i don’t know if people know this but the idea that AGAB is useful in medical contexts is actually actively dangerous
one of my friends has CAIS. they were assigned female and have a prostate. they have been denied prostate exams multiple times on the basis of “being assigned female” despite insisting that they had valid concerns about symptoms that aligned with prostate cancer. guess what happened when they finally got an exam? they ended up having prostate cancer
it fortunately is now in complete remission, which is why they’re comfortable with me talking about it, but you see the issue here? biology is never as simple as assigned sex, by judging the care someone needs by their proximity to maleness or femaleness any mixed or otherwise “abnormal” sex characteristics they have are completely ignored
it doesn’t just affect intersex people either, you’re throwing trans people under the bus as well. transitioning does change your sex characteristics, trans people should have access to medical care that is catered to their body and not to their assigned sex
Coaster for the floor because the floor is dirty, coaster for the table because the table is clean.
Is fiberglass a coaster for your walls, for hot and cold???? Where does it end!?!?!?
the earth’s crust is but a coaster for the mantle
I think everyone needs to calm down with all this coaster nonsense.
Why don’t you put a coaster between everyone and this nonsense about it
Since you love them so much why don’t you go shove a coaster up your ass
You mean set a coaster to protect my left and right buttcheeks from each other
i remember being at a party in highschool, and the topic of discussion was the phrase “it’s not gay unless your balls touch.” i was pretty zoned out, but something about the phrase stuck with me. eventually i realized the source of my confusion- my balls were always touching and so was everyone elses. no way to put two dreamers in the same sleeping bag without playing a little footsie.
anyway, i mentioned this at the party, and people immediately thought of ways to Become Straight. one guy suggested that the only solution was (obviously) to pick one ball and banish the other. one dreamer per sleeping bag. someone else suggested carefully taping one testicle to each thigh, and then walking around like a cowboy. this was deemed annoying but ultimately preferable to hitlering yer boys.
i hadnt really thought about it in years. but now i see a third path to become hetero -
the humble coaster. carefully placed. carefully spaced.
There were so many other ways to phrase every sentence you just said
sorry. i was feeling a little rattle snakey when i wrote that.
In case anyone isn’t aware, connections like that are literally called ‘illegal’ techniques in LEGO parlance.
Illegal building techniques are ones that aren’t allowed in official LEGO sets, which always use building techniques designed for and intended by LEGO. The reason they’re called illegal is because they stress the blocks in a way they weren’t intended for, causing various kinds of material failure overtime.
As an example, the blocks in the example above slowly deform over time because, slowly warping until they don’t connect very well to other blocks or each other.
There’s more content on ao3 for my old Latin textbook curriculum than there is for raid shadow legends and I think that says a lot
wait hold on let’s set raid to the side why’s your latin curriculum on ao3
It’s a series of a couple books that follow the story of a Roman family and you have to learn grammar and translate each chapter
I read through the results and apparently a lot of people ship Cornelia (daughter/main girl) and Flavia (her friend who was there for like 4 chapters and never again)
So my Latin textbook’s fandom’s most popular ship is gay, basically
Was Elrond in a gay marriage? We don’t know, because it’s none of our goddamn business. … No matter what Elrond got up to, it didn’t effect his ability to perform his job like a boss. And that is to provide travelers with great directions.
reblog if you would also like to be ruled by a well-appointed bisexual elf wizard
as someone who is friends with multiple well appointed bisexual wizards i would very much like to see them in leadership roles
tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids. You won’t like what happens next.
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.
AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????
If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????
Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.
Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.
AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!
It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.
The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.
Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?
Posting hole
Lol
yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.
I bet you’d need some high quality copper for that huh?
The way some people don’t even TRY to think about sexualities or genders more deeper then just “cis and trans people” is insane like they’ll only think about binary trans women and men and binary women and men but like y'know what type of binary I mean, right? Everyone completely forgets multigender people exist or abrosexual/fluid sexuality, nonbinary people in general and it pisses me off! Some people will even act like they support multigender people and nonbinary people, maybe also abrosexual people and try to be “inclusive” but when there’s a complex identity, they think like a caveman!
