Basil

bitch is married and happier than ever 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🏴‍☠️

[cpunkhobie]

i feel like once you start being around kids more violence against kid jokes just immediately stop being funny to you if not genuinely infuriating

[cpunkhobie]

i was already turned off by them before but ever since i got a nephew i feel genuine anger towards anyone who jokingly talks about hurting a kid and it’s a sure-fire way for my opinion of you to drop. idc if you don’t actually wanna punt a toddler don’t say it then

[cpunkhobie]

children are the most vulnerable people on earth don’t be surprised when someone gets pissed at you for saying you wanna hurt them

[fearfulharmony]

Another shameless merch plug because I am broke and trying to move out of Texas lol

[lordascapelion]

We should piss on the poor

[barryogg]

How dare you say that reading comprehension on this site is piss poor

[chrysanthemummenace]

I sometimes think about the time I was looking at an x-ray of my spine in a clinic and asked my specialist if this would fix me and make my body straight again and he had to look me in the eye and tell me that nothing would ever make my spine completely straight and I would be like this for the rest of my life. And the silence that followed. I knew I had scoliosis for over 6-months and not one doctor ever told me that nothing would fix it completely.

[punksrespectpronouns]

this...

also peak irony when it's social support services ya know FOR DISABLED PEOPLE. But I can only call in, or it's pharmacies or my doctor and they never offer an alternative.

unfortunately I do not have the capacity to describe this image right now but if someone else could that would be great. I also have included the link to the original tweet <3

[transgenderfivepebbles]

[Image description: A thread of tweets from @/AutisticLee.

"An example of an easy autistic accommodation that can be provided, but in my experience is hardly ever provided, is allowing email/messaging in place of phone calls. Every time I ask to be messaged and not called by doctor offices or other things, they still call. Every time.

I will send a message or email and state in it 'Please respond to this message instead of calling because I have a disability that makes phone calls very difficult.'

They call me back.

If I send a message in response to a voicemail, stating this again as the first thing, I have sometimes gotten a message response that they will put it in the notes on my chart. The next time they need me, they call again!

It's such an easy and simple thing to do - read people's chart notes and send a message/email - but they still never do it, and it's so frustrating! (tired emoji)"

/end description]

[muppetk]

Huh. I am not diagnosed ND, but as the saying goes I am ND by peer review. And… I honestly never put this together with my hatred of making/returning phone calls. I finally changed my work (acupuncture practice) voicemail to say “this VM is rarely checked because it’s overrrun by spam, and if you’d like me to get back to you with any kind of speed, please text me instead.”

Like, I was easily missing 50%+ of new patient calls because I hated checking the voicemail. Oddly enough, after texting the basics with them, and then scheduling an intake phonecall, it’s a lot easier. Occasionally I do a callback to answer questions, but most people are willing to do it by text now and that’s made my life a lot less stress filled. And they appreciate that I will answer FAST even if it’s only to say “today is booked solid, let me make a note in my calendar so that I don’t forget and I’ll get back to you X day/time.”

…I really 🤦🏻‍♀️ REALLY need to update my webpage to mention being at least somewhat ND aware and open to texting. Cause there are somethings that’s just a lot easier over phone but most of the time it’s not necessary.

[warmfuzzyanimal]

maybe it's a stupid question but why r using "it\its" and not "they\them"? For me it's kinda the same thing

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Gen Z is fucked because they don’t consider actions to be inherently evil but only evil within the context of people they deem “deserving” of punishment, so now everyone’s a psychopathic little busybody with a hero complex thinking they can play judge, jury and executioner.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Remember those two ladies at Disneyworld who somebody said “looked racist”? They weren’t wearing Confederate flags or Neonazi symbols on their clothes, they were just a couple of fat older women dressed in t-shirts and board shorts. So someone on Instagram deemed it perfectly acceptable to mock them for being fat and unattractive, because they were assumed to have been “deserving” of it.

The same mentality is used to mock poor people in the South. Again, because everyone in the South must be a racist redneck. So suddenly it’s fine to sneer at them having poor living conditions, their political needs not being listened to by the Democratic party, for natural disasters to ravage their homes etc. Because they’re obviously all racist, so it’s okay that they’re poor and suffering. They “deserve” it.

