Crying Over Fictional Characters; A Memoir

Isaac • 29 • they/them • non-binary • DC/Star Wars/Umbrella Academy • 18+

[sayruq]

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Let's do our part to help the people of Gaza!!!!

[tixij]

[ip2lb]

Steve Harvey, walking forward: [audience cheering and clapping] YES!!! KILL!!!!!! [board changes, with a ding, to reveal the word “KILL”]

[crovoroh]

I cant believe they turned "he was my partner" and a letter from Frank about how much he hates Bill into a 10k major character death oneshot fanfic

[clarkegriffins]

I feel sorry for el. Having power like this can’t be easy. It can separate you. Make you feel alone. I think i know how she feels.

[not-a-dis-a-ppointment]

Anyways, this is fucking disgusting.

^ Becky Albertalli author of Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda

^ Dove Cameron

Listen, I understand being curious about celebrities' lives. If you see a celebrity doing a bunch of gay things you might think "hey, maybe that artist is queer" but that's as far as it should go. You should never harass, or threaten, or force anyone to come out. That is fucking disrespectful and wrong. Queerness is about including anyone who feels that they do not fit into normal society, there is no one way of being queer. It's not a box, it's free and open and that's the beauty of it, so how about we fucking stop forcing queer people to come out, or label themselves, it's none of your business.

This has become a pattern and it needs to STOP

[mapsontheweb]

US Elevation.

by @cstats1

[ginger-ale-official]

man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

[archosaur-automaton]

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

[beabaseball]

I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.

[jumpingjacktrash]

see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?

those are over a billion years old.

that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?

algae.

those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.

so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.

[bumblebeerror]

The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.

[fiovske]

not only that, the Appalachians predate the Atlantic Ocean and were fragmented. they stretch across three continents, as Atlas in Africa and Caledonians in Europe as you can see here:

the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.

show the elders some respect, they have witnessed eons and are returning to the land from which they grew, it’s the kind of the passage of time on a scale that our human lives could not even begin to comprehend.

[cheatc0des]

Give me ALL the geology discourse

[princessgemma12]

we respect Gaia and Her children on this blog, regardless of religious beliefs 👏👏👏

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

Love how this switches between science and poetry.

[vaspider]

so what you’re telling me is that life is old there?

older than the trees?

younger than the mountains, though.

is that what you’re telling me?

[mandywondering]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

OOHHHHH sopranos like the singers

[ladyfeets-deactivated20211019]

HBO’s Sopranos: hark at the ducks 🦆 give zero fucks 🦆 in Tony’s pool 🦆 pasta fazool 🍝

altos: bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫 bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫

[sunshine-tattoo]

this website is a goddamn national treasure

[theonebyler-deactivated20230223]

I love that Will and El are not biological siblings and they have really only been siblings for like 9 months but they still perfectly capture the sibling energy people have after being bio siblings their entire lives. Like if you have siblings...you know what I'm talking about lmao. They really were just meant to be brother and sister.

Like El hitting Will with the flowers to get him to shut up and Will being all sassy and sarcastic towards El when she was lying to Mike is just peak sibling energy.

Like they're so snarky with each other and act like regular siblings but it is clear they also really love and care for one another and they have a deep and beautiful connection (that not a whole lot of siblings actually have).

Look at them 🥺

I just love them and their dynamic so much. They may not be biological siblings but that does not matter to me (or them). I think found family is a really beautiful thing.

[eva-is-muffins]

New babygirl just dropped

[bogleech]

Absolutely fucking horrific that the general public wound up hearing about monkeypox in gay people first and thinks it’s an STD or specifically gay disease. It’s not deadly like HIV but this obviously mirrors that, except the fact it isn’t a fucking STD at all, or even limited to physical contact. It can infect you anywhere, make blisters anywhere, and leave active virus on any porous enough material. Clothing, rugs, towels, seat cushions, not only are people using it for another LGBT witch hunt but they genuinely don’t know their whole families could get it from shopping, seeing a movie, anything.

The last outbreak was from pets, specifically rodents and rabbits, but contained at about 50 cases. This time there’s a couple thousand cases getting worse because most people weren’t told what it actually is or how it spreads and half the country now just thinks diseases in general are liberal hoaxes or whatever the fuck they think. America is a shithole.

[bogleech]

…This has already done the worst possible damage to public perception and there’s going to be no reversing it. Even if people see that it can spread to anybody at all, the same people are always going to think it “came from” gay people. Now that it’s being reported in some schoolchildren, there’s just tens of thousands of people on twitter raging that they want to execute gay men because they think the kids could only possibly have gotten it by being molested. This is already being stoked by political and journalistic figures.

I’m sorry to share something so goddamn scary but the least anyone can do is counter the misinformation everywhere they see it, as often as they have the energy for. It’s an uphill battle but every single comment containing any real accuracy has at least some chance to stop someone going down the wrong informational path. I probably spent four hours yesterday just posting corrections to individual comments. I don’t think I can keep that up. That was all just in one single news thread.

[fabfire1234]

WOW. Just WOW. People will use anything to justify killing someone they can’t understand, huh?

