Whatever's on my mind

She/They

[jointheuniverse]

Them

It all started with them.

Their opinions,

Their stares,

Their lies,

And their lives.

What does it take to be alive?

A heart,

A breath,

A sigh,

And a laugh.

But what am I then?

No body,

No face,

No name,

And no voice.

I am in your life.

A memory,

A shadow,

A breeze,

And just a touch away.

But you look at them.

Their love,

Their money,

Their acts,

And their damn smiles.

You look at them,

Don’t notice me.

I’m a mere dream!

A tale of happiness.

You want to be like them,

But you know

You’re different –

You cannot live like them,

Because they’re not you.

And they are not me.

[jointheuniverse]

I am just starting to catch up with literature, even though I have been reading it for years. But never has my appreciation for words been greater than it is now. It touches deeper, it reaches further inside and out, brings forth more emotion and knowledge, instils more comfort and fear than ever. I can only thank my younger self for reading as much as I did, to build the foundations of creativity and rich worlds inside myself. I revel in the fascination I felt drinking from an infinite cup of all the stories back then. And I have to thank those authors whose works had laid those foundations in my younger self, for their ability to touch and impact me in the way they did. So that I can now eat the fruits from the trees planted many years ago, that now add to the sweetness of this new found fondness for the word in all its facets.

Thank you, my younger self. Thank you to all of the authors out there who impact young and old souls alike.

And to all the authors out there, know that you will make an impact, imprint something on someone, no matter what you write or where and when you write it. You are important.

[autism-fucking-rocks]

Neurotypicals be like: *sits still*

[jointheuniverse]

HOW???!

[luvdrunk]

can we talk about the way we encourage women to enter stem fields but then do nothing to change what makes stem environments hostile to women

[profeminist]

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

[villanellethepoetic-deactivated]

Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

[that-feral-montanan]

Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.

[jointheuniverse]

I LOVE YOU

It’s a phrase not used often enough, I think. There are many moments when I consider saying it, but then it always feels wrong because what I mean with it is often misunderstood.

I want to be able to say this to my friends without anyone thinking that it has to be romantic or sexual in any way. I want the same phrase for platonic love, because it’s just as important. Maybe even more than romantic love. And it means exactly the same thing. I want to tell you how much you mean to me, how much I appreciate our relationship, how much I love your presence and support, and how much I love giving it back to you. And it’s all encompassed in these three little words, that I want to say but not always can, because society has made into such a special phrase, when it really shouldn’t be that special. We should tell each other much more often how much we love our friends, family, significant others, anyone we love. There is so much more meaning in the word, than the narrow definition we use it for.

[transcendragon]

Sci-Fi Books I Read as Having Aroace Protags that are Great

These are books I’ve personally read and enjoyed, not meant to be comprehensive. These books don’t necessarily use the terms aroace or QPR, but that’s effectively what’s in them. Please feel free to add your own!

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells - Aroace human construct protagonist. Remarkably relatable introvert. Hilarious space adventure. If you like action and snark I would definitely recommend. 

Ancillary Justice (the whole Imperial Radch Trilogy) by Ann Leckie - Aroace main character who used to be a spaceship, now on a revenge quest. The whole series is kinda genderqueer because of world building. Some of my favorite books. 

The Dreamhealers Series (starting with Mindtouch) by MCA Hogarth - A five-book series centered around what I can only describe as a psychic QPR between two aliens (well, one alien and one person of a species originally human but biologically engineered enough to become alien). It feels very domestic, though there’s also a lot of world building and some medical suspense. Definitely asexual, possibly aromantic, the world doesn’t really distinguish between the two. Look I know it’s not much, but I can’t name a single other book series centered around a relationship I can describe as a QPR in any way. (If you can please let me know!)

[autisticjoy]

idk what it is about sitting in chairs and having both feet on the floor but it’s so uncomfortable and awful and i’ll never willingly do it if there’s literally any other option

[zabadi]

i mean the fact that people studying science aren’t actually FORCED to learn the social contexts of their own fields is completely ridiculous i remember being in a neuroscience class and the professor mentioned phrenology but all he said abt it was that it was like. factually incorrect. he didnt even mention that it was used to support racism and eugenics and he DEFINITELY didnt talk about how the SAME fallacies that drove scientists to look for defining characteristics in people’s skull shape a hundred years ago are NOW driving scientists to look for gay genes and autism genes and genetic racial profiling

[eggosarecool]

let’s play a game called: which special interest will I be making my personality for the next two years?

[botanical-academia-deactivated2]

just because someone else has achieved the same thing as you, it doesn’t make yours any less important !! i often downplay certian things such as “yeah i got an A on this exam, but so did everyone else” .. please be proud of anything you consider an achievement , no matter how small you think it is !!!

[horreurscopes]

my fave thing about being alive is that there is nothing that cannot be learned. tapestry weaving, astrophysics, swimming. music, theremin, singing. cutting your own hair, dancing, quantum mathematics. sewing, philosophy, social skills. knowledge is divine, but sharing it is human !!!

[jointheuniverse]

My Space

Sometimes I’m rooted in myself

like a tree, centre of the world

reaching deep in solid ground

steady in space

Sometimes I float away so far

discovering new galaxies

distant near places

deep in myself

I keep wandering

it’s so dark

it’s so bright

and I keep finding

Sometimes I don’t know where I am

lost in an endless ocean

of thoughts and deep space

just wandering

Sometimes I discover new wonders

hidden between rocks lies a gem

raw untouched til now

find a new self

I keep wandering

it’s so dark

it’s so bright

and I keep finding

Sometimes I’m lost in the darkness

floating in space, dancing in light

I must live my own self

I hide and seek

Sometimes I don’t know what to do

finding earth to grow a new me

building the construct

with foreign seeds

I keep wandering

it’s so dark

it’s so bright

and I keep drowning

I keep wandering

in the dark

in the light

keep finding courage

I keep wandering

on the land

in the sea

new ways to be me

[jointheuniverse]

Love the revolution

I want to shout your name

when dancing in the rain.

I want to corrupt your mind,

my temper's yours to bind.

I want to start a revolution;

we will write the new constitution.

I want you by my side

and we won't need to hide.

Someday it will be me and you

the world at our bare feet

marching to our own beat,

we will have everything and so much to do.

I want inside your head and heart

to know you all and every part.

I want to hold your hand

while with everyone we stand.

I want us to shine so bright

and for a future we will fight.

I want to end this life's sorrow

that we will live another morrow.

Someday it will be me and you

like in my dreams tonight

where I don't know you yet -

but we will have everything and so much to do.