“Are you respecting boundaries out of love or punishment?” This is a video about respecting boundaries of estranged children without framing it as the pain of your abscence being the punishment for walking away from you and towards somewhere that feels safe.
People on tumblr loooove to talk about restorative justice and abolition when it’s a nebulous concept. It’s lovely to think about someone growing and changing and trying to reckon with the harm they caused but when some people actually see that person, they can’t handle it. God forbid someone says “I did something awful and I don’t want people to hurt others the way I did.” Do you just expect every shitty person to magically disappear from the earth? Do you want them to pretend it never happened?
Droodles by Roger Price (from his 1953 book). Droodles (a blend of “doodle”, “drawing”, “riddle”) are simple drawings with a witty, often absurd, caption. The first one, as some of you may know, was used by Frank Zappa for his 1982 album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. (Zappa, a fan of Price’s work, lived just a few miles from the artist and personally sought permission to use the image.)
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Everyone keeps talking about “the writer’s barely disguised fetish”. But I still haven’t heard about “the writer’s barely disguised huge ass pet peeve”
Working at a sex shop has ruined me because I was checking out a booth at a public market selling bone-shaped collar tags that said shit like “I’m lost” and “pet me” and “spoiled” and it wasn’t until I saw “I pee when I’m excited” and thought damn okay kind of hardcore that it even occurred to me that they could be for like. ACTUAL dog collars 😭😭😭
(i attempt the trick where the peasant leans down and kisses the ring off the nobleman’s finger) (my mouth is a distinct square shape when i stand back up) yore majethty
Steve is completely and utterly uninterested and unimpressed with The Upside Down. He doesn’t think it’s cool at all which infuriates Dustin because, “You like science fiction! You like the boring science fiction!!”
“Um, Star Trek is not boring,” Steve scoffs. “And I like it because they trek among the stars, not in goo tunnels that breathe on you.”
“It’s literally another world.”
“No, it’s not. It’s a shittier version of Hawkins,” Steve replies and they both roll their eyes at the other. He mocks, “Whoa, glad I’m on the Earth where everything sucks. So cool. Hope I don’t get eaten by a dog with no face.”
There was a character in a book I read once who was described as “handsomely fat” and that phrase is stuck in my brain forever. The author really was like “no shut up, they’re charismatic, they’re good-looking, they’re handsomely fat. not just handsome AND fat; them being fat is directly contributing to their good looks. you agree.” and they were RIGHT
