if I meet u at a party I will often hand you my phone and say something like “this is a list of names for girls. please read through and then add one.” the list is special because you can only add to it in person; I won’t add something that you tell me about over text. however, I think it’s okay for me to share it here. without further ado, I present: girl names (names for girls)
it’s remarkable how much money you can save by not leaving the house and not eating and not moving
looking at my bank account after a month of being in a depressive coma like wow. I’m so good at budgeting
The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.
Karl Marx, 1844, Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property
That post that’s like “Ummm thoughtcrimes don’t exist but most ppl who say that aren’t talking about thoughts they are literally TALKING about their thoughts and saying thoughts out loud is bad” is the whole reason we have to keep saying that thoughtcrimes don’t exist. Talking about things like your intrusive thoughts, urges, or desires is NOT actually the same as acting on them; thoughts are not something you can control and nobody deserves to be condemned for not suffering in silence because they’ve been convinced their thoughts are unspeakable. If you’re out here promoting acting like a cop about things that don’t even harm you or anyone else then maybe take yourself down to ur local sandwich shop cuz maybe you’ll be less of a cunt when you’re not hungry idk.
It’s EXTREMELY telling how many of you stopped supporting this after “intrusive thoughts” and completely ignored the bit about urges and desires. Not everything “unsavory” has to be excused because of “suffering from intrusive thoughts.” That’s true, some of us are also fucking freaks who unironically enjoy nasty things that others might find uncomfortable. People still deserve spaces to be nasty freaks and they still aren’t committing a crime just because you have a squick. This is why we have tags, blacklisting, and a block button. You don’t have to engage with anything that upsets you; we don’t have to bury our thoughts/feelings that aren’t broadly socially acceptable for you.
That post that’s like “Ummm thoughtcrimes don’t exist but most ppl who say that aren’t talking about thoughts they are literally TALKING about their thoughts and saying thoughts out loud is bad” is the whole reason we have to keep saying that thoughtcrimes don’t exist. Talking about things like your intrusive thoughts, urges, or desires is NOT actually the same as acting on them; thoughts are not something you can control and nobody deserves to be condemned for not suffering in silence because they’ve been convinced their thoughts are unspeakable. If you’re out here promoting acting like a cop about things that don’t even harm you or anyone else then maybe take yourself down to ur local sandwich shop cuz maybe you’ll be less of a cunt when you’re not hungry idk.
It’s EXTREMELY telling how many of you stopped supporting this after “intrusive thoughts” and completely ignored the bit about urges and desires. Not everything “unsavory” has to be excused because of “suffering from intrusive thoughts.” That’s true, some of us are also fucking freaks who unironically enjoy nasty things that others might find uncomfortable. People still deserve spaces to be nasty freaks and they still aren’t committing a crime just because you have a squick. This is why we have tags, blacklisting, and a block button. You don’t have to engage with anything that upsets you; we don’t have to bury our thoughts/feelings that aren’t broadly socially acceptable for you.
“Mortal, this is quite delicious! May I know what it is called?” You’re not sure what to be more concerned about: the fact that someone somehow smuggled garlic bread into the vampire lord’s estate, or that they’re doing just fine even after eating several slices of it.
you have to crouch and then press a to do a backflip
use whirlwind sprint
climb on the desk and double jump from there
hookshot to the ceilight lamp then move the pad back and forth to swing
Hang onto the tiny ledge on either side and shimmy across.
Fuckin triangle jump
Wallrun and jump to it
There’s a secret vine on the outside of the building that connects to the window and you open from there
There’s defiantly a secret switch somewhere to allow you to cross. Go and break as many objects as possible until you find the button!!
you’re just not thinking with portals.
They intended to dummy it out, but you can still access it if you strafe into the corner at the right angle. Doing this will bypass 3 nights of your stay and glitch out your room service to read 244 pizzas (the pizzas are actually infinite-use, the counter will not decrease).
Just go outside and punch the ground a couple times. Go back inside and build a noob tower up to the sitting area, it can’t be higher than 3, 4 blocks.
jump and then hit control
paint the entire wall and then just swim in the ink
Get a rocket launcher and shoot your feet
Build a remote-controlled sentry gun, aim at your feet while crouched, then fire the SECOND button.
