Stuff and Junk

Queer, neurodivergent spoonie trying to cope in world that wasn't designed for me. This blog is a mix of social justice, feminism, spoonie care and positivity, and my own personal ramblings occasionally. TW for violent topics, I tend to get angry about stuff and my brain fog means I'm not very consistent with my tagging, but if you'd like me to tag specific things, feel free to get in touch. I aim to keep this blog a safe space for anyone in the MOGAI community, the disabled, ethnic minorities etc. If you find a post that's problematic, please tell me so that I can edit or delete as appropriate. Some of my privileges are: white, college educated, thin, attractive (?), raised middle class (now living in poverty), perisex/non-intersex. Pronouns: they/them/their but I have no problem with language associated with various genders being used to describe me (in fact I encourage it).

[anarchopuppy]

God, anyone else remember when everyone understood that the correct feminist position about sports was that women should be allowed to compete with men because they're just as capable? When it was a trope in media to have the mysterious star athlete who just blew everyone else out of the water to take off her helmet and reveal that she was a woman the whole time?

Now people are rabidly arguing that supposed "men" (trans women) have inherent insurmountable biological advantages in literally every single possible activity and cis women are too weak and dainty and unskilled to ever compete and must be protected, and then they try to call themselves feminists who are being silenced as if that's not just the mainstream sexist patriarchal opinion

Anyway, desegregate sports. There was never any reason to separate them by gender in the first place

[thefloatingstone]

Jack Black performs "We're Men in Tights" live for Mel Brooks and Michelle and barrack Obama

Finding this clip out of context while looking for the soundtrack felt like a fever dream.

[vaspider]

I didn't know that I needed this, but I truly did.

[bencan-t]

For context: this is when Mel Brooks was awarded at the Kennedy Center Honors. They are "annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture." The gala includes performances in tribute to the honorees.

The president usually attends, hence the Obamas (fun fact: Trump never attended once in his 4 year term)

Also, the guy sitting to our right of Mel Brooks who's also getting honored? Bruce Springsteen.

[knerdy-knitter]

@irepolly since we were just talking about this

[memewhore]

[stimming-sim-silica]

[knerdy-knitter]

Watching this thinking "this is just how you rob ATMs" then IRELAND flashes up on screen and I realise this is just how people rob ATMs in Ireland, I guess 🤦🏻

[moved222cutefatbabe-deactivated]

some women have facial hair, please don’t be a jerk about it

[violetsandflannels]

why is this not something we use more often

[violetsandflannels]

#like um sweaty(: but um hetty(:

I like the way you’re thinking

[kattcant]

Hey, you guys, whats the best way to get respect and representation? LeTs use an obviously derogitory word!! Because we’re allowed to get mad if they call us homos but hettys is okay because were depressed!!!!

[violetsandflannels]

reblog if you’re depressed and tired of hettys:(

[chernobyl2]

im screaming are they trying to say that “hetty” is a slur

[mestizomccree-deactivated201704]

its true i was on the down with hetties bus

[tw1nkpass1ng-deactivated2019121]

Nice try hetty :)

[tuskactonesdf]

no collagen we subluxate like men

[yayfeminism]

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

[sardonicblisters]

these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.

[imamisfittoy]

^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal

[armandyke]

Pre war Bucky was a gay icon who protected closeted lesbians by picking them up for dates to avoid their parents suspicion and then taking them to hang out with their girlfriends (but staying close enough that he could punch the daylights out of any fucko who tried to harass them). This is canon.

[armandyke]

James Buchanan Barnes on his last night before deployment, chaperoning two lesbian nerds on their date to the science fair. 

[imagineyouricon]

You have to wear the same clothes your current icon wears every day for the rest of your life! How screwed are you?

[sickbitterandcoveredinglitter]

Help terminally ill girl get a better wheelchair

Hey everyone,
You probably know me from my disability activism posts, but:
<b> My name is Alexa, I’m 22, from Poland, wheelchair bound and I have cardiovascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome with heart birth defect (and comorbid lupus, dysautonomia and some other illnesses) which is incurable and will kill me in next 10 years.</b>
BUT! I’m still alive now and also pretty poor and have a mentally ill mum as an only caretaker.
<b> I’m trying to get a motorized wheelchair since I dislocate joints and faint from fatigue while wheeling on my actual one. </b> I was hosting a fundraiser for accessible bathroom but my government denied me help and it’s currently impossible due to my housing situation. Which sucks.

I started a ko-fi page where you can donate me 3€ to help. Please don’t donate more as we’re all broke, 3€ is enough. <b> http://ko-fi.com/A533JMK </b>

After thinking about this for like two years I decided to ask you for help as I cannot really do anything else anymore.
As you probably already realized time is of some essence, so if you can’t donate please reblog? Those help a lot too. I’m an embroidery artist and if you’d like to commission me or get embroidery for donating <a href=‘http://spoonsandneedles.tumblr.com’>here’s my embroidery portfolio</a> (it’ll be updated, more is also on my IG @ bitterlesbiangrandma)

Thanks so much to everyone who already donated, you’re lovely and I love you so much!!!

