Just things...

[tweetingukpolitics]

[ravioliraz]

[shadowgremlin]

My wife’s idea of decompressing after the busy holiday was to rearrange every piece of furniture in our home is this an ADHD thing or just a her thing

I’m not complaining the way she’s done it is much better than it was it’s just like how is this your idea of a relaxing weekend

[kaity--did]

Listen I don't get to decide when the drunk elf that is my executive actually does the functioning but when he does we have a SMALL WINDOW OF TIME before he finds the schnapps again and we're done

[honeysbunchesofoats]

[kaity--did]

yes this exactly

[luminouspica]

So to me, there are spoons (general energy cost) and carnival tickets (specific energy cost).

Spoons can be used pretty much anywhere.

Carnival tickets are only good for the carnival, and it’s only in town for a limited amount of time.

So like, if I get “kitchen cleaning” carnival tickets, I can’t use that to clean my bedroom, that’s not where the carnival is.

[lingonberry24]

phrase added to permanent vocabulary

[bevinkb]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Poe Dameron/Original Female Character(s), Chewbacca & Poe Dameron & Finn & Rey & Original Character(s) Characters: Poe Dameron, Rey (Star Wars), Finn (Star Wars), Chewbacca (Star Wars), Original First Order Characters (Star Wars), BB-8 (Star Wars), Original Droid Characters (Star Wars) Additional Tags: AI Beta Reader, AI assisted, Life Day (Star Wars), Life Day Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Autistic Characters, Redemption, First Order (Star Wars), Resistance (Star Wars), Whump, Trauma Recovery, Droid Whump (Star Wars), Screenplay/Script Format, Fluff and Angst, Hope, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Post-Canon), Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Summary:

Stranded on a neutral world, the crew of the Millennium Falcon hires a technician. They get BV-514: a brilliant but socially awkward woman, her loyal astromech named Quinn, and scars she doesn't dare talk about.

As the shadow of First Order falls over the shipyard, Poe, Rey, and Finn face a choice: finish the repairs and leave, or risk everything to offer a spark of hope to someone who thought hers was long gone.

A story about the weight of the past, the quiet power of kindness, and finding your place in a family of heroes, mechanics, and malfunctioning droids in the spirit of Life Day.

[bevinkb]

Infinity Labyrinth

If I had a nickel for every piece of media that 1. stars a teenage girl 2. a short, talking companion 3. a short, knightly character, and 4. they're chasing after a handsome antagonist that twirls around a ball in his hand, I'd have two nickels.

It's not a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[bevinkb]

Inside Potted Jokes

AI translations should NOT be a thing! It doesn't compare to discovering inside jokes in a series or video games. For example, in Infinity Nikki (which is a dress-up adventure game), one of the mushroom people says that Momo, my talking cat companion, is a "chubby pot". It's a reference to a popular character in the Dark Souls game series.

Infinity Nikki, the game,

My talking cat companion, Momo

The "Chubby Pot" in question:

[luulapants]

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

[barissoffee]

FINN AND POE DAMERON IN STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 10th anniversary - released December 17, 2015.

[theconcealedweapon]

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Embossed braille should be standard on computer keyboards. 

It would raise braille literacy more than anything else I could imagine - among both the blind and the sighted. Currently braille is actually vanishing due to an increasing reliance on audiobooks and screen readers. 

I think that braille has a lot of potential use among non-blind groups. As an alternative to traditional writing for dyslexics. As a way to help photosensitive people type with their eyes closed. Or simply as a means to help sighted people find things without needing the lights on all the time!

[acutelyhomosexual]

Accessibility note: It’s important that braille doesn’t vanish because it’s one of the only written language that works for blind and sight-impaired people. It is necessary for them to interact with the real world where screen readers and audio devices are not available to them, such as elevators, most major metro systems, stairwells, doorways, the bumps in the sidewalk at corners are actually developed in conjunction with audio signals so blind people don’t step off the curb into traffic before the correct time. 

Digital technology has made accessibility so much easier for all of us disabled people, but we still *need* the real-world accommodations that we fought and died for

[nkp1981]

Oscar Isaac on the set of “The Rise of Skywalker”

[bevinkb]

The Black One

"Black One" isn't just Poe's callsign. It is is Poe's pet name for Finn and you can't convince me otherwise.

[bevinkb]

Literally Driven Insane

Say what you will about Victor Frankenstein,

he had a good point about refusing to transfer Harlander's Syphilis infected brain into the new body because he was like,

"fuck no! I am not letting you drive this experimental Lamborghini that I worked very hard on! Not with your shitty driving record!"

[daffodil-screaming]

I'm glad we all agree

[whereareyourightnow]

HAPPY 10 YEARS OF STORMPILOT

The Force Awakens | December 18th, 2015

[bevinkb]

Happy 10th anniversary to being inspired to write Poe Dameron fanfiction that dragged me out of the depths of my despair and depression.

[prokopetz]

As an atheist, the primary benefit of studying religions is – ironically – that it helps you stay grounded in reality. God may be fake, but religions as bodies of cultural practices are very real, and using the former as an excuse to refuse to learn about the latter means you're at constant risk of making up a guy to get mad at.

The secondary benefit of studying religions is that Roman Catholic heresies are objectively hilarious.

[bevinkb]

Yeah no, I'm not going to worship your Ceasar cosplaying as a magical Jew.

[guerrillatech]

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.

It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Hey, reblog this version instead, please!