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a gay witch just trying to do his best in this world || do no harm, take no shit (He/Him)

[the-real-skeletor]

A meme compilation, theme: emails and how they found you

[the-real-skeletor]

Part 2

[the-real-skeletor]

Part 3

[jupiterscorpse]

would anyone like a summary. for laughs

[jupiterscorpse]

okay so for those who wanna laugh at spn but dont feel like watching it;

episode starts out with dean going to a pie festival. sam mentions how he wishes cas and jack were there and dean is like “true. oh well”

meanwhile some vampire mimes (for real) kill a man and abduct his kids. basic motw stuff ensues.

theres a cameo of a girl from season 1? she talks for two seconds, they show a flashback, and then kill her immediately

sam and dean free the kids and fight the vampires and one of them pushes dean. then sam goes to leave but dean is like “somethings got me” and come to find out he was pushed onto a hook that stabbed him in the abdomen from behind. he refuses help and says some bullshit for 10 minutes and then bleeds to death. a fucking HOOK killed him. on a show about monsters. a hook.

so sam continues being depressed. he is alone. continues doing hunts.

meanwhile dean wakes up in heaven! its so cool! wow! everyone is there! (you dont get to see them though). he sees his car (in heaven) and decides to take a drive (in heaven.)

as dean drives (in heaven) you see a montage of sam. he is walking with a toddler with “dean” embroidered on his overalls. then he is playing baseball with an older boy. in the background, a blurry blonde woman watches them. i guess thats sam’s generic wife and mother of his child that we never get to know the name of or see without a background blur

the montage progresses. sam gets old. he’s in a hospital bed in his house. his now adult son tells him “dad its okay. you can go.” so sam passes away due to old man disease.

meanwhile dean finishes his drive and gets out of the car. sam appears behind him. dean says “hey sammy” and they hug and the camera pans away while carry on my wayward son plays.

thats it. thats the ending.

[prismatic-bell]

Holy shit.

[hcnnibal]

i hate wearing a mask. i miss being able to gently kiss my trader joes cashier on the lips after they ring up my $8 box of blueberries

[willieowinsbury]

when i was little i could never sleep with the curtains closed bc i needed the moon to see me so "she could make sure i was OK" and honestly the sincerety of little girls is heartwrenching

[capstellium]

oh btw also when it comes to fatphobia one of the most insidious lies that society tells fat people is that losing weight is “easy” and “totally doable” if you just commit yourself to it. literally nothing is harder than losing weight when your body doesn’t want you to. the entire act of weight loss is based on the idea that you need to burn more than you consume, essentially that you need to be starving yourself for a number of weeks or months to get yourself down to a weight that is often unnatural for your body to maintain. the people telling these lies are mostly skinny people who have never even had to lose weight to fit into society’s standards of an acceptable person in their lives. to them, “it’s easy to lose weight” really means “it’s easy to be skinny, because i am skinny and i didn’t have to work at all to become this way.” i can tell you rn there is not a fat person alive who hasn’t attempted to lose weight once in their lives and realized it is one of the most difficult, unhealthy, and unnatural processes you can try to put yourself through. skinny ppl would do well to remember this when lecturing fat people on their supposed “health” while having to make no real effort to maintain their own size due in large part to genetics alone.

[survivor28-deactivated20201013]

Armed police fire flashbangs at suburban moms in Portland….

[FASCISM - a political system based on a very powerful leader, state control of social and economic life, and extreme pride in country and race, with no expression of political disagreement allowed]

If scenes like this are not deeply worrying to you then you really do need to wake the fuck up…

[the-right-writing]

Things almost every author needs to research

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes in your genre

Average weather for your setting

[clevergirlhelps]

yoooo

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes for your genre

Average weather for your setting

[candy-m-s-deactivated20180720]

Where has this been when I needed it???

[bunjywunjy]

why’re giraffes so violent

most big herbivores are, frankly. if you have a pretty steady supply of food and don’t have to worry about missing a hunt and starving to death, you can afford to throw your weight around more and generally be more aggressive!

that’s why the most dangerous big animals in the world are almost all herbivores.

[bunjywunjy]

this is also why walking right up to these things in Jurassic Park would have been a fantastically bad idea

[haltraveler]

Sauropods would be fucking TERRIFYING and it annoys the hell out of me that media constantly portrays them as passive and harmless. That Indominus from Jurassic World would have been SLAUGHTERED against an Apatosaurus, let alone a whole HERD of them

[plaguedocboi]

Sauropods in general were recently discovered to have spikes (think like an iguana) and possibly bony clubs on their tails, which they could possibly whip at supersonic speeds. Apatosaurus was even more fucked up than an average sauropod, having an incredibly thick neck that it probably used to fight like giraffes do, and hooked spines lining the underside to make the blows do even more damage. If that fake-ass albino hybrid motherfucker from JW tried to take out a herd of real Apatosaurus is would’ve been absolutely ripped apart, bulletproof armor or no

[haltraveler]

Some scientists think that diplodocids like apatosaurus could whip their tails so fast that it’d create a sonic boom capable of straight-up killing a human from the sound alone at point-blank range.

[ask-cloverfield]

Nature is beautiful 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nerdgul]

Those 18 states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

If you live in one of these palces please go as many extra miles to stay safe as u can as new cases are growing significantly

[midnight-revolucion]

If you live in any of these States, I advise using Johns Hopkins University of Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center to keep an eye on Critical Trends in your state (spiking infection rate, spiking death count) with the country and state map.

