Things Tumblr needs: unlimited asks, +500kb gif size, more photosets layouts, chance to tag hyphens, chance to USE hyphens in urls without tricks, replies notifications, instant messaging, option to know when someone’s online
Things Karp gives us: fanmail
this post from early 2012 is a remarkable artifact, since almost all these features have since been introduced, and even people who were here for it barely remember fanmail
there is a thing about photographers in the pacific northwest where they’ll post a photo of some mossy trees and describe it with words like “primeval” or “primordial” or “old growth.” and i, having grown up in a town that has an old sawmill that has been closed for longer than i have been alive, can look at those photos and see that each and every tree is one that i could put my arms around, even if my fingers wouldn’t necessarily touch on the other side.
and there’s just something about moss as the aesthetic bandage that covers over the sins of the pnw’s colonial deforestation, the idea that people come in and take pictures and ooh and aah over the moss and sword ferns and tell themselves this is what Untouched Wilderness is/should look like, while a guy whose family got rich off that deforestation is presently the mayor of Oregon’s biggest metropolitan area.
and i’ve said before (and will say again) that not all logging is bad, that there are times when it is even necessary (to control disease, to thin crowded stands) but the logging industry is one that came to be here and thrived here through vile means, and if you know what you’re looking at there’s not enough moss in the world to cover that up.
moss can’t hide the photo of my great grandfather posing with his saw next to a felled tree with a diameter wider than he is tall. moss can’t hide trees that are small enough that members of the crew that replanted them are probably still alive.
all the moss in those photos tells you is that for now, at least, it’s still raining.
genuinely about to cry at the word for france in te reo māori. so like. almost every country name is just the english name but altered to only have letters that exist in te reo (so like canada = kānata, norway = nōwei etc) except france that is literally just fucking. wīwī. as in ouioui. imgoing to fucking die
if you were a teenaged transmasc on tumblr betwixt the years of 2013-2015 your only name options were dave newt or alex thats it. nowadays you open a he/they/its bio and see anything from ebenezer to jpeg. and i think thats beautiful
good news! your stomach is super dumb! it can’t tell who chewed your food, and if you shove three cups of Qdoba salsa down your throat all your guts are going to see is a boatload of potassium and vitamin A/C!
also this isn’t even some lifehack to trick your brain this is literally how food works, diet/ED and clean-eating culture has fucked us all up and made us believe that fruits and veggies only count if they’re pure, unadulterated & bland, and that by having them with “”“unhealthy”“” things like cheese and salt and bread (or even by blending them together to make them tasty) you’re negating every positive health effect they have - this is bullshit!!! salsa and guac are fruit and veg, and having well-seasoned extremely nutrition-filled veggie-bombs alongside other necessary parts of our diet like dairy fats and carbohydrates is how food is Supposed To Work!!!
I said the above like six years ago and I still get people fuming about it. I said there’s nutrition in everything and they cannot fucking stand that idea because their entire lifestyle is based on shunning things that taste good and feeling smug about it. Hate to say most of you health bozos out there did nothing but torture yourself for nothing.
And if I die, I die. And I shall join my brothers and sisters in Valhalla where I belong!
Ok but guys, in all seriousness, this is exactly why you should get the HPV vaccine. We have a vaccine that literally protects you from getting throat cancer from eating pussy, and yet there are supposedly straight men walking around without it. It’s a shame and an embarrassment, and everyone who enjoys pussy in any form should get vaccinated, genuinely.
The blatant sexism though lmao you can get throat cancer/HPV from sucking dick too. And STILL, because HPV is most well known for causing cervical cancer, the HPV vaccine is mostly recommended to people with cervixes. HPV can cause throat, vulvar, rectal, cervical, and other cancers. Not just throat and cervical cancer. PLEASE get your HPV vaccines regardless of your sex, gender, orientation, etc etc etc. Go to your doctor or local health department!!
you see harry potter was actually extremely derivative of earthsea in a miriad of ways not only is it about a wizarding school that young magicians have to leave home and travel to in order to study magic but the main character is also an extremely talented boy with facial scarring and he is taught by several wise old sorcerers who are extremely similar to dumbledore wait where are you going i havent even explained the magic system yet or the gravity with which it’s treated or the anti colonial anti white supremacist ideology driving the worldbuilding which was extremely ahead of its time for the high fantasy genre don’t go
knock knock hi how are you today i was wondering if i could have just a moment of your time to discuss the fact tht in 1969 ursula k le guin published a novel named the left hand of darkness that was such a masterwork of science fiction that it is widely considered to be a literary classic and while what it is *about* is debatable it could be argued that the book is positing that the idea we have as a society of gender as an immutable and unchangeable “fact” of reality is harmful, degrading and restrictive and is something we should interrogate further wait don’t shut the door
Is the general populace not aware of the honey he gay tweet. Has it been that long
Remember your history
To everyone replying with variations of ‘is this real it feels absurd’ yes it is real yes it is absurd please remember that this is the actual first time Rick Riordan ever called Nico gay. This is the canon confirmation.
bat at hornets nest maybe but “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” refers to low income communities needing to choose between survival vs being eco friendly. not you continuing to watch the harry potter movies
