How to get ready in the morning
Step 1: Stay in bed as long as you possibly can.Ā
Step 2: Speed run.Ā
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How to get ready in the morning
Step 1: Stay in bed as long as you possibly can.Ā
Step 2: Speed run.Ā
queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey
queer is literally a slur that means weird and strange
and I most certainly am weird and strange, what else you got?
ātheyā (1 word) is shorter than āhe or sheā (3 words)
ātheyā is more inclusive than āhe/sheā
āthemselfā flows more naturally than āhim or herselfā
ātheyā is less clunky than ā(s)heā
itās time to replace the awkward āshe or heā
āhey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?ā
āHey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when theyāre coming over to watch movies?ā
Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.
Friendly reminder:
āI shouldnāt like to punish anyone, even if theyād done me wrong.ā āGeorge Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
āA person canāt help their birth.ā āWilliam Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
āBut to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.ā āJane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
āEvery Fool can do as theyāre bid.ā āJonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)
āSo likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.ā āKing James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)
āGod send every one their heartās desire!ā āWilliam Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)
āNow this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.ā āSir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)
āIf ⦠a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayneā¦ā āWilliam Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)
āAnd whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a GoddĆ©s nameā āGeoffrey Chaucer, The Pardonerās Tale (~1380)
āþan hastely hiČed eche wiČt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiČt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyČþed so neiČh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ātil they came so near, to tell the truth]ā āWilliam and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)
āBath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]ā āCursor Mundi (~1325)
Weāve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason itās become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we canāt have that can we
These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming thatās just the way its always been
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Singular ātheyā predates
Singular āyouā
i dont want to be an adult i want to go to the shiny secondhand trinkets store and spend seven hundred dollars
stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life
Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life
Hereās the thing, though. If you asked a conservativeĀ āWould you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?ā theyād probably scoff and say no, itās a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life.Ā
But if you asked,Ā āWould you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?ā the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, thereās a hesitation. Even if they deny it, Iām willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would beĀ āyes.āĀ Ā
The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. Youāve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)ābut beyond that? People arenāt real. Theyāre theoretical.Ā
But a national monument? Thatās real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?
People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyoneĀ is in someoneās immediate sphere of influenceāthat everyoneĀ is someoneās lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And itās the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives donāt have value just because they donāt mean the world to you.Ā
P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon.Ā
also, there is an extreme difference between what things or principles *i* personally am willing to die for, and what i would hazard others to die for. and this is a distinction i donāt think the conservative hard-right likes to face.
an example: so, as the nazis began war against france, the staff of the louvre began crating up and shipping out the artworks. it was vital to them (for many reasons) that the nazis not get their hands on the collections, and hitlerās desire for them was known, so they dispersed the objects to the four winds; one of the curators personally traveled with la gioconda, mona lisa herself, in an unmarked crate, moving at least five times from location to location to avoid detection.
they even removed and hid the nike of samothrace, āwinged victory,ā which is both delicate, having been pieced back together from fragments, and incredibly heavy, weighing over three metric tons.
the curators who hid these artworks risked death to ensure that they wouldnāt fall into nazi hands. and yes, they are just paintings, just statues. but when i think about the idea of hitler capturing and standing smugly beside the nike of samothrace, a statue widely beloved as a symbol of liberty, i completely understand why someone would risk their life to prevent that. if my life was all that stood between a fascist dictator and a masterpiece that inspired millions, i would be willing to risk it. my belief in the power and necessity of art would demand i do so.
if, however, a nazi held a gun to some kidās head (any kid!) and asked me which crate the mona lisa was in, they could have it in a heartbeat. no problem! i wouldnāt even have to think about it. being willing to risk my own life on principle doesnāt mean iām willing to see others endangered for those same principles.
and that is exactly where the conservative hard-right falls right the fuck down. they are, typically, entirely willing to watch others suffer for their own principles. they are perfectly okay with seeing children in cages because of their supposed belief in law and order. they are perfectly willing to let women die from pregnancy complications because of their anti-abortion beliefs. they are alright with poverty and disease on general principle because they hold the free-market sacrosanct. and i guess from their own example they would save the statue of liberty and let human beings burn instead.
but speaking as a leftist (iām more comfortable with socialist tbh), my principles are not abstract things that i hold aside from life, apart or above my place as a human being in a society. my beliefs arise from being a person amidst people. i donāt love art for artās sake alone, actually! i donāt love objects because they are objects: i love them because they are artifacts of our humanity, because they communicate and connect us, because they embody love and curiosity and fear and feeling. i love art because i love people. i want universal health care because i want to see people universally cared for. i want universal basic income because peopleās safety and dignity should not be determined by their economic productivity to an employer. i am anti-war and pro-choice for the same reason: i value peopleās lives but also their autonomy and right to self-determination. my beliefs are not abstractions. i could never value a type of economic system that i saw hurting people, no matter how much āgrowthā it produced. i could never love ālaw and orderā more than i love a child, any child, i saw trapped in a cage.
would i be willing to risk death, trying to save the statue of liberty? probably, yes. but there is no culture without people, and therefore i also believe there are no cultural treasures worth more than other peopleās lives. and as far as iām concerned the same goes for laws, or markets, or borders.
Well said!
This is an excellent ethical discussion.
