i listen to mitski and i hear an online friend i haven’t spoken to in years. i listen to teddy hyde and i hear one i should speak to more. i listen to autoheart and i hear one i occasionally send memes to and they reply with a rainbow

i hear any eurovision and i hear a friend i’ve seen once a year, every year, my whole life. i hear blu & exile and i hear a one i spent one summer with and am clinging onto for dear life. i hear cavetown and i hear a one i spent one summer with and have barely spoken to since

maybe it’s just me but i don’t associate music with my best friends, who i see every day and spend every second with. our tastes have all changed so much over time which is great and i’ve probably got more from them than i realise, but some people remain almost frozen in time for me, when i got to see into their hearts and they gave me a beautiful little piece of their heart that i can revisit whenever i put my headphones on. i wonder if they ever think of me the same way

yeah music is extremely personal but it’s also inextricably linked to the people who shared it with me

yeah music is extremely personal but it’s also inextricably linked to the people who shared it with me

what do you mean i have to do 20 hours of recorded lectures before my exam next week. just because i didn’t go to 10 weeks of lectures

redownloaded tumblr just to repost this bc MY BESTIE MADE IT BIG ON TUMBLR i hope you remember me now you’re famous <3

the ability to say "i dont have a tiktok" in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is "shock, confusion, then this weird 'thats probably a good thing' response" its so fun

another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.

Just learned about history. Appalled

having another regularly scheduled normal one tonight

every time i see slur discourse i think about this post

For all the cheese loving Barbie's, Ken's, they's and thems

you know, one thing that i found extremely refreshing about the Barbie movie is how much it doesn't hate men or masculinity, and instead positions compulsory masculinity as similarly limiting and imprisoning as femininity when it's societally enforced

and i've been really surprised by how many people who have been going "this movie is anti-men, and that's GREAT" when like. it's not anti-men. it's opposed to patriarchy and toxic masculinity, but it extends a great deal of compassion to individual men

not just to magic ken and sugar daddy ken and allan and the other rejected kens, but even to stereotypical ken, who like. causes a lot of the problems in barbieland and leads it. it extends a great deal of empathy for his sense of powerlessness and loneliness

and it would have been very easy for the film to basically just call him an incel and punish him for what he's done by disenfranchising him even further, but it doesn't do that? it says, hey. you need more to your identity than your gender, and there's more to you than being str8

and that's exactly the same weight of the message communicated to barbie, that there's more to her identity than her gender, that there's more to her than her perfect appearance and performance

neither of them have to just be dolls

idk, i enjoyed it as a well-crafted film without finding it like, hugely artistically impactful on me, but that aspect of its gender commentary was incredibly refreshing, and far more nuanced than i'm used to expecting of cisgender creators

and i think it's a real shame for people to interpret that very carefully crafted arc for ken and the other kens and allan as "haha, this movie HATES men and thinks they're STINKY" when like. a lot of work was done to go beyond that sort of very easy reflexive hatred

Shorter conservatives: me, me, me.

Mario creepypasta fundamentally doesn't work because you know what Mario would actually do if we saw some dimension-warping hundred-handed cosmic horror? He wouldn't lose his mind; he'd take one look at that Shin Megami Tensei looking fucker, pull out his dorky little mushroom-shaped cell phone, hit the fourth number down on his contact list, and go "hey, Kirby, I think-a one-a your boys got lost".

Me and the girls are gonna go parading through the squares and streets of Carthage with oiled hair and powdered faces, languid limbs and feminine gait, demanding even from the tradespeople the means of continuing to live in disgrace. Y'all want anything?

knives out for Sunak sounds like the tories are gonna go all

post cancelled i just watched the first episode and amol rajan has got the smugness down already it's like paxman never left

i know the new university challenge host has already been announced but i really think i would've been the perfect replacement for jeremy paxman because i also have an insufferable habit of scoffing incredulously when people don't know obscure things i think are obvious

I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance:

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