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i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it

I used to read dictionaries as a kid. And as a child who would casually leave social events to go read the books in a stranger's library, it was probably really funny to see me with the thickest, oldest looking dictionary I could find, so heavy I barely could even hold it, sitting with it in my lap as I read it from cover to cover

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

this is so beautiful

my favourite thing about history (and the reason why social history matters to me above anything else) is the reminder that there's no emotion i've felt, no grief or trauma, no joy or laughter, that hasn't been experienced by other people across time and space, and the idea of slipping into another life so different on the surface and yet so fundamentally similar to my own, and understanding them as a life like my own, with inner worlds that can't be easily articulated, with loved ones and favourite foods and days they woke up having slept wrong and the acute experiences of standing in a quiet room and watching the light catch on dust floating in the air, of the smell outside after it rains heavily, of mornings after having dreamt something feverish and strange, or the knowledge of an impending loss and trying to prepare for it emotionally. peeling fruit and giving a piece to a friend. being awake at an hour that feels like you're the only person alive in the world. that feeling when you know you need to eat and that you're hungry but you just don't find it appealing at all and it kind of makes you feel nauseous. i like imagining people in all different places and times experiencing those things, it makes me feel less alone and afraid of myself and my experience feels less daunting if that makes sense. others have lived with experiences like this too, and do, and will.

*takes a bite of my double chocolate all natural 16g of protein kosher no artificial sweetener certified vegan no soy cookie i won as a bet* at least it removes all moisture from my mouth and doesn't taste good at all

i won a bet with a friend and have been owed a cookie for the last week. i finally got my cookie today.

it's a protein cookie.

i won a bet with a friend and have been owed a cookie for the last week. i finally got my cookie today.

it's a protein cookie.

this is something nobody realizes, and yet it's the most devastating truth of human existence.

as a big woman enjoyer I approve this message

Umm i think some of u guys should stop acting like female giants are bad or inherently sexual 🤗 why is every other aspect of g/t able to be nonsexual but as soon as its giant women u guys start tweaking like its the worst thing that could ever happen. Shut up and get some game!

Hi, Clair. I’d like to come in and talk with you. Would that be all right?

I feel like normies think of tumblr as the fanart and aesthetic and gifset website but real tumblrinas know that our most culturally significant output and our lifeblood is the humble text post

Do you like any bad smells?

Cigarettes

Fuel exhaust

Skunk (not weed, actual skunk)

Wet dog

Sweat / BO

Old person

Several of these

Other??? (freak)

None I hate smelling anything ever

I’m not including weed or pussy bc if I did they would win by a landslide

And yes I like all of these smells, even tho half of them give me headaches

I’m not including weed or pussy bc if I did they would win by a landslide

And yes I like all of these smells, even tho half of them give me headaches

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

THANK YOU SOMEONE FINALLY SAID THIS. it's all fearmongering and reductionist to say that every problematic politician is "literally just like hitler." What makes it even worse is that we've taken the story and actions of a very real human being who very much did exist, and have blown him up into a cartoon villain within the collective consciousness of our society. Hitler is dead, and his party died with him. Treating him like some antichrist or end-all-catch all of evil only serves to blind us to actual evil that goes on in front of us every day.

It's Time to Put Hitler to Bed

Over the last 20 years it's become increasingly common when talking about western politics to try and tie the political opposition to Hitler. It goes beyond Godwin's Law at this point, because it's no longer just in internet phenomenon. It happens in real life. In real conversations and real debates. All sides do it. No issue is safe. And it's beyond ridiculous at this point. It needs to stop.

So let's just stop talking about Hitler altogether when it comes to western politics.

He's dead. He's gone. His ideology died with him. Yes, you read that right. National Socialism is dead. It was a very specific ideology with goals and aims beyond being racist and hating Jews. Nowhere on Earth is there a serious National Socialist party with any political power or any chance at gaining any. Modern day neo-nazis are nothing more than edgelord racists desperately trying to grab some of the "shine" Hitler has with other idiots for themselves. They're awful. They're racist. They should grow the fuck up. But they aren't nazis. They aren't storming government buildings and they aren't winning political office. Most of them aren't even committing crimes. They're just sitting online or in a basement somewhere snort-laughing like Bevis and Butthead while they whisper "k*ke" and "n*gger" to each other and post pictures of ovens with captions like "where the Jews go". How basic and boring. They are beyond lame, and it's long past time we stop bigging these people up like they're some huge existential threat to humanity itself. They're not. They're just pathetic losers who have no power over anyone, not even themselves.

Does this mean we should forget the Holocaust? No. Of course not. We should always remember what Hitler did. But if we don't take the right lessons from that dark era in human history, then we might as well forget it because misremembering, on purpose or by accident, is just as bad as forgetting.

