"Me, I'm a mess."

idek what this blog is about

[crippled-peeper]

“You think every citizen should have access to free and accessible healthcare?”

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

I love immigration

[crippled-peeper]

This one made the fascists and the racists really really mad. I get hate mail daily for this post

Imagine getting mad because someone else’s child’s chemotherapy doesn’t cost them 100,000$ .

[briarpatch-kids]

Fuck, I think tourists here on vacation should get free Healthcare too. We're a rich nation. We could afford it if we quit bombing little girls at school. Imagine being able to travel the world after a bad prognosis and know that when things go bad, you won't potentially put your loved ones in debt by going to see Yellowstone before you die.

[cbk1000]

As a society, we need to go back to understanding that strangers on the internet are, you know, strangers. I feel lately that I'm seeing a rise in 'An author I love blocked me because they took my comment the wrong way' posts on the ao3 subreddit, and then the comment is them calling the author a fucking bitch or something like that.

Don't do this. Tone doesn't translate well in text, and if you don't have a rapport with that author, they are not going to interpret, 'You're a fucking bitch' as, 'Author I hate you for being so talented and making me feel so keenly.' They're going to interpret it as you being an asshole. You can shit talk with your friends because you have an established relationship with them and can distinguish between playful banter and genuine anger. You do not have this with a stranger, no matter how much you like their fics. You will have a much more pleasant time in fandom and not get cockblocked from interacting with your favorite writers if you remember this.

[mama-qwerty]

Also keep in mind that you don't know if the author is familiar with slang or the meaning of net speak terminology. That can sometimes move really fast, and some term that you think "everyone" knows may be completely new to the author. (And the author may also not be from where you are, so that could be a wall between understanding, too.)

Generally speaking, when you're talking to someone you do not know (and no, just because you follow someone on socials or read their fics, you don't know them) you use language that is clear and easy to understand. "I love this, it really made me feel for MC" is much more clear than "I HATE YOU HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME???"

Be polite. Be clear. Be friendly. Take a moment and think if you'd tell some stranger on a bus whatever it is you're about to send in a comment. If you couldn't say it to a stranger in real life, then don't say it to a stranger on the internet. It's really not that hard.

Not everyone's your friend, not everyone understands your 'playful' insults. Err on the side of caution, and just say it clearly.

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[whirling-ghost]

[ID: "a world without trans people has never existed and never will" written in silver on a black background and surrounded by stars. end ID]

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[angrysexyshortstack]

Cis people simply don’t understand that the entire harry potter franchise is basically a hate symbol these days

[nunchler]

obviously bigotry isnt rational but "women are naturally worse at spatial reasoning and math" is a wild opinion to have when women have historically been the primary textile producers in a lot of societies. have you ever seen a tablet weaving pattern

[grison-in-space]

do you have any idea how much calculus goes into making a new sewing pattern. how much math goes into knitting. it's amazing.

[earhartsease]

‘Well they just don’t have technical minds.’

‘They don’t? Did you ever hear them talking about clothes, the gores and tucks and double french seams and bias cuts? Did you ever see one of them working one of those double-needle switch-back oscillating-bobbin self-fornicating sewing machines?’

from Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon, that lovely bi man way back in 1955 calling out the middle america gender bullshit, a little dated but then again also really not

[transcyberism]

the word "technical" derives from the proto-indo-european root *teks- meaning to weave. the same root is found in "textile."

[annierecovers]

I need someone to love me like Haymitch loves Lenore Dove 🥹

(like without that whole hunger games situation)

[tryingssss]

since everyone is talking about the difference between katniss' and haymitch's narrations, i find it funny how in sotr everyone is vaguely described and in og trilogy we know how most of the characters look and i know it's coincidental but it's like this:

haymitch describing a character: she has two sisters two brothers, her parents married each other on one spring day, one of them is gay, she's a lesbian and broke up with her girlfriend over jealousy

katniss describing a character: idk man he has.... brown hair

[mellkellyismyhero]

beetee latier came up with one singular plan ever to defeat the hunger games and canonically tried to make it work TWICE despite the fact that it literally blew up in his face the first time.

this officially makes him the world’s most accurate fictional scientist because he HAS a favorite hypothesis that he IS going to make sure works even if it fucking kills him

[tenaciousmoneymuffinzine]

Comparing Haymitch and Katniss' narrative styles is so funny to me because he's a yapper and she's a gatekeeper. He drops more lore on D12 in the first two chapters of SOTR than she does in the entire trilogy.

Haymitch is like "Yeah, so this person is related to this person who's related to this person and things are this way because of this and this thing actually came from here and this person is actually my best friend and also here's this extra tidbit of random info cause all my lore dropping comes with it's own additional bonus content and all my unnecessary commentary."

And Katniss is over here like "Tf do I care for if y'all know all the lore of District 12? I'm talking about my beautiful husband's beautiful eyelashes."

[batcavescolony]

the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

[crafblr]

btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[gingersnappish]

Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

[not-poignant]

Also good for writers

[sageiswherethemageis]

And crocheters (that word looks wrong)

[eyesinthecrypt]

Say hookers coward

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge! More hands!

[blackbird-brewster]

Honestly, good for everyone, because we’re all holding smart phones in weird ways all day long

[windvexer]

Mmmm medication :) I love you medication. Modern medicine makes my life so much better. "Ohh you're so young maybe you'll want to taper off..." no thank you, I will keep taking the pills that resolve my symptoms :) thank you pharmacology I love you

[incorrect-kyalin-quotes]

Lin: You can’t make everyone like you. You’re not Kya.

Bumi: Wait, what? But not everyone likes Kya?

Lin: Who doesn’t like her?

Bumi:

Lin: Names, Bumi. I need names.

[byjove]

But also I think most misogynistic heterosexual men genuinely believe women cheating in relationships is inherently worse than men cheating in relationships. They’d stay friends with their homeboy who can’t keep his dick in his pants but they think a woman deserves to be stoned to death if she was talking to another man while in a relationship. They think men cheating is NBD and women cheating is a sign all women are evil.

[userfish]

[theflowerwar-deactivated2025091]

We joke and all but some of you really forget that people hate women.

[theflowerwar-deactivated2025091]

Seeing people wonder “how can people say stuff like this” and “why does [x misogynistic thing] keep happening” is a bit disorienting because when you take a five second pause to think about it you can realize quite immediately that it’s because people hate women. Like guys… people HATE women.

[cigarettesforcats]