Loud Sounds and Seal Claps

Back in the game and still not sure about the rules. ace. he/she/they. 30+. too many fandoms. BLM.

[queermachmir]

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[spaceraptor]

“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann

[sosuperawesome]

Glass Mushroom Chess Set // Nocco Noccoo

[catmask]

if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

[tributary]

this is the same girl in a raincoat

[magrittr]

[ranidspace]

if thousands of conservatives could quit bud light over making a SINGLE can with a trans persons face on it, you can quit chic fil a for them donating millions to anti lgbtq groups and harry potter for being written by the face of TERFS.

[psychodon525]

Don't let conservatives be the ones with the stronger resolve, guys. If we want to act like we're better than them, we're gonna have to like... Actually be better at following our own ideologies.

[kitchenalia]

if i heard that a woman aborted a fetus because prenatal screening had revealed a disability that i shared, i would simply not shame her

[kitchenalia]

RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but im different

[kitchenalia]

i’ve been getting a lot of comments/questions about this post. some is good, some is bad. i’ve decided not to respond individually and instead say:

i said what i said. i wasn’t confused about saying it.

if i found out a woman had aborted a fetus because she found out that fetus had a disability that i have—disabilities that i have firsthand knowledge of being painful, difficult to live with, and often resource-intensive—i would not be angry with her. i would not feel like she doesn’t think people like me should not be alive (unless she actually said so).

fetuses are not little potential “you”s. projecting your own anxieties onto a woman’s abortion (”i wouldn’t have wanted to be aborted” is common reasoning in plenty of pro-life circles; it’s not better here) is invasive and nonsensical.

bodily autonomy isn’t conditional. you don’t know a woman’s exact reason for abortion and you don’t need to. women’s rights to abortion need to be protected, even if you feel icky about some potential reasoning behind an abortion, which you aren’t even fully privy to in the first place.

disabled people should always be in the care of people who have the resources and desire to take care of them. insisting that disabled children be born simply to ease your own moral qualms with abortion is frankly unethical in my opinion, resources are often very slim for disabled people. not to mention our quality of life is often just lower in general. you can argue all you want in the notes about “mild” disabilities but you aren’t the arbiter of what constitutes a mild enough disability to make an abortion terrible and immoral and shame-worthy. 

women aren’t vessels. regardless of how morally pure you feel your crusade is, they simply aren’t.

speaking as a disabled person, energy is literally always better spent on changing society—by increasing resources for caretakers and disabled people alike, speaking frankly about quality of life, correcting notions about what disabled people’s lives are like, punishing mistreatment of actual disabled people [not potential ones], and putting research into easing the pain/suffering of people as much as possible—than it is on getting mad about women getting abortions. and it isn’t just better spent that way, it’s just immoral to do the latter.

in conclusion: RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but im different.

[jabberwockypie]

If I believe that everyone should be able to access abortion, at any time, for any reason - and I do! - then that’s also allowing that people may have abortions for reasons I disagree with - and it is none of my fucking business, because it’s not my body.

How would that even work? How could you even enforce that? “Anyone can have an abortion EXCEPT you, because your fetus would be born with a disability”? That’s just nonsensical.

I’m disabled and I’m sick of those anti-bodily autonomy assholes using disabled people as a prop - or those same people using “disabled children” as a euphemism to mean a fetus with fetal abnormalities that are incompatible with life, as a way to prevent people from accessing abortions later in pregnancy.

[findingfeather]

RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but I’m different.

No forced pregnancy or forced birth is moral. I don’t care why the force is being applied.

[ineffectualdemon]

You can advocate for more resources and education so more people are able to care for a disabled child

AND

support complete bodily autonomy and a person’s right to choose in all cases. Even if you personally don’t like it

You can support two things

[dirtypuzzle]

kill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won't take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work is exempt from the vast majority of labor laws and labor protections, including the use of child labor. so only immigrants - people who have little to no protection from the law or other options for work - take most of these jobs. we have created a permanent underclass of labor and then say that americans are just lazy for not volunteering to be part of the underclass.

there are actually good discussions to be had about how alienated many americans are from food production (hi hello that's what my only popular post is about), but the real solution to this problem is to protect agricultural workers, citizens or not. ban child labor in its entirety. punish corporations and farm owners that abuse and poison their workers. reform the immigration process so that these people aren't barred from legal protection and recourse.

agricultural workers have been exploited since the dawn of civilization, but the US in specific has been doing this since slavery, and it evolved in the 30s when FDR's labor laws excluded them specifically because most agricultural workers at the time were black. now it's mostly latino immigrants.

food doesn't fucking pick or slaughter itself. but citizens aren't going to take these jobs when the entire industry is rife with abuse - both legal and illegal - and horrific wages and working conditions.

