Archipelago Siren

They/Them Aromantic spectrum Bisexual Chronic disabled spoonie has opinions

[archipelago-siren]

My country has elections happening soon, and today canvassers knocked on my door from the most prominent party.

Now I am not policitian or canvasser, but here's a hot tip anyway:

If you introduce yourself as the Candidates husband, maybe don't specifically ask the constituent your talking to if they're friends with [insert well known community person] to then when met with the answer of yes, tell them "Well he's been a lifelong supporter of [party you're in favour of] but now he's voting for my wife" because 1) that's manipulative and 2) not for you to share

And secondly and most importantly don't then lie and tell the constituent that you're on a local charities committee with said friend, because

1) You're not, and

2) The constituent you're talking to IS.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Went to the grocery store with my kindergartener. We weighed some bananas: 2 pounds even. We weighed a watermelon: 4 pounds even. We weighed some mangos: a little over 1 pound. We weighed the watermelon AND the bananas: 6 pounds even.

“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”

“What happens if you add 6+1?”

“SEVEN”

“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>

“IT’S THE SAME!!”

“OK, what’s 7-4?”

“Three?”

“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>

“Mama! Are you telling me math works In Real Life? Think of all the things you could measure!!”

[archipelago-siren]

I find myself heartbroken by the new casting news for Heartstopper (movie) by Alice Oseman.

Nick's mum (previously played by Olivia Coleman) is being replaced with Anna Maxwell Martin, the actress who signed on to play Rita Skeeter in the new Harry Potter audible series.

Someone who does not care about funding Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric and active campaigning, has now been hired to be the supportive/ally mum in what has been widely deemed as one of the most heartwarming and positive LGBTQ+ series of the decade.

Olivia Coleman did a superb job and her response to Nick's coming out in Season 1 was one of the highlight moments of the series, showing parents worldwide how to respond to your child coming out to you. I understand she wasn't able to reprise her role for the film, but to be replaced by someone who does not care for the trans community is abysmal and undermines all the work put into the series by Coleman.

*How* can Alice and the casting department be so tone deaf to think this casting decision was the right choice? I'm appalled.

[kim-jong-chill]

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

[mattheuphonium-blog]

fabulous 

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

[counterpunches]

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

[aukkenopsia]

This was a piece I started in summer but haven't found the energy to complete, so I will let it exist as is.

[archipelago-siren]

We were both victims of societally induced queer coded masked autism.

She studied Classics at ALevels ffs 😂

[archipelago-siren]

If you ask me who my favourite doctor is, Eccelestone all the way.

Who do I think is the best Doctor however?

Tennant. 💯

Because he can pull a face like this, showing the true villainy and monster of the doctor for one split moment, and immediately go on to be the loveable goofball we all know and love in the next.

No doctor has ever scared me like 10.

[image is a screenshot of the Doctor in episode Utopia, whilst he's talking to Captain Jack in the radiation chamber]

[archipelago-siren]

My dad is going deaf. He has been losing his hearing at a significant decline for the past couple of years.

Today I told him that I've been looking into courses to learn BSL, had already picked up a few simple phrases, and suggested that we learn together as a family.

I was met with anger and disgust.

I realise he'll have had many internal emotional reactions to my statement, but I cannot grasp how me essentially saying "I love and support you enough to learn a new language for you", is something for him to react to me with only anger.

[he-wears-fine-things-well]

Jake is a whore because he betrayed his entire species for some hot aliens after knowing them for three months. Quaritch is a bigger whore because he did it in three minutes

[waterandsilver]

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

[waterandsilver]

i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage

[in-the-drowning-deep]

I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.

then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.

and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.

moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.

[netherworldpost]

printers do not want to be printers because they want to be problems

[onlywayin-deactivated20231101]

[wander-in-arda]

I work cybersecurity, this is like half my job.

[fiddlertoad]

the whole vaccine deal tbh

[i-am-emily]

antidepressants

[wizardavid]

Yes these are all the work of wizards

[archipelago-siren]

new gender just hit

[our-queer-experience]

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[hellenhighwater]

Okay okay okay I'm roughing out ideas for a sculpture that'll have a sword in one hand and the other sheltering a little oil flame. So I was taking hand pose reference pictures during my lunch break, as one does

But Malice has decided that actually. Is Meatball time

[hellenhighwater]

I am but a humble gundam for the Meatball Supreme to pilot where she pleases

[hellenhighwater]

You're right, it's definitely too big for her.

This is much better.

[seren-starlight]

The issue with the daylight savings time change is that people aren't used to falling back an hour or springing forward an hour, and people struggle as they take the time to adjust. But of course, if you only do something twice a year you'll never develop a talent for it. You need to practice if you really want to be good at something! Under my proposal, which absolutely everyone will hate,

[witchlinda]

Taisiia Onofriichuk from Ukraine performs her hoop routine to the sound of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson at the 2024 Paris Olympics Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Qualifiers

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This isn't. Physically possible. The hoop throws.

[roach-works]

hi! what the fuck.

[rosslynpaladin]

She must have worked on this for SO many HOURS and HOURS