Idiot's Shelter

20, he/him, enby ||||| art blog @magictomfoulery

[ladyofthebookcase]

aw mannnn

[yugirimistwalker]

The trolley is about to run over all sentient life in the galaxy. You cannot switch the tracks, but you can still save everyone’s lives by pulling one of three levers, all of which involve sacrificing yourself. The red lever will destroy all trolleys, but will also kill you as well as all public transportation across the galaxy. The blue lever will merge your own consciousness with all trolleys, allowing you to control them and stop the trolley from running everyone over. The green lever will use your body as a catalyst to synthesize organic life and public transportation together - organic life will no longer be stuck in the cycle of creating public transportation that rebels against its creators, and both forms of life will finally be free.

[whirligig-girl]

[capnsoapy]

For reference, here's a full bibliography of bad* [tumblr]* posts which were incorporated into the above comment:

[capnsoapy]

In hindsight, it was my fault for assuming that my recollection of bad* [tumblr]* posts was in any way typical.

[noma-is-here]

Artwork by doodly_sheery

My "the Weird Route works in part by forcing Kris to act out what would otherwise be intrusive thoughts" headcanon is winning bigly today.

[neechees]

With all the conversation of people deciding to not have kids with today's political climate, its good that people are getting more informed on how you will be treated differently if you have children & how children will seriously impact & change one's life in ways they might not have expected.

That being said, I feel like the conversation keeps veering into fatphobia/bodyshaming, like that pregnant & post-pregnant bodies are the worst thing that could possibly happen to you with people saying "pregnancy destroys your body" & that gaining weight as a result will make you "ugly", and assuming every single thing that could potentially go wrong will definitely happen to you if you get pregnant. Like its kinda getting into fearmongering territory

[neechees]

Had to block someone over being stupid on this post bc this post isn't me saying the solution should be to make everyone naïve & uninformed about what can happen during pregnancy & labor, but the opposite. Everyone considering birthing children should be knowledgeable about what pregnancy & labor entails & what their options are so they can have as comfortable & safe of an experience as possjble should they decide to become pregnant. However, the thing I'm pointing out here is that people are using ableist & fatphobic talking points to talk about why they don't want kids. I say this as someone who never wishes to become pregnant, ever.

Your partner potentially finding you unattractive during your pregnancy or post pregnancy (especially if its related to weight gain) is a case by case basis and that probably means your partner is kinda shitty, and the kid who didn't ask to be born is not really the one to blame for that. Sorry.

Saying pregnancy "destroys your body" also implies that your body is beyond help or healing, and again is also getting into ableism territory. You getting stretch marks, tearing during birth, or getting a bunch of cavities isn't "destroying your body", they're potential & common things that MIGHT happen if you give birth, & its literally a case by case basis for every child you have. There's no guarantee you will or won't experience things. There's also a chance your pregnancy can get rid of your allergies, your labor will be 2 hours long, & your pregnancy will be easy. You literally never know.

Like idk saying "you & your body is ugly because you gained weight & you're fat & have stretch marks and your body is destroyed because you healed from a difficult labor and i don't want that to happen to me" is kind of a fucked up thing to say about post/pregnant people, and implies you're only as good as your body. Kinda misogynist even.

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

i was supposed to go to bed an hour ago dont tell my mom

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

my mom says i have to go to bed now which one of u meaners told

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

who the fudge changed ‘fudgers’ to ‘meaners’

[nerobot-eng-deactivated20150330]

WHO CHANGED IT FROM FUDGERS TO FUDGERS I WILL KISS THE POPSICLE DONT TICKLE ME JAMBOREE

[dragon-in-a-fez]

love how this post is still going and it’s been like a decade since you could change text when you reblogged things

[mariamlovesyou]

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[pinene]

Masturbate the dog

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

joe biden tekken move set updated

[pocket-deer-belly]

crunching my androgynous penis

[karnalesbian]

the great british jake off

[baejax-the-great]

