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idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

oranzhs

Duviri Animals by Alberto Fernández

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aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact

anyways reminder that scars of any kind are morally neutral and not bad or harmful to show. if that shit is healed and not a literal open wound it is not fucking bad. it is not okay to shame or trigger warning a normal fucking part of someone’s body, including and especially when it’s a sign of physical or mental illness.

aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact

look every single time I make posts like this someone comes on my post like “not self harm scars though! those are triggering!” and fucking. think about what you’re implying for just one second here. you’re saying that if anyone has ever even once hit a mental point where they harmed themself in a way that left a lasting mark they can never show their body uncensored again. this is okay to you? you think this is fucking okay?

narrator-navigator-storyteller

also, to expand on this: do not assume you know what are and aren't self harm scars. i have 'traditional self harm scar' looking scars that are not self harm, just that i have a cat and scar easily. i have scars that do not look like self harm scars that very much are. you do not have the right to go up to someone and ask "hey, what are you scars from so i can decide if i can censor your body?", nor the right to assume the origin of someone's scars in order to censor their body. In general, no one's scars or any other part of their body is your business

aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact

HEY THIS IS A BANGER FUCKING LINE.

laskulls-deactivated20250318

every mother's day there's always "remember moms are everything" posts and every father's day there's always "it's okay if you're traumatized, you don't have to celebrate it" posts and that's fine of course, I just never see the opposite. so reminder you don't have to celebrate your mother. you have your reasons. be proud of yourself and don't let the holiday get you down.

spacelazarwolf

i think it’s appropriate, funny even, to trauma dump on ppl who are intentionally being an asshole to u.

“lmao u just don’t wanna be bald bc then u’ll look like ur dad”

“i mean yeah honestly it’s kinda traumatic bc i have a rough relationship with my dad. it was rough to go from ‘daddy’s little girl’ to ‘gross gender freak’ after i came out, i’m used to him being my biggest cheerleader even when we didn’t see eye to eye, so to lose his support overnight has been really traumatizing and i’m really sad about it. and like how do i find positive male role models if my own dad doesn’t want to be one for me? who’s supposed to teach me to shave or take me to my first suit fitting or teach me how to be a good man when he doesn’t even believe i am one? what happens when i actually do start to look like him and he still rejects me? it’s just been really stressful to deal with all the—”

spacelazarwolf

BINGO

teaboot

One time someone asked if my parents didn't give me enough attention as a kid, and I kind of just paused for a sec, then said "well mom slept at the office and dad didn't want me so probably not, actually?" And it turns out they just thought I talked a lot

dragonflea

I've inadvertently done this because I'm autistic and have been through enough trauma therapy that I can just talk about that stuff without getting upset now, so sometimes people say something jokingly and I give a perfectly honest answer. And I only notice when they go silent and stare at me like I've grown a second head, but even funnier is when they start apologizing. Because then you know they were making a joke at your expense. And they won't be doing it again.

scifigrl47

There was a salesman/account rep that everyone in my mom's building disliked. He was apparently somewhere between "asshole frat boy" and "scummy used car salesman," but he knew just where the line was and apparently enjoyed putting his toes on it, but never over.

They were stuck with him, basically.

One day, mom was sitting in the samples room, looking through some data with a couple of other people working at nearby stations, and this guy comes in, sees my mom, and decides he's going to have some fun.

"Hey, nice hat!" he says. "Having a bad hair day? Dye job go bad?"

My mother sets down her work, and reaches up, taking off her hat. "No. Chemotherapy. "

Now confronted with her bald head, he freezes, his life flashing before his eyes.

"For stage 4 breast cancer," my mother says, never changing expression.

He is now actively praying for death, as every other person in the room has stopped their work, and are staring at him.

"The prognosis is six to eight months," mom says. She doesn't say 'until I die,' but it hangs there. She picks up her work. "So I really should get back to this."

Apparently he was mass reported to his employer before he got out of the building by multiple lab heads. They never saw him again.

ampersandworm

Return Awkwardness To Sender continues to be a valid stratagem

homobabadook

“There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course your heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.”

