why are we here? just to buffer?

i'm like if an omniscient narrator didn't know shit. you can call me cal / 30s / friendly neighborhood cruciverbalist. [ID: avi is a close-up of a woman looking unimpressed from the thomas anshutz painting "a rose" (1907). header is a slaps roof of car meme i have edited to read "moi, lisant le dico: *gifle toit de langue française* ce truc de dingue peut contenir tant de mots de ouf dedans" /end ID]

[stephexmachina]

genuinely insane to me that bikinis are the Default swimwear marketed & sold to women. that's nylon underwear. & if you don't want to wear one people treat you like you're childish & insecure & suggest ways to "get over it"

[stephexmachina]

"i feel uncomfortable with the idea of wearing what amounts to fast-drying underwear in front of other people, many of them complete strangers" "have you tried gradually acclimating to showing more & more skin? have you tried being more confident? are you ashamed of your body? don't you want to show off your beach bod?" girl what the fuck are you talking about!!!

[stephexmachina]

wearing a bikini is all about confidence & self-love 🥰 but remember to wax all that icky yucky body hair first!!! 🤢 nobody wants to see that 🙅‍♀️

[rob-by]

The pathologization of anger needs to be talked about. What do you mean my therapist is telling me that there’s something “chemically wrong” with me because I am still angry about my mom DYING OF COVID.

of course I’m still angry? My mom and 1.3 million other Americans are dead and you want me to shoot sunshine out of my ass about it?

[rob-by]

“But It’s been 3 years since she died, you have complex grief” yeah and she was on a ventilator for 11 days and she kept writing “I am scared” and “I don’t want to die” on a notepad over and over again. While you were still going out unmasked and unvaccinated and coughing all over each other, I was living a nightmare I couldn’t fucking wake up from. And every single day I’m reminded of it in the form of “haha wasn’t the pandemic such a wacky time haha” and “I’m not getting a booster you can’t make me 🤪 (nobody asked)” and “it’s not real they made the numbers up!!!”

“You’re not coping” Ok here’s the deal; I’ll stop feeling this anger when we have a national memorial (we don’t) or a cdc equipped to stop it from happening again (we don’t) or a population that takes a deadly disease seriously BEFORE it effects them personally (WE DON’T!)

until then, I’m pretty sure my anger is A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN REACTION given the facts at hand

[vampantheon]

on the topic of disabled characters, though, i think a LOT of artists give characters mobility aids that their character wouldn't actually benefit from using.

i'm sort of having a mild brain fog moment rn so i can't fully articulate what i'm on about, but i think a lot of able-bodied artists view things like canes and crutches as interchangeable. and they often don't know enough about the wide range of mobility aids to make an informed decision about what their character might actually use based on their disability

i also think that aids like walkers and rollators are sort of viewed as "cringe" on some level, and many people view them to be "just for old people," so many artists will opt for giving a character who has full-body pain and fatigue a cane (which, in many cases, can potentially WORSEN full-body pain) instead. and a lot of people don't realize that most wheelchair users are able to walk, so they don't consider it an option for characters with chronic pain

[vampantheon]

idk it's kind of frustrating. i've genuinely never, ever seen a character that uses a rollator before. not once. i cannot name a single one. i know of multiple ocs who are described to have full-body pain, dizziness, and fatigue that are drawn as cane users and are never shown with wheelchairs or walkers, though

[vampantheon]

it's also sort of sad? i've been diagnosed since i was twelve years old, and i only heard of rollators LAST YEAR. and that was only because i saw one irl and immediately asked what it was. i wonder how many disabled people out there don't even know it's an option solely because they're completely underrepresented online and in media

[vampantheon]

if you're a creative with a disabled oc, PLEASEEE check out this link. it's a very nice and detailed guide for telling which mobility aids suit someone's needs best. it's incredibly important to make the right choice for your character! mobility aids tell you a LOT about someone's lived experience. picking the right one will communicate to your audience #1 what your character goes through #2 that you UNDERSTAND what your character goes through!

[utopians]

duuuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah it's fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber

[calypsolemon]

I think basically even if a trans woman is really, Really wrong about a sensitive topic, the most she deserves is a block on social media, and not like. A whole hate campaign seeking to wipe her off the face of the internet and possibly the earth. Is what I think.

