BlueRavenCat

Fabian, he/him Art tag: fabi_draws art sideblog: fabicat

[fladurblegon]

[tanadrin]

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

[jadagul]

https://xkcd.com/2567/

[tanadrin]

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

[bigscaryd]

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

[nordenflycht]

there's an xkcd for that also

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[unnamedmedicalprofessional2]

To be fair to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, if I wrote some pulp short stories for a quick buck and an obsessive fandom sprung up around it at a time when fandom culture as we now know it didn't really exist yet, and I had to witness people being insane about my characters while having very little precedent for what the fuck was going on, I would also be confused and frightened and desperately trying to escape from the situation I'd ended up in.

[prokopetz]

It's a little bit funny when I talk about how what passes for autistic advocacy on Tumblr often operates by openly throwing other neurodivergent people under the bus – critically including other autistic people whose communication needs don't conform with a very specific archetype – and folks come at me assuming that I'm some clueless allistic who's being mean to them for no reason, because Does This Look Like A Blog A Neurotypical Person Would Run.

[dukeofriven]

I have insisted for a long time that while the stereotypes that neurotypical people have about autistic people are awful, they're also predictable: it is a pretty standard set of consistent, wrong beliefs. Nobody, however, believes more bizarre things about autistic people than autistic people. Autistic people are out here reinventing eugenics, Mary Baker Eddy-style Neo-Gnostic Positivism, deterministic teleology, all sorts of things from first principles that are, crucially, also wrong. It's fascinating, if somewhat frustrating. (My usual joke about my one friend's Facebook page is 'Neurotypicals Don't Understand All Autistic People Use Clear Communication' Says Autistic Woman Who Constantly Ghosts Others For Months.)

[prokopetz]

I'm not sure I'd call the prevalence of eugenicist rhetoric in certain stripes of online autistic advocacy a reinvention, per se; "nerds are literally, materially a more 'highly evolved' clade of humans" is a mind-gremlin that's been clinging to nerd culture since before the Internet was a thing, and certain online spaces seem simply to have absorbed it wholesale.

[teaboot]

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

[justlightmeonfire]

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

[teaboot]

Also the amulet

[whimsicalmayhem]

Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?

[teaboot]

The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third

[madeofklay]

I saw this perfectly in my head and had to recreate it

[teaboot]

Holy Shit

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[cookingwithroxy]

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

[salamanderpie]

Yeehawgust: Mountain Pass

[creatingblackcharacters]

"For example the "Rheinlandbastarde" were the offspring, born during the 1920s, of German women and French Somalian soldiers who were stationed in the Rhineland during its post-World War 1 occupation. The Reichsbauernführer Richard-Walther Darre declared, "as a Rhinelander, I demand: sterilization for all mulattoes with whom we were saddled by the Black shame on the Rhine."

German Hereditary Health Courts judged the reproductive fitness of poor and ill Gentiles on a case-by-case basis, but for Blacks and Afro-Germans, visual or verbal evidence of African ancestry was enough to justify immediate secret sterilization in on-site clinics under Special Commission No.3, which was devised by Eugen Fisher in 1937. For example, Frankfort health office records for June 19, 1937 note:

"The German citizen Josef Feck, born on 26 September 1920 and residing in Mainz is a descendant of the former colonial occupation troops (North Africa) and distinctly displays the corresponding anthropological characteristics. For that reason he is to be sterilized. His mother consents to the sterilization."

Upon demand, Afro-Germans men had to produce health documents certifying that they had been sterilized, and although the sterilization of at least 385 children is well documented, an entire generation of Afro Germans was robbed of its fertility."

Chapter 8- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

[millenniallust4death]

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

[millenniallust4death]

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

[psycorax]

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

[millenniallust4death]

Thank you to everyone who commented in their tags or messaged me. Indeed, today is “Martin and Bosco Day”. I originally whimsically blazed this photo on 13 July 2022. I never expected Martin and Bosco to travel so far and make so many new friends. The experience has been such a gift for me.

[gothiccharmschool]

Yes, this is my circus, those are my monkeys, and yes I deliberately gave them those flamethrowers.

[syrenki]

not everything must be made into a "love yourself" talk not everything has to include the words endurance joy and resistance in it sometimes the world is harsh around the edges and people don't understand one another and sometimes this was our only chance and we blew it. not every sentence has to end with "and yet you persist". i'm sick of people scared of any bigger emotions. you can feel despair i promise it is that serious

[theunfairfolk]

the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

[theunfairfolk]

the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

[creatingblackcharacters]

"However, Nazi eugenicists frequently observed that their laws to bar Jewish-Aryan mating were more liberal than were American laws to separate people of African descent from the white genetic pool. Germans held at a person who was one-quarter Jewish was a legal Aryan and thus fit to marry a German, but parallel marriages and meetings between whites and Blacks were illegal in much of the United States and, in effect, punishable by death- lynching.

The "one-drop" laws of many southern states counted anyone who had even one thirty-second African heritage as Black. Other laws, such as the 1924 Virginia Racial Integrity Act, denominated anyone with any "Negro blood" at all as Black. Editors of German medical journals learned a great deal about eugenic proscription by studying American medical journals, whose charts precisely detailed which racial mixtures were tolerable in marriages to whites, who was "white" enough to vote, and so on.

In fact, a cordial rivalry characterized the relationship between German and American eugenicists: "The Germans are beating us at our own game," Virginian eugenicist Dr. Joseph S. Dejarnette sighed in thinly veiled admiration during a 1934 speech in which he urged the Virginia legislature to expand its sterilization laws."

Chapter 8- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[sufficientlylargen]

One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.

[teaboot]

Using Fey Law as a heavy-handed metaphor for corporate IP copyright

[teaboot]

Saying their name will draw their attention.

Using their likeness will spark their ire.

Encroachment upon their domain will earn punishment beyond earthly tithe.

The consequences of their regard may be intangible and long-lasting.

Rarely, you may earn their approval, but it is not worth the risk.

You must ask their permission, which is rarely granted.

Once they have you, they will not let you go for a hundred years.

You must be clever and use trickery and wordplay to evade them.

The master of each domain has their own unique and fickle nature, and some are more forgiving than others.

One must use titles and euphemisms to discuss them without their notice- IE, "The Rat", "The Bird Website"

[teaboot]

Starting a mass movement to refer to specific Tylwyth Teg by name until they lose their power and become common household standards like Kleenex and Velcro

[teaboot]

Spreading legend of The Rodent In Red Pants Who Walks Upright On Hind Legs Like a Man and if you sully his Good and kindly Name then great misfortune will befall you and you will never be heard from again