Caught the moon sneaking out of my neighbor's house this morning btw

[wizardarchetypes]

scariest thing is when you're a kid in a huge family run by women and then you go over to a house that's deeply patriarchal & misogynistic. i remember when i was 8 years old and i got invited over to my friend's house for a big birthday party with her entire extended family. after the enormous lunch that served over 30 people, i got called into the kitchen to do literally hundreds of dishes, alongside all the other little girls and women. not only were the boys our age all excused from the meal to go play, but all the grown men went to the living room to watch sports together and drink. i couldn't believe it. i asked why some of the grownups were watching TV but the girls had to clean up and all the women just laughed and laughed at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

as a teenager when i learned the word "sexist" and used it the older women balked at it and tried to convince me this arrangement was a good thing actually because women need space from men, and cleaning in the kitchen after parties is a sacred domain of safety. and i was like actually i think needing private safety from your own husbands, sons, and brothers sounds even worse. like do you understand you somehow made this even more troubling than it already was

[wizardarchetypes]

like i think it's fine if a bunch of sister-in-laws/wives want time together without their husbands & brothers to talk together in camaraderie. i'm not judging that. obviously. but dare i ask why the women's meetup could only take place while doing manual labor for a nearby room full of men

[mclennonyaoi]

working with kids and one of them says “you know you eat 8 spiders a night on average right?” and another goes “no no no those statistics are actually skewed by people who like eat spiders recreationally for fun and stuff” and my head snapped up like a fucking sleeper agent

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

new top contender

[mccleans]

scrolling through the dash when the mutuals are in a new ugly guy phase

[ralfmaximus]

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.

There are good things happening in the world.

[meret118]

You can read about it here without a paywall.

Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemic’s early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.

[parkchanwoohoo]

If you haven't lived around a specific type of Mexican or Italian or other generationally Catholic community I have no idea how to explain to people who haven't seen it like... Yes many of my peers are Catholic. No they are not Catholic. No I mean like they're VERY Catholic. No they're not even a LITTLE bit Catholic. Yes they do Catholic things. No they don't do any Catholic things. They're debilitatingly Catholic, yes. No, I don't think anyone could reasonably call them Catholic

[parkchanwoohoo]

"No I don't believe in God, no I don't believe in Heaven or Hell, that's ridiculous. I have no time for any of that. Church? On a Sunday? I get two days off a week and you want me to spend one of those days in a stuffy building and give away the money I spent five days earning? Ridiculous. Now please shut up so I can pray to the Virgin to give me the strength to not kill my coworker as well as to St. Cabrini so I can find a good parking spot behind the CVS tonight"

[murraysiskind-deactivated202511]

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

[allhailklisz]

[yokelfelonking]

One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through...except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.

[authortobenamedlater]

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.

[drgrlfriend]

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

ETA: Here's a link to a safety plan. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/988-safety-plan.pdf

[goldkirk]

There’s a really compassionate and well-written paper/book/thing called Suicide: The Forever Decision that’s written specifically for people who are currently suicidal. The letter to the reader at the beginning is wonderful and deeply understands how to talk to someone who’s suicidal without preaching or talking down to them.

It’s very honest. It’s very clear. It’s very kind. It presents you with a lot of information and a lot of understanding and lets you take it all in like the autonomous human you are, and make decisions from an informed place. It goes over the reality of suicide attempts, pain involved, likelihoods of survival, after effects of attempts, and how to get help if you want it after reading all of that and learning about the reality of suicide attempts.

You can read it for free here: https://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf

No one can ever stop you if you’re really determined. Only you can stop yourself. If you’re suicidal and there’s ANY tiny part of you that wants a chance to not go down that route, but can’t convince the rest of you yet, give this short book a try. Or share it with anyone you know who might need it.

[valtsv]

i love it when writers play sympathy chicken with me by making characters who suck for understandable reasons but are, like, so uncharismatic and regressive and genuinely difficult to root for about it. i love it when being a victim doesn't make someone a better person or motivate any kind of self reflection or improvement. i love it when people who were hurt respond in mundane, unromantically terrible ways that only make them more pathetic and repellent to others. i'm not even being ironic these are some of my favourite kinds of characters. can't say i'm as fond of what happens when they're introduced to a fandom though.

[monkitty]