Caelan is so fucking tired

Caelan | 26 | Homoflexible I guess | Demi/Sapio | He/Him | Autistic/ADHD | Gender Non-Conforming | Polyamorous | Pagan

[caelan-withadashofstress]

(Little note: I am autistic and was raised by my grandparents, who are old-fashioned and bigoted, and thus they hold outdated beliefs. If I use language that is now considered offensive, please tell me, tell me, TELL ME. Because I promise, if I use that language then I am not aware that it is offensive.)

Currently Reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, One Piece, War of the Spider Queen series, Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, Homestuck

Currently Watching: One Piece, Helluva Boss, The Gaslight District, Knights of Guinevere, Fate/ Strange Fake

Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria, Sun Haven

Media which I like that I'm open to talking about (as long as you're not an ass about it): The Owl House, Fullmetal Alchemist, Skyrim/The Elder Scrolls, Amphibia, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, D&D, many other assorted TTRPGs, The Legend of Drizzt, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, ATLA, Legend of Korra, Yugioh, Bakugan (old series only), The Dragon Prince, Naruto, Murder Drones, Black Clover, Darksiders, God of War, Don't Starve, Slime Rancher, Twisted Wonderland, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Realm of the Elderlings, Lord of the Rings, Yume 2kki, .flow, Collective Unconscious, Cthulhu Mythos, Xenoblade Chronicles (mainly 2), Ake no Tobari, The Amazing Digital Circus, Kingdom Hearts, One Piece, The Sisters Grimm, The Adventure Zone, Osmosis Jones/Ozzy and Drix, Fate (Type-Moon), Kill Six Billion Demons, Slow Damage, Slay the Princess, Ava's Demon, Homestuck, The Gaslight District, Fields of Mistria, Sun Haven (which I pirated for moral reasons), and Knights of Guinevere.

Other Interests: Writing, worldbuilding, life sciences, animals, gardening, literature/literary analysis, tarot, and witchcraft.

I block bigots (homophobes, transphobes, ableists, racists, etc), anti-choicers, far-right weirdos, toxic people, fandom-drama instigators, people who are weird about kids, antivax and anti-mask, and people who try to sell me on a religion (or lack of religion).

I am a safe person for all sexual and romantic orientations, races, genders, sexes, forms of gender expression, nationalities, cultures, disabilities, languages, neurodivergencies, polyamorous people, and religions (as long as you respect mine in return).

My fandom blog: caelans-got-opinions

[headspace-hotel]

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

[headspace-hotel]

We will be feeding our grandchildren strawberries and raspberries we grew in our gardens, dragging them along to the farmers' markets for tomatoes and eggs and goats milk and pickles and pecans and salsa and sunflower seed butter and jars of honey, as they complain and drag their feet because Gramma always stands around talking to people for like an HOUR

and we will say "When I was YOUR age, fruits and vegetables came from a supermarket and they were bred to get shipped 1000 miles in a truck and sit on shelves for weeks, and they tasted so sour and watery it was like eating paper compared to these ones. It wasn't even legal in some places to grow your own food"

and they will roll their eyes like yeah yeah just because everything was miserable in the 20s doesn't mean I have to have a smile on my face standing in the hot sun while you listen to that one guy talk about his bees FOREVER

But they will go, because there might be baby goats.

[headspace-hotel]

Since I made this post, dozens and dozens of people have left tags telling me that it was the first thing today that made them want to continue living, that it was the first thing that made them consider that they might be okay years in the future, that they might grow old, that it was the first and only post of its kind they'd ever seen—the first post that boldly predicts a future where we make it.

And many other people have been just spitting, foaming at the mouth fucking FURIOUS. How dare I have the audacity to imagine a future where things get better?

Don't I know how BAD things are? Am I not aware of the TERROR and DEVASTATION of climate change and fascism and biodiversity loss? How dare someone be so bold, so callous, as to imagine something other than misery and suicide. How dare someone suggest it will get better. How dare a person propose that there is a future where we will be okay, in the face of so much terror. Hasn't she seen the abyss opening its jaws before us?

Well? What do you think?

Do you think I've seen the abyss?

[cuntyjugheadfromriverdale]

the idea that there is hope for the future is the only way we have this kind of future.

there were kids who stayed inside because of the black plague and went on to help cure it.

there were women who sat at home and cleaned the house and dreamt up a world where they could vote and have jobs.

there were kids in the mines who thought up a life outside of it. there were children who hid in annexes and wrote a diary where they prayed for a future without a terrible man in control

there were slaves who wanted freedom so badly and had hope that it would get better

there were gay people who hid in the corners of clubs and fought back for a future where they could walk down the street together

do you know what all of that has in common? they had hope that things would get better and they made that change. they looked at the world in its cruel ways and fought back.

so now, there are kids and teenagers and young adults and new adults who dream of a world so beautiful and the only amazon their grandchildren know is the rainforest

and it is in everything we do that we find this hope. wishing on dandelions, counting the stars, making our own clothes out of crochet or knit or sewing it, watching the sunset, going to the farmer’s market, feeding the birds, planting seeds.

step by step, we dream up, like our ancestors before us, a beautiful world

[headspace-hotel]

THE ONLY AMAZON OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL KNOW IS THE RAINFOREST

[eagle-writes]

The only Amazon our grandchildren will know is the rainforest. @lesbiangingerjughead

Ink: Diamine Tranquility

Request by @bernoullis-quaver

[puppygirldick]

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

[oodlenoodleroodle]

"Every rose has its thorns" - wrong. Prickles

[salvadorbonaparte]

"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

[ashlgcostumes]

Tag via @bluehairedspidey and vocabulary updated

[ayeforscotland]

Still the best gaming fact.