The first time I came across this post, randomslasherās addition was life changing for me. I suddenly understood where the right was coming from, and I had never been angrier.
This is also why so many people on the right fail to see the hypocrisy of trying to make abortion illegal when they themselves have had abortions. They can tally up their own life circumstances and conclude that it would be difficult or impossible to continue a pregnancy, but theyāre completely mystified by the idea that women they donāt know are also human beings with complicated lives and limited spoon allocation.
This is also why they think āget a jobā is useful advice. In their heads they honestly do not understand why the NPCs who make up the majority of the human race canāt just flip a switch from āno jobā to ājob.ā When they say āget a jobā theyāre filing a glitch report with God and they honestly think thatās all it takes.
This is also why they tend to view demographics as individuals. They think that every single Muslim is just a different avatar for the same bit of programming.
Borrowed observation from @innuendostudiosā here, but: thereās also a fundamental difference in how progressives view social problems versus how conservatives view them. That is, progressives view them as problems to be solved, whereas conservatives do not believe you can solve anything.
Conservatives view social issues as universal constants that fundamentally are unable to be changed, like the weather. You can try to alter your own behavior to protect yourself (you can carry an umbrella), and you can commiserate about how bad the weather is, but you canāt stop it from raining. This is why conservatives blame victims of rape for dressing immodestly or for drinking or for going out at night: to them, those things are like going out without an umbrella when you know itās going to rain.Ā
āBut then why do conservatives try to stop things they dislike by making them illegal, like drug use or immigration or abortion?ā And the answer is: theyāre not.Ā They know perfectly well that those things will continue. No amount of studies showing that their methods are ineffective will matter to them because effectiveness is not the point.Ā The point is to punishĀ people for doing bad things, because punishing people is how you show your disapproval of their actions; if you donāt punish them, then youāre condoning their behavior.Ā
This is why they will never support rehabilitative prisons, even though they reduce crime. This is why they will never support free birth control for everyone, even though that would reduce abortions. This is why they will never support just giving homeless people houses, even though itās proven to be cheaper and more effective at stopping homelessness than halfway houses and shelters. Itās not about stopping evil, because you canāt; itās about saying definitively what is Bad and what is Good, and we as a society do that by punishing the people weāve decided are bad.Ā
This is why the conservative response toĀ āholy fuck, theyāre putting children in cages!ā is typically something along the lines ofĀ āitās their parentsā fault for trying to come here illegally; if they didnāt want to have their kids taken away, they shouldnāt have committed a crime.ā It doesnāt matter that entering the US unlawfully is a misdemeanor and child kidnapping isnāt typically a criminal sentence. It does not matterĀ that this has absolutely zero effect on people unlawfully entering the US. The point is that conservatives have decided that entering unlawfully is Bad, anything that is not punishing undocumented immigrants ā due process of asylum and removal defense claims, for example ā is supporting Badness, and kidnapping children is an appropriate punishment for being Bad.
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This is really long but please read it
i say āanywayā and āso likeā to start sentences the entire day as if i were havin the same conversation even though i am speaking to totally different people and the truth is i am having one conversation it is just a constant dialogue with me and the universe and whatever victims it offers me
i will not accept a hint, i will act dumb until you say it clearly to me
I like it!
When youāre writing as fast as you can type at three a.m. because youāve been hit with Writing Inspirationā¢Ā after a month of staring at the lone word āTheā on your doc:
āiām in kind of a weird mental place right nowā i say, as if there are times when i am not in a weird mental place
Hey Neil! Do you have any advice for aspiring authors around dealing with tropes? I'm writing something but at times it feels like everything is too trope-y. I don't want to go against the tropes though just for the sake of it! Cheers - A very self critical writer
I kind of wish that the whole "TV tropes" thing had never happened, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned it's like a website that analyses word use or letter of the alphabet use, with the additional function of making people self-conscious.
There aren't a lot of story shapes. In a love story, people get to meet. Either they meet dramatically or they meet in a way that is interesting by being undramatic. Either they fall for each other or they don't, or one falls but the other doesn't. Something had better prevent them from getting together, whether it's pride or a guard with a gun, because otherwise you don't have a plot, unless they get together and then something goes wrong... and on and on. Everything is going to be some kind of trope, and none of that actually matters. What matters is the story. Pretend you've never heard of tropes.
Tell your story. Tell it new, tell it freshly, have fun telling it. Make characters we care about, give them interesting problems to solve, sort it out in the end or at least make the ending, whether happy or sad, feel satisfying, and you'll be fine.
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oh god im responsible for me
Lunar Magikā¦
Weāll never die
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldnāt get me one because they were ātoo violent and also ate peopleā :(
hnn I WANT IT SO BAD
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THATāS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
now we enter the testing phase
yup. looks good.
Extreme Chompin T-Rex says ITāS NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say āEXTREME CHOMPINā ā in four languages?
OH SHIT YOUāRE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if itās still there! hopefully I didnāt destroy it in my excitement
*roar sound effect*
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I havenāt put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)
Thereās more!
I love.
I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought Iād give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!
(just fine)
Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures
Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)
so itās come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think thatās very cash money of her.
itās been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!
ajdhf.
well thatās just,,,
REXCELLENT
two hundred THOUSAND notes???!?!
HELL
YES
HELL
FUCKING
YES.