Love having people reblog my posts as I’m reblogging them. The feeling of seeing that people see my post and think hmm yes that would fit quite nicely on my blog as well is awesome.
adjacent advice: if you need more confidence, get a cool jacket or a haircut or something and think about how cool it makes you. this is loser advice, but we’re all losers here. swallow your pride and roleplay as a cool guy and you’ll become a cool guy.
it might help to think of yourself as a character designer and also yourself as a character, which is again kind of insane person advice, but this is an insane-person-for-insane-person audience blog
I see a lot of ‘cis’ women say they wish they were androgynous in the way men were or they wish they were pretty in the way men were. This is your sign to go try to do that. You may find you enjoy being an androgynous woman. You may find you no longer identify as a woman. You may find you don’t like androgyny. You will not know until you try. Cut your hair if you’ve always wanted to but have been afraid to. Shop in the men’s section if you’ve been too nervous to. Wear clothing with an androgynous  silhouette. Experiment with binding, take baby steps with compression bras if you want. Wear unisex scents. Live life. Try things you want to try. A lot of cis women do not understand the joys of mens pants and mens deodorant. I think everyone should try both of those things.
“Baikal Zen”: Rocks that have fallen on the ice of Lake Baikal are heated by sunlight and emit infrared rays that melt the ice below. Once the sun is gone, the ice becomes solid again, creating a small support for the rock above.
scrolling down I was like “oh what a cool idea! someone skipped stones on a lake and took high speed photographs to get these pictures where it looks like the water is holding up the stone which is kinda was does happen a-oh, no. nope. it’s just Fucking Lake Baikal up to its god defying nonsense again”
The American Midwest is being hit with dangerous blizzards and subzero temps that can cause frostbite in under ten minutes and my dad is outside grilling burgers.
You guys are having a great time in the notes but my dad is having a better time in the snow.
Every time a story is like “this enlightened civilization solved war, scarcity, and disease but doing so only made life boring and meaningless because you need Suffering for anything to be worthwhile” I just wonder how they even made it that far with seemingly not even a concept of games or simulated conflict in general.
Especially bad when this is a civilization so advanced and utopian that they could conceivably rewire their own brain chemistry to just not have those sorts of needs in the first place.
It’s so weird when you think about it, isn’t it? “A world without struggle has no satisfaction” is probably fair enough, but why does the struggle need to have such high stakes? Why would anyone need to suffer and die for real for it to mean something?
Empirically people are perfectly content to challenge themselves through things that will have no major negative consequences for failure, and it seems reasonable to believe this would continue to be the case if all the problems in their personal life were solved.
It kind of reminds me of the trope of the rich character who is bored and dissatisfied with life and tries to make it into a thing about how money doesn’t buy happiness but really they just clearly have no hobbies or interests and don’t know how to entertain themselves beyond just buying even more positional goods.
“this society has it too easy and is culturally degenerated as a result” is also a fascist/reactionary trope
personally, even ignoring any other implications of the “cozy” / “wholesome” Marketing Label, I’m averse to them because they suggest you couldn’t think of any better reason to play your video game.
you know when people talk about how the villagers in Animal Crossing used to be more rude and demanding, and it was frustrating at times, but it gave the whole thing a lot of character? and now they’re all just sort of Generically Pleasant, even the ones that are nominally supposed to be kind of standoffish? that’s where I’m at on “wholesome” games. you don’t have to be edgy but for the love of god don’t be edgeless. don’t be twee.
thinking about the Moomin books and how they’re stories about cute, silly cartoon animals that are also very aware of loneliness and longing. thinking about the way “Ghibli films” are often reduced to Well Rendered Anime Food and Pretty Meadows when people post about them, because the actual stories and characterizations aren’t as GIF-able or easy to generalize. thinking about Recettear, a fun and cute little shop simulator where the core concept is “if you fall behind on your bills you are ruined. you are a child and you will be completely ruined.”
there have to be ideas. you know? there have to be ideas.
my prof just explained on the syllabus that he’s included more pionts in the class than we needed to pass, so we could skip up like?? 20 small assignments/quizzes/participation!! and still get a very high grade!!
the idea was that we could focus on assignments that played to our strengths - only do the participation stuff if we like to talk out loud - only do the quizzes/readings if we want to do the class remotely - only do online discussions if we like to talk and share opinions but struggle with anxiety in class ect.
and that’s cool enough but then he pulled up DnD character sheets with drawings he’d done of these hypothetical student player classes and how our various accessibility needs could be gamified to ‘max out’ different aspects of the class to get high grades and like!!!!!
hell yeah!!!! let’s treat accessibility in higher education not just as a necessity but as the fun, engaging, and creative aspect of learning that it is!!! I love this!!
other profs: sobbing and screaming bc someone needs to take notes on a computer
this dude: I record and upload every lecture for the paladins, monks, and rogues, but barbarians can watch them too I guess. Bards you only get one participation point per class, even if you talk multiple times, it’s only fair.
