Asexy Shenanigans

The drabbles, rants and occasional musings of the awsomesauce g8res!

[slaygentford]

I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!

[usaigi]

I hate the implication that the Spider-Man in our universe is the goddamn popsicle

[g8res]

His Cannon Event was the melting of Uncle Ben and Jerry's and the tragic splat of best scooped friend, HäaGwen-Dazs Stacy on the summer sidewalk.

[ms-demeanor]

IF YOU ARE PANICKING ABOUT THE OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT AND CHEMICAL SPILL PLEASE READ THIS

A post describing the incident in a panicked tone has been circulating. That post makes some extremely overstated claims, including that a huge number of animals will die and that there is a media blackout of the story. This is is information that was made as an addendum to the post (OP saw the info and made it their pinned post after seeing the correction) and some people were looking for a way to share the updated info without having to share the triggering post. So, here's why you SHOULD NOT BE PANICKING about the Ohio train derailment and chemical spill:

Here is the New York Times reporting on this on February 4th.

Here are NBC and The Daily Beast reporting on this on February 5th.

Here are People Magazine, the Sacramento Bee, The Daily Beast again, CBS News, Reuters, and Reuters again reporting on this on February 6th.

Here is CNN reporting on it on February 7th.

The EPA response profile has been active and updating since February 4th.

I want to preface this by saying THIS IS NOT GOOD, and we shouldn't act like nothing is happening. This is bad. This is a serious environmental disaster. There are currently risks to humans and animals, and risks to humans and animals will be ongoing for quite some time at various levels.

However I think that "this will kill all the pets in the area and will lay a swathe of poison from Ohio to Mexico, burning the world between" is perhaps something of an overstatement and I'm aware that folks are upset about this but holy shit let's please try not to catastrophize the catastrophe.

The purpose of an intentional burn at the site was as a containment measure, because it is better to temporarily have extremely toxic chemical byproducts in an evacuated area than it is to allow an extremely carcinogenic chemical to slowly disperse.

There was a similar chemical spill in New Jersey in 2012 (still not a good thing! Not something that we should let go lightly!) and it did not result in "all pets dying" or a mass poisoning of rivers and streams.

Here is the DHHS Toxological Profile for Vinyl Chloride, a nearly 300-page document that goes over risk factors and harms caused by the chemical. Given the tone of the original post, here's what people probably want to see right now:

At the moment, there appears to be one man who claims that his pet fox died as a result of exposure to the vinyl chloride, and it sickened some of his other pets. There is some discussion of dead chickens and one dead hawk was found. Dead fish were found in some bodies of water, and the EPA is monitoring other bodies and has issued directives for dams and spillovers to collect chemical runoff to prevent as much downstream contamination as possible. At the moment, it is very difficult to say whether there will be a significant amount of acute animal deaths (wild or domesticated) as a result of this, though I would guess there will be a very significant increase of cancer in the area in the coming years.

One reporter at a press conference from the Ohio governor was arrested, he has been released and the AG's office is investigating his arrest. There are a lot of photos of the derailment and its consequences on social media and other news websites, and it does not appear that anyone is preventing people from taking or sharing photos of the disaster.

Look. I am not someone who thinks that you should blindly trust the government. There are huge issues here. This is a disaster that happened for a number of reasons, many of which are related to absolute shit regulation of chemical transportation and which were probably exacerbated by overworked railroad employees who got fucked over for the sake of the economy in December. There is bad shit here that is worthy of criticism, there are legitimate things to be concerned about.

But just because I don't trust the government doesn't mean I think it's a better idea to trust a shitpost account on twitter that provided "evidence" in the form of an instagram account posting screenshots of text messages from one guy who had a collection of exotic animals he wasn't able to retrieve from the evacuation area and a tiktok video.

There are definitely things to worry about with this, but please don't panic.