Hitler was an evil man who did evil things. He is a cautionary tale to never let rhetoric overwhelm your better nature. He is a warning of what happens when you give into hate out of fear or anger. But that's it. He does not influence anyone with power. Not in the west. No one in the west is actually trying to be like Hitler. And as evil as Hitler was, not everything he did was automatically evil just because he did it. And that right there is the main problem with the modern trend of accusing everyone you don't like of being Hitler. Hitler did a lot of things. He woke up. He ate breakfast. He fell in love. He breathed air. He got dressed. He gave speeches. He liked art. He was a human being. I don't say this to downplay the evil things he did or to try and create sympathy for him. But surely you can easily see how literally every single person on Earth has something in common with Hitler just by virtue of also being a human being, yes?

Hitler was also a politician. Which means that, yeah, every politician is going to have a position that's at least similar to something Hitler proposed or enacted in his political career. His views and platforms ranged far and contain things that are both left and right wing. Things which, in the hands of someone other than Hitler, most likely would not have led to the Holocaust. Because the Holocaust is an evil that was unique to Hitler. He baked genocide into his ideology, then codified and streamlined it after gaining power. His was a cold and inhumane calculation that only the Aryan race as he defined it was worthy of life. That every other race, everyone who didn't fit his idea of purity, must be killed to preserve his Master Race. There have been other genocides before and since, but none quite as industrialized and far reaching. And, in the west at least, there is no one with any power who wants to reenact anything that even comes close to the Holocaust. Not even that politician you really hate. Not even that activist group that promotes that awful ideology.

All accusations of being Hitler, or like Hitler, do is muddy the already opaque waters of modern western political discourse. And people are so bored with Hitler comparisons. He doesn't evoke the same emotional reaction he did even 20 years ago because, by this point, everyone even remotely active in western politics or political commentary knows someone who has been accused of being Hitler or a nazi, if they aren't that person themselves. It's become little more than the (supposedly) adult version of "I know you are but what am I?" It's meaningless, it's dumb, and everyone needs to stop doing it.

Stop making posts about how so and so is just like Hitler. Stop re-tweeting/blogging/posting them. Stop bringing Hitler's name into discourse at all. Stop arguing about whether or not National Socialism is right or left wing. Stop pretending that superficial similarities to Hitler or one of Hitler's policies is absolute proof that an ideological opponent is evil.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Reblog if you recognize that Jesus Christ is Lord

eternity is real and everything you do matters

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:23

can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

I just love painting the sea, I wanna do just that until I find a new thing to obsess over

I just love painting the sea, I wanna do just that until I find a new thing to obsess over

zwei

C.S. Lewis is one of the most culturally relevant and important authors for western society and Christians in general and i will die on this hill

I always kind of laugh when people get into the “Susan’s treatment is proof that C.S. Lewis was a misogynist” thing, because:

Polly and Digory. Peter and Susan. Edmund and Lucy. Eustace and Jill. 

Out of the eight “Friends of Narnia” who enter from our world, the male-to-female character ratio is exactly 1/1. Not one of these female characters serves as a love interest at any time. 

The Horse and His Boy, the only book set entirely in Narnia, maintains this ratio with Shasta and Aravis, who, we are told in a postscript, eventually marry. Yet even here, the story itself is concerned only with the friendship between them. Lewis focuses on Aravis’ value as a brave friend and a worthy ally rather than as a potential girlfriend–and ultimately, we realize that it’s these qualities that make her a good companion for Shasta. They are worthy of each other, equals. 

In the 1950s, there was no particularly loud cry for female representation in children’s literature. As far as pure plot goes, there’s no pressing need for all these girls. A little boy could have opened the wardrobe (and in the fragmentary initial draft, did). Given that we already know Eustace well by The Silver Chair, it would not seem strictly necessary for a patently ordinary schoolgirl to follow him on his return trip to Narnia, yet follow she does–and her role in the story is pivotal. Why does the humble cab-driver whom Aslan crowns the first King of Narnia immediately ask for his equally humble wife, who is promptly spirited over, her hands full of washing, and crowned queen by his side? Well, because nothing could be more natural than to have her there. 

None of these women are here to fill a quota. They’re here because Lewis wanted them there. 

Show me the contemporary fantasy series with this level of equality. It doesn’t exist. 

someone said "kill all men" and "women alone should run the government" in a conversation with me today and i maybe took the wrong time to do my lois griffin impression to say "bioessentialism is Bad" i dont think im invited back to the hangout

me creating a giant oc: so I have a detailed analysis of their height, how interactions with larger and smaller beings would go, accurate comparisons of size relativity, difficulties caused at their size, their attitude towards tinies and the reason thereof, along with all the normal oc creation stuff.

me creating a tiny oc: uhm ok they're like really really smol, about the size of my middle finger. idk what else. go home already

me creating a tiny OC: okay so i have lore, a name, a nickname, a background for their fictional culture, dreams, fears, clothing preferences, i know what foods they like, their allergies, blood type, and i’ve made them an astrology chart

me making a giant OC: they have big boobs. like, that’s it really. idk what else u want me to tell u