Heracleum Mantegazzianum

i was so naive in thinking that spirk shippers were exaggerating. what the fuck is wrong with these two.

SPOCK HAS A MATING CYCLE?????

"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose

It was really something when a bunch of people who normally hold that anyone who joins the military is scum were bizarrely defensive about how a middle class guy who enlisted, in his own words, to kill people and went back to the Middle East as a private mercenary after so he could keep doing it was a uwu baby and a victim. You'd think a guy like that would be utterly evil in their eyes but no, beyond reproach

Really appreciated the bit near the end where Platner's apostles gave up on any pretense that this wasn't about gender and just started posting screeds about how you have to support him to defeat the "HR ladies" and "smoothgroins". Like if you're at the point of coining strange incel-esque terms to defend a guy you should probably think twice about doing that. This Whole Thing Smacks of Gender, I say as I turn a Senate race into a referred on my psychosexual hang-ups

It is genuinely mind blowing to me just how many Tumblr posts have changed my life for the better and taught me to be happier. Not all of the thoughts originate on Tumblr, but the way people collect and frame them has literally changed my brain chemistry.

It's fascinating to realize how much our emotions basically run on ChatGPT. How should we feel about this topic? Let's run this algorithm to assess, based on precedent, what feelings we would currently expect to follow thoughts about this topic, then shortcut to that.

a couple days ago someone reblogged one of my posts where I'm defending patricia taxxon with a screenshot of a post from isuggestforcefem and said "this is her blog btw" which of course it literally isn't, those are in fact two different people. so anyway I went to check their blog and between posting how much they hate isuggestforcefem (who, again, they appear to believe is the same person as patracia taxxon) they also post about how they're in the serial killer fandom. so you know I guess that's how the transmisogynist smear campaign is going

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

Lots of people find math tedious so they think of math people as unusually willing to tolerate tedium. But math people don't find math tedious; math people are unusually UNWILLING to tolerate tedium, and only want to focus on the "interesting part", the underlying structure. to be clear, this is a vice. lots of good things lie behind tolerating tedium