live, laugh,love

Duck ~ they/them ~ adult ~ queer disabled radical ~ tumblr kid

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[killerduckcollectivism]

they feel like tattoos ive swen before but cant quite remember

[n0turg1rlfr1end]

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

[catchymemes]

[pghumfort]

dead dove do not eat in practice

[dramatic-dolphin]

why do americans think everyone on the internet lives in the same place as them. just saw someone say honeybees are "not native". not native to where????? the entire planet?????

[the-sage-libriomancer]

one thing i love about OTGW is that despite being a story about The Unknown and all the terrible dangers that lurk in it, the story’s main message is “things are rarely as scary as they seem.” the Woodsman scared the boys repeatedly, but he was really a good man trying to help them and in fact saved their lives multiple times. the inhabitants of Pottsville seemed ominous and ill-intentioned, but stopping to speak to them showed that they were benign folks who just came off a little creepy. the “fearsome gorilla” was just a man in a suit and the “ghost” was just an unexpected roommate. even Auntie Whispers, a terrifying witch-woman who seemed to be abusing her ward, turned out to love Lorna and was only trying to protect her from evil forces—and it was Wirt facing the evil spirit head on that finally exorcised it for good.

even the main characters’ arcs reflect this: Wirt is scared of rejection and humiliation from Sara and Jason Funderberker, but after returning to the real world, Sara is more than receptive toward him and Jason Funderberker isn’t even an issue. Beatrice is too ashamed to face her family after turning them all into bluebirds, but at the end of the story it’s such a non-issue for them that they only use the incident to affectionately tease her and everybody is perfectly happy.

and it all cumulates in the final episode when Wirt and Greg finally face the Beast. for the entire series the Beast has been a looming figure of evil, something dark and strange and unimaginably powerful that you never, ever want to meet. but when Wirt actually dares to face the monster head on, not running or hiding or falling for its tricks, he destroys the Beast in less than a minute! the monster that’s been terrorizing the woods for who knows how long, preying on fearful travelers and eating the souls of its victims, is extinguished by simply blowing out a lantern.

OTGW hammers it home that as much as it scares you, you have to face the Unknown in order to move forward. maybe its scary. maybe it will suck. but when you do confront your problems directly, it’s almost as never as bad as it seems.

[killerduckcollectivism]

im normal about this

[4waystreet]

the idea that predators and abusers are an ontological category of person, rather than everyone having the capacity to be predatory and abusive, leads to people having no regard for boundaries because they think that predation only comes from evil people ™

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.

[maureen2musings]

Black-capped Chickadee & Downy Woodpecker showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory

jocelynandersonphotography

[bellossom]

me when I "mysteriously" feel better after I "have something to eat"

[gothcroissant]

[killerduckcollectivism]

!!

[dykedarling]

THEY HIT THE SECOND TOWER

[fangwhoria]

did you see ethan hawkes response this is so awesome me when im dating a man but dont know im gay

[killerduckcollectivism]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FU K

[probuccalfat]

[killerduckcollectivism]

i CANNOT stop laughing

[confessionsdiaz]

*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inheritly selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

[identitty-dickruption]

I’m not gonna say that moving out of an abusive home solved all of my problems. and I am still very much a disabled person. but almost a year on from moving out, it is crazy to think of how many of my disabilities and mental illnesses have either dramatically decreased in severity or disappeared entirely over the past year. I used to have about monthly psychotic episodes. I have had one psychotic break since moving out of home. I no longer have insomnia at all. fluctuations in my chronic pain levels are significantly less frequent, even if other factors have meant that my baseline pain is higher than it once was. I have flare-ups less often in general. my autism is also significantly more manageable (I got diagnosed as level two, I would now almost certainly be categorised as level one)

this is not to say that those disabling experiences were any less real. my symptoms were real and incredibly disabling. it’s more just to note that environmental influences can be more dramatic than people seem to believe. trauma can wreck havoc on a body and a mind in a million ways, and some of those ways can look the same as a permanently bad disability. especially when it comes to psychosis, there seems to be the sentiment that it’s solely this pathological and individual phenomenon that exists because your brain is inherently structured a certain way. but things are more complex than that, and being in a safe environment really can make all the difference. anyway. that’s my ramble I hope you liked it

[bundibird]

With the news of Dick Cheney's death, this is a good opportunity to remind everyone to live your lives in a way that people dont deploy dancing crab raves upon hearing of your demise.

[flippanties]