Cyberpunk Saved My Ass

Call me Kazzy. 29. Just some guy who likes to learn about history and loves Cyberpunk 2077. Autistic trans man married to a wonderful woman.

[safaridays]

"not looking at someone when they're talking to you is rude"

okkaaayy welll i cocked my imaginary ears in your direction to communicate that i was listening so whose fault is it really

[softwaring]

[shotce]

Or reblogs

[saintjustitude]

Hickey says vote Kamala for harm reduction 😌🥰

[emperorkazimir]

Many of you say you support autistic people.... until you meet one of us working retail.

[emperorkazimir]

This is because a lady wearing an "Autism Awareness" shirt yelled at me for limited eye contact loool

[emperorkazimir]

Many of you say you support autistic people.... until you meet one of us working retail.

[barneycalhounslutmoments]

u can call ur skull-head deer oc literally anything else u don't even have to change the design

[foone]

PLEASE. THIS IS A ONE INCH HIGH BARRIER: JUST DON'T USE A WORD. IT'S NOT HARD.

It's a frightening lack of respect for a group to go "hey this is our culture/religion/mythology? Please don't use that word" and apparently all the white people are like "but what if I did anyway to make my unity horror game 0.01% scarier?"

Just use a different word! Call it a deerman, deer god, forest spirit, whatever. Try to care at least a little when someone says not to use their culture for entertainment.

Here's a list of deer in mythology. If you have to have a mythology-based creature, you can go find one of these that's not THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN SPECIFICALLY ASKED NOT TO USE.

[mtomauw]

Alternative words/terms/names to call the creature the internet made up: -The hungry ones -The stalker -Forest spirits -The antlered beasts -Blood starved beast ((thank you bloodborne)) -Famine incarnate -They who come at night -Geoff -Anything else you can come up with Literally use the creativity you used to design your creature and give them a name that hasn't been stolen from a culture you don't understand.

[headspace-hotel]

i'd like to add that the original creature isn't even deer based, and has nothing to do with deer, the creature that has a deer skull you see in art and movies is like...arguably a different thing

[julianova44]

For folks who don’t knows what word is being talked about: W*nd*go. In addition to the above, I wanted to clarify to anybody who is confused (my understanding) of why it’s censored in the original post and why I’m choosing to censor it when interacting with above posts: I have been told that you’re not supposed to use the real name so as not to attract its attention (like the true name of the bear being lost because so many cultures called it taboo, or inverse to why many Jewish folks censor G*d/god in their writing)

While I’m not a believer in anything supernatural, it’s a pretty low bar to clear to just… not use a sincerely held cultural belief outside of its context and stripped of anything but questionable aesthetic, particularly when you yourself are not of that culture (see: yes it actually is different from all the Christian mythological “reinterpretations”)

[baconvonmoose]

I'm native american and my tribe is a subdivision of the Algonquin who first told the story of the Wendigo and you are all spreading a lot of misinformation that is very frustrating to me, it feels like an uphill battle to keep explaining this, please read.

This is like the third or fourth time I've reblogged this but I'm doing it on my other account because I don't wanna keep spamming my poor followers with the same post.

If you are not indigenous you have NO RIGHT to tell people how we feel about our stories and myths. You do not KNOW what our sincerely held cultural beliefs are. And as a matter of fact, you are painting us all as the 'noble savage' trope by assuming that we are all so cripplingly superstitious and we so deeply believe in our monsters that saying the name of one is offensive to us.

The Wendigo is a myth. It is a story. It is a legend. You can say the word Wendigo. Stop going after random strangers you don't know for saying a word you don't even understand. Stop it. Please. It has never been a forbidden word. It isn't even part of the legend that 'saying its name will summon it', you summon the Wendigo by engaging in cannibalism.

The legend itself has an important message about greed and destruction, about selfishness in the face of death and survival. It has been used to describe many variations of greed and selfishness, both in the form of other natives and from invaders. But we don't all believe in a literal evil spirit/monster that will come get us if YOU say the word Wendigo, that's infantilizing.

The language of my tribe is nearly extinct. Our stories have been suppressed for centuries by racist non-Natives. We don't care if non-Natives tell our stories as long as they get the story RIGHT by at least taking it from an original source, because it keeps them alive.

By the way the Wendigo is totally unrelated to deer and does not have antlers, that shit is just made up by non-natives, which also pisses me off to no end. Wendigo is a spirit that possess a human, so it looks like a human, it could be anyone you know, that is part of the message and moral of the story.

(btw I won't be responding to anything on this account, I've said what I needed to say)

[baconvonmoose]

THANK YOU

Look I know people mean well, I DO. I'm not saying these things to make anyone feel bad or to be angry, but if you DO want to help elevate Native voices, please understand the difference between uplifting our voices and speaking OVER US. If you want to uplift our voices then find things written by actual natives and reblog it, and ask actual natives and reblog that, interviews, native american websites and books written by natives, etc. And also don't ask one tribe to speak for another because we are not all the same. But by taking one thing you heard somewhere and spreading that around from your own mouth, you're speaking OVER us.