— Hugh Laurie (via epionne)

callmebliss

Vulnerability, need — and hope

paulpingminho

habbadax

I was actually very interested in the descriptions. Couldn’t find any information online. So I tried to transcribe them myself.

Killer whale pod of many nations Odin Lonning, 2006 (carved cedar with acrylic) Created as a tribute to endangered killer whales and coastal tribes(?) from Puget Sound to Alaska, Odin Lonning’s Killer Whale Pod of Many Nations (illegible) symbolizes the enduring bond between First Nations and killer whales, regarded as sacred by many Northwest Native peoples. From left ot right, the whales exemplify Tlingit, Haida, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka'wakw, and Coast Salish motifs This peace was made possible by a Native Arts grant from the P(illegible)ch Fund Text by Alan (illegible) & Odin Lonning Tlingit The Tlingit whale (illegible) how a (illegible) in the story of (illegible) or creation(?) of the Killer Whale Haida The Haida whale embodies (illegible) stories about the (illegible) Killer Whale and the adventures of Na(illegilble) and his wife(?) Nuu-cha-nulth The Nuu-cha-nulth whale signifies the (illegible) wolf(?) killer whale connection to the culture and communities(?) (illegible) Kwakwaka'wakw The Kwakwaka'wakw whale celebrates(?) the triumphant(?) (illegible) of K(illegible) when her(?) pod in(?) (illegible) First Nations territory in British Columbia(?) Coast Salish

The Coast Salish whale pays homage(?)to the indigenous poeples(?) and (illegible) of the Salish Lake(?)

shadeslayer

i got you!

the artist Odin Lonning (his website) is Tlingit

this is indeed his piece: Killer Whale Pod of Many Nations (2006) (carved cedar with acrylic) which is displayed at the Seattle Aquarium

Created as a tribute to endangered killer whales and costal tribes from Puget Sound to Alaska, Odien Lonning’s Killer Whale Pod of Many Nations panel symbolizes the enduring bond between First Nations and killer whales, regarded as sacred by many Northwest Native peoples. From left to right, the whales exemplify Tlingit, Haida, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast Salish motifs.

This piece was made possible by a Native Arts grant from the Potlatch Fund.

Text by Ann Stateler & Odin Lonning.

this paper (WHULJ, newsletter for the Puget Sound chapter of the American Cetacean Society) has an article about this work when it was dedicated: Killer Whale Pod of Many Nations: “Carving for a Greater Cause” By Ann Stateler which discusses the specific representations each whale embodies, as well as the dedication ceremony and the real life whales who inspired the piece

here is a better quality photo of the work, from a aquarium visitors flickr account :)

roycohn

i was in the grocery store and saw an onion on the ground and picked it up, absently saying “poor little guy.” behind me a teenage girl started laughing and then stopped and went “aww. i’m sorry for laughing. that’s nice actually.” and the cycle of cruelty is broken for another generation as a young person realizes that it is not embarrassing to have empathy for another thing that was once living, because certainly to be a lone white onion rolling on the ground in a supermarket would be terrifying to anyone

tiredqueertranarchist

More gentle youths from @spacefuneral's tags

ryebreadedd

Splatoon universe garfielfd

snailveil

Then this is Odie.

possum-down

sorry couldn’t stop thinking about them in stats class

gerardpilled

“Thin brows are back in” “skinny jeans are back” “wolfcuts are out” “this style of eyeshadow is soo trendy right now” “big asses are out, slim figures are in”

Hey do you guys ever make your own decisions or form your own ideas on how you would personally like to look that’s not based around what’s currently being sold to you. Is that not possible

clownboybebop

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months”

-Oscar Wilde

skygemspeaks

imagine miles’ dad is on his way home one night when he spots spiderman sitting by himself on the roof of a building

he looks small, and lonely, and fragile

and jefferson, who has a son around spiderman’s age, can’t ignore the impulse to make sure he’s okay

so he finds his way to spiderman’s perch and settles down next to him

they sit in silence for a long time, spiderman staring up at the moon in thoughtful silence

it’s almost five minutes before he finally speaks

“i was there, you know”

jefferson doesn’t understand

spiderman hugs his leg to his chest, resting his cheek on his knee as he turns his face to the officer sitting at his side

