beyond this morning;

the cat was sleeping cutely so i took a picture and went to show it to my mom and she burst out laughing and pulled out her phone and showed me a near identical one she'd taken a few minutes before

"Explaining binary search to a cop" should've caught on as a saying tbh.

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

reblogging this again to bring up that when my grandma said she didn’t understand trans people, and why would they betray the body God gave them, it would have been 0 help to explain to her all the biological and cultural and societal components to the existence of the concept of gender and trans people. You know what did make her pause and reconsider her stance? “Did you ever think that maybe God made trans people on purpose?” And we got to have a conversation about all the interesting things God has made so why wouldn’t God make trans people? And she came out of the conversation with more grace and understanding.

i tell you what, when i talk to a christian person who's not-yet-fully-radicalized in their anti-trans feelings, i become the most Jesus Hippie christian leftist in the world for the sake fo talking to them, i talk about god's plan and jesus's love and how nothing god makes can be a mistake so how could me being trans be a mistake you silly goose <3 he made me like this on purpose for his own reasons obviously <3 because who else could have???? only god silly!!!! and this goes over better than NOT meeting them where they are :D and in real life my primary deity is the fucking hudson river. so like. fucking whatever do you want to actually reach a heart or a mind or do you want to feel like you're king smart in your empty village of zero allies if im being fully honest

come with me hold my hand. listen. the age gap is sometimes part of why the ship is so good. that’s okay. god isn’t going to smite you for liking an age gap relationship between fictional characters. go now. be free from the mind prison you’ve locked yourself in

and hey while we’re on the subject, age gap relationships between adults in real life are also fine. there’s no inherent problem with an age gap as long as everyone is happy and wants to be there and treats each other with respect. which is possible to do in an age gap relationship. hope this helps

I love playing planet zoo with my little creatures and giving them Habitat and Enrichment and seeing their happy behaviours. it is my favourite thing about pet-owning. I will give my isopods a million apple slices and my old ass cats a million shelves to roll around on, and this will continue forever

learning to notice an absence of people of color is crazy. you start seeing it everywhere. ill see a random pic of characters or people or whatever and be like "these are all white people. why"

all the babies in those baby youtube video memes. humanized character posts. like. its the little innocent shit. and like, the people making those baby memes probably arent seeking out white babies. maybe theyre just easier to find. but why are they easier to find? a complicated question, surely... but you know what it probably comes down to. someone, somewhere, maybe a lot of someones in a lot of places, made a choice. maybe knowingly, maybe not. but they made a choice. it starts to make you feel like a conspiracy theorist!!

its really funny that after 2 months this post is still making racists come into my askbox treating me like im a horrible person for pointing out that sometimes people of color are excluded from things in visible and offputting ways. cry about it

making every conversation into being about The Character with the same reliability and conviction of a youth pastor going “you know who else partied? our lord and savior”