Subtle Fulgur

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[inazuma-fulgur]

Feel free to reblog/do anything on my account, you don't need my permission it's public after all

If I want to avoid something I'll turn it off or ask you kindly for it (and even then, I can't force you)

[inazuma-fulgur]

Alright guys, tumblr is social media after all

Had a good run after my detox but I gotta quit again

[rhynee]

this is still one of my favorite explanations for gender

[sedimentfootwrap]

This image manifested so clearly in my mind I had to recreate it

[alexseanchai]

[image 1: a tweet by KatysCartoons, whose profile picture is a stick figure whose head is colored in with the trans pride flag. the tweet reads, "Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions". embedded in the tweet is a pie chart entitled "Types of atom in the universe": seventy-four percent hydrogen, twenty-five percent helium, and, in tiny font, one percent other.]

[image 2: the periodic table of the elements, except that hydrogen and helium are in their own box labeled "Real elements", and elements 3 (lithium) through 118 (oganesson) are labeled "Mental illness".]

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incidentally this periodic table must've been drawn in the past nine years, since it doesn't deadname oganesson

[inazuma-fulgur]

look y'all, these are hydrogen helium and metals - what's there not to understand?

[jame7t]

when you see a Good post, you can say "HEEHO" when the post is Bad, the post is "wawoo"

[somemerchant]

Wawoo

[jame7t]

shut the fuck up 

[thesuperyapper]

Mutual I wanna talk to you but I don't know what to say. I really like you and I enjoy our interactions I think you'd be an awesome person to be friends with in real life. Please do not attack me with a sledgehammer.

[moss-wizard]

[madlluna]

Transmisoginy is so insane, why the fuck am I in a random train station in england and the bathrooms are separated as "gentlemen" and "female"

[inazuma-fulgur]

Call me stupid but I am here to learn

Why is this not just misoginy? It doesn't stop anyone from using either bathroom either, if you're trans you can definitely choose the bathroom that's more fitting for your identity even if the one for women is labeled in a dehumanizing way while the other one is playing up mens inherent good qualities irrespective of those actually existing, right?

[inazuma-fulgur]

There's so much discourse in this world that I simply can't care about anymore

Like, if you say a thought provoking thing, something that makes one pause and contemplate whether there's something to learn you better include more than the clickbait headline/thesis and the conclusion in your post

I'm missing all the process, the evidence, I don't even know if the thesis is based on reality and the point of your post is highlighting something that you wouldn't know/notice unless one is in the exact same social subspace/demographic as you. How am I as an outsider supposed to learn?

[janmisali]

the thing about copyright abolition is that. what makes theft bad is that something is taken away from its rightful owner. in this sense, copyright infringement is literally not theft, because making a copy of something doesn't tangibly cause the original owner to lose anything that they would otherwise have. copyright enforcement, on the other hand, does take away people's access to what should be theirs. anyone who makes art while employed by a corporation and is unable to sell their work because it does not belong to them, anyone who's been sued by a pop musician for making music that sounds vaguely similar if you don't allow the jury to listen to the actual songs, these people have far more in common with victims of theft than anyone whose copyright has been infringed

[janmisali]

like the thing with the film rights to MLK's speeches being owned by spielberg / dreamworks, that's not actually an instance where copyright law failed to protect artists. that's the system working as intended. MLK's speeches were his intellectual property. when he died the rights to that intellectual property transfered to his family, and his family decided to sell those rights to dreamworks, thereby functionally preventing anyone else from legally using those speeches in a film for the next several decades. no crime was committed, nobody was tricked into anything, that's just how intellectual property rights work

[demadogs]

nothing can break the bond between a friend who loves spoilers and a friend who just watched an amazing show and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

[demadogs]

alternatively: nothing can break the bond between a friend who doesnt read and a friend who just read an amazing book and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

[demadogs]

nothing can break the bond between a friend who cannot and will not watch horror but is still interested and a friend who just watched an amazing horror movie and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish

[littlefingies]

I don't know how to make this not sound mean but I'm not trying to be mean, so please know that going in.