[katara]

[azulapropaganda]

Azula and Zuko: *fighting*

Aang:

[glumshoe]

You don’t have to love your body. You don’t even have to like it. But you have to find ways to live with it, as well as you can, and be kind to it whenever possible.

Your body is not the outward expression of your soul. It is not a reflection or a representation of your worth or your True Self. It’s just inhabited meat. It’s a flesh machine with planned obsolescence, and you have to take care of it.

It’s good to love your body, if you can. It will enhance your timed experience of the world if you can appreciate it without too much resentment for the ways it fails or disappoints you. But if you cannot love it, strive at least for neutrality. Make truces with it, however uneasy, and treat it with the respect you would show to any other animal shape.

[argumate]

Inhabited Meat

[draconym]

If you don’t yet love your body as your own, sometimes it helps to think of it as a Thing you are capable of caring for.

[demidevilqueen]

That educational representation of an exploitative profession, is on to something!

[imposterogers]

what I love about scott lang is that he has absolutely no moral qualms about committing crimes. there’s never a scene where he’s battling his conscience about breaking the law, it always been ‘my only regret is I got caught cause now I can’t hang out with my daughter’. & even tho scott lang is framed as the good guy (& IS the good guy), he literally spends two straight films continuing to break the law! there is no “I must reform & become a better person” bc he doesn’t have that guilt. he stole from corrupt corporations and gave back to the poor. he’s the modern day Robin Hood & I really hope marvel allows him to maintain this anti hero status where he lives by his own rules and moral compass in hopes of, ultimately, doing the right thing

[nydescynt]

[dearbisexual]

so i went to paris once on a school trip n my absolute favorite thing to tell ppl about paris is that ppl piss in the streets there and you can’t step in puddles b/c there’s a good chance it’s a piss puddle and alleys reek of piss

[dearbisexual]

someone: oh wow, you’ve been to paris/?????? what’s it like????

me:

[dearbisexual]

that’s why i can’t stand french ppl who get uppity online b/c i KNOW how they LIVE

[dearbisexual]

this is the saddest thing ive ever read….. mayb im just a country mouse but openly pissing in the street (when there’s accessible alternatives) is grounds for an ass beating

[glumshoe]

I wish it were easier to talk about the ways that wearing binders can be dangerous–even if you do everything “right”–without people assuming you’re campaigning against them. I want binders to be accessible to people who want them, but I also want people to understand the risks and not have them played down or blown off as “oh well you just did it wrong”. 

Tight compression of a large, complex part of the body over a period of months or years, even with regular breaks and responsible use, can have serious side-effects that are not fun at all. I had nerve damage, a subluxated rib, and a substantial decrease in my lung capacity after just a few years of wearing properly-fitting GC2B binders, even taking them off regularly and never sleeping in them. I’ve recovered, mostly, but I still have weak lungs that make swimming difficult three years after giving up binding. 

When I started binding, I thought it would be fine so long as I followed the rules. I think I would have worn them anyway, even if I’d known they could damage me, but I wish the internet at large had been more transparent with the risks.

[glumshoe]

Related to this, I wish there were more resources within trans communities for dealing with the more acutely distressing aspects of physical dysphoria that don’t posit transition as the only solution. For some people, that’s just not feasible—and it’s so hard to find support for coping with dysphoria non-medically that isn’t rooted in transphobia and the idea that medical transition is “mutilation”.

Being unable to bind and unable to afford top surgery, my experience with dysphoria has strongly resembled my experience with eating disorders. The discomfort with my body and desire to change it is still there and probably always will be, but I had to force that distress into the background because acting in response to it was causing medical injury. “Just live with it” may not be the ideal option, but it’s the only one that’s available to me.

And the thing is, I can live like this. I don’t think that makes the dysphoria less real. This is not a body that I will ever love the look and feel of, but it is only meat; it is not and never will be a physical reflection of my soul. There are little things I can do to make it a more comfortable vehicle, but no matter the cause, I think acute distress over its shape is itself injurious in the long term, and I wish there was more community support for psychological coping whether or not you decide to/are able to physically transition.

[glumshoe]

@benevolentwanderer

Except you can’t magic away the breasts, either. That’s the problem. Loads of people with dysphoria cannot pursue surgery and may never be able to, for all sorts of reasons. If it were magic, mine would be long gone—but I am stuck with them indefinitely. Perhaps forever. This is the body I inhabit, whether I like it or not; I can neither escape it nor change it to my satisfaction.

I certainly don’t think transition should be discouraged, and I disagree that therapists should push body positivity at the expense of helping people pursue it, but I do think that we have accidentally normalized the idea that inability to medically transition inevitably means suicide, and that this is a normal and expected aspect of the trans experience.

Body positivity for trans people who are unable or unwilling to alter their bodies is important. Body positivity as a supplement to transition is important, too; one thing that has helped me, personally, come to terms with my Meat Suit is accepting that my body is temporary. It will break down as I age, or if I am injured or fall ill—there is no Final Result that I can accomplish, because I will keep changing and deteriorating until I am a skeleton. Even if I do get top surgery, I will not have escaped the indignity of my flesh.

For some people, especially those of us with dysphoria, loving our bodies is a dubious goal. I don’t think I will ever love my body. But… bodily tolerance is more feasible, and something everyone would benefit from developing, and I would love to see more resources for that from within the trans community. I think of my body as an enemy I have forged a truce with; my dysphoria hasn’t been magicked away, just held at bay with coping mechanisms I already had.