A proper money laundering scheme should be a business which is in no way profitable, run by the brother or cousin of a mass murderer who’s really passionate about making a specific kind of food or something but has no idea how prices or advertising work, frequented by folks who you should absolutely never make eye contact with!
Fun fact, at various times, the IRS has tried to crack down on money laundering schemes only to be faced with massive public backlash over them shutting down people’s favorite restaurants.
There’s a cafe in my town that is 100% a front of some sort. No question in my mind. But if anyone tried to shut them down, I would riot in the streets because they make the best french toast I’ve ever had in my life and you can buy a whole meal for $6.
The “government” ain’t nothing more than a protection racket itself, kid. “Money Laundering” is just fancy government talk for an honest Joe trying to do a bit of business without having to pay those federal spooks a cut.
Hearing constantly about gifted autistic kids and people seeing it as THEE autistic trait has completely disregarded those who aren’t gifted and made a HUGE divide in the community. Seeing constantly “yeah autistic people are usually gifted” is so annoying because a VERY large chunk of autistic people, aren’t actually gifted and media has just put the gifted people at the front because they’re more palatable. The “autistic gifted kid burnout” has become more so a trend than anything and I’ve seen a lot of people assume they’re autistic because they are the “gifted kid burnout person” when that isn’t even a requirement for an autism diagnosis. You don’t have to be gifted to be autistic. You don’t have to be!!
Start putting the people who struggle more in the spotlight. Those with intellectual disabilities, those with learning disabilities, those with cognitive disabilities, those who are just generally stereotypically “dumb” and embrace it!
We need to have a very big discussion about this as a community and it needs to start today.
Not to mention that those with higher support needs who aren’t gifted are completely seen as lesser because they aren’t gifted.
People automatically assume that higher support needs people, especially those who are nonverbal/nonspeaking are hiding this special talent that will wow the world.
This isn’t true! Higher support needs people are just people! They don’t need to have talents to wow the world like some animal on display. Stop it.
Pixie be trying to say this . but . of course ! nobody listen … Pixies words are too easy to ignore . Pixie not can use “right ” words , in “right ” order , to make people listen to pixie . pixie not Can sound smart enough to make people listen …
theres only so much I can share at a time but like todays message is it isnt racist to be against all genocide its racist to pick and choose
So what about the killings Hamas committed? I see a lot of anti-zionists downplay or even ignore them.
the long answer is go look at the free palestine tag
the long answer is read and compare the histories of colonialism, for example the british and like everywhere else they went, including the US of A where it became a constitutional right to bear arms against oppressors
the long answer is if a terrorist shoots up a school as happens every week the answer isnt genocide
the long answer is think for a moment of what you would do in a position of being evicted from your home and then hunted down for daring to live
the long answer is all war is crime, id very much like to see a world without it
the long answer is be critical of media not only when you disagree with it but also when you agree with it
the short answer is yeah so what about hamas Im talking about palestine and its civilians who I wouldnt blame for supporting hamas which they largely dont anyway even through a damn genocide
theres only so much I can share at a time but like todays message is it isnt racist to be against all genocide its racist to pick and choose
So what about the killings Hamas committed? I see a lot of anti-zionists downplay or even ignore them.
the long answer is go look at the free palestine tag
the long answer is read and compare the histories of colonialism, for example the british and like everywhere else they went, including the US of A where it became a constitutional right to bear arms against oppressors
the long answer is if a terrorist shoots up a school as happens every week the answer isnt genocide
the long answer is think for a moment of what you would do in a position of being evicted from your home and then hunted down for daring to live
the long answer is all war is crime, id very much like to see a world without it
the long answer is be critical of media not only when you disagree with it but also when you agree with it
the short answer is yeah so what about hamas Im talking about palestine and its civilians who I wouldnt blame for supporting hamas which they largely dont anyway even through a damn genocide
Palestine’s Ministry of Health releases a 212 page document listing those killed. This comes shortly after US president Joe Biden questions the validity of claims about the amount of people who have lost their lives at the hands of Israel genocide.
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Full article on the Palestine Chronicle here - LINK
This is the first time I’ve seen color tattoos on dark skin that actually look vibrant and pigmented!!!!!
Once I was talking to a dark skinned lady who told me that she was jealous of my pasty skin because she wants color tattoos, which her artist said wasn’t possible with her skin tone. I sent her to mine, and he proceeded to go off about how dark skin accepts greens, yellows, and white beautifully, and that her previous artist just lacked the skills to use those 3 colors as highlights to make other colors pop more. If you are dark skinned and your tattoo artist says you can’t have bright colors, find a new one.
me being a nerd girl with a 90s high school movie “kick me” sign but instead of being taped on my back I’m holding it up and blushing and being super embarrassed and needy
well this seems to have garnered attention… we’re at 100 notes now..
okay how about um.. if this gets 500 notes i’ll cosplay this.. :3
i’ve never done a notes game before though, so we’ll see how it turns out :3
well this seems to have
garnered attention… we’re at
100 notes now..
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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