Listening to a podcast about bodies and eating disorders and the body positivity movement of the last decade ish and hearing someone say (paraphrasing from memory here) "body positivity was all capitalism, there were no legislative changes, just new brands of jeans"

Legislative changes are super important but I cannot emphasize enough that jeans coming in bigger sizes and fat-friendly cuts is actually a really big deal! With meaningful impacts on people's lives (including mine)! Fat people do need clothes! And you may not realize this, but if you're over a certain size (that's not even that big a size) there's a very good chance you can go to a big box store and *not find anything that fits you*. There are towns in the US where if you're over a size 18 you need to drive an hour away or shop online to get things in your size. And they're expensive! "Just buy used" if they even have your size! Fat people want to look nice too. And we face enough judgement during job interviews (to give one example) without trying to do it in clothes that don't fit or are super uncomfortable.

Actually: If you're fat and you want to look cute/hot/masc/femme/etc I cannot recommend this website enough, you put in your measurements and it lists what brands have your size. You can filter for stuff like sensory friendly, nonbinary, masc, organic, etc. It's not AI just a database.

Phoria

Phoria is a platform to help plus-size and gender-expansive people build a more sustainable and ethical wardrobe they love. We’re a benefit

[prismatic-bell]

Also, something I learned from my queer elders in the 00s:

The battle is won when you have the hearts of the people, not the favor of the legislature.

There's a reason "the" case for queer marriage was a widowed man who had to transport his dying fiancé to another state and get married on an airport tarmac. There's a reason MLK told his followers to march wearing their Sunday best. There's a reason "the" push for the ADA was the Capitol Crawl.

And people can sneer about "respectability politics" all they like, but the point was to get so many people looking and saying "my g-d, what kind of monsters are we?" that voting "yes" to queer marriage, "yes" to integration, "yes" to disability rights, was no longer political suicide.

Fat liberation and fat rights didn't clear that hurdle, and feel free to call me cynical if you like, but I think it's because the movement didn't center enough people dying of non-fat-related causes who probably would have lived if they were thin. "I have stage four melanoma, I don't know if I'll live to see next year. I've been seeking treatment for six years and kept being told 'just lose some weight'." THAT would have turned heads.

But it did get pretty close to that hurdle. I think if it can weather the current GLP-1 craze until the inevitable lawsuits start, it has a pretty decent chance of making it over next time.

And the point of this entire post:

It's because of the new jeans sizes that I think so.

[the-haiku-bot]

Also, something I

learned from my queer elders

in the 00s:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from Kevin Farzad (@/ KevinFarzad) reading: The most important thing I’ve learned in life, and I can’t stress this enough: you gotta make a salad in a bigger bowl than you think /End ID]

[penandinkprincess]

parenting commitment level 3000

[penandinkprincess]

apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy

[starsarefairylightsfornerds]

[inazuma-fulgur]

Left a YouTube comment today - I know, silly and foolish of me but I love it - got accused of my comment being AI written, or at least of me being no smarter, having no more depth than AI. In the end it is the same, but I can't tell my oppositions intent or awareness of thought through the screen

It's a first btw. Never ever have I been called a bot, ai or even an npc before.

Thoug the one guy I've met that loved calling people npcs was one of the least curious and thought provoking people I've ever met. The only thoughts he has ever provoked in me were thoughts about how he seems to hate thinking and learning. Kinda dickish of me, but whatever. He was just a coworker and I never got to know him too well, but we did get along well at first. Idk. Justin (I believe that was your name) if you're reading this remember our talk about your mom and little brother? I wanna continue that conversation, but you were so angry and agressive I was genuinely worried about talking to you, but you brought the topic up. You can't bring up topics and only ever expect agreement, that's not how humans work. That's not social interaction. Please I don't even know if I was right, but I would've gladly opened myself up and shared my experience with you, the experiences that impacted my opinions. Let's grow and learn together

[mysillycomics]

turns out reaping what you sow is great when you plant epic and awesomesauce seeds and not yucky gross ones

[neverthere12345]

[awakefor48hours]

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

[berkelbites]

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

[nessa007]

[inazuma-fulgur]

Jokes on you, I'm already living in it

Give me that Million