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roguejedis-deactivated20170921

EXCUSE ME

roguejedis-deactivated20170921

so people are reblogging this and saying it’s lindo erasure (the name of lando’s dad in the lego star wars world) SO let’s just set the record straight and say he has 2 dads grando and lindo and they combined their names to get lando

faeriviera

…congratulations, you convinced me to reblog this.

lessonsintrance

AT some point we will be introduced to Lando’s less sleazy sibling, Grindo.

prokopetz

Given that evidence suggests all extant forms of cartomancy began as card games and were only later adapted as tools for divination, doing readings with your Pokémon cards is really just respecting the history and traditions of the practice.

prokopetz

#alright we got an inverted mr mime here. either there’s something you’re not letting yourself see for what it is #or a milf lies in your future (via @zeroblogshere)

cassettetapecryptid

@normal-horoscopes this is accurate, right?

normal-horoscopes

THIS IS 100% ACCURATE

pruningthemindsgarden-deactivat

And using Mage: the Gathering cards for this would be just as appropriate. Yu-Gi-Oh, also.

lessonsintrance

I was genuinely planning on using a deck of x wing cards to tell fortunes at a modern LARP. It never went ahead, but I still have the plan.

annabelle--cane

pan people are good and I like them. if ur pan I’m mentally shaking ur hand and “nice.”

annabelle--cane

bi/pan solidarity is really good and easy actually. I walk up to my pan friend and ask “hey why do you id as pan?” and they say “because I feel it matches my internal perception of my orietation. why do you id as bi?” and I say “because I feel it matches my internal perception of my orietation. yknow, our lived experience of being attracted to multiple genders is almost identical, it would be really stupid if I were to treat you badly and spend large amounts of my time insulting you because of some weird idea that your identity means you inherently think you’re better than me and wish I’d stop existing, right? that would be fucked up and mind numbingly pointless, right?” and they say “yeah man, it would be” and then we make a cake :)

esoanem

Me, a bisexual:

lessonsintrance

Me, a bisexual: honestly I prefer the bi flag. It’s not the only reason, btu it’s a big one.

thehmn

The story goes that if you obtain eternal life via alchemy you’ll slowly turn into an androgynous human with no sexual organs.

lessonsintrance

fukken deal

also you get amazing hair

str0kethebigtree-deactivated202

eastern wales

fatehbaz

chronophrax

lockheed-martini-deactivated202

I feel like being inside the Scottish occupation zone is the equivelant of waking up in West Berlin on day 1 of the wall. This really doesn’t hold any negative repercussions for me.

earhartsease

Bring back Dummonia

wheelybard

As a Cornishman, I have happy we swallowed Devon.

earhartsease

As a Devonian I have no complaints so long as we’re not England

lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers

What if the Cornish don’t want you?

lessonsintrance

Fools, the French territory is in Kent.

awed-frog

This is the worst thing. The worst. Because they all know climate change is real and dangerous, but instead of doing something about it and save lives and prevent an ecocide, they’re making money off it. They’re churning out fake studies showing that coal is great and they’re using their media to brainwash morons into hating the green movement and they’re moving like sharks on anyone trying to do anything good, and meanwhile they fucking know we’re right and they’re fucking getting rich because of it.

Again: not a fan of the death penalty, but this should be considered high treason and people should be beheaded in public squares for this kind of bullshit.

fairyflowerlungs

Well its finally happening guys. We’ve had decades to mitigate this problem but here we are.

Only 3% of the earths water is fresh water, 2.5% is in glaciers melting into the sea, leaving only 0.5% of the earths water available for consumption.

Water bottle companies pump from reservoirs and aquifers, taking away from local communities and environments. (X)

lessonsintrance

lol this was literally the plot of Quantum of Solace and James Bond’s job was to stop it.

bananonbinary

what it really gets down to is that “disability” is a stupid category, because in the modern world it DOES mostly mean “is unable to participate in capitalism,” but it doesn’t particularly care about why. so it’s a whole spectrum of things from “objectively miserable always” like fibromyalgia, to “actively beneficial in many scenarios that aren’t this one” like adhd, with a lot of very complicated stuff in the middle that needs support not matter what, but isn’t really a problem if you have that support. like needing glasses.

the point is it’s weird and pointless to talk about “disabilities” like they’re a monolith with the same basic causes and solutions. unless you’re talking about like, how all disabled people deserve all basic human rights, your approach NEEDS to be more specific.

lessonsintrance

The mention of glasses is an interesting one, because it really, REALLY points to the social model of disability as a lens to view disability through.

People who need glasses are impaired - undeniably, their vision is not strong enough to function normally without their mobility aid.

But most of them wouldn’t consider themselves disabled, because society doesn’t prevent them from accessing most of its services because of their mobility aid, nor discriminate against them because of it, and the ones it does prevent them from accessing, it generally allows them to access with their mobility aid.

Now, imagine if wearing glasses meant you couldn’t go into a shop. COuldn’t drive. Couldn’t make food for yourself. Couldn’t be in a crowded place. Etc etc etc.

Then your visual impairment would be a disability, but that would be because society intervened to take away your access when you have a mobility aid which makes it possible to interact with society.

Impairment is a function of the individual - and whilst it can often be treated with medication or mobility aids or therapy or stimming tools or whatever else, it’s not a disability until society makes it one. Society can make any impairment less disabling, if it is motivated to. It chooses to, with glasses, because the adjustments are tiny to nonexistent, and glasses-users are commonplace enough that they would be a huge demographic to lose if it didn’t.

