When Its Hard To Love, Love Harder!

My name is Katie! I’m in my early twenties and I mainly just lurk around this website.

[caringkatie-uwu]

Please enjoy the comic my girlfriend made about our silly cat Jake

[strawbunnycakes]

dragonair ☁️

[unusual-dolls]

huh

[puffinmaster246]

[yay855]

Let’s go over some things, shall we?

Jenny was originally designed to be a shape-shifting superhero; her “pigtails” are rocket thrusters, and her entire body can morph and shift to create weapons. Given her standard appearance is more to look like a humanoid girl, it seems reasonable that that’s an appearance she chose, rather than her default, especially because we know she can modify her appearance however she likes, albeit restricted to her two base colors unless she gets a new paint-job.

Though her mother learns to be more supportive of her later on, Jenny was originally confined to house arrest save for doing her job, supposedly because the world around her wouldn’t accept her.

She is canonically six-foot-six, which is rather tall, though it seems the average height of humanity has also gone up. So it’s not too uncommon for other men to be taller than her, but she’s also taller than most people. She has so far only dated other men who are taller than her.

She gains two different disguises for looking human. The first one doesn’t pass at all, while the second passing one convinces her to behave like a normal human girl, whispering into her ear to not only look, but behave like a “normal” girl, even if it’s not in her best interests.

It’s evidently quite common for androids to be made from different base personality points- Kenny, a boy she dated for a little while, was a re-purposed dog robot, and still carried over some of his dog traits.

The two most popular girls in school specifically have it out for her, because she’s a robot “pretending” to be a girl.

Jenny is allowed to play in her high school’s male football team.

[robot-voice]

Don’t forget this scene: 

I’d suspected Jenny was trans coded for a long time, but this scene was what had me 100% convinced. 

Prior to this episode Jenny had always treated Ms. Wakeman as her mother, always referring to her as “mom/mother”; which caused Wakeman to be mocked by her peers. Ms. Wakeman was typically cold towards Jenny, always referring to her as XJ9 (essentially Jenny’s deadname) and usually treating her as nothing more than a defence droid. But in this scene Ms. Wakeman is actually seeing Jenny in danger and rushes to protect her, finally calling her “my daughter” for the first time. As soon as she does, the pure joy and amazement in Jenny’s voice just makes my heart swell. 

This show is so incredible and SO ahead of it’s time. 

[quadraxic-expression-deactivate]

Worth noting that the creator of the show acknowledged this, basically saying “We didn’t intend for Jenny to be trans coded, but we’re ecstatic that trans people are finding comfort in her. Just because we didn’t intend the subtext doesn’t mean it’s not there.” Very cool and way the hell better than Hartman handles shit like this.

[twotailed]

furrets winter adventures

[newlevant]

It’s that time of year! 🌈

Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.) Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.

More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.

[mythriens]

Image description: Title reads "COVID-Safer Pride Guide" in front of a rainbow flag and three people in masks and respirators. Five colourful squares containing information make a rainbow and contain illustrations like a person's arm with a band-aid covering the site of a vaccine injection, a person in an N95 mask, and a line of Pride flags. The text reads:

COVID is still a threat. Getting sick sucks, plus your risk of long-lasting symptoms—aka long COVID—gets higher each time you're infected. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to lower the risk of transmission! Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!

Get a Booster. Like Drag Race spinoffs, new COVID variants are dropping all the time. Antibodies from your latest vax or infection wane after a few months. Get a booster matched to the latest variants, and your resistance will peak in a couple weeks!

Mask up! COVID virus spreads through the air like the smoke from a fag [British]. A well-fitting N95 mask gives great protection! More reasons to mask up: sexy and mysterious, shows community care, avoid all the other airborne diseases!

Take it outside. The more fresh air to disperse the virus, the better! Transmission is still possible, especially in a crowd, but going outdoors is a major safety update!

Stay home if you're sick. Pride is all about community, baby. Protect your people by staying home if you're sick. If you do have COVID (rapid tests aren't great, so you might not know), getting lots of rest lowers your risk of developing long COVID! Drink some tea, sis.