“women are non men and never men! And men? Same thing! Nonbinary people? Don’t exist right now cause I’m caveman brain right now, and cis? Nope no one else can be cis except 100% binary cishet people and multigender? What’s that?? And identifying with your gender at birth? Only cis people do that! And cis people can’t EVER be trans!” LIKE OMG SHUT UP!
like I swear someone on fuckin TikTok or Pinterest could hear something like…I don’t know a flag for people who identify with their gender at birth but are also trans and immediately forget nonbinary people and multigender people exist!!
Saying ‘I’m too aroace for this conversation.’ used to be my way of telling my friends: I have nothing to contribute here. I don’t understand. I’ve tried, and I’ve let you speak. But I honestly can’t respond truthfully because I have no thoughts to respond with.
But now I just say it whenever to try and see how many hoops I can make their brains jump through to connect ‘best carpet colour for a hotel room’ to romance and/or sex.
sees this on the highway and violently aggressively tailgates them for miles and begins smashing into the side of their car until their car flies off the road off a cliff with them and their baby and explodes like in action movie
Y'all will literally say “i want to kill a mother and her child” because the mom likes Harry Potter and be proud of the sentence you just said 🤦
you can’t jokingly post about kinky shit on tumblr because you say smth like “haha wouldn’t it be hot if you…tried to launch internet explorer…but it wouldn’t load :D”
and then you’ll get one thousand robot girls in the notes going “mmngngnnghhhngn”
Friendly reminder that the reason you feel so much better is because of your meds, don’t stop taking them unless you talk to your doctor first, you really do need them, I promise.
Around June I stopped taking my eye medication because I hadn’t had a problem with my eyes in months. I got really lazy about doing it; then I stopped them altogether.
Turns out, the reason I stopped having problems with my eyes was because I was religiously taking my medication. Whodathunk. Now I have to work to get back to the place I was before I decided I was “better” (I wasn’t!).
If you thought this post was just about anti-depressants or lithium, it could be! For me, this post is about eyedrops, for you it might be about antibiotics, or it might be about zoloft. Whatever it is, please consider talking to your doctor before making a sudden shift to stop taking it. It’s not bad to be on medication. It’s not bad to need it.
…and on a related note, do not let anyone tell you that because you start feeling worse if you don’t take your medication, that means you’re “addicted”. That is not how addiction works.
Okay everyone reblog this version
Recently I realised that – entirely subconsciously – I had reasoned “I’ve been taking ibuprofen at the very first sign of a migraine and then not having migraines? So perhaps I don’t actually have a migraine problem and I should stop?”
Guess how I realised I’d done that.
I KNEW the adhd meds/anti-depressants version of this rule. It hadn’t occurred to me that sometimes “It’s the meds, idiot” is about ibuprofen.
Sinclair, the one in the video, has recently begun treatment for leukaemia, and in that time was laid off. Putting the link to the gofundme page to give her some financial relief and aid <3
Sinclair, the one in the video, has recently begun treatment for leukaemia, and in that time was laid off. Putting the link to the gofundme page to give her some financial relief and aid <3
In 1947, an British flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile reported their status over Morse code as “ETA SANTIAGO 17.45 HRS STENDEC”. That last word is nonsense, so the tower asked for clarification. They repeated: STENDEC. STENDEC.
They were never heard from again. 11 people vanished, apparently along with their plane, and the only clue is that last word.
And no one knows what the fuck “STENDEC” means.
She STEN on my DEC until I’m never heard from again.
My mother and I have a ton of bills and loan payments to make, plus we’re both overdrawn currently. Any help to pay these bills/loan payments would help us get back on our feet and be able to pay for most of our needs without asking for so much help each month.
I currently need $2000 to cover bills that came out February 3rd on both my mothers and my accounts, as well as paying off a loan my mom took out so her monthly payments won’t be garnished. Please help?
For those not aware, we currently do not have a working car, my mother was hospitalized for a week in December and still has lingering health issues, my daughter has just started HRT and I got second-degree burns on my neck and chest a few weeks ago that needs to heal. Once we get these loans paid off, we’ll be able to start saving to fix the car, which we need for all the appointments we have each month that medical transport doesn’t cover.
