double down and think the problem is there's *not enough* ads.

@fishing-lesbian-catgirl have you read Feed by M T Anderson?

People don’t hate math. They hate being confused, intimidated, and embarrassed by math. Their problem is with how it’s taught.

Finally

A Mathematician’s Lament or Lockhart’s Lament is an essay explaining a lot of what’s wrong with how math is commonly taught. One of the comparisons is “like learning musical notation without ever hearing the music,” which felt quite spot-on. Highly informative reading.

“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course, the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.” ― Lev Grossman