#cannot recommend

[dukeofankh]

My pastor dad: I heard from this lesbian researcher on a podcast that a lot of "gay" people are actually some variety of bisexual.

Me: ...and what did you take from that?

Dad: ...you can take a lot of things from that.

Me: What did you take from that.

Dad: (who has in the past used his platform to support gay conversion therapy): well...that things are a lot more fluid than they seem.

Me: Yeah. They are. A lot of queer identity stuff is actually super nuanced.

Dad: Yeah!

Me: We don't usually tell Christians that.

Dad: Why not?

Me: Ask yourself whether you can be trusted with nuance.

#ex-christian #deconversion #religious trauma #being queer while having parents #cannot recommend

[two-crabs]

highlights from the goats concert also for posterity:

full band 'minnesota' that rocked so fucking hard

again that 2 piano matt and john 'wear black' that shifted something in me

live jazz 'no children' before john was like "wait that's not the time signature for this song" and slamming into the original version

'cry for judas' probably twice as fast as the studio version, excellent for yelling

(and here i will shout out the absolutely stunning angelic individual a few folks down from me at the people fence, they were so tall and had such perfect curly blonde hair, and i kept looking over at them when i didn't know the words bc they were always singing along)

'damn these vampires' was another absolute barn-burner

followed immediately by "this is a song about when someone has their hands around your throat....and you like it" like what a fucking intro to 'choked out' which i personally believe should always be played twice

like truly "worried look on the face of the ring side nurse/at one for once with the universe" is the "cellar door" of mountain goats discography and hearing a whole venue singing it gave me goosebumps

BEST PART the openers were local-ish and were so fun and charismatic and had such a relationship with the crowd and obviously the mountain goats and when they played 'this year' as a closer they brought pool kids back on stage to sing and dance it out with them and it was so fucking fun

#:))))))) #the mountain goats #and THEN i drove home through the mountains for 2 hours in the middle of the night #cannot recommend #also i'm pretty sure i got double charged at the parking garage #but what can ya do

[copperbadge]

I feel like Screamin’ Sicilian has some quality control work yet to do on their pizza roll offerings. 

(In addition to being leaky they are absolutely vile-tasting -- dry, oily, bland -- but I was mostly impressed with how every single one of them managed to explode in a moderate oven after 10 minutes, with 10 minutes still to go on the bake.) 

[ID: A photograph of a quarter-sheet pan with a silpat sheet on it, containing five objects that look faintly like eggrolls; every one of them either has a hole in it through which orange cheese is leaking, or is sitting in a puddle of caramelizing cheese sauce.]

#food #screamin sicilian #cannot recommend #I ate half of one of them and sadly the rest will be going in the bin #nothing could rescue these but would it have killed them to include some dipping sauce

[soloragoldsun]

Just some aro thoughts that make total sense now that I realize I'm aro:

Is it just me, or does dating as a whole sound like an unpleasant anxiety sandwich? Like, people seriously will go out to restaurants where they will be eating food while sitting across from someone and the attention has to be entirely on the other person and you need to figure out conversation topics so there aren't awkward silences and just-

And to top it off, people apparently do this with people they have literally never met before?! HOW??????? Are you not more afraid of having your organs stolen, or some shit???

#aromantic #aro thoughts #dating #anxiety #seriously #went on less than five dates in my life #cannot recommend

[mylittleredgirl]

i suppose it's great that tumblr has a timestamp option now, but all these posts encouraging newcomers to turn on that feature are really depriving them of a key tumblr experience. “omg that guy died?? 😭” (died in 2014). “why doesn't this have more notes!??” (first posted 9 minutes ago). maybe you dashed off a quick post in 2018 about a specific event and people now yell at you in the notes for not including an event from yesterday, and they will still be putting the same three comments in the tags of that post when this site burns down in 2034. can't get that anywhere else.

#timestamps keep me too connected to reality #cannot recommend #happy out of touch thursday tuesday sunday to those who celebrate #that tumblr lyfe

[merlinerplatz]

Thank gog someone made the new dune movies, david lynch was not cooking

#this movie is a 5/10 #cannot recommend

[cryptidliker]

Thank God for Firefox and adblockers and. Definitely legal streaming sites thumbs-up :)👍 serial experiments lain

#talking #mumbles #cannot recommend #its SO GOOD very corpse party vibes #but also. cyber dissociation.......... gods........ hmmmmmmm #uh will warn #looots of suicide in this #sadly :( #its still wack and interesting tho #i wanna..... watch Evangelion or however you spell it next #lol

[mona-liar]

I'm done with hausen and well... that was bad. I have no idea wht the fuck the ending is supposed to tell me

#Juri ends up in space. Was it a sentient black hole or an alien or???? #Watching hausen #Cannot recommend #It steadily improved til ep 3 and then I remember nothing #What were the writers not thinking?

