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and because some of you may be wondering, my blog title is a reference to this post

[demiboydemon]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[thereigning-lorelai]

I wish Rocky were here. I always wish Rocky were here.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

They're making a new adaptation of inkheart??????

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

according to an interview from last month, the BBC are curently revising the book. The plan is to turn it into a tv show.

[schleierkauz]

#according to tj ms funke isnt too thrilled about it? i mean she had horrible experiences with lioe every adaption of her book that i know of /via @peppermintfreak

hello hi that's me that was me :)

i feel like this interview is getting a liiiiittle bit overhyped currently... I mean, yes, Cornelia mentions the possibility of an Inkheart TV show and that, apparently, active steps are being taken to make it happen. ... But in the past years, that has happened a few times and it doesn't sound like we'll get anything soon, or maybe at all. What she says about it is:

"Right now, I have... The BBC is currently reserving the rights* for Inkheart, because they want to turn it into a TV show... Well! (shrug) It's going to look different than my version**. We can only hope that we'll find their version exciting as well."

Make of that what you will. It was really more of a short comment towards the end of the interview, definitely not the focus of it. She doesn't go into detail or sound overly enthusiastic about it, but who knows. Getting a TV show would certainly be something! Nitpicky translation notes under the cut.

*might not be the exact right translation - she says "optionieren", which (as far as I understand it) means getting the rights for something without promising to actually do anything with it

**literally, she says "different from my pictures/images", because the conversation leading up to this bit was about how people imagine different images in their heads while reading a book

[10-percent-expected-rainfall]

GRIMM || S1E17 vs S5E11

[iero]

Ilya Rozanov week: Day one Favorite moment(s): Letting himself be a kid again around the people he loves ♥︎

HEATED RIVALRY (2025 -)

[saucefunk]

sinners zine digital pdf is now LIVE and i’m so excited to share my piece for this project! this is my favourite thing i’ve drawn to date

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[audliminal]

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

[girldraki]

[leavethepuddle]

@sarumans

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 2 Part 6

Thanatos (Hades)

Bobby (K-pop Demon Hunters)

Voting ended onJun 15

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 2 Part 1

Arthur Lester (Malevolent)

Goncharov (Goncharov)

Voting ended onJun 15

Art of Arthur Lester by @bohemobones on instagram

[duplicitous-nature]

[wardenmcpherson]

TRA here means "transracial adoptee" fyi, just in case you're used to seeing that in another context

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: Series of Tweets from verified user Ida Bae Wells (@/ nHannahJones) on 1/10/19 reading: Whew. Boy. So, when I was in Ore. I started reporting a story on transracial adoption, specifically looking at w parents/ b kids. You wouldn't believe some of the things that white parents told me. Or maybe you wld. I was shook. Realized was no way I cld be objective. I killed it.

I met a woman who breastfed her adopted black children as a form of reparations for when enslaved black women had to be wet nurses for white children. She used to post photos on her web site until she got a lot of backlash.

One white couple, who like almost all these parents, did not have any black friends or relationships with any black people, would arrange "black" time for their children by inviting other white parents of black adoptees for African-themed parties.

The kids were all American-born black kids but they would parade them in kente cloth outfits and make them do drumming. Almost all the white adoptive parents I met thought African culture was legitimate but they had to protect black kids from black American cultural influence.

White parents often did not bother to learn a single thing about how to care for black children's hair, somehow believed black children did not need to wash or comb their hair for months would would get offended when a concerned black person would try to instruct them.

One white family told legitimately told me, without a hint of irony or shame, that they'd adopted a black boy because her husband always wanted a son who would be a basketball player.

They would pretend to be "colorblind" while aggressively removing their children from any and all contact with black institutions, black movies, black books or other aspects of black culture.

When I asked if it were fair to the child to constantly force the child to be the only black person at school, at church, at gatherings, they would tell me that they did not go to black churches or programs and it would feel fake and insincere if they joined just for their child.

They believed they could make the children culturally white and simply overlook their skin color and the way the whole world would see them. They were most concerned about their racial comfort and had no concern for the discomfort and isolation their children would feel.

And, yes, the thought the black people who showed concern, who offered to help them navigate the racial reality of America, or passed along info about black hair salons, or suggested black churches or cultural events were the real racists.

So, yeah, I decided I could not write the story and be fair, because being fair meant I would have trashed their entire existence.

Oh, and did you know that many private adoption agencies let you choose the acceptable percentage of blackness in the child you will accept. Part of the application lets you select if you'll take a fully black child, half black or just a quarter black.

Black children are always rated the least desirable. They often go to the white parents who are the most desperate, who haven't been able to get any of their other choices. So, yeah.

Many Asian adoptees have had similar experiences. I interviewed some as well. They were part of a group known as Angry Korean Adoptees.

Reply from jaeran (@/ jaeran) on 8/26/20 reading: I believe you. I'm a Korea TRA, writer, social work researcher on tra, and former child welfare worker. Everything you described rings true. /End IDs]

[darrelodin]

So this morning I found out that the RPG Maker forums will be shutting down this year, and it’s really just another depressing thing to see.

If you read the link the company does of course say they’re replacing the existing forums with new ones, and I’m sure no one would say the old ones didn’t perhaps need a lil bit of a glow up, some tech debt fixing… but there’s a few key notes in there:

They are NOT carrying over any history, data messages etc. from the old forums

They are NOT archiving, retaining or in any way saving the existing forums in any way

They have NOT provided any reasoning past ‘as part of continued efforts to support developers’

As an offhand, moderate read, this sounds to me like a desire for some change in the forums but deciding nuking everything is less expensive than rebuilding and carrying over info.

If I’m cynical, and likely realistic? Probably to increase sales of their latest GameMaker software by making it inherently more difficult for someone getting the older software for cheap pushing it to its limits. The amount of institutional knowledge on those forums is absurd.

And even if it is a benign reason, it’s still terrible because what do you mean you’re doing this with no recourse or potential for change? You sell software that runs on community goodwill? In an era where people are pulling away to open source software?? Crazy.

There are yeeeaaars of answers, plugins, suggestion, community built up on those forums - I’ve used the em to learn and grow my own skillet!!! And soon it won’t exist.

At the very least, they gave a ‘heads up’ - the deletion occurs mid December, so archiving by the community is possible from now. It’s just absurd that it needs to happen in the first place.

It’s just reflective of how the industry is right now - and why it’s so important for communities to grow and build up knowledge together, knowledge that is NOT reliant on a company that can pull the plug at any time in the very name of the very customers, users and supporters they are screwing over.

[eigwayne]

The good news is that other people are already starting external archival. Here's a couple posted on the r/RPGMaker subreddit:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/

https://rpgmakerchat.com/

https://github.com/imraf/rpgmakerweb-archive/

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

[max-out-of-ten]

Bless the archivists of our time

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

podcasts could have been so good but they decided to make the main genres True Crime and Men Talking. shut up shut up the public yearns for audio dramas

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i do appreciate how tumblr LOVES podcasts that aren't what most people think of when they think "podcast." you people love strange and terrible things happening to queer & confused characters, and i respect that

[feminist-space]