Late night thoughts
took around 500 pics driving around the olympic peninsula over the weekend! here are a few favorites :)
"Cut everything that doesn't advance the plot" no. I'm gonna write more stuff that doesn't advance the plot
#NO PLOT. ONLY LORE.
Ah, Victor Hugo and J R R Tolkien, how lovely to see you here on tumblr.com.
Kaveh Akbar, from “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf
[text: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
This may be me at my best.]
so one of the things I was vaguely aware of before reproducing was that people hold a lot of anxiety around the gender of babies and 'wrongly' gendering babies (i.e. failing to guess correctly based on their clothes and appearance what their genital configuration is) and having now had a baby: wow, yes, they really do.
I take an extremely laissez-faire approach to baby clothes because like, they are constantly being thrown up on and grown out of and so on, what matters is that they are clean and easy to put on and I am not spending $$$$$ on them. as long as the colour/design is not directly offensive, it's fine. what this means is that people are quite frequently 'misgendering' the baby and then falling over themselves to apologise about it.
and, like, I haven't even had a chance to dress him in anything pink yet; this is based on rules I didn't expect like 'anything with flowers or sparkly bits on it is for girls only'. equally, I do not care when this happens because it's an irrelevancy, but THEY care to make sure I am not offended. so I have started telling them "look, he's only [x] months old; his gender is baby."
and you know what? you'd be surprised how many otherwise average heterosexual people process this and go "huh, yeah, I guess it is." there is a tiny amount of hope for the future after all.
i can't do this anymore! i mean i can, and i will, obviously. but i can't fucking do this anymore!
Area Man Who Has "Had Enough" Wakes Up Next Morning at 6:30 AM to Commute to Work Again
Watch this to learn how to put down toxic masculinity and internalized misogyny. As with “the kids these days are terrible” beginning circa prehistory (thanks Plato) this points to “men aren’t masculine anymore” and tracks it backward.
I keep saying nothing ever changes to those who know history.
DAMN
I'm reblogging this both for the excellent commentary and for the JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS T-SHIRT??? SIR WHERE DID YOU GET THAT
Yeah!! That Jem tee is bitching.
you know there actually is a meaningful difference between 'men's' and 'women's' deodorant beyond the selection of scents. 'mens' plays better with pit hair and doesn't pill up in it and 'womens' tends to have a more powdery finish to help prevent chafing. so really the two genders are actually hairy and bald.
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