when my friend was like “do you want this bracelet that doesn’t fit me? It has a line from a Catullus poem engraved on it” I was like girl…….WHICH Catullus poem
How to be a trans ally 101, from To Wong Foo (1995)
i’m reminded of those posts from trans women who stated in their experiences that by far most cis women they interact with in person aren’t transphobic towards them. and that recent study that showed the uk population is more accepting of trans people than they perceive each other to be (ie 2 uk polls, “do you think most people are trans friendly” vs “are you trans friendly”). i think there’s more love and acceptance in this world than transphobes want you to believe. you are not as hated as legislators and conservative news outlets would lead you to believe.
Grocery shopping, even online is a nightmare. It’s like when somebody asks what do you want for Christmas" and you forget everything you’ve ever desired, except I have to do it every 2 weeks or so. “Hey what food do you want us to bring you” I don’t fuckign. know. I’ve never eaten in my life.
They should invent a service that decides healthy, well-rounded meals for me and brings me the ingredients so I don’t have to think about oh fuck that’s hellofresh I’m just reinventing hellofresh
Everyone in the notes telling me to keep some kind of running list or use recipe apps is vastly overestimating my organisational skills. Last week I treated myself to an expensive half pineapple, completely forgot about it, and found it yesterday and ate the entire thing in one sitting because it was the last day that I trusted it to be edible. I lean hard into frozen and tinned foods not because I don’t have time to cook but because they won’t rot in my freezer. When I look up recipes my #2 concern (#1 is cost of ingredients) is not taste or nutrition, it’s “if I forget to cook this for 3 days, then cook it and dump it in the freezer and forget about it for 11 months, then defrost it and forget about it in the fridge for 3 more days, will it still be good.” I am not. Organised enough for this.
I draw porn but not any of that sick nasty perverted sicko misogynist fetish porn made by and for disgusting sicknasty pervert men my porn is so cute and wholesome and feminist and queer and liberated trust me it’s not even porn it’s erotica my erotica is a pure honest true expression of human passions and emotions and the pure chaste passions of feminist lesbian wombyns trust me you’ll love it it’s so liberating see for yourself *hands you a drawing of Snufkin sucking his own penis*
gimmick accounts are fun until they start piping up under my posts. you think you can write a punchline better than mine with your bag full of a singular trick? and then have your little goons reblog it so the majority of the instances of its existence are only as an accessory to your peanut-gallery-tier commentary, defiling my post for your own ejaculatory conquest? i oughta gut you.
🐌 hows it sneel to get snoroughly outsnone by one snick snonies?
i found the weirdest yt channel like its not even really weird but im just???
but anyway some girl has spend years animating a show with her furry ocs set in a western universe with hints of?? native american and aztec mythology as well as like bits of others but not really cause theres a rabbit who wears a fuckin sailor outfit and i cant follow the plot at all and theres a crane called ichabod bc subtle
Okay, but for this to be animated by one person is fucking AMAZING because we have indie animated projects started and shattered by full teams that don’t even have this much flow.
Youtube is weird because sometimes you find amazing art projects buried in it’s annuals that defy explanation due to their quality and the fact they never went viral.
To watch
i’ve been binging this and i’m on episode 24 and really i find the story pretty interesting and not really that difficult to follow??? my only concern is how all the human children except for like Charles inexplicably look like full-grown adults instead of like actual children
I’ve been a fan of No Evil for a little over a year, and I really can’t recommend it enough! Episodes 1-9 are mostly just animation tests and shorts to get an idea of the characters (though episode 2 and 7 are important to understand the backstory and episode 8 and 9 set up two major conflicts throughout the rest of the series).
There’s a lot of exposition in episode 10 which can be hard to follow on a first watch but is really rewarding when you go back to re-watch everything. Also, the animation is freakin gorgeous now and then, just
SHAPESHIFTING
MAGIC
BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERS
FULLY ANIMATED ASL
PERFECT REACTION GIFS
Also they arrange and record a lot of the music in the show all on their own which is frankly amazing https://youtu.be/L6SZgUVTb4Q
No Evil is so good, you really get lost in the magic of the world and are soon invested in the characters. The designs are so cool and the songs are choice.
I highly recommend this one, these people put together an amazing story animating at home and recording in their closets and it deserves as much love in response as was put into its creation
Holding up snarky signs doesn’t seem to be working.
For me, it isn’t about whether this action is appropriate or not. It’s about how this kind of action is inevitable.
I’m going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.
“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?”
If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.
Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.
Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.
Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.
SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.