Also look, if the news is too miserable and you don't want to look at it too much but you want to at least pretend to stay informed, the Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet is a constant stream of paragraph-long reports on breaking news. Two of the stories I linked up above are from the Cheat Sheet. Just. Keep it open in a browser tab and check headlines once a day, okay? This has been news for an entire week, if People Magazine is doing human interest stories on it there isn't a media blackout please don't get your news from twitter or tumblr please I am begging you.

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If you see someone who is panicking or spiraling because of the original post, please consider linking them to this post.

[lainathewitch]

So on the pro ai art side we have a few cringey bastards who the rest of us dont like, doing stupid shit as humans are prone to do in groups, and on the anti ai art side we have rhetoric whipping people up to commit mass violence

You arent on the correct side here. Ai art model training isnt theft, its not violating any laws and its not technofascism, for god sake the most popular AI artists are disabled trans people. If it was violating laws the lawsuits would have happened by now. They havent because the lawyers told people its unlikely they would win. This doesnt mean one will never happen, you can find a lawyer willing to take any case.

But the probability of the anti-ai art people winning is astoundingly low.

Some people in your movement understand this, the thought leaders keeping you frothing mad and keeping you from understanding the situation enough to know they are lying to you.

Thats why they are trying to bend you towards violence because they know they dont have the facts on their side.

Some time ago a disabled trans artist who uses and makes their own AI tools as ethically as possible using public domain images was driven nearly to suicide simply for using those tools. They went and found a solution to all of the bad arguments you all make and it wasnt enough, you all didnt care.

You are not on the right side of history.

[the-moonlight-calls]

[g8res]

I work with little kids now and IDK how to describe the feeling of realizing that they really like me. I'm just like kid I don't even like myself lmao.

[theclonewriter-blog]

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

[onewordtest]

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

[joehywheelah]

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

[tenoko1]

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

[cj-amused]

Things I didn’t know

[prismatic-bell]

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

[jawnwats-deactivated20160713]

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

[notesoftruth]

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

[flootzavut]

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

[dechart]

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

[eddiestarchild]

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

[magpiefngrl]

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

[theredscreech]

Helpful stuff right here, y’all.

[davidragifs]

[tullorona-deactivated20160622]

Oh my god my heart actually exploded from this happiness.

[krazykat-minionofmisha]

Omg the last gif it waved back omg

[teach-me-how-to-buggy-deactivat]

So many people always seem to forget just how intelligent elephants are.

[sgtsquishy]

the elephant drew the other elephant. THE ELEPHANT ACTUALLY DREW THE OTHER MOTHERFUCKIN ELEPHANT 

[nonbinarypastels]

[Image Description: A black color block and pink color block in a vertical row with text that reads “protect queer jewish people / don’t allow antisemitism to exist in queer spaces”]

[citadelofmythoughts]

So I’m venting here.

Today Bernie Sanders’ campaign made a video using the (tepid) endorsement of Joe Rogan who has made transphobic comments in the past (and to the best of my knowledge has never apologized). This, naturally, didn’t set well with many trans people but instead of listening, the Sander’s campaign put out a statement handwaving it away as part of needing to reach out to those who might not agree with everything and representatives of the campaign and many supporters have dismissed us and even accusing us of just making trouble.

I’m angry, I’m angry that the supposed largest voice for the left in the USA makes common cause with a transphobe, I’m angry that I’ll likely still have to vote for him (but he doesn’t get my vote in the primary) I’m angry that the left in the USA is still abelist, still cis-sexist.

And it’s an anger I have to swallow which makes it even worse.

[g8res]

I'm so fucking done with this man. I am black. I am queer. I am a woman. I am an immigrant. And I am so fucking done with excuses from leftists on why their problematic fave is literally Jesus reborn. I am tired of Bernie Sanders.

I haven't been the biggest fan of Sanders even in 2016 and that makes me already pre-disposed to anger but for whatever reason this is somehow triggering my final breaking point towards Sanders. I think it's more from the reaction I'm seeing and the RNC Primary flashbacks I'm getting.

Or maybe it's because that if Trump and the rest of his fascist groupies are Voldemort and the Death Eaters, the behavior of quite a few Bernie surrogates and the Very Online White Left(tm) are sending out Delores Umbrage vibes.