It’s for spiderman, when he visits on vacation.
Press the switch to activate the ring path, then light speed dash
Flash step to the area.
First you need to get the spider ball, then there’s a hidden morph ball power outlet behind the front desk that activates a spider ball track. You can reveal the outlet using the x-ray visor. Getting up there will earn you an extra energy tank.
Pull the lever, Kronk.
You jump, pop a grenade below your feet, the blast carries you over
if you press jump shift and crouch all at the same time it glitches you to be able to walk on the wall over to the area
drink a monster-redbull-energade drink concoction and yeet yourself up with pure willpower
You just have to nerdpole up dummie
Ladder.
open the door while standing in the space of the open door, jump twice, and you’ll be able to get there
jump while crouched to do a bullet jump, should get you up there
You could use a couple spears, do a backflip, do an explosive jump, grapple worm, ascend yourself…
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.
it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.
[I.D. a tweet by (@ thairito) that reads “boring aah baseball game” attached is a photo of a hand holding a phone at a professional baseball game. pulled up on the phone is a search result on archive of our own for baseball RPF. end I.D.]
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
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?
I want to talk about how there are two distinct forms of androgyny;
Neutral trait androgyny: possessing sex traits which cannot be categorized as “female” or “male” individually. (example, having a middle-pitched voice, small almost-flat breasts/pecs, a nondescript build that is not read as “feminine” or “masculine”, a unisex hair style, etc)
Mixed trait androgyny: possessing traits which individually can be categorized as “female” or “male”, but in ‘wrong’ combination. (example, a very low voice + large breasts, facial hair + curvy build, etc “confusing” combinations of traits generally read as “feminine” or “masculine”)
I find personally that these forms of androgyny are generally met with a very different reaction from society generally.
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
[ID: the bugs bunny “very pleasant evening” meme. It has been edited to read “I wish all my followers who are definitely not getting the content they followed me for a very pleasant evening” /end ID]
You are closer to loosing your home than you are to being a billion USD.
Theres thsi dangerous thing we do when we make differnt kinds of people, it makes walls where there are none.
“Oh I’d never be one of them” yes, you probibly could. “But they are bad people!” Good and bad exist simultaneously in thebest and the worst of us. “But they made bad choices” you really think you made only good ones?
We should hate AI because it’s taking jobs, not because it’s “taking art.”
Yes, it is studying the art without permission, but the thing is, uhh…
We do that too, as human artists.
My style is a jumbled up version of a lot of styles, inspired by cartoon shows (specifically some 2010s cartoon network cartoons) and anime, as well as Lavendertowne’s style and many other artists I see on the internet. This argument is brushed off because it’s literally just the “art style theft” thing all over again.
The problem with AI is that it’s being used to replace real artists in the workforce and that AI generated “works” tend to be soulless.
[Sorry if this sounded mean, I’m open to debates but not arguments.]
Anyway, sorry for that to my followers chapter 13 will be out soon
God I wish the internet could be capable of having this conversation instead. Like, AI isn’t the problem; end-stage capitalism is.
And the things about AI being soulless is really kinda temporary. Like, current diffusionAI isn’t even made to make art. (And this is a personal beef I have with them.)
They are an image recognition algorithm run in reverse. Functionally, it’s more like the AI is “outputting to the screen what it pictures in its ‘mind’ when you tell it specific words.” (Do forgive the personifying language, it’s kinda hard to talk about processes that (try to) mirror those of the brain without it.)
I think that (other than just flat out making a general AI that has the capacity for the mental complexity required for “true artistic creativity.”) the next step is to make an AI (or separate AI that then work together) that draws actual lines like they are actually drawing, rather than manipulating pixel values to “pull an image out of the static”, and second: train it on (how to phrase this) the fundamentals and rules of art.
(It would obviously need the ability to break those rules eventually, as “knowing when and how to break the rules in ways that work” is generally considered a good measure of “artistic talent” at least at the technical level.)
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.
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
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