My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around
She cheers when the monster is winning.
DM: *places an ugly, slavering, repugnant, spine-tingling creature on the battle map*
Child who can barely see over the table: ᵗʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ᵐᵉ :)
A friend of mine used to post thirst traps on main until someone described one such photo as being their “asexual awakening” and I think about this every day
i learned that there’s a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x)
you eat me and i perfectly dodge all of your digestive enzymes and stomach acid and i sprint out your asshole fully intact
i really wish platonic relationships were more important. i’m tired of losing friendships because i’m less important than their significant other. i hate that i’m automatically not as close to my friends because i’m not the person they’re dating/sleeping with. and i hate how whenever i complain about it the response is “you’ll find someone too someday!” like no I shouldn’t have to “find someone” to feel loved and important, maybe we should stop promoting investing all your time and effort and physical and emotional intimacy into one romantic/sexual partner idk
I’m glad I’ve got tomorrow off. I’ve been so busy and tired from all those social appointments this last week that I’ve barely had any time to clean. I can’t wait to spend tomorrow doing laundry and cleaning up around the apartment.
Alright, to ao3’s soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:
1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let’s you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you’re heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people’s day.
2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it’s latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.
3.) ‘No archive warnings apply’ and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings’ mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn’t been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you’re likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don’t take the risk.
4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that’s allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You’re likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You’re well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don’t like, don’t read’. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.
We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!
For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his “historic first tour to the commonwealth realm” i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:
I literally can’t even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.
Believing that sex is not inherently dirty, sinful, shameful, or oppressive, but instead is something to be embraced, enjoyed, and celebrated.
Understanding that, beyond very basic things like consent, there is no single, “right” way to be sexual because human sexuality and sexual behavior are incredibly diverse.
Accepting the fact that your sexual preferences might be very different from someone else’s, and that’s okay! Part of acknowledging the diversity of human sexuality is being comfortable with the fact that there are sexual things out there that are not for you (or may even gross you out), and that the people who do like those things aren’t doing anything wrong.
Rejecting the stigma attached to things like BDSM or sex work.
What sex positivity is NOT
Believing everyone should have as much sex as possible
Thinking that people who don’t want to have sex, for any reason, are bad or repressed.
Insisting that no one gets to have boundaries around what kinds of sexual things–including conversations about sex–they’re comfortable engaging in.
Believing that sex cannot be bad or traumatic, or that anyone who has negative or complicated feelings about sex is in the wrong.
Outlawing derivative works produced with machines, metadata analysis and defining a nebulous theft of subjective “style” does not prevent AI art being made or deployed in industry. What it does do is hand an absolute monopoly to companies that can simply buy up the rights to large training datasets. Well done everyone, you saved art from hobbyists and researchers by handing capital a pretext for tightening IP law.
Outlawing derivative works produced with machines, metadata analysis and defining a nebulous theft of subjective “style” does not prevent AI art being made or deployed in industry. What it does do is hand an absolute monopoly to companies that can simply buy up the rights to large training datasets. Well done everyone, you saved art from hobbyists and researchers by handing capital a pretext for tightening IP law.
Outlawing derivative works produced with machines, metadata analysis and defining a nebulous theft of subjective “style” does not prevent AI art being made or deployed in industry. What it does do is hand an absolute monopoly to companies that can simply buy up the rights to large training datasets. Well done everyone, you saved art from hobbyists and researchers by handing capital a pretext for tightening IP law.
Sometimes I forget how alien the world used to be. How our earth used to be entirely diffrent in so many wonderful ways. How we can never see it, but as humans we can understand and know, we can know, we can know.
My favorite pastime is finding archived queer buttons online. Heres some of my favorites-
This is from at least the 90s! Lesboys win again-
Is this term still used? If not, I think we should bring it back -
Me-
I think this is Allison Bechdel’s work? I know she did a lot of commission work in the 80s but this kind of art style was also popular amount queer artists around that time so idk-
hey yall, my apartment complex just shut off the water again, and all i have is shit that needs water to cook. id really appreciate a bit of money so i can buy myself some groceries so im not without food whenever the water pipes are under repair
ive been trying really hard to gain weight and eat three meals a day bc im super underweight and it makes me feel awful, so a bit of help getting food would go a really really long way.
Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:
Most people are on our side here, even the so-called “boomers.” We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!
Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:
Most people are on our side here, even the so-called “boomers.” We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!
modern day L death note would make a uquiz called ‘What’s Your Personality Type?’ and carefully map out the answers he knows light would pick to give him the answer ‘You Are Kira!’.
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of “I’m a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS” girl no it doesn’t. that’s meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I’d say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn’t the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I’m being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven’t even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of “I’m a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS” girl no it doesn’t. that’s meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I’d say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn’t the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I’m being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven’t even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
Millennials have essentially been forced into a perpetual teenagerhood by socioeconomic circumstance, we desperately want to grow up, and we’re worried that we’re running out of time to do so
interestingly, i feel like the opposite - i’ve grown up, unwillingly and unprepared to do so, and i want more time to figure my shit out before i’m ready to be seen as an adult. i’m almost 36.
Oh man, I know that feeling.
I’ve seen a lot of older people scoff at the word “adulting”, but pretty much everyone my age or younger that I’ve talked to about it knows exactly what it means and feels it keenly, and I wonder if on some level this is because many older people think of “adult” as just an age category - one you’re in your twenties you’re an adult, by definition, and so anything you do is “adulting”, also by definition. But to our generation and younger ones, there are a bunch of things we associate with adulthood; it varies based on culture, socioeconomic status, etc. but everyone I know seems to have at least one thing that they think of as an “adult” thing - maybe having a steady job, or owning a car, or having time to go big with your hobbies, or having the energy for activism, or raising 2.5 kids in a nuclear family with a white picket fence in the suburbs, or even just going grocery shopping regularly instead of “in a panic because you’re out of toilet paper” - that they not only don’t have, but can’t even really imagine having.
And so we need the word “adulting” so we can separate “doing the things adults are supposed to do” from “being old enough to be an adult”, because by age we’re obviously all adults as nouns but most of us can’t fully adult as a verb, so maybe we’re not actually adults? Or maybe we’re “fake” adults, because a REAL adult would have organized their life by now and would be adulting all the time with ease, because adulting is just, by definition, all the things you’d do if you were a real adult.
you have beautiful hair, I bet it would look even better clogging my shower drain
you have consigned my robovac to a life of constant struggle and torment 🤩
This is an under-appreciated problem with long hair. I finally got mine to hip-length and it does not play well with shower drains. I want a drain from normal people’s nightmares. One with sharp metal teeth that spin around, kind of like a garbage disposal, to chop the hairs into bitty pieces so I don’t have to get out the plastic drain snake and pull out hairs longer than my arms.
genetically engineered creature with insatiable hunger for human hair sounded like good idea at the time
I can’t get it right in the photo but going absolutely bonkers over the way the colors just like. blur across from the rothko (1950) to the turner (1845). this whole room is full of these abstract colors it’s like they’re bleeding between the picture frames with no regard for time
can we explain to early-twenties autistic lgbt people that they . cant be saying these things. you cant be calling people ‘degens’ in your dni you cant do that. you cant do that man. can we do a history lesson. you cant do that
YOU CANT DO THAT MAN
“in defense of using the term degen, it’s generally applied to pedophiles” - conservative man who might actually shoot a trans woman if he saw one within 50 meters of his child, and also LGBT tumblr users who do not know things they should know
Completely unrelated I think we should have kids do reading assignments for history as well
And then we should have them write essays on what the texts writers believed and why
Everytime a cis women tries to argue against gender neutral language in medical settings it becomes very clear they care more about their comfort then trans men being denied medical care and dying.
I don’t care how ‘uncomfortable’ the terms person with a uterus, person who can give birth, person with breasts, etc. makes you. I very much care more about trans men having access to medical care than a cis person’s feelings.
It’s almost been three months since I posted this and I still get death threats sent to me because I talked about language in medical insurance paperwork and how using gender neutral language makes it easier for trans men to access care ❤️
I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao
[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]
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I completely didn’t even realize this until I was looking through old posts I was tagged in on Twitter today but somebody made their own real-life version of this lmao. Shoutout ToadKingStudios!
