It appears that this week is being dedicated exclusively to an arena deathmatch between “Tumblr Sexymen”. Huh. Well, I have no idea what those are, but we wish our sexymen good luck in their deathmatch!
*distant voice*
Wait what?
*distant explanation*
Oh, oh I need to be there?
*distant agreement*
Well listeners! It appears that I am one of these sexymen and have to go to the arena myself!
This seems like a perfect time to go to the Weather.
Still remember when a homo- and transphobic acquaintance tried to bring up JKR’s views on trans people in conversation and I shut it down with «oh yeah she’s been saying a lot of dumb shit on Twitter after she finished writing Harry Potter, like when she claimed Dumbledore was gay, just to be politically correct», which made it absolutely impossible for him to admit that he agreed with anything JKR had ever said. Sometimes you just have to weaponise people’s homophobia against their transphobia.
Other ways to stop family members/acquaintances from going on bigoted rants:
«Isn’t this all a bit silly? I mean, I’m more concerned about the economy/the war in Ukraine/covid/my job» - weaponised whataboutism
«Do you work with a lot of trans people? Because it seems like this is a problem you frequently encounter in everyday life from the way you talk about it» and when they say they don’t, follow up with «well then I don’t see what you’re making such a fuss about»
«Idk, I haven’t been much on social media lately, I think Twitter is a waste of time» - make them feel like they’re the ones who are terminally online
«Idk, I’m not that concernced with other people’s genitals and sex lives» - creep shaming
The point is that I’ve used all of these in various contexts and they’ve saved a good number of dinner table conversations from derailing into pointless debating. You don’t de-radicalise friends and family members by entering into political discussions they initiate just to stir up shit. You de-radicalise them by shifting the focus away from their shitty opinions and onto the things you have in common and the practical everyday stuff that exists outside their internet echo chambers.
im not even joking rn this fucking painting made me start uncontrollably sobbing. Do you know how long it took to paint? How expensive it was? The cat was content for hours and so loved that the girl held him there and paid for him to be painted with her. Imagine having such a bond… imagine being so loved and loving so much back…
Apparently this is almost a genre of painting. Its human nature to love and cradle cats …. And the bond these cats and their people have. To sit together for hours to get a painting to attempt to immortalize the love you two shared
Let me show you these charming paintings by a French artist Léon Comerre! I like to think these ladies were like “me and my kitty look so cute together, we must get a portrait made of us so that everyone knows how we love each other” 💕
(Also, having matching ribbons with your cat is the loveliest idea ever 🎀)
Meanwhile, I’m a fan of this Gainsborough, where, if you squint, you can see the outline of a furious cat who was not about to be in this portrait:
what fucks me up about polls is that the feature should have rolled out on a seniority basis. I’ve been on this website for 12 years! I’ve done my time! Where’s my reward for loyalty! Jail, jail for tumblr for not respecting their elders
i cannot believe cecil gershwin palmer has the ability to make music play very loudly wherever and whenever he wants by introducing “the weather”. like it isn’t just during the radio breaks he does it irl to distract a mob in a later episode. this is infinitely funny to me if only because it’s one of the most random and completely useless superpowers a man can have in a town full of angels, talking river rocks and other weird and powerful magic. maureen gets the ability to switch between dimensions and he gets to be a human radio
That one time Steve Carlsberg offhandedly mentioned how annoying it was to talk to Cecil because everytime he didn’t want to listen to you he would just start talking about the weather and then you had to shout over music comming from nowhere.
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