me: i really dislike my name, i should go by a better name that i
like more. like griffin. thats an awesome and very good sounding name
that i could identify with
me:
me:
me:
me: but what if people think im griffin mcelroy factkin,
I like how teens are too young to figure out their sexuality unless its heterosexual
Idk how people find this old post like once a week but I will say as a closeted 15 year old nothing can describe how much confidence it gave me that everyone agreed with me. That it’s all bullshit. I was so angry and frustrated at the world not taking me seriously, and the thousands and thousands of people reblogging showed me that I wasn’t alone. I wasn’t crazy and heteronormativity is all bullshit. Being queer is as natural as breathing air.
I’m pretty sure those are ptarmigan tracks, not those of a rabbit who got scooped up by something! They’re birds that hop through the snow and then leave those snow-angel imprints when they take off.
I’d also honestly be kind of surprised if a predatory bird swooping down on a prey animal just left nice clean imprints like that and not a bigger disturbance in the snow.
i don’t care if it’s nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you’re actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.
grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you’re super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you’re better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.
there’s no NPCs. there’s no aliens coming to save us. we’re not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we’re more the same than we are different. we’re more the same than we are different. we’re more the same than we are different.
someone in my recovery meeting last night was talking about how concerned they were about developing a sugar addiction to deal with not drinking anymore. and since I couldn’t say this to them at the time. here:
sugar addiction is not real
sugar is not evil
the reason you might crave a lot of sugar when you quit alcohol is because alcohol contains sugar
this doesn’t mean you’re addicted to sugar it means your body is still learning how to adjust to the removal of a previously major source of sugar
you may need additional calories in your diet to make up for the calories you are no longer getting from alcohol
it is fine and normal and natural to eat more food when you’re not drinking anymore, especially in the early stages of recovery
be patient with yourself. be compassionate with yourself. things take time
had a little sad moment today, because me and my mom got to talking about my recently departed grandma.
my mom was saying that my gran had felt ‘threatened’ by me, and that’s why she was always a little mean…..and I didn’t want to tell her that no, some people pick up on my autism and feel instinctively repulsed. more so when I was younger, with worse social skills and less ability to mask, but it really is like an odour that some people wrinkle their noses at. many of my family members value social status and conformity, which leads to revulsion when they encounter someone who can’t fit in.
anyway, I couldn’t think of a nice way of saying “grandma wasn’t threatened, she just found me icky” so I just nodded and moved the conversation along.
another person has self-immolated in protest of the ongoing genocide happening in Palestine. his name is Matt Nelson, he self-immolated in front of the Israeli consulate in Boston, he is the 5th known person to have done this. Before he did this, he stated his intentions and reasoning in a Youtube video which has been reposted across several platforms and the condensed transcription is as following:
“My name is Matt Nelson and I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza […] We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I’m about to engage in is a call to our government to stop suppling Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government […] A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. Free Palestine.”
Remember his face, remember his name. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
you know other people have probably articulated this better than i can, but honestly, on some level, transphobes don’t actually see gender as something that is biological and innate, and they do have a concept of people who are outside of the gender binary - they just don’t see that as a valid identity, but as a punishment. in their eyes, you can fail at being a man or a woman, and you can fail so badly that you are not seen as any gender at all, but you are not allowed to claim this as an actual identity, you are not allowed to intentionally express yourself that way, you are not allowed to enjoy it. gender is something that is given to you and taken from you, and you’re not supposed to have any choice in the matter. your options are supposed to be to conform, or to be dehumanized. they don’t want you to be able to choose anything else.
I think this nails it.
It’s the same way voluntarily childless women are derided. Childlessness is a punishment from God, so anyone who voluntarily chooses not to have children devalues the punishment, which in turn strips the reward of avoiding that punishment. If childlessness isn’t a curse then your five kids aren’t a blessing.
Similarly if someone is happy being anything other than the epitome of their assigned gender then what benefit was there in submitting so completely to that gender themselves?
Such people are the same with asexuals. After all, one of the most moral thing for them is to want something so bad and deny it to themselves forever/until marriage to make God happy.
The existence of people who never want those things in the first place (this applies to anything they say that offends God, really, not just sex) throws a spanner into the works.
Excellent discussion here and in the notes. There’s a fascinating branch that talks about Calvinism too.
Bacteria do have souls, but binary fission doesn’t produce new souls 99% of the time, so most single celled organisms share these sprawling souls that just get bigger every time they divide. Over time they compact down into these big mats of soul get compacted into geological layers that gradually accrete to the world soul. Sexual reproduction creates new souls but they’re much shorter lived as a result, and rarely make it into the bedrock, so most of the world spirit is from the Proterozoic.
but do viruses have souls?
No. Some people think that this is because viruses have no metabolism and can’t reproduce on their own, and therefore do not qualify as life. In fact it is just because they are too small. Pneumatons, the constituent particle of soul, have a wavelength of about 1 micrometer, and so can’t be contained in cell membranes or protein envelopes smaller than that. This also means the smallest bacteria also don’t have souls. This includes mitochondria and their immediate ancestors, which was a major impetus for their symbiosis with eukaryotes in the first place. The eukaryote cell got a source of energy, and in return the mitochondria finally got to directly apprehend a portion of divine eternity.
The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.
The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
Fun fact! Water actually turns “blood red” when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egypt’s environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating “the sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt” which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.