[guerrillatech]

[ravenkane]

As someone who has mispronounced so many words because I never actually heard them. I appreciate this post

[drainbamage954]

ok so back in high school

I was in this AP English class with a bunch of people who were all too smart for their own good. We had like... SAT word quizzes at the start of every class. We competed to see who had read the most books in the past week. It was the MOST unhinged nerd vibes you could ever experience. 

So this one day, we all file in for class and are quizzing each other before class about the new vocab for the day. MOST of the time, all of us would have heard the words before or have context for how they sounded, but then there was this kid, we’ll call him P Slice. 

So P Slice comes in, and is ALL about taking over the quizzing for the day, so much so that he declares he’s going to quiz us all on the vocab he’s so confident. Only half of us pay attention to him, SO he gets the other half in this little pre-quiz group and starts asking for word definitions. 

Then he gets to the word ‘epitome’ and the ENTIRE class just stops and turns to him. Because P Slice hasn’t said ‘epitome’ as it is pronounced (eh-pit-toe-mi) but instead has said, ‘please provide the definition of EH-PEE-TOMB’ and then laughed after the audible pause from EVERYONE. Finally, one of my friends asks “Sorry, what was the word?” 

Now P Slice is concerned for all of us, and he says with the most genuine concern and fear for our sanity “EPI-TOME? Do you need a hint?” and all of us exchange a look until finally someone realizes what word he is actually saying. This person is (fortunately) not in P Slice’s study group and quietly walks over and says “Hey, P Slice, can you show me the word? I just want to check something.” P Slice, confused and concerned, hands the vocab list over to our classmate and points at the word, muttering “I don’t get it. It’s such an easy word? Like, who doesn’t know EY-Pee-Tomb.”

And BLESS this classmate of ours, who chokes down a smile and a laugh and says, “P Slice, I think it’s pronounced ‘eh-pit-toe-mi’ actually.” Now, because this is high school, half the class goes loudly “OH! THAT’S THE WORD! YEAH!” and provides the definition IMMEDIATELY and the other half bursts into horribly concealed laughter at P Slice’s terrible fate. THEN the teacher walks in and just STARES at the, well, not unusual sight but certainly interesting state of his afternoon class. He asks the nearest student what’s happening, the story is explained briefly in the form of like, “P Slice thought epitome was pronounced EY PEE TOME” 

Our teacher, bless him, bites down a laugh, and then looks at all of us and asks P Slice, who looks formally mortified, “huh, that’s a new one. Have you ever heard this word said aloud?” 

P Slice answers, “I mean, NOW I realize I have. I just didn’t recognize it immediately on the list and so my brain... read it like epeetomb instead. It just made sense.”

Our teacher gives the most MONUMENTAL shrug and goes, “yeah, happens to me all the time.  Words, right? ENGLISH, we hate to love it and love to hate it,” and immediately starts passing out the quiz for the day. That simple moment lived in ALL of us for the rest of the year about how easy it is to mispronounce something.

[words-writ-in-starlight]

listen I expected literally Nothing from the D&D movie okay, like I can't make it clear enough that I expected the most soulless money grab with a good cgi budget imaginable, I went in having already gone through every stage of grief and landed on acceptance and LISTEN

I fucking CRIED during this dumb RPG movie. it wasn't just "not terrible" it was objectively good with a clever plot and compelling characters and sincere emotional beats. this movie loves D&D so fucking much and it NAILS the "a bunch of goobers try to be cool and accidentally discover The Power Of Friendship And Also Great Violence" classic D&D party vibe. their barbarian's last name is fucking Kilgore and my entire family cried in the theater.