[calypsolemon]

seeking to socially isolate society's most vulnerable type of person for having a poorly formed opinion probably definitely creates an environment which fosters the formation of better opinions im sure. Im sure it also makes people who have actually been hurt by any real materially harmful behavior feel safe about speaking up bc they know that the focus will be on solutions and not become the catalyst for a hate campaign that expands to even the most tangetally related parties. Certainly this must be the case.

[calypsolemon]

you could also consider for a moment that you may be the one with the bad take this time around

[yeoldenews]

A small selection of children attempting to spell the word 'velocipede' in Dear Santa letters from the 1880s/90s.

[chechula]

I was commissioned to draw Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Silver by @lesnahod ♥ (really, the best kind of commission you can give me :D ). So here is Nanny, proudly showing Silver in a new cat-hat ( which was sent to her by her grandson, since it´s a big hit at Ankh-Morpork). Oh, Granny is a bit too happy to see the torment of this poor creature x_xre x_x

[thereforealiar]

[coquelicoq]

[ID: Text message reading "(trying to explain baseball in a way that compels you) so the pitcher and catcher have a sort of boy king and sworn loyal knight situation going on" /end ID]

[road0flife]

[coquelicoq]

[ID: Piece of paper stuck to the wall that says in all caps and italics, and with only one or two words per line:

Surrender to the irreversible glide of compact disc insertion

/end ID]

[goddamnshinyrock]

fanart for @muppetebbtide’s very very funny fic springnight, wherein Beshelar experiences the horror of having your embarrassing family meet your coworkers and boss.

(feat Beshelar’s littlest sister, left, Cala’s mom, right, and Beshelar’s mom, holding forth offscreen)

[steveyockey]

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations

[soup-mother]

There's a certain kinda person whose issue with people going "as a psych major" to belittle and dismiss disabled people is that they think you need to have a higher level degree to be allowed to belittle and dismiss disabled people.

[soup-mother]

Like their issue is clearly with the "psych major" part and not the belittling and dismissing disabled people.

[flareboi]

trans woman ryland grace changing her name to grace grace because she couldnt think of any other names and its right there

[flareboi]

grace: i think i might be a woman

rocky: rocky has seen this on earth portable thinking machine. grace very brave. grace has name, question?

grace, not entirely paying attention: yeah man its grace you know that

rocky: grace grace??????? question????????

[flareboi]

rocky: is not customary to change first name, question?

grace: it is, but everyone calls me grace anyway so it's fine

rocky: grace is sure, question? grace could pick any name

grace: hmmm... worth a thought, i guess. got any ideas?

rocky: rocky 2

grace: no

[flareboi]

rocky: grace second prettiest woman in all erid

grace: aw :) wait whos first?

rocky: rocky

[emrysmerlyn]

One cat would like to issue an alert to the household: Pigeons On The Neighbor’s Roof

[coquelicoq]

ok im not very good at morse code but heres what i got:

P

STEV

RBTCY

FMTAE

does anybody have the code key??

[everythingfox]

Morse code cat

(via)

[piosplayhouse]

[xinilia]

i hate this post. wei wuxian would NEVER use chatgpt. i can't believe this is even a question

[xinilia]

this is the most egregious character assassination i have ever witnessed like just tell me yall didnt read the book

[piosplayhouse]

He invented chatgpt and then that undermined the Jiang family's test prep empire so he disowned himself to go into exile with his lawyer Wen Qing and loyal 3D printer The Ghost General who he programmed to run Doom until eventually he killed Jin Zixuan by commenting "@ grok is this true" under one of his tweets which led to Wei Wuxian being swatted on a Twitch stream and tragically dying because he rigged the 3D printer with a DIY C4 to take out the swat officers with him

[beadyeyes]

Where's it made? Who brought it here? How much were they paid? Who makes it? Is it made in separate parts and put together? How much were they all paid to do this? Where do they get the materials? Who paid for that? Who brings it there? How much were they paid? Who streamlined the base materials? How much were they paid? Who gathered the base materials? Where? How much were they paid? Is it good for them? Is it good for us? Is it good for the land? Is it necessary? Is it biodegradable? How much does it hurt? Do I need it? Do I even want it?