Ugh but you're just a LiBeRaL and you compromise with fascists!

OK Boomer Bernie.

You wanted to primary Obama during his reelection. You weren't a Democrat till 2016. Your tent is too small for Hilary, too small for Biden, too small for Pete, Warren, Kamala, or even fucking Beto but your post-heart attack, showerhead hitting, immigration hating ass can make room for a fucking transphobe?!

You can make room for a man who's called black people apes? Or peddled birtherism? You don't want more "poor Vietnamese" coming in but you're cool with a dude that platforms David fucking Duke? It wasn't enough trying to slide with Cenk "Misogyny is good actually" Uyger but now you're best pals with a living breathing Tumblr stereotype centrist?

You can bitch about Biden and the crime bill (which YOU also signed and later even CAMPAIGNED on) but you wanna support that Joe that's dropped multiple hard 'r' n-words while recording?!

GTFOH

The worst part is listening to your supporters on Reddit, Twitter, and this thrice-damned hellsite go out their way to excuse you. Incrementalism is bad unless we do it I guess. The excuses are always the same too:

"But he can't control who endorses him!" (Said SCOTUS45 as he refused to denounce David Duke) How odd, I had no idea that Sanders had no control of a problematic endorsement being wholeheartedly retweeted and praised on his account. Hmm.

"He's trying to get new people into the fold. Rogan has a big audience and his endorsement will expose the liberal ones to modern progressivism!" Oh how lovely! That's why he had to reciprocate right? To make sure that the people listening to Joe Rogan who heard Joe Rogan's endorsement of Bernie Sanders knew that Bernie Sanders has positive feelings for....Joe...Rogan...

"Well you can't always play purity politics!" Idk, I mean Bernie seems to manage.

"Class is the real problem! Bigotry is just a form of identity politics to distract and divide us." Solid argument! You totally convinced He. I mean Cis sound just about White tbh. I can't Straight to get started!

The company you keep fucking matters. After months and years of jumping down the throats of "white moderates" and quoting MLK at every liberal Bernie, leftists don't get to play the Big Tent game. If you wanna be the folks that want to fight bigotry then you gotta call out the people that normalize that shit. But considering how the problems of every white cismale on this race seems to fade faster than an Avenger after a Thantos watched poetry slam, I don't have much hope right now.

[bustedbernie]

There have been many examples where Bernie dismisses race, sexuality, and gender identity and folds them into class struggle. These problems are more than just because of economic inequality. Then just a week or two ago, we have certain folks in the far-left saying the Democratic Party is “too big a tent” because… Joe Biden is in it??? And now many of those same people are stretching themselves thin to argue that Bernie winning Joe Rogan is good because he’s building a coalition? If anything, this endorsement just verifies to me that it’s all about the “white working class man” to Bernie and everyone else has to get in line. 

[g8res]

Okay just three things about this...

a) bakugo's dad is a fashion designer and yet this man allowed his son to raid his grandpa's closet and call it a #look

b) this child's birthday? why is he so angry then? Hori explain!?

c) happy prototype bakugo is cursed. never speak to me or my real son again.

[pixleth]

That one scene, but with more firepower.

SOURCE: https://mobile.twitter.com/TheTrotsworth/status/1017957894342434816

[screaminghansolo]

“anakin, what do you have?”

“a wife!”

“NO!”

[rainbowchibbit]

@brynnmclean

[critical-and-cringe]

Oh. My. God.

[giffing-su]

[g8res]

White Diamond: Damn bitch u liv like this?

[kia8088]

Y'all been shitting on Sasuke’s fashion since Chunin Exams pt. 2 but once he steps out with that 2 piece suit and y'all still won’t let him live.

[whothehellisbenedict]

IVE BEEN SAYIN

[kia8088]

In that trailer when he was standing with Naruto wearing that gray vest and slacks. Man out here looking like he finna go for a job interview.

