Aquarianisms

having a snuggable animal in your home is like a constant minigame of ancestral persistence hunting, every morning this beast is getting yoinked from various parts of the house to indulge our daily ritual of bringing him back to bed for cuddling purposes. im like the doom guy in hell meme but instead of ronald reagan im looking for my cat

I can totally believe people on Twitter are unemployed but on Tumblr it's always someone studying the microscopic footprints of the honeybee and a nuclear physicist developing cold fusion posting about their blorbos on their lunch break

@kaity--did

Children learning that the world exists around them is my favorite thing

the thing about John referencing tumblr memes is like. They don’t have the internet post resurrection. Which means John has been making the same handful of jokes for like ten thousand years. I too would become mercymorn if I had to hear the same ten jokes for TEN THOUSAND YEARS PLUS

"but I didnt learn about the usa's wrongs in school 😢 we don't know anything cause they didn't teach us anything 😢" well no one in my school in india told me that our country is a regionally hegemonic war criminal you're just entitled and insultingly uncurious

in fact they told us completely propagandised nonsense about how pre colonial hindu kingdoms were extremely peaceful but were forced to defend themselves against regular invasions solely by muslims. this is something v easily contradicted by the foundational story of ashoka's turn to buddhist dhamma being the brutality of the kalinga war.

the point being made is school, everywhere in the world is a deeply political project and is marshalled for the purpose of nation building. you're not going to hear about the sins of your nation in any serious way at school most anywhere in the world, and expecting that it should have betrays a certain lack of uhh, street smarts. its for children and run by the govt.

my least consequential discourse take is that marine creatures do not belong in the #wet beast wednesday tag. the adjective "wet" implies a divergence from its referent's base state! a fish in water cannot be wet because its base state is in contact with water. only things that are typically dry (bears, hyenas, etc.) that have come into temporary contact with water can be considered to be wet. thank you for coming to my ted talk