the junkyard of my mind

Name's Leo.  mid20something they/them.  I write fanfiction sometimes, check me out on AO3 @ leopardgeckoz

[thememedaddy]

[tjwock]

HEY.

HEY YALL.

USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL

Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base

But just in case you’re sitting there going “the Dems aren’t doing anything,” THEY ARE

IT IS JUST SLOW

AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE

BUT THEY ARE

[doberbutts]

[leopardgeckoz]

Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

There are wolves in the streets

They are herding the sheep

They have tear gas for claws

And guns as their maws

And they single out each week

These sheep are not weak

The wolves cannot pull wool over their eyes;

the wolves cannot stand the way the sheep criticize

Ten to one

That wolf’s got a gun, and it’s pointed at a sheep

The wolves are fucking weak

They emptied a clip

Without a blip of subconscious interference

No hesitation just subjugation

Now another sheep is gone

Fight, flee, freeze, or fawn

These wolves do not wear sheep's clothing

And they do not receive enough loathing

There are white sheep in the countryside

Who have pulled their own wool over their eyes

They can’t see how they’ve bathed themselves in red

They would rather a sheep with a different color fleece be dead

There’s blood on their claws, blood on their hooves, but your hooves are hands tightening a noose

How can you standby and let these wolves roam loose?

You pray to a god and claim that they are forgiving;

I don’t believe any god can absolve you of your sinning

You cry wolf without batting a blind eye

With fingers pointed at your fellow sheep each time

These sheep fall from the wolves claws

And these sheep die by the wolves maws

All because you couldn’t see

Past your prejudice and indignation

To those who look slightly different from thee

More wolves will gather and more sheep will die

But these sheep are not weak

And these wolves are not “one of the good guys.”

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine unexpectedly popping up in Valhalla with your pants around your ankles because just half a minute ago you were taking a shit so bad that the Viking gods decided that it should count as dying in battle.

[lerudan]

Isn't it even worse? You don't just pop up there. You get carried there by a Valkyrie.

You're experiencing a gastrointestinal event, and are really not having a good time, and the suddenly, without any logical way to be present there's a Winged Woman in there with you, in Armor, with Weapons and Helmet, who looks like she could take down Sandor Clegane or Geralt of Rivia in the 10 minutes before waking up, just plugs you from your porcelain throne and doesn't even gives you the chance to pull up your pants before carrying you off.

[homunculus-argument]

Elvis, pantsless, being carried from the mortal realm by a huge gorgeous Brawnhilda valkyrie: oh woah pretty mama where we going

[astriiformes]

It's less revolutionary than, uh, certain other mayoral elections because we honestly had two solid candidates to choose from, but I am still feeling pretty good about St Paul electing its first woman, first Hmong mayor last night, in large part because the reason I chose to rank her first is that she did not shy away from saying that helping to make Minnesota a Trans Refuge State was one of her major policy achievements as a state representative.

[astriiformes]

I am so scared to be hopeful at this point, but I just got emails from not one but two different local archives internships I applied for that want me to interview sometime in the next week. Getting either would be absolutely huge. After being outright rejected from so many positions, I kind of can't believe it.

Keep your fingers crossed for me?

[carnelianfoxx]

You won't believe your eyes,

Ten thousand naked guys

that means… twenty thousand cocks…

[carnelianfoxx]

I made a miscalculation.

[byefaction]

I'd like to make myself believe

[writing-prompt-s]

"Your son will take your throne from you," they prophesized, spitting each word out of teeth clenched tight with hatred. Why they'd bother prophesizing such an event befuddles you; your son is literally your chosen heir, after all.

[caffeineatedpervert]

I wave my hand a little as I speak to my son "now listen okay. Obviously your going to be king. But! I don't want you to be fuckin around with failed prophecys, hell I don't want to screw with that. Wizards are weird and bitter. So here's what we're gonna do okay, on your eighteenth birthday, your going to to over throw me and "take" the crown, Ill train you more rigourlsy in swordsmanship so we can have a dramatic battle"

My son sighs, resigned and long suffering "dad I don't think we have to do all that. Wouldn't me just.... taking the crown out of your hands count?"

I shake my hand and wave him away "nonono I won't risk I heard of a man that went through something similar and he got turned inside out. Still alive, just having a terrible time. That's not the kind of life I want for my son, I won't risk it. Besides, don't you want to spar with your old man? Really give to me? You could brush up on your planning when it's time for your coup!"

My son sighs

[nosexnoromance]

When I was a kid, like 6 or something, adults would talk about weddings and marriage in the way that made me think it was unavoidable thing that would happen to me whether I wanted it or not, so I used to console myself like "Oh don't worry, you only have to do that for a little bit and then you can get divorced and live alone forever". Incredibly funny early aro experience.

But also, it sounds like a sketch. Like imagine a scene with bunch of little girls imagining their dream wedding, but one of them is just sitting there daydreaming of divorce.

[mx-dorkboy]

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

[mx-dorkboy]

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

[logically-asexual]

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

[kitvalkyrie]

THIS ^^^

[nyxwoven]

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

[alphacrone]

sometimes…..fictional characters…….don’t need to name their children after dead people…….

[kyralih]

sometimes.....fictional characters......don't need to have children.....

[willgrahamscock]

[theebbestboy]

[a-sentient-cup]

[virtualgirladvance]

[sausaged-rat]

[vigilantsycamore]

My blocklist is a spectrum with "this person has literally called me subhuman" on one end and "this person seems fine but blocking them makes my favorite fandom tags 999% more navigable" on the other

[oneheadtoanother]

Ok now do NYT columnists

[dorkichiban]

already this has tags in the notes like “#anti ai” but... this is just real life with almost everything. this is like grifter 101 please don’t exceptionalize needing to be critical of chatgpt.

[clockworkdragonffxiv]

This is literally how job interviews work, by the way, and then everyone is surprised the super-duper confident guy is also an incompetent moron.

[semicolonthefifth]

It’s also where we get “con artist”, aka “confidence artist”. It’s someone who dazzles you with the assurance that they know what they are talking about because they speak with absolute certainty despite not knowing anything. I dare say it’s gotten worse with the internet because text and careful/exciting editing makes people seem more confident than before - and if you think you’re immune, you aren’t.

[thebibliosphere]

Listen, if the writers of Wednesday can get their woefully mischaracterized fanfiction of the Addams Family greenlit by Netflix and win a bunch of awards, so can you.

[thebibliosphere]

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

People with a lot worse grasp of the source material have done it far worse than anything fandom could come up with, and for money, too. Somehow. Jesus Wept.

[420technoblazeit]

being a poc sucks because sometimes a movie comes out about discrimination and they'll have The Racist Guy, a character who's clearly meant to embody oppression and prejudice against minorities. and then you open up tumblr and everybody's like omg i could totally fix Racist Guy trust me guys!!! Racist Guy x reader 20k spicy slowburn #canoniswhatimakeit here's a massive gifset for Racist Guy he's just soooooooooooooo hot. you guys look like this

[420technoblazeit]

also if you say anything about it they'll be like omg just let people enjoy things!!!!!! like sure ok yeah. but this character does not exist in a vacuum, they exist in a piece of media that is making political commentary, commentary that you are pretending doesn't exist by blorbofying him. it's still weird

[officerhaughtstuff]

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

[heterokatedison]

is it too early or can we start screaming now

[heterokatedison]

in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner