[medievaljournalist]

Could you do a post about the foolish emperor

im not saying shit about the emperor are you crazy that guys got like a hundred wizards on payroll. one wrong word & im getting hit with something called 'eightfold mutilation'

[standupbard-deactivated20171201]

i don’t “follow” my favorite bands. i just get pleasantly surprised when i find out that they released an album 2 months ago.

[quixoticanarchy]

damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

[quixoticanarchy]

i (type 1 diabetic) was explaining autoimmune diseases to someone and she was like ohh right so yours is the good kind of diabetes where you didn't do it to yourself. to which i objected that's not how type 2 works either. and she said well that's the fat old people disease. and i was like you can't say that, a) not how it works and b) extremely rude. and her defense was her grandparents have type 2 and "did it to themselves" and since they're fat old people she reserves the right to hate on them. i understand hating shitty grandparents but YOU are the shitty one here to hate on them for their medical conditions and weight rather than literally anything else. hello?!

anyway type 2 diabetics i'm sorry about the world. everyone* be kind to type 2s or else

*note to type 1 diabetics especially we need to be better at solidarity and not cling to being the "good ones" at type 2s' expense. what the fuck is a good kind of diabetes anyway

[quixoticanarchy]

also worth saying diabetes is a complex reaction to a not-yet-fully-understood set of factors and environmental pressures and genetics and it's reductive and fatphobic to say fat=diabetes BUT EVEN SO no matter if someone did incontrovertibly "give themself diabetes" that's not a free pass for dehumanization. shut upppp

[postergirlfornothing]

[dogpuppy]

[fuckhugeoctopus]

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

[commodityproduction]

The guy who makes all the bath tubs has just broken down into shocked tears after discovering that average or more sized adult people would like to comfortably take baths some times

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you just teleported to the last game you played how is it going? {you're plot involved}

good

bad

great

awful

dead

I don't play games/results

Remaining time: 1 day 29 minutes

Soma 😔

[psilocervidae]

Green + yellow + orange is a highly underrated colour combo

[psilocervidae]

Look at her don't you love her

[solisaureus]

i just knit a lace shawl to show off this exact color scheme of a beautiful yarn i got!

[inchidentofftrack]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

happy decade to the horrible beast i have wrought

[cloudabserk]

the author reached out to ryan gosling about producing and starring in a movie adaptation BEFORE THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED?? sorry sir i don’t believe the name similarity is a coincidence i think you wrote this entire novel as an excuse to hang out with ryan gosling

[cloudabserk]

hmm

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

once i had a dream that i killed every person who had ever lived and who ever would live. then i got transported to a flat plain made entirely of water that i could walk on. i met god, and they said ‘you killed everyone. now what?’ and then i woke up and had to stare at the wall for a while

[achingmarshking]

[aimervee]

So anyways the Pokecology book is really good you guys

[aimervee]

Some more highlights :)

[ashoss]

“word hashtag my word #myword” has done irreversible damage to my vocabulary

[ashoss]

“word hashtag my word #myword” has done irreversible damage to my vocabulary