Andromeda Mart

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[andromedamart]

Hello! Welcome to Andromeda Mart, your one stop shop for whatever the hell I'm doing.

I talk about Care Bears more often than not and post my t-shirt designs from time to time. Enjoy your browsing experience~

[darkspaceboytoy]

Male characters who would work better as butch women stretch as far as the eye can see

[olscottysboy]

I dont have to explain

[andromedamart]

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[sadhoc]

there is a very real tendency of teenagers with anxiety disorders self diagnosing with considerably more stigmatized and impairing mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, DID, personality disorders), but the best response to that isn't to get angry with them for "appropriating" lol. instead you show them coping resources for the problems they're actually having and deemphasize diagnostic categories in general. if an 18 year old is claiming to have alzheimer's, they're probably making an innocent mistake and are in genuine distress. be kind.

[mariaalenkoshepard]

Also I think this trend comes, at least in part, from how brushed aside anxiety disorders can be. If your parents and teachers dismiss you with 'oh everyone feels anxious', then inevitably you're going to start thinking that there must be something else going on with you

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

”You must feel very scared right now; let’s talk about how to help you personally, tailored to your symptoms” will always be more helpful than “stop faking (X) for attention”. If theyre that desperate for attention or an explanation, something is wrong.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

we’re reading Wildwood in preparation for the Laika film coming out this October and I just bought myself gorp for a more immersive experience

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

gorp stands for “good old raisins and peanuts” and it’s what people in the Pacific Northwest think they’re entitled to call trail mix

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

you can’t imagine how much this pissed me off when I moved to Tacoma and everyone acted like this was okay. I’m sorry west coast but this sucks and you should all be ashamed.

they even call the really ritzy trail mix with cashews and dried cherries and chocolate “gorp” EVEN WHEN THERE AREN’T RAISINS OR PEANUTS!!!!

you can’t be allowed to get away with this

[shadow-daughter]

I. I've lived outside Tacoma for a decade and I've never encountered this. What am I doing wrong. Where do I meet people calling trail mix GORP. Do I WANT to meet people who call trailmix gorp?!?

[andromedamart]

[mindflamer]

honest to god we've got to start naming the elderly as a vulnerable group & calling their disabilities, disabilities. we sugarcoat and distance these things by only calling them "elderly," "old & frail," etc. most of them are disabled.

too many people completely separate disability from themselves in their mind. it's something that happens to other people. other sad people i don't want to think about. are they really even people, it's too much to bear thinking about that happening to a person... those background characters over there. it would never be me, i can't cope with thinking about that possibility.

this mass denialism of the fragility of the human body (YOUR human body) has created a whole category separate from the disabled - the "elderly." since anyone can join it if they live long enough.. no they can't be disabled. that's scary, and worse it's political. so they are just "old." so what they lost their hearing, their mobility, their heart function? that's just how it goes for old people. as if that's not a person as real as you. as if you wouldn't be devastated if that happened to you today (and it can btw). as if you won't be when it's your turn to be old, and disabled.

simultaneously the disabled are dehumanized as not people, and the elderly are dehumanized as not disabled. so the illusion of disability as separate can be upheld.

[artsekey]

Listen to me. I. Will die. On this hill.

My grandparents lived to 98 and 103. Read that again— 98 and 103. My grandmother died 5 months ago and was born in 1923.

She was extremely wealthy. My grandfather left her millions. She paid about 13,000 a month for her care.

And her nurses abused her. She could do nothing. She could not speak for herself, feed herself, clothe herself, and the humiliation they made her endure was disgusting. When she tried to express discomfort, they gave her drugs to “keep her calm” (keep their shift easy). We fought like HELL to hold that fucking place accountable. The only reason we were aware is because we hired a private nurse on her behalf, too.

The elderly are a massive, extremely vulnerable, and disabled group. You cannot leave them out of your advocacy, you cannot leave them out of the conversation. “They’re loud, they smell, they’re opinionated, they’re rude, they make me uncomfortable”. I don’t care. I don’t care! They need your advocacy too! I want you to think, if my grandmother— who was in the best retirement home she could afford, with a personally hired third-party nurse to step in where the other carers failed, had such abhorrent care… what about everyone else? What about all the elderly who don’t have a support system?

Don’t leave them out.

[artsekey]

Actually, I’m adding something to this. In the next year, go volunteer at a local nursing home (if possible). You’ll change two lives at once.

[prokopetz]

"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.

[davai-tovarisch]

[barishal]

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Eman (@emiiii980) is from Sudan! She is raising funds to rebuild her home, support her relatives, and help multiple families! Her fundraiser has been shared by @/el-shab-hussein here. [A friendly reminder to keep in mind with the currency exchange! $10 USD = $13 CAD!].

Please donate here.

Barnabé is a student from DR Congo and he has kidney failure! He is in dire need for a transplant! I've contributed €10, but you're more than welcome to give any amount! His fundraiser is legitimate! It has been set up by Agissons Ensemble, a grassroots organization in Goma, DR Congo. They provide aid and support to displaced families on the ground. Check out their link.tree!

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[andromedamart]

That's not important

[beemovieerotica]

ok this is insanely cool

[andromedamart]

Something about the DIC series is so... creepy? I like it but it's giving fever dream. Like going to sleep from cough syrup wrapped up in a fuzzy polyester comforter, watching vhs tapes on your grandmas couch. What IS this?

I just watched classic care bears and it's like my sinuses cleared

[shadow-daughter]

I think the lack of shadows on the characters contributes.

[andromedamart]

youre so right, its so constantly close to the eye? No distance from the characters.

[andromedamart]

Something about the DIC series is so... creepy? I like it but it's giving fever dream. Like going to sleep from cough syrup wrapped up in a fuzzy polyester comforter, watching vhs tapes on your grandmas couch. What IS this?

I just watched classic care bears and it's like my sinuses cleared

[andromedamart]

We sure did

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[andromedamart]

We sure did

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[bogleech]

Everyone "correcting" him in the comments.

You guys know "bee" and "wasp" are the same word in most languages, right? And that there was never much of a reason to name them so differently in English to begin with?

Bees, and their sister group ants, are nested within one of the many equally distant groups we decided to call "wasps"

[molabuddy]

not to be a hater but i gotta be a hater