#but that’s something else

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

I think we all need a reminder that everyone involved in everything going on right now is human, and is doing what they think is the right thing to do, either for themselves or for their friends and family or for the world. Yes Israel the state is supporting a genocide but Israeli people are humans with friends and families and jobs and yes many are in the military because it’s required by the government. And yes other countries in the Middle East are attacking Israel but also those countries are made up of people who are horrified at what is happening to people they see as kin and feel a desperate need to protect. And yes the US elected someone who is agreed upon in intellectual and liberal circles to be a terrible choice for the country and the world at large, but the people of the country are desperate and feel as though Biden has failed them and want and need to blame someone, anyone, because then the problem is fixable. And also our president elect is a human being who is doing what he thinks is what the country wants, and is trying to realize unrealistic dreams and is trying to protect his friends from what he sees as an attack and has been shot at multiple times and has survived each time but not unscathed. And Biden is a man who is suffering from health issues and who wanted so badly to help the country and did what he could and in the end it wasn’t enough, and he tried so hard but couldn’t continue forward. And Kamala Harris was desperate and felt the pressure to not let Trump get elected and mistakenly assumed that liberals would vote for her no matter what, and so she attempted to bring people she hoped would understand to her side. And many leaders and countries and people have failed the people they have power over. And many people voted or supported or continue to vote for and support people who they are desperate for the victory of and on all sides, we are forgetting that we are all human beings. We all breath the same steadily declining air, and we all have people we care about and people we want to help and people we hate and people we want to hurt and people we blame for all of our problems and people who caused at least some of them. And we, as a society, are forgetting that all of these people we blame could easily have been us, if we had a different skin color, if we had a different childhood, if we had a different socioeconomic class, because at our core we are made of the same material components. And just because the people fighting against us have forgotten this, or are ignoring this, or never knew this in the first place, doesn’t give us the right to do the same to them. Hating people is human. Feeling anger and rage and wanting revenge is human. But once we decide that we are human and they are monsters, we have all lost. And I am NOT saying you have to be kind to the people who spit in your face. I am NOT saying you need to reach out a hand to people who want you dead. I am saying that we need to remember that we all care, and we all cry, and we all bleed, and if you can find it in yourself to understand, not forgive, certainly not forget, but understand, then maybe there’s hope that we won’t all fall apart in the end.

[curiosity-killed]

I do not think my brain was made for jobs that require so much time on PowerPoint

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[starridge]

from the same six hour drawing session where i devolved into hyperfixation-based madness

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x05 - “Blisters and Bedrock”

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[eydilily]

small victories ^^

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[hanjoj]

their ship name might as well be theseus the way there's not a single original characteristic left there

[dilfslayer1080p]

"he died for our wins" - 2024, LIDL Oil paint on LIDL canvas

[greykolla-art]

My blog has become infested with angst goblins, and they must be fed with some hypothetical scenarios!🙏💚

[dorothygale]

i'll just be controversial and say discord is not real social media. it's a fine communication platform but it is not Posting! saying you're gonna move to discord is like saying you're gonna move to facebook messenger get outta here