Toolbench Time

20 | he/him | gay as shit. I post mostly House of Leaves content and art, but also sometimes miscellaneous bullshit. Enjoy :) PfP icon by @ ageblue-aka-varnah-g

[dragonwysper]

No longer shadowbanned !!!

Gonna make a brief intro post here.

I'm Cole (or Dragonwysper or Toolbench or Squonch)! I'm 20, he/him, and gay n' trans.

If you're confused on why I followed you, I may have done it for one of my side-blogs. Feel free to DM if you want reasons/links (or if you just want to chat)!

Sideblogs:

@onanothingsback - system sideblog (alter sideblogs in that account's pinned)

[OLD] @squoze-and-squonchy - OC and project posting

[OLD] @not-safe-for-truant - was gonna be an NSFT HOL blog, but I don't actually post on there, so. Idk rip in piss ig

DNI:

Bigots (racist, homophobic, transphobic, abelist, etc)

DNF:

Abelism includes people who discriminate against cluster Bs, jsyk. We have ASPD. We don't want to see that.

Transphobia includes people who hate and invalidate trans men, jsyk x2. We're a trans man. We will block you for calling trans men "transandrobros", "transandrocunts, "birthday boys", "theyfabs", or any other transphobic, misogynistic bullshit.

Pro-contact pedos / MAPs, zoos, and other harmful paraphiles.

Any of the above

Under 15yo (sorry, just uncomfy interacting with kids. Trauma thing.)

I'll also block anybody else who skeeves me out for any reason or another.

Fandoms I interact with:

House of Leaves - #house of leaves, #hol, #mark z danielewski

Flight Rising (Dragonwyspr #476215)- #flight rising, #flightrising

....yeah that's about it rn. There's some smaller fandoms I also interact with on occasion, but these are my two mains!

I also interact with:

Art - #not my art

Art tips/theory/lore (especially color theory) - tags depend on subject

Memes - #meme (if tagged)

Some queer discourse posts - #discourse

Animal facts (especially mites and snakes) - tags depend on subject

Definitely not everything, but this is the most common stuff you'll see on my blog haha.

As for original content, I post:

Art - #my art

Loredumps for my OCs - #my ocs, #oc lore

Photos I take - #my photos

SOMETIMES venting - #vent

Other tags of mine:

#save - things I wanna remember and come back to

#fav - favorite posts. Typically really inspirational art

#mildred - my snake (Dasypeltis bazi, Egyptian egg eater)

#velkurpeni - my best dragon on Flight Rising

#zane rayford - an oc of mine

#hamatus - posts more befitting my alternate blog (not giving out the username. Iykyk. I just don't log in there as often. Nothing explicit will be reblogged to this account (unless it's to a sideblog)).

Will add more as they come 😤

Some of my other social media accounts are in this post!

[perplexingly]

Don't be shackled by the idea that going out can only be done with a group of friends, learn to feel comfortable going alone [remembers that encouraging consumerism isn't progressive] into the deep dark woods

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 5 days 7 hours

[life-in-toontown]

Me too, man 😞

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

[unique-ones-enlightened]

[thesylverlining]

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

[thatrandomrebloggers-blog]

Been thinking lately

[tylers-tackboard]

I think of this post a lot :]

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[elamarth-calmagol]

I was in a training for mental health where we were forced to watch a video about how sympathy is useless and you have to feel empathy for people. You’d think that someone knowledgeable about MENTAL HEALTH would realize that not everyone is capable of feeling empathy, and you just called them heartless.

Here’s the thing: both empathy and sympathy (which I personally define as “identifying the other person’s feelings”) can lead to compassion. They can also both lead to a lack of compassion. If you feel what other people feel, you may want to make them feel better so you can feel better. If you know what other people feel, you may want to make them feel better because you don’t like seeing other people suffer. But knowing that someone else feels bad doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to do anything about it. (How many times have you thought “yeah, that sucks, but they deserve it”?) And if you feel another person’s negative feelings, your immediate need might be to get away from the situation, because it’s hurting you. Other people can turn off their own empathy when it gets overwhelming. Or you may shut down and be unable to do anything.

Besides, compassion is a choice. Anyone can choose to be compassionate. Not everyone can choose to feel a certain way.

[dragonwysper]

Adding as someone with ASPD who is unable to feel traditional empathy as most people think of it:

There are technically two forms of empathy. There's affective empathy, which is feeling another person's feelings as if they were your own, and there's cognitive empathy, which is the ability to recognize what emotion someone is feeling and why they're feeling it (which is probably what 'sympathy' is meant to represent on the graphic). Compassion is the act of doing something for someone else in response to how they feel. None of these three require any of eachother to exist in someone.

Affective empathy is highly conditional on how you're born and raised, and how your brain's developed. It's not something someone can force themself to feel, if they never developed to feel it in the first place. It's also what many people imagine when they think of empathy, and they moralize it to an extreme. It's truly just a feeling. It doesn't make anyone better or worse for experiencing or not experiencing it.

Cognitive empathy is what many people are truly trying to get at when they make statements like "people need to have more empathy nowadays!" It is possible for many people to learn cognitive empathy, through studying other people, learning common emotional expressions, analyzing people and understanding where their feelings come from. Though some people struggle with that, for a wide range of reasons. And again, despite anything you may think, you are not required to experience this to be a good person.

Compassion is arguably the most important of any of these. It's the only one that really matters. You don't need to understand people or feel people's feelings to be able to do what they need you to do to help them. Compassion can be as simple as apologizing for a mistake and making amends in yourself to do better in the future.

In short, stop moralizing empathy. It is not the hallmark of a good person.

[dragonwysper]

Sorry guys I'm gonna get really stupid about this show for a bit. I'm really really normal about these stupid little gay space beans

[ch-cherryhair]

the doomed yaouri of the century

[staarbug]

I'm not watching it yet cause I have school work but. this dude is purple and wearing what looks like a security guard outfit. Ok Mr Afton

Also why is my guy so similar looking😭

[insaturnity]

amongst us....

holy shiiiiit

[cheesethepurbldragon]

among us crewmates:

are all nonbinary

have one singular bone

have a limit to how far they can stretch their hands from their bodies

are pansexual

can take off their backpacks (this is nudity to them)

have toes?

wear crocs

play stardew valley (canon)

work under a harsh and unforgiving capitalistic tyrant who doesn’t care for who lives or dies as long as they make a profit

can eat through the mask and I don’t believe it’s ever shown how this works

[renegadeer]

just watched the among us show its among us show. i like that everyone is nonbinary. i like that theyre constantly fucking

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast

[dragonwysper]

THE GAY ORGY IS REAL. THE GAY ORGY IS A LEGITIMATE THING THAT HAPPENS.

[dragonwysper]

Honestly yeah, they might all be genderless! I only said 'half' because the official episode descriptions I saw used gendered pronouns for some of the characters

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast

[dragonwysper]

THE GAY ORGY IS REAL. THE GAY ORGY IS A LEGITIMATE THING THAT HAPPENS.

[outofcontexttomodachilife]

(submitted by @doompy-dread)