You know we only ever really “learn” how to bathe in our youth as it is taught to us by our parents and from then on most people kinda just bathe the same way right. And like barring actively deciding to do it the only way most people change their bathing habits is if they bathe with a loved one and get convinced to do somethi g different in the bath bc its cleaner/faster/whatever bc of them. Ok heres the thesis statement. The lack of communal bathing in society is holding us back from discovering The Ultimate Bathing
Me: Yes sir I understand that the office door cannot be closed when two colleagues of opposite gender are alone together due to sexual misconduct concerns but as an openly bisexual employee I have to ask if leaving two colleagues of the same gender entirely unsupervised isn’t a double standard
Me: Like. I feel I should also have my ass covered if a same-gender colleague accuses me of shit, you know
Bossman: Nahhhhhhh it’s good
The morally grey cathedral goblin that lives on my shoulder and judges the value of my kneejerk impulses: If you grabbed his ass right now he would learn such an important lesson forever but we don’t roll like that bro
I think this may have been taken on a Google Pixel phone (I have one), and they do this weird thing with photos when they’re zoomed in where they basically smooth out the blurring and makes the photo look like it went through a filter.
i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE
me when shakespeare plays actually DO have modern-day relevance and universal themes:
The mattress company I worked for the first time no longer exists. It was long ago eaten and assimilated by a bigger company. But when I started it was an incredibly intense five weeks of training. I was told I was extremely lucky to be selected, and I was. From a pool of a hundred applicants only fifteen of us made the cut to entering the training program.
The course covered how to talk to customers, how to ask open ended questions, how to close a sale, and product knowledge. I learned a lot, and truthfully my greatest takeaway was a lot of social scripts that I could use in other areas of my life.
We also had a midterm exam and a final. Both included a roleplay element with a trainer and a written portion. They told us when we started that the course was challenging but it was still a shock to come in after the midterm and realize half the class had failed.
I was named valedictorian of training- a dubious honor as it meant I’d done the best in the class, but popular lore had it that valedictorians struggled the most on the sales floor. Lo, I struggled.
Not because I wasn’t good. I was. But because my manager set out to systematically destroy my self esteem. Every sale, every interaction I had was scrutinized and criticized.
If I sold a bed with protectors, moveable base, and pillows he’d ask why I hadn’t managed to sell pillow protectors too. His first trainee had thrived on being challenged and he’d never bothered to learn a different way to coach.
It was wretched. My performance started strong but nosedived after a few weeks with him. My trainer, a man I loathed for stonewalling me in my interview, came in to inform me I was on new hire probation. If I couldn’t get my sales numbers up I’d be let go.
His actual phrasing was, “When you have a bandaid do you like to rip it off or pull it slowly?”
Since it was eminently obvious why he was visiting and because I thought it was condescending I sweetly informed him that I liked to soak my bandaids in hot water so they come off on their own.
He was briefly startled at this derailing but then got on with the bad news. I signed some forms stating that I understood my job was in peril.
I went home furious. I thought long and hard about why I wasn’t succeeding and how frustrated I was with my manager. I came in the next day and my anger had crystallized into a cold sharp edge.
My manager opened his mouth to address the probation and I snapped, “Just leave me alone. Go in the back if I have a sale. If you must address a serious issue then you will give me praise on two things I did right and present it as a compliment sandwich. Otherwise just say good job and shut up. Your constant nitpicking just makes me anxious and I do worse. Back off.” Belated and begrudging I added, “Please.”
He raised his eyebrows in dim surprise but I’d gauged him well. He backed off. Dutifully he’d meander into the back when I had a sale and praised me when I closed it. I resented knowing it was only because I’d demanded complimented but they still boosted me up. My numbers skyrocketed, I landed my first split king sale, and I exited probation with flying colors.
The trainer came back in to congratulate my manager for turning things around. To my gratification he gave me credit for setting him straight and said I’d taught him a different way to lead. My manager would often genuinely praise that moment when I’d stood up to him, impressed with my stubborn refusal to fail and my insight into what would help.
My biggest takeaway from the whole thing was just that people need positive reinforcement to succeed. Praise people for doing a good job. If you’re ever in a position where you need to criticize someone put it in a compliment sandwich instead of just saying the negative.
Yep. That shit can poison an interpersonal relationship, if it’s common, and also keep the thing from getting done. Do not punish wanted behavior. People will stop doing it.
I am extremely thrown off and angered by this micromanaging when people do it. It feels incredibly disrespectful and demeaning. And I can tell you, even knowing that wasn’t the intent, and trying very hard not to take it that way, it never stopped feeling that way.
Unless there’s a safety issue I was unaware of, or there’s a way to save me significant effort or time, it doesn’t help to pick at how I’m doing something. If it got done the hundred times I did it when the person was not there and they had no complaints, how I do it is obviously good enough.
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