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Twitter: The Comic is a collection of comics based on the greatest tweets of our generation. The source material is used verbatim, typos and all. Despite the seemingly random nature of the tweets, the comic has reoccurring characters and story arcs that aren’t fully understood unless experienced through a single reading. With explicit permission from the writers of each comic, Twitter: The Comic could be a pretty rad book.

#I laughed at all of these

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#some of the body stuff is not much fun #but boy howdy does it become easier to put things into perspective that makes any particular event less huge and stressful #stuff that would've sent me reeling in my twenties is so much easier to just absorb painlessly #now that i understand that you do get to the other side and it will eventually be okay and everything is not over just because it seems bad #all the things that older people try and tell younger people but that don't actually make sense until you live through it #but i will tell you all anyway that it gets better and things will eventually be okay and there is an other side to reach

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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes

#i wouldn't put it past him tbh #posts that made me ask my husband about tumblr culture #specifically is neil banging out the tunes on april 13 just a tumblr thing? #he says yes

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Only the long-time Captain America fans on AO3 can possibly understand how completely stoked I was tonight to talk with my 101-year -old client about bananas. I may just be history's greatest nerd.

(Incidentally, he was also pretty stoked that somebody finally confirmed his apparently long-held belief that bananas do not taste as good as they used to.)

#bananas #archive of our own #if you really want to know check out mistake on the part of nature on ao3 #by idiopathicsmile #it is the most kudosed fic in the captain america fandom #it is about the banana thing #gros michel vs cavendish

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A tribute to Oscar the Grouch set to Love to Hate Me by Blackpink

crossposted to AO3 here

#normally I scroll past the blazed posts #but this is relevant to my interests #and it made me laugh

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One time I asked my mom (in her 70s) whether she, personally, knew any people in so-called "traditional marriages." I defined a "traditional marriage" as follows:

A man and a woman, married to each other

They are both each other's first and only spouse, neither has been married before

Neither of them has any children with any other partner

Any children they have were born after the couple was married.

After thinking about it, my mom was able to come up with a few examples of such couples. But only a few. And she had to think about it.

Yet we still live in a society where this type of family is considered "the norm" and the much more common types (blended families, single parents, divorced people) are considered "exceptions."

And this is not the only thing like this! There are many experiences/lifestyles/family types that are treated as The Default or The Norm that, in fact, may not apply to a majority at all!

Even in discussions like "We should remember that not everyone has [normative experience]," it's still framed as though the normative experience is, of course, still the statistical norm. It might not be at all! Or maybe it is the statistical norm worldwide, or nationwide, but not in your particular community, or your social circle.

Sometimes it's necessary to look at global or national statistics to correct your bias of extrapolating from your social circle. Social bubbles are a real problem. But. But. Other times. It's useful to just look at your social circle and ask yourself "Do these population-wide statistics really apply here? Should I be looking at them to determine what's 'normal' instead of just looking around me?"

So here are some things that are culturally assumed in the U.S. to be "the norm", that you might want to ask yourself: How many people do I know personally that this is actually true of? (Other countries have their own maybe-not-that-normal norms that I'm not as familiar with, but feel free to weigh in on).

How many people do you know personally who:

Have a "traditional marriage" as described above?

Have a work schedule of Monday through Friday, ending at 5:00 p.m.? i.e. for whom Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings after 5:00 are "not at work" time?

Attended residential college from ages 18 to 22, and graduated with a bachelor's degree by age 23?

Had most or all of their college tuition and living expenses paid for by their parents?

Have, as an adult, the same surname as both of their parents, who were and still are, married to each other? Which was their father's surname which their mother took at marriage? i.e. whose parents could accurately be referred to as "Mr. and Mrs. [that persons' same surname]"?

Don't take any regular daily medicine?

Depending on your social circle, you might know very few people in these categories! But you probably still hear people say unquestioned, taken-for-granted things like "We should have the meeting at 6:00, so people can come after work," or "Of course parents of college students should have a say, since they're paying for it."

In many demographics, these things aren't just "not always true"; they're hardly if ever true. I wrote here about the false assumption that college students are uniformly single, childless young adults. Are you scheduling your events on the assumption that evenings and weekends are free time? For that matter, how many child care providers serve families during the hours that most parents actually work? Are we ready to admit that these things aren't the norm yet?

#feelin hella called out for my normcore life rn #lol #I do take daily medicine but would argue that at 42 that’s extremely normcore #am I the fabled statistical inlier? #(I am assuming that took-husband’s-name-at-marriage is a suitable substitute for kept own birth surname in the normal Olympics

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this whole mutual thing is overhyped on this site. want to send me an ask off anon? do it. want to tag me in a post? do it. follower, mutual, or just random person who stumbled across my blog: I crave interaction and literally do not mind.

#amen to this #mutuals is a fake idea #just ping me

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#small mop learns mopping from bigger and more elegant mop #fluffy kittens are disasters and I love them

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yesterday i learned that mannequins with nipples cost the same as mannequins without nipples. today i saw three cheese ravioli priced the same as four cheese ravioli. these are but some of the innate contradictions of capital.

#the magical point of inflection where exactly as many consumers hate mannequin nipples as love them

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#me all day

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Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"

#is it an April Fool? #Hard to say #a bop for booping certainly

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You have been booped by this empty wrapping paper tube.

Reblog to boop all of your followers with it.

#apollo's dodgeboop

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#the story of tonight

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Me: Okay, it's time for bed. Tumblr: Wait don't go. You can hit people for free.

#i was literally closing tabs for bed when i saw the new button #ah well these things happen

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LMAO, I just booped CatTimesWithJellie, my fandom alt, and got a notification:

"Congrats, you just booped yourself."

Awfully judgy Tumblr, I have to say. I've been around since 2013, I KNOW where you've been.

#boop

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love when tumblr just randomly adds enrichment (new buttons) to our enclosures

#yessssss

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UPDATE: BOOPED TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN, ACCIDENTALLY FOLLOWED A STRANGER'S BLOG INSTEAD OF BOOPING.

EMBARRASSING

I AM FURIOUSLY BOOPING ALL OF YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU AND I LOVE BUTTONS