It’s weird how much Tumblr emphasizes mutuals in it’s culture.

There are a lot of people I love interacting with while not following their blog - and it’s never because I think I’m too good to follow their blogs or because I don’t want to see their original content. 

 It’s that a lot of my friends get into niche interests and rapidfire reblog these things, flooding my dash. To each their own, I won’t knock anyone for being excited about shit but when its content I’m not interested in pushing art references, cool dog photos, and dinosaurs I actually wanna see off my feed.. that’s less ideal.  If I don’t follow you for this reason, again, it’s not out of shade or spite for the things you love - it’s just not my thing.  I am sure not everyone is down for me spamming their dash with German music or crustaceans and I don’t expect them to be.  My Tumblr is primarily a collection of things I like and everyone is allowed that same repository space.

Being very politically active also will cause me to unfollow someone because politics and discourse stress me the fuck out and the tags to filter these things can get really esoteric.   When I’m on Tumblr, I’m here to de-stress, I am trying to temporarily avert my gaze away from the dumpster fire. 

I usually just check my buddy’s blogs - especially their art tags - on my own time out of curiosity, wondering what they’re up to.


A friend invited me to a ‘canned wine’ tasting event.  I know what canned wine is, we sell it where I work but for a moment my brain couldn’t conjure up the concept of canned wine.  So I was picturing like solidified, condensed wine in a can - like cranberry sauce - that you might eat with a spoon or something.  

I love it when my brain forgets shit and then makes things up instead.  It’s like there is a forgetful librarian running the show up there.  He’s like “You were looking for a book about snakes? Uhhhh can’t find that book.  Have this instead.“ and he hands me a piece of paper with a noodle and googly eyes glued to it.