For those of you curious, the reason why a smallpox vaccine will work against monkeypox is because both viruses belong to the same genus, Orthopoxvirus, and therefore have similar enough antigens for our immune systems to register both species as a threat. (To those of you who are wondering why a smallpox vaccine won’t work on chickenpox, the chickenpox virus isn’t a “true” pox but rather a species of herpesvirus, and thus has very different antigens from a poxvirus like monkey- & smallpox.)

The virus is believed to have a variety of transmission routes, including inhalation and contact with an open wound or the mucus membranes of the face.The reason kids are more likely to get it is because smallpox vaccines haven’t been offered regularly since smallpox went functionally extinct and kids are generally very handsy. Gay people aren’t giving your kids monkeypox, your kids are probably getting it from either wiping their eyes after touching something a sick person bled on or not wearing their masks around a sick person who sneezed or coughed, nothing more.

[tender-emotional-music-deactiva]

i am somehow both at the same time

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

I did my thesis on eugenics and forced sterilization in Canadian history (indigenous specific) and the next cis woman to say that men should collectively be forced to get vasectomies for points on some kind imaginary scoreboard of rights is getting sent a copy of the records I had to sift thru of men, mostly indigenous, racialized, developmentally disabled, or poor men, being sterilized against their wills and often without their knowledge.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

I once again must remind people that "don't like abortion, get a vasectomy" isn't the gotcha you think it is, and that reproductive justice means supporting people who are targeted by the state both for forced birth AND for sterilization and child apprehension, as they're linked closely.

[rowark]

I feel like it's worth adding, just so people fully understand, that forced sterilization still happens in Canada today (and probably the US, but a lot of people have been coming forward in Canada since 2017, and a class action lawsuit was started in 2018, I believe? I don't know all the details, but it's still a thing that's still happening.)

And it's not necessarily happening in the way people think it is... it's not always people being forced to have a medical procedure against their will; it's also people being coerced into agreeing to things without knowing what they're agreeing to, or without knowing what their rights are.

[muppetshow2026]

hey if y’all can please donate to the carolina abortion fund. nc is one of few states in the southeast to not currently be planning bans on abortions. we’re gonna be absolutely swamped from people in the southeast seeking safe abortions but there’s only so many people with so much funding that can help. ill reblog with the link.

[muppetshow2026]

[willel]

My mum is convinced S4 is going to end with a Star Wars Empire Strikes Back kind of feel (with S5 being Return of the Jedi) i.e the villains having the upper hand? Idk why she thinks that but I think it ties with your carnage of the town theory? That even if they "win" there's a lot to cope with. I think it would make sense for the town to truly see some of the upside down issues too or else how will hellfire club go back? I guess El has to hide again with the military after her too

Well, the Duffers and the actors are indicating the same thing, that the bad guys are about to get the upperhand.

I haven't seen Empire Strikes Back since I was a little kid and I basically remember absolutely nothing BUT I have heard other people comparing season 4 to that movie so maybe that's why she gets that idea. She's picking up on those clues too.

El, the Byers, and Hopper are freakin' screwed. The government wants to kill El probably. The government knows the Byers are/were protecting with her/living with her so they're compromised too. Hopper is supposed to be dead. Like super duper dead. AND he was captured by the enemy and tortured so they'd take him in as a potential spy.

SCREWED they are.

[justluckystan]

And if we are supposed to presume that:

El = Luke

Then it is also natural to presume that:

Will = Leia (the secretly force sensitive sibling)

Right?????

[willel]

I assume Leia plays a huge role in that movie?

[justluckystan]

The OT unfortunately never utilized Leia to her full potential but what is interesting is that the romantic narrative shifted away from Luke/Leia to Leia/Han which, if Will is Leia in this scenario then Mike is definitely Han. July 1st can’t come soon enough lol

[willel]

My mum is convinced S4 is going to end with a Star Wars Empire Strikes Back kind of feel (with S5 being Return of the Jedi) i.e the villains having the upper hand? Idk why she thinks that but I think it ties with your carnage of the town theory? That even if they "win" there's a lot to cope with. I think it would make sense for the town to truly see some of the upside down issues too or else how will hellfire club go back? I guess El has to hide again with the military after her too

Well, the Duffers and the actors are indicating the same thing, that the bad guys are about to get the upperhand.

I haven't seen Empire Strikes Back since I was a little kid and I basically remember absolutely nothing BUT I have heard other people comparing season 4 to that movie so maybe that's why she gets that idea. She's picking up on those clues too.

El, the Byers, and Hopper are freakin' screwed. The government wants to kill El probably. The government knows the Byers are/were protecting with her/living with her so they're compromised too. Hopper is supposed to be dead. Like super duper dead. AND he was captured by the enemy and tortured so they'd take him in as a potential spy.

SCREWED they are.

[justluckystan]

And if we are supposed to presume that:

El = Luke

Then it is also natural to presume that:

Will = Leia (the secretly force sensitive sibling)

Right?????

[theconcealedweapon]

[bogmonstergirl]

Here's some sources:

1% regret rate on transitioning

7% Child regret rate (this article actually says an 17%-8% regret rate)

6-30% regret rate on knee surgery

14% regret rate across all surgeries

[queeranarchism]

The ‘all surgeries’ ones is a bit misleading because it is a meta-study of surgeries that have regret rates significant enough to warrant a study. But in general, yeah, a 1% regret rate is soooooooo low.

[cillianmurphyswhore]

When he’s Anti-Establishment 🥰😩