$225/$2000
Please please help? I have no idea if my friend is going to be able to help with the rent next month, and I need to cover my mother and my overdrafts as soon as possible, plus pay some of our bills that are piling up. I’m begging here…I really need all the help I can get.
I still owe PayPal $125 and my mom owes them $115. I would love to get those two debts covered at least.
It looks as though I’m going to have trouble paying my rent so I need to raise the whole $2000 by March 5th. Please help?
I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing
Explain
The world’s highest mountain is the most beloved, it is mount everest, the mountain that’s farthest from sea level. If you connected the other two to everest by a slide and put a ball on everest, it will slide down to the other two (in a frictionless perfect world)
The world’s tallest mountain is mauna kea, it’s almost 4000 feet taller than everest if you measure from base to top, most of it is underwater though
The world’s closest mountain to the stars is mount Chimborazo, it is both shorter and less high than the other two, but it is closer to the equator, so the bulge of earth makes it ever so slightly farther from the center, so it is closer to the stars
oh this collar? no no it’s not a sex thing, yeah it’s not really for fashion either. yeah no it keeps my head attached. yeah my head? it’s detached? yeah no it falls right off if i don’t wear the collar, huge pain in the ass. the jingle bell is a sex thing though.
i personally think that luigi mangione is innocent and so anyway i hope he becomes the first person to become a millionaire solely through legal payouts from all of this Actual Libel
i’m in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden… the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.
Never a better time for the Streisand Effect than when it’s a government covering up acts of brutality and evil.
if you complain about the Chinese government covering up Tianamen Square, then complain about this, too.
Thought my gf cheated on me again so I messed around with her gay brother, but it turns out it really *was* just her cousin that she was spending time with, so now I’m kinda feeling guilty and confused
I think the debate one whether or not realism is “real art” or whether or not it’s the end all be all of art can end when people view realism less like a style in and of itself and more of a tool. Drawing or painting “realistically” is a style but realism can be applied in many different facets of art
And not that realism is or should be essential for every artist to learn, but it can be a really big stepping stone that can make other preferred styles more feasible. Kinda like the way learning to navigate makes flying a plane easier. But navigation skills can be applied to many positions, and there are many other positions where you don’t need to learn to navigate at all and that’s still just as valid
Not Yelling At Children is Better Than Yelling At Children, More At 11
“No shit” studies like this get funded because a lot of people still believe that “strict parenting” (i.e. screaming at your kid, using physical punishment) will “fix” their kids’ ADHD symptoms. I only did child therapy for about a year and a huge contributing factor to my burnout was watching parent after parent, no matter how well intentioned, fall into the socially ingrained trap of blaming their kids’ behavior on “lack of respect” or “laziness” or “manipulation.” They had to be constantly reminded that their children’s symptoms were not actually about them. Every time they forgot, they’d slip back into the same parenting strategies that, frankly, landed their family in crisis stabilization therapy in the first place.
The thing is, the success of any given parenting strategy can only be seen over time. Like any behavior modification, you’ll only get valid results if you’re consistent. If you’re calm with a kid most of the time but every now and then you beat them, being calm is going to seem like it “doesn’t work” because your kid knows the other shoe could drop at any second. They’re still in fight-or-flight mode waiting to see what you’ll do next, and it’s almost impossible to make well-reasoned choices when your amygdala is in charge. It can take a long damn time to build a communication pattern in which your kid trusts that you’ll stay calm. Most parents give it about a week and then declare that their kid must just be different or worse than other kids, or that the therapist/caseworker doesn’t understand what its really like.
Studies like this are so important, because it gives us something to point to when parents feel unsure of what to do with a child whose moods and needs aren’t easy for them to understand. I guarantee that for every study like this saying what “we all know,” these parents are exposed to 50 idiots saying they just need to whip some respect into their kids.
Not to mention that a) C-PTSD makes ADHD symptoms worse and b) a lot of people with ADHD also HAVE C-PTSD, because people were abusive and blamed them for being “lazy”/”stupid”/etc
hey can we talk about the fact that during our last battle that strange wizard we let join the party shouted “evil blast!” and then black lightning bursted from their fingertips?
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