[staticevent]

hello there

[momoboyds]

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

[hiimneptune]

Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem

[momoboyds]

so the racism, antiblackness, islamophobia, and hatred for immigrants just disappeared huh

[creatingblackcharacters]

"its been a while since we were the problem" someone Black was murdered by police violence in Ireland last month

[creatingblackcharacters]

THERE ARE POGROMS HAPPENING AGAINST IMMIGRANTS, MUSLIMS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND AS WE SPEAK

[mapsontheweb]

What Europe Would Look Like If Sea Levels Decreased By 1000 Meters

[yolobus]

something tells me Russia would not agree to this division of the artctic

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[what-even-is-thiss]

On the local news today they said that they caught a guy who was attacking people with a sword.

Bad for the people who were injured obviously but how often do you see sword crime these days?

[i-suggest-larp]

Do you want to see more sword crime? 👀

[homunculus-argument]

New thought:

You can go back in time to visit one (1) historical person, and gift them one (1) animal as a pet. You don't concern yourself with whether or not it would be ethical to keep this animal as a pet, or how would they keep it at all, but the one requirement you have is that this animal does not naturally occur on their native continent. What are you giving, and to whom?

[homunculus-argument]

I think it would be hilarious to give one of these buggers to Sun Tzu. You now own a giant pinecone possessed with intelligence. The fuck are you going to do with that thing.

[pepsimanshugesweatyswingingballs]

Chinese pangolin - Wikipedia

hey op

[homunculus-argument]

The giant one is from Africa.

Giant pangolin - Wikipedia

[sup-its-cat]

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

[notes-and-violets]

I had to xD

[mino2aur]

[kleefkruid]

The 'hyperspecific situations' polls are really once again highlighting that native English speakers tend to forget that 'foreign' doesn't mean 'non-English' or 'non-American'

"Did you watch a foreign language movie in the past three days?" Yeah I watched the foreign movie "The Martian" with foreign actor Matt Damon

[eastern-lights]

Op why would you hide this is the tags

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[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: 'Do you speak a foreign language?' Yeah yours /End ID]

[noah-wyles]

this is such a fantastic and reassuring response

[cloudabserk]

i want to abuse my government expense account to buy grace candy

[homunculus-argument]

If someone's being loud and needlessly noisy on the street below your apartment and you happen to have an ice cube tray that makes ice cubes roughly the size of a tennis ball, and you chuck one down at them from your balcony, what are the odds of ever being caught? Like can they even prove that they correctly remember which balcony it was launched from, and the attempted murder weapon will melt before they can do anything about it.

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

MAN you'd hate to have me as a neighbor. I sing so loud at 3AM from the 6th floor that the whole buiding hears it.....

[wildliferehabstudent]

...why do you do that?

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

Because I am unfortunately awake during those hours and every single minute I'm awake I listen to music. I normally use headphones at night, but recently my headphones broke soooo...the neighbors are getting quite a concert till I fix it or get a new one.

[wildliferehabstudent]

You're waking everyone in your apartment building at 3 am because your headphones don't work?

[friendlyghostsandmonsters]

I....don't think I'm waking anyone to be perfectly honest.

Our directly next door neighors throw soil at people's balcony at night...so I don't think my singing's doing anything.

[homunculus-argument]

I think your house is the place that the "oh my god I could never live in a flat, I would kill myself if I was surrounded by neighbours at all times" people think about when they imagine what it would be like to live in an apartment complex.

[feralratboye]

man I just can't even process the lack of consideration towards other people ...

[homunculus-argument]

I can! Back when I was still living at mom's and was working a 3-shift job, my mom and sister fully agreed that just because I was working night shift from 10 pm to 6 am and buying their damn groceries, I'm not entitled to uninterrupted sleep if my sister wants to sing and play the piano loud as shit at 2 pm. Being expected to wait a few more hours while I sleep would be torture for her.

With neighbours who are strangers, I can at least trust that other people (who are also strangers) won't just automatically side with whoever I have beef with, out of a default assumption that I specifically am always wrong (and therefore whoever I disagree with must be in the right, no matter how convoluted the reasoning).

I would rather fight a thousand neighbours than ever try to negotiate with family again.