moved to diddle-ex-machina.tumblr.com

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blog machine broke

alright so I’m sure most of you have noticed I’ve been inactive for some time now, I’m fine don’t worry! school and band just got very busy very quickly. however, I am deciding to retire this blog as an archive, because a) it’s super cluttered and b) I kinda just want to start over?? I’ll be keeping this page up as an archive of sorts, but I’ll be moving all new activity to @diddle-ex-machina! if we’re mutuals now, please go follow because I don’t want to break mutuals with anyone just because I moved blogs. sorry for any confusion!

vibe talks
1890s-kid
penfairy

I like to call my chickens “beasties” or “fat little monster trucks” and other such affectionate terms, but dad seems to take offence whenever I do and always gently refers to them as “the girls,” “the ladies” and sometimes “the dames” when he’s putting them away, like he’s a butler shepherding a group of well-bred country lasses into the parlour for tea 

420ferret

this post evokes such a pleasing mental image that my depression was completely cured for 5 and a half minutes

1890s-kid
lunulata

I think my favorite panic-fueled response to a petitioner was when someone came up to me in Union Square and said “Hi, would you care to sign our petition for LGBT rights?” and I just blurted out “I’m already gay” and the person, taken aback, said “Well, that’s… nice.” and I said “It really is. Goodbye.” and just walked into the closest store to escape.

raptorific

one time I was on my way to a final and this clipboard person was aggressively trying to stand in my way and saying “excuse me sir, can you take just one minute?” and I was like “I’m sorry I’m on my way to a final” and they said “just takes a minute to save a mountain” and I panicked because clearly the truth of why I had to go wasn’t working so I just said the first thing that came to mind which was “Sorry I hate mountains”

lunulata

This is maybe my favorite response to this post, holy shit.

euripidesredux

My favorite of these from the other side of the clipboard—back when I was canvassing for GreenPeace, I had a co-worker that would switch back and forth between “Hey, you want to help save a whale?” and “Hey, you want to help fight global warming?” - and at the end of a very long, hard day on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, he blurted out to someone “Hey, you want to help me fight a whale?”

owenaunt
homura-bakura

from your friendly neighborhood librarian:

all books are good books.  you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.

reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy

reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it