Trying to Human since 1987

tagless personal chaosblog mostly | also fandom, climate change, animals, anthropology, colonialism, mental health, and the things that fall through the cracks | they/them: their mother tongue doesn't have gendered pronouns, and neither does their national one, and gender neutral is... comfy, y'know? | queer bisexual polyamorous | Non-Westerner NOT living in a white-majority Anglophone country, but still constantly bombarded by U.S.-origin narratives because who isn't

[depsidase]

[leonordchoem]

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

[aerialsquid]

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

[findingfeather]

….yeah me too.

[lireavue]

Me three.

[star-anise]

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

[library-graffiti]

I have not laughed that hard in so long I literally cannot remember when.

[fatmasc]

Sometimes ur fat bc u were born that way. Ur parents are fat, ur cousins are fat, u always have been fat.

And sometimes, you become fat. Something happened (puberty, change in diet, change in ability, anything) and someone who was once skinny is now fat. This doesnt make you a failure. It just means ur fat now. Its okay. You didnt do something wrong.

No matter how you are fat, its okay to be fat

[meadow-of-daisies-and-lavender]

That anything also includes trauma and stressors.

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[loveridden1999]

Tens of thousands of Cockroach party protesters defy police with Delhi march

Youth-led movement calls on education minister to quit in one of India’s largest anti-government rallies in years

Police attack Cockroach activists as thousands march on Indian parliament

More than 10,000 protesters braved tear gas and baton charges in their largest challenge yet to PM Modi's government.

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[askcosplaysenpai]

Touch His Tit Tuesday DS9 edition

[the-irreverend]

That madman...

[sillylandmagic]

This disability pride month remember to include and not separate yourself from disabled people with higher support needs.

I need physical help for all self care and showering, I use adaptive cutlery or else I can’t feed myself, I’m also both bladder and bowel incontinent and will be wearing adult pull ups soon.

No I’m not babyish or gross for needing physical help, I have ataxia spastic triplegia and left sided weakness, this makes fine motor skills very difficult and also makes it so my bladder and bowel muscles are weakened.

If you also have higher needs just know you aren’t alone🫂

[autisticghostss]

”autistic people don’t do [ extremely common higher support need , higher level autistic trait / symptom ] , that just stereotype”

you need include us too : you need include childish autistic person , you need include nonverbal autistic person , you need include autistic person who drool , you need include autistic people with intellectual disability , you need include autistic person with loud messy public meltdowns .

can not hide behind “it just stereotype” because that not true . there are many people very disabled by autism , you need remember us and include us .

[herpsandbirds]

Panama’s golden frogs beat extinction

The amphibians are returning to the wild 17 years after a deadly fungus nearly wiped them out.

It’s been 17 years since the bright yellow Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) hopped through its native habitat. But after nearly two decades of hard work, conservationists are finally reintroducing a new generation of the tiny fluorescent amphibians back into the tropical island’s ecosystem. It wasn’t that long ago that golden frogs were staring down almost certain extinction. The saga began in the late 1980s, when an invasive fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) arrived in lower Central America. Soon, Bd spores spread throughout Panama. The fungal spores had no difficulty traveling through water—and because golden frogs only live close to streams, they soon encountered the fungus themselves...

Read more: https://www.popsci.com/environment/golden-frogs-beat-extinction-panama/

[calebwittebane]

i looked and she was sleeping like this. on purpose, she chose this. and when she heard me laughing she crawled out from under the duvet all sleepy and gave such an angry offended look

[calebwittebane]

thank you for appreciating my beloved kitty amity. i am glad she and her angy canky face are famous. to celebrate here is my drawing of her in that moment

but also dont worry shes generally unbothered and funny and loves to frolic. this was a notable rare instance of angy and canky

[houndmother]

deriding things as performative is anti third space

[houndmother]

im sitting on a patio at my favorite cafe rn and im hand stitching them hem of a dress im working on. and i can see why someone would say im being performative by working on something like this in a public space. but frankly theres no element of that. i just want to work somewhere that isnt my apartment. i want to be in public, i wanna chat with strangers, i wanna see the world. it’s nice to hang out somewhere that isnt my home!

[houndmother]

what i mean is when you say people are being performative you discourage them from doing shit they love in public. and thats no way to foster the world we want to see.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I think people should be able to exist in public without worrying about being recorded and posted online, even if they're being "weird", and I also think that if you see someone recording you without your consent then you should be able to legally spray paint their camera lens.

[cisarovna]

[archaeo-geek]

I’ve read that Agatha said she loved being married to an archaeologist because the older she got, the more interesting he found her. And I think that is one of the best quotes about love that I have ever heard.

[cricketcat9]

I did not know this, and I ❤️ it! You go, Agatha! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[cricketcat9]

WHY IS THIS MOVIE NOT MADE YET?!

I haven't got the whole century to live and wait

[transgenderer]

every spelunker should go in with a cyanide tooth capsule so if they get stuck they can take the gentle way out instead of being tortured by the earth for 72 hours and then dying anyway

[transgenderer]

@kropotkindersurprise said:

it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there

beautiful vision. i love the idea of a minecraft-style world where if you explode underground it just clears a radius

[only-knives]

people without empathy deserve to be alive

people with morbid thoughts deserve to be alive

people who don't feel guilt or remorse deserve to be alive

people who fantasize about violence deserve to be alive

people who don't care for friendships deserve to be alive

people who don't desire to "contribute to society" deserve to be alive

people who are aloof or callous deserve to be alive

people who don't follow social norms deserve to be alive

none of these types of people are inherently bad, evil, dangerous, or untrustworthy. personality traits and social preferences do not define someone's right to exist or be treated like a human being. and, if it's wanted, people with these traits can be just as good friends as people without these traits.

you're not better than them if you're an empathetic, sensitive, passive, extroverted, etc. plenty of "empaths" or popular members of a community are abusive. your actions are what matter most, not what emotions you feel/don't feel, or how social you are.