Nymphaeale

Yeah yeah kill the cop in your head. But also demolish the Disney theme park in your heart, ya know?

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

@demilypyro

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth.  The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts. 

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment. 

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

#BECAUSE IT IS

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

tumblr users love the immigrant reserve army of labor

there is just a mass of potentual immigrants floating in the void available at all times for no reason in particular whose purpose in life is to enthusiastically supplement your workforce

idk i just keep thinking about the whole "oh cuba should stop encouraging people to have kids because that's fascist and instead import immigrants" and it also reminds me of the similar sentiment of "the reason anti-immigrant sentiment is bad is because we need immigrants as a cheap workforce to do the jobs nobody wants to do" and idk maybe I'm going insane

it's not even that it would be Bad for Cuba to receive more immigrants if they could, which, there are certain factors why that might be difficult, and that's part of my point as well. and of course the shit the US and Europe and Australia do to "control immigration" is Bad. it's just like idk how to put it, i guess that it's a very Imperial Core view of things

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

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its crazy how we've had the art of movie lighting nailed down for like literally 100 years at this point but for some reason nobody wants to do it anymore. do people know they're still allowed to do it

i think everyone working in every visual medium should be obligated to make shit in black and white until they figure out what Value Distribution is. because so many people dont know, man. so many people don't know.

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

Just Marlon Wayans bullying his son in public by presenting a hate crime as funny; this is the state of American comedy.