[nerdynook]

http://www.nerdynook.com/

[sarahconnorjr]

Meanwhile, in canon…

[ayellowbirds]

all those times when a killer for hire was leagues more sensitive and mature than the vast majority of his “fans”.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It baffles me how it is that so many people who claim to be Deadpool’s fans literally know nothing about the character and how he acts/would act

He’s got the most clueless fandom full of Fake Fanboys since Jesus

[omicronus1326]

Reblogging for that last line.

[timemachineyeah]

Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.

[thestudentprincesss]

#this didn’t end the way i expected

[makingqueerhistory]

Reminder that we put all of our work out for free, which is not a sustainable model unless people pay us voluntarily. We have a large audience, the majority of which does not pay for our work, and that imbalance needs to shift at some point or we will have to change the model of this project and put some of our work behind a paywall. 

So if you can please become a patron so we can keep this project free.

[latrelle-deactivated20170330]

white women and white LGBT ppl and whites in general should stfu about non white religions forever

no matter what you say, it’ll be some racist nonsense covered up with some feminist bullshit or some fake ass LGBT activism.

shut up.

[latrelle-deactivated20170330]

this is ok to rb, especially if you’re white. ive seen too many white people use feminism and LGBT activism to cover up their racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia

[destinyrush]

🙄🙄🙄

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

@complexmagazine what the fuck?

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Leave him alone!!!

[long-ant8616-deactivated2023122]

His art exhibit literally had to be taken to the UK because neo-Nazis in the US were literally turning up with guns and threatening them. Land of free speech, huh?

[knerdy-knitter]

Our unexpected hero, Shia

[c--e--fremade-deactivated202004]

There is no shame is having autistic characters. There is no shame in “accidentally” writing a character as autistic!! If someone says “wow, one of your characters seems like they might be autistic!” Don’t take it as an insult and don’t go out and radically change your characters​ or go out of your way to make sure your character is confirmed as allistic!

Autism isn’t an insult!!

[hopscotchfriday]

Guardians of the Galaxy - Vol 2

James Gunn is a hero of mine. A graduate of the Troma set, his early effort Tromeo and Juliet gave no hint of his future in Hollywood with its mix of bad taste and dark jokes. Watching his career develop has been a thrill, even if the bad taste began to appear a bit forced and the jokes leaned too heavily on dudebro humour.  Gunn made Super, one of the most unpleasant to watch superhero films that I also consider a very worthy examination of the ignored and disturbing aspects of the comic book vigilante idea. He’s a director and storyteller with things he wants to say about this popular genre. 

Guardians of the Galaxy was an entertaining romp that challenged the dark and gloomy turn of superhero films. For that I am grateful to it. But I also felt it was a remarkably safe James Gunn movie. The sequel to the comedic space opera is released in the States on May 5 (cheeky) and for fans of the first film there is a lot to enjoy. More tunes from Star-Lord’s mix tape, more easter eggs to the comics than you can take, and characters like Gamora and Drax receive some much-needed character development.  On that note, it appears the criticism of Gamora failing the Bechdel test in the first film stung slightly, so a large b-plot involves the destructive sibling rivalry between Zoe Saldana’s character and Karen Gillan’s Nebula. Unfortunately the emotional insights in Guardians have the quality of a therapy session, with the actors projecting breakthroughs at one another via stiff dialogue. Still credit to Saldana and Gillan - of all the performers forced to jump through that particularly hoop in the script, they almost make it work (poor, poor Michael Rooker).

No, fun combinations of CGI spectacle and soft rock and folk ballads aside, what Guardians mostly has is daddy issues. The plot concerns the reunion of Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and absentee dad Ego (Kurt Russell). Without a seeming antagonist aside from a barely featured gold-skinned racial supremacist Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki) whose species appear to be a cosmic metaphor for online trolls and elite gamers, the main thrust of the film is Star-Lord getting back in touch with his dad. 

In the first film Star-Lord aka Peter Quill’s obsession with all things 1980s seemed rooted in his trauma over his kidnapping by space aliens who maybe possibly could be cannibals (turns out that was just a joke that was taken too far). His mixtape of songs was his final connection to his childhood home and the mother who died moments before he was taken.  In this follow-up adventure, Quill moons over a preserved magazine cutting of David Hasselhoff and lectures Gamora on how she should love him because she is like Diane and he is like Sam from Cheers - 

“something unspoken” Obsession with 80s nostalgia…insisting that romantic interests conform to fictional depictions of romance…self-aggrandized sense of importance - OMG is Star-Lord a neck-bearded Sad Puppy!? Even the cameo appearances of 80s action stars in Guardians hint at the weaponising of nostalgia by Gunn for the apparent thirtysomething target audience.  Star-Lord’s fecklessness in the first film had a degree of Pratt charm that got it over the line, whereas here his self-absorption is actively irritating to watch. I choose to believe this was Gunn’s intent, as the film eventually arrives at a climax by challenging Quill to man-up to events in the here and now. 

Still the film’s ambiguous embrace and critique of hoarding 80s childhood icons walks a confusing line. Is Quill an avatar for Generation X retreating into commercialized insulation - or a celebration of same because a space man with a taste for David Hasselhoff songs is hilarious? I laughed at the funny bits. I was bored by the boring bits. And it passed the time. But I have honestly no idea what Gunn is trying to say with this film.   - Emmet O’Cuana