I hope they make twelve of these motherfuckers.

[sixth-light]

#this was to dungeons and dragons as galaxy quest was to star trek (@glorious-spoon)

THAT’S IT THAT’S THE VIBE

[zagreus]

cackling at this, can NOT believe it's a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces

[obserbolisk]

He also said this about the snake.

[nottawriter]

When I found out Paramount+ was removing Star Trek: Prodigy I bought all 20 episodes of S1 from Amazon Video since that was the only way for me to watch all 20 at the time. On 6/27, I lost access to episodes 10-20. Amazon has done what they can, which isn't much.

All 20 were accessible when I paid for all 20. The full season is what I was buying. Now, I only have access to 9 of the episodes.

What is the point of buying digital content if they're just going to steal it back from you afterwards?! Is this not false advertisement?

Seems appropriate

[7deadlycinderellas]

People don’t seem to realize this. Digital purchases are great until the seller no longer has the rights to the media and suddenly its not yours anymore

[tzikeh]

Pirate and download and back up EVERYTHING. And if you don't know how, ask someone who seems like they might be able to walk you through it. It really isn't that difficult and you don't need to understand the inner workings of your computer or any fancy-schmancy technology lingo either.

[theconcealedweapon]

[queeranarchism]

& that 1% regret rate is almost entirely “Yes I’m still trans but the surgery was bad, or the transphobia i encounter is so much worse than anticipated, or I was pushed towards a specific treatment by my binary-oriented doctor when I wanted a non-binary transition” etc.

Actual ‘whoops, I don’t identify as trans anymore” cases are closer to 0,02%.

[earhartsease]

people absolutely get to detransition and retransition and whatever (I personally know about six people who "detransitioned" from being binary trans people, and then transitioned again later as nonbinary people, for example) but the idea that a small number of people going "oops got this wrong" somehow justifies gatekeeping everyone else is criminal, and mostly a deliberate ploy to block us from getting what we need

[kindly-whisper-norbury]

My 11-year-old couldn't decide what flavor of ramen to make, so I told her to flip a coin. Heads for spicy chicken, tails for beef.

Taking my advice, she flipped a penny, and when it landed on tails she said "Wait! Wait! I did it wrong!"

I told her that she did it right, because the real reason for flipping a coin isn't to let fate decide for you, but because when the coin is in the air, you will suddenly realize what you wanted in the first place.

I'm sure there's a life lesson there somewhere…

But honestly, I have never known her to pass up spicy chicken.

[kindly-whisper-norbury]

Update: Yesterday, her brother asked her if she wanted a corn dog and she couldn't decide, so again I told her to flip a coin. She did so, and without even looking which way it landed, she snatched the penny up and said "I want a corn dog".

[drainbamage954]

this is honestly a life hack that I use all the time and suggest to people all the time because it is just that easy. It also works for when you want both equally or really cannot decide because either both options are GOOD or both options aren’t what you REALLY WANT but have to settle for so REGARDLESS you simply must choose one and at that point, the randomization takes all the stress and responsibility away from you. It well and truly works so well. And honestly, once the concept itself is understood, you don’t need the coin, you simply need to be aware that the choice is there and what option you would be happy with and which you wouldn’t be, and that’s IT. 

Boom. Done. 

[girlcaligula]

god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

[girlcaligula]

this one. absolutely in love with this definition. give me a character who thinks like this and I’ll love them to pieces

[abalidoth]

I must stress that the character who gave that speech in Animorphs was Marco. The funny guy in the group. Animorphs was just that kind of series.

[mostlycatsmostly]

My cat Mörkö running :)

via Jarkko Järvinen

[mostlycatsmostly]

[airandangels]

It’s mörkin’ time

[nkim-doodles]

Some Cat Doodles! These are also the cover pages of my NEW Art Book! You can grab a copy if you wish via my shop! Available for US and select international countries!

SHOP

[orriculum]

The premise of Skyrim is just so funny. The shouts are just dragon language, making the fights between dragons basically an argument? But now this puny human has a minimal grasp of the vocab. Imagine you're disagreeing with your bud about something unimportant like pineapple on pizza and then a mouse came running over and called you a bitch