Shoutout to Percy Jackson for being a kids book that straight up murdered the abusive step dad instead of doing some bullshit redemption arc where they have to forgive him
actually you know what’s especially cool? it’s a retelling of a myth in which perseus straight-up murders his abusive stepdad, and in this version the Big Change there was that instead, he gave his abused mom the opportunity to do the murder herself, on her own terms, when she was good and ready, which was very cash money of rick riordan if I do say so myself
Tony Hawk is like fucking Perry the Platypus because if I saw him without a skateboard I’d be like “A man” and the second he picks up a skateboard I’d be like “TONY HAWK?!?!?!?!?!”
Illustrations of two different species of lionfish. The first is commonly known as the “red lionfish” even though it looks less red than the second, which is commonly known as the “common lionfish”.
Full text with many other colorful illustrations of fish available here.
old tumblr things that I still feel like are tumblr things despite them being obsolete for years
Moon Moon
“IT’S TRANSPARENT”
mishapocalypse
that time the color of the website changed from one shade of blue to a slightly darker shade of blue
supernatural fandom having a gif for everything
the Great Skeleton War
“can you make that ask reblogable?”
the onceler fandom
people unironically calling David Karp “daddy”
“yahoo paid $1 billion for this”
the moreos guy
do you love the color of the sky?
“WHAT IS AIR”
when people were fighting over that gif of a bird falling in a chocolate fountain and people thought it was real and the bird died but it was actually a fake bird
“what if tumblr was a school?”
the superwholock fandom
hipster vs. fandom blogs
like seriously, there was so much hatred between hipster and fandom blogs and now hipster blogs are basically aesthetic blogs
John Green
tumblr user pizza
“I always follow back”
fanmail instead of a messaging system
reaction gifs
“I like your shoelaces”
“Thanks, I stole them for the President”
gif vs. jif
“I CAN’T, I HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO CAN”
people HATED Miranda Cosgrove
and Nicolas Cage
the like and reblog buttons were at the top of a post
What the hell was the Great Skeleton War??!
the Great Skeleton War of October 2014
everyone was off their shits that Halloween and it’s my only fond memory of this website
btw this was only a partial listing of the many Artemis facts imparted to me by this very good small child. I told her Athena was always my favorite so she also told me some Athena facts.
her dad gave me a look like ‘thank u for being patient’ and I tried to convey with mostly eyebrow moments ‘oh please I WAS this kid, only for ancient Egypt and also Marguerite Henry books’ but i’m not sure it got across
me, helping a little girl pick out a locket at the shop: do you usually like to wear goldtone or silvertone?
little girl: I like silver because of Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt and also she’s a warrior and she never got married.
me, internally: never let the world change you
I just blocked at least three people in the notes on this for being snidely superior calling it fake.
REALLY? Really?
It’s that fucking difficult to believe “a child who was interested in Greek Mythology talked about it enthusiastically with an adult who was paying attention to her”? And then the parent appreciated that the other adult was nice to his kid?
THAT’S your cut-off for unbelievable?
Do you know zero children, or are you just being a dick on purpose? Or were you just a boring-ass kid? OR are you just a dick to children who try to engage with you?
My husband teases me because I will unintentionally make friends with children in public ALL THE TIME. LITERALLY all it takes is if a kid says something to you, even of you already know about it, you go “wow, really?” And smile and nod while they excitedly gibber away.
Most kids aren’t used to adults listening to them. If you show (or feign) genuine interest with what a kid is talking about, letting them feel smart and knowledable for a few minutes, you have won them over FOREVER.
That sounds really damn creepy. Not gonna lie. You’re an adult you have no right talking to strange children.
I don’t really know how to explain to you that not every interaction between adults and children is inherently predatory? Like, for example, standing in line next to a family in Disney World and having a kid talk to you about Oswalt the Rabbit while their mother stands next to him isn’t “really creepy.” It’s a normal human interaction, particularly if you view kids as, like…people? Sometimes kids will try to talk to you, even if they don’t know you, and there are appropriate and normal ways to respond to kids when they do.
But, if YOU feel like YOU can’t interact with children without being creepy, then by all means, please avoid doing so.
