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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

#op i am so sorry

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Not sure what's funnier -- someone complaining about me to my assistant manager, or them lying about what I said to them when he was in earshot the whole time.

#my life in retail #ma'am i'm sorry if my 'please don't climb that' sounded like 'control your kids' #but that feels like you telling on yourself a bit

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One of the funnier things about getting older is watching people complain about how the new popular musicians are so much more juvenile than the old popular musicians and the fact that this music is so much worse than the stuff people used to listen to shows how society is decaying, blah blah blah...

but as an old folks, I remember the shit that was popular back in my day, and it was not inherently better than T. Swift, I promise you.

#i will say that if you want to write a sex jam you need to study prince #like those i feel have fallen off since prince was there to bring everyone's game up #otherwise though there's some good stuff and there's a lot of crap and it's always been like this and it always will be #but do not look at the pop music of the 80s and 90s as some kind of epitome of whatever #it was the same as it was now just more guys in eyeshadow

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Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video

#me recognizing the phrase 'divi kubikmetri ūdens' #it's two cubic meters of water so i guess not that hard to pick from loanwords but still

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So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but don’t understand?

Don’t.

I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right, if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit and you wouldn’t even know it.

When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the surface level.

So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later. Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”

If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language. Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the op.

And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares, fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than looking good on a blog.

#misinformation and you #yes exactly

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2316.

I have to write a poem I have to go to bed I have to write a poem so I can go to bed so I can get up in the morning because I have to get up in the morning so I have to go to bed so I have to write a poem I have to write a poem I have to write a poem

#365 #poetry #i mean whatever works

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This post is dedicated to all former Gleeks who to this day still can't listen to several specific songs without expecting them to segue into a mashup with another specific and tangentially related hit

#not a mashup but i can't listen to 'not gonna write you a love song' without hearing dianna agron doing harmonies

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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#elon musk #that is amazing

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#the beastie boys #trans rights #man reading 'so yauch took care of it' still gets me choked up #yauch was a good one may his memory be a blessing

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A young jazz giant enlists André for an eight and a half minute dream. (4.5%) -- "Dream State," Kamasi Washington feat. André 3000

We've got to get out of the pit and onto that yacht! (4.5%) -- "Too Long," Soft Captain

Leave it to Bootsy to find influencers worth listening to. (4.7%) -- "The Influencers," Bootsy Collins, Dave Stewart, Snoop Dogg, Fantaazma, Wiz Khalifa

Must be summer; the (other) boys are back in town, bringing little bandits. (5%) -- "Mazais Bandīts," Citi Zēni

The empress of funk shakes it on the silver screen. (5.9%) -- "Séquences," L’Impératrice

Me finding new weird subgenres for these polls. (7.2%) -- "New Song," Warpaint

Is quilting the funkiest of the fiber arts? Mono and George investigate. (7.9%) -- "Quilted!" MonoNeon and George Clinton

I got a fever, and the only cure is… more triangle! (And disco whistle.) (9.5%) -- "Cinderella," Remi Wolf

Sometimes you just need a seventies psychedelic freakout (10.6%) -- "Obsession '77," Atomic Forest

Vintage South Korean Disco. Timeless Universal Drama. (12.6%) -- "사랑의 절정 (Ecstasy)," Min Hae Kyung

Gonna frug like I never fruged before. (12.8%) -- "Shake!" The Courettes

How to celebrate earning your PhD. in killing the game. (14.9%)-- "Slay," Manal feat. ElGrandeToto

Tagging @xxshadowbabexx.

And that's the list! Honestly, I say this a lot (I mean, look, who likes your music taste more than you do?) but this is a fun playlist. If it was a little bit warmer I would be jamming to this on my way to work with the windows down. Instead, I will have the windows up and still be jamming. Great sunny day music. Great music for turning a gray day sunny. Give it a listen, see what you think.

And I'll see you guys next time!

Had a hard time stopping myself from overthinking this one, but I think we're finally there:

Pick a song from a bad description! You do not have to recognize any of the songs to vote. Just go by vibes. Pick whichever seems funniest to you. Or most relatable. Or whatever floats your yacht. At the end of the week, I will put all the songs in order from the song with the least amount of votes to the song with the most amount of votes, and share the playlist with you.

If you would like to hear the playlist when I'm done, leave a comment or put it in the tags of your reblog (or just write it in the reblog, whatever) and I will tag you when it's finished. If you're too curious and you just have to know about a song, send me an ask and I will answer.

Also, please reblog! The more votes I get, the less ties I get. (Usually. Last time we had three ties. Maybe all the descriptions were just that good, IDK.) But reblog it anyway. Inflict my weird music taste on your friends, followers, and mutuals. It'll be a good time.

Oh, and for those unfamiliar, let Get Smart! teach you how to frug.

#polls #music #bad song descriptions #chaotic girl summer pt. 2 #not sure why i had so much weird computer animation on this one #but we can skip the videos and just listen to the tunes it's fine #and boy are there some tunes on this one #Spotify

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#polls

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Today, April 26, is the International Day of Remembrance of the Chornobyl Disaster.

#chornobyl #art

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A reminder in the year of our lord 2024 that Tumblr has an option to report posts for “election integrity”…. since there’s already a ton of propaganda on here featuring false or misleading info by people who openly say they want Biden/Democrats to lose or Trump to win, maybe consider doing that next time you see some of it on your dash.

(Especially important to do with people who are downplaying the human rights violations of the Russian and Chinese governments, demonizing Ukrainians or Uighurs or Hong Kong democracy activists, or currently, delegitimizing the security concerns around TikTok as “Sinophobia” or something. Be extremely skeptical *especially* of anyone whose issue with Biden is that he’s not pro Russia or pro China enough. Just unfollowed someone for reblogging this crap and blocked and reported the OP.)

#election integrity #disinformation and you #gonna have to keep this in mind because i'm sure i'll be seeing it

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Sees a number of beloved mutuals answer the metal poll that actually they love folks metal, so I offer to you a fav since high school

#korpiklaani #can't go wrong with korpiklaani

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of all forms of forbidden relief, I think the one I love the best is scratching something you know you're not supposed to.

#how did i come out of chicken pox with skin

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This relentless search for signs

That I fear is the foothold

Of my father in me

But if that's the only weight

He left me to carry

Then I guess I got off light

#365 #poetry #i'm in the driveway i just know it'll be gone before i've fed the cat so #going inside now!