the sunny sideblog

most of the time i don't know what's going on, but it's chill. all likes come from @sunnydwrites and i reblog pretty much whatever i want on here. also i come to yell into the void sometimes. fun stuff.

[sunnydwrites]

Want to be published?

Short story authors, this one’s for you!

Tripping the Write Fantastic, a server by and for writers, is going to be celebrating its second year anniversary this coming June - how exciting! (Keep reading to see why this is important!) For those of you who don’t know, we run a zine full of stories from you guys, and we’re preparing for our next edition!

If you like to write stories with myths and fairy tales, this one’s for you - that’s our theme! Our only topic requirement is that your story somehow relates to a myth or a fairy tale. Other than that, the world is your oyster.

Interested in submitting? Here’s some more information!

- Your story must be below 3,000 words. - Any form of written work is acceptable, including but not limited to poetry, songwriting, and prose. - The submission deadline for this period is July 31st, and we are looking at releasing the edition in full in the middle or end of August. - Due to our theme, you must be prepared to tell us which fairy tale or myth your story relates to.

“But Sunny,” you’re asking (I’m sure), “how does the two year anniversary affect this?” For two years, we’re opening submissions for two stories from each writer! They don’t have to be connected should you choose to write two, but they can be - there’s a space in the form to mark that.

And, if you want to design the cover for this edition, you can send me a message for more information!

Woo, that was a lot. I’ll be boosting this post a few times between now and our deadline. Until then, happy writing!

Ready to go? Submit here!

[somanyjacks]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

[wormsslime]

[somanyjacks]

Reblogging to add amazing tags from @meta-theory

#this both makes things more fun and also is a really good analogy#because there are four types of system maintenance and that makes the term much more exact than the nebulous ''self-care''#and therefore much more helpful to those of us who uhhh struggle with nebulosity#for anyone curious the four types are:#1. corrective (to fix current problems)#2. preventative (to avoid future problems)#3. adaptative (to re-adjust to any changes)#4. perfective (to work towards a better system)#I really like this idea I'm gonna make a checklist

[sluttyhozier]

rawest fucking hozier lyrics in no particular order:

i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight

heat of her breath in my mouth; im alive

i’d be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground

idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on his sword

and when the earth is trembling on some new beginning with the same sweet shock of when adam first came

every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside

the stench of the sea and the absence of green are the death of all things that are seen and unseen

if I was born as a blackthorn tree i’d wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies

some like to imagine the dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do

before the wave hits, marveling at god; before he feels alone one final time and marries the sea

betray the moon as acolyte on first and fierce affirming sight

i have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me, I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me

screaming the name of a foreigner’s god; the purest expression of grief

sweet and right and merciful, i’m all but washed in the tide of her breathing

but you don’t know the hell you put me through; to have someone kiss the skin that crawls from you

so i try to talk refined for fear that you find out how i’m imagining you

my head was war, my skin was soaked, I called your name ‘til the fever broke

be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking

remember me, love, when i’m reborn as a shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

[gaycism]

narcissus at the pond

[wombatlovesyou-moving]

WAIT THE REFLECTION LOOKED BACK AT THE END

[gaycism]

the what

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[susiephone]

when will YA authors realize that the mr. darcy fantasy isn’t “hot rich guy is a huge dick to you” but “hot rich guy fucking respects and listens to you”

[inkbleeder]

“hot rich guy only seems like a huge dick because he has the social skills of an agarophobic lobster.”

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“hot rich guy realizes he has some dickish qualities and works to improve himself solely on the merit of your criticism and not to win you back”

[thrift-store-tea-cup-deactivate]

“hot rich guy apologizes and also understands that his apology doesn’t entitle him to forgiveness.” 

[notemily]

Hot rich guy does something nice for you (helping your flighty sister avoid a scandal) without taking credit for it.

[conarcoin]

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

[conarcoin]

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I want slower packages delivered by transportation workers who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding

[multiverse-of-misfits]

And I want them packed carefully by workers who are treated like human beings and given actual breaks and are paid wages they can live on by employers who actually care about their well-being

[ashyguysworld]

And if they had enough time to have a little chitchat whenever they feel like it, that‘d be great.

[yenvengerberg]

THE WITCHER + relationship tropes (insp)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[wetwareproblem]

Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?

[kedreeva]

Here’s the link if anyone wants it!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men

[kayasurin]

We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.

[jenniferrpovey]

Past experiments have shown that UBI:

Increases high school graduation rates

Reduces:

Domestic violence

Alcoholism

Emergency room visits related to mental health

Road traffic accidents.

All while not disincentivizing employment for most groups (the exceptions being high school students, who were able to focus on their studies, and new mothers…who were using it as maternity leave!)

People, for the most part, want to work.

UBI would allow us to expand the definition of “work.” If somebody can live off of UBI, then they can devote themselves to things which we don’t currently value financially such as the arts, raising children well, etc.

And if somebody wants to stay home and play video games all day…then so be it. Not that many will.,..and of those who do most will probably find some way to make that into their “work,” whether by providing play throughs and tutorials or competing seriously.

[jabberwockypie]

If somebody stops working all together as soon as they get UBI and stays home to play video games, they probably desperately needed a break.

