The Heart is an Arrow

Dreaming like we’ll live forever | she/her | 20s | fandom nerd, writer, aspiring mad scientist, lover of things

[enchantedlandcoffee]

Thanks for tagging me @jessmcriano <3

Rules: make a poll with 12 of your favorite shows. They can just be shows you loved watching, or your top TV shows of all time, then tag 10 people📺

Choose one of my favourite TV shows

Gilmore Girls

Teen Wolf

Schitts Creek

Brooklyn Nine Nine

Vampire Diaries

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Heartstopper

Once Upon A Time

How I Met Your Mother

Glee

Lucifer

Ghosts US

Voting ended onJul 18

Tagging (no pressure) @adorableanonymousbutterfly @thegirlontheblackhoodie @liyahsballetslippers @theeliampayne @hl-obsessed @emilarry @alwaysxlarrie @babyhoneyheslt @hellolovers13 @louisthiccsexyglitteryass

[adorableanonymousbutterfly]

Thanks for tagging me Sky 💖💖 @enchantedlandcoffee

Oh, but it was so hard to choose between some of those!!

Choose one of my favorite TV shows 📺

Gilmore Girls

Teen Wolf

Supernatural

Once Upon a Time

Grey’s Anatomy

Bridgerton

This is Us

Never Have I Ever

Chicago Fire

Shadow and Bone

The Dragon Prince

Julie and the Phantoms

Remaining time: 6 days 20 hours

Tagging (no pressure): @braedenhales @slice-of-magenta @hobbitinthelibrary @ever-squish @hexedwinchester @spicymags @absolutelybatty @scribeoffate @atwistoffate @investmentofmyheart 💖

[animentality]

[alfgifu]

this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[ralfmaximus]

I knew a NASA engineer back in the day who worked on shuttle orbiter fault scenarios all day long. He smoked SO much weed at night just to sleep.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

make out with a frenemy. buy noise cancelling headphones. wear office inappropriate attire. quit a toxic workplace. improve your apartment. start a dog walking sidegig. get on first name basis with your local librarians. bully politicians at town hall meetings. get an unexpected piercing. cultivate farmer's market connections. trade recipes with a gossipy old neighbor. unionize your apartment complex. move to the countryside. let a friend take you larping. keep a sword on your mantleplace

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

get a tattoo on your 40th birthday. be tempted to buy a loom. do a charity drag show. sue your landlord. buy a really nice kitchen appliance. volunteer at an anarchist soup kitchen. rediscover a tv show you watched when you were 8. spam your state senators. shop at asian grocery stores. do cosplay. buy trans flags in bulk and mount them along the highway. go viral for unexpected reasons. move in with your best friend. make lemoncello with leftover lemon rinds. run for school board membership. explore pegging.

[batbetbitbotbut]

Thanks for sharing your weaving! I, uh, got a loom, partially because of you

!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the best possible message to receive. Your work looks gorgeous, I love how the pattern fades in and out across the different stripes and the colours have a lovely depth. I'm so excited for you! <3

[batbetbitbotbut]

Yeah, yeah, all the textile and fibre arts lead to each other, we all became trapped here long ago.

The danger zone is when they lead out of textile and fibre arts, into agriculture and woodworking and smithing and beyond.

[justgarb]

I should build a warp weighted loom

[spring-ephemeral]

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

do you remember why you followed prev

yes :)

no :)

Remaining time: 4 days 1 hour

[strawberry-crocodile]

i'd make a joke about "let the HUSBAND giggle under the covers and tell HIS WIFE to put that camera away before dying before HIS WIFE'S story starts" but lets be real he'd still get more fanart

[strawberry-crocodile]

sir do you understand that you are being criticized right now

[tinkerbitch69]

The best thing about tumblr is you can just make a criticism of a very specific person completely unprompted and then that person will appear as if summoned in your notes to prove your point for you.

[ghostly-harmless]

[strawberry-crocodile]

@yogsothoththekeyandthegate LITERALLYYY

[fursasaida]

adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline

[free-my-mindd]

[flowercrowncrip]

“Inclusive community arts festival!” “Everybody welcome!” “Events for all!”

No access info for any of the venues

Box office is inaccessible

Google “[festival name] accessibility”; get info on their “accessible pricing” (pay £1 less if you want to). No mention of free tickets for essential carers

Do a lot of disability detective work; most venues don’t have wheelchair access

One claims to be accessible, look inside: “we’re an accessible venue. There are three steps to get in, but we can help you with those”.

“Everybody welcome*”

*excludes wheelchair users, you can get fucked

[rebellum]

If it's okay for me to add, my favourite (aka most rage inducing):

We have people who can carry you up the stairs

Even worse than "3 steps but we can help you!" what do you mean you're going to carry someone up the 1 to 2 FLIGHTS of stairs? What?

and also you just KNOW they wouldn't. They're imagining someone who can't go up stairs being a waifish 90 pound grandma or child cancer patient. Most wheelchair users I see are heavy enough that it's absurd and frankly offensive to say that they can "just carry you up the stairs."

[flowercrowncrip]

I had this at uni. The LGBT society had inaccessible events and when I pointed it out they told me that they could carry me up the flight of stairs.

So I carefully explained how I have a manual handling plan that sets out how I can safely be moved and that I cannot just be lifted by a random stranger who isn’t familiar with my disability. And that even if they got me up the stairs, my wheelchair is twice as heavy and there is no way they’d get it up the stairs.

I asked them, knowing that, what was their plan once I was upstairs, just lay me in a corner somewhere and hope I didn’t get stepped on*? Cause that doesn’t sound like a good party

It didn’t change anything. Events continued to be in the same venue, and they stopped trying to include me at all.

