kit . 30s . they/she . genderqueer . pansexual . polyamorous this blog is a dumping ground of whatever I like [ bluesky . ao3 . rambles . my art ] I'm just a cat on the internet
❝Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.❞
─Thomas Merton
Breaking: TikTok is better bc it’s more hostile towards humanity
The lack of video content is what kept us here… I thought we all agree that the best feature of this hellhole was and always will be anonymity.
Tumblr’s not asking for my phone number. It’s not going through my contacts to try and connect me with my fucking colleagues. I can come here and talk about whatever I want without anyone ever seeing my face or hearing my voice. I don’t have to censor myself and hide my interests or enthusiasm out of fear of consequences it might have in my real life.
I think the biggest misunderstanding they have of Tumblr is that they think of it as a social media platform when in actuality it’s a blogging platform with social features.
I like the use of Metroman here because if there’s one thing Tumblr users collectively agree on it’s that we want everyone to think we’re dead
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wish we were still on Tumblr instead of the void
reasons i stay on tumblr dot com
offers a variety of post types
desktop browser accessible
customizable features for those inclined
is famously difficult to monetize, so people here post for the love of the game
in fact, the ads are often so hilariously bad i’ve thought some were shitposts and have tried to reblog them
no shop feature that encourages random people to become advertisements, leading to 60% of posts becoming a shill for landfillslop
has never asked me for my contacts
has never asked me to turn on location services
is not subject to the liquid panopticon of turning neighbor against neighbor (e.g republican kirk witchhunt)
large amount of text based posts that can allow for nuance and discussion
the unique and organic community that is here. tiktok tried to recreate goncharov and it sucked and was just some girl’s attention promo. the years long inside jokes. the site-specific holidays. dracula daily and jokes about classic lit.
the rejection of infantilizing, self censoring euphemisms like unalive or grape
seeing the posts from people i follow in chronological order
nobody i know to see me engage in “cringe” interests
I love the incredibly fair and functional justice system in Ace Attorney
It was written as a parody of the fairly corrupt Japanese legal system, exaggerated for both humour and gameplay reasons, giving us such lovely gems as:
They don’t have manslaughter
It’s never stated outright to my knowledge, but it’s generally implied that the penalty for murder is universally or near-universally the death penalty
Trials are legally mandated to go on no longer than three days, no matter how complicated they can get. The lab analysis for a poison isn’t completed in three days? You can’t use it in the poisoning trial. Your witness can’t be tracked down on the last day? We go to the verdict without their testimony.
Everyone is assumed guilty until proven innocent. The defense attorney has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, within 3 days, that their client could not possibly be guilty, or they’re gonna get a GUILTY verdict
In practical terms, this means that if your client is innocent, you have to not only prove that but usually find the actual killer within the three days to show it’s a different person. This isn’t officially mandated as part of the defense’s duties but in pretty much every case it’s what Phoenix has to do to exonerate his client, even if he’s otherwise proven the killer couldn’t be (or is extremely unlikely to be) his client.
Both sides can just show up to the courtroom with new evidence and demand it’s accepted as evidence during the trial. There’s no verification process for this and no requirement that the other side has access to it pre-trial. You can show up with a letter in hand and halfway through the trial be like “this letter was found in the victim’s apartment!” and it becomes part of the case then and there.
There are no restrictions on where or how you can find evidence. You, a defense attorney who doesn’t work for the police force and has no equivalent of warrant law, can break into a witness’ house and steal evidence from his personal safe to show in court the next day. This is not a crime apparently.
It’s normal and accepted that the prosecution will coach all witnesses, usually telling them to lie. It’s a huge advantage when you get to interrogate a witness who the prosecution hasn’t been able to tell what lies to tell yet. They never face repercussions for this.
The prosecution will frequently falsify evidence. They receive no punishment for this and are allowed to continue practicing law. Witnesses will regularly lie on the stand; they receive no penalty for this and the rest of their testimony is still considered reliable. It’s up to the defense attorney to expose every single lie; if you can’t prove a word against your client is a lie, even from the mouth of a known liar, then your client must be guilty of it.
All of your trials are overseen by the same judge and he is comically incompetent. This isn’t an oversight of the game he is deliberately written to suck at his job, be easily bullied by the prosecution, generally have very little idea what’s going on and issue his verdict based on Vibes.
The lawyers will straight up make bets mid-trial with each other like “if you can’t find a problem with this next witness’ testimony, you have to admit that you’re wasting our time and the verdict will be Guilty”. The judge lets them do this. This is considered practicing law. Prosecutors will also physically assault other lawyers and the judge in the courtroom but this is okay because it’s funny.
The cops work directly for the prosecuting attorney and the prosecuting attorney will openly threaten police witnesses right there on the stand in front of everyone if the witness isn’t saying what the prosecution wants them to.