“when peter died,” he says by way of explanation, and his voice is wavering with the threat of tears. “i’d only had my powers for a day, and i was so scared. i had no idea what was happening to me. but then he showed up.”

jefferson is baffled, his whole world turned on its axis. somehow, he’d never thought about who spiderman had been before he was spiderman. there was a part of him that had just kind of assumed he’d been different from birth. a part of him had bought into the lie that spiderman was indestructible, that he had always known what he was doing and who he was.

“he said he’d teach me,” says spiderman, voice bitter with longing. “he promised he’d show me the ropes and be there for me when i needed him. and then he died.”

“i’m sorry you had to experience that,” says jefferson, because he doesn’t know what else to say. and it’s the most natural feeling in the world to reach out to the young hero and wrap him in a hug.

he fits in jefferson’s arms like he’s always belonged there, and in a moment of clarity, jefferson feels everything click into place

“i watched fisk kill him, and i didn’t do anything,” sobs the child in his arms, the child that jefferson would recognize anywhere, in any life. “it’s my fault he died. i killed spiderman”

“Oh miles,” he says, voice gentle as he reaches down to remove the mask from his son’s face so he can wipe his tears away with gentle fingers. “you didn’t kill spiderman. you brought him back to us.”

nutheadgee-deactivated20190314

I see OP just wants to dehydrate me via crying huh

katie-mcgrath

Is it all right to hit a Nazi unprovoked?

nyansense-the-nyanbinary

also, not to detract from the point

but nazi rhetoric is in itself violence

it is not unprovoked, it is defensive

because nazi rhetoric is inherently violent.

punch a nazi. they’re telling people to do worse to you.

vitariesocks

The Attorney General of Missouri just unilaterally banned most adult gender affirming care. This decision is one of the most cruel policies ever released and represents a new front in this fight.

(Afternoon April 13, 2023) The Missouri Attorney General just used an Emergency Rule to ban all gender-affirming care for people of all ages (yes, adults) in the state.

In order to receive any care, transgender minors and adults alike will have to:

have 3 years of documented “severe” dysphoria

18 months of state-mandated conversion therapy

have zero mental health conditions, most specifically anxiety, depression, or autism

require tests for “social contagion” for 15 years after beginning care

This will cut TENS OF THOUSANDS of trans people off of medical care. Please care about us, oh my god.

prokopetz

I've gotten multiple comments from Tiny Frog Wizards beta readers to the effect that Imprecation is an overpowered Arcanum because, by the rules-as-written, "perish" is a perfectly valid curse which only requires a Control value of 1.

To this I observe:

If that's the most overpowered thing you can think of to do with an entry level spell, you need to think about some of the other Arcana a little more carefully; and

By the rules-as-written, "explode" is also a valid curse. Just saying.

mortimermcmirestinks

I'm not familiar with this game you're talking about, but from meandering around the notes a little, it sounds like "invert" would also be valid and have potentially much worse results?

prokopetz

Or it might simply turn them upside down.

arcanistlupus

Speaking of which, do you plan to include any guidance for GMs on how benevolently/maliciously to interpret spell results? If I understand correctly, a Conjuration spell with the Control “Shark” could summon a hammerhead shark, a stuffed shark, a dead shark, a Shark vacuum, the book “Shark”, or Amy Shark. What metrics should a GM use to determine how close to the player’s intent the result should be?

prokopetz

To an extent, that interpretive flexibility is a necessary component of the system; if a player declares their intention to summon a "shark", then biffs the spellcasting roll and ends up with nothing higher than a two, getting what they intended probably isn't on the table – the GM is going to have to come up with something that answers to the description "shark", yet is smaller than a pair of shoes.

That said, there will typically be very little need for the GM to indulge in evil genie logic, and in fact doing so is discouraged; you're already dealing with a system where the dice might leave you casting a fireball whose range is smaller than its radius by sheer bad luck – the rules don't need the help!