My favorite thing about most magical girl anime isn’t just that they’re like “we’ll kick butt and look cutesy while doing it,” but the fact that most of them are like “we’ll kick butt with the power of shameless, unabashed, cutesy femininity.”

I sometimes see “girly” things be put down or seen as weak, and some girls will push away these things because they don’t want to be underestimated by society (though this isn’t always the case. Some girls just don’t like that stuff because it doesn’t suit their personal tastes). But with magical girl anime, this style of femininity isn’t a setback, it’s actually a form of empowerment. They are powerful because of their ‘girliness’, not despite it. And as a not particularly ‘girly’ person, I really like that.

Sparkles and glitter and frilly dresses and excessive amounts of pink are just as cool and powerful as robots and big swords, and I honestly love that.

If I'm being honest right now, I'm kinda worried that I might not enjoy playing as Larry & Lawrie since I tried to play the other thrower in the game (as a way for me to practice and be prepared to main them in-game) and they fucking SUUUUUUCK bro-

Sally getting upset whenever he brothers meet new people and befriend them because why do they need more people? They already have her and the group. Those people are just gonna take their time and then they won't hang out with her anymore.

She doesn't say anything though because she doesn't want her brothers to be lonely

I don't think that's something she'd really need to worry much ab lol

*proceeds to leave out food for the stray pornbots out in the Tumblr street*

Fuck it I'm going to say something controversial. Podiatry majors are the worst and I hate them.

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.

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hey since it's coming up again: no it's not a good thing that the government wants to ban tiktok. no you should not be glad that the government might ban tiktok. no you should not respond to this with "good riddance" or "hurry up I hate that app". I should not have to explain this to you but the government banning a social media app is still a bad thing even if you don't like the UI or booktok or having to say "unalive" or how you think it's killing the very notion of attention spans. It's still bad. It's bad.

Tumblr: No NSFW! You know how it is we banned it because of the bots in 2018!

Also tumblr:

Listen man, you guys can't be like "you guys need to be normal about asexuality" and then turn around and get weirdly judgemental when you find out someone doesn't have sex by choice. Like that's weird that some of you do that.

Are you on southern men swing dancing together tiktok?? Huh??? Because I AM

Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:

Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.

In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.

Starting to think a cooler headcanon for Clark’s upbringing might just be that the entire town of Smallville collectively decided to just go with it and accept that Martha and John's kid has superpowers, but we don't talk about it.

Someone's tractor gets stuck and nothing can get it out? "Be a dear and run down to the Kents, would you? Ask for Clark?"

"Why Clark, we need a machine--"

"Run along now."

Or if he kicks too hard and the football vanishes into the upper stratosphere, no it didn't, we all collectively saw it land over there *vague hand movements*

Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.

getting blazed as fuck in public, thinking "boy I sure hope no one knows how high I am right now", and then having the jumpscare of your life when duolingo gives you this notification

Extremely dangerous how "grooming" in the context of child sexual abuse went from being a very specific pattern of isolation and trust-building with the aim of abusing someone to "telling children anything that contradicts their parents' ultra-conservative worldview is grooming" to "selling rainbow flags in a store is grooming" to "literally anyone I don't like is a groomer".

These days the word seems to most often be used by people who don't care about what it actually means and just want an easy "this person is irredeemably evil, kill them now" button.