[whothehellisbenedict]

It’s actually from the Sexy Modern Assassin collection by Tom Ford. Nobody talks about Naruto who stay looking like a Halloween decoration….

[kia8088]

LMAO! #Dead. That praised orange ass prison jumpsuit. Sasuke out here traveling, damn near homeless and still getting the new editions.

[whothehellisbenedict]

You see that gold chain he was rocking with that post-apocalyptic vagabond outfit in The Last????

Boy was listening to migos before he left the village and decide to rock that Versace, Versace

[kia8088]

That’s why his ass couldn’t afford Child Support, still by paying off that damn chain. Naruto walking around with his Lost&Found outfit on and girls sweating in they drawers about him.

[geleleo]

Before I begin let me just say yall wrong and on the losing team

yall defending the same nigga who had this haircut + this style and called it a #look

“standing with Naruto wearing that gray vest and slacks. Man out here looking like he finna go for a job interview.”

job interview??? for what position???? sales clerk at hot topic????? check those raggedy ass sandals ho!!

and PLEATHE with The Last!! The Uchiha Massacre wasn’t even near as tragic as this- dare it be called- outfit

“post-apocalyptic vagabond” please the tears in his 1988 poncho represented the tears of all his stans once he stepped out in this mess!!

“decide to rock that Versace, Versace” 

you call these 2003 macaroni necklaces versace???????!?!?????

which 5 year old made them for him?? did himawari jump through time????

#himawaribeensavagebeforeconception

and yall cant call nobody’s outfit lost&found when homeboy pulled this mess out of orochimaru’s salvation army donation

[kia8088]

*insert gif of nigga fading away with peace sign (PARTYNEXTDOOR beat starts playing)*

[whothehellisbenedict]

lemme preface this by saying, you ain’t won shit

sasuke ain’t got nothin on naruto’s somewhere over the rainbow, paint with all the colors of the wind lookin ass

what? with frog green underwear?????

throughout the ages he stay looking like a party city halloween costume reject, look like he bought that shit at a tear down halloween store for 10.99

at least sasuke got some variety in his wardrobe, while naruto doesnt even change the shade of orange.

you see sasuke’s outfit? that’s called monochromatic color blocking which is an advanced fashion skill naruto “nightmare before christmas pumpkin ass” uzumaki’s style deprived self hasn’t mastered yet

you wanna talk about kids making sasuke’s necklace, let’s talk about sarada somehow using her father’s technique to jump through dimensions to give naruto this unfortunate makeup work using the pumpkin spice latte eyeshadow palette from claire’s

give me a break sis naruto wouldn’t know what real #couture looks like if it blew off his arm

oh wait.

you can’t be sittin up here talkin about sasuke’s hair when naruto’s hair in the last:

(in case you forgot this bullshit)

looks like he went to his nearest great clips and asked the barber to just fuck him up

get with it sweet tea, sasuke don’t gotta wear ugly fire embroidered robes to actually be fire

[doktorsadko]

WHY IS THIS CONVERSATION SO INTERESTING TO ME?!

[whothehellisbenedict]

Thank you for bringing this back lmao @kia8088 @geleleo I miss this

[geleleo]

Whenever this comes back I truly live

[gabzilla-z]

͡° ͜ʖ ͡°

[sevargs]

I’ve never been so fucking amused

[g8res]

This whole post snatched the wig off my damn soul. 😂💀😂💀😂

[ramdaughter]

this site does in fact have a blatant racism problem and the most obnoxious part is how it stems from willful ignorance. just the sheer obliviousness of wondering out loud why its bad to assume a black child steals or draw fucking minstrel fanart, of out and out reblogging shit that’s veiled blood libel, of buying into the idea that all media products from east asia are inherently problematic and inherently uniform is just all so…ugly. some of yall need to do some reading reading, off tumblr. 

[ramdaughter]

and of course no one can know everything from the jump but like? i’m really not getting the impression that many of you are actively working to better yourselves and remain aware of the many, many ways we’re capable of hurting each other due to socialized expectations and ideas.