[percival-p-pups]

Made a mistake at a restaurant today and got some fish in jelly. I thought I was ordering some sort of Nakki plate but it was Nahki or something. Pup still wanted some.

#cannot recommend #food was bad #company was good #pug #pups #percival pups

[regallibellbright]

Oh thank goodness I had typed out 98% of my notes on Lea back in 2020 so while I’ve copied my part on his boots for reference to try and figure out how best to do Namine’s, I don’t have to try and make sense of my handwritten notes two years later for anything but his hair (which I do need to write down because after Namine, it’s Roxas’s turn, and there’s a decent chance I’ll be reusing some of that.)

(Roxas might be waiting a while but I do have his yarn now. It’s got a bit of a variegation and it’s golden brown and it’s PERFECT for his hair color. I just REALLY don’t want to get tendonitis again, and I’ve been blaming those hair spikes as much as general overuse.)

#crafting with regalli #do not subluxate your shoulder blades folks #cannot recommend #it causes SO MUCH TROUBLE #the good news is if you're not hypermobile you probably can't #if you are hypermobile... well I managed to win a bet for my hypermobility doctor with an orthopedist who thought it was impossible #Twilight Town Amigurumi #Twilight Town Amigurumi: Namine Edition

[goji-pilled]

i have awoken and im still dead tired.

though this time thats 100% my fault (sort of.) for staying awake until 4 am

#the felix talk #cannot recommend

[smreine]

Dracula Untold - 1*

I just rewatched Dracula Untold (2014). When I saw it in the theater, I mostly focused on how much I loved his power set and the general vampire aesthetic. Rewatching it this week, pretty much my only thought was "WOW how did I miss the INCREDIBLE RACISM of this whole movie?" 

Like we're talking wall to wall Ottoman Orientalism and Eurocentric white supremacy. And that's only one of the ways the screenplay is bad.

The source material of Dracula is orientalist and xenophobic and several other things. However, Dracula (the book) also has a lot of interesting elements worthy of analysis, as Tumblr has been discovering. Dracula Untold only has Luke Evans and Charles Dance’s brief performance as the Original Vampire to speak for it, and you can enjoy either of those things in 30-second snippets on YouTube to get the drift.

Oh look, Luke Evans face. Now you don’t need that part. (Image above features actor Luke Evans wearing red-and-black armor with a dramatic black cape. He looks down toward a sword in his hand. The palette is muted.)

Anyway, back in the day, people were like "Dracula Untold was terrible" and 2014 Sara was like "oh probably but he turns into shadows and consumes people like Elise and that is so cool" and now I'm like "oh my god 2014 Sara shut the fuck up don't talk oh my god"

Just...very eye-opening to my personal development to realize that eight years ago, I could watch a whole movie where those evil Turks are stealing innocent European children and have my brain never get past "ooooh fangs.” Save yourself the time. If you’re on a Dracula movie adaptation kick, miss this one.

#movie review kinda #one star #cannot recommend #archived from twitter #dracula

[hot-coco]

recently read through the entire Lackadaisy webcomic + extra comics, and I think I'm in love with this series.

The artwork is amazing, and the story is fantastic.

#lackadaisy #artwork #I cannot recommend Lackadaisy enough

[ghelgheli]

Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

#reading #just finished it and this from the final chapter was my fav moment and one of the few times i was nodding along #the book is solid in certain places #even incisive at times #but it is so theoretically confused and downright wrong in some of its foundatioms #that i CANNOT recommend it as an introduction to transmisogyny and i can only SUGGEST it as a v critical read #may say more later #whipping girl #transmisogyny

[mwagneto]

how i sleep using cracked spotify premium apk instead of paying and using newpipe apk instead of youtube and using firefox instead of chrome or opera and not paying for any streaming services and downloading movies and shows straight onto usb drives and not connecting any of my accounts and never giving my full name anywhere and not logging into google anywhere and never seeing a single fucking ad no matter where i go

#i cannot believe ppl still use youtube especially on mobile like that thing is literally unusable now #please get newpipe PLEEEEASE it doesn't have reels it doesn't have a recommended page it #immediately detoxes you from the youtube addiction. and no ads😍😍😍 #barking

[sandflakedraws]

the song came on my shuffle and would not leave me alone until i penned this i'm so sorry

#this is way too much effort but like. music makes me feel things y'know? #trolls #floyd #branch #john dory #clay #bruce #cannot recommend Comfortably Numb enough as like. THE listless + dizzy song #no other tune has quite nailed the feeling like you're about to pass out at any second #also the human scream of agony in the middle is great too #either way #don't look at me #is he dead? i couldn't decide so thats up to u #long post #undescribed