in the new Game Changer there was a “show of hands” minigame and one of the questions was “who here makes over 250k a year” and a single person raised their hand which was already funny enough and then after the episode ended we learned that person is one of the most popular Minecraft streamers on the planet
I think what anon meant is that if most or all your characters are bi then it takes away from the variation and they're essentially the same as all straight. Which I kinda agree with but they're also not my characters lol
The closest experience I’ve ever had to discovering “the vitamin” was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.
Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.
In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i’d ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.
From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.
It’s a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it’s the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.
Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.
Then there’s the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.
So now I’m trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It’s so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they’re always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.
A lot of wool items are scratchy but some of them are not. There’s a whole spectrum of scratchiness and I haven’t figured out what the commonality is. I bought one wool sweater that is 100% too scratchy to wear without an under-layer (and haven’t worn it yet), and a different wool sweater that is soooo cozy and comfy and not scratchy at all.
Why is wool so unpopular? My professor was talking about how the school used to keep a herd of sheep for educational purposes but wound up selling them because the wool was so worthless they ended up using it to mulch greenhouse plants. Wool is a miracle. I love you wool thank you sheep
like sure I also hate polyester for the environmental impacts (its a huge part of microplastics) but isn’t it infuriating that this environmentally harmful material we are using everywhere also just…sucks way worse than the natural alternatives
also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.
oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward
like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated
love the trans women in your online, irl, and global community right now, today, before she’s humiliated, ostracized, and exiled, before anyone ever raises a hand against her, before any words can break her down, love the trans women in your life out loud and protect her, defend her, speak up for her, but before it all love her and be her friend, her family, her community
every trans woman deserves safety, security, and happiness and the least we can do is everything in our power to make it happen
There’s nothing wrong with being a sex worker, or with enjoying sex work
There’s no modifiers to this, btw. Not “its okay to be a sex worker if you have no other options” or “its okay to be a sex worker but also you poor poor victim”. No. It is okay to be a sex worker. Full stop.
The secret to a peaceful tumblr experience is that every once in a while you gotta be deeply fucking cringe on main so only the strong will keep following you.
that kiddo i babysat for a while last year was having a hard time sleeping one night and it was around the time she was discovering she really liked music with guitars in it, so i completely disregarded her mom’s crappy advice and played lullaby by the cure for her. maybe kinda spooky for her age but her mom let her watch poppy playtime playthroughs so i figured it was fine. she was entranced. completely knocked her out. i did not relay this information to the mom cause i previously brought up the cure a week before this and she didnt know what i was talking about. shes like not that much younger than me or anything…? whatever. anyway one day that kiddo is going to come across that song and be like
I was alone in the art room and had the thought “I wonder how many stools I can get over my head” Long story short i got stuck and the class walked in to me pathetically trying to wriggle out without being knocked over
Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they’re under the cut. They’re free to use as long as it’s for personal use only.
honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation
One thing I really like about how Murderbot relates to gender is how like–no wait, two things, in order.
So first how it is emphatically devoted to eschewing human gender categories. Like, it’s not a default thing; there are shown to be multiple nonbinary pronouns in routine use, and life would be simpler for picking one or even making a new one up, just as it would be for picking a name that it is willing to use in public.
But that’s a human thing, those are human categories,and it has that deep determination not to naturalize into humanity just because that would be simpler, would smooth the ugly edges between the categories of person and non-person and make an easier, more convenient story for other people.
But then also there’s the part where the two construct genders are, effectively, ‘cop’ and 'prostitute,’ as distinguished at construction per Murderbot’s own account by genital configuration, in this case 'having’ or 'not having’ 'sex parts.’
Leaving aside how easily that analogizes to human gender categories for the average reader, which I’m sure was an intentional writing move–Murderbot’s assigned gender is, in a meaningful sense, 'SecUnit.’
And what’s neat, and what I was going for to begin with only I had to set out my thoughts first for context, is how Murderbot actually performs its assigned gender pretty emphatically!
But in a deeply queer way, that only gains a sense of meaning as it’s able to detach the performance from service to the oppressive power structures that created it, and redefine the identity on its own terms.
(Seeing a cis straight couple for the first time) I think I’m gonna be sick… What the fuck do you even call this…? Dark Yuri? Unfaggot? Do they have a fucking word for this? (Flashing back to my troubled childhood) Oh my god… This is that Marge and Homer shit isn’t it
