The Dreams of Trees Unfolding

#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

You’ll now notice that none of those shovelware mobile game ads never have a Black main character. You’d think with so many of them this would happen incidentally or even occasionally, but you’d be wrong

You’ll now notice that almost every video game that has character customization will always have the base character be white and use that model for the cover and promos for the game.

You’ll now notice how Ancient Egyptian themed/coded characters 99% of the time are the lightest possible shade of brown.

It’s imperative that while reading these you imagine me doing a waving hand gesture a lá Obi Wan Kenobi

So video games are a white person activity. That's what I'm told by the black people I actually interact with every day. 'My kids don't watch no video games. My kids play ball!' so that's your culture. Your culture actively says they don't play video games....yet then you get mad when you're not represented in video games. Imagine if I was like 'man, LeBron James isn't a white guy. What kind of bullshit is this?' You guys are literally pissed off that a community you don't even want to be involved in isn't including you.

Damn, guess I better go get to the nearest court and work on my dribbling skills since basketball is the only thing us Blacks can do 😓. I’ll throw out all my non basketball interests and only wear jerseys from now on. And I’ll need a statue of LeBron James to worship, do you know where I can find one for cheap?😭

Apparently boomer Democrats are having meltdowns over a gen-z progressive who is primarying an 80 year old Democrat because she "went on trans podcasts" and wore a Charizard kigurumi

ok but what is she running on

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

I call it “soft queerphobia”. It’s when you come out to your family and they don’t reject you OR encourage you, they just forget every few months again. I have come out to my father nine times

Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.

Happy late pride month to Joanie, the best that’s ever been 🏳️‍⚧️

Joanie recently changed her name to Jolene because “it’s funnier”, she says

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

Thanks for the screencap, I did try to read the article but the ads on that site were insane.

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals

This is just the tiniest fucking window into how transmisogyny affect people. This is about a space that was held by trans people and for trans people where the transphobia targeting a transfeminine person was prioritized over everything else.

i miss swimming.