It's insane to me that there's still people who genuinely believe 'love' exists solely in the romantic form. That 'finding love' means 'finding a partner' or 'being loving' means 'being romantic'. "You can't say we exist for love because you can't tie humanity to one emotion" love ISN'T just one emotion. It's a feeling, yes, but it's also an experience, it's a choice in some ways and not in others it's a lifestyle it's inevitable it's a presence. Love is platonic, love is romantic, it's familial, it's friendly, it's strange. Love is compassion it's complimenting a stranger on the internet because their art is pretty it's making friends in unlikely places it's enjoying the good in the world it's a smile it's laughter it's walking your dog at midnight it's whistling back at the birds. Love exists in so many forms and permeates so many different kinds of relationships, not just with other people, but also with animals, with the sky, with the trees, with space, with the ocean, with ideas, with creations. We do exist for love. Because love does not exist in one form, and neither do we.

in my version of the third season of Ted Lasso (and beyond) Trent Crimm moved away from newspaper reporting to do things like the Beckham documentary

whoever long ago rec’d me The Fall of Rome by AcrylicMist. thank you. holy FUCK, what an AMAZING fic. 

finally upgraded from my little suitcase turntable and holy fucking shit. i get it now.

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im jsut saying. her end of year message 2 her mom would be so depressing, like i want 2 believe she’d send a voice message that eventually gets heard by her mom but? no, i’m going to make it worse. i think she rarely texts her mom bc she thinks calling is a much easier means of reaching her, even if the result is still the same, and yet this would absolutely be one of those unsent text type deals

it’d be the same for luci, but i don’t think she’s probably texted him since her like... teen years u know. anyways what im saying is she’d equally write an excited end of year text message and they’d taper off into smth really sad i.e ‘i wish you understood / listened’ (luci) and ‘i wish you were around’ (lili)

LIKE no i am still on my depressing shit charlie loves her parents so much, and i keep thinking abt her transition from like. being close to luci during childhood to eventually harkening to lilith and despite it all she desperately wants both of their approval in equal measure while trying to not defy the dichotomy between their views and her own. she’s trying to be faithful to her own sense of self

and it hurts raggy

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

Knowledge Revenge.

outcast of the village

i wish there wasn’t such a stigmatized view on platonically loving people.

I can’t call people nicknames and pet names like hun and honey without them immediately assuming i have romantic interest in them.

i can’t tell my friends i love them without adding on “platonically” or shortening the phrase “ily” “love you” “love u”

i love a lot of people. i love my sister, i love my boyfriend, and i love my best friend. All different versions of love.

let us love people openly and honestly without it being seen as “making a move” or being romantically interested.

please please please stop assuming that love is strictly romantic, i promise you life becomes so much brighter and bigger when you stop keeping love strictly romantic.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

Shoutout to my dad for being the funniest person I know

its true that romance amd friendship will not solve everything but. objectively speaking its very hard to get sad when you can say 'lets go get cake tomorrow okay' and someone will go get cake with you. like there is some good at least. you know

So I just watched the fnaf movie

catalysts, protectors

god i wish i wouldn't have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you've been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.

well.

today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year's trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)

jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven't even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.

and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat.

this is a children's game for children btw.

none of the money is real.

i'm having such a good time.