Even if one native told you not to say it, that's one native. I promise the majority of us are NOT overly supersitious. If one native you spoke to is so superstitious that it freaks them out if you say the word Wendigo, then don't say it around them. If you want to protect the virgin ears of everyone with a closely held belief then don't say the name of ANY mythological beast, don't say 'God', 'Jesus', or 'Satan'. (If you think only white/European/colonists believe that saying 'Satan' will summon him, I would like to point to a swath of very traditional Christian native Americans including my own grandfather)

I saw one person say like 'respect the culture and the people who are SCARED of that shit' in the tags and like, once again, that is SO infantalizing. I know you don't mean it to be, but you really think all natives are so SCARED of a story that we get genuinely distressed by you TYPING it on the internet??? And you don't see how stereotypical that is?

Again, I'm not saying this to make anyone feel bad for trying to help, but if you want to help then you will understand this.

To people reblogging posts written by actual natives (not just mine, anyone), thank you for setting an example, it's the only thing tempering my frustration, to see some people out there spread my words without speaking for me, and learning from it. <3

(okay I lied about not responding to anything, this one just hits right)

[foone]

Important correction!

(sorry for spreading misinfo before)

[casgirl]

fandom people online will ignore the political landscape and blog about their blorbos all the time and then make the shocked pikachu face when abortions become illegal while they were blorbo blogging in the blogosphere

What do you want me to do about it on tumblr man. It’s tumblr.

[casgirl]

I’m sorry guys I could’ve personally stopped the overturning of roe v wade but I was too busy running a supernatural blog.

[natalieironside]

[decemberdancer04]

Reblog this if you had to learn cursive writing as a child

If you were ever told or were made to learn cursive writing when you were in grade school. I wanna see how many of you suffered like I did.

[defectivegembrain]

Like. Autism doesn't come with an automatic love of hearing anyone infodump about anything they love. In fact sometimes it comes with the opposite. Sometimes restricted interests are in fact restrictive enough to make anything else boring. Sometimes it's just hard to process that much speech. Doesn't mean we get to be unkind about it either but yeah. This fantasy people push of autistics having endless energy and appreciation for each other's special interests is just not realistic.

[ehlihr]

getting older and looking at ur own ocs like okay i know i said you were like 16-19 when i made you at 13 but no fucking way. youre 25 now

[byjove]

“America IS walkable, you’re all just lazy” my childhood home was an hour from the nearest hospital (by car)

[byjove]

not all Americans are lazy suburbanites, some of us genuinely have to drive miles and miles and hours and hours to buy clothes, grocery shop, see doctors or do anything, really.

[byjove]

notice how in movies they show you New York and costal SoCal and not like, middle of nowhere North Dakota.

[byjove]

“take public transit” look at me, look me in the eye. do you think they have subways in towns with three digit populations? do you think they run busses out to the middle of nowhere?

[therenobee]

[cryingbard]

That's not fair.

(If you want to see me vent I'm on tiktok, @cryingbard)

[velvetacademia-deactivated20210]

BEE DAGGER !!

[helloitsbees]

[homeboygirl]

im gonna getcha! im gonna getcha!!!

omg stoppp!!! hehe ^_^ !!!!

[benjaminbadger]

The funniest thing I have read tonight

[willgrahamscock]

Hey did you know that you can’t escape fatphobia even after death? The article talks about how these donated bodies are used for first year anatomy students to study the body, and how the 'perfect' body for that should be 170-180 pounds.

[willgrahamscock]

“The storage is one issue, but when you are obese, there’s a lot of tissue everywhere. The students don’t get as good a learning opportunity.”

"That program limits donors to between 170 pounds and 180 pounds, though an exceptionally tall donor might be allowed at 190.

“It’s the maximum our equipment will handle,” Powers said.

Sounds like they just need newer and better equipment?

"Obese bodies are more difficult, time-consuming and unpleasant to study, said Wade, who also heads his state’s anatomy board."

Ah yes, we've arrived at the real reason..

[willgrahamscock]

Quick question, if fat bodies are not accepted as potential cadavers for medical students to study on then what are the consequences for that?

Fat people are dismissed medically and are told to lose weight before even getting a chance to be examined. While alive. Then are rejected for further study after death. How many people died and will die because medical professionals are missing potential problems that could be diagnosed?

[butchscientist]

There are so many procedures where fat people have higher risk of post-surgical complications and overall worse outcome and it's always framed as an inescapable consequence of fatness that can only be solved through forcing/pressuring fat people to lose weight before surgery. But if surgeons are not trained to operate on fat bodies, the development of new procedures and clinical trials routinely exclude fat people, can we really assume that fat just makes everything inherently more difficult?

Why is it always "fat people have worse outcomes so they should lose weight" and never "fat people have worse outcomes after this procedure we developed on thin people, so we should further develop this procedure to improve fat people's outcomes"?

[kelpforestdwellers]

it's literally a skill issue. every accusation from a surgeon that you're 'too fat' to operate on is an indictment of their abilities and nothing else.

[catchymemes]

[lizluvscupcakes]

The difference is the desire and passion and the knowledge that you aren’t learning just to make some bureaucrat’s numbers look better.