One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had.
It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!
So if you didn’t know that…now you do
do you know that i think of this post every time i can’t sleep op. what mythbusters did for you, you have done for a great many others.
star war say if a kid hates sand too much its a problem for all of us but dune say if a kid LIKES sand too much it will also be a problem for us. the lesson of these two great sci fi works is that we should strive to be neutral to sand!
a lot of you need to be a lot more chill about cishet passing people and couples still being part of the queer community
its happened to a friend recently and ive seen plenty of people including streamers/youtubers etc have the same thing happen over and over again, where they put the LGBT label on their streams or a pride flag in their bio and then they get people demanding to know every detail of their identity.
if you see a guy online with his girlfriend and he has a pride flag in his bio and your first reaction is to question whether hes even allowed to put that there, log off. the guy could be bi, could be trans, could be nb, could be literally any queer identity at all and it doesnt matter. its none of your fucking business. he could also just be an ally showing support, its none. of your. business.
you are not the queer police and it is not your job to make sure everyone in the queer community has the properly documented justification for being part of it. touch grass. you need to be normal about not knowing everyones labels and identities and about people keeping those private.
cishet passing people have always existed and will always exist within the queer community, they are our family and belong with us.
You are not the queer police!
also! queer people have been having kids for quite a number of years now! that guy could be the cishet-iest dude in the world but have been raised by lesbians, just like my oldest son!
this gatekeeping is poison. it is poison. stop it. you can’t gatekeep the community without excluding people who need it.
We’ve done it. We finally did it, gang. The duel foretold in the stars. For aeons, we have said it- “The Stanley Parable is Portal for mlm.” “Portal is The Stanley Parable for wlw.” People have pointed out the similarities- a game from the 2010s with a catty obviously non-heterosexual voice watching your every move. A silent protagonist who may be a bastard. “Person who physically cannot shut the fuck up and is insanely obsessed with their silent bastard of choice.” A sequel that’s ten times gayer and sillier than the first game. An inanimate object that you grow attached to that the gay voice at one point or another gets annoyed you’re so attached to it. The british.
Crossover art. Swap AUs. Posts about how hilariously divorced both of these couples are. Thinking through what would happen if one swapped roles with another. What chaos would Chell and Stanley wreak on the Parable? How much easier would it be to solve puzzles in Aperture with two people instead of one? Posts drawing parallels- the bucket and companion cube, Glados and the Narrator, Chell and Stanley, Wheatley and the void. Gays everywhere latched onto the similarities. As they should.
And at last, after all this time, they fight. The ultimate lesbian versus the ultimate gay. A duel fortold in prophecies, in stars, in Tumblr posts talking about how the Countdown end and Glados’s morality core being removed both probably awakened things in mlm and wlw respectively. At last, after over a decade, they finally face off in the ultimate duel to ask. Which of the two of them is the best disembodied voice?
The winner here is the Narrator.
I do not say this as a disparagement against Glados. I am a lesbian. I love her so so so much. It’s the lesbian nature. And Tumblr as a whole loves Glados and many want her carnally.
I direct your attention, my robotfuckers, to the name of the poll. “Disembodied Voice Bracket.” Now, loves, look at Glados’s beautiful robotic body. I know it is not difficult, she is beautiful.
However it is this that dooms her in this poll. For this is a poll on which is the best disembodied voice. And while Glados is spectacular and wonderful, she has a body. Meanwhile the most appearances the Narrator has ever had is a signature and a speaker. He has no body, he has never had one at all. Thus, he fits the conceit of this poll best. It is a poll for disembodied voices, and the Narrator fits that definition far more than Glados.
Yes. Ultrakill Sona🤭 This is a low rank angel. They don’t look like one because heaven like to make everything look fancy. I still can’t win Minos on the game and now I just.. um-😳 yeah… Love him🤭🤭
I have many thoughts and feelings on the hollow heads but the best way to convey any of them is apparently through joking about it to heck and back instead of making any actual analysis, hence the millions of doodles I’ve made
There was a blog that posted daily Pokemon fanart statistics. One time they posted “There is only one drawing depicting Wollurm with floppy ears” with a GIF of Wollurm (a giant, fluffy, orange worm on the string with white markings). Within hours, there were hundreds of reblogs of people drawing Wollurm with floppy ears.
@spirit-of-a-kiger this is pretty much what i saw in my dream :,3 exactly this background too
They should invent a new kind of sleep that makes me less tired
‘Fun’ fact I learned from a fatigue management course i’m currently on: Sleep doesn’t count as Rest!
While you’re sleeping, your body is at rest, but your brain is using a hell of a lot of energy to process the information you took in while you were awake. Updating memories, creating dreams, balancing homeostasis, etc. So when every little drop of energy counts, sleeping isn’t going to totally recharge you.
You need Doing/Thinking Nothing time during the day in addition to sleep, by whatever means you find work best for you.
i feel like we should be taking advantage of this website in more useful ways like it shouldnt be jarring to anyone when i post my grocery list we literally have a bulleted list function
when they said tumblr could be the next pdf i understood
“This International Women’s Day we call on all who identify as feminists to engage in the lifelong unlearning of their biases and to be in solidarity with Palestinian women, Sudanese women, Congolese women who are experiencing an ongoing genocide.” from The Slow Factory, 08/Mar/2024: caption cont. under images.
In Palestine, more than 9,000 women have been brutally killed by the Israeli Occupation. 63 women killed per day.
In Sudan, 4 million Sudanese women & girls are at risk of sexual violence.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 1 million women have been survivors of sexual violence.
In Turtle Island aka the so called USA, 94% of fatal violence committed again Trans people are committed against Trans women.
This isn’t about the stats, the poverty porn or the constant shock doctrine the West desperately needs in order to be inclusive. This is a call for solidarity and collective action.
Access to feminine hygiene products, bodily autonomy and the access to necessary safe and caring spaces as women are all human rights.
TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow
We need to reintroduce crackshipping into the zeitgeist. We use to be a society damnit.
applying for jobs seems to mostly consist of lying and submitting to indignities, which is whatever. but it is very difficult for me to override my innate instinct that anyone demanding i write a cover letter has insulted me so greatly that the only way to retain my honor is violence
I had to kill Elon Musk so I rampaged through what I think was a SpaceX building chasing him floor after floor until I got him. The whole thing felt like playing DOOM.
they dont even know the “i can excuse racism” and guy walking in with pizza memes are from the gayest weirdest most mentally ill show of the 2000s that got cancelled twice and sent an entire streaming platform into bankruptcy
It’s really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.
No seriously it’s REALLY fucked up when you treat characters as if they were real live people while you treat people like they’re just characters.
I’m gonna go ahead and repeat: it is super, duper, extra scooper fucked up when you treat a character as if it were a living person while treating other human beings who are interacting with you like they are merely characters who can be written out of your personal story if you just find a remark mean enough.
lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own
“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.
every time there’s a new transmisogyny scandal on this website it follows the same shape. “i didn’t call her a pedophile!!!!! i just implied it heavily. and also even if i had said it, it would be right for me to say that :-) but i didnt say that so you cant say i did.” unbelievable.
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