part of the reason why the whole "men/boys are taught not to cry!!!! its so sad for them!!!!" thing bothers me is because so many women i know went through childhood and young adult life staring into the middle distance in order to be taken seriously as people. its devastating to learn as a child that crying is associated with "femininity" weakness and hysteria and to witness all around you how these farcical patriarchal claims are used to dismiss women's distress. different human emotions being assigned specific genders and "feminine emotions" specifically being belittled and degraded can actually make women recoil from them in order to be treated like a person, isn't that funny

Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)

“Bittern’s wings: study showing both sides” - watercolor on vellum, in the manner of Albrecht Dürer - 1515

they should add a fishing minigame to tumblr

when dean says "last time someone looked at me like that i got laid" he's being vicious

you may think your only options are

but in fact you can

tumblr is the low dopamine social media fr

I have been sleepified. I have been hit with the eebies

“You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

genuinely think i might stop reading the news entirely. this is so dire

I'm "checking my tumblr bio to remember how old I am" years old now apparently