There are so many people who are struggling with mental and physical illnesses, and chronic pain, who are still breaking themselves working because they don’t have another option - because it can take years to get on disability, and it’s not enough to survive on, so people keep going as long as they possibly can.

Even if it’s not a matter of disability, as such … people get burned out?

We’re not really built to do school and work with minimal breaks to the extent that we do.

Despite what our puritanical culture says, there’s no shame in needing a break.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It always strikes me as funny that people who bitch about a “nanny state” are the same people who want to strip people of as much autonomy as possible because they don’t trust them to make their own decisions.

If you don’t want to give money to homeless people because they’ll spend it wrong, don’t want UBI because people will spend their time wrong, don’t want parental leave or parental support because you think people will start reproducing wrong, you’re the one trying to play nanny here. (And, speaking as a professional nanny, you’d get fired within a week trying to pull that kind of punitive micromanagement bullshit as an actual nanny.)

[wastelesscrafts]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

Universal Basic Income could become a reality in Europe. If you’re a European citizen interacting with this post, please sign this European Citizens’ Initiative to introduce unconditional basic income in the European Union.

As I’ve discussed in my previous post on European Citizens’ Initiatives, these petitions are legit and won’t abuse your personal data. They’re a way to have your voice heard.

[michaelgovehateblog]

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

[primarybufferpanel]

May we live in very uninteresting times

[broken-academia]

may you experience very precedented events

[mewwon]

When will there be tumblr stories

[queenofcrystaltokyo]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

women hate him

[24ozsteak]

thinking about that WoW epidemic

[24ozsteak]

[swampgallows]

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

[wheel-skellington]

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

[the-jellyfish-galaxy]

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

[adobe-outdesign]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

“They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.”

This is the most terrifying one. This is how the rich and healthy are acting about the poor and disabled.

[funnypeopletwitter]

Ok the guy with the net fucking killed me, I’m sure my neighbors heard me laughing.

[yurious-george]

School shootings. They don’t want you to hide guns.

[dawnbutterfly]

This is where we are, folks. We’ve come to the point where they’re demanding that children carry all of their school supplies in hand so that they don’t have to do anything about the gun violence problem in this shithole of a country.

[kendrysaneela]

I love malicious compliance

[sunrisedespair]

HISTORY COMES FULL CIRCLE, HOLY SHIT I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’RE STILL DOING THIS TO KIDS. 

They did this shit at my school way back when Columbine had just happened!

Naturally, we invented all sorts of bullshit ways to carry our shit, because what the fuck, we need backpacks. 

My favourites included: 

-Fishing rod with twine tied around two pencils and a small pocket notebook.

-Tons of people got those little clear plastic bags they have in grocery stores for fruit and shit, and used them as see-through pencil cases 

Note: THEY PROCEEDED TO THEN ALSO BAN THE BAGS AS “CHOKING HAZARDS”. WE WERE NOT THREE YEAR OLDS. OUR HEADS DIDN’T EVEN FIT IN THE FUCKING BAGS, AND BELIEVE ME, WE TRIED AS SOON AS THEY ANNOUNCED THE BAN, BECAUSE MOST OF US WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN BEEN IN FUCKING SCHOOL BY THAT POINT. DID THEY THINK WE WERE GONNA STUFF THE BAGS DOWN OUR THROATS? CHRIST.)

-One kid dressed up like a priest and used the loose fabric of the cassock to carry three text books around all day. 

-Someone hollowed out a fucking loaf of bread, pretended to be French all day, and made a show out of pulling a ridiculous number of highlighters out of this fucking bread in the middle of class. 

Now that I think about it, I think that kid invented Panera Bread by accident. Y’know, the little bread soup bowls? This was that, but with highlighters instead of soup. 

Eventually, things escalated, and the principal called the police after he went to the parking lot and found his car broken into– Nothing was stolen, but there were about 5000 fucking backpacks stuffed in his car, to the point that the door wouldn’t even open.

I don’t know who did it, or what group of people did it, but they’re all fucking heroes because the next week backpacks were permitted again. 

[freekbugg]

[androfembot-deactivated20220204]

ppl w nonbinary genders are not all just “between” male and female. gender isn’t a male/female zero-sum game pls stop

[carolxdanvers]

this took me a while to unlearn, until someone basically said “look, colors are a spectrum. if you assign pink to women and blue to men, that doesn’t make every other color a variation of purple” 

[androfembot-deactivated20220204]

^potentially helpful way to conceptualize this

[scottandhiskind]

I remember one tumblr post that went around ages ago that suggested thinking of gender less like this

and more like this.

Which honestly helped me understand this concept more than anything else when I first started to explore ideas of gender and sexuality

[indigo-brainspark]

Also also!!! There’s a saturation setting too!!!

So you can have much much gender, or varying amounts of gender, or no gender at all!!

[pickledbaklava]

[unheimlichemaneuver-deactivated]

Dogs wagging their tails when they’re happy is so awesome

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

idk i think its just kind of weird that- *giant invisible hand grabs me by the back of the neck like a kitten and starts lifting me away* god damn it not this again

[astro-biologist]

mii plaza