Never Mind All That

Amethyst. 30-something. Veterinary technician. RN in training. Needs to get her shit together.

[nudistcat]

"You Can't Shoot Dysentery"

Okay kiddos, story time because this post about Pete Kegsbreath nixing the military flu shot requirement has me thinking about dying in embarrassing Oregon Trail-ass ways.

A decade ago I went to Dragon*Con with a whole group of fandom friends to cosplay our OCs from a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk setting we'd collectively composed. In order to inject some realistic survival struggle, we attended a panel titled "Surviving the Apocalypse". Bada bing, bada boom. Straight line from interest to topic.

UNFORTUNATELY the panel was entirely made up of lolbertarian preppers whose strategies clashed hard with our group's "AuDHD leftist mutual aid" vibe. Their contention was that you needed to have The Most Guns in order to protect resources. Our contention was that no amount of ammo will alter the necessity of knowing how not to shit where you drink.

Since this was DrunkenDragon*Con and the panel started after 8PM, we were already well lubricated and still passing around a bottle of mead for good measure. Rugged individualist callousness revs my engine at the best of times and as I said, the V8 was lubed up and ready to go. After the panel's answer to the question "How will disabled people fit into a post-apocalyptic community?" was "Lol what?" the brakes failed catastrophically.

Loud enough to be heard across the room, I scrempt

"YOU CAN'T SHOOT DYSENTERY."

@idiopathicsmile immediately stood up, locked arms with me, and power-hustled out of the room before we found out how many of the gun nuts were concealed carrying. We left @thatlowvice and a botany PhD student to make calmer and soberish and arguments re: Do You Know The First Thing About Crop Rotation Once the Canned Food Runs Out.

Smile and I spent the rest of the panel huddled on the mezzanine drinking mead and plotting how to access daily medication in a state of societal collapse. We all made it through the evening with nothing worse than a lingering eyetwitch. But "can't shoot dysentary" has permanently entered our friend lexicon for discussing deregulation, public health, and lack of the common sense Deity gave a potato. We also have a Dragon*Con rule "before you let Kim read someone to filth, identify the nearest exit".

Sleep tight, my loves, and don't let the cholera bite.

[creekfiend]

death shatters reality like a fist through a pane of glass. if someone tells me a story about death and portrays whatever is broken as simple or comprehensible or repairable, and there's no unpleasant shards of glass sticking out in weird places to be stepped on randomly by someone months or years later. what are you even doing. what do you think death is. death is unreality! it should feel unreal! grief is grappling with the unreality and the linear nature of time. no backsies. nothing can be undone.

[perplexingly]

Don't be shackled by the idea that going out can only be done with a group of friends, learn to feel comfortable going alone [remembers that encouraging consumerism isn't progressive] into the deep dark woods

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[catchymemes]

[slimegargoyle]

invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”

[drakkonyan]

hey your cat kinda lowkey was giving god of probability and gambling and chaos so i drew her. yeah.

[miamaimania]

“Embroidered Snowy Steps” ❋ The only footprints that won’t melt

[mindfulwrath]

honestly “i’ll do whatever you want” “then perish” is the single most powerful exchange possible in the english language and it’s from some bizarre “hewwo” obama rp

[fallingtowers]

And there was that other post where someone dreamt that Obama said “violence for violence is the rule of beasts” like what is it about Obama that makes people come up with such raw fucking dialogue for him

[twofingerswhiskey]

my mother had a dream where he lived in the forest and she had a cigarette with him and he said “to become god is the loneliest achievement of them all” and put it out and walked into the mist and i’ve never fucking forgotten that

[10000badframes]

I once dreamed that a giant meteor was headed for earth, and the government had set up loudspeakers throughout the cities so Obama could give a final address - I’ll never forget how strangely comforting it was when he said “there are places we’ve never been before. Some of us have never been to the Alps, some of us have never been to Marrakesh. The next life is simply another place we’ve never been before, and we’re all going to go explore it together.” 

[hellsite-folklore-archivist]

Archived.

[clit-a-cola]

Saw this posted on someone else's tumblr but they had me blocked which is unfortunate cause it's correct and true.

[glitter-soda]

We need more lesbian content in general that’s actually made for (and by) women. Like I’m so tired of seeing some scrote’s masturbatory fantasy of how women love and fuck each other that’s clearly intended to titillate other men 😐

[cheryls-blossomed]

I cannot begin to stress how important Alysa Liu is to a sport like figure skating. This is a sport that is rife with abuse and that has silenced women and has forced them to do as they’re told in order to win medals. This is a sport where authoritative figures exercise an immense amount of control over athletes from their childhoods.

Alysa left the sport because of burn out. Because of what she went through. When she came back, she said that she’d skate to whatever music that she wanted. That she’d be in charge of her training schedule. That she’d be able to take a very active role in choreographing her programs and choosing her costumes. Her entire comeback has been about her taking authority over her career. She is in charge of her own career, as it should be. As it should always be.

And she is now the Olympic Champion. Her trajectory is proof that an athlete taking control of their training, of their joy, and of their competitive career is absolutely paramount to success in sport.

[jamie-goblin-child]

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Alysa Liu, Gold Medalist and Olympic Champion

Individual Women's Figure Skating at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics

[sedlex]

God showing off his artistry

[gonzos-humansona]

my hips don't lie but they will exaggerate details, misrepresent the facts, and on occasion deceive via omission of crucial information

[feefal]

My body is already an inhospitable environment, there’s no way a friggin baby would be able to survive in it

[feefal]

Also babies can’t even fight, how would they fare in battle against my inner demons?

[rokarambles]

[conkreetmonkey]

sand tiger sharks

[inbabylontheywept]

on it, boss lady

[inbabylontheywept]

one smooth shark, coming up

[star-mom-selkie]

[teathattast]

[loveridden1999]

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

[loveridden1999]

remember remember

[mikkeneko]

Y'know, one of the things I like about Tumblr compared to other social media sites is that old content is still in circulation. Which means that however much AI generated content is out there, at least I can glance at a post's timestamp and conclude that the cute cat video from 2017 is unlikely to be fake