Disability is a function of society. Wheelchair use, for instance, would be a lot less disabling if every building had ramps and lifts, wide aisles and doors, kept items largely on lower shelving in shops, etc etc, if every piece of public transport had ramped access that didn’t require staff intervention, etc etc.

vampirefunkmetal

[wakko is sitting on the floor, looking dejected and confused. dot and yakko approach, yakko crouching down to place a hand on wakko's shoulder]

yakko: what's wrong, sib?

wakko: people keep telling me that gender is what's in your pants...but im not wearing any pants!

[yakko stands up, looking deep in thought]

dot: well, yakko, you're the only one of us with pants.

yakko: hmm...

[he reaches into his slacks and begins pulling out vast quantities of expired sliced deli meat. the sequence lasts at least 30 seconds as he continues to find more]

[all three pause]

yakko: well, i guess that settles it.

dot: yeah. gender is just a bunch of out-of-date baloney.

[all three grin at the camera]

dankmemeuniversity

🏳️‍⚧️ just a reminder that this blog supports trans people and trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

official-lucifers-child

i snorted so loudly it hurt

memorydatas

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

memorydatas

for context:

dragonquestv

an-actual-lion-deactivated20200

“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

leolikesaccountability

Updated the lesbian flag and added nonbinary, pan, ace, and aro for all your tacky LBGTQ+ barcode needs.

non-binary-ary

Hope yall like my abomination

thegrimmlovely

That last one is fucking moving istg

at last. the gaydar

If you OWN a bank you can basically take what you want and if somehow you do run out of money the government will take more and give it to you to cover the loss.

grumpquoteoftheday

theconcealedweapon

"They're protecting themselves from our violence, and that hurts our feelings, which means they're the violent ones."

lessonsintrance

OK. Don’t gas them, won’t they look stupid, and have been uncomfortable all night for nothing. How hard can it be?!

aprilwitching-deactivated201808

candles are how we keep fires as pets

annabellioncourt

this is unnecessarily adorable

withered-tears

He finished his book almost an hour ago, yet he didn’t put out the candle flame illuminating his desk.

He didn’t know exactly why, maybe he thought the way the little flame flickered was pleasant, perhaps he enjoyed the way the thin trail of smoke danced above it.

Perhaps he was distracting himself from going back to sleep, the latest nightmare still fresh in his mind. He could almost feel the cold water invading his lungs.

So he distracts himself with the little flame.

“For how long, I wonder, can I keep this flame alight?”

He stayed awake all night, observing the little flame, feeding it small scraps of paper when it flickered too weak, gently patting it down when it consumed it’s candle too fast.

Exhaustion was creeping on him, he could barely keep his eyes open anymore, his common sense telling him he should put the little flame out before he fell asleep on top of it.

He ignored this advise.

Instead, he so carefully moved the little flame from it’s almost completely melted candle to a new, unused one.

Hopefully big enough to last quite a few hours.

Almost fearfully, he collapsed in bed, waiting for the horrible and familiar feeling of the icy waters encasing him on his sleep.

Instead, he dreamt of warmth.

—

Another day went by, then another, then a week, then two.

He learned how long each type of candle lasted, what sort of fuel feed the little flame the best.

It was now a bit of a pet project, to see how long he could make it last.

He remembers fondly how the little flame once encased the entire candle at once, flickering almost playfully.

Or how it hissed almost in annoyance, when he had to flicker it with water dropets to get it to a manageable size again.

He wasn’t sure when the pet project became just a pet.

Perhaps it was when he caught himself thinking up names for the little flame.

Perhaps it was when he decided on Orion.

In the following months not once did he dreamt of all encasing cold nor the impenetrable darkness of the depths.

He dreamt of warmth and light.

—

It was a holiday night, the kind that had most houses empty as entire families flocked together.

He was alone with Orion when the burglars broke in.

They weren’t expecting witnesses, just an easy job.

Though a single terrified man wasn’t too hard of a job.

They bought him down easily, and violently, demanding riches he didn’t have.

Orion gave a fearful flicker with each hit, it shook with each threat.

But when the bored and disappointed burglars took out the weapon, Orion roared.

The candle was ablaze in one second, the desk in two, and the burglars in three.

The little flame, now a massive, enraged inferno, embraced him fully and protectively.

He felt as much heat, as one would fill drinking hot chocolate in a cold winter night, with the company of a fully stocked fireplace and a warm blanket.

Orion’s body grew and grew, soon encasing the entire house, the flames growing so high and wide, and flickering so violently, they almost looked like flapping wings.

Later they will find nothing but an empty, charred plot of land, and blackened trails following the direction of the wind.

He left with Orion that night, never to feel cold again.

—

There’s the common misbelief that dragons hatch from eggs, when in reality, the infant form of a dragon is so frail, so small, that a misplaced breath might be enough to extinguish them.

But if one were to care for them long enough, love them long enough, the dragon will grow big and powerful, and return the favor.

—

@thefringeperson

thefringeperson

Because a version without this adorable fic crossed my dash, and I had to go back and find it again to read it again.

peggydreadful

Ahhh it’s too cute! I love this - both the concept and how it’s written (the pacing, the protagonist’s backstory lurking sinisterly just under the surface, the ending). What a lovely story 😍