[vixivulpixel]

Noted: misogyny is a skill issue

[what-even-is-thiss]

The reason your snacks are unsatisfying is that you need both carb and protein.

Carb starts your engine, protein keeps it going.

No carb, engine don’t start. No protein, engine dies out fast.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Easy carb add on:

Cookie

Fruit (canned or fresh)

Chips

Piece of bread

Popcorn

Crackers

Easy protein add on:

Nuts

Spoonful of nut butter

Cheese

Roasted chickpea snacks

Glass of milk (dairy or non dairy)

Small canned sausages or similar

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sugar in there.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.

[knight-of-the-quill]

Consider: Humans are the first.

In every sci-fi story where humanity reaches the stars, there are other civilisations waiting for us. Some sort of something there, some sort of intergalactic collective.

What if there wasn't.

We manage it. We reach the stars, so close we can touch them, and we shout into the void "Here we are! Here we are, where are you? Where are you?

...where are you?"

Because we are the first. Not the first to touch the stars, no-- there are others who have, but only so far as their own suns. We are the first to reach farther. The first to go so far, because, while there is no physical reason to go quite so far (we have terraformed our worlds, of course, and we can survive any environment so long as we live long enough to adapt to it, and there are not yet so many of us that we can't feed or house ourselves in our own system), we can't stop. There is adventure, there is hope, there is the freedom of being star-bound for distant worlds, distant star systems, different galaxies, of exploration and discovery. We are the first to go so far.

Of course, we can't be-- that doesn't make sense. We can't be the first. There must be someone out there, someone who can show us the way forward because this can't be it, we can't be the first, we don't know how to be the first.

But we are.

And so, we do what we always have. We create. We explore. We reach other worlds, touch their stars and skies and the depths of their seas, and build great structures, great cities and empires, but we never find quite what we're searching for.

So we keep reaching. We keep building. We keep exploring, further and further. We fumble and struggle and fall, and we pull ourselves back up like we always have.

For decades, centuries, millennia, we are alone. So very, very alone.

And then, one day, someone reaches back. A young species, like we once were, ravaged by war and so, so very afraid of the vast emptiness that waits for them beyond the light of their own suns.

And oh, there it is. The reason we have explored so much.

We are not alone anymore.

They cry out to the stars, just as we did, "Here we are! Here we are, where are you? Where are you?"

And we can reach back. "Here we are," we say. "Here we are! We are human, who are you?"

And we will show them the vastness of the universe, the joy of chasing a comet just to see where it lands, of crying into the void and waiting for someone to finally answer you.

Then we will build together, explore together, and know that we are not alone. They will fumble, they will struggle, they will fall, and we will be there with an outstretched hand and an offer of help.

And one day, another species --young like we once were, ravaged by war and so, so very afraid of the vast emptiness that waits for them beyond the lights of their own sun-- will call, "Here we are, here we are, where are you?"

We will both reach back. "Here we are," we will say, together, "here we are! Who are you?"

Humans are first. But we will certainly not be last.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you know how in greek myths people who die tragically sometimes get placed among the stars by the gods?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

call that

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

call that a

[arsonist-arcade]

Its okay, take your time

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

constellation prize

[omarapetirun]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in my defense they did not specify the order in which i was allowed to take my time!

[sentimental-androids]

Dear God these tags are immaculate….

[walmart-the-official]

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

[bleu-guacamole]

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

[bogleech]

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[the-little-armored-one]

[cappuccinco]

@ominous-signs

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[dittography-direwolf]

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

[desinteresse]

Men who talk shit about gold diggers underestimate the grit it takes to put up with an insufferable man, even when money is involved. We should be thanking them for their service like they are veterans.

[little-trash-ghost]

Can't leave this in the tags..

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[cloverchameleon]

[laciffo-natas]

Oh by the way if you use they/them for someone who has explicitly told you not to, it's still misgendering even if you think you're being woke about it

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

[firestorm09890]

[frankbelloriley]

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[loveridden1999]

Tens of thousands of Cockroach party protesters defy police with Delhi march

Youth-led movement calls on education minister to quit in one of India’s largest anti-government rallies in years

Police attack Cockroach activists as thousands march on Indian parliament

More than 10,000 protesters braved tear gas and baton charges in their largest challenge yet to PM Modi's government.