Duck

they/them | enby in stem | bi | mid 20s | everything is a bird if you take off your glasses

[flightless-duck]

Hi I'm Duck! 🦆

trying to give this blog some organization:

- flightless photos: for original posts with images

- bird posting: gen tag for posts about birds, both op and reblogs, community tag

- flightless posting: for original text posts

- flightless fanstuff: for original posts about fandom-related things

this list will be edited over time, more for my own reference than anything else.

adults only sideblog: @areallygoodduck

I post/reblog a lot of different stuff with little to no consistency, come for the birds, stay for the chaos.

Edit for donations boost: head to gazafunds.com to support Palestinian people, they organize and spotlight community funding efforts.

[houndmother]

deriding things as performative is anti third space

[houndmother]

im sitting on a patio at my favorite cafe rn and im hand stitching them hem of a dress im working on. and i can see why someone would say im being performative by working on something like this in a public space. but frankly theres no element of that. i just want to work somewhere that isnt my apartment. i want to be in public, i wanna chat with strangers, i wanna see the world. it’s nice to hang out somewhere that isnt my home!

[houndmother]

what i mean is when you say people are being performative you discourage them from doing shit they love in public. and thats no way to foster the world we want to see.

[rq1nzorr]

i know people feel weird about saying 'nonbinary people are nonbinary' because it's grammatically clumsy at first glance and hit the "and nonbinary people are valid" instead because that isn't but also nonbinary people are nonbinary. pretty essentially. trans men are men, trans women are women, and nonbinary people are nonbinary. and they aren't (universally) 'too powerful to be contained by the gender binary', they aren't (universally) 'creatures', they aren't (universally) 'incomprehensible'. why would you feel weird about saying 'nonbinary' when it fulfills the same purpose as these other phrases?

[galileosballs]

The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were

[galileosballs]

(snatching a baby away from its mother) you fool! it cannot yet pronounce 'milk'!

[queerfandomunlimited]

It’s all well and good if the CCOD finale wasn’t your thing but also I feel we are all forgetting something: this season was directly inspired by WWDITS. Ya know, the show that brought us “I drank the blood of some people and the people were on drugs and now I am a wizard.”? The one that had some good throughline emotional beats but was mostly Bit fuckin City? I mean Zac’s character was based on Zoolander!! Murph was a vampire who thinks he’s some sort of Batman!! THERE WAS A GHOUL HORSE NAMED GHORSE. Batchild swallowed a missile in the first episode! They wrote off multiple shit shows as “Banksy’s”!! If you wanted a serious season and got a silly one I get it. But you can’t pretend this was ever all that serious outside of Brennan’s signature capitalism and fascism sucks tropes. You can’t criticize something on criteria it never met (or really even intended to meet) in the first place.

[machinot]

I would take a job pushing the Sisyphus rock if it paid 20 an hour and I could wear my headphones

[docholligay]

Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR

[mikkeneko]

[notaplaceofhonour]

It’s also good to assume you probably are the friend whose brain falls out 20% of the time.

We all have blind spots, assumptions, and dogshit take from time to time. They can’t all be winners.

[gokusclit]

liking a straight woman’s critique of a straight man’s misogynistic video and then taking back my like at the end when she tries to make a joke abt him being gay #lol we’re never getting out of here like we’re neverrrrrr getting out of here why are gay ppl driving the bus all of a sudden

[troublepunk-ldn]

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

[wickworks]

New build for Lancer Tactics is live! v0.6.0 adds the last of the player talents and is coming up on halfway done for the rest of the NPC optionals.

Final talents, shield fx, more NPC optionals - Lancer Tactics by Olive, Mark Carpenter, Josh Boykin

Hey! There’s a US national shutdown/strike today. From Josh: “If you’re able, today’s a great day to disconnect from the system: stopping/le

[andy-j-licious]

I'M GONNA GO, GO, GO, GO EXPLODE

[rebelliousblogger]

Mourning Cloak, My Beloved.

[jack-in-the-dark]

The two ways to receive a Horus license:

1. It started with intrusive thoughts. Strange musings on the nature of reality, that didn't quite feel like they came from your own mind. Then the dreams, strange and surreal even by the standards of the feverish. They felt almost like they were desperate to tell you something. Then one night, your dreams transcended. Suddenly, you understood: the truths of reality were laid bare before you, and one by one you gorged yourself on each understanding. But then, you realized it was a dream. The knowledge was pure truth, the understanding divine, but you knew that the moment you awoke it would prove fleeting as a blink. You jolted awake, with only the vague sense that you had lost something precious. When you arrived at the hangar that morning, the Goblin was standing in your bay like it belonged there. When you climbed inside it felt familiar, like you'd been piloting it for years. According to the records, the printers received no instructions during the night. The Goblin exists regardless.

2. You recieved a silly anonymous birthday card. Inside was a piece of paper that said "pegasus license" written clumsily in crayon. It was not your birthday.

[morinorarts]

blinkspace jump

[ips-northstar-official]

IPS-N? More like PISS-IN'

Is that appropriate?

Hello!

That is incorrect.

[tuna-keyboard]

Yeah, everybody knows it's I-PISSN. You forgot the "I" anon

[ips-northstar-official]

Hello!

That is also incorrect.

[bobboberton]

[butch-pilot]

I love making mech pilots who have something fundamentally wrong with them. Pilots who stare at you for too long without blinking because they forget they aren't hidden behind layers of metal. Pilots that twitch and flinch at any sound outside of the cockpit. Pilots who refuse to talk to anyone apart from their beloved Handler. Pilots who instinctively curl their hands as if touching controls that aren't there. Pilots who will do anything to get back into their mech - their real body.

Pilots who will never be anything other than a pilot because the bond with their mech and their constant exposure to combat has shattered their mind.