why do you even want a live action adaptation of avatar. it’s good already. the story was told in a good way and you can watch it. you dont need it again but worse.
Local PSA: invisible disability does NOT mean you can live your life like a “normal person” invisible disability meant that if a stranger looks at you in public they wouldn’t know what’s going on.
Like if a wheelchair user were to decide to run into a corner store to grab a candy bar because they know that their legs can last that long without, the cashier wouldn’t know.
Or someone with “mild” scoliosis walking upright through their shoulder leans slightly to the left. Maybe they just have bad posture. The lady in the next isle thinks to herself.
The person with EDS or POTS or whatever sort of condition wearing compression gloves out and about. Perhaps it’s a fashion statement?
Or what about the people with intestinal issues? They can look like “normal people” too.
You never know what someone is going through.
You never know what they might need to survive or if they’re on the edge of a flare up or even if they are currently going through one just by one look.
I think both disabled and non disabled need to realize this. You’re not “no longer disabled” because you can “live without” disability aids. They’re there to help you. To make your life easier. If living without a cane is going to make it more likely you’ll fall over and hurt yourself, use the cane.
If you need to sit down to do dishes or cut vegetables because you need to save your legs for taking out the trash, sit down.
If you need a shower chair because you don’t know if you’ll pass out, use the shower chair.
People are going to judge you regardless for multiple reasons out of your control.
I’d rather they judge you while you’re being safe.
In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.
In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.
Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.
Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.
A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.
If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.
That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.
Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.
Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”
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Voting as Fire Extinguisher
When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.
Ace and Aro people regardless if they have any other lgbtq+ labels or not are part of the community and belong here
If you don’t think they do, you are in fact the problem
We don’t need gatekeeping or discussions arguing about what is and isn’t oppressed enough, or what is or isn’t a queer minority enough
We need a safe welcoming space where people aren’t pressured to be one way or another, or hide who they are
We need to support each other
All ace and aro people, you belong here
Straight, cis, ace people you belong here
Straight, cis, aro people you belong here
All queer identities, romantic orientations, and sexualities, you belong here
Keep being you, having all these unique different kinds of people is beautiful
There isn’t a quota for how queer you are
Even if you’re just questioning, or feel queer but are not sure what label you are, even if you never quite figure it out or there’s not a label that perfectly fits you
You are queer enough
You belong here
You don’t owe anyone an explanation
Keep being you, support each other, and have a lovely day <3
i thought “car sead headrest” was like, a joke, y'know like “man door hand hook car door” or whatever,,, apparently that’s the name of a band? and their music fucks?
i would like to amend my statement, apparently my partner’s sent me a screenshot from spotify with the band name so i just forgot that they’re a band i guess
I did say this though, i guess my associations with the name are still the same lmao
I MADE A FUCKING TYPO IN POST 1 I AM THROWING MYSELF INTO THE SUN
I MEAN THE FUCKING HUMILIATION I Onl y realized this on post 3 like
oh my fucking god.,
nah that’s never happening to me, sorry to disappoint
Stop-motion is an animation technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments. By capturing 24 frames per second, the object comes to life
The movement of each character, the speed at which they move, and lighting are all taken into account. Everything is crafted and captured manually, frame by frame. By doing everything manually, the handmade nature of this series exudes warmth filled with the unique charm only stop-motion can provide.
As the process requires extreme precision, each animator can only create up to 4 to 5 seconds of footage a day. Approximately 86,000 individual images were required to create this series.
Someone described the modern difference as such: Fear is knowing that a werewolf is hunting you. Terror is when you see it and it charges at you. Horror is realizing that your feet are stuck to the floor.
lust is
I’d like to thank the brave sniper that stopped that final comment
Someone described the modern difference as such: Fear is knowing that a werewolf is hunting you. Terror is when you see it and it charges at you. Horror is realizing that your feet are stuck to the floor.
lust is
I’d like to thank the brave sniper that stopped that final comment
i just realized how absolutely earth shatteringly horny the internet at large would be for darth vader if the original trilogy came out right now
my god, every facet of his character, the mask, he’s tall, he chokes people, he’s evil, good god it would be apocalyptic, this website would be fucking unusable
people are horny for kylo ren and he’s just an intentionally infinitely shittier version of darth vader who sucks fucking shit comparatively just imagine
so imagine Star Wars comes out now, everybody’s obviously drawing their fanon interpretation of Vader as hot brooding anime men so they can ship him with whomever of luke/leia/han they find personally most attractive. Empire comes around, darth is luke’s ****** (message me for spoilers!), everyone purges their Luke/Vader art and starts drawing him as a hot dad, slicked back salt-n-pepper hair and a chiseled jaw and shit
yeah you’re “punk” but are you normal about deformed people?
btw this includes people without eyes or noses. can you talk about these people without making jokes about them? can you see them in public without making a spectacle of their existence? do you consider their existence ‘gore’?
I really did go through a phase where I thought I had to curate everything to fit a certain image aesthetic vibe etc……. Whenever I’d like something outside of the scope I set for myself I’d be confused because how does that fit into my lore?? But like it just does. My vibe is that I like what I like. My aesthetic is that I’m a girl who’s ever growing ever evolving ever changing. Not everything has to be cohesive or to make sense I really don’t understand why this is a big deal in my brain
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” Bullshit. Never have I seen someone get killed by a pen, but I have seen people get decapitated by the sword. Also, when you say “The pen is” you’re spelling out “the penis” so you lose twice!
