Helpless rage is exactly what social media companies want you to feel. It boosts engagement. Don’t give them your time.

i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

“Look here pal, I know my religion, and this ain’t it. Whatever this guy is, they’re clearly from your version of things. Mind coming over to help fix things up?”

just saw a deactivated mutual's post on my dash. that's my dead wife's corpse you're all dragging around

I also reblog this guys dead wife.

"It's stupid that men are allowed to be shirtless in public while women aren't" yes true✅️ "it's also gross when men do it they should also have to cover up" what. no. no. wrong conclusion❌️

"I don't like looking at it" is never a good enough reason for why people shouldn't be allowed to exist in a certain way in public

I know this isn't new, but now I'm a few years out of college and into the workforce it's really sinking how much of a mindfuck being middle class is. You have savings, be it 5k or 25k or 100k that could provide absolutely life changing amounts of security to folks who are forced to live paycheck to paycheck or worse, and it is simultaneously true that truly. You are just a bad year away from losing it all. You can go from poverty to middle class with a reasonable job, sound judgement, and a little luck. It is nearly impossible to go from middle class to actually rich. The gulf even from upper middle class to rich is so so much wider than the gulf from upper middle class to homeless. None of this is new, but it takes a few years of the workforce for that to sink in. Middle class affords a LOT more financial security than being impoverished, but you're just so acutely aware that you will never actually truly be untouchable.

I am pro-accredited aquariums and zoos. My posts critiquing the animal rights movement are blowing up right now and I just want to come out and say definitively that I appreciate zoos and aquariums allowing the public to view wild animals without potentially disturbing them in their natural habitat or resorting to the illegal exotic pet trade. It is valuable for conservation purposes and many aquariums/zoos take unreleasable wildlife and host breeding programs for endangered species. They are not just institutions for human amusement, they are integral to maintaining public interest and studying the ecology and biology of the animals contained within.

the grinch is fucked up right. he was created specifically as a critique of the commercialization of christmas, but now all his edge has been sanded off. now he's a generic mascot for "hates christmas," which is great to have because the commercialization of christmas has become so overbearing that that's a demographic you can market to! and now he's just part of the Christmas Fold. he's santa's edgier joker counterpart. he has become the very thing he sought to destroy. back in november i checked out a customer with a $1100 order and most of it was grinch merchandise

We gon need more stories on that crazy ass family

Bitches will be like "prev tags omg" on my post and I check the preg tags and it's like "blorbo from my shows"

world heritage post

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

It’s so fun that we live in a time where people can generate nostalgiaslop ai pictures from any time period, say “this is what (((they))) took from us” despite said ai pictures usually depicting something readily available, and people who have never been more than 50 miles outside their hometown will be like “so true! I HAVE to get more racist!”

tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.