The level of corruption in the prosecutor’s office is just. I couldn’t describe it in a bullet point. Prosecutors are straightup hitmen for hire and their weapon of choice is the death penalty.
Phoenix gets physically assaulted and robbed by prosecutors and witnesses a lot more than one would reasonably expect. Someone’s always there to beat this poor lawyer unconscious and steal evidence from him. He never makes backup copies. That’s not the legal system’s fault but dude buy a photocopier for your office.
Guess who’s about to get tased and robbed in the police precinct evidence room by a highly respected and successful prosecutor!
Guess who didn’t make photocopies of the evidence that’s about to get stolen!
Wait wait lemme add some things
Prosecutors have full access to crime scenes and it is implied that they lead the police investigations
Defense attorneys are not supposed to engage with the crime scene or investigate at all! (Hence why phoenix has to worm his way in or break into crime scenes to get evidence)
It is expected that all evidence AND witnesses come from the prosecution. The fact that Phoenix brings in his own evidence and witnesses is *weird*
It is implied that not only do trials have to end in three days, but if a trial lasts that long everyone is very confused and miffed about it. The judge was very torn about having to go a second day on one trial bc he made dinner plans
False evidence is solved by “whoops, I’m sorry, I didn’t know” on the side of the prosecution.
False evidence from the defense can result in the attorney being disbarred even if the false evidence came from the prosecution in the first place
There is a game where defense attorneys literally get the same sentence as their defendant (put to death) and thats why [insert place here] has no lawyers anymore
Apparently the defense is allowed to have random citizens join them at the bench as legal advisers. These legal advisers happen to sometimes be an 8 year old
full dishwasher kind of annoying actually. release me
🔲 tupperware follow
can we all agree that handwash onlys are attention seeking? you’re using the same dish soap as the rest of us but you need a sponge bath because you’re too good for a shower
🍳 cast-iron following
op some people will die if they’re washed with soap at all. unlike certain plastic divas dishes that claim to be “top row only” like that makes a fucking difference.
The standoff with agents happened on Jan.8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”
My grandma built bombs for the allies during WW2, became a nurse after the war, and outlived three husbands, and unfortunately 3 or her 7 children.
She is in her mid-90’s now and with her walker still gets in a mile walk each morning.
One time when I was young, dumb, and in my “nihilism” phase I made some grand statement about nothing ever mattering, and rather than chastise me or laugh at me she instead told me about her life and how even the littlest thing can matter in the long run.
I didn’t want to believe it then cause I was all up in my own feels, but as an adult now I think about that conversation at least once a week.
My maternal grandmother crawled out of her window of her family’s house to go to school after her father burned her school books and locked her in her room.
She became a teacher out of spite.
My mother, and all of my siblings and I have college degrees, not because of the typical millennial things, but because an education was something my grandmother actively fought to have and she’d be damned if her kids and grandkids wouldn’t also have the best education we could manage.
She always told me: “An education is something no one can take away. A man might take all of your money and your things. He might ruin your name and throw you out on the curb, but with an education you can go to another town and get a job to provide for yourself and your kids.”
If you have ever known anyone with a kink for being hit, or beat up, or raped and you’re okay with them, you also gotta be okay with the people who’s kink it is to do the hitting, the beating, or the raping. At the end of the day, we’re adults playing pretend, and that’s it.
With every single sub i have the first thing we ever do is establish the safe word (stoplight system), and the non-verbal safe word in case they can’t talk for any reason. If I can’t tell where the sub is at, I will ask them point blank what is their color, and if they can’t give a response, we stop. The goal is to make the other person feel good, including pain, and the most important part us knowing your subs limits and LISTENING to them. I will *never* hurt a sub in a way that they have not explicitly expresssed interest in.
Makes sense to me. The “getting hit” kink requires a “hitting” kink. It’s like Transformers. Megatron can’t exist without Optimus Prime.
yes Steve, its exactly like Megatron and Optimus Prime from Transformers
I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
At least according to the old continuity, the Wookiees were skilled explorers, and their Clatuuvac Guild had the secrets to a number of hyperspace routes, especially through the Core (it’s why the Separatists were so keen to take the planet in Revenge of the Sith)… And Chewbacca was one of the people who knew these hyperspace routes.
So the Millennium Falcon being the fastest smuggler ship in the galaxy? About half of that is down to Han’s modifications, the fact that he drives like crazy, and the fact that he’s almost as good as he thinks he is. The other half? Is just Chewie knowing a bunch of shortcuts, which he got from all the classified information he knew when he was a commander.
Look, if the respected commander wants to bring his rescue human along, so be it. Even if said rescue is poorly socialized.
