...a nom de plume, a journalist's game...

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[technofinch]

The real world is crazy most of the people I work with don't even know what an oubliette is

[bigandlong]

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

[jae-felidae]

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

[godsperfectprincess]

2026 being the ten year anniversary of 2016 ace discourse means that everyone needs to get incredibly asexual this year. as reparations

[godsperfectprincess]

many of you in the notes saying “on it boss”. i’m starting to think you guys were already asexual…

[gsirvitor]

[leafcrunch]

my neighbourhood has never had an ice cream truck. in the summer, we have the knife sharpening truck. it slowly circles the block and rings its ominous bell. i have never seen someone interact with it. it may be that only those marked by death can see it

[sun-and-time]

alex??? this is truly frightening ??

[leafcrunch]

i never really thought about it much until today but you’re right this is honestly a messed up thing for me to be accustomed to

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous truck

[dyke-parade]

[bellabooisnotagoodusername]

okay if you work in any environment that requires frequent use of scissors, this truck is like Jesus showing up. We cut ribbon and paper constantly at my job and when OUR knife sharpening guy rolls through town, once in a blue moon, we all run after him in the street waving out hands around like children after the pied piper. We carry our shears out to him like bouquets, shaking because we are so excited to have sharp scissors again.

So anyway we may in fact be marked for death in the way all retail employees are, but shout out to knife trucks everywhere.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous truck

[penrose42]

@lesserknowncryptids if this doesn’t qualify I don’t know what does

[aidn]

how the hell do i talk to people

[citrus-hills-blog]

Stand in front of them and press A

[oimatchstickman]

[voltaspistol]

[rockergiirl]

yeah sure whatever

[catchymemes]

[makahitaki]

[aquilacalvitium]

[smoov-criminal]

pedestrians don't seem to realize how exhausting using a wheelchair is, both manual and powered. i had to wheel around a hospital today with several ramps i had to go up and down multiple times, and even with my smoov i ended up with shoulder and chest pain and deep exhaustion.

people look at wheelchair users and think "well you're sitting down all the time that doesn't take effort" no actually it does. pushing a manual chair takes a lot of fucking effort, especially without a power assist. repetitive stress injuries are a huge problem manual chair users encounter all the time. going up hills and ramps is so deeply fatiguing.

this doesn't just apply to manual chair users btw. power chair usage can also be really exhausting, especially for people with complex seating needs. going over bumps and cracks can trigger many symptoms such as spasticity, pressure sores are common, even just sitting upright can be exhausting for many people.

basically don't assume using a wheelchair takes 0 effort, it really really does. getting to "sit down all the time" doesn't mean it's easy.

[hell-on-sticks]

In case people need sources, there have been many studies on shoulder injury and ongoing biomechanical problems linked to manual wheelchair use. Shoulder surgeries are very common. Torn rotator cuffs. Both from moving around wider areas like footpaths or buildings, and from daily life activities like getting out of bed or putting the dishes in the cupboard. Using a manual wheelchair is a lot of work and a lot of strain on the upper body muscles. Finding a long-term manual chair user who hasn't had significant shoulder issues is not exactly common.

Powerchairs, especially those with minimal or no suspension, transfer vibrations from every bump on the ground to the person using them. That's not the same as sitting in place or sitting in a car. You also have to keep a high level of spatial awareness and proprioception at all times, and operate your chair without the biomechanical and proprioceptive feedback our brains expect to come with movement. And the body can respond in unhelpful ways to the alternative way of moving, including muscular impacts in areas you wouldn't think of when considering what muscles are active during walking - like deep back and neck muscles. Discomfort and injury related to sitting position is common in powerchair users, and tools like recline and leg elevation can't fully mitigate this - and not all chairs have those features.

Neither of these statements are even beginning to add the strain and fatigue of navigating inaccessibility. It's just the starting point wheelchair users have to work with. It's not zero effort and it's not easy. It's not just "sitting down all day". But even if it were? Nobody spends 17 hours "just sitting down all day" without facing impacts on the body. Wheelchairs aren't an easy way of anything. Using a wheelchair is exhausting and can cause short and long term pain and health problems. Pressure sores kill people, and you can't just not have sit bones or avoid all shear forever. Movement and awareness takes physical and mental exertion. Assuming using a wheelchair is an easy way of getting around is really not even close to correct.

[opera-ghost]

molly ward & harry mills

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

[kowabungadoodles]

[rowlfthedog]

[arqueete]

obsessed with this sign i saw taped up outside the bat room at the zoo yesterday. the enthusiasm, the hand-written note, the bat drawing.

[talesfromthecrypts]

“They said they wanted a vampire relationship with no age gap”

“No age gap??!?!?”

“And no non-con elements”

“NO NON CON?”

“And no coercion or otherwise manipulative behaviors”

“Joe they want a vampire with NOTHING”

[redstonedust]

i wanna see more stories with a time skip epilogue where at least one character has clearly transed their gender and it isnt really remarked upon. bonus if none of them were remotely hinted to be trans until that moment because i think it'd be funny to watch a fandom react to that. your blorbo's happily ever after involves being a woman. dont worry about it.

[json-derulo]

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[penny-anna]

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

[penny-anna]

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

[penny-anna]

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

[voidcatdoll]

Potatoes weren't introduced to Europe until a solid century after the medieval period ended, saying its in spite of them being a lot less common than black people kinda undersells how potatoes did not exist in Europe until the Renaissance.

Also, we don't need to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would look like! We have medieval recipes and cook books, we can just read about what people were eating before the introduction of american crops.