But you cant write lesbian furry transfem smut with a sword can you??
Smut will not win you a duel.
Have you ever tried? What about if youre in a duel against the wizard who is really weak to smut?
If they’re weak to smut, they’re even weaker to a sword.
How about his sister: The wizard who is really weak to smut and resists sharp objects???
Why are none of you understanding. This argument is taking place in a duel. One person has a sword, the other person has a pen. That’s it.
today was single handedly the best day of my life. i caught a cop stealing from the store i work at
literally watched him slide a candy bar into his sleeve and i literally felt like i was on top of the world. i felt like i could throw a car over my head. he walked around the store for a bit after that looking to see if we have any locally made pickles and then when he couldnt find any he was about to leave and im like ^__^ have a good night, are you going to pay for the candy bar you stole :3? and then i got to watch a grown ass pig shyly walk up to the counter to pay kinda just awkwardly laughing about it and was like “whoops forgot about it haha….” and then left without another word. this opportunity will never happen ever again. being able to tell a cop that he needs to pay for a candy bar he attempted to steal makes me feel incredibly powerful
When I was twenty I was almost shot by a police officer because of my mental illness. I was peeling bark off a tree on public property to calm my anxiety.
Two officers pulled up very quietly in a squad car while I had my back turned. They did not announce their arrival. When I noticed them approaching me by the sound of their footsteps, I was frightened and reached for my phone to record them. They thought I was going for a weapon and one reached for his pistol. I put my hands up.
They illegally detained me and took my ID to run a background check. The one who had started to draw his gun on me asked me if I’d had any thoughts of hurting myself or others.
My background check came up clean. They released me and told me I wasn’t doing anything illegal. I went to my car and bawled my eyes out, thinking about how I’d almost died for the crime of “weird behavior.”
Don’t give these pigs a registry of the mentally ill. They’re already trying to kill us for no good reason.
@ all the idiots commenting on this saying I almost got shot because I reached into my pocket for my phone and not because of my “weird behavior”
For the last time, nowhere in this post did I say my phone was in my pocket. Women’s pockets are too small for that. I was storing my phone in the mesh water bottle pouch on the side of the backpack I was wearing, i.e. an open and see-through compartment too small to conceal a gun and too far off my beltline for a concealed carry
Did you miss the part where the only reason the cops were interacting with me to begin with was because they thought my perfectly benign behavior warranted law enforcement intervention?
Stop making excuses for a person who wasn’t committing a crime almost getting killed by the police
if anyone can find a source on who made this or where it came from that would be great. I tried reverse image searching but had no luck. this picture comes from sometime before 2010 though
UPDATE I HAVE FOUND THE SOURCE AND THERE ARE MORE IMAGES.
It seems they were made to advertise Linux? or maybe this guy just liked putting Tux into situations.
my one wish for studio trigger is that they don’t draw laios like a dehydrated twink when he takes his shirt off if he doesn’t look exactly like this in the anime i will cry and scream
EDITING THIS TO INCLUDE THE COMMENTS I DON’T WANT PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS WITHOUT THEM
so, did I ever tell you guys about the time my roommate accidentally simulated gender dysphoria in VR?
too bad, i’m posting it anyway
My roommate is a cis man who sometimes makes lady characters in video games because why not? So when he started a new VR game and made a lady character, he didn’t think anything of it.
But then he heard the NPCs talking about him with fem pronouns. He got miss/ma’am’d - and indeed, milady’d. This had never bothered him in non-VR games, but in VR it’s much easier to feel like you are actually in the room. They’re not talking about the avatar you control; they’re talking about you. They’re looking at you.
Then he happened across a mirror. He saw his pretty lady character instead of his internal picture of what his body looks like. He moved and saw his avatar’s body move in sync.
And it was so unsettling that he started over with a new character. He asked if that was what dysphoria was like. I told him “yeah, that’s def in the ballpark” and he was floored, like, “HOLY SHIT, how does anyone deal?”
And sometimes I wish I could shove people into a VR headset and give them that experience.
also yes, of course I tried the game with a male character. I went straight for the mirror and it sounds silly but I was honestly awe-stricken and almost cried. Yet another “yep, definitely trans” moment.
me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?
me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.
Wait I realized this is also a metaphor for Coal versus Nuclear energy, because the Coal industry Lobbied hard to make people think nuclear (which is really safe and efficient) was toxic and dangerous
I want to see a work of fiction that reverses the “vampires are snobby upper class, werewolves are brutish lower class” stereotypes
Consider a vampire’s reliance on blood as a metaphor for living paycheck-to-paycheck and depending on the kindness of others to get by, and the desparation that can make one slip into taking.
#meanwhile werewolves who like #treat the full moon like a monthly vacation#or like aristocrats on a hunting trip #claiming unnecessarily large swaths of land as territory #or just throwing their weight around wherever they please #waking up the next morning either oblivious#or entirely indifferent #to the devastation#environmental and personal #they’ve left in their wake #maybe even doing it on purpose#most dangerous game-ing people #just to keep the wolf ‘stimulated’ #something like this?
A gif from Pacific Rim, where Stacker Pentecost says “You, keep talking.]
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