Chaos

Fabrics/sewing/crochet, science, politics and other chaos

[cock-holliday]

Idk man it’s so easy to get bogged down in all the bullshit online but when my then-6 year old cousin found out I was trans he said “ok” then corrected my grandma when she misgendered me. I was once the third between a gay man and a lesbian. Two lesbians once invited me back to their place when I presented as a man. I met an AMAB nb butch who looked strikingly to outsiders like a cis man and it was one of the more sapphic experiences I’ve had. I nervously wore a boydyke shirt to pride and got 3 different cis-looking femme folks tell me they loved my shirt. I once told a trans group at a protest that any pronouns were fine for me and one person said “wow, I’m impressed and intimidated by people like that. I don’t know that I could be that chill with pronouns.” I once told a GNC friend I wished I could wear a type of “opposite” gender clothing after I had already transitioned and so it would be associated with my AGAB and he said “You could just do it.” I’ve had cishet men fight cops for me before. The first time I had a doctor ask me if my name was different than what was on my forms I had to try not to cry. Last week, a phone call with a doctor’s office where I am generally cis passing asked unprompted if my name listed is what I want to be called. It touched me then too. I told a lesbian friend once I felt like my attraction to men AND women both felt gay. She said “makes sense.” And we moved on. I go by different pronouns in different circles. I’ve had gay women love my facial hair. I’ve had gay men like my tits. It’s all out there, I promise. It can be hard to find it but I promise there is community like you and community who likes you. And it’s more messy and beautiful than tumblr discourse makes it out to be.

[cock-holliday]

These are from the last 8 hours only. And not all of them.

We're here! We're here we're here we're here!

Check the notes! There are so many of us and so many who love us.

Queer love, baby!

[the-haiku-bot]

Check the notes! There are

so many of us and so

many who love us.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[flipchild]

play coolmath games win coolmath prizes

[byjove]

‘I have done all I could and I am going home.’ fascinating epitaph on a headstone for a woman who died at age 28 in 1890

[lokaror]

GOUGAR CLAIMS COOL ROCK

[ubersaur]

God forbid women do anything

[justpastsaturn]

She had a good time, too

[maureen2musings]

A little relaxation, Brooks Falls, Alaska @achdiefranzi

[screenshotsofdespair]

[homunculus-argument]

You can only wear one colour and one metal shade* forever. Choose:

red with gold

orange with gold

yellow with gold

green with gold

blue with gold

purple with gold

red with silver

orange with silver

yellow with silver

green with silver

blue with silver

purple with silver

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

[*copper/bronze/etc are hereby classified as "gold", and all grey metals from platinum to steel are classified as "silver". You can pick whatever shades and tones of your colour, so shades of beige and brown count as "orange". You can also wear either black or white as an addition to your colour, but not both. If you want to wear grey, go nude forever, or otherwise choose an option not listed above, you will be killed on sight.]

[foone]

I'm filling out forms for a doctor's appointment and they want me to list any family members who have had various conditions, like diabetes, various cancers, or if they've got "healthy".

apparently being healthy is a serious medical condition now

[foone]

also any form that asks you if you're sexually active and then wants to know what birth control you use should include "homosexuality", "no one involved has a uterus", "it's not that kind of sex" as options.

I mean if you're going to list 16 different methods you clearly are trying to be comprehensive, so lets not kid ourselves about what options are out there

[foone]

they list OCP as one of the birth control methods

HALT, SPERM. YOU MAY NOT PROCEED

[foone]

they also make me check which genders I've had sex with and only offer the vintage genders. come on, I'm not even binary, why are you assuming everyone I've had sex with can easily be slotted into a male or female box?

IT'S 2025, WE HAVE MORE SEXES AND GENDERS THAN THAT

[foone]

contraceptive method

* other, list here: [i only have sex with people who are already pregnant so it's not possible for me to get them more pregnant *shrug*]

[foone]

they have a section called "Social History - Other Factors" and give me various options, like:

military service

sleep concern (?)

exercise (are they asking if I have a history of exercise?)

bike helmet (???)

caffeine

[foone]

neurotypical fuckers are always like "autistic people have trouble following directions" and then hand me a form that asks if I have a history of bike helmet

[auyawolf]

well, do you?

[foone]

mind your own business, that's protected personal medical information

[mangue-manguezal]

Death feigning beetle larvae also feign death

[tekunoraizu]

aaaah i’m dead and i’m a baby ahhhhh

[laylamadrox]

i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about eva stratt saying "beats the alternative" when grace asks her if she believes in god. i've seen a lot of interpretations where she's religious, which i do enjoy because that's a fun study of her character, especially when it explores her faith meaning she knows she's going to hell for her actions but she does it anyway.

but my actual interpretation of the scene is eva's belief in god is rooted in the same thing as her belief in the hail mary. hope. because if she doesn't believe this will work, if she doesn't believe some higher power is looking out for them, then the reality of the situation can be crushing. and while typing this up, i realized it's also possibly a call back to her earlier line-

"the alternative is to just do nothing and to starve and to kill each other and watch everything on this planet go extinct, including us."

when she says "beats the alternative", it could double in meaning as believing in god and in the hail mary's success is a much more comforting thought than the alternative of it failing.

i also think there's something to be explored in someone who was made the most powerful person on earth and told "fix this impossible problem" having to believe in something all powerful and greater than herself because otherwise the weight of her own personal power and responsibility will get to her.

[jiiin22]

skipping rock (4 pages)

[luck-system-shenanigans]

i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????

[wizardarchetypes]

you have to do it with a low-grade but multi-day headache

[elodieunderglass]

I wonder what People Who Really Like Trains liked best before trains. the first sights of the first trains in history must’ve hit those brains like a galaxy going off.

[lucillewalterblack]

Things I’ve seen records of historically that fit the same niche:

Sailing ships! I’ve read transcripts of diaries where people get Very Excited about ship spotting

People in the tags have suggested clocks and I’m seconding this, the Clock Guys seem to have peaked in a pre-train society. This includes automata and clockwork mechanisms imho.

Birdwatching

Jacquard looms and other similar large-scale intricate machines

Astronomy

Glassmaking, particularly lenses

Mass migrations of animals

Construction of cathedrals and temples and other massive structures

Mail coaches and mail delivery

[elodieunderglass]

And horse, of course.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I do enjoy a good visual gag, and an old favorite of mine is “there is Math on a Board in the background that contextually makes no sense.” This broadly comes in 3 flavors I enjoy:

• the board is in front of a classroom, and the Math is waaay too advanced for whatever level of pupil these kids are supposed to be; like having the calculus integral in front of kindergartners, or relativistic physics in front of high schoolers.

• the board is in front of Criminals, who are Planning Something, and by all rights there ought to be no Math there to begin with. Like. You’re planning a Heist why do you have the Full Lagrangian on there. Are we taking a rocket to the bank.

• the characters are super-genius science fiction people. The Math is “Pi≈3.24” with an unlabeled pie chart.

[teaboot]

Project Hail Mary was such a good movie but I cannot stop thinking about how fucking funny it would have been if Ilyukhina and Yao had made it instead of Grace

[teaboot]

The Beetles (boring name AU) arrive back on earth and Stratt opens the video diary and it's Ilyukhina and Yao going "sooooooo your pet twink didn't make it"

[teaboot]

Imagine them taping Grace's glasses onto Rocky's exosuit and hoping she doesn't notice like a pair of exhausted parents swapping out their four year old's dead goldfish for a new one

[teaboot]

It's almost like he's stil there with them

[foulserpent]

dude wacth out