*other risks include: suffocation, pressure sores, infections and muscular skeletal injuries but I figured that was a bit too complex to explain.

[wheelie-sick]

and let's pretend it's entirely possible to lift a wheelchair user up stairs.... so many wheelchairs are extremely fragile and most people only have one. repairs take months and replacements can take years. that's time where, for many people, someone can't leave their bed.

so. you want to bring a heavy, fragile powerchair upstairs? a powerchair that, if you drop it, could mean... failing out of school, losing a job (and unemployment for months-years), dying of pressure sores? it's not low stakes.

even custom manual wheelchairs can be very fragile. my manual wheelchair might not survive being dropped down a few stairs depending on how it's dropped.

[flowercrowncrip]

This is so true. It’s been a while since I’ve had a manual chair, but Complex Rehab Technology powerchairs are like endangered animals that die of stress if you look at them funny. Day to day use in their natural habitat and they’re mostly fine, but if you drop anything that’s a very expensive mistake (the controller alone on my chair costs £3000, it’s not unheard of for a whole wheelchair to cost upwards of £20,000)

Because of that price tag, in the UK most people who rely on NHS funding for a CRT powerchair don’t have access to funding for a backup chair. I’d imagine this is similar in other places. Without my chair I’m completely housebound with no independent mobility.

That means if you drop and break my chair I can’t get to my workplace, can’t access healthcare, do my shopping, sit in the garden, visit my elderly relatives or housebound friends, or anything at all that means leaving the flat.

It can take so long to get new parts for a powerchair and even longer to get assessed for a whole new chair. Where I live if you can’t get to the wheelchair clinic (say because someone threw your only means of mobility down a flight of stairs) you’re waiting even longer for the assessment to get prescribed a new chair and the wait for any new part to be fitted is also longer because there are only so many engineers, OTs and physios and making house calls takes much longer per visit.

Also like… if you trip and drop a 200kg powerchair on yourself then you’ll probably get experience first hand just how shitty the world is to wheelchair users. Because ouch.

[altonin-deactivated20180325]

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

[funereal-disease]

This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

[creekfiend]

its so wild how dismissive ppl are about medieval bubonic plague PPE. that shit was seriously so fucking smart and we act like it doesn't count, bc people back then conceptualized the routes by which it worked differently than we do now. ppl just act like essentially it's an example of fundamentally getting something "wrong," and any benefits the PPE had must therefore have been incidental? when modern PPE for so many things has barely advanced from that very design, aside from materials and small details? BONKERS. BONKERS way to act about a technology that we have only improved on rather than rendered obsolete by reason of developing an alternative that is better. hubris, thy name is "human beings who are alive currently"

[catgirlbignaturals]

"Lmao they believed in the four humors" <- society that believes in BMI

[liberaljane]

[ratbastarddotfuck]

We need to start seriously treating the concepts of "obesity" and "weight loss" as a dangerous pseudoscience and I'm not kidding.

It's some shit that everyone thinks they can understand based on vibes but science just doesn't work that way. Real scientists have proved time and time again that it doesn't work how people assume. Many medical conditions where it's assumed weight is a "cause", something to blame the patient for, it's often actually a symptom.

Body size is based on so many individual possibilities. genetics, upbringing, wealth, what type of food you eat, what type of work you do, where you live, etc etc etc. it is impossible to control for all of these.

I was a child born to fat, impoverished, labourer parents, and I grew up doing farm labour, gaining muscle - I will never ever be thin. It's just how my body developed. And no matter how much weight I were to hypothetically lose, doctors would still push me to lose more. Family would push me to lose more. Society would push me to lose more. It will never ever ever be enough. You will never be thin enough, there is no bmi low enough to satisfy them, there is no "progress" that won't just make them pity or shame you even more. Your personal circumstances aren't important to a pseudo-scientific practice, the variables don't matter that much, it must be a one-size-fits-all solution.

Every weight loss pill, every low calorie shake or meal replacement, every weight watchers frozen meal, it all contributes to the pseudo-scientific cult of thinness. Every ad that says you're not good enough, it pushes you to drop your critical thinking skills. We have created a world where people think shitting themselves into thinness using potions with untested ingredients is healthier than having some fat on their bodies. But it's not! That's absurd! You're sending your body into a constant state of gastric shock!! And one day, when you get bored of eating tasteless nutrient paste and decide to eat something with some flavour in it, your body will react with a starvation response and store every little bit of fat that it can, because it's so used to being fucking starved. Which sends people into a panic response, buying up more pills and trying to crash-diet and lose their meagre protective layers.

Your body stores fat because that's your reserve energy. Fat is protective. I thank my body every day for storing so much energy for me, fuck knows I need it! That's your blubber!! You are a large mammal. Your body is designed to keep energy in reserve so you can sleep and stay warm and keep your brain alive. You should research the human metabolic process. You should research the cow metabolic process. You should research bear metabolic process. YOU NEED FAT!

And just like so many other pseudosciences, fatphobia and all that it entails is deeply rooted in racism and specifically antiblackness. It is not a mistake that the ozempic-chic era is coinciding with one of the biggest waves of open, globalised white supremacy we've seen in decades. Whiteness needs to perform & police whiteness constantly, maintaining appearances is THE way to stay part of the ingroup.

You must commit to removing yourself from that ingroup. Do not allow it a single toe in the door. A pseudoscience, no matter how comforting and easy to digest it may be, is not your friend. It is feeding you lie upon lie upon lie.