Kinda wild how my parents have known me for longer than literally anybody else on the planet and they still haven’t unlocked the relationship levels that allow them access to information like what TV shows or music I enjoy, when some random guy at Walmart got there within ten minutes today
Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally
Wizard Tip of the Day: Color code your outfit, but use a color NOT associated with your main elemental domain to confuse your enemies. No one expect a rock in the face from a dude in blue robes
What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it’s-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it’d had it’s fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can’t plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys
these tags are gold omg
It’s a misconception that the mimics are hunting humans when they trail along at the back of hiking groups.
In fact, the creature you’ll find suddenly walking beside you and acting as if they’ve always been there is almost certainly a juvenile, as the adults lose the ability when they reach reproductive age.
Recent studies suggest the forest mimic is less like a preying mantis (mimicry as a hunting strategy) and more like a cuckoo (mimicry as a protective strategy for their young). Adult forest mimics will leave their offspring near a group of hikers while they forage during the day, and retrieve them near trailheads in the evening. Groups of hikers provide safety from predators and allow the parents of the species the freedom to forage more widely.
For this reason, the traditional advice to never let a mimic into your vehicle is still very important, as this would separate the young mimic from its mother. If a juvenile forest mimic does follow your group to the parking lot, you can keep it entertained with trail snacks, dad jokes, and simple goofs. The mother will usually collect them shortly before sunset.
When you notice the woods around the trailhead go silent and feel a sense of nameless foreboding, find an excuse to avert your attention from the juvenile so it can sneak back into the forest to rejoin its mother, convinced it’s fooled another party of unsuspecting humans.
[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #we did the whole ‘everyone try counting how many of us there are to work out who’s the extra’ thing #but it kept giggling every time we did and we just became more and more obviously skipping it in the count #and then going 'Huh well i guess it’s all find then!’ #and then someone else would go 'no no no you’re doing it wrong’ and it would laugh even harder when they 'forgot’ to count themselves #and in the end it was laughing so hard we just walked away and it didn’t follow us #i think this was enrichment for it /End ID]
Can we talk about how in zombie shows/movies/books they always find a veterinarian and not a surgeon? Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse?
Yup.
One of our professional skills is ‘not being bitten by patients’
We actually have a good broad knowledge base for both surgical, medical, and GP things
We’re used to improvising equipment because a lot of stuff is just not made for animals
Meat safety is part of our training
Our cars are often full of equipment, especially in mixed practice
We probably weren’t in the human hospital at the initial outbreak
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Can we talk about how in zombie shows/movies/books they always find a veterinarian and not a surgeon? Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse?
Yup.
One of our professional skills is ‘not being bitten by patients’
We actually have a good broad knowledge base for both surgical, medical, and GP things
We’re used to improvising equipment because a lot of stuff is just not made for animals
Meat safety is part of our training
Our cars are often full of equipment, especially in mixed practice
We probably weren’t in the human hospital at the initial outbreak
This post is deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant as certified by the National Shitpost Registry.
having a smart woman follow you back is so scary bc it’s like what if she finds out that im stupid
stupid mutuals are enrichment to smart girls. its like having a pet lizard who can lick its own eye ball. we love that shit and will say things like, “fascinating” when u do stuff
So true I love watching my mutuals’ posting habits like zoo animals. If I were watching them write their posts irl I’d say “intriguing…” before looking down, adjusting my glasses, and jotting something enthusiastically on a clipboard
WHITE GUY WHO AGREES WITH THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON EVERYTHING: dude I gotta watch out lol the feds are gonna get me because of my schizo based memes posting lol the feds are trying to get me not today cia lol
guy who believes the police should be able to kill jaywalkers: the government wants me dead because I’m so critical of them…
one time i was having sex and i was going “i’m yours i’m yours i’m yours” and then my partner stopped all of a sudden and said “can we talk about new kinks before we introduce them during sex” and i was like yeah what but it turned out she thought i was saying im a horse im a horse im a horse
While I applaud the healthy communication and the establishing of boundaries, this reads as the opposite of the girl who said “move faster” and her partner roared because he thought she said “Mufasa” and just rolled with it.
When I worked at the jewelry store there was very little room to move around each other behind the cases. We managed alright but it made us pretty casual with our personal space.
At the time when I first started I was still getting used to that. One day I was shadowing someone who’d been there longer than me, a sweet young lad who I immediately clicked with. We were helping some ladies with a jewelry cleaning and I ended up on the wrong side of him to follow to our next destination, the ultrasonic cleaner.
He double backed around me behind the case and accidentally brushed my butt with the back of his hand. It was immediately clear from context that it was a complete accident.
His eyes widened in brief terror that he’d crossed a boundary. Neither of us reacted in front of the customers but we popped away a moment later into the cleaning room where they couldn’t hear us.
He grabbed my arms and stared into my eyes with panic writ large across his face. “How long do I have?!” he demanded.
“What? No- it’s fine.” I thought he meant how long until I, like, murdered him.
“No, I’m infected now, how long until it sets in?!?”
I stared at him in bafflement but started to sense a note of repressed laughter in his tone.
“I touched your butt! That’s how the gay spreads! How long until it sets in?!”
I burst out laughing and we both collapsed into absurdity. Every time I thought about it for the next week I broke down laughing, he caught me so off guard with one of the funniest gay jokes I’d ever heard.
It was several weeks afterward that he admitted to recently coming to terms with being bisexual and I tsked, “Didn’t make a full recovery from touching my butt, I see.”
ALT