Do you understand why this whole “It’s okay if I do this to the right people” mentality is totally fucked up? You’re acting bigoted to people and justifying it by associating them with a negative trait. Which is exactly what racists do. What homophobes do. Literally the actions of the people you think deserve every kind of misery, you are doing that yourselves.

[sitaka-irony]

Skulduggery: They call me 007 at the Sanctuary. 0 flesh. 0 organs. 7 psychotic breaks per month.

[marisashorror]

Whistling Ghost

[sandmandaddy69]

[quasi-normalcy]

I find it personally offensive how many bad writers can get published so easily.

[quasi-normalcy]

I used to find it reassuring, like, "Haha, wow, if THIS can get published..." but now I take it to mean "It doesn't matter if your book is good or not, all that matters is if you're in the right social circles (and you're not)"

[littlemissmanga]

As someone who used to acquire for an indie publisher ... it sucks on the other end, too. We don't WANT to work on shitty books with shitty writing. But bossman wants to make money, and shitty writer has marketing clout/knows the right people/is already published (even if it's only online/ebook).

I used to read the most AMAZING submissions I'd be forced to pass on. Like, there was one, a literary fantasy featuring a bi deaf protagonist who learns how to navigate a spectrum of relationships while discovering herself (I don't want to give too many details out of respect to the author/don't want her concept stolen) and I couldn't get it acquired no matter how thorough my proposal and marketing plan was because she was a debut author with fewer than 10k Twitter followers and we needed that advance money for another Fifty Shades knockoff (this was a few years ago lol).

BUT PLEASE DON'T LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU! If you're a writer, and you're trying to get published, don't give up!! If your first novel isn't getting traction with either a house or agency, publish it yourself on amazon. Get that "debut" moniker away from your name. Prove you can sell your shit and keep working.

A good agent will work with you to come up with a marketing/publicity proposal. That will be huge in getting houses to notice your work - makes the acquisitions team's job easier as they can point to it and tell bossman "we have a plan". Look online for titles that have high ratings/are on the NYT list that can be compared to yours. That helps give acquisitions an idea of what they're getting into - and how to represent your book to their ED/publisher.

A good agent will also help you target editors/imprints whose lists match your book, increasing your odds of getting positive feedback or even constructive feedback. If I had a submission that just wasn't quite ready for publication, I'd give detailed notes of what I wanted and ask them to revise and resubmit.

Keep writing! Even if a book isn't picked up, start your next. It's so attractive to see an author with several unpublished works ready to be polished if you already like the work that's submitted. And more writing only refines your skills.

Yes, bad writers get published. And too many good writers, even when published, go unrecognized (if you like southern gothic fiction a la Where the Crawdads Sing, go read The Past is Never, which came out four months earlier and got NO national attention but is BEAUTIFUL). Be such a good writer that you break those odds.

Because you can. I've read your stuff on Tumblr. On Ao3. On Fanfiction.net. On Wattpad. You can do it.

[quasi-normalcy]

This is actually practical advice; thank you.

[bowserwife]

Ew dude gross, don't put your faith in me, I don't know where it's been.

[doomedsaints]

If you think horns are too edgy your just lame. Maybe put some cool ram horns on and you’ll feel better

[lmaonade]

nothing worse than ads that are like “ummm we’re sorry this is an ad. but hear us out we’re different. we’re not like those other ads okay? we hate ads too i’m sorry 🥺” literally kill yourselves

[doberbutts]

We are all, at any given moment, about 5 seconds away from permanent disability.

I was driving my car to work. I am a good driver. I have no at-fault accidents in my history. I was hit by a drowsy driver that was later charged with DWI and I still ended up with permanent disability from this.

I stood up from a chair. I was sitting at a table in my work’s break room eating my lunch and stood to throw away my trash and clock in and my knee buckled underneath me and I spent three months completely non-weight-bearing on that leg and even still today there are things I can’t do anymore due to this.

It doesn’t matter if you eat right, sleep right, drive right, work right, only have sex with the right people, only purchase the right things.

Anything can happen to you. You are always 5 seconds away from becoming disabled for the rest of your life.

I have always been disabled. I haven’t always been this disabled.

[kiera--b]

lazy day

[watermonkeystuff]

Congratulations to memes for making it to the real world.