Silver Tongue

fluffmugger:

biokitty:

unbossed:

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A job that allows one to abuse others with virtual impunity will always attract those who want to and will.

So glad to know we’re giving this technology to a group of people who will almost certainly abuse it to murder people in the worst case scenario and in the best case scenario will allow them to continue arresting innocent civilians for non-violent petty crimes during a global pandemic in a disinfected car.

Yeah as an Aussie I can tell you they absolutely fucking will because they already have

kaijuno:

catie-does-things:

In retrospect, the fact that it was a meme for a good five years that none of us knew what was going to happen in the year 2020 seems oddly prescient.

“haha sorry I don’t have 2020 vision” none of us did :(

gardenvarietycrime:

gardenvarietycrime:

oh to be an ambiguously gendered little personification of winter in a roman mosaic

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ideal self

moonkitty:

moonkitty:

ill never forget how fucking funny the undertale fandom was in 2015

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you have this guy who was practically giftwrapped for tumblr and everybody in 2015 collectively says “no. i want to fuck the funny bone man”

mememic-bry:

lilkims:

new tumblr staff: you’ll eventually have to pay to be on here

all of us:

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(via @radioplays)

hanabira:

jihaad:

jihaad:

jonas brothers on the radio… people watching fruits basket… it’s really 2009 again huh 

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hey guys i’m so sorry

roach-works:

mythaelogy:

NOTHING in classical literature gets me like odysseus introducing himself to the people who are putting him up as “I am Odysseus, known for my many clever tricks and lies” like i would want that man out of my house immediately

what’s extra fun is that in that era, hospitality was an incredibly serious duty of homeowners: they had to take in a traveler, and couldn’t kick him out until he himself had transgressed against them in a really obvious, inarguable way. like, there are legends of gods traveling incognito and cursing people who were inhospitable to them, who turned them away or who didn’t whole-heartedly treat them as honored guests. at the least you were a huge dick for turning away a traveler, and at worst that traveler was a god who turned your whole household into trees or pigs or something. there’s even some funny stories about hosts doing their best to accommodate guests that are being increasingly ridiculous in ways that don’t quite break the social contract, but are really weird and inconvenient. 

the bottom line is that you just can’t kick a guest out once you’ve welcomed him until he’s incontrovertibly wronged you, and by announcing that he’s a liar and a trickster, odysseus is saying: if i wrong you, you’re gonna have a hell of a time proving it. 

so basically odysseus is telling his hapless hosts and fellow guests: i’m not trapped in here with you. you’re trapped in here with me.