Amorphous Blob

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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
transmechanicus
noctumsolis

When I think about American attitudes to parenting there's something that always comes to mind, but I don't know whether it's a real thing. All my life in American films and TV I've heard child characters addressing their dads as "sir" or being told off for not doing so.

Is that really a commonplace thing in American families, or is it just a shorthand way of showing that the character is a shitty dad?

calling dads sir, in the US

It's real and I've seen it first hand

I it's how I was raised

shitty-dad shorthand

it's real outside the US

Vanilla extract

noctumsolis

There's still time to increase the sample size!

not exclusively sir but i was gotten on to for not saying yes sir/ma'am its a southern thing
stardial
elbiotipo

Me: Did you know that medieval cathedrals weren't actually supposed to be dark and rundown places with only stained glass as color? They were bright places full of light... the reason they look like that now is because of the centuries of accumulated grime and dust, here look at this restoration of the Cathedral of Chartres in France:

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It's based on actual paint from the times, and when you think about it, it makes a lot more sense, after all a church is supposed to be a bright place of hope. Yet when we think about the middle ages we think about grimy and dark cathedrals. I wonder how much of our conception of history is shaped by our current visions of historical buildings.

My Goth GF: listen, I don't think this thing between us is working,

seananmcguire

a meditation on boundaries

theunitofcaring

i. 

Back when I thought I was straight I would go on dates with boys. The boys would usually want to kiss me. I disliked kissing, but I thought that their preferences deserved to count as much as mine, and I reasoned that they probably liked kissing more than I disliked kissing. So kissing was a morally good thing to do. I also reasoned that if I told them I disliked the kissing then they’d feel guilty and enjoy it less. So I did not tell them. 

I am certain I was making some kind of critical error but it has taken me a long time to figure out what it might be.

ii.

I like cuddling. I know some straight girls who like cuddling with their straight female friends but don’t want to cuddle with people who might be attracted to them because it makes them uncomfortable. But they don’t want to explicitly tell me this preference because they’re worried it’s homophobic. Ever since I learned that this dynamic was present in at least one friendship of mine I have not cuddled with any straight girls because there’s a plausible scenario in which I’d be making them uncomfortable and they wouldn’t tell me

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lilietsblog

So this is a very long post and I love it but I know some people don’t read posts this long so I’m going to write out the thing I took away from this which is a very great thing.

Even if your preferences are influenced by ‘societal bias’, you don’t have to violate them.

If something physically intimate is making you uncomfortable, you don’t have to keep doing it even if it’s just because your brain has been indoctrinated.

Your bodily autonomy and right to be comfortable trumps everything, and other people have no right to your body, no matter what their needs.

If you violate/ignore your own boundaries, or feel obligated to do it, it will end up worse, it will end up doing more harm in the end than any accidental microaggression that results from enforcing them.

You should strive to not be an asshole about it.

But keeping your own body to yourself is not being an asshole, not ever.

seananmcguire
janemorris

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

janemorris

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

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people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

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janemorris

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couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now