Spoon theory at its dykiest @ifcujoweresappho - Tumblr Blog

Hello tumblr, im doing something of a mini survey so i have two questions:

1. Did you know before reading this that there was mercury present in thermometer fluid

2. Regardless of your previous answer would you say this was common knowledge

#Yes. I thought it was relatively common knowledge.#But maybe less so for genZ and younger?

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

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This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say "I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report" and you bring me just a first aid kit, it's so much more efficient to say "thanks now can you bring me an accident report" than "I asked you to bring an accident report why didn't you bring me one".

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Once you've internalized "a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument" you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing

#que #communication #functional humaning

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#undescribed #landscape

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SLAMS REBLOG

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Welcome new followers who do not quite look like porn bots.

A word of advice: If you only hit the Like heart, your blog appears to be empty and your tumblr experience will not be good. Because people will block you.

I will block you.

Get reblogging, fill your blog. This is how it's done here.

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If for whatever reason you don't feel comfortable reblogging yet, literally just make one single text post saying something like "hey I'm new to tumblr and still figuring out the culture! Not a bot, pls don't block me." An empty blog is an instant report spam.

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sorry about this guys, but very much this. i have discovered that if you MISS blocking a porn bot this often results in like five times as many of them and the morning "oh god another one" process becomes much worse, so I'm straight up doing "hrm no posts WELP - "

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...Truly. Just post once saying "Honest, I'm human and I'm just figuring all this out" and you'll be fine.

I emphasize this because @petermorwood was up late late Saturday night deleting both bots and empty blogs, and when I woke up he was lying next to me talking in his sleep about being sorry that he might possibly have accidentally deleted real people. (And he'd been was checking conscientiously for actual contents or signs of life, because that's how he is.)

So have some pity on us and help us out here. Likes alone are not enough. :/ ...Please & thank you.

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😘sexy💯 independent😈✨free-thinker😝🎱 roger, roger!🙊real🏅yes, we are hooman😇💫all your base are belong to us👍🙌🏼💋

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Me vs the porn bots constantly in my notifications

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Timely comes up on my dash 😂

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8 in one day is my most recent record (that I’m sure they’ll break)

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i'm here to let you know your sentence long post did not account for every single human experience. please delete it immediately and apologize with tears

#que #tumblr culture

spoonie life really is just weathering storms and hauling yourself up out of ditches and landslides onto the next one

#venting to the void #spoonie life #personal

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gay culture is telling your partner “that’s gay” every time they do something romantic and cute

#gay culture is also saying that’s gay whenever one of your queers does anything #que #text post #gay culture

when someone mentions liking my friends fic, I get this collateral happy-pride - like YES! They wrote that! I loved it too! I’m so glad it’s come up without my prompt.

#sappho’s life #fanfiction

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#cats #que #undescribed

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[ID: tweet by @/graphickat: “When people say “they never use disability as an excuse” it makes me furious.

Stating my reality is not an excuse. My body has physical limitations that aren’t negotiable.

When I tell you I can’t do something, it’s not an excuse. It’s not a matter of positivity. It’s truth.“ End ID.

#ableism #que

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THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII

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No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.

And what many people don’t realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.

So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girls’ school notebooks <3

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NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!

This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them “you’ll never find a husband if you dress that way!” to which they began to reply “Good!”

All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day you’ll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)

Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and ‘odd’ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives.